Lee Englestone 💡🧠👨‍💻🚀

Director of AI Innovation at | Author | Former 6 x Microsoft MVP | MSc Entrepreneurship & Innovation

[Meta VR Developers @MetaVRDevs]

🔴 Ready 🟡 Set 🟢 Build!

The Meta VR Start Developer Competition is live. Create a new VR experience or update an existing one and submit it by November 18 for a chance to win a share of the $1M prize pool. 🏆

Terms & Conditions apply. See rules 👉 https://t.co/LMzN8E8YRe

[Lee Englestone 💡🧠👨‍💻🚀 @LeeEnglestone]

@MetaVR_Official @DennysKuhnert So long as you roll it out everywhere.
We still can’t get Meta RayBan display glasses in the UK months after launch..

[Lee Englestone 💡🧠👨‍💻🚀 @LeeEnglestone]

Interact with a 3D periodic table and molecules in mixed reality with ChemistryXR
https://t.co/jnacDXvZli

[Lee Englestone 💡🧠👨‍💻🚀 @LeeEnglestone]

@Gabriel_Olson One of the best theme tunes ever

[NASA Space Apps Challenge @SpaceApps]

14 NASA #SpaceApps challenges for all interests & skill levels are now live, plus team formation is open!🚀🌍🛰️

Explore topics in agriculture, missions to the Moon and Mars, microgravity combustion, & more from @NASA experts. Choose a challenge & create or join a team today: https://t.co/Qq1pUxz9jI

[NASA Space Apps Challenge @SpaceApps]

Registration for the 2026 NASA #SpaceApps Challenge is now open! 🚀

Be a part of the largest annual hackathon, where you can use open data from #NASA and space-based data from 17 Space Agency Partners to address the most pressing challenges in Earth and space exploration to spark innovation that’s grounded in experience and ready for tomorrow. 💫

Register now: https://t.co/BzFA0E3lBu

[NASA Space Apps Challenge @SpaceApps]

This year, the NASA Space Apps Challenge is excited to welcome 17 Space Agency Partners, including four new agencies: Angola National Space Programme Management Office, Korea AeroSpace Administration, Nigeria’s National Space Research and Development Agency, and the Senegalese Space Studies Agency. Space Agency Partners provide open source data and resources for the challenges and collaborate with local leads to support the facilitation of local events throughout the world. 💫🌎

[Lee Englestone 💡🧠👨‍💻🚀 @LeeEnglestone]

Tonight’s project

[Lee Englestone 💡🧠👨‍💻🚀 @LeeEnglestone]

@yongfook It’s literally what I see 95% of indie hackers do.
Take a course to learn to sell courses.. 🤮

[Google AI Studio @GoogleAIStudio]

introducing custom URLs: give your deployed apps a permanent, personalized home with a clean, memorable ai studio domain

because your apps deserve an identity

[OpenAI Developers @OpenAIDevs]

OpenAI Build Week is here.

The challenge starts July 13. Across the week, join live sessions and community events with builders around the world.

Registration is open.
Bring the idea sitting in your backlog.
Build it with Codex.

[NASA Space Apps Challenge @SpaceApps]

Spark innovation that benefits humanity by hosting a 2026 @NASA #SpaceApps Challenge Local Event. Lead your community in driving discoveries that can improve life on Earth, the Moon, Mars, and beyond. 🚀

Local Lead Forms open July 6!

[Lee Englestone 💡🧠👨‍💻🚀 @LeeEnglestone]

@MetaQuestVR Sit down

[NASA Space Apps Challenge @SpaceApps]

Mark your calendars! We are excited to announce the @NASA Space Apps Challenge will be held November 14-15, 2026! 🗓️

This two-day hackathon gives you the chance to use NASA’s open data to address the most pressing challenges in Earth and space exploration. Discovery awaits at the NASA #SpaceApps Challenge 🚀

[Lee Englestone 💡🧠👨‍💻🚀 @LeeEnglestone]

OrganiseXR might be fun to build for the Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses.

Pop these on in the morning and see how your day looks while you brush your teeth and make breakfast in the morning..

Phone screens are becoming less important.

#Meta #Raybandisplay #OrganiseXR #innovation

[Pierre-Eliott Lallemant @pierreeliottlal]

We went from 0 to 2,200 paying customers in under a year by following @ycombinator's 15 rules:

1/ Do things that don't scale. Get your first 10 customers by hand.

2/ Launch now, not when it's "ready". A mediocre product in front of real users teaches you more in a week than 6 months of polishing in the dark.

3/ Charge from day one. If nobody will pay, you don't have a startup, you have a hobby.

4/ Talk to users every single day. The roadmap you need is sitting in your customers' heads, and they'll hand it to you for free

5/ Always hunt the 90/10 solution. For almost any feature there's a way to capture 90% of the value with 10% of the effort.

6/ There are only two real jobs: write code and talk to users. Everything else (conferences, press, VC coffees, corp dev calls) is fake work.

7/ You pick your customers as much as they pick you. 10 users who love you beat 1,000 who kind of like you.

8/ Growth is an output, not a strategy. Grow before product market fit and all you're buying is churn.

9/ Do less, really well. Pick one or two metrics and judge every task against them.

10/ Know if you're default alive. Paul Graham's question: on current growth and current burn, do you reach profitability before the money runs out?

11/ Don't hire until it hurts. Headcount is not progress, it's burn. Every great startup was embarrassingly small for embarrassingly long.

12/ Momentum is the only real moat in year one. Ship something every week, even something tiny.

13/ Every great startup is badly broken at some point. The game isn't avoiding fires, it's how fast you put them out. Again. And again

14/ Ignore your competitors. Startups die of suicide, not murder. In year one, the only company that can kill yours is your own

15/ Startups rarely die from running out of money. They die because the founders fall out. Brutal honesty with your cofounder is the cheapest insurance you'll ever buy

Good luck !

[Lee Englestone 💡🧠👨‍💻🚀 @LeeEnglestone]

Hi @SpaceApps. Could we get an update on NASA Space Apps Challenge 2026 please?

If it is not running this year, then can this also be officially shared publicly?

Many Thanks

#SpaceApps #SpaceAppChallenge #Hackathon

[Lee Englestone 💡🧠👨‍💻🚀 @LeeEnglestone]

TIL there is a Badminton workout on Apple Watch. #Badminton

[Lee Englestone 💡🧠👨‍💻🚀 @LeeEnglestone]

@satyanadella Hoping for an update on Volumetric Apps announced during Build 2024 🙏

[Lee Englestone 💡🧠👨‍💻🚀 @LeeEnglestone]

@pavandavuluri @itsmichaelwest I really hope it’s Volumetric Apps that they announced a couple of Builds ago then went silent on.