Andrei Railean

Principal Engineer @ignitionapp

[shadcn @shadcn]

Introducing the registry mcp. One command to make any component registry mcp-compatible.

Your Design System. Now with AI. Zero config.

We've got a lot to cover. Let's get started. ⬇️

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

It is starting.
China explaining very bluntly that Britain no longer exists.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

You’ve asked me several questions on this thread and accused me of avoiding answering, so here goes.

I believe a woman is a human being who belongs to the sex class that produces large gametes. It’s irrelevant whether or not her gametes have ever been fertilised, whether or not she’s carried a baby to term, irrelevant if she was born with a rare difference of sexual development that makes neither of the above possible, or if she’s aged beyond being able to produce viable eggs. She is a woman and just as much a woman as the others.

I don’t believe a woman is more or less of a woman for having sex with men, women, both or not wanting sex at all. I don’t think a woman is more or less of a woman for having a buzz cut and liking suits and ties, or wearing stilettos and mini dresses, for being black, white or brown, for being six feet tall or a little person, for being kind or cruel, angry or sad, loud or retiring. She isn't more of a woman for featuring in Playboy or being a surrendered wife, nor less of a woman for designing space rockets or taking up boxing. What makes her a woman is the fact of being born in a body that, assuming nothing has gone wrong in her physical development (which, as stated above, still doesn't stop her being a woman), is geared towards producing eggs as opposed to sperm, towards bearing as opposed to begetting children, and irrespective of whether she's done either of those things, or ever wants to.

Womanhood isn't a mystical state of being, nor is it measured by how well one apes sex stereotypes. We are not the creatures either porn or the Bible tell you we are. Femaleness is not, as trans woman Andrea Chu Long wrote, ‘an open mouth, an expectant asshole, blank, blank eyes,’ nor are we God’s afterthought, sprung from Adam’s rib.

Women are provably subject to certain experiences because of our female bodies, including different forms of oppression, depending on the cultures in which we live. When trans activists say 'I thought you didn't want to be defined by your biology,' it’s a feeble and transparent attempt at linguistic sleight of hand. Women don't want to be limited, exploited, punished, or subject to other unjust treatment because of their biology, but our being female is indeed defined by our biology. It's one material fact about us, like having freckles or disliking beetroot, neither of which are representative of our entire beings, either. Women have billions of different personalities and life stories, which have nothing to do with our bodies, although we are likely to have had experiences men don't and can't, because we belong to our sex class.

Some people feel strongly that they should have been, or wish to be seen as, the sex class into which they weren't born. Gender dysphoria is a real and very painful condition and I feel nothing but sympathy for anyone who suffers from it. I want them to be free to dress and present themselves however they like and I want them to have exactly the same rights as every other citizen regarding housing, employment and personal safety. I do not, however, believe that surgeries and cross-sex hormones literally turn a person into the opposite sex, nor do I believe in the idea that each of us has a nebulous ‘gender identity’ that may or might not match our sexed bodies. I believe the ideology that preaches those tenets has caused, and continues to cause, very real harm to vulnerable people.

I am strongly against women's and girls' rights and protections being dismantled to accommodate trans-identified men, for the very simple reason that no study has ever demonstrated that trans-identified men don't have exactly the same pattern of criminality as other men, and because, however they identify, men retain their advantages of speed and strength. In other words, I think the safety and rights of girls and women are more important than those men's desire for validation.

I sincerely hope that answers your questions. You may still disagree, but as I hope this shows, I’m more than happy to have this debate.

[GREG ISENBERG @gregisenberg]

This is the best time to start a company in 30 years.

I’ll summarize some of the best opportunities for you:

1. Buy distressed VC assets. Recap them. Offer team dividends going forward. Turn them into profit machines.

2. The media apocalypse is here. 20,000+ media employees have been LAID off in the last 12 months. From Condé Nast to Washington Post. How can you build a new media company that's profitable, AI-powered and community-first with that talent?

3. Apple Vision Pro App Store. 400,000 headsets will be sold in the next 12 months. it looks like a joke until it isnt. Create unique apps for that app store, be first.

4. The Figma-fication of everything. Turning software that was once single-player into multi-player is a generational opportunity. The future of software looks like Arc, Figma etc.

5. SaaS business model is dying. People are tired of Saas Subscriptions. One-time payments or pay-per-task SaaS is becoming normal.

6. Eldertech. Boomers are retiring. Probably one of the most underserved audiences. So much to be built for them.

7. Leverage creators, they are mispriced. Most creators can’t monetize beyond brand deals. They have distribution old media dreams of. Partner with them. Help them productize themselves and earn upside.

8. GPT Store. Fastest growing product of all time just launched an app store? Literally the next App Store.

9. Agents for everyone. You get an agent, and you get an agent and you get an agent. Who will be the Oprah of AI agents?

10. Productized services. How can you make a service like a product? Enable it by global workforce and AI. We built https://t.co/FPRIhIfWfn to build marketing assets for folks on a monthly basis. People pay us monthly fee to turn their market assets (landing pages, lead magnets, social assets) into revenue generating machines. Business does 7 figures overnight.

