Daniel Ost

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So... 200 years ago we invented passports because people started crossing borders faster than anyone could vouch for them. The things crossing borders now are programs that book, buy, cancel and refund on our behalf, and none of them carry papers I've spent the last three months building data infrastructure at scale, and kept running into the same wall: when a machine acts, there's no way to ask who authorised it, what it was allowed to do, or who answers if it got it wrong. The IETF says the same thing more formally, that no deployed mechanism exists for checking a delegation chain that started in another organisation So I'm building the missing document. A signed mandate naming who stands behind an agent, what it may do, and who is liable when it goes wrong. In the open, starting now @pmarca

I'm back!

Haven't posted in 13 days Is anyone still here

Last Friday I arranged a meeting with someone who had an idea I could help him bring to life Three days later we agreed he'd give me the full brief when we met, and you know what? I just went ahead and built the whole thing, showed up with a finished product Same day he gave his feedback and wrote me the first check

I've always worked alone and was against building a team because I could handle everything myself and saw teams as a burden But I recently realized teams aren't just about delegating tasks, they're about not being alone when tough times hit

I met the CEO of a $ 6M/year energy company two weeks ago. Three days later he cancelled all his meetings, offered me $ 30K upfront and 5% equity Here's how that happened:

Founders, I have a dilemma: I built a complex project for a big company with a huge budget. They desperately need what I've created But here's the problem: they don't want to pay me the full amount upfront. They want to stretch it over 8 months because they're worried that after I sell to them, I'll go sell the same thing to their competitors And I'm worried that after a couple months they'll stop paying me once they have my product

I'm back here after taking a few days off This week has been really tough, I'm hoping the fog will clear soon Despite everything, my account kept growing and my SaaS user count went up, even got 2 new paying subscribers

Today I found out my grandfather has cancer I can't put into words how important he is to me I'll never forget how he talked to me about physics, logic, and invention from the time I was little On top of everything else, my savings have run out I don't have much strength left, but ironically it's right now when I need it most

This constantly cracks me up, Claude recently told me he'd need 7 hours of work and then finished it in about 3 minutes After that, he said the day was over and sent me to bed (I never asked him to send me to bed)

More young people who could achieve great success are burning out and getting anxious The "get rich or die trying" mentality is fading, everyone just wants peace now Great news because there's way less competition You just need to keep going while others quit

So we've got 90% of the planet not using AI, and developers are using AI to build for the 10% who are already using AI It's absurd, like owning the only well in a drought and marketing it exclusively to other well owners while everyone else is dying of thirst

I've been posting less here because it looks like I just landed a massive project with serious investor backing and I think this could be the event of the year Wasn't expecting this at all, a week ago I felt completely hopeless

28 years old, made $1.1M in crypto, blew $300.000 traveling the world Now I'm building a SaaS that makes $68/month Plot twist nobody asked for

I haven't worked this hard in a long time, not like these past 24 hours I've pushed myself so much that my hands are shaking now, my head hurts, and my thoughts are all scrambled from lack of sleep It's not great, but it's necessary if I want to move faster I simply cannot afford not to become the best