Tech drama recap #3 (It was so hot 🌶)
It was freaking hot 🌶 :
1. Beehive is pretending their price is 0 compared to Kit, but it's just a short discount. Offered 6mon free if u switch from Kit.
Then bans a solopreneur for "cloning" them.
They raised $15m, but an indie maker made them sh*t their pants.
2. HeyGen dropped AI avatars that look totally real. More real than my real videos.
It seems like people are tired of "omg, this changes everything," and nobody gave a fu*k.
3. Google has been kicked in the nuts after losing the court case to Epic Game: no more google play store monopoly.
4. Indie makers with 3 MAU (mom, wife and a dog) proudly move away from vercel to their own VM to pay $5 instead of $0.
But wait, there is a 0.00001% chance to get a million users overnight. Must prepare.
5. Elon bribes Brazil $5M to unban X.
5.1. The ".io" domain zone might shut down because the country it belongs to no longer exists.
6. Wordpress asks you to say you hate WP engine before you can create an account with them.
Matt, inspired by the Joker movie, goes bananas.
Conduct a hostile takeover of wp_acf(popular WP Engine plugin).
7. AI hype has reached new levels.
AI peeps like Hinton and Hassabis get the Nobel Prize for Physics and Chemistry.
ChatGPT gets the Nobel Prize for literature.
Sora is rumored to win an Oscar later this year.
8. Godaddy turns on the Stalin mode and orders an execution. It seems like everyone wanna be a dictator these days.
Side effect of the lack of dictatorship in the western world. Bring it back.
9. PH removed "featured" logic.
IH launched new PH.
Anyone seen Dago?
I suggest every maker launches at least one new Product Hunt,
We just need enough product hunts so that everyone can win the '1st product of the day'.
10. Marc launched datafast and it turned out anyone could see everyone's data by changing the id in URL.
Well, sh*t happens. I bet 99% of the products have same loopholes.
I quickly scraped the stats for all customers, gonna expose their real MRRs tomorrow, u gonna be shocked.
11. A dude launches the product in the morning and gets to $10k MRR by lunchtime.
By the time I finish this tweet he will be at $100k.
12. I deployed the dev and prod versions of my Directory Guide on Netlify, and they banned my prod site on copyright grounds. Because I clone my one site :D. We must be careful with the tech, One day it'll execute a person by mistake.
13. While Sam Altman is running his one man indie project, Meta released their own "sora"
14. Elon presents his optimus robots, robotaxi and robovan.
Turns out teleoperators operated robots.
The stock drops.
But the dude lands a mega 300ton booster back to earth the day after, while a bunch of journalists who never built a thing in their life talk sh*t.
15. HBO reveals who is Satoshi Nakamoto in their new series. I have no idea how that dude is.
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Friggin' awesome read, as per. Love it when you do these, John!