Alexander Haque

Building @ClerkChat where humans + AI enable conversational messaging. Prev @netflix, @samsungnext and @retinadvr. Text me @ [phone] for best response.

[Alexander Haque @AlexanderHaque]

@DanielLurie you down for a visit to the new @clerkchat office at 575 Market?

[Alexander Haque @AlexanderHaque]

See you in 2030 ❤️🇨🇦

[davidlee @davidlee]

This would be a lot sweeter if I didn’t love Canadians so much

[Alexander Haque @AlexanderHaque]

@rashan1901 This is what we've done @clerkchat

[Hasan Toor @hasantoxr]

🚨BREAKING: The open-source Alexa killer just dropped.

It's called OpenHome, a smart speaker dev kit you can run AI agents on.

No Amazon. No Google. No vendor lock-in. Your data stays local.

100% Opensource.

[Alexander Haque @AlexanderHaque]

You've become one of my fav people on X 💕

[kwindla @kwindla]

I'm super excited about PersonaPlex and that whole research direction, but it's definitely a research model and not a model you could use yet in production.

It's a very small model compared to the ones we use to build voice agents, doesn't have tool calling, and isn't set up to support context engineering. But the PersonaPlex paper is very much worth reading. And the original paper that details the Moshi architecture that PersonaPlex builds on was my favorite paper of 2024. It's so, so good.

https://t.co/9TJn0lRWBb

The Moshi research team is doing work at both the non-profit @kyutai_labs and a new startup, @GradiumAI.

[Alexander Haque @AlexanderHaque]

@CallStackTech Tried this; only got >+800MS

[Alexander Haque @AlexanderHaque]

@aakashgupta wanted to test it on telephony rails so spun it up on a twilio number - tons of limitations but it works: [phone]

[Alexander Haque @AlexanderHaque]

@HuggingModels Built a test; bunch of lag and latency issues but whatever: [phone]

[Alexander Haque @AlexanderHaque]

@nikunj Sick post.

[Alexander Haque @AlexanderHaque]

“Maybe by then they’ll approve our slack app” cannot be the most perfect capture of how cooked traditional SaaS companies are to this new reality.

[Fryd Wiatrowski @frydwia]

update: we're growing faster than the OpenClaw github stars. Viktor hasn't slept. neither have we. (Viktor actually doesn't sleep. that's the point.)

$100M by EOD at this rate. we pass Salesforce by monday. maybe then they'll approve our Slack app.

[Fryd Wiatrowski @frydwia]

update: we're growing faster than the OpenClaw github stars. Viktor hasn't slept. neither have we. (Viktor actually doesn't sleep. that's the point.)

$100M by EOD at this rate. we pass Salesforce by monday. maybe then they'll approve our Slack app.

[Alexander Haque @AlexanderHaque]

Everyone ruffled that an American VC like YC won’t invest in Canadian-based CO’s: gather resources and create the ecosystem so founders stay in 🇨🇦then. Be the solution.

YC accepts ~100 companies a batch and let’s assume 10% are Canadian - that’s 10 companies a quarter that the community can easily put $500k behind (per company) at the same terms.

[Alexander Haque @AlexanderHaque]

Get em @jecastillof !

[Jesus A. Castillo F. @jecastillof]

There’s been a lot of noise the past few days about @theinformation article on @kontigo_app which falsely claims JPMorgan closed our accounts for “compliance reasons.”

We appreciate the free PR. But at Kontigo Inc., we don’t tolerate lies or lazy reporting. We take defamation seriously.

1) Kontigo does not hold licenses or special regulatory authorizations anywhere.

We’re a self-custodial tech company built on permissionless infrastructure, local stablecoins, and zero-knowledge proofs (which can enable on-chain usage without KYC).

For fiat rails, we partner with licensed providers in every region we launch in. We’ve never relied on a failing banking system as a single point of failure.

2) The real story: @checkbook

One of our U.S. Virtual Account partners was a company called Checkbook. They told us repeatedly (over email, Slack, and in the commercial agreement), that they could offer U.S. virtual accounts to businesses and individuals globally, including venezuelan migrants, as long as they passed the KYC/KYB process.

3) We weren’t the only ones cut off by Checkbook and JPM with zero notice.

Kontigo isn’t the only stablecoin startup affected by Checkbook’s nonexistent support, compliance, and ops team. They’ve been the worst infrastructure provider we’ve worked with, and now they’re feeding the press claims that simply don’t match reality.

Example:

“JPMorgan saw a sharp rise in disputed account transactions, known as reversals and chargebacks.” —> We never had chargeback issues with Checkbook. We didn’t even have card on-ramps with them. So the “chargebacks” narrative is fiction.

What’s even more concerning: 'The Information' repeatedly amplified unverified claims and third-party narratives as if they were facts. @MichaelRoddan

4) Yes, there are plenty of public examples of JPMorgan closing crypto-related accounts, like @jackmallers recent situation. (Or Chase bank acceptance rate for crypto related transactions). There’s a pattern here, and people in this industry have seen it.

Kontigo will keep building the largest (DeFi) bank in the world.

We’ll build a better financial system, for everyone.

We won’t stop.

[Jesus A. Castillo F. @jecastillof]

We got a $23 million dollar mansion in Silicon Valley to build the largest bank in the world.

The goal is to scale from $30M to $100M in annual revenue in the next 60 days.

Our experience at @hf0 inspired us to build a long-term residency model that transcends the 12-week program.

We believe that if you’re not willing to move to San Francisco with your whole team and lock in for as long as necessary, you’re not serious enough, you don’t want it as much as we do, and you’re going to lose.

The house removes every possible distraction, and is equipped with a gym, cold plunge, hot tub, call booths, boardroom, sauna, steam room, podcast room, tennis court, theater, private chef, meeting rooms, and even a robot that takes care of house operations.

@kontigo_app is locking in this house until we IPO.

If you wanna move to SF and lock in with us, we’re hiring top technical and creative talent.

[Dave Font @davefontenot]

Dear founder,

Are you letting god flow through you?

[Dave Font @davefontenot]

non-technical, super hard working, super smart hustlers

who are down to jump in on anything

there are some insane opportunities rn with some of the fastest growing ai startups. dm me a blurb if interested.

[Nathan @rollupceo]

I stopped tweeting 2 years ago to touch some grass and build.

Now I’m back with two 8-figure companies and a few scars to show for it.

I run Roofer com and co-founded AOSwag, AI rollups in roofing and swag. My toxic trait is thinking every industry’s an AI rollup opportunity.

If you’re building something cool or just good vibes, say hi :)

[Chris Frantz @frantzfries]

if the landing page looks like this you're about to try the worst software of your life

[Carol Xie @CarolXie1208]

@hf0 My honest review of the 12 weeks that changed my company's trajectory.

After 2 years as a founder, I was becoming a professional manager. Drowning in spreadsheets, losing the craft. I missed the feeling of building. I needed a hard reset.

I found it at @hf0.

It's not an accelerator. It's a 12-week founder residency—a true hacker monastery. They strip away everything (food, laundry, life admin) so you can do the one thing that matters: code.
The real secret weapon?😃 Monday night dinner pitches.

Thank you, @davefontenot @escliu @EmilyatHF0
#Startup #Founder #Tech #BuildInPublic #foundermode #SanFrancisco

[Dhruv @dhruvamin]

software is changing hands

the next wave won’t come from engineers, it’ll come from anyone with an idea

we just raised $11m to help you build

Anything