Daniil Andreev

Instinct is a fascinating company: - 14 employees - no launch video - no raise announcements - no X profile - basic website - not even an .ai domain - no app - no marketing - founder only posts new features Yet it is the most successful consumer startup of 2026 Incredible. You really can just do things.

Meet the winners of The WebMCP Challenge. These 10 projects show what people and agents can build together when websites expose structured tools agents can use. 🧵 See the winning projects and the builders behind them:

Some data we recently assembled on entrepreneurship/compute in Europe: eudata.vercel.app. We hope that one of the useful roles that Stripe can play is in collecting and publishing empirical data pertaining to entrepreneurship and industry in Europe. There's growing appetite to get Europe on a better footing, and cross-sectional comparisons can often shine light on where opportunities lie. If you're interested in this kind of thing, we publish more at stripeeconomics.substack.com.

Most ecommerce sites are white backgrounds and stock photos. This one is almost entirely black. 🖤 I built this $25,000 dark-mode luxury storefront in under 5 minutes using pure AI vibe coding. Zero manual code. Zero bloated Shopify templates. How to launch it yourself: 1️⃣ Head over to scrolltide.co (vault of 200+ premium 3D templates) 🌌 2️⃣ Copy the "Obsidia" master prompt ⚡ 3️⃣ Paste into Claude Code or Cursor and launch 🚀 Get the Premium prompt 👇

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Landed my first project here on X 🎉🎉

Cal AI reportedly generated over $40 million in sales in the 12 months before March 2026. Its best-known feature turns a photo of your meal into an estimate of its calories and nutrients. But surprisingly, only around 30% of the calories logged came through photos. So why make the camera the hero? Founder @zach_yadegari said the product was designed to be understood within three seconds of a TikTok: take a photo, get a calorie estimate. The camera doesn’t need to handle every meal. It gets people to understand and download the app. The lesson: your most marketable feature doesn’t have to be your most-used feature.

if you dominate a niche with slideshows, you already won this app straight up took over mental health in relationships for women they understood the game now they're sitting at a $100k a month app the copy connects people engage and the second they do, they get served another one of your posts you're everywhere, and your app is always sitting in one of the slides so a normal user thinks "this app has genuinely helped so many people" not "this is an ad" and that's when conversion keeps climbing big companies pay millions a day to be everywhere slideshows made it easy for indie devs to get the same effect lock in founder, you're one winning format away from changing your life

He saw a billion-dollar SaaS and thought: why not build a micro-version? David and his brother Daniel didn’t try to reinvent the wheel. They went all-in on a proven market building Shipper, an AI app builder - and focused on capturing just 1% of it. Their take: obsess over what big players do well, then fix what users still complain about. • Non-technical founders. No free plan. $25/month minimum. Now: $50K/month revenue (with 690 paying customers) • Copied what worked, but made Shipper do more - not just websites, but web apps, mobile apps, Chrome extensions, bots • Looked for pain points in Trustpilot reviews, Discords, and support chats - then delivered on the features users actually wanted • Focused on building in public, launching on Product Hunt, and using Reddit, SEO, and X (Twitter) - no paid ads, just pure hustle • By month 6, they were rolling out features their giant competitors still didn’t offer • Tech stack: Anthropics claude models, Vercel, Railway, Neon, Crisp, Notion, and more (all bootstrapped from zero) Takeaway: You don’t have to invent something new - niche down on a proven idea, fix what the big players get wrong, and you could create your own game-changing SaaS.

Personal agents are the ultimate manifestation of “build something that agents want”. The form factor of a product like Muse is you want to be able to hand off a task to the agent and ensure that it is fully completed end to end. To do this, the agent must be able to successfully operate with your tools or use its own to complete the task. Use your MCP or CLI, easily navigate your site, be able to transact, and more. The new attention you need to compete for is not from the user itself but instead for the agent. This means that the tools that allow agents to order food, handle ecommerce transactions, book flights, work with the local economy, and interact with our data and information best, are the ones that will get used the most. This will ultimately be the biggest opportunity and shakeup in consumer tech since the App Store itself.

