First 1000
Ali AbouelattaNotes from the trenches.
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MCP 101
Agentcat is a company I fell in-love with quickly when I met the founders during the current A16z Speedrun 007 cohort.
I am user, a fan of the product and the people behind.
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The moat paradox
Updates on Lazyweb: Week 2 in SF, A16z Speedrun is awesome! I love it & I particularly love our partners Josh and H. Really focused on distribution and getting the word out, so I created this game (Grow or No Grow) and posted it on Product...
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Today, we’re announcing that Lazyweb has joined A16z Speedrun SR007.
We loved the guys over at Speedrun. Ten minutes into our first call, we knew we wanted to work together. A few intense days of calls and background checks later, we virtu...
6 months in
I can’t believe it has been six months since I took a leave of absence from Duolingo and started tinkering with AI on Lazyweb.com
Time flies.
So much has happened since:
- I built a Mac app (fail), a web app (fail), and an MCP that wen...
Building Self-Improving Agents
I tried to build a tiny self-improving growth agent.
It made $388 across March, April, and May.
Not life-changing money. But it was real revenue from a product that had mostly shrugged back at me a few weeks earlier, and it gave me a clea...
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A Duolingo PM using AI exclusively to design, build and market lazyweb.com and sharing my notes along the way to get my first 1,000 customers.
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