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- I'm 24, dropped out of Duke, joined YC, and bet everything on a startup. Here's what actually happens when you go all-in: 1. Your co-founder relationship matters more than your product: You can pivot products. You can't pivot people. Most startups die from founder breakups, not
- high agency is the most important quality you'll ever look for in people. It's the difference between someone who sees a locked door and walks away, versus someone who finds the key, picks the lock, or builds a new door. Here's what I've learned about high agency and why itHigh agency is believing you can learn new things and work hard to solve tough problems no matter how complicated. Low agency is sitting around making fun of people who try.
- Day 47 at SF - building @octolane_app Not many know this, but after I dropped out of Duke, I received an email from the visa office telling me I had just 15 days to leave the U.S. or face serious consequences. I thought I was supposed to get a 60-days grace period, but
- Yes, your $2M seed round disappears faster here. Yes, you’ll pay $4,000/month for a studio. But you know what’s more expensive? Being in a place where nobody understands what you’re building. Where “thinking big” means opening a second location. Where your ambitious idea is met
- ByeByeCarta.com Thanks to the original inspiration to @steventey it's happening! 🙏 Open Source Cap Table Manager - powered by Octolane AI CRM! - Do whatever you want with the source code - 100% free to self host - no need for commercial license - 1111 likes we
- I am a first generation immigrant and Gen Z. Not many people know this, but after I dropped out of Duke (F1 visa), I received an email from the visa office telling me I had just 15 days to leave the U.S. or face serious consequences. I thought I was supposed to get a 60-dayAmerica rose to greatness over the past 150 years, because it was a meritocracy more than anywhere else on Earth. I will fight to my last drop of blood to ensure that it remains that land of freedom and opportunity. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
- We built a CRM that works like texting your co-founder. Natural language. No dropdowns. Revolutionary, right? Turns out, AI UX comes with a problem we didn't see coming... we have one week before launch day. we said we'd wait 72 hours before sharing anything. It's been less
- I came to Duke from San Francisco, just for a brief two days, to appear for my final exams as a junior. But then last night I finished reading how Google DeepMind researchers have elegantly solved what was deemed an unsolvable math problem using LLM. Now I am leaving Durham
- Every other CRM on the market previously built a system of records, that changes now. We are building a system of actions thanks to AI. Octolane is building AI-first Salesforce. Our software does a lot more than just store customer data. It uses AI to find the best customers,Jotted some thoughts about how AI opens up new killer app possibilities which can be wedges to systems of record
- Open Source Carta Alternative with Cap Table management - GitHub source code! Check us out on HN: dub.sh/byebyecarta Thank you @peer_rich for inspiring start open source project and and the repo inspired by @steventey Proudly built with @shadcn @nextjs and thank you
- I miss my mom so much right now. I wish she were here to see everything I’m going through, and what our team is building through it all. When I was little, she’d quietly cut fruit and place it by my study desk without saying a word. Then she’d leave, just so I could keep
- No one cares. Get up. Work harder. Go again. (My wallpaper right now)
- I think the risk isn't making tools too easy, it's making them produce outputs users don't value enough. Research on the IKEA effect shows people value products they partially created themselves. it has been demonstrated that participants valued their self-assembled IKEAHere’s my prediction on @lovable, @Replit, @boltdotnew, @v_computer and others in the“ideas to apps” space: Once they make it effortless to reliably spin out websites/apps in seconds, they will note massive churn Then, they’ll try to make it “harder” to build projects
