Ian

shipping dumb ideas until the numbers stop looking dumb

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[Ian @burdukes]

software costs nothing now

okay, not literally. but close enough that paying $19/mo for some tiny single-purpose tool is starting to look insane

so i'm going to start rebuilding the ones that annoy me

for free

terrible business model. sounds fun.

[Ian @burdukes]

people on the $20 plan begging for a reset:

what are you gonna do with it?

add dark mode to a B2C iOS app?

[Ian @burdukes]

guess our ad spend

[Ian @burdukes]

new app playbook: take a proven loop from a popular game and turn it into a standalone app

someone basically vibecoded FIFA Ultimate Team for high school football
$7.5k/mo 3 months later

[Ian @burdukes]

@dummerspast39 OpenAI killed 5-hour limit btw

[Ian @burdukes]

@shivamxjha nvm, back to Strava

[Ian @burdukes]

@shivamxjha thx, don’t need a fitness app anymore to track my PB

[Ian @burdukes]

@dylan522p I guess new season incoming then

[Ian @burdukes]

@willdjthrill how many transactions are you processing for inference latency to become the bottleneck here

[Ian @burdukes]

@thekitze is it you?

[Ian @burdukes]

@GPTJustin so true

[Ian @burdukes]

@kodjima33 crazy amount of friendly fire between two AI wearable founders while Meta is entering the exact same category with an unlimited distribution machine

[Ian @burdukes]

wdym claude users still have a 5-hour window???

[ClaudeDevs @ClaudeDevs]

Claude Code will now try to find a graceful stopping point when you hit your 5-hour limit mid-task, instead of cutting off mid-edit. It gets a small, fixed allowance pulled from your weekly limit to wrap up what it can.

[Ian @burdukes]

@neolaj sounds pretty AGI to me. it’s already padding timelines like a senior engineer

[Ian @burdukes]

@marclou @dannypostma could let founders in higher tiers create paid rooms for founders below them
they monetize access / advice, you take a cut

[Ian @burdukes]

@devongovett you have no idea how much worse this gets outside tech

[Ian @burdukes]

@SawyerMerritt @SpaceX if Grok really catches up in 2–4 months, this might be the most literal demonstration of the Bitter Lesson we’ve seen yet
just keep scaling compute until the gap disappears

[Ian @burdukes]

@rocallahan imagine quitting because AI is progressing too fast while working at the company making Gemini

[Ian @burdukes]

@triviwritescode

[Ian @burdukes]

@rasdani_ researcher, day 1:

[Ian @burdukes]

@oldstackjournal yeah, still worth it compared to 10x Railway/Vercel pricing