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David Moon retweeted
Just the beginning 🦾🦾
David Moon retweeted
Today, I’m launching my newco, NavigateAI. We are short hundreds of thousands of skilled workers and we're on a mission to give every field worker an AI copilot, so they can build faster and better when we need it most. navigate.ai/blog/2026-05-26-…
David Moon retweeted
i built apollo.io for instagram and twitter for april.
apollo.io solved b2b lead gen for channels like email and linkedin, but the people i want to reach these days - creators, brand managers, founders - all live on instagram and twitter.
so i built iris the ai messenger. same idea but for different social graphs - discover contacts by niche, build lists, run automated outreach across platforms.
shipped with an api, mcp, cli, and agentic payments so agents can use it too.
David Moon retweeted
Minicor (@minicor_) builds self-healing desktop automations for AI companies whose customers run on legacy desktop software with no APIs.
Congrats on the launch, @faizchishtie and @sahee_d!
ycombinator.com/launches/Pkq…
David Moon retweeted
Fresh Founders Toronto, Mar 19.
Closed door, high signal: AI market updates in regulated industries.
No performative panel. Practitioners only.
Moats in 2026, real buyer expectations, investor signals, pre-seed vs seed, fundraising without killing build velocity.
Apply via link below
David Moon retweeted
In case you missed it: We were featured in yesterday's Fortune Term Sheet newsletter.
We announced our $63 million Series A with Goldman Sachs.
Read more here: fortune.com/2026/01/22/exclu…
David Moon retweeted
How to plant the seed that changes your life
You plant the seed that changes your life by doing the work, and letting the sawdust fly off the saw, only to possibly (almost magically) collide with a seed that falls into the exact right place in the ground at the EXACT right time and has the exact conditions that let that seed sprout and has all the things go right that need to in order for that sprout to grow into a beautiful flower
If you made it this far you probably realize how absurd it is to believe that we could even POSSIBLY know how to plant the seed that changes our lives
The only thing we have in an absolute sense is the present - here and now - and what we choose to do in that moment
What keeps people stuck is clinging to a belief that “there is a right way to achieve my dreams”
There is not
There is only 1) what you want and 2) the next action you’re taking right now to get what you want
That’s it
Everything else is narrative fluff
It sounds nice / might make you feel good too, but it doesn’t work (ie. It doesn’t get you to change / act)
What works is accepting that we can’t possibly know how to retire our bloodline, and still going after it anyway
David Moon retweeted
YC Demo Day is tomorrow and have had some time to reflect on our progress.
We hit 500k ARR in 2 months, 4 awesome team members.
YC forces you to only care about two things: product and customers. Hard to find this degree of focus anywhere else outside of YC.
Thankfully we don't need to worry about payroll or ops or any of that, Warp is by far the best payroll provider out there.
WARP SPEED: EPISODE 5 - starring Varunram Ganesh, Founder of Lapis @varunram
The next generation of 20 year olds are going to default to LLMs for search.
Varun is building @TryLapis into the most accurate AI search analytics platform. They are part of @ycombinator F25 - 1 day away from demo day with a countdown clock on his desk.
The insight: people are already defaulting to ChatGPT over Google. As time goes on, more leveraged decisions get made through LLMs, not search engines.
"So many people are searching on Google, they're going to be searching on ChatGPT. Why aren't people knowing where they are on ChatGPT?"
Lapis tells you exactly what a human will search for your website to show up in AI. And unlike Google, it's not about ranking positions - LLMs reason differently.
On Warp: "I don't even think about payroll. Which is just to say Warp is such a good product that I just don't think about it. No spam emails. No upsells. It's just so smooth."
In this conversation:
(0:00) - Shift from Google-style search to LLMs: “More leveraged decisions are now made through the LLM.”
(0:15) - What Lapis does: the most accurate AI search analytics platform.
(1:15) - YC intensity: six weeks from Demo Day, rapid feedback loops, constant customer conversations.
(2:00) - “The hardest part of running a startup is the most boring stuff.”
(2:41) - How AI search differs from Google search.
(3:23) - Building a company through trust.
(3:51) - “Every founder said, ‘Check out @joinwarp - a genuinely friendly solution.
(4:02) - Big providers needed six weeks just to get set up.
(4:20) - Texted Ayush and got set up in 15 minutes.
(4:25) - Warp is so smooth you don’t think about payroll — no spam emails, no upsells, just seamless.
