Robert Torres

Leading the creator economy by providing creators with tools and education for success!

[Rony @Ronycoder]

INSTEAD OF WATCHING AN HOUR OF NETFLIX TONIGHT.

This 60-minute Cambridge lecture by Demis Hassabis will teach you more about the future of AI than most people will learn in the next 5 years.

Bookmark it and give it an hour, no matter what.

[Crypto Tony @CryptoTony__]

🚨 Anthropic just showed a 24-minute workshop on how to actually do prompts for Claude.

Taught by the people who built it.

Free. No registration. No paywall.

I've seen $500 courses that don't cover what they teach in the first 8 minutes.

Watch it and bookmark it now.

[Michel Lieben @MichLieben]

founders after discovering they can pull 6x roi by deploying the method in this article instead of running product ads

[Ronin @DeRonin_]

All the best startup accelerators to apply in 2026 (below FULL spreadsheet):

[ Top-Tier ]
1. Y Combinator (~$500k, 7% on $125k + uncapped SAFE)
2. a16z Speedrun (~$500k for 10% + $500k follow-on)
3. Techstars (~$220k, bumped from $120k in fall 2025)
4. Founders Inc (~$100-250k for 4-7%)
5. Sequoia Arc (~$1M, terms per company)
6. South Park Commons (~$1M total, $400k for 7% + $600k guaranteed)
7. HF0 (up to $1M uncapped for 5%, repeat founders only)
8. On Deck ODX (DISCONTINUED 2022, skip)
9. Pear VC PearX (~$250k-2M for ~10%)
10. 500 Global Flagship (~$150k for 6%)

[ AI / ML Specific ]
11. AI Grant (~$250k for 7%, Nat Friedman + Daniel Gross)
12. AI Fund (~$1M+, Andrew Ng, studio model)
13. NVIDIA Inception (credits + perks, no equity)
14. Microsoft for Startups (up to $150k Azure credits, no equity)
15. Google for Startups AI Accelerator (credits, no equity)

[ Vertical / Deep Tech ]
16. SOSV (~$525k across IndieBio, HAX, Orbit)
17. IndieBio (biotech, ~$525k = $250k for 6-8% + Genesis SAFE)
18. HAX (hardware, ~$525k via SOSV)
19. Greentown Labs (cleantech, workspace + grants)
20. Activate (deep science fellowship, 2-yr stipend)

[ Crypto / Web3 ]
21. a16z crypto CSX (~$500k for 7%, SF in-person)
22. Alliance (~$500k, ALL18 starts Sept 7)
23. Outlier Ventures Base Camp (~$250k, per-chain verticals)
24. Coinbase Base Builder (varies, mostly non-dilutive)

[ International / Regional ]
25. Seedcamp (~€350k-1M first check, rolling, Europe)
26. Entrepreneur First (~$250k = $125k for 8% + uncapped MFN)
27. Antler Disrupt US (~$400k = $250k for ~9% + uncapped)
28. Brinc (~$100k, Asia + Middle East)
29. Station F (Paris campus, hosted-program terms)
30. Founder Institute ($499-999 fee + 2.5% Equity Collective warrant)

[ Pre-Seed / Idea Stage / Niche ]
31. Z Fellows (~$10k for 1%, pre-product)
32. ERA NYC (~$100k for 8%, generalist)
33. The Residency (community-first, no standard check)
34. Plug and Play (varies, often non-dilutive)
35. Build For Tomorrow (community + grants)

Four things worth knowing:

1. small program acceptance rates are higher than YC, not because they're easier, because the funnel is smaller. apply to 5-7, not 1
2. brand premium on YC is real but not infinite. Arc + Speedrun + HF0 carry signal too
3. "$X for Y%" is the only number that matters. uncapped MFNs are not free money, they dilute you on the next round
4. avoid any list still quoting Techstars at $120k, ODX as active, HF0 at $100k, or Founder Institute as "$10k for 4%". all wrong

Shared with you those where I am going to apply with my ideas and products

Terms shift annually. Verify on each program's site before applying

gl with successful raising

[Daniel Ch @chddaniel]

this is absolutely terrifying...

[Robert Torres @roborobt]

Impressive stuff

[Chirag Kulkarni @chirag_sf]

We raised $6M to kill the book-a-demo button with self-improving agents, led by @FoundationCap.

One customer had Hobbes close a deal end-to-end within an hour of going live.

Another has 2x'd revenue since going live.

This is the new default for growth in the agent era.

Hiring across GTM and engineering in SF. Come build with us.

[Himanshu Kumar @codewithimanshu]

The Head of Claude Code at Anthropic hasn't written code by hand in months.

In 2 days he shipped 49 full features. 100% written by AI.

He just dropped a 30-minute talk on exactly how he does it.

