Sahil Lavingia

What should the IRS ship in 2026?

@OmriBuilds In person is better

@shl You can even do it with an $8/month VPS. And with this setup, the AI will actually be able to do stuff for your business: ClawStack.pro

You can replace 99.9% of your business spend with a $600 Mac Mini

@wickedguro And yet…

@shl Gumroad is open-source. I am going to take it tomorrow, create a competitor, and crash Gumroad, so silly to release everything in open-source. I can definitely declare this as the death of Gumroad. They had a good run.

“people can easily vibe code Gumroad” WRONG One step closer…

Don’t confuse laziness and fear of failure

@Algocattech youtu.be/ffkECKX-WgU

@shl Do tell more. What parts did you manage to replace with the mini?

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@facesOfEth @gumroad React is awesome

@gumroad @shl why Inertia instead of going full-Turbo and all-in on the Rails view layer ?

@bunbeau Correct

@shl If you're counting your plethora of features, yes. But the basic functionality is reproducible whether in development or in vibe code, Sahil. That's not what makes us love Gumroad (myself included, and for years).

@bunbeau Actually it is a major technological barrier as well :)

@shl Distribution > Building Gumroad not a major technological barrier, but it's an amazing brand with incredible execution. And that… can't be copied.

@anto_edd x.com/shl/status/202…

@shl Well, I can definitely build a platform like Gumroad. I’m not really interested in patching up your existing code. I’d rather create my own version instead. But I will give it a try this weekend..please follow this thread..

If you can vibe code your idea, you’re thinking too small

@anto_edd ???

@FrankPepper12 lol

@shl A founder should always be the ceo

Next year, AI will be replacing CEOs

Gumroad is now fully on Tailwind. We deleted our entire custom CSS design system and we're never looking back. New contributors and AI agents can ship UI changes so much faster now.

@FrankPepper12 A founder does that. A ceo is just optimizing.

@shl Because they decide the direction and focus of a company. They are the creative forces behind most of the company’s innovation what markets they are going to pursue what opportunities they see that others haven’t yet seen that insight is why they’re paid at such multiples

@FrankPepper12 Your reply could be a lot more educational to those reading if you stated exactly why

@shl No it won’t. CEOs are a lot more important to a company than anyone who has never been one will ever understand

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