David Moon retweeted
I'm hiring a content / growth intern at Taxwire
looking for:
- existing writing track record
- internet-native (you understand the algorithms)
- curious
- self-motivated/disciplined (excited to pick up new topics/industries)
Will work directly with me + our new head of growth
David Moon retweeted
Lovable getting blasted for not collecting EU VAT is not what I had on my bingo card this weekend. (by another Swedish entrepreneur no less)
A bunch of misconceptions on VAT/sales tax and the "common practices" of US startups vs European startups in the X commentary.
Lovable is out of compliance, not committing fraud. Yes, startups still mess up sales tax and VAT, but far less than a decade ago. And when you scale as fast as they have, almost nobody gets global tax right on day one.
If you want to sell a service such as @Lovable globally and want to jump over VAT/tax everywhere is that OK and fair? Togheter with the journalist @emilhellerud we tracked Lovable receipts and found zero tax compliance(EU). Broadcasted on TV4.
David Moon retweeted
Apple JUST quietly announced something that’s a lot BIGGER than it looks: "the Mini Apps Partner Program"
Apple is admitting that the future of software is embedded, lightweight, vertical mini-apps distributed inside bigger app
For founders who want to make $$ building apps:
1. Apple just legitimized the “superapp” model for the West.
China has WeChat mini-programs. India has PhonePe Switch. The West has… nothing. Apple just opened the door. You can now run HTML/JS mini-apps inside a native host and earn 85% on qualifying purchases. That’s Apple-sanctioned platform piggybacking.
2. Distribution arbitrage becomes real again.
You don’t need to convince users to download your app. Just partner with a host app and drop in a mini-app. This is a cheat code for early traction. Think: travel apps hosting niche tools, fitness apps hosting mini workouts, marketplaces hosting micro-utilities.
3. Apple is creating a new economy layer: “embedded SaaS.”
Imagine: CRM mini-apps inside vertical tools. Math solver mini-apps inside education apps. Calendar mini-apps inside productivity apps. The TAM for tools that don’t need standalone installs just went vertical.
4. Developers get an 85% revenue share.
This is Apple basically saying: “We want this ecosystem to grow, and we’re willing to cut our take rate.” When Apple lowers its cut, I pay attention because they see a platform shift coming.
5. AI makes this 10× more important.
LLM-powered micro-apps (calculators, planners, agents, coaches, niche utilities) are tiny by design. They’re perfect mini-apps. Apple just created infrastructure for AI-native micro utilities to live inside bigger apps with built-in commerce.
6. Host apps become new “distribution landlords.”
If you own an app with traffic, you become a platform. You can host mini-apps, take a cut, and build a developer ecosystem around you.
It’s a new monetization model for existing apps with audiences.
7. This unlocks a wave of second-order opportunities.
- Agencies helping apps become mini-app hosts
- Mini-app dev shops
- “Shopify for mini-apps” toolkits
- Mini-app marketplaces
- Analytics for mini-app performance
- Discovery engines for mini-apps
- I'll be dropping mini app ideas on @ideabrowser and @startupideaspod
TLDR;
Apple just turned every high-traffic app into a potential superapp and every indie developer into a potential platform partner.
The App Store is becoming modular, composable, and layered. The next decade of consumer apps will look less like standalone products and more like ecosystems stitched together with mini-apps.
This is quietly one of the biggest distribution unlocks in years.
David Moon retweeted
Grateful for @taxwire_inc to be featured in the @joinodf's Top Companies of 2025.
We're a bit a traditional in that I met my co-founder @schmatzarella while working together at On Deck back in the day.
We've been growing rapidly in the last ~6 months and are hiring.
David Moon retweeted
I’m excited to announce Lapis, the fastest and most accurate analytics platform for AI search engines like ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, and Grok. Here’s why we wanted to tackle this specific problem.
The way we access information is fundamentally changing, ChatGPT and Perplexity are the new defaults. Unlike Google which shows you a list of blue links to click on, ChatGPT answers in big paragraphs with context. Traditional SEO elements like rank or keywords or authority are no longer relevant in ChatGPT. What matters is context.
When I mention I’m building in AI Search, the first question I get is: How can I improve my position? The most popular suggestion is to generate 100s of fake blogs. But every internet user is tired of SEO blog spam. Nobody likes it, the business owner doesn’t like it, the end user doesn’t like reading it and lets be real, nobody really reads blogs anymore. We’re taking a whole new approach to GEO.
Lapis (@trylapis) is building the fastest, most accurate AI search analytics platform.
Today, every business is asking, "How do we rank in AI search?" Lapis analyzes millions of user prompts daily, changes content in real-time, and links to external sites for visibility.