Kristoffer Solgren

@ky__zo Congrats Kyzo!

Fluar just got acquired in an all cash, 6-figure deal I built it solo for 14 months, now it’s going to an industry leading team that can really scale it this is the second startup I’ve sold since I learned to code 3 years ago life is incredible, what a time to be alive 🫡 LFGG

Latest app closing in on $1k ARR Content is not even streamlined yet My brother is cooking 🔥 @Steffen98265257

@blakeandersonw Experimenting with Claude Code in OpenClaw. Not as optimal as just using Claude Code myself, but if agents can use CC - that is the new OpenAI Wrapper era IMO. Costs would be an authenticated CC subscription, so not optimal, but bullish on agentic platforms ahead🔥

It will be interesting to see the progression of stateless vs temp sandbox vs dedicated VMs for AI software. OpenClaw is the first 'great' dedicated VM tool. I suspect dedicated VM products will massively outperform their shared or temporary counterparts. Year of AI employees

@daniellot_theo @Lovable Congrats Théo!

I joined @Lovable to make building possible for the 99%. My focus: partnerships and acqui-hires. Great env for ex-founders that love speed, ownership & are mission driven. If you are building something Lovable, I'd love to talk.

@raroque Great work Chris! $10k MRR will come in no time🔥

finally broke $2K MRR 😭 BUT the biggest win tbh has been getting the costs down been relentlessly trying to improve caching / the multi-model system and we are at about ~75% profit margin now 👀 for context month 1: we were at 25% profit margin 😱

if you're not using claude code you're already falling behind

@SimonHoiberg Can’t wait to come to Switzerland! Moving to Estonia for a few years first

I'm finalizing the rental contract for my next home. It's in a Swiss village, close to mountains and lakes. Looks very similar to these images 🥰 And it's close to Lucerne, probably the nicest city in Switzerland right now (20 minutes by train). Perfect for my family (wife and I + 3 small kids). Then Dubai in the winters where we get a bit more high pace and energy. Premium pick 🥇

@blakeandersonw I'm building this, but niched down :)

The next trillion-dollar product will be the AI workspace. Humans work with agents to manage context + execute. I’ve been working on this for the past few months but it’s become clear that the big labs will move faster, re: Perplexirt, Replit. Planning to open-source this project instead. Soon 🙏

@flipstiva @kript02023 @levikov Can’t DM you. Send me a DM

@solgrenk @kript02023 @levikov Sounds interesting, DM me too

Eastern Europe is the most exploitable talent arbitrage on the planet right now and almost nobody in the Western business world is paying attention because they're too busy overpaying for mid work from the Philippines and India… Romania, Bulgaria, Serbia, Poland, Ukraine, Croatia. Average salaries $500-1,000/month. But the talent coming out of these countries isn't $500/month talent. It's $5,000-8,000/month talent priced at a tenth of what you'd pay in the US because the local economy hasn't caught up to the skill level yet That gap is the exploit Every other "hire cheap overseas" conversation defaults to Southeast Asia or South Asia. And sure, the prices are low. But anyone who's actually tried to scale operations in those regions knows the pattern. Language barriers. Cultural disconnect. Equipment issues. Endless training loops. You spend more time managing output than you save in cost. The $4/hour rate sounds nice until you're on revision 14 and the work still isn't usable Eastern Europe skips all of that These countries have legitimate university systems. Strong STEM education. English fluency across the entire 18-30 demographic, sometimes better than native speakers in the US (not even joking). They grew up on the same internet, same memes, same cultural references. Zero cultural gap when working with Western businesses. You don't need to explain context. You don't need to translate intent. They just get it And they have real infrastructure. Laptops. Fast wifi. Proper software. Modern tools. You're not onboarding someone who needs you to walk them through basic setup. You're hiring someone who's already operating at a professional level but happens to live in a country where $1,000/month is a great salary The applications go way beyond content. Developers in Bucharest building full-stack apps for $1,500/month that would cost you $8-12k from a US agency. Designers in Belgrade producing brand assets at agency quality for $800/month. Sales closers in Sofia running calls in perfect English for $1,000/month plus commission. Media buyers in Warsaw managing $50k+/month ad accounts for $1,200/month. Copywriters, project managers, data analysts, customer support, operations managers. Every single role in your business can be filled from Eastern Europe at 80-90% cost reduction with zero quality drop The training speed is the real cheat code though. Hand someone in Bucharest a brief on Monday and you get back usable output by Wednesday. Not "needs 6 rounds of feedback" output. Actually usable, deploy-immediately output. The baseline competency is just different when the talent pool is educated, tech-native, and hungry It's common now for operators running lean businesses to have their entire team in Eastern Europe except themselves. 4-8 people. Total payroll $5-8k/month. Output equivalent to a $40-60k/month US team. The business runs 24/7 because the time zone overlap with the US is actually perfect for async work (btw it doesn't hurt that Eastern Europe has the baddest bitches on the planet. If you need on-camera talent for any kind of brand content targeting Western audiences, a girl in Sofia or Bucharest is visually indistinguishable from a girl in LA but costs a fraction. The talent pool for that specific use case is bottomless and nobody's tapped it properly yet) The freelance platforms are the worst place to find these people. The best ones are in local Facebook groups, Telegram channels, and Eastern European Twitter. You DM 50 people, 40 respond within hours because an $800/month retainer is life-changing money and they actually take pride in the work. The talent density is absurd once you know where to look

@Baconbrix Expo really is the best for mobile apps. Been using you for years ❤️

@solgrenk Thanks!

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@kript02023 @levikov I sent you a dm

@solgrenk @levikov Then it's slightly easier to find than different time zone and that work time. Let me check.

@kript02023 @levikov I’m in Norway/Estonia, so not that different

@solgrenk @levikov Different time zone?

@kript02023 @levikov I'm looking for a CRACKED founding engineer who works side-by-side with me and my cofounder 12+ hours a day to build a great product. Base payout + open to giving out equity.

@solgrenk @levikov What are you looking for?

@qasimbizs I checked it out yesterday and I only had Opus 4.5… maybe I need to update lol

@solgrenk Does it not? I have opus etc

I'm I the only one that prefers the Claude Code extension over the CLI?

@vineerpasam of course! Vibe coding helps with speed - which proves the idea faster - hence faster to obtain funding and grow faster.

Would you join a startup where the entire product is vibe coded?

my brother launched a mobile app just a few days ago, and it's already at $372 ARR from just App Store ASO 🔥

@brettcalhounn Networking. People say it’s a waste of time, but if you’re already scrolling on twitter it’s just a few minutes extra to actually connect with people, not just consume the content.

What’s one daily habit that EVERY founder should develop?