... beginning, and I ve got a lot more to share. I ll be diving into it with some fellow YC alums on August 9 at The To Do List Summit in San Francisco, sponsored by Sentry, Brex, and Tandem. It s a one-day event for early-stage founders to learn how to execute on comms, video, social, and events and reach their target audience in a very crowded market. We ve got just a few more spots left ... ... Very tactically, should you include "AI" in your tagline or not? How do you stand out when you have a product in a really crowded space? Or worse, a product in a crowded space where all of the other competitors

... cheer you on! If you're doing a startup and not applying, why aren't you applying? If I were starting a company today, I would 100% apply even though I've done it before with @Tandem (S19) for a few key reasons: The partners help. A lot . (this isn't common. Most people who say they help startups are neutral or harmful) The network is insane , especially for b2b companies. It will accelerate your G2M like nothing else ... ... same space as a lot of YC companies helping solo founders get their first believers without giving up equity. The YC model is incredible for the companies that get in but the 99 percent who do not need alternatives

... discover some new products I hadn't seen before. I'm also just a big fan of desktop apps over web apps. I find it a lot easier to stay focused when I'm flipping between apps vs flipping between tabs. These are the apps in my dock: @Google Chrome - Pretty basic. I've really been considering switching over to @Horse though. @Slack - The de facto option. @Superhuman - Maybe the fastest I've become a fan of a product ... ... This + @Neovim is just @Claude by Anthropic - This has been my LLM of choice for a while, and I really like having it as a desktop app. Especially the keyboard shortcut to quickly bring it up and ask something. @Tandem