Sean Hu

Community @rhobusiness | Launching NYC Startup Week...

[Sean Hu @seandothu]

📣It’s official: NY Startup Week is partnering with @LumaHQ!

Luma is now the exclusive event platform for @nystartupweek. One shared calendar for the whole week, whether an event is hosted by us or by an approved community organizer.

Super excited to share more about what we’re building in the coming weeks; stay tuned for more👀

[Sean Hu @seandothu]

@ansgardev @victorcardenas 🐑🐑🐑

[Sean Hu @seandothu]

@sattyyouneed During

[Sean Hu @seandothu]

Doing Events & Community at @rhobusiness has taught me more about product than my PM internship.

Last week I built a simple Slack bot to sync approved event proposals into Notion.

I thought I was solving one problem.

Then the requests started coming in:
"Can it warn us when we're close to budget?"
"Can it update the database on command?"
"Can it assess event proposals before approval?"
Within a week, that tiny automation evolved into an AI agent powering much of our event operations, and is now used beyond the Events team.
It reminded me what product management really is:
Talk to users.
Understand their problems.
Build the smallest thing.
Ship.
Listen.
Repeat.

I ran that loop 10+ times in one week.

The biggest lesson wasn't about AI.

It's that title doesn't determine what you learn.
Ownership does.

[Sean Hu @seandothu]

Money so down I have AI telling me to get my bag up.

[Sean Hu @seandothu]

I order DIG bowl pickup a few times a week.

Every time I walk in, there's a long line of people ordering at the counter while my order is already waiting on the pickup shelf.

It always makes me wonder: why don't more people use the app?

It takes ~30 seconds to place an order, you skip the line, and you earn rewards. It's a better experience in almost every way.

The answer isn't that people don't like the product.

They probably just don't know it exists.

That's the power of distribution.

A great product isn't enough if your customers never discover it. In DIG's case, the app saves people both time and money, yet I rarely see it promoted in-store. No signs. No employee mentions it. No obvious nudge to download it.

The product is good. The distribution isn't.

Working in events & marketing at @rhobusiness has made this lesson even clearer to me.

We can build something genuinely valuable for our ICP, but value alone doesn't create adoption. The hard part, and often the more important part, is getting the product in front of the right people at the right time.

We don't just host fun events (although they are), we're maximizing IRL as a distribution channel.

If you're working on events and distribution too, let's chat!

[Sean Hu @seandothu]

@_sohanjoshi LFGGGGGG

[Sean Hu @seandothu]

Cooking hackathons for @rhobusiness...

If you ran/organizing a hackathon, let's chat! Would love to exchange experiences:)

[Sean Hu @seandothu]

@malayeriii @rhobusiness do you sit with people eating alone at the office too

[Sean Hu @seandothu]

Just read a great article from a16z. My biggest takeaways:

- Intelligence is becoming cheap. Coordination is becoming expensive.
- Tokens don't create value. Loops do.
- AI creates management problems before technical problems.
- The "manager" becomes more valuable, not less.

AI management is becoming a critical skill today, a new job category tomorrow, and eventually an entire generation of businesses.

[George Sivulka @gsivulka]

https://t.co/aLTltYpmcj

[Sean Hu @seandothu]

@RemiChester @rhobusiness we don't talk about that part😄

[Sean Hu @seandothu]

Everyone's hyping Fable and Sol 5.6 like they need it to breathe.

95% of you don't.

I run 10 agents daily at @rhobusiness. Event page management, attendee list enrichment, database sync, Slack notification push. Every single day.

I was running all of this on Fable. My usage almost doubled. Then I switched to Sonnet and literally nothing changed. Same output, fewer credits. Sometimes faster because Sonnet isn't overthinking a simple calendar read.

Here's what actually worked: instead of one agent doing my entire lead pipeline end to end, I split it into five. First agent pulls the event schedule, second downloads and enriches the attendee list, then Salesforce gets updated and the sales team gets Slacked with the final leads.

Five simple tasks. Sonnet handles all of them.

If you can break your workflow into clear enough segments, you don't need the expensive model.

Better task decomposition > better model.

[Sean Hu @seandothu]

@shannholmberg @flowstated curious why is landing page a part of the process for marketing

[Sean Hu @seandothu]

NYU Product Club getting a new look🔥

[Surya @newascii]

Brand new day, brand new website (for another university club) 🧑‍🍳

@im_roy_lee makes a cameo lol

[Sean Hu @seandothu]

I had a chat with @Yahoo Co-Founder Jerry Yang.

Asked him how he stays on top of what's happening globally across tech, policy, markets.

His answer was so simple it almost felt wrong:
"Just keep talking to smart people."

He doesn't chase podcasts or newsletters. He just stays close to the sharpest people in every domain and lets the signal come to him.

That's one of the things I love about working at @rhobusiness. Yeah, we're a fintech company. But we also put together the best rooms for deals, partnerships, and ideas to brew.

IRL can't be replaced by AI, that's why we bet on it.

[Sean Hu @seandothu]

@StartupGrind companies layer

[Sean Hu @seandothu]

welcome vibe teachers

[Drew Bent @drew_bent]

Today we're launching Claude for Teachers -- premium @claudeai and Cowork, free for every US teacher.

Teachers have been experimenting with AI for a while. But they told us they wanted something curriculum-aligned, evidence-based, and able to work in the background while they focus on their students.

Four things that I think make this special:

[Sean Hu @seandothu]

@BraedendotTECH How senior can a vibe coder even be lol

[Sean Hu @seandothu]

Super cool build

[Thijs @cdngdev]

i gave 5.6 sol access to my camera roll and had it extract pictures of every piece of clothing i own from my photos

then, told it to find new outfits for me and render them on me with gpt-image!

its kinda cool to see your entire wardrobe in a collection like this

[Sean Hu @seandothu]

@aaayandev cool stuff!!