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Going from 0-1 is the hardest part of building a startup. It's a whirlwind of design, development, fundraising, hiring, firing, losing money, making money, feeling invincible and feeling hopeless...all within the first few weeks.
It doesn't have to be stressful or chaotic, in fact it can be calm, organized and predictable if you understand a few key steps.
Over the past 20+ years, I have been at the early stages of several companies that have grown to millions of users:
Vimeo - First 8 employees, served as Head of Design and in 2021 it IPO'd at $5.7b
Staked - Designed Brand/UI with early team of 5 and in 2021 it sold to Kraken for one of the largest acquisitions in crypto history
Follow Up Boss - First 10 employees, served as lead designer and in 2023 it sold to Zillow for $400m
I've also been on the front lines of many existing software companies: (for a full list go to link in my bio)
Gumroad - Head of Design, team of 25 devs/designers, paying out product creators $2,906,825 just last week
Teachable - Design Consultant, in 2018, had $26M revenue and 12K customers, and in 2020 it sold to Hotmart for $250m
Kraken - Design Contractor, $1.09 billion in trading volume
Every single time I start a new project I go through the same process. Any time I have veered from that process I have lost a crap ton of money and time.
I'm currently putting together those same steps in one plug-in-play process. Presale goes live today!
jackzerby.gumroad.com/l/star…
ALT Startup Bootup Kit
Here’s are the technical details you can give your agent if you’re running a Samsung TV.
Samsung TU700D running Tizen, firmware 2301.1.
Enabled Developer Mode and installed a signed HTML/CSS/JavaScript launcher through Samsung’s Tizen SDK and SDB.
Mapped six tiles to the installed streaming apps’ application IDs.
Adapted an existing Samsung root tool for the TV’s .NET Core 3.1 runtime.
Verified UID/EUID 0; access is temporary and SMACK restrictions remain.
Ran an input agent that grabs the physical remote’s Linux input device, intercepts Home, and forwards other keys through uinput.
A persistent helper on my Mac receives Home events and launches the custom app through SDB. A heartbeat watchdog releases the input grab if the connection fails.
Changed Tizen’s first-screen and saved boot-app settings to target the launcher.
Disclaimer for the “wellllll, actualllllyy 🤓 “ crowd: yes, it returned UID 0. No, I didn’t replace the firmware, defeat every security layer, or achieve permanent root. It’s temporary root on a Tizen TV
I got excited about merging 500 PRs last quarter and these crazies are doing 30,000 per day.
New on our Engineering blog: Creating in-house source control.
In May, we merged around 2,500 code changes per day. In September, we merged more than 30,000 per day. As a result, we became bottlenecked by developer infrastructure built for human (rather than agent) scale.
Here, we share how we built a new version control system—and fully migrated our monorepo from git—in five months: anthropic.com/engineering/re…
Agents love anything with a score, I just set a goal to get my Google SEO score to 10/10 and it worked for 8 hours to achieve it.
AI alignment works when situations are predictable and grounded in human knowledge and experience.
But as AI solves harder problems, how can humans create rules for situations we’ve never experienced?
Does anyone else have a hard time saying no to coding agents that keep suggesting new features and then 2 days later you’re staring at a 145 file PR with no idea what it does any more.
GPT has done an incredible job creating custom illustrations for my latest client deck, this would have taken hours of custom 3d work.
