Gerrard Lipscombe
@GerrardL_
Building businesses with Replit: http://byab.studio | Most recent: http://ontapseo.com
In 2025, I've shipped 4 new simple software products. Thanks entirely to AI coding Agents like @Replit. It's nothing original, but what I'm enjoying most is fleshing out new ideas, coming up with a business model and offer to go with it, then building a dead-simple 1-feature AI…
Replit Agent is the most transformational product I’ve ever used. If you are someone with ideas to build, you should sign up for an account and create something with it this week.
Earlier this month, we crossed $100M in ARR, up from $10M at the end of ’24. But that’s just fraction of the value we’re creating: from enterprise teams like @zillow and @HubSpot shipping faster, to solo builders like @yoheinakajima and @GerrardL_ building and running their…
Been hiring my first influencers for latest business and one unexpected perk is it’s given us a creative refresh. Wife and I felt like we’d already rehashed the same content ideas over and over, feeling a bit stale. It’s nice to see someone approach it fresh and come up with a…
The best place to look for business ideas is your expenses.
Replit is the only product I’ve ever used where every time I start a new project I’m freshly amazed by how much progress has been made.
*Every AI image app this week*: 😌 We are proud to announce our latest update, you should notice improved image accuracy across the board. I’d like to thank the (OpenAI) team for this accomplishment, and for getting it (the 1 new parameter line) shipped so quickly 😌
We've improved image generation in the API. Editing with faces, logos, and fine-grained details is now much higher fidelity with features preserved. 🔍 Edit specific objects, create marketing assets with your logo, or adjust facial expressions, poses, and outfits on people.
Gen Soham
"Gen Z are ‘overemployed,’ holding down 5 jobs and raking in over $3k a day," per FORTUNE.
Business ideas 101: Absorb and notice. Never start by searching for ‘good opportunities’.
If you’re designing a product to help people start businesses, focus more on motivation/gamification UI, less on task automation or unique content. There are few mysteries left on ‘how to start a biz’. Everyone has the information they need. It’s just about doing things daily.
Peak vibe coding feels like you’re living in a Paul Simon song.
After selling software to students for 2 months, I now know how to say ‘Is it free?’ in every single language.
When I see things like this, all I think is it’s never been more important to clearly set the context/use case up front. Intentionally limit the messaging so people immediately know ‘What do I use this for?’ AI can do basically anything isn’t actually a great starting place.…
I don’t think people realize how useful Google Studio is going to be. I bet it 20x in usage before end of year.
On a long enough time scale, all software converges on a ‘How can I help you?’ box.
🌠Today, we’re excited to relaunch Airtable as the AI-native app platform, combining the magic of vibe coding business apps with real production-readiness and scalability, and embedding them with an army of agents that automate thousands of hours of work in seconds. Instead of…
Replit went from $10M to $100M ARR in 6 months because regular people like me can now finally pay them. Had a free Replit account for years, loved the company, had no way to give them my money till Agent. All those 100 days of code signups finally getting monetized.
Context building = the new app building. You are no longer building an app. You are building a specific context for compute/intelligence to flow through—between the model providers and your users. The context is the value proposition. (You build context through UI and…
Soloprenuer is the natural unit of business and all things trend toward it.
Improve the feature or just wait until the next model fixes it. This is the question
Canvas is the natural UX/UI for AI image/design/visual stuff. Room for variations. Can be cluttered but comforting to see all your stuff in one place. I think canvas wins for now.