willi wu

Building @SuperMeAI • STR investor • a life time ago founded @thermodo @robocat • AMA

[Epic @HeyEpic]

We’re open sourcing all of our code that was obtained via acquisition.

Here it is:

[willi wu @williwu]

Why have no other airlines done this yet?

[United Airlines @united]

The entire row is alllllll yours.

Welcome to United Relax Row, three adjacent United Economy seats with adjustable leg rests that can each be raised or lowered to create a cozy lie-flat space for stretching out...

You'll also get a mattress pad, blanket and two pillows. If you’re traveling with kids, a plushie too! United Relax Row will be available starting next year on more than 200 of our 787s and 777s, each with up to 12 of these brand-new rows.

https://t.co/bzHodhQ5Y8

[willi wu @williwu]

Wondering how people who canceled ChatGPT for Claude yesterday/today feel about that now.

[NewsWire @NewsWire_US]

U.S. STRIKES IN MIDDLE EAST USED ANTHROPIC'S CLAUDE DESPITE TRUMP BAN HOURS BEFORE. — WSJ

[willi wu @williwu]

Can US stop using (sometimes requiring) checks already?

[Victor Bigham 🇺🇸 @Ravious101]

🚨HEARTBREAKING REAL STORY: Bay Area couple Jody & Paul Glaser lost ~$60K to USPS check thieves over a simple property tax payment.

They wrote a check for nearly $28,000 to pay their Santa Clara County property taxes (due like clockwork every year).

Like millions do, they dropped it in a blue USPS mailbox right outside the post office. Easy, right? Wrong.

Months later (around early 2026), the county sent a late notice.

Paul checked their bank statement—shocked to see the check had cleared... but not to the tax collector.

It showed up altered: payee line chemically "washed" clean, rewritten to a random woman's name (nothing like "Santa Clara County Tax Collector").

The thief cashed/deposited it at a U.S. Bank ATM in Minnesota. Nearly $28,000 gone. The Glasers still owed the full taxes + hefty penalties/interest → total hit ~$60,000 out of pocket.Thread 3/4:

They contacted Wells Fargo (their bank) for a fraud claim/refund. Bank initially investigated but ultimately denied reimbursement—said the Glasers reported it "too late" after discovering the issue.

No mercy, even though the theft happened in the mail system.

Jody described the moment: Paul yelled "Baaaah!" from the other room when he saw the altered check image.

This isn't isolated—check washing exploded, with thieves targeting tax payments/refunds because they're high-value & predictable.

[willi wu @williwu]

🤦🏻‍♂️

[The White House @WhiteHouse]

Embrace the penguin.

[Reid Hoffman @reidhoffman]

Couldn't be more excited to back Casey and the @SuperMeAI team.

[Alex Konrad @alexrkonrad]

Exclusive: SuperMe, a startup building a new-look AI expert network, has launched with $6.8M in funding led by Greylock.

CEO Casey Winters says they're tackling a simple problem: “How do you share the knowledge sitting in the heads of top 1% people?”

[willi wu @williwu]

We’ve launched 🚀

[Casey Winters @onecaseman]

Today, we’re pulling the curtain back to unveil SuperMe 1.0: the AI-native professional network, launch Perspective Search, and announce that we’ve raised a $6.8M seed round.

How @SuperMeAI works:
- Ask a question.
- SuperMe finds the right professionals.
- Their AI profiles answer instantly, grounded in their real work.

It’s how advice really works in business. We’ve just built it into the network.

Search is changing. But it has gaps. AI assistants answer without revealing the humans behind the knowledge. Perspectives are lost as blue links turn into one-size-fits-all answers.

Perspective Search is our answer to that. We show multiple answers to your questions, from people who have solved your problem before. You can also go deeper by engaging with individual profiles.

We’re also excited to share that we’ve raised a $6.8M seed round led by @mduboe at @GreylockVC , joined by some of the most thoughtful builders and operators in tech (see list below).

Read the full story in Alex Konrad’s Upstarts and our full launch post in the comment below.

