CoffeeCakeDev
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Hey everyone, I have been in mental breakdown past two days and finally to calm myself down. I never cried too hard in my life. Many of you knew me as the guy who turned $300 into $200,000–$300,000 in just a few months trading $SPY. Lately there’s been a lot of positive and negative noise around me, but today hit the hardest. My biggest mistake was pure ignorance and sizing way too big despite solid advice from experienced traders here. I ignored it at times, and today I paid the full price for it. To be honest, I’m left with $10,000. It’s only April, with 8 months left in 2026. I’m determined to build it back up. This lesson will stay with me forever. To all the traders out there: please use my story as a warning. Don’t be like me, control your emotions and your size. And I will continue to post about $SPY and others, I deeply appreciate every single one of you on here.🙇♂️



After 6 applications and 6 rejection emails, we finally got into Y Combinator. Yes, read that one more time: 6 applications. 6 rejections. We turned a rejection into an admission offer. For a long time, every rejection led to the same question: "Do we pivot, or keep going?" We didn't think much of the first few rejections. Our reaction was mostly just: okay, back to building, apply again next time. Honestly, the hardest one was the 5th rejection because we felt so close. It was the first time we got an interview. We believed we had a real shot. But in the end, we got rejected… again. Looking back, the decision was fair. We were only doing around $300/month, and YC didn’t see a clear path to building a billion-dollar company through enterprise. So we stopped guessing and started listening. We did 20+ user interviews and realized something important: the people who really loved InsForge were not big enterprises. They were AI-native small teams and startups. That fundamentally changed how we saw the company. We clarified who the product was actually for, doubled down on what was working, and kept building in public on X and LinkedIn. We grew from 2,300 to 4,000+ databases in 2 months. Then we applied again. Our second interview with YC. We really thought this would be the one. But once again, we were rejected. That was the moment the question we had been asking ourselves after every rejection finally changed. No longer: “Do we pivot?” Instead: “How do we execute so well that the need for this product becomes impossible to ignore?” After 30 days of hell, we launched @InsForge_dev Launch Week 1. And it took off. Like, really took off! → 1.5M+ views on X → #1 on Product Hunt → #1 on GitHub Trending → 3K+ GitHub stars in one week But here's the craziest part: after rejecting us, YC changed their mind. Here was our second chance. We got an email from general partner Andrew Miklas (@amiklas), congratulating us on our launch and asking us to meet one more time. We figured it would be another tough interview. But the meeting was in two hours. No time to prepare. We were so nervous up until the very end. When we finally hopped on the call, he just said, “You guys have made huge progress. I want to work with you. Do you want to do YC?” WTF????????? Tony (@tonychang430) and I looked at each other. We were so shocked, we didn't even know what to say. Of course, the answer was yes. This is when we learned: Execute so well that your company becomes impossible to reject. Every rejection forced us to clarify our vision. The last one forced us to prove it. Next stop: YC P26!! @ycombinator 🥳 ( Read the full story below ⬇️ )


Asmongold responds to being BANNED on Twitch for 7-days.




Astronaut eating bread and honey in space



Asmongold banned on Twitch







Its so funny how men figured this out recently when I knew this at the age of 15 lmao

Asmongold has been banned on Twitch




¿Por qué los "influencers" de finanzas siempre terminan vendiendo cursos y no viviendo de sus inversiones?










