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Rob is the co-founder of an accelerator for MIT and Harvard students called TNT.

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  • Pollystack
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    Jul 2025
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    Joined Product HuntApril 28th, 2025

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11mo ago

How did you come up with your product idea?

I'm amazed by the number of products that launch on PH every day. I think it would be cool to know what inspired you to build your product.

For me, I desperately was trying to solve my own problems and frustrations. For nearly 20 years that I'm building online communities, I realised that our competition didn't solve for the two most basic problems:

  1. Organic Growth

  2. User Retention

12mo ago

Best practices I'm seeing for early product-market validation at MIT

One of the biggest questions every early-stage founder faces today is: How do I launch my startup in this new era of AI-driven product development? It s so easy to build quickly now. Do I build first or validate first?

Personally, I ve seen hundreds of startups born in the past year. I m a grad student at MIT, and I created an AI accelerator for MIT and Harvard, so a lot of those startups have had amazing founding teams. I want to share some of the best practices I m seeing for getting products into market in an era where a lot of the old best practices seem to be shifting.

RIP Windsurf :'(

Windsurf's CEO and key employees are leaving for Google, after the OpenAI deal fell through.

https://www.theverge.com/openai/...

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