Randall Bennett @randallb
Ship more, build less. Confident AI builder @boltfoundry (Journo → coder → vidpresso (YCW14) → sold to FB) whatsapp: 16466701291 randallb.com New York, NY Joined January 2007-
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My favorite book of the last 3 years.
Do Hard Things is only $1.99 on Kindle. If you want to know what toughness is actually about and the science behind navigating discomfort...give it a read. There's no excuse when it's this cheap: amzn.to/4fp1DEN
@Romy_Holland Yeah totally. Amigdala hijack... their identity is at stake. Fight shows up as terrible comments / replies, flight you can't even tell exists.
Instant hit $2.2M ARR! I was debating whether to share revenue publicly, but I hope it's helpful to share what's working and what's not. Our first product, Instant Domain Search, definitely sounds niche. But by simply focusing on making a great experience we've grown to 120,000+ monthly active users. What's pushed that growth the most has been a few core ideas: → Make the core product faster and simpler → Build new tools around tangential keywords → Publish authoritative resources (stats, takes) What's most exciting about this traffic is that people come to our tools with real intent: to start a company, a side project, a personal website, or anything they're passionate about. And that opens up distribution for us to tackle even more ambitious problems: how do we lightweight, intuitive software that completes the loop from search to launch? Excited to share the ambitious stuff we're working on next. Congrats to all of the team for this first milestone!
@wongmjane do you think they do oops tasks automated with AI too?
Anyone who works on space avionics knows what this means. We’re not going to be orbiting Earth. We’re sending our spacecraft into interplanetary space, and as such, we need to make sure it can handle that environment. The way we do it? We test. The team traveled out to a cancer center, they have the best proton beams, and we used them to blast our electronics with radiation.
@TheKryptoWiz Totally fair. I've tried to centralize all of my clis into one surface called "bft" where i've told the agent to go look for useful tools. It's like MCP basically but for CLIs haha
They fixed MCP so that it doesn't pollute the context as much in codex and claude code, so I think this combined with better desktop apps is reflective of graphs like this.
Everyone keeps telling me MCP is dead. Meanwhile our MCP traffic just 7x’d in 5 weeks. We shipped the Octolens API + MCP server earlier this year as a side bet. The thesis: brand monitoring shouldn’t live in a dashboard, it should be a data layer your team (and your agents)
I had a dream that we had a ny tech week event called "why every major js framework comes from utah" and @tan_stack and @ryanflorence explained how ski resorts encourage thoughtful js.
Codex just found a “workaround” of not having sudo on my pc…
@adaobiadibe_ Absolutely. This is such a good idea. Every hospital should have a balcony on each floor imo, what a brilliant thing.
I actually tried to build something (much less ambitious) than this many years, and I love that there's now a way to dream and imagine without losing the critical details. Amazing execution @DraftedAI! Many more houses can grow into the families living in them with this.
It’s never been easier to design your dream house. Draw a shape. Define your rooms. Set your constraints. @DraftedAI generates complete floor plans, elevations, and 3D home designs in seconds. Over the last month, 120,000 people generated 325,000+ home designs with
@0xAsta @wongmjane this seems the most reasonable unfortunately.
San Francisco banned middle school algebra only to bring it back a decade later. Colleges that did away with admissions exams are reinstating them, as more students need remedial courses. The experiment with lowering standards in American education was a dramatic failure.
More than five years after the UC system lifted its standardized testing requirement, a coalition led by UC Berkeley math professors argues the drop in students’ math levels is “severe.” sfchronicle.com/california/art…
AI is teaching me how to use ableton to make sounds.
Can we seriously stop sending other people content from AI that we pass of as our own? Please???
so someone sent me a long apology and I replied I think this was written by ChatGPT and he said, yes that's right, and now I don't know what to say
@wongmjane @thdxr magnet is the gateway drug
Stay classy, Meta engineers vying for provable "impacc" during h1 2026.
Paul Graham @paulg
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Austen Allred @Austen
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Nikita Bier @nikitabier
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Garry Tan @garrytan
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Esther Crawford ✨ @esthercrawford
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Mike Maples, Jr @m2jr
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Tim Suzman @TimSuzman
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4 Followers 151 Following We talk about AI as if it's a magic bullet, but the truth is, it often mirrors our biases.
Adam Koszek @wkoszek
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Nesir @nesir_builds
6 Followers 77 Following Designer for 10+ years. Currently at @colonistio , ex-@sweatcoin Now building products, visuals, tools, and a family. Some ideas work. Some become lessons.
mj @mjjtweet
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Danny G @the_danny_g
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Max Shepherd-Cross @maxshepcross
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Nese Ozler @nesozl
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Niki Aimable Niyikiza @Ni_Aimable
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schizo @Inara5922442979
234 Followers 3K Following orthodox ☦️. heritage american. unapologetically pro-white.
Helder Perez @helderbuilds
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George Hotz 🌑 @realGeorgeHotz
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Balaji @balajis
1.6M Followers 4K Following Author of the Network State. Founder of the Network School.
Patrick McKenzie @patio11
195K Followers 807 Following I work for the Internet and am an advisor to @stripe. These are my personal opinions unless otherwise noted.
Shreyas Doshi @shreyas
342K Followers 1K Following Led a couple of Stripe's most successful products from early days. Prev Twitter, Google, Yahoo. Now advising & teaching. Tweets useful for some—not for everyone
delian @zebulgar
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103K Followers 3K Following creating something new. product builder, most recently at meta. my last startup was acquired by twitter so this place has a special spot in my heart. 💙
scott belsky @scottbelsky
149K Followers 2K Following helping the creative world make ideas happen. partner @a24 / founder A24Labs; founder @Behance, bod @atlassian & MoMA, author, seed investor, product obsessive.
Visa is doing marketi... @visakanv
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Ben Smith @semaforben
319K Followers 4K Following Editor-in-chief of @semafor. Former @nytimes media columnist, @buzzfeednews EIC. "Traffic." [email protected], Signal semaforben.90
kayser / vaultvision.... @0xkayser
527 Followers 452 Following you're picking vaults wrong | building https://t.co/Vn4yEqjrdW tracking every HL vault so you don't get rekt https://t.co/Vn4yEqjrdW
ranidu @Ranidu
11K Followers 6K Following Current: Lead Product for Gen AI, AR and Camera at Snap, Past: Founder at Audius, Whale, Polly, The Artist Union, YC S17. Sri Lankan Pop Artist/DJ
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7K Followers 862 Following Co-founder @magicpatterns — where the best teams design products. Building with @teddarific
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alan.li @alanliDR
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473 Followers 123 Following Founder & CEO @IntegrateReason (YC S22, TechCrunch Biggest Moonshots) | Cited by Google DeepMind, Meta AI | ex Apple, my code runs 250B times / dayYou might like
