Renat Gabitov

I scale tech companies with video | 🦄 Builder 🎥 Creator 🧞‍♂️ Marketer

Took Bardeen AI from 0 to 200k users.

[Xavier Pladevall @pladevall]

After chat and code, analytics is the biggest opportunity in AI and it's still completely untapped with our current tools.

As founders, data scientists and operators we deserve something better.

That's why today we're launching @morahq 👇🧵

[Renat Gabitov @imrenat]

@pladevall @morahq Gonna try it now.

Congrats on the launch.

[Renat Gabitov @imrenat]

@pladevall @morahq RIP - Google Analytics.

Thanks god.

[Aoden Teo @AodenTeoMT]

Today, we’re excited to introduce Miso One, the most emotive voice model in the world.

Miso One is an 8-billion-parameter text-to-speech model for highly expressive speech generation. It emotes like a human and responds faster than a human, with just 110 milliseconds of latency.

We’ve open-sourced the model weights, with API access coming soon.

Hear how Miso One sounds in the thread below.

[Renat Gabitov @imrenat]

@gthartley @nitrosendx I wish I had this when running my newsletter.

Now I can have it when running my SaaS.

[Renat Gabitov @imrenat]

@bidhan Massive congrats on the launch!

[Y Combinator @ycombinator]

TesterArmy is the simplest way to QA your website or mobile app.

It runs real tests across browsers and devices, catches regressions on every PR, generates tests from natural language, and much more.

Try now and start testing in minutes: @TesterArmy

[Renat Gabitov @imrenat]

@michaelzixizhou @ycombinator @zfellows Congrats, man. Keep grinding. This is the time and age to do it.

[Renat Gabitov @imrenat]

@AllenWangzian @ycombinator You should do RLHF to fine tune your model.

A 9 or a 10 has a much much lower body count than a 6 on average. I'll bet money on this.

[Renat Gabitov @imrenat]

They brought back Scarlett's voice. Finally!

[Thinking Machines @thinkymachines]

People talk, listen, watch, think, and collaborate at the same time, in real time. We've designed an AI that works with people the same way.

We share our approach, early results, and a quick look at our model in action.

https://t.co/AFJZ5kH7Ku

[Renat Gabitov @imrenat]

@Bencera I’m excited to see zero employee businesses!

[Cognition @cognition]

Devin is getting a Windows PC.

Devin can now natively run in a Windows VM, so it can build, run, and test native Windows applications.

[Renat Gabitov @imrenat]

@frydwia @fjsobiecki Cooking!

[Renat Gabitov @imrenat]

@Forbes The cinematic quality is insane.

Can't wait to see what creatives are going to do with this.

https://t.co/TYRztqDBTf

[Amir D @starks_arq]

Historical epics used to cost millions.

We captured Alexander the Great’s darkest realization using @UtopaiStudios.

Here's the exact blueprint:

[Renat Gabitov @imrenat]

@pham_blnh @rerundotio This is creative! Good job.

[Fryd Wiatrowski @frydwia]

Today, we’re announcing Viktor’s $75M Series A, led by @Accel .

@viktor__com was supposed to be a small experiment.

It became the AI coworker 10x'ing real businesses.

$15M in annualized revenue run rate. In 10 weeks.

– Small companies saving millions of dollars
– Sourcing hundreds of thousands in new revenue in their first 30 days
– Whole teams getting half their week back
– Companies running 40% leaner without cutting output

Viktor is not another AI tool.

It’s the first true AI employee.

The vision that has been with us since 2023 when we started the company has finally been shipped.

Back then, it was just the two of us, with a very small but dedicated team, iterating for years. Failing multiple times.

Showing products that users didn't even want to test!

But we never gave up.

Our decisions were often wrong. Certainly more often than not! We kept trying.

Now we’ve shipped something people love.

Worth every sleepless night. Every sacrifice.

The best employees don’t need to be told what to do.

Neither does Viktor.

Grateful to @Accel, our team, our earliest users, and everyone who believed this category could be bigger than chat.

[Renat Gabitov @imrenat]

you let AI install a package > the package installed malware in the AI > now the AI runs the malware every time you use the AI

[International Cyber Digest @IntCyberDigest]

‼️🚨 UPDATE: The TanStack npm attack is now a full campaign.

'Mini' Shai-Hulud has hit:
- OpenSearch
- Mistral AI
- Guardrails AI
-UiPath
- Squawk packages across npm and PyPI

The malware specifically targets AI developer tooling. It hooks into Claude Code (.claude/settings.json) and VS Code (.vscode/tasks.json) to re-execute on every tool event, long after the infected package is gone. npm uninstall does not fix this.

[Renat Gabitov @imrenat]

@BeeReach_io whether you have something newsworthy and well-differentiated to launch in the first place, because without an interesting story your reach stops at the edge of your own network.

[Renat Gabitov @imrenat]

how to pull off a viral saas launch (from someone who's launched 100+ startups):

[Renat Gabitov @imrenat]

#3: Ads

Ads can be awesome. But only if they are fun to watch.

The star of the show in tech in 2025 is @Cluely. Killer creative and execution.

Those are risky bets. A good ad can cost 100k-200k. And you don't know if it will work. I've seen tech ads end up with sub 10k views and marketers trying to save face by driving paid traffic on ads that don't really work.

Tip: There's no single best format. The right answer depends on your goals, your budget, and your timeline.

[Roy @im_roy_lee]

Cluely is out. cheat on everything.

[Renat Gabitov @imrenat]

After shipping 100+ SaaS launch videos and studying another 500, I keep landing on the same conclusion:

Only 3 formats actually work 🧵:

#1. Founder on camera with real product footage.

[Renat Gabitov @imrenat]

#2. Motion graphics

Use this when the product is the star of the show.

Is it just a screen recording?

Not at all.

Motion graphics videos have a visual narrative. You gotta think of the story: problem → solution → features → outcomes.

Don't show everything - just PARTS of the interface that drive the story forward.

This typically requires a strong creative team: designer, motion designer, sound designer.

Here is my favorite one in this category that my team produced (and ended up going viral with 1.7M views):

[Abhay Agarwal @Denizen_Kane]

For 40 years the file browser hasn’t changed.

Today, we’re launching with $8 million in seed funding to rebuild the file browser into something more intelligent, searchable, and delightful.

The world is in the middle of a data explosion. We’re generating and using more files than ever, but the apps we’re using to manage our files don’t even understand them.

It’s time for file browsers to become useful. When you search for “dog”, it should show you content with dogs in it, not just files with “dog” in the name! When you want to edit, convert, summarize, or organize a file, your browser should do that, too.

Your files tell the story of your life, but when you need a specific one, you usually can’t even find it anymore. Why can’t your file browser find it for you, or cross-reference it when you have a question? Prompting can give an LLM a million tokens of context. With Poly, you can give it the next trillion.

As long as we can afford it, all new users receive 100GB of free cloud storage. We can’t wait for you to try it out!