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[Alex Marques @FrancisMarques]

Learner Lane is live on iOS 🚗

Theory apps are walls of multiple choice. Mine puts you on the road:

• 3D hazard perception, new clip every time
• Pick wrong and you watch what happens, then rewind
• Rules for UK, US, AU, CA, NZ & IE

Free to try 👇
https://t.co/log0U98n4b

[Alex Marques @FrancisMarques]

@macomoroni @brainextends @socialflared Same with me. Just don’t tray it.
Get accounts instead it’s only thing worthy

[Chad @ChadAppDev]

This is the EASIEST way to turn users who are about to delete your app into paying subscribers

You should have these options in all of your apps

[Alex Marques @FrancisMarques]

Well. It’s now we know.

[@levelsio @levelsio]

Jesus christ

[Alex Marques @FrancisMarques]

@arena @claudeai @grok summarize this for me

[Alex Marques @FrancisMarques]

It's free to try. If you're learning to drive (or teaching someone), I'd love your feedback 🙏

https://t.co/log0U97PeD

[Alex Marques @FrancisMarques]

Learner Lane is live on iOS 🚗

Theory apps are walls of multiple choice. Mine puts you on the road:

• 3D hazard perception, new clip every time
• Pick wrong and you watch what happens, then rewind
• Rules for UK, US, AU, CA, NZ & IE

Free to try 👇
https://t.co/log0U98n4b

[Alex Marques @FrancisMarques]

Situations are short 3D scenes that pause at a decision.

Choose wrong and you see the near miss, the ticket or the skid. Then it rewinds so you can try again.

18 levels across 5 chapters: signs, lights, right of way, weather & night, sharing the road.

[Alex Marques @FrancisMarques]

How it works 🧵

Every hazard clip is generated in 3D, so you never memorise the answers. 6 hazard types, UK-style 5→1 scoring, and a 10-clip mock test against the 44/75 pass mark.

[Alex Marques @FrancisMarques]

So, I’ve been testing Opus 5.5 for about a week now, and this is honestly what I think:

MBDHD for AI, for sure. 😂

[Dan Shipper @danshipper]

BREAKING:

Anthropic just dropped Opus 5.5—and it’s pulling some of our recent Codex converts back to Claude.

We’ve been testing it at @every across coding, design, writing, and knowledge work. It sometimes beats Fable 5.1 in our testing and is up to 40% cheaper than Opus 5.

It's a strong contender for new daily driver model:

It’s excellent at end-to-end builds that match your taste. I’ve started reaching for Opus over Fable on big, end-to-end coding projects. And @kieranklaassen is replacing Fable 5.1 with Opus for his day-to-day product work. He calls it his new favorite model.

It produces legible prose, but still trails Astra on writing tasks. Opus 5.5 scores a 68.42 on reading ease—the highest on any model we've tested. But in my writing benchmark tests it consistently buries the main point in intro paragraphs, and revisions. You'll be able to understand what this model is saying (yay!) but for day-to-day writing it's still behind.

The economics are striking. Anthropic says Opus 5.5 will cost $5 per million input tokens and $20 per million output tokens. That’s the same input price and 20% less for output than Opus 5’s $5/$25. Altogether it should save roughly 40% on costs than Opus 5.

It still has a “do the most” problem. @hammermt tested it on our standard knowledge work benchmarks, and it's results were great when thye came back. On at least one test it ran past the 10 minute time limit before delivering.

Net Result:
If you build apps and interfaces, try it. It’s become my go-to for ambitious coding projects. I’m still roughly 80/20 Codex versus Claude in day-to-day use, and I still prefer Sol and Astra for editing. But I’m spending far more of my tokens with Claude than I was a week ago.

State of Play:
Codex is still the better harness for me, but Anthropic is steadily gaining ground. They have a history of making their smaller models perform better than their bigger ones (Sonnet 3.7 for example) and they seem to have done the same with Opus 5.5.

Full vibe check will be on @every soon!

[Max 🇮🇪🇱🇻🇨🇾 @maks6361]

Marketing is such a boring thing.

It's much better to build a new shiny feature for your users instead, right? 🥲

Around a month ago, I made daily posting to social platforms just another routine, like checking the RevenueCat dashboard or brushing your teeth.

I did that for 3 apps and there's the result.

1st app: from $1,5k to $2,7k MRR. Growth - $1.2k
2nd app: from $200 to $1,1k MRR. Growth - $900
3rd app: from $200 to $1,3k MRR. Growth - $1.1k

Total growth in 1+ month is $3.2k.

No bangers, nothing viral.

Just researching competitors content and shooting similar posts.

is it boring - well,yeah
is it hard to do - no, not at all
is it worth it - waste of time, ofc not 🙃

[Paul Solt @PaulSolt]

I now have 300+ new RATINGS because I asked.

If you're not asking for reviews in your iOS app, you're missing out on social proof.

I talked with Stephen about this today.

Follow him if you build apps. @stphndxn

[Nadia Zueva @nestymee]

https://t.co/u3RbslTe3c $10K MRR!!

[Marc Lou @marclou]

Going viral VS. building a business for 2 years

[Alex Marques @FrancisMarques]

@AppleSupport

[Constantin @constantout]

https://t.co/8ACMi2PU9g

[Alex Marques @FrancisMarques]

@sforsethi New fear unlocked.

[Claude @claudeai]

Introducing Claude Opus 5.

It's a thoughtful and proactive model that comes close to the frontier intelligence of Fable 5 at half the price.

[Pankaj Kumar @pankajkumar_dev]

Opus 5 Leaks: Coming Thursday

- Anthropic is targeting a Thursday launch (if there are no delays).
- Benchmark performance will be comparable to Fable 5, but won't surpass it.
- Anthropic's answer to GPT-5.6, Kimi K3, etc

[Alex Marques @FrancisMarques]

POV: Claude users

[Claude @claudeai]

We're extending Claude Fable 5 access on all paid plans, as well as keeping Claude Code’s weekly rate limits 50% higher, through July 19.

[Alex Marques @FrancisMarques]

Thanks sr, now shhh! And let me work sr.

[Claude @claudeai]

Fable 5 is back.

[Rob Hallam @robj3d3]

Fable 5 is back, with 2 caveats:

1 - A new classifier that "comes at the cost of flagging benign requests more often during routine coding tasks"

2 - It's included "for up to 50% of weekly usage limits through July 7"

So we get a weaker version, for 2x the price, and for 2x less time as previously promised.

I'm happy, but mostly disappointed.