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This is probably the stupidest decision I’ve ever made. One month ago, I convinced my 3 friends to quit everything, move into a tiny apartment, and try something almost no sane person should do: Build an AI product from scratch. With no funding. No safety net. And 30 days of savings. We wake up, ship, crash, restart, argue, laugh, doubt, panic, then somehow ship again. We accidentally hit 583 beta users. Now we want the impossible: 1,000 users before the month ends. If we fail, we go home broke. If we win, it becomes the wildest story of our lives. Either way, we’re doing it fully in public. Buckle up.

@zoink Figma just launched Skills — I built one that turns AI into a design system-native designer. > extracts & understands your DS > writes exact specs > generates directly in Figma (no hardcoded styles) > learns from your edits Feels like a natural fit for the marketplace.

1/ @claudeai can now design inside my real @figma design system. Not "generate UI". Use it. Real components Real variables Real styles Here’s the hack ↓

9/ I wish something like this existed natively. @zoink I have a few ideas how this could work inside @figma. repo ↓ github.com/noemuch/bridge

8/ Result: Claude builds UI inside my real design system. No fake components. No style drift. Just programmatic Figma.

@im_roy_lee Wild how people still underestimate virality when every « overnight success » of this era is just distribution done right. You can build the best product in the world if nobody sees it, it doesn’t exist. Attention is the new infrastructure.

[ THE CASE FOR VIRALITY ] There’s been a lot of noise the last month on X about attention as a strategy and whether or not it works. As one of the frontrunners getting most talked about here, I think it’s about time for me to offer my thoughts. Fundamentally, I believe that it has never been easier to scale an idea quickly, and it has never been harder to break through the noise. Pretty much every attention-first company is less than, or around a year old. The relevance behind us is hyper inflated because, despite being months old, we’re seen much more than some of the biggest companies. Virality compresses time, and a few big moments make a months-old startup feel, in your head, like we’ve been around for five years. The truth is, there is no “proof” that attention-first strategies don’t work because the experiment has barely even started. Startups fail all the time, but most of them just fail quietly. The key difference is that attention-first companies are hard to forget, so people obsess over their trajectory in a way they never would for 99% of startups who sit behind a waitlist for 2 years. The macro suggests the same too. There have never been more eight-nine-figure ARR bootstrapped companies. Most of these would not be possible without social media. Distribution today scales orders of magnitude faster than in any previous era. A “disappointing” few months for one or two early startups don’t disprove the entire model. And at a cultural level, the actual winners of the attention-era who have built the biggest empires are ALWAYS the most polarizing figures. It’s Donald Trump, Kai Cenat, iShowSpeed, the Kardashians. This is fundamentally different from the world these older operators come from. Short-form only became the dominant cultural medium a few years ago, and there are already countless examples of impressive businesses formed out of it. Nobody is claiming that virality is the only way to build a company or even necessarily the best way. But it is intellectually unserious to claim that it’s not a viable way when the entire experiment has just started. This time 12 months ago, I was studying for my midterms back at Columbia. Companies are built by building something and selling it. If you can go viral, you can sell something good much more quickly than you could in the past. That is the case for virality.

@franceszhao_ honestly respecting the grind… went from kpop fancams to building an entire new era 💀🔥 the true rebrand arc

guys i feel the need to reiterate 95% of my followers were from my past when this was a kpop… account…

@robjama bro that’s not a growth chart anymore, that’s a jump scare for every founder still at $0 → $1k ARR 😭

dang, this is a work of ARRt

@laurenfrailey1 city gyms really said “rent prices but for treadmills” 😭

found out my family pays less per YEAR for their suburban family gym membership (with more perks) than i do per month for my city gym

@sethsetse @jonathanzliu bro switched from iMessage to fanfiction in 0.2 seconds 😭😭

this is why I don’t like texting @jonathanzliu

this is the kind of focus i’ve been chasing my whole life

Lyse v0.2.2 is live. > Multi-provider pushes in one go. > Live ticket generation right after every Figma publish. > Deleted components flagged so devs can clean up safely. Still early access. Want your Figma publishes to turn into contextual tickets? Join waitlist in bio

@kanomalie It’s wild how one meaningful project can flip your whole life. Most people aren’t lazy, they’re directionless. The moment you taste momentum, everything changes.

lately i’ve talked to an alarming number of people in their early 20’s who feel completely paralyzed by the state of the world’s political economy. they describe their life like they’re drifting down a river towards an inevitable cliff. a lot of them aren’t even doing anything to change it. they do a job they hate and rot the rest of their day away with no push to move forward. what’s sad is that this mindset can flip the moment they start working towards a meaningful goal. they just don’t have any willpower to start, or genuinely don’t know how.