Josh Karathra
@joshkarathra
building a portfolio of companies, prev @Tempo_Labs YC23 @mckinsey @uoft
Toronto Objects. Would love to 3d print these.
New York City Objects. Who wants one?
you know that feeling where you can call your parents and tell them not to worry about their mortgage for a while? Highly recommended I’ve been chasing it for so long, it’s been the main motivation for everything I do. So grateful for all the love, really means the world to me.…
The 2nd place Global Prize WINNER is… Weight Coach, made by @sergedottech 🥈🏆 Sergiy COOKED up an incredible AI-powered meal planner with a voice cooking assistant, turning your inventory into personalized recipes, smart grocery lists, and hands-free cooking assistance.…
We just got backed by a16z @speedrun. We believe the next interface is natural language. We call it the Language User Interface (LUI) An interface that talks to your APIs, understands your product, and lets users get work done with natural language (thread below)
I’m launching Swish AI - an ai basketball coach on August 1st. My biggest lesson from launching a B2B app 2 years ago is that distribution is everything. This time around, I am warming up distribution prelaunch. Before the app hits the AppStore I want: - 500k impressions - 10…
I’ve worked on 5+ failed startup ideas in the past 3 years. I’m the moment they felt devastating but each helped bring me to the next opportunity. Sharing some of my losses: 1. Reminest - spent 7 months building a consumer app without understanding distribution was everything…
One of the lesser talked about benefits of doing IRL jobs (doctor, farmer, etc.) is that you don’t have to spend all day looking at a screen.
There a chance Scalify Studio (YouTube agency I started) goes from 1K -> 6K MRR in the next 2 weeks. Theres also a chance it goes from 1K -> 0K MRR. TBH 50/50 odds. Only one way to find out.
do VC-backed founders or bootstrapped founders get more stressed? my observations having done both... bootstrapped founders start with maximum stress - they're broke, everything depends on them, and there's no safety net. but this stress creates incredible focus. every…
Whenever Lovable, Cursor, and Bolt raise rounds, I bet Anthropic throws an internal party knowing they get 80% of it.
This $2m seed round will allow us to build email the right way: Open source and AI first. Thank you to everyone who's supported us to this point. This is just the beginning! 🖤
We’re excited to announce that we’ve raised a $2 million seed round, led by 1984, with participation from Pioneer Fund, Y Combinator, and a group of incredible angel investors. Our mission is simple: we want to build the first fully agentic inbox, and this helps us make that…
Posted my new app demo on Reddit and it got….. Pleasant responses?! This means it’s gonna flop right.
The key to building a LLM wrapper is you can’t build one in a market so big (cursor, windsurf) that the providers will eventually want to take over (Claude code). You have to build a niche enough tool that it adds tremendous value to people but will likely remain untouched by…
Hit my first 1K MRR of online money! Makes you feel like anything is possible. I wanted to better document the process - both wins and losses. Follow along for the journey building 4 businesses in 4 months.
45 mins from Calgary you get the most beautiful scenery on this earth. 45 minutes from Toronto you get Scarborough.
I accidentally made cursor for shortform video. A month ago I started a content agency and I quickly realized if I wanted to scale it I needed to automate or hire. I started making an agent that takes a video transcripts + user guidance and writes jsx scripts to add subtitles,…
recently read about the idea of "work-life ambition" if your ambition doesn't include your faith, health, and family-life maybe you aren't being ambitious enough. "balance" implies you can't strive for excellence in every domain. also - pretty ironic from grammarly :)
