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Sharyph's avatar

a fantastic roundup.

$1T valuation for OpenAI and $5T for Nvidia... we are seeing a complete reshaping of the market in real time. It’s a seminal moment.

Chris Tottman's avatar

💯 like mainframes to PCs, PCs to the Internet, then the mobile & social era. Wave after wave

Jess's avatar

There’s so much to unpack here 🍿

Chris Tottman's avatar

Jam packed edition this week. Thanks for sharing your thoughts. Enjoy the 🍿

Rainbow Roxy's avatar

Hey, great read as always. What if that huge AI investment leads to a real singularity moment, not just better chat bots?

Chris Tottman's avatar

I'm guessing this will be an agent to agent chat and we'll be sitting around scrolling for 18 hrs a day looking at memes about the end of the world jibbering 😬

Chris Tottman's avatar

Good advice. We personally share circa 100 pieces of news for the weekend edition to get to the final cut. No bots used. Thanks for sharing your thoughts

Pawel Brodzinski's avatar

"Miles Nowel and Seb Turner scaled their mobile app from launch to $28.5M ARR using only organic TikTok growth."

It also seems that:

- Their dev account is banned

- They have scammed people

- None of the apps are in the app store

Sadly, a better headline would have been "From Zero to Zero ARR in 3 Months."

I know people crave content and, especially, overnight success stories, but I would expect some most rudimentary fact-checking before you make something a headline :(

I mean, assuming that you care about credibility.

Chris Tottman's avatar

Looks like we were scammed too! You don't think you can be scammed until it happens to you 😢

Pawel Brodzinski's avatar

I understand the "newsy" format of these posts. One of the reasons why I check them out is that across a collection of links, there often is something interesting to read through.

My understanding, however, was that the list was curated (as in: reviewed, validated), and not just a collection of popular threads provided by an AI agent monitoring what's hot.

And it's not like someone needed to run thorough fact-checking. The tweet quickly had community remarks about the story being a scam/fake.

Sadly, I see that as a trend. More and more sources pass unverified charts/screenshots/comments without even minimal effort to think whether the news is credible.

Recently, I've seen that with Elon Musk's "you don't say" comment on AWS outage ( https://brodzinski.com/2025/10/trust-networks-ai-slop-antidote.html ), but it feels like it has become a common issue. Thus, I'd check pretty much any "news" that has "ARR" in it.