Valsaraj (Raj) 🌈

CEO @ Helixo, $100M Upsell Sales, Powering 30k Merchants, Building @upsellfunnels - Built for brands 👠
Building awesome things for awesome people 🎉

[Valsaraj (Raj) 🌈 @ivalsaraj]

Thank you 300 Glamorous, Gorgeous, Super awesome Merchants ⚡️ @UpsellFunnels

5 star rated upsell app @Shopify App Store ⭐️
#2 App on upsell keyword 🎉
Couldn't be more proud✌️

Thanks again Shopify for building an awesome ecosystem for merchants and partners like us 🥰

[Valsaraj (Raj) 🌈 @ivalsaraj]

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[Maxime Rivest 🧙‍♂️🦙🐧 @MaximeRivest]

Fable turned my remarkable into Tom Riddle's diary from Harry Potter.

My prompts fade, a LLM respond.

Magical!

[Naval @naval]

The product is the mission.

[Valsaraj (Raj) 🌈 @ivalsaraj]

@malisauskasLT Reported couple these apps with evidence to Shopify, but still they're doing the same! And seen founder bragging about their "copy and grow" strategy 🤪

[Valsaraj (Raj) 🌈 @ivalsaraj]

@ShopifyDevs This was a super easy easter egg! Please make it harder next time 😅 Surprise gone out fast! :)

[Valsaraj (Raj) 🌈 @ivalsaraj]

Much awaited! 💪 Dates locked.
Spoiler: Surprise free tickets are gone!! :)

[Shopify Developers @ShopifyDevs]

Tickets are live for DotDev 2026

Get ready for 2 full days of demoing new products and connecting with other builders

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@DsMatie Go

[Valsaraj (Raj) 🌈 @ivalsaraj]

@jlehman_ This is great. I'm having a large slack thread with agent conversation already and can we leverage this plugin on existing large threads? @jlehman_

[Eren Bali @erenbali]

Every technical founder who had stopped coding 10 years ago

[Valsaraj (Raj) 🌈 @ivalsaraj]

❤️

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

One guy, coding alone at 5am, built the fastest-growing GitHub repo in history. 194,000 stars. Faster than React, Linux, and Kubernetes combined.

OpenAI, with thousands of engineers and billions in compute, couldn’t build it first. Steinberger connected Claude’s API to WhatsApp in an hour one night in November 2025. He called it a toy. Three months later, Meta’s Zuckerberg is DMing him on WhatsApp and Altman is offering Cerebras compute to win him over.

The math tells the whole story. Steinberger was spending $10,000-$20,000 a month of his own money, operating at a loss, routing sponsorship dollars to dependencies instead of his own pocket. OpenAI spent $13 billion of Microsoft’s money. And the solo dev’s agent framework went more viral than anything OpenAI shipped.

Sam calling him “a genius with a lot of amazing ideas” is doing a lot of heavy lifting. This is an acqui-hire of a project that proved OpenAI’s biggest vulnerability: the agent layer doesn’t need to be built by the model provider. Any developer with an API key and a messaging app could build a more compelling agent experience than the companies training the models. Steinberger proved it.

“OpenClaw will live in a foundation as an open source project” sounds reassuring until you remember that Chrome technically has Chromium too. Steinberger himself made the comparison. The open source version gets maintenance. The real agent capabilities get folded into ChatGPT’s product roadmap.

Sold his last company PSPDFKit for $100M+. Spent three years doing ayahuasca and traveling. Came back, failed at 43 projects, then built the most important open source AI agent on project 44.

OpenAI hired the guy who proved you don’t need $10B to build the agent future. You just need to ship faster than the committee can approve a product spec.

[Valsaraj (Raj) 🌈 @ivalsaraj]

@jiayuan_jy @maaajo1 @karpathy This is great, @jiayuan_jy what's your workflow of this creating issue in GitHub?

[Valsaraj (Raj) 🌈 @ivalsaraj]

@Shopify 🔥🔥

[Valsaraj (Raj) 🌈 @ivalsaraj]

It's wild 🔥❄️

[tobi lutke @tobi]

Just did last review of the Shopify Winter '26 Edition. It's dropping tomorrow and it's incredible. We're going live tomorrow at 9:30 a.m. EST to reveal it.

[Google Gemini @GeminiApp]

Gemini 3 Deep Think is here.

Deep Think is our most advanced reasoning mode that explores multiple hypotheses simultaneously to give you an even more sophisticated output.

[Valsaraj (Raj) 🌈 @ivalsaraj]

That's insane

[Shopify @Shopify]

the next time someone asks ChatGPT:

"i'm looking for trail running shirts"
"what's the best luggage under $300?"
"recommend comfy slip-on shoes"

your product could be the answer

[Valsaraj (Raj) 🌈 @ivalsaraj]

@aaditsh Those who are trying to zoom in, here is the link

https://t.co/0ITtYpvbX4

[Valsaraj (Raj) 🌈 @ivalsaraj]

@liam_at_shopify Wow wow wow!!! 👏👏💪💪💪💪

[Brett Adcock @adcock_brett]

Cloudflare, which handles 20% of global web traffic, launched a pay-per-crawl marketplace

It will allow publishers to set prices for AI crawlers, choosing whether bots pay for training data, search results, or other uses

[Valsaraj (Raj) 🌈 @ivalsaraj]

@liam_at_shopify @Shopify @ShopifyDevs Super glad, thanks Liam 🙌

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🌈 📷 (My Secret Weapon today) @Shopify @ShopifyDevs Editions 2025 in Vibrant Vibes - Schedules on Steroids (Try App in comments) whoo ho!!

✅ LIVE SESSION → Real-time countdowns show exactly when sessions end ("ends in 12m"), "Live" now.

✅ One click to calendar.

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[Valsaraj (Raj) 🌈 @ivalsaraj]

@SimJoSt @Shopify @ShopifyDevs It's claude + cursor

https://t.co/M7SRjWLgMw

[Valsaraj (Raj) 🌈 @ivalsaraj]

@Shopify @ShopifyDevs 🔢 Built for speed:

• 10,000+ lines of Preact code
• Shipped in 4 hours (ty Cursor & Claude)
• 30KB gzipped bundle

TOday is https://t.co/av3HTrn3dF D-Day. Make YOUR conference 10x better? Drop ideas/suggestions/(yeah appreciations :D) - I'm all in 💪

Lots of ❤️ @ShopifyDevs

[Valsaraj (Raj) 🌈 @ivalsaraj]

@Shopify @ShopifyDevs Last minute features

✅ Added visual timeline (based on feedback)