A convo with @RomanEcom changed my life. We both have dedicated a decade to building ecommerce brands. And we both succeeded. We own top 1% brands by any metric- revenue, profit, growth. But those brands are basically worthless. Let me explain: Ridge is an amazing business. Multi 9 figures in revenue. I’ll even grow 9 figures this year. But if I take my foot off the gas, revenue will fall 70%. We are an acquisition machine. We lack network effects. A wallet sold today does not guarantee a wallet sold tomorrow, this year, or next year. If anything, at scale, the more wallets you sell the harder the next wallet is to sell. I’ve out executed everyone. Built a 1% brand And we will trade on a multiple of earnings, like a car wash or a storage unit lol A generational brand, one that could last 50 years, and the multiple will be the same as your local HVAC roll up. These businesses need to be built for cashflow. That’s how they are sold, that’s how you will be rewarded for running them. If you want revenue, there are publically traded brands, great brands, like gap, trading for a fraction of annual revenue. If you want to sell something- It needs compounding network effects. Where a customer added helps get the next customer. Where a signed deal will bring more signed deals. Where the more you add, the better the margin gets. Build in Ecom for fun, for cash, to learn. But for the big swing, you need a network effect.

Including Knives (which are not on shopify) we've hit around 1000 orders shipped out this week! 🥳 We are mostly working on Mwocha, Grape, Pillowdear, and Kawabunga orders. As a side note: we are almost out of mystery boxes! 🫶 So much space in the warehouse is clear now!

TL;DR of my new article: WTF is Jev by @typesafeai, and the 9 things people are already building with it. The thesis: 𝗮 𝗰𝗼-𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗼𝗿 𝗼𝗳 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝘁𝗚𝗣𝗧 𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝘄𝗼 𝘆𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗵 𝗼𝗻 𝗮 𝗺𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗹 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗰𝗮𝗻𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝘄𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗲 𝗮 𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗶𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲 𝟳𝟮 𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘀 𝗱𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝘄𝗶𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝘁 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗼 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗽 𝗷𝘂𝗱𝗴𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗮𝗻 𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗺𝗮𝗸𝗲𝘀. Think AI multiple choice, not AI essay writing. It doesn't chat. You hand it app state plus a typed question, it hands back a decision with a probability attached. 𝟯𝟭.𝟰𝗠 𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄𝘀 on the launch post in two days (@CompleteSkeptic, who co-invented RLHF). I ran @slashlast30days on it 11 times, then checked every big post by hand. 🌐 𝗔 𝘁𝗶𝗻𝘆 𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗻 𝘀𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗰𝗲 𝗯𝗿𝗼𝘄𝘀𝗲𝗿 𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗳𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱 𝗳𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝟳 𝘀𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗱𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 $𝟬.𝟬𝟬𝟯𝟵. New action space every step, DOM as state, Jev picks the click, a small LLM only wakes up to type. The Browser Use founder built it (@gregpr07, 7.2K likes, 1.8M views) and had to note the video is 1x speed 🧹 The sleeper: instant compaction. Score every tool call, drop the junk, skip the summarization prompt entirely. "𝘪𝘯 2026, 𝘸𝘩𝘺 𝘪𝘴 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘢 𝘴𝘶𝘮𝘮𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘻𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘵?" asked @tamarajtran, 5K likes, then shipped the answer that afternoon. Run as a Claude plugin it took a session 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝟭𝗠 𝘁𝗼𝗸𝗲𝗻𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝟴𝟲𝗞 𝗶𝗻 𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝘀𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗱 (@altryne). Diogo's reply: "𝘧𝘳𝘦𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘥𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘨𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘒𝘝 𝘤𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘦" 🛡️ Vercel put it in production as the safety reviewer in fx auto mode. 