It featured individuals who managed to build significant profit while running their businesses solo, without employees. Until now, I ve seen these more as exceptions rather than the norm.
Update: The Deel Leaderboard will no longer be going ahead today for the Paris event.
We re teaming up with The Pitch by @Deel, a global startup competition where up to 100 winners will receive $50k in funding and up to 10 winners will receive $1M+.
Our first onboarding had everything. Practice type selector. Duration preferences. Animated intros. Two different breathing tracks to try before you even signed up.
I ve been thinking a lot about the difference between AI as a recommendation engine vs. AI as an actual decision-maker in your wellness practice.
Most apps I ve seen use personalization to mean: you filled out a goals form at signup. That s it. Your state on day one defines every session you get on day 300.
On Friday I took my first salary as a founder. Paid by revenue. Not investment. My first one ever. So proud. Most startups die before they make $1. We ve been making revenue for 8 months. Even after pivoting from @Dolphin AI. I don t take this lightly. But it isn t about money. It s about the milestone. The fact that something didn t exist and now it does. Something people want. Are happy to pay for. And happy to be part of. @Pretty Prompt keeps surprising me week after week.
And it all started here on PH . If I could talk to my 2023 self, I d say: "Just keep pushing". Doesn t matter if you don t come from a CS degree, or didn t go to an Ivy League.
What matters is your ability to adapt, and move fast. This is proof. And I m super proud. I took my wife out for dinner. If I was motivated before Wait for what we ll do next with Charlie, my co-founder! Here s to the next Pretty milestone. And building things people want.
When we built OceanMind, we had a strong conviction: most meditation apps are too shallow. Real, lasting change required real, structured commitment.
So we built a full course movement practice, breathwork, then meditation all three done back-to-back. The science was solid. The results for users who actually completed it were remarkable. Sessions ran 30 45 minutes. We were proud of it.
Then we looked at our retention data. It was brutal.
According to @RevenueCat 's State of Subscription Apps 2026 report, "hard paywalls convert 5x better than freemium, but with significantly wider variance."
Day 35 download-to-paid, freemium vs. hard paywall
Does access method impact download-to-paid conversion within 35 days?
A story and an experiment have been spreading on X: Scientists uploaded the brain of a fruit fly into a computer, and now it lives freely in its own simulation.
We managed to clone the physical form of animals more than 30 years ago (for example, the cloning of a goat using SCNT in 1999). There was even a controversial case in China where a scientist was sued after attempting to create gene-edited babies in 2018.
Anxiety doesn’t follow a schedule. Most wellness apps give you the same routine regardless of how you actually feel. OceanMind is different — it reads your state and builds a personalized session from breathwork, somatic release, cold exposure protocols, and guided practices. The AI adapts every time. Open the app feeling overwhelmed, and it meets you there. What practice has helped you most when anxiety peaks? We’d love to know.
A couple weeks ago, Boris Cherny (the creator of Claude Code) shared a bunch of really useful tips on getting the most out of Claude Code. #1 at the top of the list: do more in parallel. He himself runs 10-15 Claude codes in parallel.
His advice and practice makes sense: coding agents give us the ability scale infinitely. At this point, the only real limiter is our own ability to manage all of these agents.
