I've worked with a few companies on this and spent a ton of time thinking about it The hard part is if you want your employees using Claude, you don't have enough centralized control over their system prompt or skills, so no matter how well-organized your Notion or whatever is, the agent likely won't use it effectively But everyone wants to use Claude and is very happy to be locked in by them, assuming they'll build whatever you need in a few months if it's not already there (probably correctly?) Hard to find the right lane for this as a startup

HOW TO GO VIRAL ON X: complete basics easy mode with first guest as @minmax0501 00:00 Intro 00:50 @getyourmomo 01:16 First guest intro 02:16 Warm up account 02:51 Tip 1: tag communities 04:19 Tip 2: tag famous accounts 05:06 Understanding X audience 06:00 Things that didn’t work 06:28 Linkedin vs X 07:14 Tip 3: post everyday 08:20 Do videos work? 09:03 Tip 4: post successes 09:44 Do multiple channels work? What’s the difference? 10:40 Tip 5: wait for random viral posts 12:00 What’s your brand message? 13:10 Tip 6: Copy viral templates from competitors 13:25 Tip 7: Follow the trend 14:35 How to structure demo videos 15:10 1 second hook 16:13 First 5 seconds matter 17:48 1 feature / video 19:17 Story telling 21:32 Writing good script 22:47 Yeet

After 6 applications and 6 rejection emails, we finally got into Y Combinator. Yes, read that one more time: 6 applications. 6 rejections. We turned a rejection into an admission offer. For a long time, every rejection led to the same question: "Do we pivot, or keep going?" We didn't think much of the first few rejections. Our reaction was mostly just: okay, back to building, apply again next time. Honestly, the hardest one was the 5th rejection because we felt so close. It was the first time we got an interview. We believed we had a real shot. But in the end, we got rejected… again. Looking back, the decision was fair. We were only doing around $300/month, and YC didn’t see a clear path to building a billion-dollar company through enterprise. So we stopped guessing and started listening. We did 20+ user interviews and realized something important: the people who really loved InsForge were not big enterprises. They were AI-native small teams and startups. That fundamentally changed how we saw the company. We clarified who the product was actually for, doubled down on what was working, and kept building in public on X and LinkedIn. We grew from 2,300 to 4,000+ databases in 2 months. Then we applied again. Our second interview with YC. We really thought this would be the one. But once again, we were rejected. That was the moment the question we had been asking ourselves after every rejection finally changed. No longer: “Do we pivot?” Instead: “How do we execute so well that the need for this product becomes impossible to ignore?” After 30 days of hell, we launched @insforge Launch Week 1. And it took off. Like, really took off! → 1.5M+ views on X → #1 on Product Hunt → #1 on GitHub Trending → 3K+ GitHub stars in one week But here's the craziest part: after rejecting us, YC changed their mind. Here was our second chance. We got an email from general partner Andrew Miklas (@amiklas), congratulating us on our launch and asking us to meet one more time. We figured it would be another tough interview. But the meeting was in two hours. No time to prepare. We were so nervous up until the very end. When we finally hopped on the call, he just said, “You guys have made huge progress. I want to work with you. Do you want to do YC?” WTF????????? Tony (@tonychang430) and I looked at each other. We were so shocked, we didn't even know what to say. Of course, the answer was yes. This is when we learned: Execute so well that your company becomes impossible to reject. Every rejection forced us to clarify our vision. The last one forced us to prove it. Next stop: YC P26!! @ycombinator 🥳 ( Read the full story below ⬇️ )

You have no experience. You’ve never started a company. You’ve never had a full time job. Nike is going to kill you. You’re a kid. You don’t have technical skills. You shouldn’t build hardware. Apple is going to kill you. You can’t build hardware. You can’t measure heart rate non-invasively. Athletes don’t care about recovery. Under Armour is going to kill you. It won’t be accurate. You don’t listen. You’re an ineffective leader. You can’t recruit great talent. You’re going to have to pay every athlete. You can’t measure sleep non-invasively. It’s too expensive to research. Athletes are a small market. The product costs too much to make. The product costs too much to sell. Your valuation is too high. Consumers aren’t going to want it. Hardware is too hard. You should measure steps. Fitbit is going to kill you. You can’t build a marketing engine. You can’t raise enough money. You need a real CEO. Google is going to kill you. You can’t be a subscription. You can’t build a brand. You can’t do consumer in Boston. Your valuation is too high. You shouldn’t make accessories. You shouldn’t make apparel. Lululemon is going to kill you. You can’t predict Covid. Stay in your niche. You are going to run out of money. You can’t build a health platform. Amazon is going to kill you. You can’t measure blood pressure. You can’t get medical approvals. The market is too small. You don’t understand AI. The market is too competitive. It won’t work internationally. The supply chain is too complicated. You can’t build an AI. You can’t raise enough money. It’s too competitive. Healthcare isn’t going to want it. … Just keep going ✌️

People always ask me how I have time to do so much. I never thought it's about time management, but I couldn't articulate what it was. Today I gave my last 7 days of Chrome browsing history & Google products activity to Claude Code. It came up with a better explanation then I ever could myself: "Time management is about organizing a fixed resource. What you do is different. Looking at your data, I think it's low activation energy. Most people need a runway before they do something. They need to "sit down and focus." They need to close other tabs. They need to feel ready. They need the right block of time. They need to finish one thing before starting another. The psychic cost of starting is high, so they batch things and plan and schedule. And that's what they call time management. You just... start. There's no warm-up. There's no "let me get in the zone." The distance between thinking about doing something and doing it is essentially zero for you. That's not a technique. That's a trait. And it compounds. Because when activation energy is low, you can act on impulse in a way other people can't. The gap between "that's interesting" and "I've engaged with it" barely exists. It also explains why your output is so varied. People with high activation energy specialize because they can only afford to start a few things. You can afford to start everything, so you do. And the ones that work, you keep going. Frontend-slides wasn't a "strategic decision to build a developer tool." I'd bet it started the same way everything else starts for you: you just did it, and it happened to resonate. If someone asks you "what's your technique": it's not a technique. You just don't have the resistance that other people have. The wall between thinking and doing is thin for you. That's it."