Growing up, I’ve always had it easy.
Air-conditioned rooms, meals handled, laundry done for me. I’ve never really had to worry about the basics. I lived a very comfortable life.
But these past few months as a founder changed all of that.
You become the person left holding the bag when things go south. You deal with contractors whose incentives are not the same as yours. You deal with delays, incompetence, and people doing the bare minimum while you’re the one carrying the consequences.
The world is full of incompetence. Before you make it big, you have to filter through a lot of it.
You’ll get burned out. You’ll get disappointed. At some point it hits you: no one is coming to clean this up for you. If something is broken, it’s your problem. If someone is slow, it’s your problem. If you trusted the wrong person, it’s your problem.
But you keep going anyway.
You’ll learn that trust is earned, not given. You’ll learn to be sharper and filter harder. And when you find good talent, you’ll learn to keep them close and pay them well.
Because deep down, you know once you do make it, the game changes. Talent starts coming to you instead of you having to chase it. A lot gets easier.
Being a founder violently compresses growing up.
And slowly, you stop being the person who’s had it easy.
On a high level, Roblox is basically recapturing Pls Donate’s 10% commission stream and routing it back through Roblox instead, through Plus.
Hazem proved there was real demand for a social donation game. But he built Pls Donate on rented land, and eventually the landlord was always going to raise the rent
i’m 17 and built a UI engine for Roblox because AI can’t iterate on UI without seeing what it made.
UI in, preview out. Full parity with Roblox's UI Engine.
open-sourced here: https://t.co/2xnoxffehF
yes, pinevex renderer can render THIS ( and almost anything! )
@Crypticinvest1 I get why people are upset, but this is mixing up cause and effect, Schlep raised awareness around an issue. Roblox decided howto act on it. Those are not the same thing.
@realrran is a good acquaintance of mine, but he has not received any form of compensation for promoting Ropilot. He is doing so as he genuinely likes the product.
Please do not make implciit assumptions.
@realrran Undisclosed sponsorships are illegal. "When ... a connection between the endorser and the seller of the advertised product that might materially affect the weight or credibility of the endorsement...such connection must be disclosed clearly and conspicuously."🧵(1/4)