Shah_Ching

Building for the future: $ETH, $link, $apx maxi. Farming airdrops is my jams.

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

How to make a Pikachu book mark

[Raghav B @Raghav_b11]

I BUILT AN APP TO FIND CRACKED DEVELOPERS IN SECONDS

6 weeks ago I moved to SF and have been heads down building the fastest & the most reliable way to find 100x engineers. I'll be showcasing GitHired at the @fdotinc Festival tomorrow. If you're in SF, rsvp link below👇

[tate brown @realTateBrown]

I don't want to hear any conservative mouth off about how "men need to step up"

[blue @bluewmist]

People who grew up really poor: what's something middle-class people say that instantly reveals they've never struggled?

[Dilum Sanjaya @DilumSanjaya]

Fun interactive science app ideas | Part 3

Played around with generating 3D biological structures and made an app to explore them interactively

UI Design
GPT Images 2

Code
Gemini 3.1 Pro

More demos ↓

[Gipp 🦅 @gippp69]

24-year-old guy from America did $750,000 in 90 days with a Shopify store

most people see this and think he had a warehouse, a team and $20k to start

the real model is way lighter

$100 budget. Claude Pro. Shopify trial. paid traffic.

no inventory upfront, no FBA, no massive product order

the customer pays first, the product is bought after, and Claude handles the product page, ad angles and research while the owner sleeps

[Siro @Siron93]

Imagine making $450,000/mo from a bible app. a bible app. a category most builders ignore.

Haven has 21 onboarding steps, a chatbot that asks you to type out your deepest struggles, $6.99/week. no decoys.

- chatbot-style intake, manual text input. not multiple choice. you TYPE your struggles
- "relationship problems," "anxiety," whatever you're going through. manually typed. vulnerable
- rating prompt during the opening carousel. 5-star reviews harvested before any friction
- notification permission framed as "spiritual discipline, made easier"
- "analyzing your responses..." screen. manufactures the feeling of complex computation
- the paywall doesn't show features. it shows a personalized BIBLE VERSE
- one single option. 7-day trial → $6.99/week. no annual. no tiers.
- "notify me before my trial ends" toggle right above the CTA
- 250K people a month download this. $450K/mo

[Dara @dara_venture]

You raise your seed round.....now what?

The first thing you do when $1-2M hits the bank account is open the app, look at the number, take the screenshot, smile, send it to your family group chat to make your dickhead brother jealous....then close it.

You just got 18-24 months if you're disciplined, 8-10 if you're stupid.

Firstly,
Don't change your fucking life.

Pay yourself enough to not stress about rent. $80-120k depending on city, even lower if you can stomach it.

If you pay yourself $350k after a $2M raise.....chances are, you will not last. You're not running a company just yet.....it's an experiment...one that will end quickly if you prioritize short term gains > long term greatness.
Same with office. You don't need one. The "we need a real space for the culture" is bullshit.

Work from home.
Your only job for the first 6 months is to talk to users and ship quickly.

If you raised $2M and you're not doing (minimum) 5 customer calls a week as a founder........your priorities are messed up.

You need to understand as quickly as possible if the people who use your product, come back without you begging them to do so!
Almost everything else is a vanity exercise.

Series A timeline in 2026 is 600+ days from seed.
Less than 15% of seed-funded startups ever raise an A.
So track burn weekly.
Know your runway to the day.
Every dollar should ship product or facilitates customer feedback .
If a tool, hire, or expense doesn't do that, stop it.

Conference tickets? No. PR firm? Absolutely fucking not. "Brand consultant" don't be stupid. Logo redesign? GTFOH.

72% of seed stage burn is "people".
74% of startup failures involve premature scaling.

You raise, you feel pressure to "build the team," you hire 4 people in 90 days, burn goes from $40k/mo to $180k/mo, the new hires don't have product to work on because there isn't one yet, you spend your time managing them instead of talking to users, runway evaporates, you're back fundraising at month 9 with worse metrics than when you started.

Stay 2-3 founders + AI for as long as humanly possible.
The teams crushing right now have 4 people doing what 15 used to do just 24 months ago.

When/If you do hire.......focus on builders, forget managers. Focus on operators, not "credentials".

