Bubs (Darius Monsef) @bubs - Twitter Profile

about 6 hours ago

YC used to be great… and still is great. I’ve done it 3x over 15 years. It’s different now, but so are startups and founders. I’d do it a 4th time if they (and my wife) let me.

Paul Graham

@paulg

about 16 hours ago

All through YC's history, investors (for obvious reasons) have tried to tell founders that YC wasn't worth it. In 2010 they just said we sucked. Now, since it's obvious we didn't, they've had to change the claim: now it's YC *used* to be great, but has declined from what it was.

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George Hartley ☄️

@gthartley

2 days ago

I just sent our launch announcement to 10,000 people. It took one prompt in Claude. Today we're launching @nitrosendx - the first email platform with no dashboard. → https://t.co/AwAv8mP5KM

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João Saraiva

@joaosaraivacnld

3 days ago

This is the first dollar I ever held. It wasn't the first dollar I earned. Back in 2013, @ohsimtabem and I released an HTML template on @CreativeMarket, which had launched the year before. I wrote the code, he did the design. The template took off and we didn't see it coming. Buyers started asking for a WordPress version, so we built one almost immediately, and for a long stretch it sat among the premium templates on the top charts. It even made the platform's list of the 100 best products of the year. We'd made plenty of sales by then, but the money was just numbers on a screen. Then a letter arrived. Inside was that same dollar, taped to a card, with a handwritten note: "Digital Cookers, thanks for selling with us!" Signed by @bubs. I still find it incredible that the CEO of a company in San Francisco took the time to write to a couple of kids fresh out of college in Portugal. And it wasn't a thank-you email. It was a real bill, signed by hand and mailed across the Atlantic, nine years before I'd ever set foot in the US myself. I've been making websites for 14 years now. Back then a lot of effort and thought went into HTML, today AI generates it in seconds. But caring about a customer enough to do something that doesn't scale stayed with me. It's how I've tried to run @concealedpt from day one. It sits on my desk to this day. A reminder of how much one person, or a single moment, can shape the way you work for years.

joaosaraivacnld's tweet photo. This is the first dollar I ever held. It wasn't the first dollar I earned.

Back in 2013, @ohsimtabem and I released an HTML template on @CreativeMarket, which had launched the year before. I wrote the code, he did the design.

The template took off and we didn't see it coming. Buyers started asking for a WordPress version, so we built one almost immediately, and for a long stretch it sat among the premium templates on the top charts. It even made the platform's list of the 100 best products of the year.

We'd made plenty of sales by then, but the money was just numbers on a screen. Then a letter arrived. Inside was that same dollar, taped to a card, with a handwritten note: "Digital Cookers, thanks for selling with us!" Signed by @bubs.

I still find it incredible that the CEO of a company in San Francisco took the time to write to a couple of kids fresh out of college in Portugal. And it wasn't a thank-you email. It was a real bill, signed by hand and mailed across the Atlantic, nine years before I'd ever set foot in the US myself.

I've been making websites for 14 years now. Back then a lot of effort and thought went into HTML, today AI generates it in seconds. But caring about a customer enough to do something that doesn't scale stayed with me. It's how I've tried to run @concealedpt from day one.

It sits on my desk to this day. A reminder of how much one person, or a single moment, can shape the way you work for years.

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