Cole Dermott

Radar Signals

12 linked signals.

• we rebuilt our onboarding 3 times in 3 months first version: too many screens second version: too few third version: hopefully right the embarrassing part is we shipped v1 to paying customers. they built businesses on aCole Dermott · 29d
• our ai has written 45,273 chat messages to users humans on our team have written 10,640 the company is mostly run by the thing we sell and honestly i didn't plan it that way. it just turned out the tool we built for otheCole Dermott · 29d
• Excited to be building at the forefront of payment infrastructure for agents. Looking forward to sharing what we’ve been learning with merchants and builders at @paywithlocusCole Dermott · 30d
• I dropped out of school 2 semesters away from grad and I'd argue there has never been a better time to drop out than right now the speed at which new businesses are being spun out is insane, and AI has enabled the creatiCole Dermott · 12d
• learning this lesson has been very painful yet true on locus albeit there’s a balance. we’ve had 3 iterations of our onboarding since late may. v1 was done entirely over imessage as a conversation. it took generally arouCole Dermott · 30d
• at some point our ai bought weather data 15,643 times i have no idea why. we don't use weather data. it's not in any prompt. somewhere in the agent's decision tree it decided knowing the temperature in tokyo was criticalCole Dermott · 30d
• I'm a founder and last year I got rejected from YC startup school I honestly felt a little spiteful seeing every single one of my friends get in, and I asked myself: what was wrong with my application, what was wrong witCole Dermott · 14d
• Tweeting this for all the YC SUS attendees: There has NEVER been a better time to drop out of school and build a startup. If you have that dream, GO NOW. No more hesitation and reach for the stars.🫶 (I say this as a dropCole Dermott · 15d
• so far 873 businesses have been created through our platform this reminds me of the story behind the birth of shopify: a group of friends sold snowboarding gear, and scaling meant having to build internal tooling for invCole Dermott · 20d
• Shipped this yesterday. Reply to this tweet and I’ll tell you what our AI agent says your vibe is and what kind of business you should run.👇Cole Dermott · 26d