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Yann retweeted
Something BIG is happening in SF next week.
Those guys are organizing the first Phone Use hackathon. 32h, $3000 prize.
Only rule: build Al that uses a phone like a real person.
Nov 12-13. Speakers from YC.
If you're not part of the 1%, don't apply:
luma.com/advrricd
Tellement utile d'avoir un grok bot avec sa propre machine intégré à X c'est vraiment une folie, il va me chercher tous les assets dont j'ai besoin pour mes tweets et mes vidéos, tous mes b-rolls quand je monte, plus besoin de passer 1h sur Pinterest a sélectionner tout ça et les intégrer au bon endroit, on se rapproche de plus en plus d'un vrai assistant humain avec son propre mac qui te fait toutes les tâches chronophages en comprenant vraiment de quoi t'as besoin
It's such a shame there aren't more tech companies obsessing over design the way Linear or Palantir do with cool merch/animations/hidden nerdy details to brag about
Right now i see a lot of companies shipping vibe coded slop design in 2 seconds, even when they have insanely powerful tech behind it. Imo design makes at the VERY LEAST 50% of a good product. it's literally a zero cons addition to focus for a few hours/days on that, it doesn't change anything to your tech (even if it's bad make people want to try it), makes you look cool and attract curiosity
It's a real shame we don't have that culture for this kind of stuff the way other sectors do. Funny enough it's usually American defense/hardware companies that have the best design and put the hardest focus on it. Companies that are literally in the creative space, doing ads, video, images, copywriting, all the creative work done by agents, rarely have a strong design and art direction themselves, shame.
Every serious company should have a store with crazy stylish merch, and every team should have fashion nerds in it.
ngl @NousResearch has some of the best looking merch out there. straight gas
For the occasion I decided to fly as far as I could from my routine (Paris) to try and accomplish something a little more challenging
So I spent the whole month in the south Patagonia mountains freezing and running about 100miles for the love of the game (never ran more than 20k before)
For the first time in a while I wasn't sure I was able to do it which is the exact thing I've been looking for.
working in tech you witness insane wins and revenu growth overnight from other founders which makes everything looks so accessible, but I genuinely think you need to keep putting yourself in danger and feeling scared sometimes (actual danger where you feel physically threatened) to grow the right way
So grateful I feel excited again, my thoughts are flowing, we're so back chat LFG
Last month i decided to shut everything down and it was probably my best decision so far (no X, Claude, Tiktok, or Instagram allowed)
I hadn't taken any break in 2 years and I felt like I was getting slower and slower, which is exactly the opposite of what you want when growing your startup
At some point earlier this year we hit 20M+ views in a few weeks with Tiktok/IG/FB organic videos and made a lot of money from it, but it was hard for me to keep the momentum going and I felt more like I was doing move after move rather than really entertaining the momentum
Cumulated on a chart it looks great, but every time I was restarting from zero and I thought I had lost the grit (impossible tho). I'm not burnt out or anything and you might be able to keep pushing if you're really a retard but you might stop having fun quickly too (non negotiable for me either)
Bias to action is really the only thing that matters for me when building and I might have saved a lot of time if I took a few steps back earlier but glad I learnt the hard way now let's fuckin go back to workk 🏄♂️🏄♂️
I was really skeptical on that thesis at first but Nick is (almost) right,
We used SideShift ourselves at Argil, to recruit our creators and launch our first campaigns, and it was insanely frustrating to have to go through a wallet to send money, unlock the funds, wait through all the wire transfer mess, lose 5% in fees, JUST to be able to dm 15 guys. When you want to move fast and recruit within the day it's hell, that's actually one of the reasons we dropped SideShift and built our own thing in-house.
For example, we had a ton of creators from tier 3 countries trying to fuck us over by lying about their exp, their location etc, while quoting absurd prices per video. Unfortunately at the time there was no way for companies to publicly rate a creator or to avoid that.
But honestly I think it's a good thing that they take care of protecting their creators, it just also has to be the case on the company side (I feel like it's better in the V3 though).
Yet about AI use, it should be normal to be able to reuse the videos of a creator you're working with and then iterate on them with dozens/hundreds of other faces, the same way we already reuse them for ads.
It's always been in our contracts that we had full usage of UGC videos after they were posted btw. That's also the point of doing UGC. Otherwise there's no point paying your creator $50 per video if he's also trying to put restrictions on content that's already posted. Even more as that $50 base per video is already very easy bread today when you can make your talking heads editing with Claude and be in more than 10 campaigns at the same time posting 1 to 3 videos a day.
obviously it should always be specified to the creator beforehand but I don't see any good reason not to do it
Sadly, this is the cost of running a "free" platform with no gate to keep bad actors out.
We learned it early at SideShift. Brands would run up a tab with creators, then disappear: card removed, no trace, and we were left covering the payouts.
Free is great for acquisition, but in practice it's brutal. Zero friction draws fraud, and the people who use the platform properly end up paying for the ones who abuse it.
My advice is to add some kind of gate. A deposit, a subscription or a card check all work.
Just a little skin in the game filters out most of the bad actors without slowing growth.
