SF based Founder | Builder for 10+ years | 250k users + with pure PLG | Product of the Day winner on | UCLA alumni
Joined September 2015
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This is my first week moving into SF.
I had the honor to join the Patchworks coworking space at the center of Dogpatch, working with a bunch of YC / SPC alumni.
Feeling so good to have talented people around.
Chi Wei Lin retweeted
We just raised $7.7M to kill every subscription for agents.
Introducing monid.ai, the openrouter for agent tools.
Your agents can now:
> discover, run, and pay for tools at runtime
> use 2,500 APIs through one connection: leads, SEO, marketing, search, ecommerce, stocks, video/image/music/3D gen, agent email & phone
> pay per call, 0 subscriptions
Chi Wei Lin retweeted
We’re hiring a Founding Infrastructure Engineer to build alongside me at @InsForge!
You may be a great fit if you:
> Enjoy building backend infrastructure from the ground up
> Enjoy orchestrating VMs
Bonus points if you are agent-native and love to token max.
We just raised an $8M seed round and launched InstaCloud to kill AWS, GCP, and Azure. You'll help shape and redefine the meaning of agent-native cloud infrastructure!
If this excites you, apply below ⬇️
This is AMAZING! Proud to be part of it as a user and seed investor 😍
We just raised an $8M seed round to kill AWS, GCP, and Azure.
Introducing instacloud.com, the agent-native serverless cloud.
Your team is shipping code like never before. But you're getting caught up in manual, tedious DevOps work trying to deploy it.
InstaCloud provides the serverless compute that lets your services autoscale, with all the infrastructure managed for you.
Agents branch into complete replica environments when working, keeping prod safe and iteration speed high.
And of course, it all works seamlessly with agents through MCP/CLI.
Get off the traditional, legacy cloud.
Start deploying your services on InstaCloud today.
Founders often regard users as income and traction for fundraising, but neglect their most important nature:
Helping your product improve and validating a good product.
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This is happening all over the world already.
What I’m really thinking about is whether the AI native gen Z even cares about this? Or are they already comfortable with pressing enter?
If that’s the case, maybe old school developers is the issue.
I am done with this shit. It is over. The state of engineering right now is horrible. It has been half a month since I started a new role at a big company. Nobody knows anything here. The specs, code, tests, PRDs, tickets, resolution of those tickets, reports, etc., everything is made by Claude Code. Nobody on my team likes this. They are being forced to ship as much as they can. I have heard multiple times from higher management that pushing code is not a bottleneck, so why are we slow? People are working 12 to 13 hours a day just to press enter. Nobody is reading anything. Humans in corporate are doing nothing on their own. Everyone, literally everyone, from an L1 to an L7 engineer here is doing the same thing. Talk to Claude. There is no sense of victory. Nobody is resolving bugs. In reality, nobody is thinking anymore. Everything is done by LLMs. It is so soul-sucking. I would not mind it, to be honest, if we were at least given the time to check out the code and see what is going where. But no, the goal is to just ship. No matter what happens.
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Eventually a not-good-enough product is what kills startups, not the lack of GTM.
GTM is the process to acquire actual users that helps you improve your product.
No product by itself can improve without market feedback.
So the goal is always the product, not distribution.
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Talked with an early YC founder from the 2010s.
He was in the same batch as DoorDash, working on the same delivery business.
Eventually they lost the competition due to picking the wrong track of “10 mins” delivery.
Good to know he’s still starting something new!
Founders who I appreciate the most are those willing to start all over again from scratch, even though they once owned a top tier startup in the past.
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It is the key formula indeed.
People think they can just cheat on users to use products they don’t love themselves, but that won’t do the magic.
Dogfooding is the key to building a great product
You should be cringing and crashing out about how bad your own product is every day
Then it becomes a good product
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Just finished the 2-year exclusive startup program in Taiwan: AAMA
AAMA alumni represents Taiwan's top startups, with a dozen of pre-IPO to IPO companies within the decade.
In my 2 years of endeavor, I led my startup with a 30x growth in annual revenue.
Time to move on!
Growth is the best cure for all startup symptoms.
Most founders turn to operation once growth stops, then they get into spiral of bureaucracy.
Then manager mode activates, founder mode halts. Startup momentum dies.
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When grow isn’t a goal anymore, many startups turn to optimize their operation.
Then the math problem becomes deduction, so as the company potential.
This is especially happening in Asia.
Growth doesn't just solve a startup's problems in the sense of making them go away. It solves them like you solve a math problem. For example, it can design your product for you: start with something minimal, then add whatever will make you grow.
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Chi Wei Lin retweeted
Fable 5.1 is our best model yet for coding, data analysis, computer use, design, presentations, Tag, and the hardest long-running agentic work.
This model is a pleasure to work with, and I've been using it for everything.
