Vik Arya

10% cashback when you book hotel on @best__so

[Vik Arya @aryavik]

🚀 Today we’re launching "Best". It's a cashback platform starting with hotel bookings.

The idea is simple:
Book a hotel
Complete your stay
Get 10% cashback

Book a $1,000 stay → $100 back in your wallet.

Right now, we're invite-only and opening access to early users who love trying new products and travel regularly.

How to join:
1️⃣ Sign up → https://t.co/BHmztNVrbC
2️⃣ React to this post

Early members get:
💸 10% cashback on every completed hotel stay
🏨 Competitive hotel pricing
👋 Skip-the-waitlist invites for friends and family

Let’s make travel pay real cashback.

#Cashback #TravelTech #ProductLaunch #Fintech #EarlyAccess

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United just launched direct Newark-to-Split flights. Croatia's coast is what the Amalfi Coast was 15 years ago. Roman ruins, island ferries, incredible food, at half the price. Book before everyone figures this out.

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VCs put $300B into startups in Q1 2026. $242B of that went to AI.

Last year AI was 55% of global venture funding. Now it's 80%.

If you're raising for an AI company, we're in the most capital-rich environment in startup history. If you're not, the bar just moved.

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@pbteja1998 Two SaaS products. One of those months where you check the number twice to make sure it's real. Well done.

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@anandPa94 @ycombinator @tryscope_app Solo founder into YC is underrated hard. Congrats. The GEO/AEO visibility problem is real and almost nobody is measuring it properly yet. Good timing to be building this.

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@eoghan Most companies protect what they built. The rare ones bet on what they're building next. Opening the models to competitors is that move.

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Croatia prices have doubled in 4 years. Greece too. Albania next door has the same Adriatic water, half the crowds, and a fraction of the cost. They're building a whole new airport at Vlora this summer because demand is surging. Smart travelers are already there.

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Planning a trip in memorial day weekend? Check prices at https://t.co/bDnX8qo3Co before booking. Best may get you low prices and 10% cashback.

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80% of all global VC funding in Q1 2026 went to AI companies. That's $242B out of $300B total.

The question isn't whether to build with AI anymore. It's whether your company is AI-native enough to compete for that capital.

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Memorial Day is 7 weeks out. Scandinavia is seeing a 35% booking surge this year. Norway in late May is stunning and still pre-peak. Haven't booked yet? This week is the window. I use https://t.co/bDnX8qo3Co for 10% cashback which adds up fast on international hotel stays.

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Atlassian cut 1,600 people and cited AI. Block, Salesforce, Meta, and Amazon all said the same thing. At some point "restructuring for AI" stops being a strategy and starts being a press release. Worth asking if the productivity gains are actually real.

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@jm3107 The Ronald Wayne detail makes it more interesting. He was the third co-founder, held 10% and sold his stake for $800 twelve days later. That 10% is worth hundreds of billions now. Not a great exit.

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@atn_nordic Late May is even better. Almost no crowds, daylight past 10pm in Norway, and you beat peak season pricing by 6-8 weeks. Easter is stunning but May hits different.

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@nsarathc We saw this at Success. The productivity gap between salespeople who adopted AI in demo prep vs those who didn't became obvious in 3 months, not a year. The prediction is right. The timeline might be conservative.

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@salinasdanielf The waiting rooms between launches are the real filter. We shipped to silence for 6 straight weeks at Kinetics. Most people quit in that window. The ones who don't usually build something.

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Apple turns 50 today. Founded April 1, 1976, in a garage with $1,300. The first Apple computer sold for $666.66. Today the company is worth $3 trillion. That's what 50 years of compounding one product obsession looks like.

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Hilton calls it the "Whycation." Travelers in 2026 want purpose behind every trip. After 25 years of work travel, I get it. The best trips combine work and discovery. That's what we're building at https://t.co/bDnX8qnvMQ. 10% cashback on every hotel stay.

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NVIDIA dropped Nemotron 3 Super at GTC. A 120B-parameter coding model that scored 60.47% on SWE-Bench. That's enterprise-grade code generation from a single model. If you're building dev tools, this changes your roadmap.

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Google says quantum computers could break today's encryption by 2029. That's three years. If your startup handles sensitive data, start thinking about post-quantum cryptography now. Not after the breach headlines.

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OpenAI is hiring to 8,000 people. Sam Altman stepped back from safety to focus on data centers and supply chains. When a CEO shifts from product to infrastructure, it means one thing. They're building for a decade, not a quarter.

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Robotics startups raised over $1.2 billion in a single week this month. Mind Robotics got $500M, Rhoda AI $450M, Sunday hit unicorn at $165M. The robots aren't coming. They're already here and VCs are all-in.