The Roundup

Happy Monday, makers. X, formally Twitter, is having a sale of Twitter memorabilia. Some expected stuff like giant hashtags and Twitter birds is for sale, and there are more unusual things like an indoor barn from Montana. 

Happy Monday Makers. ICYMI, a 15 year old from France built an open-source, DIY phone that costs only €30. Both the hardware and the software are open-source and it’s built with a 3D printer. 

After some research and a few iterations, we’ve rounded out our full suite of newsletters designed to surface more products in more targeted places. Take a look at our interest-based newsletters and subscribe to whatever speaks to you through your settings.

The Twitter bird we love and adore is no more. Elon has decided to ax the iconic brand in favor of “X.” A callback to his PayPal days. The logo has already changed, and there are likely more updates on the way, but what isn’t known is what tweets are going to be called.

Welcome to Monday. Threads is continuing on its journey to gather as many users as possible and it doesn’t look to be slowing down anytime soon. The Twitter rival now has one-fifth of Twitter’s weekly active users. Do you think Threads will take the crown, or is it a hype train? 

ICYMI OpenAI announced last week that everyone’s favorite LLM, GPT4 is now generally available. Existing OpenAI API developers can access GPT-4 now. New developers will have access later this month. Availability limits will also increase based on computing availability.

If you were using Twitter over the weekend, you probably came across the error “Rate limit exceeded.” Turns out Twitter users were hit by a limit on the number of tweets they can see per day. According to Elon, this is to combat massive scraping attempts. Regardless, we are honored to be one of your Twitter rations.

Remember SVB? The startup bank that infamously collapsed earlier this year sending a wave of anxiety and stress to startup founders around the world. Well, someone is making a musical comedy about it. Would you buy tickets? 

Happy Monday, makers! Welcome to the 7,353 of you who joined last week. Your timing is perfect: We’ve just kicked off a fun way for us all to get to know each other better. Take a minute to introduce yourself to the community via a short video; we’d love to meet you. 🧡

In a protest expected to last 48 hours, Reddit moderators are taking some subreddits private in a stance against the platform’s plans to charge third-party app developers for access to the site’s data. Guess it’s going to be a dank meme-free Monday. Oh, and did you hear Apple is finally fixing the duck problem? It’s about ducking time!