Steps to replace your SaaS tools w AI: 1. Identify SaaS you want to replace 2. Vibe code the front end to your liking 3. Tweet "you can just build stuff" and project your annualized cost savings. 4. Start on the back end. Realize that this SaaS is actually quite complex and

Small thing, but feels big to me! @X productized the user handle marketplace. And after years of DM'ing an unused twitter account, I finally got my name @Danhightower!

There's this AI agent startup that automates company operations. Their biggest blocker to growth has been showing potential customers just how powerful their solution is. Like the "Alexa problem" - you stare at the little device, and you don't know what it can do, so you just

"Did 20 sales demos this week" > "Wrote 1M lines of code this week"

It's possible that the sentiment of the entire tech job market should not hinge on the guy who acquired Tidal for the effective price of ~1,500 Block employees' pay for the next 12 months.

To conclude:

How to spot a founder: "Someone who has internalized the rules so much that he can feel where they bend, where they want to break, where the new thing is hiding inside the old one. A transcendent ideal, reached from the inside, against every possible taste of his time."

making this my entire linkedin profile

"Look we saw Ramp Sheets, and honestly it was sick, so we reactively pulled this forward on our roadmap. We hope you* enjoy it. *Agent Mode is generally available... for 365 copilot premium super duper plus customers in select markets within select regions of certain planets

Strip out the vibes and code, and many coding apps are just selling $3 for $1.

One thing Ramp does well is tastefully take credit for value they create. So many AI products fail to do this well:

I cannot stress this enough to VCs who are investing: Do not monologue on a call.

The default has always been slop. AI didn't start that.

Choose your own tax adventure:

So clutch. Predatory SPVs have got to go. Companies with serious demand can / should run these themselves instead of through multi-layer, opaque vehicles with massive fees run by middlemen.

In closed beta, three companies gave 80 investors zero-fee/carry access to ~$4M in secondaries, while adding just one new row to the cap table. Learn more here:

Introducing: Secondary Vehicles Now companies can run their own secondary SPVs for delivering liquidity to shareholders without the predatory SPV fee/carry structures.

https://t.co/82iEsUnygu is code + Markdown, all done in Cursor. Never regretted it.