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Why didn't you found yourself at any point? I understand gaining experience as a founding engineer, but after a certain point, you need to work as hard as the technical founder, take the same career risk, for way less payout

I would define that as success. My definition is the feeling of success in the eyes of the founders, not millions of dollars or whatever hyped up benchmark

were your projects in spaces you were familiar with? I feel like that makes the dart less random. Also I feel like it's hard to get customers/users on calls

Can you clarify more on your "overnight success"?

To succeed, I mean product market fit, or the business being healthy enough from the founders perspective with minimal(always non zero) doubts.

Did you have experience in that space? Are you a solo founder?

If you look at his recent content, I think he's gotten LLM Psychosis unfortunately

I'm guessing it'll be something around spinning up MCPs easily as an evolution of their product. Just right place, right time

People who don't code(management, leadership) think AI will 10x the company but it's really a 40-60% boost. But engineers have to feign adopting this tools in fear of layoffs

Do they actually have something or is it just a wrapper with tool calling?

No it's slop and most of the hype was manufactured marketing. It has 0 utility, and any perceived utility you can build yourself easily

Who even uses their open source product?

Apple is just waiting for all the slop to inevitably crash to see what actually works

I wonder if people really need this. How many people are really building multiplayer apps like Figma, Linear etc? I'm guessing 99% are CRUD and I doubt that will change. Even if so, would you want to vendor lock into some proprietary technology rather than build with tried and tested open source components?

half the watchlist is literally vaporware

If you didn't know, 30 under 30 doesn't have a selection process and you can literally apply and game your way into being mentioned. I honestly love the site and the UI. Great job! Would be nice to have some kind of thing for YC founders as well

Most of the tweets and examples in the article are likely bots/fake content. The future of the internet is so dire

Levels has no passion for his projects. They're all quick grifts.

The cognitive overload is more so people not understanding the slop they are generating. Slop piles on top of slop until a situation arrives where you actually need to understand everything, and you don’t because you didn’t do the work yourself.

its dirt cheap and you can do basic search

probably not many Firebase users here but I love Firebase's Firestore

I personally have no use for this type of workflow. I like parallel claude code instances in worktrees but nothing beyond that

They have Claude Code web in research preview

Built an open source lightweight version of this that works with any cli agent: https://github.com/built-by-as/FleetCode

its just a meme

Ramp valued at $32B is a joke. Hopefully this sets a realistic benchmark for valuation. All Ramp did was spend more on ads and marketing. And CEO is now claiming their "AI Agents" are going to do something meaningful.

feature request: tag startups with YCombinator and be able to visualize failure in terms of capital invested over time. my hunch is it's going up but would be cool to see the data

all fun and games until you need to debug the rats nest that you've been continually building. I am actually shocked people who have coded before have been one-shotted into believing this

they're also all mostly lying/fudging the numbers. you can't believe what you see online anymore

I can promise you no one is using it

you really don't need any of this crap. you just need Claude Code and CLAUDE.MD in directories where you need to direct it. complicated AI set ups are mid curve