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Startups donโt grow by copying playbooks. What works for established companies wonโt work for you in the early days.
As a founder, your job isnโt to scale on day one. Itโs to figure out what moves the needle today. This means ditching fancy strategies and embracing a mindset of hustling and experimenting.
Every startup is unique. Your biggest advantage in the early stage is your ability to move fast, adapt, and try things no one else is doing. Lean into that.
Write your own playbook. Thatโs how you build something truly great.
A huge thank you to @aleph for the world-class production of this video!
One Trend a day keeps the FOMO away!
Today we're introducing @dailydotdev Trends. Reading the code or not? Claude design is taking over?
Usually you would so many tweets about these topics. Now we aggregate them into one coherent post with everything you need to know.
You don't know what you don't know about AI.
The field moves too fast for anyone to hold a map of it in their head. So we made the map.
The Agentic AI Hub takes you from "what's a token" all the way to running your own agents, one guided path at a time, each starting from a question.
Along the way you'll run into ideas from @danshapiro, @simonw, @addyosmani, @thorstenball, @karpathy, and @steipete. We just put them in the right order.
It's free, no signup.
Now you know where to start.
https://t.co/Fe3Q0JQyiM
You don't know what you don't know about AI.
The field moves too fast for anyone to hold a map of it in their head. So we made the map.
The Agentic AI Hub takes you from "what's a token" all the way to running your own agents, one guided path at a time, each starting from a question.
Along the way you'll run into ideas from @danshapiro, @simonw, @addyosmani, @thorstenball, @karpathy, and @steipete. We just put them in the right order.
It's free, no signup.
Now you know where to start.
Wanna see magic? ๐ช Open the @dailydotdev LinkedIn company page on your MacBook (or watch the video below)
You're probably shocked by now, so let's see how we did it, so you can too:
The entire thing comes down to a color profile buried in the file: Rec2020 with a PQ transfer curve. If that means nothing to you, it's the HDR spec built for Dolby Vision, the one that lets a movie encode a candle flame and a nuclear blast in the same frame. It goes up to 10,000 nits of brightness.
Nobody uses that for a logo. We did.
The dark part of the mark sits down around 60 nits, totally ordinary. The white gets pushed to 4,000+. Your laptop paints "white" everywhere else at maybe 200 nits, so when it hits ours it has to physically throw more light at that one spot on the panel. Fifty times more. That's not a design choice your eye can politely ignore. It kind of stings, and the stinging is the point.
Screenshot it and the magic is gone. On any non-HDR screen it collapses into a boring purple blob. The whole effect only lives in the moment, on the actual hardware in your hand, which means most people never work out what hit them. They just feel the logo yank their eyes over and don't know why.
The amazing developers creator race
3.5 years of @dailydotdev data, millions developers.
One leaderboard: the creators developers actually read and watch, month by month, Jan 2023 โ Jun 2026. ๐งต
Once we have completed our review for security vulnerabilities, we will make the entire codebase of ๐ open source, with no exceptions.
Moreover, we will invite third party reviewers to examine the system that is running to confirm that the open source code is what is running.
Trust through total transparency is the only thing that should be believed.