We went from 0 to 2,200 paying customers in under a year by following @ycombinator's 15 rules: 1/ Do things that don't scale. Get your first 10 customers by hand. 2/ Launch now, not when it's "ready". A mediocre product in front of real users teaches you more in a week than 6 months of polishing in the dark. 3/ Charge from day one. If nobody will pay, you don't have a startup, you have a hobby. 4/ Talk to users every single day. The roadmap you need is sitting in your customers' heads, and they'll hand it to you for free 5/ Always hunt the 90/10 solution. For almost any feature there's a way to capture 90% of the value with 10% of the effort. 6/ There are only two real jobs: write code and talk to users. Everything else (conferences, press, VC coffees, corp dev calls) is fake work. 7/ You pick your customers as much as they pick you. 10 users who love you beat 1,000 who kind of like you. 8/ Growth is an output, not a strategy. Grow before product market fit and all you're buying is churn. 9/ Do less, really well. Pick one or two metrics and judge every task against them. 10/ Know if you're default alive. Paul Graham's question: on current growth and current burn, do you reach profitability before the money runs out? 11/ Don't hire until it hurts. Headcount is not progress, it's burn. Every great startup was embarrassingly small for embarrassingly long. 12/ Momentum is the only real moat in year one. Ship something every week, even something tiny. 13/ Every great startup is badly broken at some point. The game isn't avoiding fires, it's how fast you put them out. Again. And again 14/ Ignore your competitors. Startups die of suicide, not murder. In year one, the only company that can kill yours is your own 15/ Startups rarely die from running out of money. They die because the founders fall out. Brutal honesty with your cofounder is the cheapest insurance you'll ever buy Good luck !

Hi @SpaceApps. Could we get an update on NASA Space Apps Challenge 2026 please? If it is not running this year, then can this also be officially shared publicly? Many Thanks #SpaceApps #SpaceAppChallenge #Hackathon

TIL there is a Badminton workout on Apple Watch. #Badminton

Nature Hunt AI app worked well at Center Parcs this week. Got the kids competing with each other trying to find as many different species of plant, animal, and insect as possible! #nature #naturehunt #centerparcs

This is the the quote I've been citing a lot recently.

A short book review of Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman. Despite the subtitle, it is not a time management book, but a guide to help you think about how you could be spending your time differently. linkedin.com/pulse/four-thou… #Reading

I've just discovered how easy it is to do narration / text entry with voice on Windows 11 PC's using "Win H" keys.. How did I not know this before..🤦‍♂️

Happy Star Wars Day! May the 4th be with you! #StarWarsDay

Code with Claude, our developer conference, returns next week. Whether you're just getting started with Claude Code or you've been building for a while, there's a session for you. Register for the livestream: claude.com/code-with-claude

TIL if you want one product to appear bigger than another, just hold it closer to the camera. 🤦

Hey @augmentcode - I've had 3 server timeouts today that look like this. Do I still get charged/consume credits when Augment can't doesn't respond? Request timed out after 300000ms, requestType=chat-user-message, requestId=981b228d-14b4-46ef-a975-52ec6b3dbf51

How is the ScreamingFrog installer 859 MB?

💡 Curiosity drives innovation. What’s one insight or idea you hope to exchange at #MVPSummit this year? Drop your thoughts below! #MVPBuzz

Instead of living with fear and existential dread, programmers need to get on with building. Live life, learn new things, grow into your full potential and don't look back.

Ready to build with Copilot and AI agents? 🤖 Copilot Developer Camp gives you hands-on, self-paced labs to go from “curious” to “shipping” with AI in your apps. Many #MicrosoftMVPs are already using this content in their communities. Start learning: msft.it/6019QMWab #MVPBuzz

Daughter: "They dropped a huge box of pens yesterday while unloading supplies at school" Me: <Pauses..> "So after they hit the floor, did they roll around, or where they just stationary?" Pretty good for 7.10am. Pre-coffee. Edinburgh Fringe Festival here I come! 🖊️ #Joke

Love this! As the seasonal changes are cyclical. Nice

I'm excited to see another headset from the team at Lynx :) Especially with a higher FoV, it's nice to see a headsets making gains there! ...and StereoKit compatibility always floats my boat too 🥳