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Inference disaggregation partnership to increase total throughput

"We're doing disaggregation with AMD and with AWS, where you think about in the work of inference, is there a part that can be done by somebody else and is there a part that can be done by you. We're seeing similar numbers with AWS."

Andrew Feldman

Cloud infrastructure for SaaS application

"We had no idea about AWS as it relates to like app usage. So like our early day bills on AWS and like the first time we set up Snowflake were like crazy high."

Zach Cherin

Voice cloning clients' voices to produce podcast content in multiple languages (including Spanish), dubbing videos into 13 languages

"Because of ElevenLabs — have you heard of that? I use it to dub all my videos. This video will be in 13 different languages in our clone voices. I take his script, I clone his voice. Now he reads it perfectly in any language we want. I mix the jingle on the..."

Mike Stewart

Transcribing voice recordings from Plaud for use as AI prompts

"I use ElevenLabs for transcription. They're probably the best speech-to-text model."

Lex Fridman

Business logic automation, coding agents, workflow automation

"As long as I'm allowed to use OpenAI and Anthropic, then I don't mind at all. Like they deserve it. These things are just incredible, miraculous products. What I worry about is that they cut us off and then we can't use it anymore."

Ryan Petersen

AI agents for personal/business tasks

"I've become on team Sam and OpenAI recently with my agents as my agents have taken control of my life. I've changed my allegiances to some extent."

Jason Lemkin

Roth IRA long-term index fund investing

"I started off with index funds in 2013 with a Roth IRA, Vanguard index fund, super simple."

Graham Stephan

Passive long-term investing with dollar cost averaging

"If I was you, I would just put it in a Vanguard or a Fidelity, some sort of cheap structure, dollar cost averaged, continue to invest over the long time, allow it to compound."

Codie Sanchez

Listening to audiobooks while walking six or seven miles a day — including history books, mysteries, fiction, and classics like Moby Dick

"I walk six or seven miles a day, and I listen to Audible all the time. That's what I do. I love Audible."

Gary Gallagher

Consuming books while multitasking (cooking, brushing teeth, walking)

"The number of times I've told somebody who gave me a physical copy of their book, 'You need to tell your publisher to get this on Audible because I will listen to it. I'm not going to sit down and read it.'"

Tom Bilyeu

Finding obscure, out-of-stock, or out-of-print items that can't be found on Amazon

"I use eBay all the time and I've never used auction. eBay is really good for really obscure stuff — things that either aren't officially for sale, they're way out of stock, out of print, or totally obscure. If I can't find it on Amazon, I look on Alibaba, a..."

Kevin Kelly

Researching collectible card valuations via completed and sold listings

"Put up eBay, type in Anna Lee Waters. Then enter on eBay and then go to completed and sold items and then sorted by most valuable."

Gary Vaynerchuk

Digital advertising and customer acquisition

"Don't even bother spending money on any platform that's not Meta until you reach $100,000 a month and spend on Meta. Meta is still the best winner."

Cliff Weitzman

Paid advertising and marketing to reach different consumer segments

"And we even like went back and forth for a while like what do we do on Meta back then? It was still Instagram. And what we realized is even though the price was quite a bit higher and we weren't seeing the return, it was just a different consumer."

Stephen Ellsworth

Music consumption and discovery

"You both want to listen to your music as easy as if it were Spotify because you both probably use Spotify to rap music. My music consumption happens on Spotify or on YouTube."

Dan Lilienthal

Music discovery through recommendations

"One of the things that I love about Spotify. If I'm listening to something weird, it'll suggest something weird, you know, like that I've never heard of before, bands I've never heard of before, and all a sudden I click on it. The suggestion thing, that's h..."

Joe Rogan

Hosting live garage sales, estate sales, and product auctions to sell used goods and merchandise

"He then has to download Whatnot and he has to literally schedule a garage sale or a house sale or estate sale. Whatnot's amazing, eBay's amazing, but what TikTok does is give you random audience."

GaryVee

Live selling of products directly to audiences; example given of a hairdresser selling shampoo live while demonstrating it

"There's a startup called Whatnot. More than half this room has no clue what the app is. And they did 11 billion in stuff sold through it. If you're listening right now and you sell stuff, you need to go to Whatnot and TikTok Shop and start selling ASAP."