If you're not using AI for code (Cursor, Claude Code), customer support, sales prospecting, content, ops, brand, recruitment vetting......your competition is winning.

Tech is commodity now. GTM and data are the moats. Use AI to compress everything that isn't either of those things.

Try to avoid giving advisors equity.
An "advisor" (who you mistakenly thought would enhance "credibility optics") who takes 1%, for doing absolutely nothing, is the same prick that costs you seven figures in a future round.

Model dilution before signing every SAFE.

Don't talk to VCs for 6 months. (forget the "always raising" mindset for now) Keep relationships warm with periodic updates but take the foot of the gas slightly.
I know. I'm a VC saying this. But I mean it. The gravitational, distractional pull of the next round, will fuck up your focus harder than anything else.

Send your existing investors a 5 line monthly email. Don't go to investor dinners. Don't "build relationships for the A." If you're talking to VCs more than building, again, your priorities are misjudged and it will show up against your development goals.

The money will fuck with your head. People will ultimately treat you differently. Nobody really prepares you for that.
You'll get DMs from people you haven't talked to since school. You'll feel the urge to announce, to LinkedIn post, to look like a "real founder."

You'll also be lonelier than ever. You raised, your "friends" think you've made it, you can't tell them you're scared shitless and don't know if it'll work.
I would recommend finding 1-2 founders.....who are 6 months ahead of you, and text them weekly.
That's effective therapy (at least from my personal experience).

Last thing.
The party ended when the money hit.
Now you have a shot and a clock.....the only thing that matters is whether you ship something people genuinely want before that timer runs out.

Most people who give you advice in the next 6 months are probably going to try selling you something. Filter everything ruthlessly. Trust your user feedback and trust the burn rate.

Now go build and say "no"...... consistently.

Godspeed.

[Boring_Business @BoringBiz_]

Just spoke with a couple friends who work on the operational side at very large private equity firms

Every PE firm is now scrambling to find and recruit AI talent who can implement the newest tools into their PortCos

This includes former and current technology executives who are familiar with the industry, as well as engineers who can drop directly into the business to build custom made tools

Will keep the comp numbers confidential but they are absolutely insane, especially at the senior levels

For the PortCos that have already piloted this, the efficiency gains are huge. Some are well within the range of 20%+ headcount reduction potential for back office functions

[Phil Rosen @philrosenn]

Hexcel is the most important manufacturing company you've never heard of.

It's a pick-and-shovel stock for aerospace and defense. Almost every commercial and military aircraft is built with its materials:

- carbon fiber
- lightweight synthetics
- speciality jet components

Over $11 billion backlog for thousands of booked projects.

$HXL is +57% since we sent it to Best Ideas Club members.

Join us: https://t.co/3st9JY9d6T

[ₕₐₘₚₜₒₙ @hamptonism]

The productivity moat is shifting.

It's no longer about what tools you use. It's about whether your AI actually KNOWS you.

Memory. Personalization. Secure compute. Own email.

Now we have companies building the first real personal AI that evolves with you over time. 

This is the direction everything is heading. It’s so clear now

[Caitlin Leksana @0xCaitlin]

WE RAISED OUR SERIES A!!! 🎉 🚀

Today, we’re thrilled to announce our Series A, bringing @FazeshiftHQs total funding to $22M.

Accounts receivable is still one of the most manual, painful workflows inside modern companies. It lives in spreadsheets, email threads, and disconnected systems – and it slows down how businesses get paid.

That’s exactly why we built Fazeshift: an AI-native platform that automates and scales AR, helping finance teams move faster, operate with clarity, and unlock cash flow.

Since we kicked things off in 2024, the team has executed relentlessly:
✔️ 12x revenue growth
✔️ 8 unicorns now using Fazeshift
✔️ Team grew from 2 → 26
✔️ Opened our SF HQ and NYC office

This milestone is a reflection of the people behind it, and it gives us the ability to invest more aggressively in our AI agent’s capabilities.

To our investors, thank you for your belief and partnership. This financing ranks well above the typical Series A, reflecting strong investor conviction in the shift toward AI-native finance infrastructure.

