Every AI cold email: Hi, Ryan! I saw your podcast interview from 2016—you talked about your morning routine at Philz Coffee and investment...

It used to be uncool to work at a big co like Meta, Google, Microsoft, etc. There's a status shift favoring big cos today. (fwiw, I don't ...

Seeing more SMS-first startups lately. I was recently reminded of this post I wrote in 2013: https://ryanhoover.me/post/sms-first-startups

Product Hunt's doing something new today. Years ago we talked about adding community-driven changelog. Now with agents, the user request/b...

I did the math. We can increase US GDP by 2.4% if the WiFi worked on United Airlines.

Nvidia acquired a tamagotchi app for nearly $13B. Wild.

I've never been a fan of whiteboarding a startup From @paulg's latest essay

YC's built more founder tools over the last ~year. They built tools to share decks, schedule pitch meetings, distribute SAFEs, and more. I...

I recently ordered a $1,200 catered dinner from DoorDash. A few days later they sent me an unexpected $50 gift card. Brilliant. You know o...

Insane week for a16z infra: Cursor exits for $60B, largest private acquisition ever OpenRouter exits for ~$8B, reportedly And this is how...

Fun way to nudge early adopters into evangelists. We did this in the early days at Product Hunt. https://twitter.com/kevinefiles/status/20...

Even Spotify is building agentic dev tools (via Product Hunt)

Low key big win for Quiet Capital. They doubled down in every round. Owned 35%+. Will return 10-figures to LPs. https://twitter.com/lisasu/...

It took longer to submit the Chrome extension than to build it

Claude Code clearly padding when it replies: "Implementation estimated to take 3 weeks" AI, they're just like us.

We just raised a $25M fund. Now we're hiring a Partner at Weekend Fund. More founders are starting companies and shipping than ever before....

It's never been easier to become an "expert" on <insert topic>. Here's the framework @SandyBKwon created using AI: https://sandybkwon.subs...

Here’s @SandyBKwon’s AI chief of staff stack: • Hermes for the harness • Telegram is the interface • Grok for voice commands • Gmail with a...

I don’t understand the argument that LLMs can’t come up with original ideas. “It’s just trained on existing data, predicting the next token...

Building something new. If you're an early-stage investor, meet 5+ founders/week, and write <$500K checks, DM me. :) (will delete this twe...