Chris Sotraidis

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[LaDoger 🟧 @LaDoger]

this christmas is going to be fun

[Sam Altman @sama]

it’s not that the future is going to happen so fast, it’s that the past happened so slow.

[Alex Proyas @alex_proyas]

Hey Elon, Can I have my designs back please? #ElonMusk #Elon_Musk

[Scott M. Graffius @ScottGraffius]

Eric Schmidt, ex CEO of Google, said that startups are beating Google in AI because “Google decided that work-life balance and going home early and working from home was more important than winning.”

Video: #Stanford | #Google #Gemini #Bard #AI #Startups #OpenAI #Tech #AINews

[Kolby @kolbytracey]

make it stop

[GREG ISENBERG @gregisenberg]

How I use Reddit and AI to find winning startup ideas

The entire playbook in this 21 minute video and 4 step tweet:

1) Use AI tool Gummy Search to find trending subreddits:

- Target 10k-100k member communities (less competitive)
- Answer the "why now" question (easier)
- Leverage your "unfair advantage" (your moat)
- Pro tip: Track daily/weekly/monthly growth trends

2) Analyze subreddit for problems & solutions:

- Add subreddit to Gummy Search "audience"
- Check "pain and anger" for common patterns
- Review "advice" & "solution" requests
- Look for recurring themes and write them down!

3) Identify creators in the niche:

- Use @PerplexityAI to find top influencers
- Search YouTube for popular videos
- Read comments to understand audience needs
- Analyze 20-25 videos for deep insights
- Use @vidIQ's chrome extension and sort popular videos by "contains a question" to understand what questions people have

4) Wireframe your startup idea:

- Sketch out your product/service based on insights
- Prototype with tools like Framer
- Create a catchy, relevant name
- Example: @DesignScientist for conversion-focused design

5) Bonus: How to create a niche audience

- Use Gummy Search's "top content" feature
- Analyze high-performing community content
- Ask AI about content preferences (e.g., "Do they love memes?")
- Treat AI tools as your "entrepreneurial assistant"
- Open an iOS notes file calls "ideas" and write content ideas
- I use my Friday AMs to workshop those ideas.

I found working on the right startup ideas is like swimming downstream.

Everything is easier.

The ideas are out there. They are on Reddit. They are on YT. They are on TikTok.

Just gotta go out there and find 'em.

Enjoy.

Happy startup idea hunting.

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Next tweet will include the YT video for folks who prefer watching over there (I don't blame you!)

[fabian @fabianstelzer]

just built a fully automated Wojak meme generator in Glif in 5 min:

Claude 3.5 block generates the meme as JSON
ComfyUI block uses a Wojak Lora to generate a fitting image
JSON extractor + Canvas Block ties it all together

input "AI entrepreneur" 💀

[Chris Sotraidis @kahris_eth]

@kolbytracey these are posts we're looking for kolby

[Gregory Mandarano @WickedAIyoutube]

Hello X! I'm thrilled to present my latest AI video!

F-ZERO

Co-directed by @seibreezy & @A1tre904

Created with @lumalabsai, @midjourney, @elevenlabs, @udiomusic, @BMDesignPro

Youtube upscaled with @topazlabs

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Wise words from a recent interview with @geoffreyhinton, one of the smartest people in the world regarding AI

[Autonomys | AI3.0 @AutonomysNet]

1. 🚀 Introducing https://t.co/Tt4dmwOixb: A new era for decentralized AI (deAI) and human+AI (H+AI) collaboration is here! We’ve rebranded from Subspace to Autonomys, bringing you a radical autonomy network for AI and human intelligence.

[Jon Wu @jonwu_]

just tell your story

[NASA @NASA]

Starliner to the stars! ✨

At 10:52am ET, @BoeingSpace #Starliner lifted off on a @ULALaunch Atlas V for the first time with @NASA_Astronauts aboard. This Crew Flight Test aims to certify the spacecraft for routine space travel to and from the @Space_Station.

[sophie @netcapgirl]

you’re laughing? chatgpt, claude and perplexity are all down at the same time and you’re laughing?

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

This is the quality of humor we want from Grok

[Jan Leike @janleike]

To all OpenAI employees, I want to say:

Learn to feel the AGI.

Act with the gravitas appropriate for what you're building.

I believe you can "ship" the cultural change that's needed.

I am counting on you.

The world is counting on you.

:openai-heart:

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

The negative risks from AI are real, but by focusing only on that, this article buries a really interesting positive thing: one of his students trained an AI replica of an important psychologist so it could help people at scale, and it is pretty good! https://t.co/OPVTwJDT6x

[Balaji @balajis]

AI glasses translate Chinese to English in realtime.

[Packy McCormick @packyM]

Base Power Company is coming out of stealth today.

The plan: put batteries on Texans' homes. Make money trading power in the country's most volatile power market. Fix the grid. Unlock the clean energy future.

That's as hard as it sounds, but Base pulled together a team from SpaceX, Anduril, Tesla, Apple, Ramp, Blackstone, and more to go for it.

Giddy up. We're gonna learn about the grid, batteries, and building a vertically-integrated Techno-Industrial to solve one of the country's biggest challenges.

Add the batteries. Fix the grid.

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

Maybe we should all just start to embrace devices with deliberately obscure user experiences mediated by animal avatars. It feels more like the old MS-DOS days of games with impossible interfaces, so there is a nostalgia component