F-Prime, @GradientVC , @ycombinator, @0xpioneer_fund, Phoenix Fund, Wayfinder, @RitualVC , @2048vc , The Graduate Syndicate, Vulcan Partners, and incredible angels including Sandor Palfy, Kulveer Taggar, Richard Aberman, Terrence Rohan, Rob Biederman, Mike MacCombie.

To our customers, thank you for trusting us with something so critical. You’re trusting us with how your business gets paid, and we don’t take that lightly.

And to @0xTimmyG and our team, it’s an absolute privilege to build alongside you.

We’re just getting started. This raise isn’t the finish line, it’s fuel.

Let’s go do this thing!

Read the full story from @bayareawriter in @crunchbase (link in comments).

[Josh Kale @JoshKale]

Anthropic just automated the first-year analyst job at every bank on Wall Street.

They released these 10 AI agents for finance:
→ Pitch builder
→ Meeting preparer
→ Earnings reviewer
→ Model builder
→ Market researcher
→ Valuation reviewer
→ GL reconciler
→ Month-end closer
→ Statement auditor
→ KYC screener

The analyst pyramid just got a lot flatter.

[GREG ISENBERG @gregisenberg]

Coinbase is now testing 1 person teams + AI agents and announced laying off 700 employees.

Other companies doing this (layoffs + AI):

1. Shopify: No new headcount unless you prove AI can’t do the job.
2. Block: Cutting ~4,000 roles (~40%); Dorsey says AI lets much smaller teams do more.
3. Klarna: Its AI assistant now does work equivalent to about 700 support roles.
4. Duolingo: Went “AI‑first,” telling teams to rebuild workflows around AI before hiring.
5. Salesforce: Paused new engineering hires after AI tools boosted dev productivity ~30%.
6. Amazon: Cutting about 16,000 corporate jobs this year in an efficiency/automation push.
7. Meta: Cutting ~10% of staff and freezing thousands of open roles as it doubles down on AI.

882 jobs per day disappearing in tech. This is the pace right now.

And I think that's going to accelerate and move beyond tech.

My POV:

Every single one of these companies is telling you the same thing: one person with AI can do what used to take a team.

They're literally saying it with their org charts.

If you're employed, build a 1 person team on the side.

If you're laid off, build one today. The tools that made your role redundant are the same tools that let you build your own company.

The biggest wave of new startups is going to come from people who got restructured out of exactly these announcements.

[mattytay @mattytay]

If you have been laid off, there is still time to fire up Claude and sprint on an MVP to submit to the @Solana Frontier Hackathon.

6 days left before projects are due: https://t.co/zcNOYX93Si

[Matt Epstein @mattepstein]

I'm hiring for the most important role in my company: Growth Engineer.

Pay $120,000+ (w/ ability to earn $300,000)

Must:
-Be extremely well spoken
-Spend over 20hrs a week on X
-Have built something yourself
-Know the term "Looksmaxxing"
-Have found strange "hacks" in systems
-High IQ (autism is welcomed)
-Live in NYC or be willing to move
-Be Type A
-Watch 5hrs+/week of Youtube
-Think 90+% of people are incompetent
-Willing to work weekends

We're the Mr. Beast of tech Marketing. We make billion dollar tech companies Viral every week.

We treat Virality like a science experiment.

Every launch we do get's millions of views. Most change the trajectory of our companies business.

Attention has never been more important.

Products are commoditized thanks to @claudeai and @OpenAI

The largest tech companies in the world aren't growing because they have a better product they are growing because they distribute better.

This is why our services are in extreme demand. We have more companies that want to work with us than we can support.

We've had companies go raise $30 million+ because of our work.

Our team is now 70 people with 2 offices (one on Madison ave in NYC).

We've gone from 3M in ARR -> 13 in the last 6 months.

The energy and growth in our team is disgusting.

About the role:

You'll be responsible for engineering Virality.

You'll build systems and proprietary communities that manipulate algorithms to push our content to millions of views.

We are not looking for a traditional marketer.

We are looking for someone who can combine:

internet obsession + technical ability + pattern recognition + distribution psychology.

99% of you do not have this. We are looking for a needle in a haystack.

