Michael Guan

Chief Success Officer @finalroundai @worktrialai

[Michael Guan @dralaska_]

Interviews are broken. resumes mislead.

We helped 100k+ people land jobs & scaled to $10M ARR. now we’re rebuilding hiring from scratch.

meet WorkTrial AI — where companies see the real work before they hire.

[Michael Guan @dralaska_]

aws x
insforge yes

[InsForge @insforge]

We’re building the agent-native alternative to AWS, but it's actually good.

- 33,000+ projects created (10% WoW growth)
- 2x weekly active projects (2000 → 4000+)
- 11,000+ GitHub stars (5x in the last 3 months) - faster than React, Supabase, and Linux

Introducing InsForge ↓

[Michael Guan @dralaska_]

LET'S GO!

[InsForge @insforge]

Introducing InsForge Compute.

Deploy long-running backend services as Docker containers via your coding agent.

It writes the Dockerfile, builds the image, injects env vars, runs the container, and returns a live URL.

All in under 60 seconds.

[InsForge @insforge]

Introducing InsForge Compute.

Deploy long-running backend services as Docker containers via your coding agent.

It writes the Dockerfile, builds the image, injects env vars, runs the container, and returns a live URL.

All in under 60 seconds.

[Cathy Chang @CathyChang00]

emo video: how to use @hellyeah_ai in WhatsApp
Zero setup to launch the whole ad campaigns

[Michael Guan @dralaska_]

incredible team and product. it is going to be the most secured way of vibe coding and building software in the future. now here comes the question - do you really need a backend engineer? or just npm insforge?

[Y Combinator @ycombinator]

.@InsForge turns your coding agent into a principal backend engineer. Backend servers, database, LLM gateway, frontend deployment, and more. Every primitive built for how coding agents actually work, so they can run your entire infrastructure.

Congrats on the launch, @hanghuang_ & @tonychang430!

https://t.co/a0H7WhdK5X

[Michael Guan @dralaska_]

Incredible team and product

[ComfyUI @ComfyUI]

We just raised $30M at a $500M valuation, bringing our total funding to $47M.

Led by @craft_ventures , with @PaceCap , @chemistry , TruArrow, and others.

But before anything else: this belongs to the community.

ComfyUI started as one developer and one open-source repo. No roadmap. No company. Just creators who wanted real control over how they built with AI.

That community is now:

→ 4 million users
→ 60,000+ community-built nodes
→ 150,000+ daily downloads

Every number traces back to people who built in the open, for anyone to use.

Here's where the funding goes:

→ Comfy Cloud: for teams and studios that need security and scale
→ Collaborative workflows: versioning and iteration built for how studios actually work
→ A better local experience: more seamless, more stable
→ Ecosystem reliability: making 60,000+ community nodes more dependable
→ Day-one model support: every major release, compatible at launch

We are not building a walled garden.

We are building open infrastructure, built to last.

Thank you genuinely,
The ComfyUI Team

[ComfyUI @ComfyUI]

We just raised $30M at a $500M valuation, bringing our total funding to $47M.

Led by @craft_ventures , with @PaceCap , @chemistry , TruArrow, and others.

But before anything else: this belongs to the community.

ComfyUI started as one developer and one open-source repo. No roadmap. No company. Just creators who wanted real control over how they built with AI.

That community is now:

→ 4 million users
→ 60,000+ community-built nodes
→ 150,000+ daily downloads

Every number traces back to people who built in the open, for anyone to use.

Here's where the funding goes:

→ Comfy Cloud: for teams and studios that need security and scale
→ Collaborative workflows: versioning and iteration built for how studios actually work
→ A better local experience: more seamless, more stable
→ Ecosystem reliability: making 60,000+ community nodes more dependable
→ Day-one model support: every major release, compatible at launch

We are not building a walled garden.

We are building open infrastructure, built to last.

Thank you genuinely,
The ComfyUI Team

[Fish Audio @FishAudio]

Fish Audio performed a 10-day blind test across 5,098 real user comparisons on production traffic. Our S2 Pro model ranked #1 overall with a 66% win rate - outperforming the next closest competitor by over 60%.

