Chris Buonocore

Building agents that do my research. Hackathoner. Find my projects:

[Chris Buonocore @chrisbcore]

@knowclarified Stripe still pays mastercard/chasd/etc., who issue the actual credit and take on that risk, could issue their own card though

[Chris Buonocore @chrisbcore]

All you have to do is make a product that has product market fit in almost every industry.

[Polymarket Money @PolymarketMoney]

Anthropic's valuation timeline:

• 2021: Founded
• 2023: $4.1 billion
• 2024: $18.5 billion
• Mar 2025: $61.5 billion
• Sep 2025: $183 billion
• Nov 2025: $350 billion
• Feb 2026: $380 billion
• May 2026: $965 billion

[Chris Buonocore @chrisbcore]

Iteration, but the machine helps.

Building an AI generated version of SimGolf — my Phaser 3 golf course builder with AI golfers — taught me the real multiplier isn't shipping faster yourself. It's getting a loop where AI improves the game while you sleep.

The trick to building something on your own? Stop being the bottleneck. Set up a feedback loop that ships while you're away.

https://t.co/T1NL5tI5T8

[Chris Buonocore @chrisbcore]

It just me or has the amount of text message based political spam gone way up recently?

[Chris Buonocore @chrisbcore]

This is gold. Many quality gates are still human driven today, will be scary to see the speed of engineering delivery as this shifts.

[Y Combinator @ycombinator]

In a recent batch talk, YC General Partner @t_blom broke down how to build a self-improving, AI-native company.

He walks through how to create recursive, self-improving AI loops, and why founders who get this right will run companies that improve while they sleep.

00:00 — Companies Are Roman Legions
00:54 — Copilots Are the Wrong Mental Model
01:55 — Extract the Domain Knowledge
02:24 — The Recursive Self-Improving Loop
04:12 — The Holy Shit Moment at YC
05:50 — Self-Optimizing Product and Support Loops
06:29 — Burn Tokens, Not Headcount
07:23 — Middle Management Is Over
08:05 — Make Everything Legible to AI
09:40 — Regenerating the YC User Manual
11:19 — Software Is Ephemeral, Context Is Valuable
12:18 — Where Humans Still Matter

[Chris Buonocore @chrisbcore]

I've been loving #opencode, feels like having a second dev team in my terminal. If looking for a referral code and open to use one, get $5 free with my link here: https://t.co/ctNSq0GyaI

[Chris Buonocore @chrisbcore]

Annotating captured screenshots still feels multi-step in 2026. Just open-sourced a minimal chrome extension for lightning-fast screenshot capture + annotation.

Capture any tab, add arrows, text, shapes, blur, crop — then download or share instantly. 100% local & private (nothing leaves your browser).

Perfect for anyone tired of paid or overly complex tools in this space.

👉 Install here: https://t.co/vlT5WPthWe

Code: https://t.co/5TbuvuG4Ht
#Productivity #ChromeExtension #OpenSource #Screenshots

[Chris Buonocore @chrisbcore]

@bitcr_org Built as a prototype for a conference - reference it! Just slapped an MIT license on there.

[Chris Buonocore @chrisbcore]

@HubertusVIE @bitcr_org Some logistics industry folks that were at Consensys who talked about traceability as a pain point, many haven't seen capabilities of the bitcoin blockchain outside of payment use cases.

[Chris Buonocore @chrisbcore]

@HubertusVIE @bitcr_org Almost ten years later and still useful as ever. Awesome you found this.

[Chris Buonocore @chrisbcore]

@perplexity_ai @grok comparison between this and openclaw?

[Chris Buonocore @chrisbcore]

@jasonlk The value in life is not always about what you make for yourself - in this case later exit did result in value gen for additional investors / people who believed.

[Chris Buonocore @chrisbcore]

@PaulYacoubian The simple truth. Riches is not the default outcome working from 8-midnight every night - though perhaps burnout and family neglect if looking for a way to achieve those.

[Chris Buonocore @chrisbcore]

Keep your primary database (e.g., PostgreSQL for transactions/structured data or MySql/Vitess) as the source of truth + ACID transaction support, then sync data to Elasticsearch via Logstash, custom pipelines, or change data capture for search/analytics.

This is what HubSpot does for petabyte-level scale event and analytics data.

[Ritesh Roushan @devXritesh]

If ElasticSearch is so fast, scalable, and great at search…

Why don’t we just use it as our primary database?

What are we missing here?

[Chris Buonocore @chrisbcore]

@Simon_Ingari Based on the amount of formality and implied micromanagement needed alongside this email, you'll be out even if you hit most of these.

[Chris Buonocore @chrisbcore]

@ZachAbramowitz Same reason why a 5% better or more tailored domain focused model can lead to hundreds of millions in implied or saved $ value

[Chris Buonocore @chrisbcore]

For most people talking about openclaw is the most fun use of openclaw

[Shubham Saboo @Saboo_Shubham_]

“OpenClaw is the iPhone of tokens” — Nvidia CEO on Lex Podcast