☬ | building ion.design | 2x @ycombinator founder | @fdotinc | former ice cream man

Joined March 2019
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What if your website improved itself? Introducing ION, an AI-native website platform where AI agents continuously: - Propose changes - Run experiments - Improve performance over time. We're already powering $1b companies, & seeing 200% lifts in conversion. 🧵
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at this point I only use an ide to: - edit env variables. - read md files. - that's it. If codex/claude app just gave me a view to do that on my project i think i would literally delete my IDE.
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It blows my mind. Linkedin is dead internet theory come to reality. And yet, massive revenue driver for us.
LinkedIn was already slop. All that's changed is that it's now AI slop.
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Samraaj Bath ⚡️ retweeted
May I remind you > One person co > Haven't hired yet > Didn't start YC batch yet > Money hasn't even landed yet > Didn't even ship the most interesting APIs yet > And yet, 10 people migrated to us in the past few days Looking forward to stepping into the arena.
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how do so many people like baseball
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Agreed. It really SHOULD have won, perfect interface and platform to root an AI OS at the core. But, nope, AI was just a surface level add on and it got buggier and buggier. I used notion, notion calendar, notion mail. Churned off all three.
Notion makes me so sad. Amazing team and used to be a brittle but great product. They never fixed the basic bugs, piled a decade of tech debt into it, and shoved unnecessary AI slop down everyone’s throat. Practically unusable on mobile and extremely slow. Churning after 9 yrs
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Samraaj Bath ⚡️ retweeted
started a new job @iondotdesign (our page needs to be updated haha). looking forward to a sick summer!
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underrated benefit of setting up your codebase for agents is that new employees onboard really quick. the same documentation rigor helps humans out the same way and they can use agents to give them an interactive deep dive into the codebase.
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“I don’t have time to cook” 550 calories, 47g protein, 15 min. Dishes all done while burgers cooked. Learn how to cook and eating healthy is a breeze!
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I fixed the fitbit air. It works great but it’s ugly. So i mutilated another watch and threaded the band through it. The tracker rests at the bottom of my wrist and functions perfectly. Problem solved!
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The tracker is super subtle and comfortable in this position
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I took a razor to a cheap watch to make this lol
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i’m calling it right now. rice paper is the new cauliflower
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motivation is perishable. it exists to get you till exercise is part of you. then you just feel “wrong” if you haven’t worked out. you don’t need motivation to sit down and watch tv. exercise should be the same way.
Gym goers who hit the gym after a full day of work, when you're mentally drained and the couch is calling your name. Please what's the one thing that gets you to show up anyway? What’s your #1 motivation?
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start with a sport or with outdoor walks. something where you can see yourself improve and have a relationship to your input and output. do it till you fall in love with it, you’ll crave it. then sooner or later you’ll crave movement itself.
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funny enough, this is exactly the same for startups. how do you show up and work hard every day? well, pick something you like, make sure that your inputs are tied to some output metric, and make it a part of your life. congrats, now you crave hard work!
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I promise this actually happened. Tier 1 VC sends meeting address. I reach & it's his house. I enter & see a woman without pants on go quickly from a room to the bathroom. Me and VC go on a walk. during the walk, he pauses to call an uber for "his friend".
I was once pitching in a board room at a top 3 VC firm for a $15M Series A. 12 people in the meeting. One of the GPs fully fell asleep. Out cold for 30 minutes. Nobody acknowledged it. Everyone just kept going. I kept presenting my Series A slides to an unconscious man in a Herman Miller chair and somehow that was considered normal. That's venture capital. You might fly across the country to perform for people who may or may not be conscious. It's a dance. And sometimes you lead and sometimes you follow and sometimes your partner is unconscious. If you're raising right now, just know: every founder has a story like this. The process is weird. The power dynamic is weird. You're not crazy for thinking it's weird. No one talks about it because they want to continue raising. But I'm happy to stick my neck out there. It is weird.
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i’ve always been surprised by the popularity of onitsuka tigers with sneakerheads they’re the villain in the nike story
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just discovered this new sneaker brand high quality stylish Japanese footwear for a great price. it’s called Onitsuka Tiger surprised nobody is talking about this
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Read Feynman's memoire about his time on the Manhattan Project. Dude was NOT locked in. Literally the opposite. He spent all of his time learning lockpicking & getting drunk at bars. He still produced brilliant work.
Maybe that culture is fine for you at linear, and it looks like it’s working great for you! You’ve created something worth over a billion dollars in 7 short years, that’s something very few people on the planet have done before. But sometimes there are big problems that need solving, and there is more creative thinking, not less, that happens with contact with the big problems. In our case, creating the financial operating system that owns the creation, transfer, financing, and investment of risk, using AI to automate the paperwork of the most regulated entities to make every business and person a little more profitable, waste a lot less time, and be more protected, is a big problem. Maybe there were super geniuses at the Manhattan Project working 1 day per week like zen masters. I doubt it though, because if you’re obsessed with a problem, you work hard. Nowhere did I or do I glorify lack of sleep (I always think sleeping right and exercise are very important), and different people have different visions, cadences, and ways they want to run their companies. And that’s ok, but you attacking our style based upon sound bites when we are solving a really important problem, by market sizing probably the biggest problem large language models can solve, isn’t it.
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oh also the ONLY thing he said about the bomb in that chapter was along the lines of “I would have gotten much better at lockpicking if it weren’t for that damn thing” so much for being mission driven…….
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I hate being a hater, but I've seen this a number of times in SF... It's sad. They raise big rounds, hire, & proceed to grift party while talking about how locked in they are. When they shut down they somehow fail upward bc they network their way into good roles.
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Good thing is the legit builders far outnumber these types. It's just disheartening when you hear about them.
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