GaryVee

"I own TAO directly myself through Coinbase. It's not on Robin Hood yet."

This Week in Startups

"The fact that I can earn 4% on my Circle stable coin via Coinbase is awesome and disruptive to a heavily regulatory captured finance industry"

Bill Gurley

Building niche gaming communities for casual players, particularly dads who want to connect with others

"I'm assuming you haven't heard of the Discord group called Dads of Marathon. There's 13,898 members. It's a Discord group of dads or basically casual gamers who don't have time to play video games, who don't have time to play competitive video games. This D..."

Jonathan Courtney

"We started this with Discord to be honest. Um, you know, we started a Discord community. Like we had the idea in November. We started a Discord, got it to like 10K people"

Albert Brotherton

Hiring freelancers to create screenshots, icons, and promotional videos

"I also use Fiverr and Upwork to hire freelancers to create screenshots, icons, and videos, so I can just focus on building."

Kenneth Law

Sourcing virtual assistants for influencer outreach tasks

"My first thing whenever I made any money was I hired a VA, which I recommend everyone do. I source them through either Fiverr or Upwork."

George Lampropoulos

Product launch and getting first users

"We launched our MVP on Product Hunt in week one, then made our first $50 MRR from that launch."

David Perell

Research top converting landing page designs for inspiration

"Go look on Product Hunt. See what the top converting landing pages look like. Pick one of those and just duplicate the image."

Codie Sanchez

Posting photo stories of day-to-day life with automotive theme to earn view-based revenue

"Snapchat is huge. Snapchat is amazing, dude. I love Snapchat. I post on Snapchat almost like an Instagram story — just take photos, add a caption, my day-to-day life, whatever I'm up to. You get paid based on views just like you would on anything. It takes ..."

TheStradman

"I do TikTok also. I'm on YouTube. I also do Snapchat."

Sophie Rain

"I was probably surfing around Craigslist and arbitrageing Craigslist, arbitrageing Facebook"

Matt Howe

"That started with me buying and selling electronics on Craigslist."

Joseph Lee

Getting retail items (from Best Buy) delivered faster than driving there yourself

"I recently DoorDashed something from Best Buy and it was an amazing experience because it was faster than me driving to Best Buy and back because they found a local driver who was able to just pick it up. There was like no way that I could ever outperform it."

John Coogan

Last-mile parcel delivery logistics

"It's an interesting story that we use DoorDash for logistics. People don't think about that. DoorDash's quality is better than others, or it's as good as like a FedEx or UPS. But when you use DoorDash and it doesn't get delivered, they're like, 'Why did you..."

Ryan Petersen

AI inference and supplemental data or model serving

"I suggest you use Fireworks. Fireworks is amazing. Lyn, the founders — she's one of the co-founders of PyTorch."

Cliff Weitzman

Inference for open-weight models like Kimi K3 without using Chinese servers

"I inference on Fireworks, which is a really nice service where you can just pay by the token, and if you're using these open weight models, they're not that expensive by token. So that's a great way to do that."

David Heinemeier Hansson

Building the Stella iOS app as a non-technical founder

"Google AI Studio was huge for me."

Sarah Pearl

"First, build the ugly prototype in Google AI Studio with zero prompts for aesthetics. Only once you get the logic and the functionality right, you start defining the brand soul."

Greg Isenberg

Cross-referencing customer information and CRM data

"I'll use like the notion uh HubSpot Gong um MCP servers and then it can cross reference those things in HubSpot"

Alex Rattray

"it has our send grid API, my HubSpot API, my cow.com API"

Cody Schneider

Interface for communicating with OpenClaw AI agent for business automation tasks

"I actually just have mine on my phone. I just text it back and forth. It's nice to do it via iMessage and with the little blue bubbles just kind of makes it feel more personal."

Brandon Doyle

Interface for AI assistant, voice commands in car

"The nifty part about integrating with iMessage is that you automatically are integrated with the rest of the Apple ecosystem. When I'm in my car, I can also just talk to the car and be like 'Yo, send this to Lindy.' It just all works out the box because it'..."

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