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$878,595,861 HAS MOVED THROUGH GUMROAD AND IT TOOK A CUT OF EVERY SINGLE DOLLAR
watch at 0:11 - the checkout that's been quietly taxing creators since 2011
10% on every sale. 30% if the buyer found you through their marketplace. processing fees on top of that
fifteen years. almost nine hundred million in volume. all Stripe-verified
then i checked what a 3-year-old competitor makes and had to run the math twice 👇
🚨THEY GAVE THE ENTIRE CODEBASE AWAY FOR FREE AND STILL COLLECTED $182,799 LAST MONTH
one API key replacing every provider dashboard on the screen
LLM Gateway is open source. you can self-host it today and pay them nothing. 1,177 developers pay anyway
and a quarter of all the money they've ever made came in the last 30 days
this isn't a SaaS. it's a toll booth on somebody else's traffic 👇
TOOL IS QUIETLY DOING $3,569,654 A MONTH AND TAKES 0% OF WHAT CREATORS EARN
watch at 0:18 - that's the entire product. one page, one checkout, no website
101,590 people pay for it every single month. $76.6 million collected since 2023, Stripe-verified
and here's the part that breaks people - they charge $29 flat and refuse to touch a cent of the creator's sales
I pulled apart why giving up the commission is exactly what made them $76M 👇
101,590 creators pay this thing every month
it takes 0% of what they sell. that one decision made it $76,000,000
full teardown - the numbers, the margin, and the ceiling they chose
A SOLO FOUNDER IN FRANCE BUILT AN AI VIDEO TOOL DOING $65,843 A MONTH - AND HE'S SELLING IT FOR $500,000
watch at 0:14 - that's the demo that does all the selling. an AI avatar picks up your product and talks about it
no team. no funding. Stripe-verified. 1,115 people paying every month
the whole thing is one feature aimed at one expensive problem, and the pricing page does the rest
I pulled the numbers apart - the growth, the margin, and why someone walks away from a rocket at month 10 👇
YOU'RE NOT BAD AT PROMPTING. YOU'RE PROMPTING LIKE IT'S 2024 AND THE MODELS MOVED ON WITHOUT YOU
most people still spell out every step and sprinkle in "make it high quality", then babysit every turn
the new contract has three parts, and the first one is the goal:
- THE GOAL - describe what done looks like, not the steps to get there. you own the destination, it picks the route
- THE RULES - the constraints and the taste. what it must never do, the house style, what "wrong" looks like to you
- THE BAR - the standard it has to clear before it's allowed to hand anything back. "a working designer can't tell this from an agency build" beats "make it good" every time
then the part almost nobody does - spin up a SECOND instance with fresh context and make it grade the work against that bar. the builder never grades itself
loop it. build, grade, close the biggest gap, repeat. walk away, it doesn't need you in the room
get the contract right and one person quietly outships a team
stop writing instructions. start writing contracts 👇
new hair just dropped and it's aiming for orbit
that's not a blowout, that's a launch sequence
Marine One is parked right behind him and somehow the hair still has more lift
whatever hold that is, NASA needs the formula
gravity has officially resigned
PEOPLE AREN'T USING GROK AS A CHATBOT ANYMORE - THEY'RE BUILDING 4 PERSONAL AGENTS THAT RUN THEIR WHOLE DAY
watch at 0:22 - that's where he wires the agent into Gmail and it starts clearing the inbox on its own
the setup takes minutes, not a dev project:
- Grok lets you configure up to 4 custom agents, each with its own personality and its own job - one for productivity, one for research, one for content, one for whatever eats your week
- you plug them into the tools your day already lives in - Gmail, Slack, your calendar - and they read, draft and schedule without you opening anything
- you give each one a lane and a cadence, then stop touching it. it runs while you sleep and reports back
- people are naming them like staff now - one for market intel, one watching competitors, one producing content on a schedule
that's the shift nobody announced. your routine stopped being a to-do list and became a team
the person who spends one evening wiring this up gets their mornings back for the rest of the year
everyone else will keep typing the same prompt every single day 👇
GROK JUST SHIPPED BUILD MODE AND YOU CAN NOW TALK AN ENTIRE APP INTO EXISTENCE INSIDE A CHAT WINDOW
no IDE. no setup. no repo. watch at 06:14 - that's the moment the live preview builds itself while he's still typing
here's what it actually does:
- you type the idea in plain language - a site, an app, a game, a dashboard - and it writes the code
- a working preview renders right inside the conversation, so you're looking at the real product, not a plan
- you keep talking to change it. move the layout, add a feature, restyle the whole thing - it updates in front of you
- zero dev tools, zero technical setup. the entire build loop happens in a chat
xAI also dropped Grok Build, an agentic CLI aimed straight at Claude Code and Codex. so now every major lab is fighting over the same person - the one who can't code but wants to ship
that's the real story. the moat was never talent, it was setup friction, and it just got deleted again
everyone with an idea and zero technical skill is now one conversation away from a product
the tools are done arguing. the only thing left is whether you actually build something 👇
THE VIBE-CODING ERA IS HERE AND 20-YEAR-OLDS ARE BUILDING SAAS COMPANIES FASTER THAN AGENCIES CAN SEND AN INVOICE
no team. no funding round. no CS degree. just a laptop and a model that writes the whole thing
and the ones moving right now are printing:
1. five people shipped an app AI wrote and crossed $1,000,000 a year in recurring revenue
2. vibe-coding startups are hitting seven figures in ARR within weeks of launch, not years
3. the build cost that used to gatekeep this - devs, designers, months of runway - is now a $20 subscription and a weekend
this is the window. it doesn't stay open
in two years every obvious SaaS idea will already have four competitors and a funded team behind it. right now half of them don't exist yet, and the guy who ships first owns the category
the hard part was never the code. it's picking the right thing to build, then getting traffic to it before someone else does
most people will read this, nod, and open TikTok
i wrote up 10 SaaS ideas you can build as your first one - real problems, real buyers, no code required
𝕃 𝕀 𝕄 𝕀 𝕋 𝕃 𝔼 𝕊 𝕊 retweeted
"WE ARE CLOSE TO CREATING A GENIE THAT CAN GRANT ANY WISH" - AND HE JUST ADMITTED ONE ENTIRE FIELD PROBABLY DOESN'T SURVIVE IT
this is one of the people actually building it, not a hype account
his framing is wild:
• we're close to a genie that grants any wish
• the first wishes have to broadly benefit humanity, so that far more people end up getting far more wishes
• the space of what you can even wish for is enormous, and figuring out what to want is the exciting part
• and then the part nobody talks about - you make the wish, the machine grants it, and you sit there thinking "i didn't think that was going to work. what now?"
