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@iuliatech Are you sure? Because that cow has free food, a mountain-view property, and zero meetings. At this point, we're the ones who made the wrong career choice.
@DanielSmidstrup 375 replies a day is practically a full-time job. I'm more curious how many of those turn into actual conversations. That's probably a better measure of growth than the reply count.
17ร more code sounds incredible. Until you see the next number: 1.3ร more releases.
That gap caught my attention.
AI has made it dramatically easier to turn an idea into working software.
Founders can prototype faster. Teams can explore more ideas. Features that once took weeks can now take days.
Yet all that extra code isnโt translating into anything close to the same increase in what actually gets released.
Which makes me think the bottleneck in building startups is moving.
We spent years trying to answer:
โCan we build this?โ
AI is making that question much easier.
The harder question is becoming something else entirely.
And the 17ร vs 1.3ร gap gives a pretty good clue what it is โ
Then do not reveal the answer in the tweet. Put it in the image.
Image
Big headline:
17ร MORE CODE.
ONLY 1.3ร MORE RELEASES.
Underneath:
So where did the bottleneck move?
Then a simple visual:
OLD BOTTLENECK
Idea
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Engineering capacity
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Product
AI COMPRESSES THIS โ
Then:
NEW BOTTLENECK
Should we build it?
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Does the customer care?
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Which idea deserves to ship?
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What should we kill?
Then the main payoff in large text:
AI is reducing the cost of building.
It isnโt reducing the cost of choosing wrong.
And at the very bottom:
When almost anything can be built, knowing what deserves to be built becomes more valuable.
@launch_llama That's a really interesting concern. The bigger risk isn't just who owns the AI, but whether we slowly stop questioning its answers. Even with open models, independent thinking still matters.
@MrTacticalX Funny how a $150B valuation change sounds like a crisis in AI, while most startups would celebrate just reaching $1B. The real question is whether future revenue can justify these trillion-dollar expectations.
@adhamuxi Instagram feels like everyone is trying to impress each other. X feels like strangers arguing over coffee and somehow becoming friends by the end of it.
@DanielSmidstrup 13k followers in 200 days is impressive, Daniel. We're building NELL to help early-stage founders figure out customer acquisition without needing a full sales team. Curious to see how ClimbX grows
@launch_llama 50% weekly growth for 10 straight weeks is insane. The interesting part now is whether retention can keep up with acquisition. That's what will turn this spike into a real business.
@marclou Congrats Marc! Getting featured on X is huge. Now I'm curious how many of those 1.1K posts actually turn into signups. That's the interesting part of a launch like this.
@anah_sahh I think it's possible. AI has made building and operating a company much cheaper. But getting customers, earning trust and keeping them around is still hard. A solo founder's biggest challenge won't be building the product, it'll be building the business.
@DanielSmidstrup I'd go with B. The lighter background makes the headline easier to read and the product screenshot stands out more. A looks more dramatic, but B feels cleaner and easier to understand at first glance.
@lucas_builds I wouldn't conclude the product isn't needed just yet. 11 people tried it, which is at least some interest. I'd talk to them first and find out why they didn't pay. Their answers might tell you more than the launch itself.
@neo_subhamoy Claude Code for complex codebases, Codex for focused tasks. But I'd pick whichever needs less debugging. Speed means nothing if you're spending hours fixing the output.
@MrTacticalX At this point, every Anthropic safety update feels like a movie trailer before the actual release ๐ Curious to see if the next model brings a meaningful jump in real-world performance or just another round of benchmark wars.