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I've just completed the migration of fastretro.app from Laravel and React to vanilla Rails. With it I shipped a new design, a new user system, excel exports and it's now published the new O'Saasy license from @dhh @jasonfried @basecamp
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Of course the US is the first to realize this is a thing now.
And of course, EU will be the last.
Hopefully Singapore will follow up with something similar soon.
I discovered a whole new class of revenue streams - and I think this is gonna get HUGE.
I call it:
💸 Agentic revenue.
It's not passive income.
But it's not really active income either.
It's revenue that is driven entirely by AI agents, end to end, without any (or very little) human involvement.
Agents will find the opportunity, negotiate the deal, plan and deliver the work, issue the invoice, and make sure the money hits your bank account.
It has the features of passive income but the potential of active income.
Last month, my AI agents generated +$25K this way.
This month, probably even more, and so far, this is just a POC I'm running.
My new company in Singapore will be entirely built around this idea.
I like to think of it as a 0-person company. One of the first of its kind.
It's early and it feels a bit unreal. But so did "online income" in the very beginning.
I'm going stealth in this one, though 😎 I know few other smart people are already on to this, and it might get crowded soon enough.
This is the most exciting time of AI, hands down!
The tech stack was stolen from yukiwriter.com
Discord is ditching Electron and its new app uses less RAM 🙏 Discord is moving its apps fully over to the Rust programming language. Details 👇 theverge.com/news/1027379/di…
Really happy that I've just crossed 200 followers with some really interesting people following me now. Happy to connect with more builders and tech folks
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I saved more money using Claude and Codex to do my books than I had MRR this month. My books didn't balance out to 0. Turns out stripe made a mistake. First level support told me that the invoices are correct but both astra and opus insisted that they are wrong and it turned out that they were right.
It’s really hard to find a accountant who knows stripe well and is willing to take small business as a client. So my accountant would have to take the time
to research this topic costing me a lot of $
I’ve build a CLI for Lexware office which lets my agents just do the work. It’s so worth it to spend the time and build tools for your agents
AI is moving so fast. I am wondering if I am wasting my time building a software 1.0 ERP system. It's growing slowly. I was below 2k mrr this month, but then 2 customers canceled. Those were the first users who canceled, too.
Thinking about going all in on agents and AI products.
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Cengiz Gürtusgil retweeted
Peter Thiel's critique of European tech is sharper than most people quote it:
"In the social democratic European societies, it's acceptable to be moderately successful. It's not acceptable to be wildly successful."
That's not a cultural observation. It's a structural diagnosis.
Look at the pattern: Skype sold to Microsoft. Spotify relocated to New York and listed in the US. DeepMind sold to Google before it could compound. Klarna — one of Europe's most valuable fintechs — spent years being investigated and regulated the moment it hit scale.
The moment a European startup gets big enough to matter, the social contract shifts. Regulators, press, and public sentiment move from neutral to hostile. So founders learn to exit early — not because they lack ambition, but because the system taxes it.
Europe produces world-class talent and early-stage innovation. It just doesn't retain the compounding.
The constraint isn't capital. It's the ceiling culture places on acceptable ambition — and founders respond rationally to the incentives they're actually given.
Schmidhuber strikes again
This is an old hat. That's exactly what the neural fast weight programmers did in the 1990s (including the 1991 unnormalised linear Transformer). Overview with links to the original papers: people.idsia.ch/~juergen/fas…
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I launched yukiwriter.com, a simple editor that helps you write better English.
Last Friday, I read “Becoming a Better Writer” by @GergelyOrosz, and it inspired me to pick up writing again. He recommended a few tools, but I did not like them. I had the same issue last time, when @thedankoe inspired me to get into writing for the first time.
I wanted a clean editor that helps me write good texts while teaching me to become a better writer. Yuki uses rules and local LLMs to highlight parts of your text that could be improved and explains why.
Instead of replacing your text, you get a diff with explanations which you can accept or deny. Just like in a code review.
It's still a bit rough around the edges, but I wanted to get the first version out. I will keep improving it while I also improve my own writing.
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Want video quality like @tobi, @dhh, or @jasonfried for around $2,000 less?
I just went down this rabbit hole. After many orders and returns, here is my final setup.
1) A mirrorless camera
They’re using the Sony FX30, which costs around $2,600. If you’re on a budget, a cheaper alternative is the Canon R50 V, which you can get for around $700.
The camera alone isn’t enough. You’ll also need a lens. Lenses can be expensive, so I recommend getting the R50 V without a lens, since we’ll get the newer version of the lens that @dhh , @jasonfried , and @tobi use.
Canon R50 V: canon.de/cameras/eos-r50v/
2) A lens
You’ll want the Sigma 15mm f/1.4. This lens lets much more light into the camera, helping you look good even without the best lighting. It also helps blur the background.
Jason, DHH, and Tobi use the Sigma 16mm f/1.4, which has been discontinued.
Sigma 15mm f/1.4 for Canon RF: sigma-foto.de/15mm-f1-4-dc-c…
3) An SD card
If you’re only using the camera as a webcam, you theoretically won’t need one. However, after a factory reset, I couldn’t use my camera because it demanded an SD card. So, just in case, get a cheap one.
SanDisk SD card: amazon.de/dp/B09X7DY7Q4?ref=…
4) A capture card
To get clean 4K output, you’ll need a capture card. USB-C will only output 1080p.
Get the Elgato Cam Link 4K and a Micro HDMI cable.
Elgato Cam Link 4K: elgato.com/ww/en/p/cam-link-…
(It comes with a USB-to-USB-C adapter)
Micro HDMI cable:
amazon.de/dp/B014I8U33I?ref=…
5) A tripod
I followed Jason’s advice and kept the setup simple: just a cheap tripod.
I got one from SmallRig. It looks the same as the one Jason uses. I think his is from Neewer.
amazon.de/dp/B0FSRY5TKC?ref=…
6) A USB-C PD cable to charge the camera
The Canon R50 V can be charged via USB-C while you’re using it. This didn’t work with the USB-C cables I already had at home.
You’ll need a USB-C PD cable. PD stands for Power Delivery. I got this one:
USB-C PD cable
amazon.de/dp/B08PVQWB6M?ref=…
7) Follow this tutorial by Think Media
youtube.com/watch?v=9Nv-uxPK…
8) Bonus: Upgrade your mic
If you want to upgrade your mic too, they use the Shure MV7.
shure.com/de-DE/produkte/mik…
This is exactly my podcast and screencast setup too. Just also need a Camlink 4K dongle and you're totally set: a.co/d/0ejLjAjA
Like so many things, I just bought what @tobi told me to after seeing his superb picture quality on a call 😄
I am glad that I never bothered to set up a Poly Market account. I would have lost a lot of money betting on OpenAI releasing a model that beats Opus 5.5 by the end of October
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