𝗨𝗽 𝘁𝗼 𝟭𝟴𝘅 𝗳𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗮𝘁 𝗽𝟵𝟱 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗮𝗰𝗰𝘂𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲 than the model it replaced, per @rauchg, 3.7K likes. LangChain open-sourced the same idea the next day as AutoModeMiddleware. The closed danger classifier inside every coding harness is now a 100ms primitive 🚦 Model routing as middleware instead of a paragraph in a system prompt. About a dozen lines, probabilities left in agent state so you can audit the choice. The LangChain writeup by @sydneyrunkle is the cleanest how-to-wire-it piece anyone has published 🔎 RAG precision, solved the dumb way: retrieve as usual, run Jev on every chunk, delete the irrelevant ones. "𝘢𝘭𝘴𝘰 𝘥𝘪𝘥 𝘢𝘯𝘺𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘻𝘦 𝘫𝘦𝘷 𝘴𝘰𝘭𝘷𝘦𝘥 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘪𝘯 𝘙𝘈𝘎?" (@kushbhuwalka, 416 likes) 🎮 Minecraft in real time: 𝗝𝗲𝘃 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗰𝘁𝘀, 𝗚𝗣𝗧-𝟲 𝗔𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗻𝘀, and they fight multiple zombies at once (@wuyang_zhou). A launcher that reads intent on every keystroke in about 100ms (@dabit3). TypeSafe's own demo is Doom at 10 decisions a second, roughly $7 an hour 📬 Email triage at scale: 1,500 emails in batches of 100 with 8 workers, 60,996 views on the demo. "𝘞𝘦 𝘰𝘯𝘭𝘺 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘢 𝘣𝘢𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘰𝘧 $5 𝘥𝘰𝘸𝘯 𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦, 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘩 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘸𝘴 𝘩𝘰𝘸 𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘱 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘮𝘰𝘥𝘦𝘭 𝘪𝘴" 🗂️ 𝟳𝟳𝟳 𝗷𝘂𝗱𝗴𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝟬.𝟳 𝘀𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗱𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗮 𝗾𝘂𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗼𝗳 𝗮 𝗰𝗲𝗻𝘁. Every's head of evals asked 21 questions of 37 documents in one request, and that is what came back 🧪 Jev in your browser: Reflex, a Qwen model doing structured decisions on WebGPU, built at Shopify by @kshetrajna and passed around by @tobi. Three independent clones inside 72 hours. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗳𝗮𝗰𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗶𝗻𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻, 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘄𝗲𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝘀 🔌 Already behind the gateways you use: @vercel AI Gateway inside 48 hours (2,341 likes, the company's second-biggest post), Cloudflare, and @OpenRouter in beta 💸 𝟱,𝟬𝟬𝟬 𝗿𝗲𝗾𝘂𝗲𝘀𝘁𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 $𝟮. That was one developer counting his bill on day one (@MichaelLee04, 3,060 likes). Input is $0.042 per million tokens. Output is free 🧨 The honest part: Every's second test came out 𝟮𝟱𝘅 𝗳𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿, 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝟮𝟬𝟬𝘅, and Jev caught 6 of 7 planted defects to Fable 5.1's 7. The HN launch thread (1,863 points) spent most of its length on "can't hallucinate." Top critical comment: "𝘪𝘵 𝘤𝘢𝘯'𝘵 𝘦𝘮𝘪𝘵 𝘢𝘯 𝘪𝘯𝘷𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘥 𝘵𝘺𝘱𝘦, 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘪𝘵 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘦𝘮𝘪𝘵 𝘢 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘦𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘺 𝘸𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘷𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘥 𝘷𝘢𝘭𝘶𝘦." Diogo called the "it's a zero-shot classifier" read "𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘢𝘤𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘦!" And the biggest Reddit thread is someone who open-sourced the same architecture a year ago, 1,568 upvotes. Top reply: "𝘉𝘶𝘵 𝘥𝘪𝘥 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘪𝘵 𝘴𝘢𝘺𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘵'𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘯𝘦𝘹𝘵 𝘣𝘪𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨? 𝘙𝘰𝘰𝘬𝘪𝘦 𝘮𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘬𝘦" Bonus: the name is not Kahneman. It's William Stanley Jevons, of Jevons paradox. Make a resource cheaper and people consume far more of it. Naming your decision model after that is a thesis statement. 𝗞𝗲𝗲𝗽 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝗶𝗴 𝗺𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗹 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘄𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴. 𝗨𝘀𝗲 𝗝𝗲𝘃 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗿𝗮𝗽𝗶𝗱-𝗳𝗶𝗿𝗲 𝗱𝗲𝗰𝗶𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗯𝗲𝘁𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗻. That's the whole article.

Guess what? I'm joining the product team at @Shopify! Why? 1. Incredible focus on important mission 2. Customers I care a lot about 3. Executing craft at the frontier 4. Business is booming So excited to work with @tobi, @rohitmishra and so many other greats! LFG.

.@sleepagotchi is starting to look like more than just a sleep app They just announced Gotchi Labs, expanding their AI agents beyond sleep and wellness into things people deal with every day like shopping, fitness, productivity and personal finance What caught my attention is that Sleepagotchi is basically the first example of what they’re trying to build They’ve spent years working with real world sleep data and testing how AI can actually understand personal habits, now they’re taking that same idea into other parts of everyday life And the token is changing too $SLEEP is becoming $CHI, which is planned to become the common layer for access, rewards and commerce across the different Gotchi products Same Dino, but the vision is getting much bigger Welcome to Gotchi Labs 🦖

Opening access for developers to build Muse connectors. You bring the API -- Muse brings the agent, the browser, and the context of what the person actually wants. People reach your service just by asking for it, and their agent takes it from there. New connectors are live today. Come build with us. muse.ai/platform