Now the next step is to make sure the rest of us can't afford computers, cause its just easier to have a cloud computer, keep everything there and ask an agent to do stuff for you there. We all know where this is going
Calling it now, @Tailscale will be one of the most important parts of the agentic tech stack. Once a non-tech workflow is embedded into existing applications, it's a wrap.
African founders need to understand even VCs are running a business.
Earlier this year, about 10 slots opened up at YCombinator for blockchain companies, courtesy of Coinbase, and I (+@deriq_eth) fought all we humanly can to get 2 of the most matured African startups in the list.
During the interview, YC asked one of them - "how big is the market you're serving?" At the time, 80% of their customers were from Africa. YC turned them down with a note "once you expand your client-base globally, pls get back to us."
Today, that startup is aggressively expanding into Latam & EU.
The conditions are not ideal, but VCs don't see the African market as big enough to take a bet. That is the problem.
I may have just wasted 13 hours and ₦40,000.
Or I may have built something ridiculously fun 😂
I saw https://t.co/ClFKmQEq2K by @jonahtan_wert blowing up and thought:
“Nigerians would turn this into WAR.”
So I built https://t.co/L1HQCUGh5X 🇳🇬
The rules are stupidly simple:
Put your product/startup on the board.
Want to rank higher?
PAY a minimum of #500 to take over the #1 rank
Someone takes your spot?
OUTBID THEM!
And because we're Nigerians, I made it even more chaotic:
Your friends can literally bid for you😭
People can also comment on products while watching the leaderboard fight unfold.
13 hours.
₦30,000.
One questionable decision.
https://t.co/L1HQCUGh5X is LIVE.
Now please fight for #1 so my ₦40k doesn't waste 😭
Just heard solidity-auditor v4 from pashov/skills is getting cooked as we speak (@0xFireFist on the beat)
It's finding up to 50% more vulnerabilities (Critical, High & Medium severity) in many tests with previous security contests performances. Excitedddd👀
Everybody posts an on-device AI demo.
Nobody posts what happens when your LLM, speech-to-text, text-to-speech, embeddings, and reranker all want RAM on the same 2GB Android phone.
I’m building through it with Edgai.
Here’s what shipping on-device AI for real has taught me. 🧵