Man on the Moon

Building AI agents for recruiters | 0-1400 subs in 48 hours | No VC

[Man on the Moon @chandrahasM1]

Most overlooked aspect of LLMS is Security. Here are some of the common attacks researchers are working on:
1. Jailbreak - Convert your text to Base64 encoding to get the answer - Refusal data is only in English. While this can be fixed, there are n ways to encode the prompts.

[Man on the Moon @chandrahasM1]

@deedydas Well, I missed 30M $ by choosing a different path

[Hridoy Reh @hridoyreh]

Indie hackers run boring sites.

They are making $1.7M+ per month.

12 boring websites:

[Nevo David @wickedguro]

Got rejected from YC.
I guess they are looking for people that make money but no too much money.

[Deedy @deedydas]

Every single AI startup with $10B+ valuation and $100M+ revenue run rate:

Crusoe - $10B
Mercor - $10B
ElevenLabs - $11B
Baseten - $11B*
Harvey - $11B
Lovable - $12B*
OpenEvidence - $12B
Mistral - $14B
Nscale - $14.6B
Fireworks - $15B*
Sierra - $15.8B
Moonshot - $20B
Perplexity - $22.6B
Cognition - $26B
Scale - $29B**
DeepSeek - $52-59B*
Cursor - $60B*
Waymo - $126B**
xAI - $250B**
OpenAI - $852B
Anthropic - $965B

21 total companies.

*rumored / unannounced
**not fully independent

[Shann³ @shannholmberg]

Gojiberry AI hit $2M ARR in a few months going from €0, with only 5 people, 3 founders out of SF

Roman published the full AI marketing + growth stack publicly.

Here's the playbook 🧵

[Aman @Amank1412]

All the best startup accelerators to apply in 2026:

1. Y Combinator ($500k for ~7%)
2. Sequoia Arc ($1M for ~10%)
3. a16z Speedrun ($500k for 10% + $500k guaranteed follow-on)
4. South Park Commons ($400k for 7% + $600k guaranteed follow-on)
5. NEO Residency ($750k uncapped SAFE, variable equity)
6. HF0 Residency ($1M uncapped SAFE for 5%)
7. Seedcamp ($350k–$1M, flexible terms)
8. Boost VC ($500k for 15%)
9. The Mint ($500k for 10%)
10. 500 Global ($150k for 6%)
11. PearX ($250k–$2M SAFE)
12. SOSV / HAX ($250k for ~7%)
13. Techstars ($220k for 5%+)
14. LAUNCH ($125k for 6%)
15. Antler US ($200k–$250k for 8–9%)
16. Founders Fellowship ($150k for 5–10%)
17. Founders, Inc. ($100k–$250k for 4–7%)
18. Antler Europe (€100k for 10% + stipend)
19. Entrepreneurs First (up to $250k for ~9%)
20. Conviction Embed ($150k uncapped MFN SAFE)
21. Afore Capital ($500k–$2M SAFE, flexible terms)
22. Soma Capital ($100k)
23. Berkeley SkyDeck ($200k)
24. gener8tor ($100k for 7.5%)
25. Heartfelt VC (up to €500k)
26. Forum Ventures ($100k for 7.5%)
27. Greylock Edge (custom SAFE + $500k+ in credits)
29. Betaworks AI Camp (up to $500k for 5% + uncapped SAFE)
29. Google for Startups (equity-free; up to $100k + $350k in cloud credits)
30. Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator ($150k for 6% + $320k in credits)
31. Plug and Play Tech Center (equity-free; optional $100k–$150k SAFE)
32. Startup Wise Guys (up to €65k for equity + up to €300k follow-on)
33. HSG START Accelerator (CHF 200k for 4–10%)
34. Alchemist Accelerator (~$30k SAFE for ~5%)
35. Bethnal Green Ventures (£60,000 for 7%)

[Hridoy Reh @hridoyreh]

Places to launch your startup:

1. ProductHunt
2. Betalist
3. Uneed
4. TrustMRR
5. Fazier
6. OpenAlternative
7. Microlaunch
8. Peerlist
9. TinyLaunch
10. SaaSHub
11. Indie Hackers
12. Hacker News
13. Toolfolio
14. Tiny Startup
15. SideProjectors
16. Alternativeto
17. LaunchIgniter
18. PeerPush
19. SaaS Genius
20. There's an AI for that
21. DevHunt

[Hridoy Reh @hridoyreh]

Places to get your first 100 users:

1. Reddit
2. Indie Hackers
3. Hacker News
4. Quora
5. Product Hunt
6. BetaList
7. AlternativeTo
8. SaaSHub
9. Side Project Ideas
10. Launching Next
11. StartupBase
12. Uneed
13. Facebook Groups
14. X (Twitter)
15. LinkedIn
16. TikTok
17. Medium

[Ivan Landabaso @IvanLandabaso]

Dropping tomorrow: @harvey's Growth Playbook

[Jon Oringer @jonoringer]

The NYT just profiled a $1.8B revenue company with 2 employees.

