Sonu Sharma

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[Sonu Sharma @TheAlphaMerc]

🎉 Today’s a big day! After months of hard work, @OrgniseApp is officially live! 🚀

From late-night coding to countless iterations, seeing this come together is surreal.

check it out 👉 https://t.co/PHtSTeG12l

[Orgnise @OrgniseApp]

🎉 Big News! Orgnise is officially LIVE! 🚀

We're thrilled to launch Orgnise to help you streamline your knowledge management. No more waitlists—just click and get started! ✨

Ready to elevate your team? Visit https://t.co/10JCQ4SRo6 and dive into the app today!

[Sonu Sharma @TheAlphaMerc]

Four horsemen? More like the default Tailwind + Claude starter pack at this point 😂

[Wes Bos @wesbos]

the four horsemen of the apocalypse

[Sonu Sharma @TheAlphaMerc]

@TheFallenMerc Heard a lot of great things about Bun lately. Definitely gonna try it out!

[Shubham Singh Chahar @TheFallenMerc]

BUN is the new NODE?

If you're a MERN Stack / JavaScript developer and you haven't tried Bun yet, you're missing out.
I was skeptical at first. Node.js has been the default choice for years, and most of us have built entire careers around it.
But after using Bun in multiple production projects, it's become my default runtime for almost everything new I build.
Why?

✅ Blazing fast startup times
✅ Extremely fast package installation
✅ Built-in TypeScript support
✅ Native test runner
✅ Built-in bundler
✅ Better developer experience with fewer dependencies
✅ Lower memory usage for many workloads

What I love most is that Bun reduces the amount of tooling you need.
Instead of stitching together Node + ts-node + Jest + Webpack/Vite + other utilities, Bun handles a surprising amount of that out of the box.

Curious how many developers here have already switched to Bun for production workloads.
What's been your experience?

#Bun
#JavaScript
#TypeScript

#NodeJS
#WebDevelopment
#BackendDevelopment
#SoftwareEngineering
#WebDev
#FullStackDeveloper
#MERNStack

#ElysiaJS
#DeveloperTools

[Shubham Singh Chahar @TheFallenMerc]

Checkout https://t.co/LmvltQISbC

[KonnecTo @KonnecToHQ]

Zero to a fully managed customizable community in just 2 mins. Everything you need in one place. Reach out if you’re building a community for your users, clients, employees or students.#SaaS #CommunityBuilding #WhiteLabel #Startup #CreatorEconomy #B2B #TechStartup #Konnecto

[KonnecTo @KonnecToHQ]

Community builders spend more time managing tools than building communities.

• Moderating chats
• Sending event reminders
• Organizing content
• Answering DMs

Infrastructure shouldn't be the job.

[Lydia Hallie ✨ @lydiahallie]

Excited to announce Claude for Open Source ❤️

We're giving 6 months of free Claude Max 20x to open source maintainers and core contributors.

If you maintain a popular project or contribute across open source, please apply!

https://t.co/inuh0hxREA

[Sonu Sharma @TheAlphaMerc]

If your specifications are vague, you won’t just build the wrong thing you’ll build it faster, at scale, and with confidence.

[Matt Shumer @mattshumer_]

https://t.co/ivXRKXJvQg

[Polar @polar_sh]

Introducing — Prompt a Startup 2026 ✨

Build with @Lovable. Monetize with @polar_sh. Highest MRR after 30 days wins.

Global hackathon starts March 7th.

The 40 best ideas will be invited to vibe in-person at a luxury spa in Stockholm.

Apply now — https://t.co/IOJyzZBJfE

[Sonu Sharma @TheAlphaMerc]

Check out this amazing repo: https://t.co/PogFjuJUF7

[Sonu Sharma @TheAlphaMerc]

Found an awesome open-source project that turns maps into beautifully designed city posters. I used it to create a few posters for New Delhi, Chennai, Kolkata and Ahmedabad.

[Sonu Sharma @TheAlphaMerc]

Everyone selling 'one-day life reset' protocols.
The insight can hit in one day.
The identity shift? Years.
The follow-through? Most people never make it past week 3.

