The ultimate sovereignty starter pack:
- Mac Studio M5 Ultra 750GB
- Solar panels
- Power generator
- GLM-5.2
Building sovereignty right in your own backyard.
If you don't wake up excited and go to bed tired, drop everything and think of what your future will look like if you keep repeating the same day for the rest of your life. Sit with that discomfort until a new direction appears.
I scaled Cal AI from nothing to $30M ARR in 18 months.
And if I were starting a consumer app today…
I'd pick a niche that already has millions of obsessed people and an army of cheap creators.
Here are the top 7 consumer app niches I'd build in right now (ranked):
Today’s mission includes a demo of a new vehicle that will enable affordable, routine access to the microgravity environment for scientific research and in-space manufacturing. After demonstrating controlled flight, the spacecraft will splash down in the Pacific Ocean
SK hynix is removing college degree requirements for new hires and will focus more on skills and potential instead.
Starting with its latest hiring round, applicants no longer need a four-year degree. The company says candidates will be judged more on what they can do than on their academic background.
“In the rapidly changing AI environment, it is challenging to assess talent competitiveness based solely on specific degrees or standardized qualifications,” a company official said.
“We will actively discover individuals with potential and capabilities to further strengthen our competitiveness in the global AI semiconductor market.”
One month ago, we moved to San Francisco before graduation.
4 founders.
1 apartment.
1 startup.
Since then:
Joined Forum Ventures
Closed our first pilot
Talked to hundreds of engineers
Got rejected by investors
Shipped every day
The startup dream is a lot less glamorous when you’re actually living it.
Still wouldn’t trade it for anything.
we’re hiring 50 engineers in the next 2 weeks
AI engineers
ML researchers
Founding product engineers
Designer Engineers
FDEs
These are across seed-series B startups we’re working with backed by investors like YC, Seqouia, a16z, khosla and others
Hear me out on a SF coffee chat idea:
Do a coffee chat with me, but whoever brings up AI, LLMs, AGI, ASI, frontier models, GPUs, semiconductors, NVIDIA, OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepMind, Meta AI, xAI, Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok, Llama, Qwen, DeepSeek, Mistral, agents, agentic workflows, prompts, prompt engineering, tokens, inference, CUDA, H100s, H200s, B200s, A100s, TPUs, Cerebras, Groq, ASICs, wafer-scale chips, TSMC, ASML, EUV, HBM, DDR5, data centers, servers, power constraints, nuclear energy for AI, cloud computing, Kubernetes, Docker, vector DBs, embeddings, RAG, context windows, long-context models, Transformers, state space models, Mamba, MoE, sparse attention, KV cache, quantization, distillation, RLHF, RLAIF, DPO, PPO, constitutional AI, synthetic data, data flywheels, post-training, pre-training, test-time compute, chain-of-thought, reasoning models, o1, o3, evals, benchmarks, SWE-bench, MMLU, GPQA, ARC-AGI, Humanity’s Last Exam, multimodality, VLMs, diffusion models, world models, robotics foundation models, autonomous driving, self-play, tool use, computer use, browser agents, AI coding, Cursor, Copilot, Codex, Devin, Claude Code, AI video generation, Sora, Veo, Runway, Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, scaling laws, Bitter Lesson, interpretability, mechanistic interpretability, alignment, AI safety, model collapse, hallucination, jailbreaks, prompt injection, AI wrappers, AI-native SaaS, AI replacing PMs, AI replacing engineers, AI fundraising, foundation model economics, inference margins, AI capex, NVIDIA market cap, tech stocks, IPOs, Silicon Valley, SF founder mode, SpaceX, data centers on the moon or Mars, Elon Musk, Jensen Huang, or Sam Altman…
buys coffee for the other person.
I don’t think it’s possible to make it through the whole conversation without saying any of these in the Bay Area, but worth experimenting
in 2026 a solo founder can
> build ai apps with claude code
> get traffic and users with okara
> run email with beehiiv / kit
> accept payments globally with stripe
> find and email leads with apollo or clay
> track everything with posthog
one person now does what took an entire team three years ago
the leverage is insane