I told my team recently: in 6 months, we're either getting replaced by 2-3 people who 10x with AI, or we're all 10x-ing ourselves
those are the only two paths, there's no third option where everything stays the same
a lot of founders I talk to think AI is some kind of productivity hack
it's not. it's a forcing function for figuring out who in your company is irreplaceable
senior devs who use AI and think one level above their code are 10x more valuable than ever
junior devs who only code have no seat in the future
the acceleration isn't slowing down
and the people who aren't ready now aren't going to suddenly be ready in 3 months
There's a specific reason we only work with founders who already have their first users
We figured it out by working backwards through every startup we've seen fail.
w/ @0xfJuan
A venture studio is not an agency that takes equity
It's not a startup factory with a better name.
It's not a co-founder you rent by the month.
A real one walks in before the product exists, tells you honestly if the business problem is worth solving, and stays until there's evidence the thing actually works.
Most things calling themselves venture studios are one of the first three.
Whoever figures out how to consistently be the last one will win for a very long time.
I started coding at 12 in Iran with half the internet blocked
I've now shipped 100+ products and generated $150M+ for clients like Forbes, Starbucks, and Under Armour
Here's the story:
I grew up in Gilan, Iran where most developer resources were blocked. Finding workarounds became the first real skill I built.
My first national game dev competition was against adults and university students.
The code in my game was terrible but it was about the Persian leopard, an almost extinct species native to Iran. The concept won first place. I went on to win 5 more after that.
By 14 I was building hyper-casual games for publishers. By 17, the downloads were in the millions worldwide and the product studio clients started coming in.
Every single one wanted the same thing: build the product, ship it, invoice, disappear. Nobody was asking whether buyers already existed for what we were building.
And that's where it clicked. We should only build products with distribution partners (people who have the clients) so the products can have revenue from day 1.
That's when Gaply's Venture Studio started. We only work with people who already have distribution:
- founders with warm networks
- VCs with portfolio companies
- creators with warm audiences
- agencies with recurring clients
- media brands with subscribers
We co-invest, take equity, and ship fast. Every single product has paying customers before it launches.
If you have distribution and want to build something profitable on day one, DM me.
We're hiring Full Stack, Million Dollar devs!
If you're a dev who:
- Ships rapid MVPs
- Loves working on cool web2 or web3 projects
- Is a go-getter, product minded person
Gaply will be a great home for you. 🤝
If you or someone you know is a good fit, drop a reply!
We cut around 80% of our developers last week.
Not an easy choice by any means. But I simply had to.
The acceleration of AI development tool improvements, is nonlinearly increasing.
The amount of improvments we saw in 1 year will now take 4 months. And after that the next level of improvments will take 1 month so on and so forth.
This completely puts us in a do or die position. As a developer, you're either adapting or you don't have a job in 6 months.
The result is we see stuff that took us 3 months to build, being built in 2 weeks. That simple. (And it's an actual case.)
And if you think this isn't affecting your industry, you're probably one of those 80% who will lose their job.
We created an AI that took in the knowledge of all the C-levels in the company. It now has the ability to create strategies and make decisions for our company with only a few lines of data. You'll find out soon what the exact AI is.
A Reddit user, who had earlier shared inside info about the "chat-sharing" feature, has now shared a picture showing possible new "workspaces." This would let users make profiles that ChatGPT can remember easily. It also looks like there might be a way to upload files.
AI can fool you easier than ever!!
Google has introduced SoundStorm, a cutting-edge AI model for generating high quality audio. It can synthesize dialogues with different voices, revolutionizing content creation and podcasting.
With AI like Jarvis from Iron Man, we're not far away from a world that looks very different from our own.
We're entering the era of intelligent conversation assistants where machines are both our employees and our friends.
How will we approach interacting with AI?
The “Godfather of AI” has left his position in Google, citing regrets and fears about working with AI. 👴🏼
The major threat he thinks is not only loss of jobs but a threat to human life.
I bet you didn’t have AI in your destroying humanity bingo list. 📝
Everyone is afraid AI will take over their jobs. 🤵
Here are the things AI can't do.👇
- Adapting & improvising
- Creative problem solving
- Leadership & team building
- Empathy & emotional intelligence
These skills will be the backbone of human value in the AI age.
Crypto x AI is here! 🤖
Binance has announced Sensei.
It's a personalized crypto assistant chatbot powered by AI and trained in over 1,000 articles and courses.
This step makes cryptocurrency and blockchain information available to the broader public. 🪙