Bryce Thompson

Building AI products, marketplaces & SaaS from strategy to GTM • Former Atlassian & TrustRadius

Portfolio: @chefworthypro / @medclinx / @airintent

[Bryce Thompson @heybrycexd]

Yeah. The trouble is when frontier is the only option or the only option that’s viable for a majority of people.

Anyone can build an app theoretically so do the goal posts move somewhere new or do we finally now have distributed capability for societal digital transformation.

[Pri @solopribuilds]

@heybrycexd We will survive you mean

[Bryce Thompson @heybrycexd]

@a16z The 2010s Uber run-up will always be cooler and more impressive than Facebook 2000s to me.

The minimalist app, the metro gtm releases, local politics, scandals, it had it all. Should be studied more.

[Bryce Thompson @heybrycexd]

@KenWattana The funniest part about this tweet is the presumption it's just EDM Apple has a stake in.

Not, every song ever produced on a Mac.

But why stop there, imagine any dollar you make on a Mac, is taxed like the App store at 30%.

So I'm imagining it Ken. It's called hell.

[Bryce Thompson @heybrycexd]

@ManilowOliver he knows what he's got no lowballers

[Bryce Thompson @heybrycexd]

@solopribuilds If this happens Micron and the anticipated Anthropic IPO will become the largest market cap companies in the world as consumer and enterprise compensate, but fortunately Meta have surplus compute lately.

Open source could fill the gap if hardware reqs evolve. We chill.

[Bryce Thompson @heybrycexd]

@JoeydeWit_ Optimists will bankrupt you
Pessimists cost you opportunity

Both have a cost, only one has a fixed ceiling

[Bryce Thompson @heybrycexd]

@MartinGTobias If you have any clients and use custom MCP connections for each customer's accounts, 1 Claude account is not set up for that.

This is after trying 2 Buffer MCPs on 1 account. Wonder if that's why.

[Bryce Thompson @heybrycexd]

Chat, would you download my taste in design?

[Colin Gardiner @ColinGardiner]

I really like Claude design, but no matter the design system I put into place, it still looks like Claude designed it.

Has anyone found any good workarounds for this?

[Bryce Thompson @heybrycexd]

@ColinGardiner UGC and network effects get a bad name because people think first party B2C platforms, but vertical B2B is wide open with a lower activation bar imo.

Reid Hoffman started LI personally activating 100 users with nothing in common. 100 B2B users activated in a vertical? Bullish.

[Bryce Thompson @heybrycexd]

Person can be on 10 company boards at the same time and tell the C-suite at every board meeting they need to focus on 1 problem and everyone nods in agreement, thank you.

Double standards exist bc power and leverage exist.

Taking the bet gets access, not equal treatment.

[Bryce Thompson @heybrycexd]

@ColinGardiner Well fwiw I thought it was cool and proves you're not a typical VC voice with a narrow view of what is a worthwhile use of someone's time. You know, having a life and all.

[Bryce Thompson @heybrycexd]

@NateLorenzen If you’re not traditionally famous, you’re starting over from 0 if your account gets striked like everybody else. That’s like the worst insurance I could think of.

The word you’re looking for is leverage not insurance.

[Bryce Thompson @heybrycexd]

The most important person on a product team is whoever decides what doesn't get built.

Usually nobody has that job.

So everything ships eventually, the roadmap is a queue instead of a strategy, and the thing that would have mattered is sitting at position 40.

[Bryce Thompson @heybrycexd]

Genuinely glad to be alive during such a time. Peak builder era incoming.

[Y Combinator @ycombinator]

The next generation of startups will be built by smaller teams than ever before.

At Startup School 2026, YC's @garrytan explains why we're we're entering the era of personal AGI: AI agents that run on your own infrastructure, compound your knowledge over time, and dramatically increase your ability to build.

He shares the tools and workflows he uses every day, why every founder should own their intelligence instead of renting it, and what it means to build under your own power.

00:07 — What Founders Can Learn From Spinoza
04:46 — Personal AGI Is Already Here
07:57 — Why AI Makes One Person More Powerful Than Ever
12:29 — Your Life Is a Library
15:15 — Inside My Personal AI System
17:06 — Markdown Is Code
18:20 — Latent Space vs. Deterministic Code
21:13 — Building a Company of One
24:16 — How to Build Your Own Personal AGI
27:58 — Why Most People Will Quit Too Soon
29:09 — Own Your Skills Before Someone Else Does
32:24 — Personal AGI Means Owning Your Intelligence
35:21 — Why I Open Sourced Everything
38:30 — A Personal AGI for One Small Boy
40:18 — It's All Made Up. You Get to Make It Up.

[Bryce Thompson @heybrycexd]

@jerols It's truly come into it's asshole software engineer personality. The ultimate stackoverflow commenter final boss. Soon it will tell me to Google things.

[Bryce Thompson @heybrycexd]

@distributedkv Can you imagine, a different head of product every week chosen by Elon?

"Is Joe Rogan available?"
It could work.

[Bryce Thompson @heybrycexd]

@embersunn True. Also, let's equate having a large social media following similar to how we treat NFL players with concussions and severe brain damage.

Mental health is wealth ya know.

[Bryce Thompson @heybrycexd]

@shl "No you're a prompt!"

[Bryce Thompson @heybrycexd]

@kirtandopamine not to be confused with the backward, chillin' with my cats engineer