More valuable than any $500 vibe coding course. Bookmark it.

[Finn Mallery @fin465]

Introducing Origami. chat

The world’s first AI that finds you new customers.

1000+ companies use Origami for their outbound.

RT + reply with your website and we’ll send you 5 of your perfect customers right now👇

[Awa K. Penn @TawohAwa]

🚨 Goodbye Video editing

Someone just built a free video editing tool for Claude Code... and it’s wild.

You literally drop your raw footage + assets into a folder.

That’s it.

It takes care of everything:
- Cuts the clips
- Removes filler words
- Adds subtitles
- Applies color grading and filters
- Handles animations
- Renders the final video

No timeline. No manual editing. No back and forth.

Honestly, this goes beyond tools like Remotion.

It doesn’t just help you build videos… it does the editing for you.

The project is open-source on GitHub.

It’s called Video Use.

[Martin Tobias (Pre-Seed VC) @MartinGTobias]

upload your deck to https://t.co/0qsYLNmFha and you will find investors!

https://t.co/BlnXQhHlQH

[Vadim @VadimStrizheus]

🚨 BREAKING: Claude can clip YouTube videos for you!

We plugged Vugola directly into Claude so it finally can replace your social media manager.

Claude can now clip, schedule, and post your content for you 24/7 while you keep building and shipping.

[Robert Torres @roborobt]

@im_roy_lee @blakeandersonw is a young legend

[Hasan Toor @hasantoxr]

🚨BREAKING: The "OpenClaw for video production" just dropped.

It's called AIVideo Agent and it runs your entire content pipeline 24/7 entirely on its own.

No API keys. No technical setup. No configuration screens.

Just tell it what you want. It ships.

[Zach Yadegari @zach_yadegari]

Cal AI has been acquired by MyFitnessPal 🚨

Henry and I started Cal AI as 17-year old high school students with one mission: make calorie tracking easier with AI.

In just 18 months, we’ve helped millions of people lose millions of pounds. And we broke $50m in ARR along the way.

We are at an incredible inflection point in history where ANYBODY can build a product that can improve lives and make millions.

As founders, we get a lot of praise. The truth is that this would not have been possible without our incredible 30+ person team. We are so proud of what this team has accomplished, and are thankful to everyone that has been instrumental in Cal AI’s development and success.

Cal AI will continue as a separate app from MyFitnessPal. The combined team will share resources to continue helping people achieve their fitness goals!

[Matthew Berman @TheMattBerman]

I run my meta ads with @openclaw for $0/month 😱

here's the system that runs autonomously:

step 1: daily health check
→ social-cli (major shoutout to @vishalojha_me) wraps @Meta's marketing API (token refresh, pagination, rate limits all handled)
→ am I on track? what's running? who's winning? who's bleeding? any fatigue?
→ the same 5 questions I asked Ads Manager every morning for 20 years

step 2: catch dying ads before CPA spikes
→ @OpenClaw pulls daily frequency by ad
→ frequency > 3.5 = audience is cooked, CTR is about to drop
→ this one signal saves more money than any dashboard

step 3: auto-pause bleeders + shift budget to winners
→ CPA > 2.5x target for 48hrs? auto-pause. no hesitation.
→ ranks every campaign by efficiency. recommends shifting spend.
→ last fri it paused an $87 CPA campaign at 3am and scaled my best performer 30%

step 4: write new ad copy from your winners
→ agent analyzes what's working (hooks, angles, CTAs)
→ generates variations based on the patterns in YOUR top performers
→ copy modeled on what already converts in your account.

step 5: upload ads directly to your account
→ new creative + copy
→ live in @Meta Ads Manager
→ no more downloading, formatting, clicking through the upload flow
→ agent handles the entire publish cycle

step 6: content concepts + morning brief
→ spots patterns across winners and suggests what to test next
→ delivers everything to Telegram, Slack, wherever you want it
→ 90 seconds to read. reply "approved." done.

input: your ad account + your target CPA
output: an AI that monitors, kills, scales, writes, AND uploads your ads

dozens of hours in ad manager → 1 text message

I packaged the entire system as the Meta Ads Kit.
5 @OpenClaw skills:
- meta-ads (daily checks + auto-pause)
- ad-creative-monitor (fatigue detection)
- budget-optimizer (efficiency scoring + shift recs)
- ad-copy-generator (writes variations from your winners)
- ad-upload (publishes creative directly to your account)

giving it away free.

comment ADS + like + follow
(must follow so i can DM)

[Robert Torres @roborobt]

@polash_ai Claude

[Marry claire @Marryclaire_AI]

I HAD CLAUDE COWORK RUN MY SEO FOR 30 DAYS.

The result: +$15K in revenue.

Here’s the exact prompt stack I used:

[Rexan Wong @rexan_wong]

rip to thousands of startups