Todor Gospodinov

Engineer and product builder. I like building useful stuff.

Sharing what I learn while figuring out what to build next.

[Todor Gospodinov @tgospodi]

This week, my wife, a couple of friends and I went on a road trip in the Dolomites.

Hiking a few days in a row with spectacular views everywhere is ridiculously refreshing.

And God, I love Italian food.

[Todor Gospodinov @tgospodi]

@marclou How’s the food and restaurants?

[Todor Gospodinov @tgospodi]

@marclou Inspiration!

Last point is spot on. Really important.

[Todor Gospodinov @tgospodi]

@wickedguro You might need consent for that. Also should be careful with formatting logos, as some companies are very strict with that.

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Something as simple as exporting PDFs properly is gaining more users in a week than SpecPeek has in total.

It's a good reminder that building something technically more sophisticated doesn't automatically mean solving a bigger problem.

Still figuring out whether it's the market, the positioning, or the distribution.

[Todor Gospodinov @tgospodi]

@elonmusk She also said the movie @elonmusk recommended is trash.

Seems like she's on the critics side. But the audience think differently.

[Y Combinator @ycombinator]

We’ve decided to open-source a multi-agent harness we use internally at YC.

We call it “QM” and it’s meant to be easy to customize, like Hermes or OpenClaw, but useful for a whole company. We use it across accounting, legal, events, and engineering (including building QM itself!).

The whole project is under an MIT license. It is cloud-first and has Slack and web UI natively.

[Todor Gospodinov @tgospodi]

@marclou The last part shows how extremely smart and efficient you are

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Just after a single comment and repost, my entire timeline is full of Ken Griffin and Leopold.. 🫤

[Todor Gospodinov @tgospodi]

@paulg Such a class

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@firesidetapes That was a really powerful quote.

Ken Griffin is truly the epitome of a shark.

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"Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle."

That's a really powerful quote.

[Fireside Tapes @firesidetapes]

In 2007, a rival fund called Ken Griffin on a Sunday needing to dump a $30 billion book before Monday's open to meet margin calls. The senior banker on the competing bid went to bed.

Citadel owned all of it by 6AM.

This is him telling the whole story -- the 50-person team assembled in hours, the all-nighter, and the banker on the competing bid who called from Greenwich to say he was going to bed:

"And he said, look, it's getting late, this isn't gonna get done tonight. I'm heading off to bed, I'm telling my guys to go home, and we'll pick this up in the morning."

"And I said, there will be nothing to pick up in the morning. We're going to get this done. he sort of laughed and hung up."

"6AM before the opening of the markets, we bought that entire portfolio."

The quote he lands it on, from President Lincoln:
"Things may come to those who wait, but only those things left by those who hustle."

Bookmark & watch ↓

[Todor Gospodinov @tgospodi]

Typeport reached 500 users.

519 exports in the last 30 days, 47 just yesterday.

[Todor Gospodinov @tgospodi]

Had a similar experience at Mercedes.

My wife and I went there with our kids, told the salespeople we were interested in a particular model, and asked for a test drive. They said we couldn’t leave the kids unattended, but no one from the staff was willing to simply keep an eye on them while they sat on the couch (they were not babies). Test drive was very boring and the salesperson was very dry.

We then went to BMW and had the complete opposite experience. Two young women offered the kids drawing materials and looked after them while we took the test drive. Sales guy was clearly very passionate about the car and did his best to explain everything and was very accurate (i also know cars).

The hospitality was significantly better, and we ultimately bought the car there.

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@garrytan What's the reason for that in your opinion?

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@tibo_maker What was your experience with LS?
I'll definitely check Cream.

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What kind of response rate do you usually get from paying customers when you ask for feedback? 🤔

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@wickedguro What a milestone! Amazing success!

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@robj3d3 Wow.. it’s like you’re non stop in a training session. Have to breathe

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@NXT4EU Well, I’m extremely happy customer for a decade. Fully deserved tbh.