JJ Maxwell

Building software. Most recently @PolishedAds, @trypillar_ai, previously Double Finance, Jetfuel and FB Messenger

[JJ Maxwell @jjmaxwell4]

@minviable_org @TaxAlphaInsider https://t.co/1GdEzeyziB

[JJ Maxwell @jjmaxwell4]

@minviable_org @TaxAlphaInsider What? Frec has long/short with a $100k minimum

[JJ Maxwell @jjmaxwell4]

@bgurley Agreed!

[JJ Maxwell @jjmaxwell4]

Don’t companies handle this by putting your shares with a transfer agent that will not transfer them until the lockup expires? Even if you haven’t signed?

[Bill Gurley @bgurley]

If someone is telling you, you are subject to a lock-up agreement, and your firm signed nothing with the lead underwriter, they are either lying or misinformed. Lockups are a silly contract with underwriter (primarily to help engineer a secondary). Prove me wrong. I’ll correct.

[JJ Maxwell @jjmaxwell4]

@Jason They would do that anyway without the tokens and equity. FB had onavo. Obviously all the model companies figure out what’s breaking out and think about copying. A YC startup should be so lucky.

[JJ Maxwell @jjmaxwell4]

@LouiseDSadeleer @Remotion Where do you actually do the final editing, cropping, trimming etc???

[JJ Maxwell @jjmaxwell4]

@alex_norcliffe @haridigresses @copilotmoney Haven’t seen Plaid ever do tax lots basis exports well. And re-auth is so annoying I’ve generally found it faster to just drop a new csv/pdf file and have it analyze it. This gives you historic snapshots which Plaid doesn’t do either.

[JJ Maxwell @jjmaxwell4]

@haridigresses @copilotmoney Yeah. Nice part is I can dump tax lot level exports in there and do things with that as well.

[JJ Maxwell @jjmaxwell4]

@pitdesi Agreed we need UI, but it can and will be dynamically generated within the Chat Interface

[JJ Maxwell @jjmaxwell4]

@hamburger @mikeyk ChatGPT, the only real consumer hit since TikTok (which spent $1B growing) didn’t have either a new for factor nor a breakout distro mechanism.

I guess you could argue AI is the new form factor, but even that’s kinda stretching it.

[JJ Maxwell @jjmaxwell4]

@der_remo Checkout @PolishedAds !

[JJ Maxwell @jjmaxwell4]

Yeah I’ve started calling this the “last mile problem for video”. Creating cool video clips is easy with all the top models. Getting something you can ship takes so much time in Capcut or some other tool.

I’ve been working on @PolishedAds to try and solve this. Generate assets (videos, songs, images) and combine them all in one conversation.

We have a MCP as well. If you’re reading this DM me and I can give you some free credits.

[JJ Maxwell @jjmaxwell4]

@skeptrune Yo give @PolishedAds a try. No editing/capcut required. I can give you some free credits if you DM me your email after singing up.

[JJ Maxwell @jjmaxwell4]

Was able to 1-shot this ad with @PolishedAds. No Capcut editing required.

@Seedance__ai (via @fal), @GeminiApp and @ElevenLabs make this all possible.

Polished connects to all of them and finally makes it possible to just TALK and get finished video (or image) ads.

[JJ Maxwell @jjmaxwell4]

@hnshah @Miguel07Code Polished is much less “write code” and more “tell me what you want” but the output is an image or video ad.

[JJ Maxwell @jjmaxwell4]

@hnshah @Miguel07Code I’ll add some credits to your account when I see you signup

[JJ Maxwell @jjmaxwell4]

What kinda of ads are you able to make?

Ive used Remotion a lot. Most editframe examples are generally UI based and seem quite similar. I think for them to be useful video models need to advance to give us “video without background” and composition tools need to advance in that direction as well.

Btw been working on @PolishedAds to make AI ad creation easy, and would love to give you some free Seedance/Veo/Suno credits to try it out and provide feedback.

[JJ Maxwell @jjmaxwell4]

Been working on @PolishedAds the past few days and being able to generate ads like this in one shot is pretty cool.

I then translated to multiple languages with different b-roll and sound.

Songs via Suno, Video via Veo, combined with Polished.

[JJ Maxwell @jjmaxwell4]

@benradack Checkout https://t.co/0ndGK79Mva or @PolishedAds !