11. The unbundling of ChatGPT. ChatGPT won’t be everything to everyone. Just like how Craigslist, Reddit etc got unbundled, so will ChatGPT. ChatGPT for X.

12. Internet memberships are the new community. Digital communities that sell workshops, IRL events, software, deals etc. I created a limited membership with a monthly email with startup ideas, trends, private Q&A, free $99/month Skool sub, software deals and built $27k MRR in 3 months. https://t.co/NW2C96QOHD

13. The rise of the detox economy. People are overloaded with screens and seed oils. Build businesses for this new detox economy

14. High Interest rates at 5-6% make companies want to increase profits, reduce costs. There’s a bunch of businesses to create to help them do it.

15. Almost half of gen-z doesn’t believe in religion. The rise of community-based brands. This is your opportunity to build things they feel connected to.

16. Happiness, fulfillment, stability, and safety are at all-time lows for gen-z relative to other generations. How can we build products, services to help them?

17. Google is being completely rewritten thanks to AI. Billions of visits up for grabs. People are calling it "SEO 2.0". Learn how to do it yourself (https://t.co/GpDeHDkK5x or hire someone https://t.co/pIYc4oMEYf). These "boring" ways to get customers (like SEO) will only get more popular

18. Privacy-first startups. Yeah most people care more about convenience than anything, but there’s a growing privacy movement. The more people get hacked and phished, the more they care about their privacy and security.

19. TikTok stores. Today, I met an 18 year old guy who made $1m in the last 45 days from a TikTok store. He sourced the product, partnered with a creator, never raised $1 and was profitable on every purchase. I think you'll start seeing more of these stories with the rise of social selling, live (IG live/TikTok live) selling.

20. Multipreneurship. Portfolio of internet businesses instead of one internet business. Small mindset shift, big difference. Buy small profitable businesses to help scale it. Fund it via customers ideally.

21. The pop of the newsletter bubble. When the newsletter bubble pops (yes, when), it'll be an opportunity to scoop up interesting newsletters and aggregate and take them from a newsletter business to a business powered by a newsletter

AND MANY MORE OPPORTUNITIES. This is just a few to get your creative juices flowing.

After reading this, do you agree the opportunities right now are kinda mind blowing?

Every business is made out of thin air.

Just a good idea, the right timing and consistency.

The right timing is now.

It fires me up, does it fire you up?

Do you agree? What am I missing?

(in the next tweet ill give you some free resources for your journey)

[terminally onλine εngineer @tekbog]

uncle bob has played us for absolute fools

[Andrei Railean @andrei_md]

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[Ramin Nazer @raminnazer]

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[Andrei Railean @andrei_md]

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[Andrei Railean @andrei_md]

@Complexion ☕️ 🚀 🌌

[Shawn Dumas @shawndumas]

pilfering memegen

[Andrei Railean @andrei_md]

@BeHereNowNet something is wrong with your website

[Eric Elliott @ericelliott_]

Good code is simple. Code reviews are a great way to train teams to write simple code. Don't be afraid to say "this is hard to understand".

[Andrei Railean @andrei_md]

@Complexion Great trip, as always. Keep up the good vibe, @Complexion. Guest mixes are great. Interviews - not so. Would rather listen to music. Interviews with musicians should be a separate podcast.

[Andrei Railean @andrei_md]

@Internode It's worth giving it another go. Please arrange support contact. I've gone through parts of the testing process before and am still nowhere. Considering switching to 4G for broadband - prices are coming down.

[Andrei Railean @andrei_md]

Hey @Internode what do you think of this ADSL speed I'm getting in the Blue Mountains from you? Tests done via google. Do you have dashboards with these metrics to proactively fix issues or do you prefer when people complain and call support?

[Andrei Railean @andrei_md]

@jakra_pup @Internode @Telstra Yes, pretty sure. The cable from my house goes in there.

[Oregon Zoo @OregonZoo]

Amazing and gothy animal X-rays taken during health checks at our veterinary center: a thread

[Andrei Railean @andrei_md]

@Internode I had a chat with someone about 6 months ago. Don't want to go through another long phone convo involving uploading and downloading files and doing dummy debugging steps. It has only gotten worse since the last call. Neighbours get up to 8Mbps with @iiNet.

[Andrei Railean @andrei_md]

@Internode Naked DSL, sorry, no phone to conect. I do have these pictures that show the state of @Telstra junction box next to my house. It's just hanging there, which may explain _something_ to do with rain or wind having an effect on all this.

[Andrei Railean @andrei_md]

@Internode MAC Address ending in EA:32:E6 - I'm sure this will help you poke around a bit more if you haven't pinpointed it already.