Hi everyone - dropping my Demo Day thread for @BagsHackathon
https://t.co/NqKeoqxL5T
an ocean of premium animated icons that actually move with intent
[A THREAD]
We all knew this was coming.
I don't think many people expected it to happen this fast.
Agents handling the entire app development workflow end to end is a massive shift.
The economics of software development are changing right in front of us.
Reading this reminded me of my robotics subject from college.
One thing I found really interesting back then was how an autonomous robot actually works. It's basically running in a continuous loop.
> Perceive the environment through sensors
> Understand what's happening
> Plan the next action
> Execute the action
> Observe the outcome
> Repeat
The intelligence isn't just the AI model. It's the entire system working together: perception, planning, control, localization, feedback, and decision making.
The challenge was never only building the robot.
The challenge was testing it.
A small change could require deploying to hardware, running experiments, collecting data, dealing with failures, and repeating the process over and over again.
What Antioch seems to be doing is simulating that entire loop.
Instead of testing autonomy on real robots first, you can model the robot, the environment, the sensors, and the agent inside a high-fidelity simulation and iterate much faster.
Pretty cool to see robotics moving closer to a software development workflow where you can test and ship ideas much faster.
This is the best workflow to get your first paid user from Reddit.
Way 1:
> Go to Reddit
> Search for posts that match your niche
> Read the subreddit rules
> Check if self-promotion is allowed
> Figure out which subreddits are actually relevant
> Comment and post
> Hope you have enough karma
> Wait for moderators to decide whether to keep your post
> Pray your post doesn't get removed
Congratulations, you just spent 4 hours and a lot of effort.
Way 2:
> Go to https://t.co/Q8gZxbTvY8
> Give it a simple prompt:
"Hey, this is my product [product link]. Analyze it and find subreddits where I can promote it."
> Get a list of relevant subreddits instantly
Congratulations, you just saved hours of work.
Thank me later.
> Claude bills became 2x
> Uber burned through its AI budget in 4 months
> $1500/month cap on AI coding tools
> hiring slowdown because AI writes the code
> 20% cut in HR team
something is not going good in tech industry
it's so over man
This guy grew his startup to $17k MRR by getting ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity to recommend his product whenever people asked related questions.
GEO is actually a thing wtf
There are people making $10,000+ a month using AI and TikTok/Instagram automations.
And no, it's not a scam.
If you think about it, it's not very different from how Disney monetized Mickey Mouse. Everyone knows Mickey Mouse isn't real, but that never stopped people from loving the character.
The same thing is happening with AI characters today. They look fake, people know they're fake, and yet millions of people still watch their videos every day.
At the end of the day, people don't care whether a character is real. They care whether the content is entertaining.
So if a fictional character can build an audience, generate attention, and make money, what's stopping you from creating one and starting today?
Alex Hormozi:
"Where creative can have 10x to 100x differences, it's going to be on video-based and image-based advertising."
This is exactly why distribution is becoming an AI problem