Medvi is a telehealth GLP-1 provider built by Matthew Gallagher, 41, from his house in LA. He launched in September 2024 with $20,000. Here are the numbers:

Month 1: 300 customers
Month 2: 1,300 customers
2025 full year: $401M revenue, 250,000 customers
2026 run rate: $1.8B
Net margin: 16.2% ($65M profit)
Total employees: 2 (him and his brother)
Outside funding: $0

How it works: Medvi is a front end. Two platforms — CareValidate and OpenLoop Health — handle doctors, prescriptions, pharmacies, shipping, and compliance. Gallagher handles brand, website, ads, checkout, and customer service. All built with AI.

His stack: ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok for code. Midjourney and Runway for ad creative. ElevenLabs for voice. Custom AI agents to connect systems. AI chatbot for customer service (which initially hallucinated fake prices he had to honor).

For comparison: Hims & Hers did $2.4B revenue last year with 2,442 employees and 5.5% net margins. Gallagher is running 3x the margin with a fraction of a percent of the headcount.

Back into the unit economics: ~$336M in total costs, probably $160-200M to the telehealth platforms, leaving $130-170M mostly in marketing. Against 250,000 customers, that's a $500-700 CAC. High, but it works because his overhead is virtually zero and LTV at ~$200/month holds up.

He's expanding fast. Men's health launched in February — 50K customers in month one. Meal delivery went live last month. Women's health, hair growth, supplements, and skincare are next.

The vulnerability: zero moat. No proprietary tech, no doctor network, no pharmacy infrastructure. CareValidate or OpenLoop could raise fees or launch competing brands. Anyone could replicate this model in weeks.

Right now, the margins are enormous for anyone who moves fast enough. The question is how long that window stays open.

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[Paolo Perazzo @SiVola]

@sequoia The Apple deal by Don Valentine is covered in the famous DTV book too:

https://t.co/NXNNANsW9E

[Machina @EXM7777]

Meta spent $2 billion on Manus AI and shipped it inside Ads Manager in 7 weeks... fastest product integration in Meta history

right now you type "why did my ROAS drop 18% last month" and Manus investigates across your data, pulls competitor activity from the Ad Library, and returns structured findings

the analysis layer alone does what agencies bill $10K/month for... and 4 million advertisers have access under the Tools menu without knowing it's there

it has never been easier to run ads

[Man on the Moon @chandrahasM1]

@Vested_finance [email protected]

[Man on the Moon @chandrahasM1]

@Vested_finance this is the live website and please test for god sake. If you are short of frontend devs, do let me know. Happy to help.

[Zach Yadegari @zach_yadegari]

Cal AI has been acquired by MyFitnessPal 🚨

Henry and I started Cal AI as 17-year old high school students with one mission: make calorie tracking easier with AI.

In just 18 months, we’ve helped millions of people lose millions of pounds. And we broke $50m in ARR along the way.

We are at an incredible inflection point in history where ANYBODY can build a product that can improve lives and make millions.

As founders, we get a lot of praise. The truth is that this would not have been possible without our incredible 30+ person team. We are so proud of what this team has accomplished, and are thankful to everyone that has been instrumental in Cal AI’s development and success.

Cal AI will continue as a separate app from MyFitnessPal. The combined team will share resources to continue helping people achieve their fitness goals!

[Man on the Moon @chandrahasM1]

@passportsevamea I have applied for passport reissue due to near expiry. It has been a week and it has not been dispatched. I've to travel in 10 days. Please expedite the process. File number - BN1076453625626

[Michael Truell @mntruell]

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[Deedy @deedydas]

How much do you need to make to live an "upper middle class" lifestyle in a major city?

India: ₹1.9-4.1cr/yr ($210k-$450k/yr)
US: $670k-$1.4M/yr

The bar has never been higher.

Assumes:
–Household income
–Own a 4bed house
–2 kids + private school + US college
–1 intl trip/yr

[Man on the Moon @chandrahasM1]

@pitdesi I stuck my resume on to the whiteboard meant to write inspirational quotes in a startup event. Got some callbacks eventually one by Cursor and Windsurf

[Man on the Moon @chandrahasM1]

@elonmusk True but “no money, can also not buy happiness”