Kyoil

**CURRENTLY ON AN X HIATUS**

I'm a YC alum & currently volunteering as canoe steerer at @ehlistfounders

[Evan LaPointe @evanlapointe]

The best products create flow. Humans love flow.

It's easy to mischaracterize flow as function and believe humans like products that "do x."

Deeper down, humans actually hate products that "do x" and take them out of flow while doing it. Flow is the goal.

[Kyoil @kysebo]

If I've learned anything about building products, it is that if you truly love your product, and want it to keep being great, don't sell out and let it be acquired by @Atlassian

[Kyoil @kysebo]

Everyone wants to change the world with AI - I just dream of finally watching Adobe die.

[Kyoil @kysebo]

@mwseibel This is true but also so obvious — I hate that this is insightful to the venture community. This is human psych stuff at the end of the day and the venture community are majorly lagging on insight in this space.

[Michael Seibel @mwseibel]

The moment we started referring to companies who’ve raised at a billion dollar valuation as “billion dollar companies” we helped to shift the focus of startup founders from their customers to their investors. I prefer to call companies with a billion dollars in revenue “billion dollar companies”. In the first case - all it takes is an investor making a bet with someone else’s money. In the second, a billion dollars+ of value had to be delivered to customers. These are worlds apart.

[Kyoil @kysebo]

@Adobe My advice: start listening less to your legal team and more to your creatives.

[Kyoil @kysebo]

.@Adobe is evil

You folks lost sight of the critical path to success so long ago, it is only a matter of time and I, for one, can't wait to see some young upstart completely dunk on you.

[Kyoil @kysebo]

It's disgusting what happens when b2b saas cies start catering to the neuroses of large orgs --> their products bloat, the ux becomes confused, and the PMS don't care because it's the 'target from on high'. If an average individual in your relevant industry can't understand what you're doing or how your product works - easily - then that's a sign you're travelling down the wrong path.

[Kyoil @kysebo]

Raspberry's are the most deceitful fruit.

Fight me on it.

[Kyoil @kysebo]

@TateHackert Just eat all the food - so good - so cheap. Do some research first on a couple of places and make reservations in advance for at least 1-2 places.

[first check $500k-1M pre-seed @ajhodls]

super thoughtful and intentional onboarding is like 90% of GTM

[Alexis Ohanian 🗽 @alexisohanian]

Great companies don’t start with big markets.
They start with small ones that really care.

[Tate Hackert @TateHackert]

Save yourself the hack and just launch ZayZoon.

Pay for employees, whenever they want it.

[Kyoil @kysebo]

@alexisohanian OG wisdom here

[Shawn Price @sprice]

Vibe-coding some Terraform config to get @claude_code, @VibeTunnel, and @Tailscale running on a hetzner VPS.

This time tomorrow I’ll be coding here (with the canoe facing the right way 😹)

[Kyoil @kysebo]

Seeing just how many clothing items are posted without any relevant information (including the size of the item) on FB Marketplace really helps me understand the state of the world.

[Kyoil @kysebo]

Claude Code: *adds a million console logs everywhere*
User: Hey CC, fix that typo.
Also Claude Code: *compacts conversation for 5 minutes and forgets where it was*

This is truly an efficiency death loop in coding with Claude that needs to be mitigated through smart prompting.

[Kyoil @kysebo]

I am so absolutely right tonight.

[Kyoil @kysebo]

@KevinSzabo14 negatory