Yuki Chu

building in stealth | I love markets
alum @cambridge_uni | ex @citi

[Yuki Chu @yukichu123]

Am I the only one who can't understand what Claude is talking about?

It's trying to make everything sound unnecessarily sophisticated.

[Yuki Chu @yukichu123]

I find it hard to communicate with Claude- it just makes everything sounds sophisticated and hard to understand

[Jason Freedman @jasonfreedman]

If you wish you were starting YC today, but you're not.

Do this:

Launch early.

Write code, talk to users, and take care of your health. Nothing else.

Do founder led sales/GTM/distirbution.

Grow 10-30% week-over-week until demo day by relentless focusing on writing code and talking to users.

Set 2 week goals.

Find 5-10 of your most ambitious fellow founders and do group office hours with each other every week.

Set Dec 2nd. as your personal demo day. Have amazing metrics by then. 1M ARR or bust!

Trust amazing metrics will make fundraising easier so do no fundraising until then.

[Yuki Chu @yukichu123]

@Jayyanginspires But you have to be good at everything else before you can build a brand

[Yuki Chu @yukichu123]

@nikitabier One of the greatest viruses of founders is looking at LinkedIn. You will melt your brain looking at a barrage of outcomes—massive funding rounds, insane ARR numbers, viral launches—with no visibility into the process that got them there.

[Yuki Chu @yukichu123]

One of the greatest viruses of founders is looking at LinkedIn. You will melt your brain looking at a barrage of outcomes—massive funding rounds, insane ARR numbers, viral launches—with no visibility into the process that got them there.

[Nikita Bier @nikitabier]

One of the greatest viruses of the modern man is looking at Instagram Stories. You will melt your brain looking at a barrage of outcomes—like vacations, parties, cars—with no visibility of the process that got them there.

[Yuki Chu @yukichu123]

“your moat is the totality of what you’ve built and completely owning the buying center”

[Mike Vernal @mvernal]

What happens as the cost of creating software goes to zero? https://t.co/EKv9dX6eAz

[Yuki Chu @yukichu123]

This is so true

[Shaan Puri @ShaanVP]

https://t.co/Yt5nWvKfj0

[Yuki Chu @yukichu123]

I canceled my Claude Max plan today.

After Anthropic removed the 50% usage bonus and effectively cut plan limits by another 25%, the value proposition just stopped making sense.

With Fable 5.1, I can barely get through a single task without burning through most of my credits.

At this point, my workflow has basically become: plan with Fable, execute with Opus.

And if I have to constantly switch models just to complete one end-to-end task, while paying for a 20x plan, something is fundamentally wrong with the product experience.

The current setup simply doesn’t make sense for heavy users.

[Yuki Chu @yukichu123]

@arnold_bhebhe Hey Arnold!

[Yuki Chu @yukichu123]

Hello World!

[Yuki Chu @yukichu123]

@henkjan Exactly - although it feels not

[Yuki Chu @yukichu123]

Most people think avoiding failure protects them.

It doesn't. It just protects them from success too..

They come from the same door — you don't get to close one and keep the other open.

Every founder I respect has a graveyard of failed ideas, failed hires, failed pitches. Not despite the wins. Because of them. The failures weren't the cost of success — they were the price of admission.

If you're optimising your startup to never fail, you're optimising it to never really win either.

[Yuki Chu @yukichu123]

Set Claude Code opus to max effort, waited 45 mins... got served trash. couldn't make this up

[Yuki Chu @yukichu123]

@zarazhangrui Not only Astra - Fable does this too

[Yuki Chu @yukichu123]

@matthias_mrc Crushed

[Yuki Chu @yukichu123]

@Atomthecreator Attention is getting expensive

[Yuki Chu @yukichu123]

@bodefreelance Just solve problems for clients - if more features help to do so, then add them

[Yuki Chu @yukichu123]

@Kazanjy For sure!

[Yuki Chu @yukichu123]

@insainox exactly

[Yuki Chu @yukichu123]

@PolyDekos Interesting angle when most traders are doing memecoins