Julian
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“Pull all levers, till there’s none left, then rest” If YC hasn’t replied yet, Jarvis told me it’s time for Project Hail Mary. Guys, I updated PayDai’s thesis last-minute after Diana said updates were open until 6pm PST today. What we’re building is now clear: AI-agent-native income verification infrastructure for lenders, governments, and independent workers. So today I emailed the team, recorded a new application video, flew to SF, and had Jarvis/OpenClaw help me pull every lever. 3 hours left. I’m here. I’m ready. One final look would mean a lot. Wishing you a meaningful Memorial Day👊 @garrytan @jasonfreedman @sdianahu


this kid is 18. his app makes $1.4 million a month one function: take a photo of your food - get the calories the entire product is one API call. photo goes in, JSON with calories comes out. frontend shows the number Cal AI. 15 million downloads. MyFitnessPal acquired them marketing: tiktok. influencers film themselves photographing their food. viral by default - everyone eats every day. CAC close to zero one vision API request: $0.01-0.03. user subscription: $5.99/month. margin 80%+ someone already built an open-source version of the same thing: github.com/tahaygun/ai-ca… -> photo and text analysis, meal history, weight tracking, model selection, PWA, works offline a $1.4M/month app is one vision API call and the right distribution. the code is open. distribution is your problem







We're finally ready to talk about Flipper One — a project we've been grinding on for years and have rebuilt from scratch several times. Read blog post >> blog.flipper.net/flipper-one-we…









Are you also depressed like me in this indie hacker journey? Here's how I reduce it. Marc said "Don't you dare give up" so anyway I'll keep going 💪 Just made 1% better video than my first one inspired by Rob I can tell I’m still boring joe phase but I’ll get better!



When I was at Google, I wasn’t afraid to make mistakes in production. The general consensus was: if a well intentioned engineer manages to bring the system down, then we better fix the damn system. The Delve founders should definitely be held accountable if this is true. But this really is bigger than them. They didn’t even try too hard to be sleazy, they just followed the Silicon Valley playbook. 1. Drop out of school as a status symbol, completely missing that correlation is not causation. Dropping out does not make you a genius. 2. Start a business with 0 mission (no 21yo dreams of compliance) 3. Fake it till you make it (hide human labor behind the grandeur of AI features) 4. Raise an obscene amount of money because you can and because those losers who stayed to finish their degrees will be jelly. This is the playbook. The biggest culprits are the ones who made it and uphold it. If you’re not allowed to drink before 21 but are allowed to raise 30m on a compliance idea with no due diligence from investors, then maybe something is really really wrong with the system.


You should never ever expose a VPS to the entire internet Always firewall it to subnets If you host a website you should only allow port 443 (HTTPS) inbound from Cloudflare's IP range / subnets Port 22 (SSH) only from your Tailscale subnet range That means you create a "tunnel" from Cloudflare and Tailscale (your laptop) to your server's door You still need your SSH key to open the door btw If you don't, ANYONE in the entire world can connect to your VPS and if there's just one security vulnerability and you didn't upgrade your VPS you can get hacked If you do have it firewalled with Tailscale subnet only, it means only if they hack your laptop they could get in via your Tailscale there Another thing is ask OpenClaw or Claude Code to enable unattended upgrades with auto reboot












