Steal Garry Tan's stack

gm legends, happy Friday.

GStack packages Garry Tan’s Claude Code setup so you can stop stack-shopping and just try the one the YC CEO uses, Comet is now on iPhone so Perplexity can sit in the middle of your tabs, errands, and daily internet mess, and Perfectly is an AI-native recruiting agency for founders who want interview-ready candidates, not another dashboard to babysit.

GStack is Garry Tan’s open-source Claude Code setup. It packages his workflow into six slash commands for planning, reviewing, shipping, browser QA, and retros, so you can install the same stack he uses instead of piecing one together yourself.

🔥 Our Take: Everyone has a Claude stack now. Most of them are just another repo and another opinion. This one is Garry Tan’s. That is enough to make a lot of people stop browsing, install it, and see how the YC CEO works.

Nika started a thread asking founders why they chose to bootstrap or raise, and the answers are refreshingly unpolished. The bootstrap camp is all about control, freedom, and not burning months on fundraising. The funding side is basically one brutal point: in tech right now, moving slower can kill you. Good thread if you want the real version of this debate, not the polished founder TED Talk version.

Comet for iOS brings Perplexity’s browser to your phone. It keeps the same bigger pitch as Comet on desktop: a browser with Perplexity built in for search, summaries, voice, and help with things like email, shopping, and scheduling.

🔥 Our Take: The interesting part is not Comet existing. It already did. The interesting part is Comet landing on iPhone, because that is where the bigger play gets obvious. If Perplexity wants to be your front door to the internet, it has to live where all the tabs, errands, and dumb little tasks happen all day.

Perfectly is an AI-native recruiting agency that handles sourcing, outreach, screening, and qualification, then sends interview-ready candidates straight into Slack. The pitch is fast startup hiring without the usual agency drag.

🔥 Our Take: Hiring tools love making you manage the process harder. Perfectly is going after the opposite idea: do the messy part for me and only show me people I might actually want to talk to. That is a much easier sell than another dashboard full of tabs and status labels.