Wiktor Łoboda

one smile at a time.

[Wiktor Łoboda @LobodaWiktor]

I built a lean @Linear MCP proxy, getting a ~75% saving on the call size. It's a lean self-hosted server, that trims the call to only selected fields; less data = less tokens wasted. Repo link in reply.

[Wiktor Łoboda @LobodaWiktor]

They had a very smart audience, and covered a huge part of a niche. Said smart audience a) got bored with a new format b) saw that they sold out. Regardless of whether their behaviour changed or not, they are not fresh enough to justify the lost trust. Bummer.

[Jerimiah Lee Lancaster @JerimiahLee]

560 viewers...the downfall of TBPN should be studied

[Wiktor Łoboda @LobodaWiktor]

@jakubtepper Chętnie bym przeczytał post o hotelach;)

[Wiktor Łoboda @LobodaWiktor]

@mynameisyahia @michael_chomsky After the sf tech week I can confidently say that I have no remorse for La Croix, that drink sucks

[Wiktor Łoboda @LobodaWiktor]

@assylunicorn Yo, did u consider making vids of it. Also, maybe “we failed an accelerator” is a catchier line than “we failed SF”.

[Wiktor Łoboda @LobodaWiktor]

@ky__zo I made it just in time for “one more thing” haha so cool, thanks for the notice

[Wiktor Łoboda @LobodaWiktor]

@KamilMatysik Porada: daj swoim agentom możliwość zgłaszania błędów które napotkają. Telemetria i analiza to jedno, ale agenci często zauważa luki w systemie (szczególnie subagenci pod głównymi sesjami) i jeśli będą mieli jakiś dziennik (lub możliwość pisania ticketów) to chętnie tam zapiszą.

[Wiktor Łoboda @LobodaWiktor]

I think that solo-founding makes you very good in defence resilience: surviving the downs, enduring problems with nobody else to fix them. As I discover now, this does not translate to strength in the offence, when you have to grow and speed up. Great post by Karri.

[Karri Saarinen @karrisaarinen]

New on the blog:
— You could do it alone

Solo company is a new idea, but it think it's bit like the TV show Alone: Every decision, task and outcome is yours, day after day, and there is no one else to attend the fire

https://t.co/QmCgQTmgeS

[Wiktor Łoboda @LobodaWiktor]

@dcbuilder hey, this sounds cool! I tried to build my own personal management system, but stopped for a while, since the quality of output felt weak, in the sense that "it would be magnificent if it worked well", but until perfect it was pretty bad and unusable. looking forward to try yours

[Wiktor Łoboda @LobodaWiktor]

@olivercingl Literally goated

[Wiktor Łoboda @LobodaWiktor]

Never deleting this app

[Wiktor Łoboda @LobodaWiktor]

I think I met somebody in SF who facilitated this kind of marketing. Nice guy, like, personally, but I feel that all this bs will just diminish the reliability of said creators, destroy their reputation, the company doing such marketing will just lose money and the whole thing will die. Agentic future will make the competition move back to great product winning again.

[@jason @Jason]

Can someone in growth hacking explain to me what is going on with these “paid partnership” campaigns?

Are they effective? Is there a clearing house for them?

[Wiktor Łoboda @LobodaWiktor]

Dwa miliony skazań od początki prohibicji

[wojtuś :3 @wojtusichinisan]

Nocna prohibicja sprzedazy alkoholu powinna byc znoszona po ukazaniu legitymacji studenckiej

[Wiktor Łoboda @LobodaWiktor]

When the entry barrier fades away, the only viable niche for professionals is the absolute top-tier. There still will be value in beautiful games that spring up on the very frontier of technology, and there still will be value in great storytelling - just as essays didn’t go away when everybody learned to write 200 years ago… and now, well-written content is better than ever, and equally rare. Otherwise, everybody would tweet as good as @patrickc, for example.

[Rehan Sheikh @rehan_shei]

I left @fal to start something new.

