Eric Kotonya

Techie.
Founder @comfied

[Eric Kotonya @EricKotonya]

@intel gave us volumetric sports capture 8 years ago.
Now, with the insane AI leaps from @GoogleDeepMind and edge compute from @Qualcomm, are we finally getting real-time, viewer-controlled 3D angles directly from a standard 2D broadcast feed this year?
https://t.co/fc7U9Apa2O

[Romàn @romanbuildsaas]

10 @ycombinator's Lessons all Founder Should Know :
(We grew from $0 to $250k MRR in under a year with this approach)

1/ Launch now, not when it's "ready". A mediocre product in front of real users teaches you more in a week than 6 months of polishing in the dark. Ship the moment it delivers one real unit of value

2/ Do things that don't scale. Airbnb's founders photographed their hosts' apartments door to door. Completely unscalable, and exactly how they figured out what the marketplace needed. Get your first 10 customers by hand

3/ Always hunt the 90/10 solution. For almost any feature there's a way to capture 90% of the value with 10% of the effort. Shipped today beats perfect in 6 months (Paul Buchheit's rule)

4/ There are only two real jobs: write code and talk to users. Everything else (conferences, press, VC coffees, corp dev calls) is what Sam Altman calls "fake work". It feels productive precisely because it's more fun than the real thing

5/ You pick your customers as much as they pick you. 10 users who love you beat 1,000 who kind of like you. Twitch only took off after firing the wrong users and going all in on gamers

6/ Growth is an output, not a strategy. Grow before product market fit and all you're buying is churn. And never take 80 cents from a customer just to hand them back a dollar

7/ Do less, really well. Pick one or two metrics and judge every task against them.

8/ Every great startup is badly broken at some point. The billion dollar ones included. The game isn't avoiding fires, it's how fast you put them out. Again. And again

9/ Ignore your competitors. Startups die of suicide, not murder. In year one, the only company that can kill yours is your own

10/ Startups rarely die from running out of money. They die because the founders fall out. Brutal honesty with your cofounder is the cheapest insurance you'll ever buy

Good luck !

[Comfied @comfied]

Turn #startup uncertainty into actionable clarity.

Business ideas, competitive intelligence & strategic frameworks, built for founders who play to win.
→ https://t.co/g4H7WqkJQo

[WordPress @WordPress]

WordPress 7.0 “Armstrong” is here. 🎷

This major release introduces foundational AI tools, a refreshed admin experience, expanded design controls, new blocks, and powerful developer APIs.

Explore what’s new, update when you’re ready, and start building with WordPress 7.0 today. https://t.co/0aF3CG0WOt

[Comfied @comfied]

✅ The code is done,
⚠️ The strategy isn't.

Maintain the pace.
Build your business #strategy in 15 minutes!
→ https://t.co/g4H7WqlhFW

[Eric Kotonya @EricKotonya]

@OverviewEnergy plans to make 24/7 solar energy a reality
https://t.co/lTPyB8dYsA

[Garry Tan @garrytan]

The goal of Personal AI: civilization where individual humans, augmented by AI, can do consequential work without being captured by extractive institutions.

Freedom to write your prompt and own your data.

This is the new battleground.

2034 won’t have to be like 1984.

[Google Gemini @GeminiApp]

You can now generate a variety of downloadable files, including PDFs, @GoogleWorkspace files, Microsoft Word & Excel, and more directly in your chats with Gemini.

Tell Gemini what content to create and the file format you want when you prompt without having to upload a template.

[Y Combinator @ycombinator]

AI has stopped being a feature and started being the foundation.

We're excited about a new wave of startups rebuilding software, services, and silicon— and pushing AI into the physical world.

https://t.co/QCIz6DnQnN

[NASA @NASA]

Liftoff.

The Artemis II mission launched from @NASAKennedy at 6:35pm ET (2235 UTC), propelling four astronauts on a journey around the Moon.

Artemis II will pave the way for future Moon landings, as well as the next giant leap — astronauts on Mars.

[RAI Institute @rai_inst]

Meet “Roadrunner,” a new 15kg (33 lb) bipedal wheeled robot prototype featuring multi-modal locomotion: side-by-side and inline wheel modes and and stepping. Its symmetric legs articulate at the knee for obstacle avoidance.

[Google Maps @googlemaps]

Google Maps 🤝 Gemini 3

Now that you can ask Maps complex questions, let’s dig into some prompts that showcase the true power of this update. 🧵

[Comfied @comfied]

https://t.co/Lh1aeouANO

[Comfied @comfied]

Zero-Human Companies (#ZHC) are no longer a thought experiment.

2 to watch:

→ Polsia (https://t.co/X1q4Ttdxsp)
An AI co-founder that plans, codes & markets your company 24/7.
Currently running 500+ companies at $450K+ ARR — on autopilot.

→ IZHC (https://t.co/coHCm1sd5o)
The community studying & building ZHCs.
Founders set direction. Agents execute everything else.

[Eric Kotonya @EricKotonya]

How #AI Is Turning the @Olympics Into a Data Business
https://t.co/e165NK5g6l
#LA28

[OpenAI @OpenAI]

Helping AI reach more people requires deep collaboration across the ecosystem.

Today we’re announcing new investment, with support from @SoftBank, @NVIDIA, and @Amazon, to scale the infrastructure needed to bring AI to everyone.

https://t.co/xW0ItgMTLe

[a16z @a16z]

We all start somewhere

[Y Combinator @ycombinator]

.@GrazeMateInc builds autonomous drones that herd cattle.

Ranchers can spend hundreds of thousands per year moving cattle between fields; GrazeMate ranchers do it with three clicks on a phone.

Congrats on the launch @samrogerrs!

https://t.co/F7VNrfwXTM

[Techweez @techweez]

Safaricom is introducing Shiriki Pay, a new feature that lets you share your M-PESA wallet with someone else and set spending limits. This allows you to authorize someone to spend directly from your M-PESA account and make payments for goods and services.