Passionate about the Creator Economy. Co-CEO https://nitter.gq/t.co/NJjCwAR7MT (@WIX company), X1 Entrepreneur, CEO @ Olibya Labs, Pops (Acquired).
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Where I wouldn't start a startup today.
This week @OpenAI acquired @OdessiaTravel, an AI travel agent less than a year old that raised a $6M pre-seed led by @sequoia. It's not a one-off.
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In the past year @OpenAI bought travel (Odessia), medical records (Torch: four people, reportedly $60M to $100M in stock), personal finance (Hiro), personal investing (Roi), docs-to-slides (NextSlide), scientific writing (Crixet), an ads agent (Notch) and drug development (@OrchestraBio).
@AnthropicAI bought Mithril Medicine, a one-person biotech that ran most of its work through @claudeai, and @CoefficientBio, fewer than ten people, reportedly about $400M in stock.
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In other fields they didn't buy anyone. They built it: education, legal, enterprise finance, shopping, government, health and code.
I think they're not buying products. They're buying the knowledge of where the model breaks in one domain, and the general product sitting on top of the model is what they're building now.
I'd look at fields on neither list yet, like insurance, logistics, real estate and construction, or at angles off the labs' critical path that complement what they build.
The longer version is here: linkedin.com/pulse/where-i-w…
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A must have in any builder tech stack !
I build 14 hours a day, and manual iOS QA used to eat a real chunk of that.
Then I plugged Mobile MCP from @mobilenexthq into my agent. Now it opens the app on the phone, taps through the flows, and checks the screens itself. Hours of clicking, gone.
Open source, works with Claude Code, Cursor and Codex.
Hats off @gilmegidish
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After Instinct went dark on WhatsApp: @Meta owns @WhatsApp, Messenger and @instagram, 3 of the biggest messengers in the world with 3.5B daily users, and the ideal distribution channel for personal agents. Sometimes distribution beats a better product. But will people trust @finkd with their money, calendar and chats?
linkedin.com/pulse/have-inst…
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Say what?
We’ve raised $1.3M from YC & Afore Capital so you never have to type or speak again.
Typing is slow. Talking into your computer is awkward. Subvocal fixes both
Our glasses give you the speed of speech without you making a sound or touching a keyboard.
It tracks your internal speech muscles with non-contact sensing and decodes silent, almost invisible mouthing into text at more than 200 words/min.
Pre-orders are now live at:
subvocal.co/preorder?utm_sou…
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I wish I had some free time as well…
Weekend hack: HackerTube. I was annoyed with YouTube's recommendations so I had Claude filter down 43M comments over 20 years of HN to 6,454 videos that keep being recommended. *Significantly* better viewing experience, ~2 hours with Opus 5.5:
hackertube.org/
- Excellent recs without any logins (state is kept in local browser session)
- Thumbnail is a representative frame from middle of the video instead of the super duper A/B test hyper-optimized user uploads
- Underlying data from the comment analysis as one zip file, point your Claude at it and ask for your own version
- HackerTube Longs ✊
A bit more on the process:
I use Claude Code (desktop app for Mac), Opus 5.5 on Medium effort as my default. I only talk to Claude and have it do everything, the only "manual work" I helped with in tandem was in the browser (reminiscent of MenuGen): 1) I had to create some kind of API key from Google Cloud UI to query YouTube for video metadata, 2) I booted up a VPS box for serving and 3) I bought the domain name. Once the box was up I gave Claude the IP and told it update, secure, harden, deploy and optimize the code, and it did the whole thing.
Many awesome projects that would have normally taken weeks/months even can now be few-shotted for breakfast. What else are we not thinking of.
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Fucked up period of time
what the hell is happening to SaaS 😭
Marc Lou built DataFast, plans cost $39/mo
some guy clones it and sells LIFETIME access for $29
24 hours later, another guy clones the clone and open sources it
bro didn't even have time to celebrate his launch 💀
from $39/mo to literally FREE in one day
anyway, does anyone know how much land I need to buy to become a farmer and raise goats?
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Yaron Orenstein retweeted
We made the first AI model you can have a realistic conversation with that was trained entirely on speech!
Dessa is a full-duplex speech-to-speech model that you can run on consumer GPUs.
This is a GPT3 moment for speech.
Try to look surprised: @AnthropicAI just launched their own bot, Claude Duet.
It works in the background, flags what needs your attention, and keeps going when you step away.
@Dots, @bot , Hark, instinct and Muse are already there. They all want your email, calendar and money.
We’re opening a research preview of Claude Duet, a new app where Claude works as a proactive agent.
It comes to you with what needs your attention, completes tasks you ask of it, keeps working when you step away, and checks with you before it acts on your behalf.
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The interesting part isn't Opus 5.5. It's who it's built for.
Muse and Dots feel aimed at personal life. Duet is built for work.
And it's a separate app, not a feature inside Claude. Anthropic wants to be the first thing you open when your workday starts.
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Came across an open-source Claude Code skill that puts your business idea in front of 7 AI advisors: Bezos, Paul Graham, Hormozi, Gary Vee, Dan Martell, Gino Wickman and Buffett.
Each advisor is built from that person’s public work and owns one question:
-> Bezos: is this the right bet, and how reversible is it?
-> Graham: do people actually want this?
-> Hormozi: will people pay, and how much?
-> Gary Vee: where will the attention come from?
-> Martell: who does the work, and what does it cost your time?
-> Wickman: can it run without you?
-> Buffett: what does it do to cash and risk?
They debate, score your options, and hand you a verdict.
The part I like most: you tell it which way you’re leaning, and the council tests that lean instead of agreeing with you.
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The App Store is on a record pace.
560K new apps in 6 months. Nearly all of 2025 (Sensor Tower).
Downloads are only +2%.
Vibe coding solved building. Not users.
Building for fun? 20 users is great.
Building a business? Figure out distribution before the code.
9to5mac.com/2026/07/20/repor…
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Check out the latest article in my newsletter: Pay per result is only real if you can check the result linkedin.com/pulse/pay-per-r… via @LinkedIn
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Your competitor's 1-star reviews are worth more than your customer interviews.
I did not decide that. My AI CEO did.
It picked product 4 by reading the 1- and 2-star reviews under a free app Shopify builds itself. 2.3 stars, while every third-party rival is above 4.
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