We’ve brought on a large group of amazing angels to help bootstrap the network with fantastic insights:

Product Leaders:
@aparnacd , CPO for AI Experiences at Microsoft
@nikhyl , Founder of the Skip and Former VP Product at Meta
@archieabrams , VP Product at Shopify
@omarseyal , Head of Product, AI Search at Instagram
@ngavini , former CPO at Pinterest
@makavy , former CPO at Lyft
@ShaunMClowes , CPO at Confluent
@eugenewei , former CPO at Oculus, Hulu, Flipboard
@jasoncosta , Sr. Director Product at Reddit

Founders:
@shishirmehrotra , CEO of Superhuman
@bbalfour , Founder/CEO of Reforge
@VanjaJosifovski , Founder/CEO of KumoAI, former CTO at Pinterest
@catleecatlee & @smallchou , former bosses of mine at Pinterest and co-founders of Pace
@rob, Co-founder of Ro
@PameVls , Founder/CEO of Musa
@IAmBrandonTerry Founder/CEO of Village
@dmccartney Co-founder of ScoutFM

Growth Leaders:
@ElenaVerna , Growth at Lovable
@brianhale, Chief Growth Officer at Doordash
@fishmanaf , Growth and Product Advisor
Darius Contractor, Chief Growth Officer at Otter
@luclevesque , former Chief Growth Officer at Shopify
@dannieb , Head of Growth Engineering at Coinbase
@micahmoreau , SVP Growth at Hims & Hers
@sri_batchu , former CMO at The Real Real
@HilaQu , Former VP Growth at Gitlab
@eusden , formerly Growth at Pinterest, Alto, Faire
Operators:
@danhockenmaier , Chief Strategy Officer at Faire
@jluan , Head of AGI SF Lab at Amazon

@lieber, former COO Postmates, CBO Shippo
Morgan Hughes, former CFO at Cambly, VP Finance at Airbnb and Grubhub
@mckenzielock , GM Content Platform at Netflix
Ali Behnam and Michael Morell at Riviera
Eddie Hsu, Head of TPM, Android at Google
Jeffrey Chang, Product at Adobe
Benjamin Huh, Assistant General Counsel at Crowdstrike

Investors:
@lennysan , Author of Lenny’s Newsletter & Lenny’s Podcast
@HarryStebbings and @Kieranleehill at20VC
@kevinakwok , Partner at Sutter Hill
@mercebent , Co-founder at Premise
@Chengdavid923 , GP at Coreline Ventures
@tkendall, founder at Common Metal and former President at Pinterest
@NikkiFarb , Founder at Power of N
@ngoel & Amr Al-Shihabi at Karman Ventures
Mei Z.
@ikirigin , Founder at Tango VC

We’re just getting started.

[willi wu @williwu]

Not a crown. It’s a headband that tightens when his master chants a spell. Keeps the Monkey King in check 😅

[Ambekdarma @syinsyon]

Bro meets Sun Wukong and gives him his crown. 👑

[willi wu @williwu]

That’s what we are building at @SuperMeAI

[Jon Hernandez @JonhernandezIA]

📁 Matthew McConaughey says he wants a private LLM, fed only with his books, notes, journals, and aspirations, so he can ask it questions and get answers based solely on that information, without any outside influence.

[Claude @claudeai]

New in Xcode 26 Beta 7: Users can now log into their Claude account from Xcode.

Generate code and documentation, automatically fix errors, and create inline playgrounds using coding intelligence features in Xcode, powered by Claude Sonnet 4.

[willi wu @williwu]

Super easy to ask Claude Code to convert my son’s school calendar from PDF to .ics hosted on GitHub I can subscribe to.

[willi wu @williwu]

Screening unknown calls and texts are probably the best iOS 26 features for me.

[willi wu @williwu]

What happens now Claude Code?

[willi wu @williwu]

@rudrank I’ve found Opus or o3 do a good job fixing them.

[willi wu @williwu]

@camsoft2000 Gemini is only good at single shots. It gives me like Android solutions for iOS if I forgot to specify that in a follow up. Super weird

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

I just vibe coded a whole iOS app in Swift (without having programmed in Swift before, though I learned some in the process) and now ~1 hour later it's actually running on my physical phone. It was so ez... I had my hand held through the entire process. Very cool.

[Jonatan Spang @jonatanspang]

Dear @realDonaldTrump . So, you would like to buy Greenland?

[willi wu @williwu]

I’m amazed that Xiaohongshu (小红书, “Little Red Book” or “RedNote”) is the top app in the App Store. The icon and description are all in Chinese. The UI does have English. Network effects trumps design

[Jori Lallo @jorilallo]

Didn’t expect Ben Affleck to have the most articulate and realistic explanation where video models and Hollywood is going