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996 Just Means You Have No Leverage The Performance of Work Is Not Work

"996 Just Means You Have No Leverage
The Performance of Work Is Not Work"

www.joanwestenberg.com/p/996-just-m...

It’s cringe to see successful companies that have nothing to do with AI rebrand themselves as “an AI platform” because they think it will somehow help them.

Workday is a HR platform.

Sure, they added AI features like everyone else but it was never “built with AI at the core”

Welcome GPT OSS, the new open-source model family from OpenAI! We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.

OpenAI-OSS huggingface.co/blog/welcome...

Yep. But in the process they may find something interesting. But for now it is wishful thinking

My only take currently on vibe coding is that it resembles alchemy.

But how many “Uber for X” became the size of Uber ?

None.

Cursor for X is the new Uber for X

The interesting part is how when Deep Research first came out by OpenAI, I paid for the $200 plan just to show it... and was blown away

A few days later, Perplexity launched their version in the $20/package... was also good

Now ChatGPT moved it to $20/mo one

Competition fantastic for customers!

Why Would Someone Fake Their Run?

Everything is fake : Strava edition

Don’t pay for a Strava mule. There’s already an app for that. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/s...

Commitment as Leverage Guest post: The third leg of the stool with code and capital

"Commitment as Leverage "

Investors and innovators alike are getting more creative in how they combine financial engineering and software engineering. But in their quest to be puppet master they forget the lifeblood of any business: its employees.

99d.substack.com/p/commitment...

Yes ! I’ve been playing a lot with it and it gets decent results for a very low amount of effort

👨‍💻[INFOGRAPHIC] The 10 times in history that software engineers were to be replaced AI won’t replace developers—it’ll create more demand. This article breaks down the history of automation fears and how to future-proof your tech career

The 10 times in history that software engineers were to be replaced

“AI won’t replace developers—it’ll create more demand. This article breaks down the history of automation fears and how to future-proof your tech career”

strategizeyourcareer.com/p/the-10-tim...

Also, being able to follow the team directly is a great touch.

@pfrazee.com and others are great advocates for Bluesky !

It took twitter years to do that.

The speed of execution of the @bsky.app team is insane.

I feel sometimes the content is good because you know it made yourself think. And that is a good enough reason to write.

Then performance is an added bonus !

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I know for a fact that this format must take DAYS to do apply to all the legal documents I'm trying to leverage.

And it would take also take me days to undo that.

SO. MUCH. WASTE.

One day one guy decided to put his content in nested tables.

Today I'm struggling to extract the content (for a RAG of course) and no amount of markdown can save me.

The old world will not die of AI.

It will die first of inefficiencies stemming from using .docx and other bloated formats.

Si seulement…

But how do you really know it is useful ? Sometimes you are so proud but the results are meh...

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En grande section je voulais être inventeur comme Géo Trouvetou. Et je suis passé par 15 Métiers rêvés depuis...

C'est absurde comme demande.

For those of you who don't know game changer : this will be phenomenal.

Elon Musk can’t take the heat The numbers say anti-Tesla protests are working. So do Musk's increasingly unhinged actions.

Elon Musk can’t take the heat www.motherjones.com/politics/202... via @jacobrosenberg.bsky.social‬

Remember : you are not late, you are "off-frontier"

Perplexity, with claude sonnet 3.7 used as a reasoning model.

I like being able to switch model for use cases. And the research aspect is miles ahead IMO

And in 20 years, "- Buy Domains, ship AI wrapper" will be step 2 of the entrepreneur ?

bsky.app/profile/marc...

The Digital-Mittelstand is the other way Almost ten years ago, I joined a Berlin startup wide-eyed and eager to "make an impact." Last year, I watched a former colleague, a brilliant product marketing manager, quit her job for a second time after another burnout. Between these moments lies a decade of shaping products for venture-backed startups,

Plus, they seem to be building from France, which shows that small digital SMEs can take the win !

www.bleuprint.eu/the-digital...

If you’re building something small but meaningful, remember:
• Failures are stepping stones; learn from them.
• Build for people you understand deeply.
• Craft > scale in the early days.

$5,000,000, with a team of 6 in less than 5 years. In 2019, Kevin Sahin… | Pierre de Wulf | 84 comments $5,000,000, with a team of 6 in less than 5 years. In 2019, Kevin Sahin and I quit our jobs and went 100% indie-hacker. First, we built Shoptolist, a price monitoring extension ➡️ FAIL B2C is hard. Unit economics were terrible, and we needed 300,000 users to break even. We had… 300. Next came PricingBot, a price comparison tool ➡️ FAIL We built for e-commerce people, but we knew nothing (and no one) in the e-commerce space. Then we built ScrapingBee a web scraping API — and finally, things started to click. 💰 We knew web scraping (Kevin had even written a book about it), but more importantly, we knew developers — because we were developers ourselves. It wasn’t a rocket ship. It took us over 2 years to reach $1M ARR. But I’m incredibly proud to share that last year, we crossed $5,000,000 ARR, with our small team of 6. There’s a lot of exciting news coming for the ScrapingBee 🐝 in 2025. I’ll be sharing the key lessons and takeaways that got us here — right here. Now let's reac

Pierre says there’s more exciting news coming for ScrapingBee in 2025 as they aim for $10M ARR next!
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The journey to a $1 million ARR SaaS without traditional VCs | ScrapingBee How it took us almost five years and multiple failed projects to grow a sustainable and almost bootstrapped SaaS.

What made them succeed?
• They leaned into what they knew best.
• They stayed resilient through multiple failures.
• They focused on building something useful instead of chasing trends or scaling too fast.

You can read their whole story here www.scrapingbee.com/journey-to-...