Tushar Soni

Co-founder at (YC S23). Previously tech lead at Robinhood Crypto, Uber, and Apple

[Tushar Soni @tusharsoni1205]

Mintlify has more world class execution than luck.

They were the first one available to a new generation of developers building AI products who didn't know any of the existing docs products. YC ofc helped.

And then, just crazy fast execution.

[Michael @michael_chomsky]

mintlify has got to be the luckiest company I have ever seen in my entire life

>ships markdown first docs just as LLMs cause an explosion in developer products
>gets into YC, and turns out most of the batch needs docs
>wait, other YC companies also need docs
>other doc products are built for C-suite and are unusable for scrappy fast-moving developers
>other docs products couldn’t grow past a point so there’s not a lot of scrappy competition. the industry looks dead and non-venture scale.
>Agents are a thing, and turns out having docs in your codebase is no longer a good-to-have DX thing, but a necessary 10x unlock
>searching docs is hard, so Mintlify acquihires the entire Trieve team (that previously built the fastest end-to-end RAG product in Rust. I was thinking about joining Trieve at some point bc I was so impressed by it when I was working at a vector db)
>now Mintlify has the best search of any docs product by far
>search quickly drives revenue as companies are willing to pay good money to have effective chatbots in their docs
>turns out docs have a crazy k-factor, because developers actually see and spend a long time on docs. Mintlify doesn’t even need to parade their logo—their customers are selling their product for them!
>refocuses on UI/UX/Latency and now security
>but eventually that early bet that let them succeed became a limiting factor. SOMETIMES I WANT A FUKIN EDITOR THAT SYNCS WITH GITHUB
>Mintlify builds a world-class editor for docs, and also agents for docs
>at this point fast growing AI startups have noticed mintlify and are migrating like crazy
>big legacy enterprises carefully eyeing these AI cos start migrating too. mostly INBOUND??????

Yes there’s a lot of truly world-class execution here, but lots of truly lucky bets tbh at ended up going insanely well for them.

Mintlify is 2-3 good decisions from being a decacorn. I wouldn’t bet against the Hidden Leaf of YC

[Tushar Soni @tusharsoni1205]

@milianstx There's no incentive for the screeners to update and remove Tornado from their high-risk lists

[Tushar Soni @tusharsoni1205]

The US Gov sanctioned the Tornado contract addresses. Not an individual or an entity, just .. Tornado.

Every screening tool out there flagged wallet addresses interacting with Tornado.

So.. yeah, don't touch Tornado.

[milian @milianstx]

I don't think many are aware of this.

When you use tornado cash, your wallet gets flagged on hundreds of applications. They become unusable.

You essentially get blocked out of the broader onchain economy.

Don't mix your funds with DPRK.

[Tushar Soni @tusharsoni1205]

@tednotlasso And both will have roughly the same equity

[Tushar Soni @tusharsoni1205]

Okay but this is real. Built massive features last week and Claude is struggling with simple tasks this week.

[John O'Nolan @JohnONolan]

Officially back on GPT 5.2 Pro for all work now - Claude 4.5 is totally unusable and seems to actually be getting worse

[Tushar Soni @tusharsoni1205]

This is the case for any large codebase. AI models perform poorly and can go on the wrong path more easily.

Critical for you to understand your codebase even if AI is generating a lot of the code in its early days.

[Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz]

Interesting: I am hearing both inside Meta and inside Google AI coding models simply don't work nearly as well as they do outside:

Models work great on greenfield projects and when using standard tooling.

Both Meta and Google have monoliths and non-standard tooling!

[Tushar Soni @tusharsoni1205]

Very pleased with my foresight to sidestep RSC altogether

[React @reactjs]

Researchers have found two new vulnerabilities in React Server Components while attempting to exploit the patches last week.

These are new issues, separate from the critical CVE last week. The patch for React2Shell remains effective for the Remote Code Execution exploit.

[Tushar Soni @tusharsoni1205]

Who’s using x402. Have yet to come across an app that has it

[erik.eth 🛡 @programmer]

🚀 After millions of payments on x402, we’re excited to introduce x402 V2.

Listening to community feedback, we’re releasing V2 to evolve internet-native payments with greater flexibility and power.

What’s new 🧵

[Tushar Soni @tusharsoni1205]

@BrianInCrypto God-tier fundraising skills

[Tushar Soni @tusharsoni1205]

No flat fee is interesting. It usually makes up for a big % of the revenue in fiat transactions. 30 cents on a $10 subscription is an additional 3%

[Adam | RWA.xyz @adamlawrencium]

Stripe is now rolling out USD-settled stablecoin payments across Ethereum, Base, and Polygon

[Tushar Soni @tusharsoni1205]

So.. which number was used in their investor decks

[storm @notnotstorm]

found a pretty major data bug

it turns out almost every major dashboard has been double-counting Polymarket volume (not related to wash trading)

this is because Polymarket's onchain data contains redundant representations of each trade. receipts ⬇️⬇️

[Tushar Soni @tusharsoni1205]

@adamdotdev Define appropriate

[Tushar Soni @tusharsoni1205]

@LoganJastremski Stablecoin chains or stablecoins in general? One stablecoin per institution feels like app chain era and that didn’t work out

[Tushar Soni @tusharsoni1205]

@tldr_x Solana is coming off as way too insecure about their liquidity/users

[Tushar Soni @tusharsoni1205]

@adamwathan Tried everything else and came to the same conclusion. Go for backend, react for frontend, inertia as the glue, and Postgres for db. Has a nice acronym too!

[Tushar Soni @tusharsoni1205]

@mert it's the malicious erc20 contracts that got exchanges to stop interacting with unknown tokens. unless they have approved a contract address, they won't touch it. but yeah, usdc should be enabled by default in 2025

[Tushar Soni @tusharsoni1205]

@_jxom but then you'd have to kyc everywhere

[Varun Srinivasan @varunsrin]

Deltagraphs are a consensus model for decentralizing social networks.

Using a combination of blockchains and CRDTs, we’ve scaled Farcaster to hundreds of thousands of users.

I wrote a bit about how this works - link in next post.

[Base Name Service (BNS) 🛡️ @basenameapp]

1/3 - Today, we are super excited to announce that now Base Gods (@tybasegod) can get their ".base" names with $TYBG.

Use the following special launch link to get 500 BNS POINTS.

h/t to Glide team & @tusharsoni1205 for providing amazing payment solution.

[Tushar Soni @tusharsoni1205]

@thorstenball I still use it because it's better than Webstorm, but the Typescript performance is not great unfortunately. More details in this comment from '23 - https://t.co/9AH5n1WzQq