Darragh Lucey 💡

all great ideas start half baked.
all great founders read Half Baked.

cofounder - @gethalfbaked

[Darragh Lucey 💡 @darrrragh]

@itsolelehmann Love this

[Darragh Lucey 💡 @darrrragh]

The barrier to entry is now the barrier between your ears.

[Mukund Jha @mukundjha]

Most businesses don’t need just any software. They need a way to turn how they actually work into software

That’s what @emergentlabs is becoming: the operating system for businesses

Today we’re announcing our $130M Series C at a $1.5B valuation to put that future in their hands

[Darragh Lucey 💡 @darrrragh]

“I’ll get back to those emails someday”

Someday…

[Darragh Lucey 💡 @darrrragh]

Golden opportunity

[Half Baked 💡 @gethalfbaked]

Startup idea: Timeleft for Running

Timeleft went $0 to $10M ARR getting strangers to meet for dinner. Same mechanic, but burning calories instead of consuming them.

How it works:
• Matches groups of 4-5 runners by pace, location and availability
• You get matched, you meet, you run
• New runners every week, keep the friendships you make
• Training plans and race goals baked in for retention

Run clubs already did your user acquisition. You're just solving their overflow problem.

Steal it.

[Darragh Lucey 💡 @darrrragh]

@nichochar Not too long before you’re doing both at the same time

[Darragh Lucey 💡 @darrrragh]

If you’re looking for something to start, we have every idea we’ve ever published (750+) in one searchable Google Sheet.

Comment Half Baked and I’ll dm you the link

[Lenny Rachitsky @lennysan]

Founders are the happiest people in tech

[Darragh Lucey 💡 @darrrragh]

Spread the love

[Half Baked 💡 @gethalfbaked]

🙌 Congrats to the whole team on getting this out the door @NidheeshKavalan.

Excited to see where it goes next! 🔥

[Darragh Lucey 💡 @darrrragh]

Let’s go @zuess05

[Half Baked 💡 @gethalfbaked]

Let's gooo @zuess05 🚀

Congratulations on the breakthrough! 

Keep at it 💪

[Darragh Lucey 💡 @darrrragh]

@acadictive You got it

[Darragh Lucey 💡 @darrrragh]

The Lean Startup is training wheels for taking flight. This is how you stay in the air once you’re up there.

[Half Baked 💡 @gethalfbaked]

https://t.co/dUoMg4awPs

[Darragh Lucey 💡 @darrrragh]

@gregisenberg I’m sure we could come up with something 👀

[Darragh Lucey 💡 @darrrragh]

Tip" Use the text replacement tool so when you type a certain phrase (e.g. fableprompt) it will auto populate this prompt

[Darragh Lucey 💡 @darrrragh]

Fable 5 leaves tomorrow.

So before it goes, I asked Fable to write the prompt that teaches any other model to think like it does.

This is what it wrote:

[Claude @claudeai]

Fable 5 is back.

[Darragh Lucey 💡 @darrrragh]

The market is trillion-dollar, but your execution also needs to be A++ otherwise you’ll get buried

[GREG ISENBERG @gregisenberg]

If I was starting a new company today, I'd start an agent business.

SaaS was a multi-billion dollar market. Agents are a multi-trillion dollar one.

How to build I'd build an agent business from 0:

Spot the niche → find a workflow with a paycheck → shadow the human → spec the agent → run it manually first → build the smallest useful version → sell the pilot like labor → productize the repeatable parts.

Entire episode is live on @startupideaspod 100% free like always.

SaaS sold software and let your team use it to get the job done. An agent business sells the job already done. That shift matters because labor is a multi-trillion dollar market, far bigger than software ever was.

Watch

[Darragh Lucey 💡 @darrrragh]

Sounds like something you should air out on the Half Baked podcast @jasonfried

[Jason Fried @jasonfried]

If I was starting a new company today, I'd start a small pie shop on the corner somewhere. Counter service with some stools, incandescent lighting, just a few pie choices in a rotating display, and a mug for coffee. Probably call it "A piece of pie and a coffee, please". One flat price. Coffee and a slice of pie included. Don't want the coffee? Don't drink it. Don't want the pie? Don't eat it.

[Darragh Lucey 💡 @darrrragh]

What a time to be single

[Half Baked 💡 @gethalfbaked]

Startup idea: event-based dating app.

Sign up, create a profile, scan your ticket and you can match with anyone at the same event.

[Darragh Lucey 💡 @darrrragh]

Just got this, what should I install first?

[Darragh Lucey 💡 @darrrragh]

https://t.co/qxf81Q2pgk

[Darragh Lucey 💡 @darrrragh]

Every founder has a shortlist of businesses they look up to.

For us, that's 1440. Millions of daily readers and a team that kicks ass.

Proper full circle moment seeing Half Baked as the main sponsor today.

[Darragh Lucey 💡 @darrrragh]

@shl Lazy people are concentrated at both ends of productivity, but I’ve met many more unproductive lazy people