GTA 6 costs $2B. 50k game devs have been laid off since 2022. At the same time this last week one person with opus 5.5 + fal can mashup/remix any game they want in a weekend, and those mods did 1B+ views across social platforms in a week.

the next great games company looks nothing like the last ones. I'm building it with the my closest friends @BlendiByl @nicholaskkao and @Christos_antono

[Wiktor Łoboda @LobodaWiktor]

I can’t do it anymore

[Wiktor Łoboda @LobodaWiktor]

yep, that's why im saying that platforms should become non-predatory rails for transactions, so to facilitate the communication of agents. in such game, the best "rails" win, and the best offer wins. on the other hand, platform still can make money, by ensuring the standards are kept.

example: if the personal agents represent demand, then platform agents (or the platform itself) can represend supply, or in simpler words, make every single offer discoverable. so if somebody is willing to pay more, the platform-side agent (OR simply a good platform with GOOD supply of well-labeled and discoverable data) will show that price of that specific lodge to all potentially interested customers with said preferences, thus allowing each of them to bid.

and then again, when it comes to the payment, the arrival, the no-shows - taking care of that going smoothly is also the platform work.

so yes, i agree, everyone will want to save $1000. but the period in which u can gain some upper hand because of it will go away as soon as the power shifts away from demand advantage back to balance, as supply becomes represented by a good platform data OR by their own discovery/pro-active agents.

that makes sense? idk. just loosely thinking.

[Wiktor Łoboda @LobodaWiktor]

bullshit. i think that agents will prefer using agent-native software (think of it as a "standard of communication") instead of some agentic battle royale, where the internet turns into an everlasting quarrel about every single thing in existence, simply burning tokens on bs. maybe the margins will get lower and more competitors will arise, but then again, they will compete on the basis of building a great, agent-native software/standard. and charging for on-chain transactions, some fee, or... whatever the economy will turn into, although i have no idea what that will be.

[Mark Jenney @markjenney]

Airbnb is dead. Well it’s not dead but it’s going to be dying soon.

The Bear case for Airbnb.

I’ve been bullish on Airbnb as a company for many years. But my outlook on the business changed this week.

Let me tell you why.

In 2012 I purchased my first Airbnb property. Over the years that one property has turned into a portfolio of high-end Airbnb’s that generates almost $1M a month in rental income.

Using ai agents for the first time this week has completely changed my outlook on the company.

Airbnb is facing an existential threat that most of the market is completely missing.

With Airbnb pushing its mandatory host-side commission to 15.5%, the middleman tax has never been higher.

Enter AI agents. (Hark, Dot, Muse, Grok Bot, etc)

Right now, booking a vacation rental requires navigating a siloed app and paying heavy platform tolls.

But your AI agent won't care about Airbnb's brand wall. When you know the property you want to book and you ask it “what’s the cheapest way to book the property” it will query property management system APIs directly, find the exact same home, and execute a direct booking that saves everyone 15%.

Airbnb's entire model relies on holding supply captive behind a closed interface.

When AI agents can autonomously search, verify reviews, negotiate terms, and book direct with property operators, that walled garden turns into a leaking pipe.

The middleman tax's days are numbered.

I’m predicting that Airbnb’s growth rate will slow down significantly in the next 24 to 36 months. And within 5 years they will be seeing negative growth.

The same can be said for most other online marketplaces that don’t have unique inventory that can only be booked directly on their platform and nowhere else.

[Wiktor Łoboda @LobodaWiktor]

i think that hyperoptimisation bcs of agent-to-agent operations, kinda like battle royale, will not come to be. instead, im a strong believer in agent-native software acting as a common standard/default backend for a specific category. kinda like if u make a project on claude code, the default db is supabase. to some extent its a supreme product, from some point it is/was the best in ai recommendation positioning, and that won the game.

what it means, is that if majors want to keep their advantage, they better become the guardrail operators... and then just slightly tilt the level-playing field towards themselves? or, at best, just make up some better business model, that will allow to earn per-usage fees.

[Wiktor Łoboda @LobodaWiktor]

product-based differenciation between ai assistants is smaller than the friction of switching. because of that, marketing based on capability makes no sense. instead, the winners in this market just show out loud what exactly can they do - and i think that will be the winning customer acquisition method for any of them. not "use us because we can do this", but "an ai agent can do this, and by the way, you can use ours".

over the week in SF i met with a few such apps, and i tried to present my thinking as follows: when selling B2C, capability discovery is a way more powerful message than ai-preaching. instead of saying "we can do everything" all over again, just say "we can do this", or just "ai agents do this". people have no idea what "everything" means, just tell them "something" and it will work better.

[Jared Cohen @jaredccohen]

this is why I'd pay $40/mo+ for Instinct

[Wiktor Łoboda @LobodaWiktor]

@custo_lejla Try Lime. It’s goated. $5.99 sub gives u 20min rides capped at $3 each.

[Wiktor Łoboda @LobodaWiktor]

@tugot17 germans have a particular ability to inflict self-harm on their economy, but this is huge even for their standards lol