Apply here: https://t.co/rgcSQ7Qfc7

[AlphaCartel @AlphaCartell]

vibe coding changed software.
vibe trading is changing markets.

i gave claude this prompt:

"build a BTC/USDT 4H bot.
entry: EMA21 crosses above EMA55 + OI increases 8%+ in last 2 candles + RSI between 45-65
position size: 1.5% account risk per trade
stop loss: below the last swing low, minimum 1.2%
take profit: 3.5R
if price closes below EMA55 after entry, exit immediately
send telegram alert 30 seconds before execution
run checks every 15 minutes, 24/7"

claude returned a working bot in 4 minutes.

backtest on 18 months of data:
→ 847 signals generated
→ 312 trades taken (filter removed 63% noise)
→ win rate: 61.4%
→ average R: 2.3
→ max drawdown: 8.7%
→ total return: +340% on starting capital

the prompt is the strategy.
the strategy is the system.
the system runs while you sleep.

we didn't write a single line of code.

full setup → https://t.co/5kbC91lvVq

like + bookmark. prompts print.

[CyrilXBT @cyrilXBT]

THE JOB MARKET IS ABOUT TO GET WEIRD.

And most people are not prepared for what is coming.

Companies in 2026 are not looking for data scientists.
They are not looking for ML engineers.
They are not looking for people who can build models from scratch.

THEY ARE LOOKING FOR AI NERDS.

The person who walks into a meeting, sees a 4 hour manual process, and kills it in 10 minutes with Claude Code and LLMs.
The person who refuses to do anything manually twice.
The person who looks at every repetitive task and asks one question:

Why is a human still doing this.

That mindset is worth more right now than a machine learning PhD.
More than five years of Python experience.
More than any certification from any university.

THE NEW VALUABLE SKILL IS NOT TECHNICAL.

It is a refusal to accept inefficiency.

The people who develop that refusal this year will be completely unemployable in the old way and completely irreplaceable in the new one.

Which side of that line are you on.

[Brad Wilcox @BradWilcoxIFS]

Just remember: Your coworkers will NOT be there for you in the last chapter of your life.

[Ac Hampton @HamptonAc_]

17 year olds are about to start printing $100k months with 2 shifts that just happened in the ecom space.

Meta and Higgsfield both dropped official MCP connectors for Claude.

What that means in plain English and how to set it up today:

You can now connect Claude directly to your Meta Ads account and to Higgsfield's full creative studio at the same time.

The setup:

CONNECT META ADS TO CLAUDE

→ Go to claude[.]ai Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector
→ Name it Meta Ads
→ Paste this URL: https://mcp[.]facebook[.]com/ads
→ Connect and sign in with your Meta Business account
→ Grant ads_read, ads_management, business_management, read_insights permissions

Claude can now read your full campaign performance, ROAS, CTR, CPM, creative breakdowns, pixel health and more.

It can also create and edit campaigns, ad sets and ads with your approval on every action.

CONNECT HIGGSFIELD TO CLAUDE

→ Same place: Connectors → Add custom connector
→ Name it Higgsfield
→ Paste this URL: https://mcp[.]higgsfield[.]ai/mcp
→ Connect with your Higgsfield account

Claude can now generate UGC videos, static ad creatives, product mockups, carousels and storyboards directly inside the chat.

Images up to 4K, videos up to 15 seconds, and any format ready to upload.

You need Claude Pro, Max or Team to run both connectors at the same time.

THE WORKFLOW

Open a Claude chat with both connectors being active.

→ Step 1: Ask Claude to pull your last 14 days of Meta data and identify your top-performing creatives and angles

→ Step 2: Tell Claude to brief Higgsfield using those winning angles and generate 10 fresh ad variations for your product

→ Step 3: Review the assets Claude generates directly in the chat

→ Step 4: Tell Claude to build new test campaigns using the new creatives and approve the launch

You used to pay for creatives, wait for delivery, upload manually, and guess which angle would win.

Now Claude tells you what's already winning in your account and builds the next round of creatives around that data before you finish your coffee.

Comment "PROMPT" below, and I'll send you the exact prompt stack you can use to run this full loop.

(follow so I can send to your dm)