Shashwat

@mynameisyahia Nothing to lose, everything to win. I’ve lost my sleep schedule and gained the ability to stress about things that don’t exist yet. We’re cooking.

startups become a lot more fun with this mindset: > nothing to lose, everything to win

@mattchowx Bro is goated for this

@ansh_chokshi time to cortisol maxx

yc on x looks fun and exciting let me show you the real picture > 9.9/10 ideas and experiments fail > you constantly feel like you are not doing enough > you constantly feel ashamed of your product > customers will love the demo, ask for a contract, and then ghost you > some will try to pay one-tenth of your contract value > i have pivoted 5 times in the last year > every day feels like a race against time, with the odds tilted against you but if you do not need outside motivation to grind 16 hours, take the L, and wake up the next day ready to do it again, these will be some of the best months of your life and at the end of the day, you are never really alone. very grateful for the amazing partners and batch mates going through it with us winners lose more than losers do

Let’s revisit bedtime tonight. Congrats to yesterday's sleep losers

@ansh_chokshi hey that’s MY bed

sleeping on the floor till we hit demo day goal

got my whoop, less goo

Don’t be a mid startup It’s true

*$2,800

conferences are the best roi

day 2 line up was insane!! super pumped

yc's motto is "build something people want." i grew up watching two people do exactly that. 32 years ago, my mom started a business from a tiny basement in india with no funding or family backing. she believed in herself and set a goal to design and stitch clothes that people wanted. my dad was just a friend at the time. He helped out while waiting for his u.s. master's visa. when the opportunity finally came, he made the biggest decision of his life and turned it down because he believed in her. they built the business together. somewhere along the way, they fell in love and got married. three decades later, they still run it. their success came from caring deeply. they remembered the small details, went above and beyond for every customer, and treated employees like family. some of those customers and employees have been with them for more than 20 years. over the years, they served more than 100,000 people without spending a dollar on marketing. all word of mouth. their customers became their community and that community became their growth engine. what I learned from them is simple: - do the unscalable things to build trust and relationships. - conviction comes before evidence. - show up every single day. through every high and low, i never felt the weight of the business at home. only now do I understand how deliberate that was. the journey always mattered more to them than the milestones. no matter how ambitious or delusional my ideas sounded, i was never told to play it safe. they believed in me unconditionally. looking back, it was probably inevitable that i would start something of my own. i grew up curious about the physical world. scout camps, books, questions like why one crop grows only in a dry season or why the same storm floods one town and not the next. that curiosity is a big part of why we are building @MireyeHQ (YCS26). ai agents are starting to act in the real world, but they can't reliably understand it. ask a model a specific question about a specific place and it guesses. we’re building the infrastructure to change that. our mission is to index every inch of the earth and make it as queryable as the web. for three decades, my parents built something people wanted. now it is our turn.

@ansh_chokshi can we frame this?

i love writing cold emails...

@ansh_chokshi time to apply

18 year old Ansh would kill to get this summer internship.... Tuscany + Rick Rubin + AI events.ycombinator.com/qSAodVvxK

@ansh_chokshi @ansh_chokshi hottest bachelor in town 👀

reunited with bestie

Here’s how you can sell your food stamps to buy fentanyl in San Francisco. My friends and I from SF10x did some investigative journalism.

believe it or not, the world's entire population can fit inside this cube in new york city that means we can move everyone here and use the rest of the planet to build data centers to run agentic workflows seems like a no brainer to me

@ansh_chokshi @eurofounder @amitskumthekar @RishiSavla13 crazy

@eurofounder @amitskumthekar @RishiSavla13 @ShashwatKaps

European founders ready to take on Silicon Valley after raising a €25k EU innovation grant

@jestseacats I felt that on another level

I sometimes find myself trying to figure out why I feel sad. Then I remember it’s not that I feel sad, it’s just that I’ve forgotten what it feels like to live with my parents.