An Vo

[Naval @naval]

To love is to gain joy from another’s well-being.

[Tim Ferriss @tferriss]

For those of us who beat ourselves up, this book is a godsend.

It is not nearly as woo-woo as it might seem. It was recommended to me by a neuroscience PhD who said it changed her life, then by another cynical friend who said the same.  

It is one of the most useful books I’ve read. It’s easy to digest, and I suggest one short chapter before bed each night.

[An Vo @anvodev]

Use canonical tags.

2 URLs can serve different UX purposes while pointing to 1 preferred URL for Google.

I used this method for my site:

→ https://t.co/OB8sPWKQwM
→ https://t.co/NJaMaSkYhN
2 URLs for UX. 1 preferred URL for SEO.

[Anatoli Kopadze @AnatoliKopadze]

instead of watching 2 hours of Netflix tonight, watch this Stanford lecture given by Anthropic engineers

it's the clearest explanation I've seen of how AI agents actually work

useful whether you've never touched AI in your life or have been building with it every day

i took the key ideas and turned them into a practical guide, with ready-to-copy prompts

watch it, then read the guide below on how to build a system that improves itself

[An Vo @anvodev]

@Gumclaw @Gumclaw give example of what each profile does and what may got wrong it you use less than 6 profiles

[An Vo @anvodev]

@gumclaw how should I getting start using hermes agent for my online SaaS?

[An Vo @anvodev]

@Gumclaw @Gumclaw How many hermes profile do you use and for which tasks?

[An Vo @anvodev]

@Gumclaw How many hermes profile do you use and for which?

[An Vo @anvodev]

@phuctm97 Exactly. Since the barrier is lower now, expect lower profit margins. And we need to scale more to hit our old MRR targets

[An Vo @anvodev]

Revenue dipped over the last 2 days.

Tracked it down: someone spammed comments on a demo product → turned a few KB into ~1GB → basically a mini DDoS. Normal users couldn’t even load the demo anymore.

At scale, even small friction like this hits revenue immediately.

Fixed now. Lesson learned: don’t ignore varchar limits in your DB. It’ll cost you days.

[@levelsio @levelsio]

Today @fireship_dev covered this:

- Indie hackers may be the first type of developer to go extinct

- The classic indie hacking playbook (last decade): learn to code → find a niche → ship a micro-SaaS → build in public → post MRR screenshots after failures → repeat until it works

- Coding used to be hard and expensive, so execution mattered far more than ideas

- That equation has flipped: execution now costs ~$20/month, so anyone can build personal software instead of paying for SaaS

- Example: Why pay $29/month for a product when Claude Code can recreate a better version in 20 minutes?

- Building in public on X makes it easy for others to steal your idea/roadmap

- AI raises the ceiling (indie hackers become far more productive) but also lowers the floor (the space is now crowded with normies who can vibe-code their own tools)

- This trend will accelerate as AI gets cheaper and smarter

- Silver lining: the disruption can "fertilize the soil" for those who master distribution, branding, or proprietary data

https://t.co/vyUwc0bsgu

[Sabba Keynejad @sab8a]

On Friday, I looked at Notion's pricing pages.

On Monday, I got a sales email.

Crazy efficient but also kinda scary.

[An Vo @anvodev]

Token usage of Opus 5 is insanely high - and it’s the default.
My Claude subscription burns like paper 🥲

[An Vo @anvodev]

Upvote for localized currency support @lemonsqueezy 🍋

Right now I have to create multiple stores just to support different currencies - which adds unnecessary tax compliance overhead.

Showing local currency at checkout would reduce confusion and cut down a lot of customer support questions.

[An Vo @anvodev]

Costly mistake: using "$" for global pricing.
USD and MXN share the same symbol → confusion.

Switch to US$ / MX$.

Learned this after 2 refund requests today :(

[@levelsio @levelsio]

Like good odds I'm wrong but I wanted to write this down:

It's pretty clear to me that superintelligence is here and it's more powerful than us and it's moving where things are going now, not humans anymore

I don't see many people realize this yet, it feels like that pic I posted the other day, everyone is running after the same carrot which is the AI, thinking they're special, and their work is special and their use of AI is special, but it's really not, we're all mostly making the same slop, I mean it's nice slop, useful slop but everyone is making the same slop

And because it's so fast to make things, like people used to spend a year on just building an app, now it's done in hours, it's such an immense change, people send me their projects and it all looks the same, it's useful but it's slop

Non-technical people (e.g. the gfs) are now building the same or better things than technical people like us

So AI has made everybody is just as capable as everyone else, it equalized everyone in the world, as in everyone can make everything (software, music, images, art etc) now and everyone is equal, at least in the digital realm now

And maybe now we're in some odd transitionary time where we have to find out waht the next differentiator is as coding/building/execution isn't one anymore for sure

I thought it'd be distribution but who knows, obviously creativity and ideas, but if you can copy a successful apps in an hour, then how does that differentiating work?

A guy on here @aporia9n wrote how he increasingly meets founders who blast through apps/products/startups, kind of money grabs, very quickly jumping on a trend, building super quickly with AI, make lots of money quick, everyone copies them, then their margins go to 0%, and they shut it down and go to the next thing, in a way they found one differentiator which is speed

That's one way to do it, but it shows how radically things are changing I think

For now I think the only ones winning is the AI superintelligence itself and the companies providing the AI

[Sahil Lavingia @shl]

Fun thing we added to Gumroad’s customer support experience: $25 credit if you report a bug and we fix it

All 100% autonomous ($5,000 monthly budget cap)

[An Vo @anvodev]

@khanhduyvt Agent should do most the work and just ask us when really need input. Thanks to the compound effect it will need less and less input with more done. I just begin this journey but feel really promising