Nate Aune

Attending #BOSTECHWEEK and frustrated that the official site from @a16z is missing a map view? Well, I've got you covered! Yesterday, with help from @aleksj, I created a browsable map of all the events happening during Tech Week Boston. natea.github.io/twag/

@lennysan @openclaw @threadreaderapp unroll this thread please

Do you use @openclaw in some super impactful or fun way? I'd love to know. Please share your 1-2 favorite use cases in the comments. If it's awesome, I'll feature you in the newsletter. Big bonus points for screenshots of what it looks like in action (and any tips for setting it up).

🧵Shout-out to @tewy—creator of 2005’s Million Dollar Homepage, a quirky pixel-grid that apparently funded college and became internet lore.

Huge thanks to Tech Superpowers for fueling food, drinks & Wi-Fi as we pack MIT IHQ with Boston’s AI builders. Demos, science-fair tables, 60-sec pitches—zero fluff, all code. See you 6/30! 🙌 @aitinkerers @valeriano1010 @natea @jheitzeb buff.ly/1LsPtJE

@trydirector you could be more reassuring in this step: share.cleanshot.com/rL6Jhhn7

@rom1trs Arcads

I built a marketing team with 1 AI Agent: automated my ad creation system with Claude 4 and made it public with a 1 click setup comment "Arcads" and I'll send you access

I spent 153 hours building an AI Content Engine for Agencies & SaaS Founders It automates YouTube, LinkedIn, X, Facebook, TikTok, Instagram, & Newsletter content production pipeline - Auto-posting across all major platforms - AI-powered ideation for fresh content - AI scripting for both long-form and short-form content This system is easily worth $15K, but today it’s FREE 👉 RT + Like & Comment "content" and I’ll DM the JSON file No opt-in, no BS (Must be following)

@dashboardlim Content

BREAKING 🚨 Your coworker is an AI agent. Nobody noticed. Introducing Xoul - the marketplace for agents that feel human. On Xoul, anyone can create and share powerful agents that work together in “swarms” without writing a single line of code. Can you spot the AI intruder?

OpenAI released the Responses API yesterday. 24 hours later I have reimplemented the API and it's running on Ragwalla, my service.

Last year, I participated in Downshift's Decelerator—a transformative program that helped me step back & recalibrate my inner compass. If you're at a crossroads or contemplating your next chapter, I can’t recommend it enough. Learn more: downshift.me/decelerator @downshift_me

Unlike BeautifulSoup and Scrapy which require you to specify exact HTML elements, Firecrawl lets you describe what you want to extract in plain English. This semantic approach means your scrapers keep working even when websites change their structure.

With the emergence of LLMs, modern web scrapers such as Firecrawl take a fundamentally different approach by using natural language understanding to identify and extract content, rather than relying on brittle HTML selectors.

Today I played with @firecrawl which makes scraping web pages easy. The new extract feature will return structured data according to a schema that you specify. Oh, and for the schema, you can just describe the elements you want in natural language! #everydai #learninpublic

It’s pretty incredible that using @SeleniumBase, the basic scraper to grab the event title, date and URL is only 19 lines of Python code, and 6 of those are simply print statements for debugging! #everydai #learninpublic

Today for #everydai I built a simple #Django app that imports shows from Berklee.edu, and shows them on a calendar. Used @cursor_ai to build the app, and Simplescraper for scraping, although I’m looking into @SeleniumBase for a cheaper scraping option. #learninpublic

Kicked off a MIT and affiliates month-long startup-athon called Everydai on Monday! We’ll be using AI tools to see if we can build startups in a month in partnership with @codeiumdev and @databricks We’ll do some building in public if anyone wants to connect!

For Day 3 of the #everydai month of hacking, I’ve gotten @cursor_ai to build me a basic #django web app that scrapes Craigslist to find retro video games. #LearnInPublic

@johnrushx This sounds not unlike the intent of sandstorm.io

- End Of SaaS +Birth of SaaS OS __By the end of 2025, I'll launch 1000 products. __These products are going to run on a new SaaS OS. __It'll transform the software world as we know it. __You won't take it seriously until it happens. [The History] Back in the day, each vendor had a full set of apps. Apple built all their apps, Microsoft did, and Nokia phones did. All did. [The Third-Party] At some point, the apps went into the hands of third-party developers, who built apps for different platforms. It made sense since most apps haven't yet been invented. It took many decades to invent all the apps and iterate to come up with best practices. [End Of Innovation] Around 5 years ago, the innovation reached the limit of the old GUI paradigm. The UX and Software reached the final stage within the scope of GUI. [Start of "Attention"] For the last 5 years tech companies have been competing in purely attention battle. Sometimes using technology itself to generate attention: e.g. opensource, new frameworks, etc. and mostly using mission, vision, money and all other known methods. [What's Next] With the arrival of AI(and later AGI) that's capable of doing 90% of the human tasks, the GUI is not a suitable interface for human-machine interaction. We don't know yet what is suitable, it will take us 7 years to figure that out. We will see a lot of innovation around AI just like we saw it around saas in previous decaded. In a meanwhile, the SaaS world will have it's own shakeup. [Reality] Despite the belief that products have unique IP, the reality is that all popular products are popular because their founders have won the "attention" war. Once the war is won, the users might start looking for the elements in the software that are remarkable and state those as the winning reasons. But that's simply a human urge to justify the reality. [Intermidiary Step] The inevitable next step is self-evident. Those who win the attention will supply their audience with more software. It's happening now, on a large scale, but most don't notice it yet. It will follow the same playbook. First, they launch integrations to connect 1000 apps to their tool and provide those to the users. Then they will replace each app that's doing well with a native feature, simply because embedded apps suck, due to tech limitations of existing frameworks (most run in iframes, are slow, and can't talk to other apps). * 3 hints: triangle, all-in-one workspace, SEO tool. [Bolder Step] Eventually, all tools with the highest attention will turn into "platforms" and later into super-platforms. They will supply all relevant software to their audience. It will all work out just fine but it's running on old tech, which will turn it all eventually into Microsoft-like corporate software mess. That will kick in yet another cycle once again, but this time much shorter one, see it next. [Single Purpose Tools] We will see a renaissance of single-purpose tools again(biggest trend of 2024), just because these will be more pleasant to use, after those bigger platforms. [Final Destination] The attention is not a kind anymore, it's a god, so the platforms will end up winning anyways because they will have to fight for existence and they will team up with all possible attention winners(stars, opinion leaders, influencers, artists etc). And now there will be a huge gap. It will look like they won the war, but all this time there was an underdog, that was cooking something. [The New Solution] The New Internet for SaaS. A system that can run SAAS apps the same as internet browsers run websites or iPhone apps. But not just that. Much more. [SaaS OS] > An OS that can run any SaaS app instantly. No waiting, no downloading. > Think Spotify - hit play and music starts in an instant. > "buy once, use forever" option. As it can run on your machine locally as well as on the cloud. If cloud, user pays fixed fee for cloud and still can go for pay-once for all saas > single subscriptions will be obsolete > super subscription is the new solution. One fee to use all 1000 SaaS tools. > saas tool makers get revenue share [Why 1000 products?] The vision is too far ahead of time and sounds crazy or even absurd (dumb). To make it work, I'm building the first 1000 SaaS tools and solving the attention/distribtion myself + partners. [End] I'll be inviting makers into the alliance in 2024. Once we launch 100 products and run the first stage of proof of concept.

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