The hottest ever startup drama week:
1) Dudes got into YC and everyone got so jealous to say forking open source is illegal.
2) An indie hacker started a war after not being feature by Product Hunt. I made an acquisition/partner offer to PH. If rejected, I’ll launch my own.
3) DHH said vercel is just a wrapper on top of aws with 500% markup. He is wrong.
4) Wordpress and WP engine had a family fight but now seem like back together again. It turns out wp run 40% of the web.
5) Sam Altman keeps replacing his cofounders with AI one every few months to end up being one-man billion dollar company just as he predicted.
6) PH CTO doesn’t know who is Pieter Levels, so their meme lord resigns. Buut, it turns to be a great marketing trick to promote his meme saas. Genius.
7) Notion steals nose pics of Kepano(obsidian founder).
8) Elon and his mom spent a week convincing people on X that he isn’t dating Italian PM. Hmm.
9) MKBHD launched an ugly wallpaper app, sparking the meme “the one guy go lectures everyone on a thing but scores F at it”.
10) an employee of gumroad joins buildinpublic with a side project but his employer quickly finds out and asks wtf.
11) Vercel CEO accuses Dax to being sponsored by CF, Dax responds “mf ur really laying out sponsor accusations right now”
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Loved the format :)
As a non-X it was fun to read, I guess I’m not the target audience but I would have loved a bit more details 😅