One of the most locked in founders out there, he had his big internet moment, his growth didn't reflect on his company, went back to work in silence and lets people assume now until he 1000x once again
didnt really want to make this tweet
cluely is not an app studio
we’ve built a few apps recently to validate a specific thesis
as of about 4 months ago it was validated
i don’t wanna share more because it’s honestly a zero sum discovery
im extremely optimistic that this is the key step in making a lot of money
Last month i decided to shut everything down and it was probably my best decision so far (no X, Claude, Tiktok, or Instagram allowed)
I hadn't taken any break in 2 years and I felt like I was getting slower and slower, which is exactly the opposite of what you want when growing your startup
At some point earlier this year we hit 20M+ views in a few weeks with Tiktok/IG/FB organic videos and made a lot of money from it, but it was hard for me to keep the momentum going and I felt more like I was doing move after move rather than really entertaining the momentum
Cumulated on a chart it looks great, but every time I was restarting from zero and I thought I had lost the grit (impossible tho). I'm not burnt out or anything and you might be able to keep pushing if you're really a retard but you might stop having fun quickly too (non negotiable for me either)
Bias to action is really the only thing that matters for me when building and I might have saved a lot of time if I took a few steps back earlier but glad I learnt the hard way now let's fuckin go back to workk 🏄♂️🏄♂️
Yann retweeted
Je vais dire quelque chose qui risque de déplaire à beaucoup de monde, mais tant pis.
Je crois qu’une partie de notre société est en train de perdre quelque chose de bien plus grave que sa compétitivité économique.
Elle est en train de perdre sa capacité à rêver.
Hier, Tesla a présenté une démonstration spectaculaire autour d’une voiture capable de quitter le sol. Un prototype, certes, pas encore la voiture volante de Retour vers le futur.
Mais quand même, bordel. On parle de technologies qui semblaient relever de la science-fiction quand nous étions gamins.
Et ce matin, en regardant certaines réactions françaises, qu’est-ce que je découvre ?
« Ça sert à rien. »
« Musk est un raciste. »
« Ça ne règle pas les problèmes de recharge. »
« Ça n’efface pas ses saluts nazis. »
Mais sérieusement, qu’est-ce qui nous est arrivé ?
À quel moment avons-nous perdu cette âme d’enfant qui nous faisait ouvrir grand les yeux devant une invention ?
Et le plus triste dans tout ça, c’est qu’on semble avoir oublié notre propre histoire.
La France, c’est le pays des frères Lumière, qui ont contribué à faire naître le cinéma.
C’est le pays de Louis Pasteur, dont les travaux ont révolutionné la microbiologie et la vaccination.
C’est le pays de Nicéphore Niépce, pionnier de la photographie.
C’est le pays des frères Montgolfier, qui ont envoyé l’être humain dans les airs à bord d’une montgolfière.
C’est le pays de Blaise Pascal, qui concevait déjà une machine à calculer au XVIIe siècle.
C’est aussi le pays du TGV, et l’un des deux pays qui ont donné naissance au Concorde.
Vous imaginez ce que représentaient ces inventions à leur époque ?
Des humains qui osaient accomplir ce que beaucoup pensaient impossible.
Des gens qui n’acceptaient pas les limites de leur temps.
Des visionnaires, des ingénieurs, des scientifiques, des entrepreneurs qui voulaient repousser les frontières du réel.
Nous avons été ce pays-là.
Alors comment avons-nous pu en arriver à un point où notre premier réflexe devant l’extraordinaire semble parfois être de chercher pourquoi il faudrait le mépriser ?
SpaceX récupère des fusées qui reviennent se poser sur Terre ? On parle immédiatement d’Elon Musk et de ses provocations.
Des robots humanoïdes commencent à réaliser des tâches physiques de plus en plus complexes ? « Ça va détruire des emplois. »
L’IA ouvre des perspectives gigantesques pour la médecine, la science, l’éducation et la création ? « Ça pollue, ça vole le travail des artistes, ça sert à tricher. »
Un entrepreneur annonce vouloir réaliser quelque chose d’incroyable ? « Encore un milliardaire qui veut s’en mettre plein les poches. »
Mais est-ce qu’on réalise seulement ce qui est en train de se passer ?
Nous vivons une époque où des fusées réutilisables se posent après leur mission, où l’IA accélère certaines découvertes scientifiques, où des robots apprennent à évoluer dans notre monde, où des personnes seules commencent à créer des choses qui nécessitaient auparavant des équipes entières.
Et devant tout ça, on serait devenus incapables de dire simplement : « Putain, c’est incroyable. Comment est-ce qu’ils ont réussi ça ? »
Je ne demande pas qu’on admire aveuglément les milliardaires. Ni qu’on ferme les yeux sur les conséquences sociales, environnementales ou politiques de leurs projets.
On peut condamner les propos d’Elon Musk tout en reconnaissant les prouesses des ingénieurs de SpaceX et de Tesla.
On peut défendre les travailleurs tout en trouvant la robotique fascinante.
On peut vouloir encadrer l’IA tout en étant émerveillé par ses possibilités.
L’esprit critique n’a jamais obligé personne à devenir cynique.
Et c’est justement ce cynisme qui me désespère.
J’ai parfois l’impression qu’on a remplacé l’admiration par la jalousie, le goût du risque par la peur de l’échec, l’ambition par la suspicion et le rêve par le sarcasme.
This aged really badly really quickly
There is zero chance this vehicle is going to fly - the physics of it are near impossible - so what are your actual expectations of today's unveil?
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Bro is getting everyone back to grinding
introducing Promethee, an app that turns your work into a multiplayer game, to perform.
now available for everyone.
promethee.io
He got the vision before everyone else, won't forget





