[DAN KOE @thedankoe]

https://t.co/7l7Jef99QZ

[Sonu Sharma @TheAlphaMerc]

It’s a tough but necessary call to protect project integrity. Between AI spam and rising supply chain risks, maintainers are being forced to gate-keep just to keep the lights on.

We need better tools to filter the noise before the "open" in open source becomes a liability.

[tldraw @tldraw]

This week we're going to begin automatically closing pull requests from external contributors. I hate this, sorry.

[Sonu Sharma @TheAlphaMerc]

I’m sad to see this happen, though I don’t blame them one bit. The 'open to all' model is breaking under the weight of AI-automated junk.

It’s unfair to ask maintainers to spend their free time cleaning up bot-work. GitHub needs to provide better shields for the community.

[tldraw @tldraw]

This week we're going to begin automatically closing pull requests from external contributors. I hate this, sorry.

[Sonu Sharma @TheAlphaMerc]

@nalinrajput23 We used to sit in silence until an idea arrived. Now we fill the silence with prompts.

[Sonu Sharma @TheAlphaMerc]

The real open-source crisis isn’t money. It’s motivation. When your only “user” is an AI agent that never says thanks, why spend Saturday night fixing bugs for free?

We’re losing the next generation of maintainers and the human heart that kept OSS alive.

[Marc @MarcJSchmidt]

All my new code will be closed-source from now on. I've contributed millions of lines of carefully written OSS code over the past decade, spent thousands of hours helping other people. If you want to use my libraries (1M+ downloads/month) in the future, you have to pay.

I made good money funneling people through my OSS and being recognized as expert in several fields. This was entirely based on HUMANS knowing and seeing me by USING and INTERACTING with my code. No humans will ever read my docs again when coding agents do it in seconds. Nobody will even know it's me who built it.

Look at Tailwind: 75 million downloads/month, more popular than ever, revenue down 80%, docs traffic down 40%, 75% of engineering team laid off. Someone submitted a PR to add LLM-optimized docs and Wathan had to decline - optimizing for agents accelerates his business's death. He's being asked to build the infrastructure for his own obsolescence.

Two of the most common OSS business models:
- Open Core: Give away the library, sell premium once you reach critical mass (Tailwind UI, Prisma Accelerate, Supabase Cloud...)
- Expertise Moat: Be THE expert in your library - consulting gigs, speaking, higher salary

Tailwind just proved the first one is dying. Agents bypass the documentation funnel. They don't see your premium tier. Every project relying on docs-to-premium conversion will face the same pressure: Prisma, Drizzle, MikroORM, Strapi, and many more.

The core insight: OSS monetization was always about attention. Human eyeballs on your docs, brand, expertise. That attention has literally moved into attention layers. Your docs trained the models that now make visiting you unnecessary. Human attention paid. Artificial attention doesn't.

Some OSS will keep going - wealthy devs doing it for fun or education. That's not a system, that's charity. Most popular OSS runs on economic incentives. Destroy them, they stop playing.

Why go closed-source? When the monetization funnel is broken, you move payment to the only point that still exists: access. OSS gave away access hoping to monetize attention downstream. Agents broke downstream. Closed-source gates access directly.
The final irony: OSS trained the models now killing it. We built our own replacement.

My prediction: a new marketplace emerges, built for agents. Want your agent to use Tailwind? Prisma? Pay per access. Libraries become APIs with meters. The old model: free code -> human attention -> monetization. The new model: pay at the gate or your agent doesn't get in.

[Sonu Sharma @TheAlphaMerc]

243 days in.
584.5M tokens.
1.8K agents.
10.3K tabs.
19-day streak.

Built, broke, and rebuilt all inside Cursor.
Claude Sonnet carried HARD this year 🔥

@cursor_ai
#Cursor2025

[Gumroad @gumroad]

Gumroad is officially open source! 💫🚀

After 14 years of helping creators earn over $1,000,000,000 (that’s a billion), we're giving everyone direct access to our entire codebase.

[Sonu Sharma @TheAlphaMerc]

@TahaTesser Congratulation