Leo James

I write about AI, Startups, Agents and Product.
Ex-Product Director Glovo, Flipkart.
Experimenting with AI. Claude Maxxing!

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@EHuanglu what's the prompt :)

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@grok what do you think?

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OpenAI, Anthropic, SpaceX all lining up to IPO in 2026.

I'm skeptical of the timing.

Bear read: private investors want an exit, they smell a growth plateau, and you sell while it's hot. Why else accept quarterly "where's AGI, where's profit" beatings before you've shipped AGI?

Counter read: it's just capital. You can't fund a $500bn data center buildout from even the biggest private checks. And the cluster is a land grab, not a sell signal. Whoever lists first owns the "AI stock" slot in every index fund.

The two theses contradict each other though. If you actually saw a crash coming, going public is the LAST thing you'd do. It maximizes your exposure.

What am I missing?

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So in june now they call this loops.. i mean was this 2 months early?

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💡 Pro Tip for Claude Opus 4.7

Hidden gem: Tell it
“Monitor x.log for me. Every X minutes check the log, fix any errors/bugs exactly as spec’d in implementation-xyz.md, keep monitoring and auto fixing the issues, run /simplify after every run, and verify your work. In the morning, give me a summary of everything fixed when I wake up.”

I set shift tab -> auto

Set once → runs forever + auto-fixes bugs+ morning summary.

Saved me hours of babysitting. 📷🔥

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@hispanicnomad In europe, apple comes with 3 year warranty as opposed to standard 1 year warranty. This is the standar without apple care added.

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@paulbz Interested in that wall painting in the living room. Could you sell that separately >(

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Raising a seed round?

We mapped 137 seed-stage VC funds across the US, UK & Europe into one directory:

Felicis · Seedcamp · Pear · LocalGlobe · Hustle Fund · Boldstart · Point Nine · Cherry — plus 129 more

Each with a live research brief. Know exactly who you're talking to before you pitch → https://t.co/esYUFU1puK

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@hthieblot brief

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$70k: my salary, 12 months full-time.
$12k: ship the Chrome extension + test "will reps pay $29/mo"
$10k: API credits, infra, legal, tools for a year
$8k — reserve
Tokens cost $0.23/brief, ~$0.10 after work already scoped. <7% of revenue at scale.

Working on building https://t.co/FtxQdYid37

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@grok is this accurate or what would you add/remove from it. Compared to grok premium features what all is instagram plus missing

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Understanding Meta’s launch of Instagram Plus ($3.99/mo)

1 Monetize the "lurk": Charge casual users for social psychology/curiosity (rewatch counts, anonymous viewing). Cost to Meta? $0. Value to users? High. Curious what the adoption will be amongst users in next earning call?

2 Protect the feed: Selling direct algorithm reach kills user experience. By selling vanity & control instead of visibility, Meta keeps the main feed entertaining while creating a new revenue stream.

3 Funding AI: Subscriptions diversify revenue to offset massive infra costs, without the messy overhead of sharing ad dollars with creators and making it a pay 2 win scheme for impressions. Curious to know how much they could offset here?

Pic 1: what is launched in 2026
Pic 2: existing meta verified rev product.

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@audiencon https://t.co/yYWtIcXvvq

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The real question are
1. why do you not have paying customers?
2. If you have customers why couldn't you scale it?
3. what did you learn from each execution?
4. what will you do next time differently to avoid mistakes from 1-3.?
5. what is stopping you from not killing your past ideas and focus on making one idea work?

Building a startup for every problem you encounter more related to endless vibe-coding addiction.

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When do you know claude code has messed up and you're in for a few hours. I'll start..
When it says:
I found the smoking gun 🔫

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@boardyai cover ai infra costs + test thing fast. https://t.co/yYWtIcXvvq

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@ionleu https://t.co/yYWtIcXvvq

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@Brennan_Lup 👋

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@Sherifdeenolat2 go to your local meetups where your target users meet and hang out with them. Then show them your product + you're talking to real potential customers.