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I spend way too much time on here looking at posts from founders hitting $50k MRR in two weeks.. If I’m being honest, it messes with your head. You start thinking that if you aren't making thousands right out of the gate, you’re failing.
New App Store rules require 18+ ratings for dating apps and for AI companions that offer sexual or romantic content.
Google's Dreambeans, an AI experiment for generated personal stories, now supports 13 Indian languages.
The Subvocal Company (YC F26) is building smart glasses that decode silently mouthed words into text, so people can talk to their computer without speaking out loud.
Apple's own results: September-quarter records for revenue, iPhone revenue and EPS. Coverage also notes rising memory costs and hints about third-party AI app revenue.
The Times says Brave scraped its copyrighted content and distributed it to customers such as Anthropic and Perplexity.
About 8 weeks ago, I launched my first food brand in India. We started with three flavours of protein laddoos, trying to take something we grew up eating and give it a more modern, high-protein twist. Here's where we're at: More than 50 website orders so far.
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Hi everyone, I have talked multiple times in this subreddit about one of my projects. But in total i have actually 2 projects running atm who are performonig well and thought iImight share both of them + the lessons I have learned along the way! Quick numbers and context: LaunchPanda: $8,027.
An amendment to France's 2027 budget would charge content providers €0.055 per gigabyte sent to French internet users.
Apple's new CEO defended the company's current position in the AI landscape.
Hector Serrano on building Wispr Flow's paid-UGC machine and hiring young talent over polished resumes.
I run a small SaaS (a visual roadmap builder). Last week it got 8,241 impressions on Google, on 1,773 different searches, 746 of them on the first page. That's up about 21% from last month, and almost all of it comes from blog posts. No backlinks campaign, no agency.
A self-funded mobile car detailing startup in Mysore says it did ₹1.7L in its first 50 days and lost half its leads to capacity, but could not raise pre-seed.
Few people shop through outside AI agents yet, because the experience is not good enough, Amazon chief executive Andy Jassy told analysts on Thursday. He expects Amazon’s own assistant, Alexa for Shopping, to be the main agent people use to buy from the store.
John Ternus says Apple doesn't “want to ship AI for AI's sake” and that Tim Cook is “available to help wherever I ask” on policy; Ternus has yet to meet Trump — Apple doesn't need fixing, and it doesn't want drama. Its new leader is a “product guy” who bleeds six colors.
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DoorDash said that it is open to working with third-party agent makers.
It turns out you cannot have your cake AND eat it
Companies have spent weeks reassuring investors that Muse and other AI agents are more of an opportunity than a threat.
I’ve been seeing a lot of founders in this sub posting about how Meta Ads are destroying their margins. They get a ₹450 CAC, ship 200 orders, and then 90% of the COD orders get rejected on delivery. You’re not doing anything wrong with your ads. The problem is the Indian COD ecosystem.
impuls8 tracks consumer markets. We read who sells, at what price, on which platform. We matched the same phone, by brand, model, RAM and storage, at five sellers: Amazon, Flipkart, Poorvika, Reliance Digital and Vijay Sales. We read a year of Poorvika's dated price changes.
A few weeks ago I posted here about my mom, who makes sweets at home in Rajasthan, and how we'd just put them online. A lot of you ordered, commented and gave feedback, so here's an honest update. What worked Reddit itself. Most of our first 8-10 orders came from people who read the story here.
Apple's first AI features reach China with iOS 27.3 in December, with Alibaba's Qwen model inside Siri, Writing Tools and Visual Intelligence.
a few weeks ago i launched iwouldpay.dev, a deck of indie startups where you swipe right only if you'd pay for the product. no account needed to swipe. it's now at 11,157 swipes across 172 startups. one thing that stood out: when people say yes and we ask how much, 52% pick $5/month.
Meta's new app builds a virtual closet from photos already shared on Instagram, or from items added by photo, video or camera-roll upload.
Wabi, an AI assistant that builds mini apps, raised $55 million in a seed round led by IVP; TechCrunch reports a $1.25 billion valuation.
On Amazon's earnings call, Andy Jassy says outside AI shopping agents are “still not great, nor more convenient than coming to a retailer directly” — Amazon Chief Executive Andy Jassy told investors Thursday not to worry about bots invading its online store and rendering it useless.
With search traffic falling as AI changes how people find information, Reddit is moving to a logged-in experience.
I launched a D2C skincare brand last month, and we're currently selling on our website with traffic coming from Meta ads. After testing 15+ creatives, we found some winners and started getting orders at a CAC of about Rs. 450, which was great.
Globalstar runs the satellite service behind Apple's iPhone emergency features.
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Google announced the expansion alongside Alphabet's Q3 results, when revenue grew 25% year over year to $127.6 billion.
i've been looking at how some of the biggest software companies are showing up in AI search, and ElevenLabs was kind of ridiculous compared to everyone else. in this, which audit i looked at they had 30.3% visibility.
Sequoia Capital and Shopify Ventures led the Series D; Whop plans offices in Europe and Colombia, Bloomberg reported.
Sources: DoorDash is in advanced talks to acquire Instacart, and the deal could be finalized as soon as this week and could value Instacart at ~$17B — Deal could be completed as soon as this week, people familiar with the matter say — DoorDash is in advanced talks to acquire food …