- S2 Pro beat ElevenLabs V3 60% to 40%
- S2 Pro beat Inworld 80% to 20%
- S2 Pro beat MiniMax 95% to 5%
- #1 in every language tested

No one knew they were part of a test. They just picked the voice they liked more.

Check full methodology and results here → https://t.co/wFIc0oOy3x

[HFØ @hf0]

Public Service Announcement:

[👋🏾 hi, i'm KD @KaivanDave]

DMs are open. If you know anyone looking for a social media or influencer marketing role, please send them my way.

#MarketingDigital #aimmarketing #SocialMediaMarketing

[Michael Guan @dralaska_]

Hiring “in the wild,” not on paper.

1. Spin up a synthetic workspace in seconds.
2. Plug into Slack, GitHub, Notion, Jira, Linear, Figma + more.
3. Watch candidates work with real teammates and AI colleagues.

No scripts. Just proof of ability.

[Michael Guan @dralaska_]

$5,000, 24 hours, And the judges can actually hire you.

ZENITH by @finalroundai x @pointblank_club
• 100 hand-picked builders
• Cash only, no vouchers
• Bengaluru, Jan 31

Hiring AI + Full Stack directly from this hackathon.

Apply: https://t.co/IzhPst4yH9

[Michael Guan @dralaska_]

Resumes guess. Interviews perform. WorkTrial shows the work.

Run real-work simulations with real tools and tasks, then hire based on proof, not promises.

Stop pretending interviews work.
The future of hiring is simulated: https://t.co/iHoKWk96Ra

[Michael Guan @dralaska_]

Upwork just announced a partnership with OpenAI.

They're rolling out AI certifications and training to help freelancers prove they’re “AI-ready.”

That’s big, but it’s still only half the story.

At WorkTrial AI, we believe skills aren't just what you know.

They're how you think and execute when no one’s watching.

We’re building the proof layer for the post-resume era:
→ Real-time reasoning
→ Actual problem-solving behavior
→ A traceable skill profile based on how people build, not just what they say

As AI rewrites how work gets done, the most credible signal will be execution + thought process.

Certifications show readiness.

WorkTrials show proof.

#FutureOfWork #worktrial #buildinpublic

[Michael Guan @dralaska_]

building product and marketing it at the same time is the only way for the hyper growth company.

if you want to build a small and cute company, yes, build a good product and people will come, eventually.

[Harry Stebbings @HarryStebbings]

What is @mansourtarek_ biggest execution regret in how he scaled @Kalshi?

"I was too product-driven for too long. I was always like ... it needs to grow really fast organically. Then we do more marketing and build a brand.

I actually think you have to build both together. Brand, you have to learn it.

It's a muscle, it is not something that you just turn on; it's something you have to embed in your company."

Is build it and they will come total BS? @awxjack @vladtenev @paulg @kevinbusque @im_roy_lee

[Michael Guan @dralaska_]

incredible

[ACE Studio @ACEStudio_en]

ACE Studio 2.0 is here! From now on, ACE Studio is becoming an ALL-IN-ONE AI music studio, keeping musicians ahead in the AI era.

Download ACE Studio 2.0 at: https://t.co/tJ7hzyEJyi

[evan sc / 柳爱华 @stitesclay]

F25,
The end.

@HF0

[Michael Guan @dralaska_]

Congrats to all the HF0 F25 teams: what an insane batch.

Every company on this list is pushing the frontier in a different direction, and it’s wild to watch it happen in real time.

Seeing this lineup brings me right back to our own HF0 days, those 12 weeks felt like a pressure cooker that cracked us open, rebuilt our instincts, and taught us how to ship faster than we thought possible.

We walked in with an idea; we walked out with a company.

To the F25 founders: enjoy this moment.

You’ll look back one day and realize this was one of the steepest growth curves of your life, not the company’s, yours.

Cheering for you all as you leave the house and go build your own inevitability.

@davefontenot @escliu @EmilyatHF0

[Michael Guan @dralaska_]

bullish.

[Eddy Xu @ CVPR @eddybuild]

today, we’re open sourcing the largest egocentric dataset in history.

- 10,000 hours
- 2,153 factory workers
- 1,080,000,000 frames

the era of data scaling in robotics is here. (thread)