Eric Rowell

Building AI voice agents. 3x YC Alum. Follow me to learn about startups, AI, and web.

[Eric Rowell @ericdrowell]

The reason why founder led sales is so important is really simple. Until you have found PMF, EVERY call is a discovery call. If you outsource sales too early, you will sever the connection between your vision and reality, and it is not recoverable.

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Took a detour today when looking into systems that simulate evolution (random mutations + non-random selection bias)

The ST5 antenna was an experimental X-band spacecraft antenna developed for NASA's Space Technology 5 (ST5) mission.

What made it remarkable was that its final shape was not designed directly by human engineers; instead, it was discovered through an evolutionary computer algorithm that searched millions of possible designs to meet demanding communications requirements. The antenna flew successfully on the ST5 spacecraft in 2006, becoming one of the first artificially evolved engineering designs to operate in space.

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@shiri_shh @Livenadav Sorry, but Lovable will not last. It caught a massive wave of no-coders moving to AI - but the companies who own the coding models will win in the end. Claude code runs circles around lovable.

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@bernhardsson Well actually, it depends. Sometimes the answer truly is one way or another all the time.

[Eric Rowell @ericdrowell]

I really hope that @NintendoAmerica is trolling us with the recent Starfox character cut scenes for virality, and then fixes it before the actual release, like the Sonic movie.

Otherwise - complete disaster.

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The cycle of civilization.

Hard times → strong people
Strong people → good times
Good times → weak people
Weak people → hard times

Repeat.

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@_vmlops lol

[Eric Rowell @ericdrowell]

40 years. That’s how much time is left until humans use up all of all of the known crude oil on earth.

The US/Israel/Iran war is a grave reminder that at the end of the day, access to crude oil is our civilizations lifeline.

I know that the world is trying to move into a renewable energy direction. But will we make it in time?

[Mo @atmoio]

AI is making CEOs delusional

[Eric Rowell @ericdrowell]

Anyone else think OpenClaw is overrated? The browser relay is super unreliable, and OpenClaw is just generally really slow. Struggles to do simple things like data enrichment on a google sheet (had to set up a Google Cloud sheet API)

Are other people seeing the same? Where have you had real success with OpenClaw?

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Got a vet bill today for $1,337 from a young woman and I said cool that’s leet. And I started to try and explain it - it didn’t go well.

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FAFO

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@DamiDina @rauchg These days, using AI to assist with migrations isn’t a company, it’s just…. regular software engineering 😅

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@lazydevlife DM me

[Eric Rowell @ericdrowell]

I'm not a fan of new years resolutions. Changing your goals every year, and making them up on a whim within the span of a day, sounds like the definition of fake goals to me.

[Eric Rowell @ericdrowell]

Happy 2026. And to my fellow founders out there - may the startup gods be ever your favor.

While the rest relax and unwind, we know that you will be grinding away building something brilliant.

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I love @posthog. But watching their UI evolve over time is like watching a drug addict crashing out.

It's a dev tool that needs to be easy to use and understand, not an art project. This isn't a differentiator, it's noise.

[Justin Mitchel @JustinMitchel]

So... Postgres is now basically a search engine?

pg_textsearch was just open sourced. It enables BM25 to search your database.... massive upgrade for key word search.

Google uses BM25 in their search engine.

Claude told me: "if you're already on Postgres, you can now skip the whole sync-your-data-to-Elasticsearch dance for search."

(ps, how can you not love Claude).

Now I got to figure out how to implement in my Django querysets... future course?

Grab it at https://t.co/bMwRSgtOcO

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