the example he gives is the one that should stop you cold. people spent a hundred years trying to disprove a conjecture. someone pointed Claude at it and it fell in a few days
he still believes there'll be plenty of great jobs and most of them will adapt more than we expect
except one. he says math is the field to watch closely - because it may not adapt at all. and then he goes further: it probably won't
a century of human effort, closed in a weekend. that's not a tool getting better. that's a field getting finished
"WE ARE CLOSE TO CREATING A GENIE THAT CAN GRANT ANY WISH" - AND HE JUST ADMITTED ONE ENTIRE FIELD PROBABLY DOESN'T SURVIVE IT
this is one of the people actually building it, not a hype account
his framing is wild:
• we're close to a genie that grants any wish
• the first wishes have to broadly benefit humanity, so that far more people end up getting far more wishes
• the space of what you can even wish for is enormous, and figuring out what to want is the exciting part
• and then the part nobody talks about - you make the wish, the machine grants it, and you sit there thinking "i didn't think that was going to work. what now?"
the example he gives is the one that should stop you cold. people spent a hundred years trying to disprove a conjecture. someone pointed Claude at it and it fell in a few days
he still believes there'll be plenty of great jobs and most of them will adapt more than we expect
except one. he says math is the field to watch closely - because it may not adapt at all. and then he goes further: it probably won't
a century of human effort, closed in a weekend. that's not a tool getting better. that's a field getting finished
CLAUDE OPUS 5 SCORED 30% ON THE HARDEST AI TEST EVER BUILT. THE OLD RECORD WAS 7.8%
and this isn't even Anthropic's flagship model
it's the cheap one. half the price of Fable 5. and it just quadrupled the world record set by GPT 5.6 Sol Max
here's the part that broke my brain:
> Claude can't actually see images. so on ARC-AGI 3 it converted the visual puzzles into algebraic notation and solved them as math. nobody taught it that - Arc found it in the logs afterwards
> someone one-shotted a dimensionally accurate Brooklyn Bridge in it. 90 minutes, ~150k tokens, zero clicks after the prompt. it pulled the architecture, spun up sub-agents to build each section, screenshotted its own work and only came back when it was satisfied
> another guy one-shotted a Call of Duty clone. custom code, zero external assets - textures, skybox, hit boxes, footstep audio. a game that used to cost studios millions
the prompt trick behind all of it is the same: fan out sub-agents, give each one a piece, then make a separate agent grade the work as a harsh critic and loop until it passes
and it barely refuses anything now - 85% fewer false safety blocks than Fable, while still being basically impossible to prompt inject
all of this on the $20 plan
people are calling it "just an iteration". it's the best price-to-power model on the market right now
THIS GUY TURNED HIS AI AGENTS INTO A VIDEO GAME AND THEY'RE RUNNING REAL BUSINESSES THAT MADE $11,400
every character walking around that dungeon is a live AI agent doing actual work right now
it's not a game. it's his company with a game skin on top
here's what's running inside:
- one room manages his TikTok - he drops a finished video in and the agents schedule out all the content for him
- another room runs a print-on-demand Etsy store they started in March. $8,400 in sales, physical and digital products
- he spun up two more stores. the one launched two weeks ago has already done $3,000
he's not prompting these one by one. he built rooms, gave each room a business, and let them run
and the line that should scare you: "whatever work you get done in a week, i get done in a day"
everyone's still typing into a chat box like it's a search engine while he's got a whole staff working around the clock in a dungeon
the gap isn't talent anymore. it's whether you're still doing the work yourself
THE AI YOU USE IS A TOY COMPARED TO WHAT BIG TECH RUNS BEHIND THE BADGE
Google's internal model already writes most of its new code. Meta is mandating it. Amazon is quietly shrinking headcount around it
none of it is the ChatGPT tab open on your screen right now
here's what actually runs inside the giants
CHATGPT JUST WENT DOWN FOR THE ENTIRE PLANET
Downdetector is on fire. Same error screen, every continent, at the exact same second. Millions of workflows frozen in 1 click
Here's the part that should scare you if you built your whole business on it
1 outage and every AI employee you hired goes silent at once
Meanwhile Claude is sitting here running like nothing happened. My agents didn't even blink
This is the whole argument against renting your brain from a single provider
the people who felt nothing today are the ones running Claude and local models on their own boxes
ChatGPT went dark
my agents kept working









