@alex_barashkov Got two brand decks this month. Agency: three weeks, four creative directors, $40k. Intern: Higgsfield, one sandwich. Picked the intern's
@DavidOndrej1@OpenRouter more providers isn't redundancy when half of them route to the same coast. our pipeline died for 4 hours last month and the openrouter dashboard stayed green the whole time
@NiphermeDave watched a founder pass on a sale at company two. called it discipline at the time. company was dead 14 months later. word usually means whatever the outcome lets it mean
@RayDalio hired a fractional cfo at company two. eight months in his runway slides were six weeks longer than the bank account showed. board meetings got quiet after that
@dhh company two, everyone picked their own keyboard. no logos, no palette. that was the bespoke part. the branded stuff we ordered ended up in a drawer
@chooserich took four days off earlier this year. came back to two model drops and a pricing page I had to rewrite from scratch. haven't tried it again
Started company thinking I'd finally hire like a grown-up.
Monday: posted a role. 400 applications by Tuesday.
Wednesday I'm drowning.
Thursday I gave up and built a tool to read resumes for me.
Friday I hired one of the candidates it ranked in the top 3.
No regrets. Actually using it on every role now.
What's the hiring shortcut you swore you'd never take?
@bradbuildss symmetry not enthusiasm is the whole game. best collabs I've seen, both sides could sketch the other's win on a napkin before anything started