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916 Studios — showing the decision, not just the work

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24 posts · curated by Nam Nguyen

A studio's own marketing. A portfolio proves capability; the reasoning behind a choice proves judgement, and judgement is what actually gets hired.

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Robert G. Reeve@RobertGReeve

I'm back from a week at my mom's house and now I'm getting ads for her toothpaste brand, the brand I've been putting in my mouth for a week. We never talked about this brand or googled it or anything like that. As a privacy tech worker, let me explain why this is happening. 🧵

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242K likes2K repliesMarketingX5y ago

PJ Ace@PJaccetturo

What if Studio Ghibli directed Lord of the Rings? I spent $250 in Kling credits and 9 hours re-editing the Fellowship trailer to bring that vision to life—and I’ll show you exactly how I did it 👇🏼

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93K likes3.8K repliesCreativeX1y ago

ClaudeDevs@ClaudeDevs

Over the past month, some of you reported Claude Code's quality had slipped. We investigated, and published a post-mortem on the three issues we found. All are fixed in v2.1.116+ and we’ve reset usage limits for all subscribers.

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39K likes1.9K repliesAIX4mo ago

Toby Kim@_doyeob_

Two undergrads. One still in the military. Zero funding. One ridiculous goal: build a TTS model that rivals NotebookLM Podcast, ElevenLabs Studio, and Sesame CSM. Somehow… we pulled it off. Here’s how 👇

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5.3K likes219 repliesAIX1y ago

Lee Robinson@leerob

I migrated cursor.com from a CMS to raw code and Markdown. I had estimated it would take a few weeks, but was able to finish the migration in three days with $260 in tokens and hundreds of agents. Here's how I did it + all my my usage stats. t.co

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4.4K likes258 repliesAIX9mo ago

Ali Partovi@apartovi

I once killed a $125 million deal by being “too honest.” There are many ways to lose deals, lest you think last week’s story was my only painful blunder. This one hinged on a fateful encounter with Jerry Yang and involved Paul Graham (@paulg). Here’s what happened.... (1/n)

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4.1K likes118 repliesRevenueX4y ago

Marcel Freinbichler@fr3ino

Because of #GDPR, USA Today decided to run a separate version of their website for EU users, which has all the tracking scripts and ads removed. The site seemed very fast, so I did a performance audit. How fast the internet could be without all the junk! 🙄 5.2MB → 500KB

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27K likes354 repliesMarketingX8y ago

Sam Altman@sama

the last couple of GPT-4o updates have made the personality too sycophant-y and annoying (even though there are some very good parts of it), and we are working on fixes asap, some today and some this week. at some point will share our learnings from this, it's been interesting.

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26K likes2.4K repliesAIX1y ago

1/ Let's talk about fundraising: In 2009, Y Combinator only gave us $15K, half our YC batch died after demo day, 11 firms told us no, 2 firms wanted to find us a CEO, 1 VC told me, point blank, we would fail, we were a week away from death but luckily raised $500K @ 2M pre.

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6.4K likes172 repliesFounderX8y ago

Cole South@ColeSouth

ever wonder why the cheap junk flooding Amazon has keyboard-mashing brand names like MOFFBUZW? let's dive into an example... the 2nd organic result for "baby moccasins" has: - 0 reviews - no Prime offer - 20 day shipping (lol) - a brand name that literally looks like Dog Shit

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3K likes98 repliesMarketingX4y ago

Trung Phan@TrungTPhan

Apple TV+ costs 0.2% of Apple’s total revenue ($391B). Michelin Guide costs 0.1% of Michelin Tires total revenue (~$30B). Both are premium content plays to market the brand. Makes sense.

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1.8K likes27 repliesRevenueX1y ago

Derek Thompson@DKThomp

If Max is paying a marketing company a $1m annual retainer for naming strategy, this is pathetic. But. If Max figured that it can add and remove “HBO” from its streaming title every 2 years to create a bunch of free outraged publicity, I sort of respect the play.

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822 likes21 repliesMarketingX1y ago

Joe Weisenthal@TheStalwart

There's a lot of cope about the NYT only thriving because of recipes and games. The question is: Why was NYT able to build out these non-news revenue streams? It's because the newspaper has an incredible brand, such that it could be extensible.

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742 likes44 repliesMarketingX5mo ago

Gergely Orosz@GergelyOrosz

There's more detail+honesty in this note on layoffs than 10 other ones combined, whether you like it or not. A few: - Crypto is in a down market, as is Coinbase's business right now - Fear of doing nothing is losing - A big gamble in a structure that has not really been tested

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664 likes29 repliesHiringX4mo ago

Max Brodeur-Urbas@MaxBrodeurUrbas

Today is day 80 and the end of YC. Final results: - MRR +4100% - Daily automation runs +650% - Finally feel confident saying we’re making something people love Legitimately sad @ycombinator is over but grateful it happened. So excited for what’s next. Going for another 80

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557 likes27 repliesFounderX2y ago

Theo - t3.gg@theo

I get why they’re doing it though. I had a brand decline working with me because “you only get 100,000 views, this other guy is half your price and gets 70,000 views” The “other guy” was getting those views on X, where “views” count API responds with your post ID.

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473 likes10 repliesMarketingX25d ago

Signal@signalapp

Facebook is probably more comfortable selling ads than buying them, but they'll do what they have to do in order to be the top result when some people search for 'Signal' in the App Store. P.S. There will never be ads in Signal, because your data belongs in your hands not ours.

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54K likes1.3K repliesMarketingX5y ago

Tibo@thsottiaux

We will give one banked reset for every day you don't have access to Astra on your paid ChatGPT plan, starting today. Team is moving mountains to give access as fast as we can. First one will land in ~ 3 hours. There is still time to create your account if you don't have one.

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32K likes3.9K repliesHiringX8d ago

Victor Shi@Victorshi2020

Hear me out: More people my age have texted me personally saying they listened to VP Harris on Alex Cooper Call Her Daddy podcast compared to any other legacy media source. And they say they now know VP Harris so much better. The Harris campaign knows what it’s doing.

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35K likes1.4K repliesMarketingX1y ago

Jack Zhang@awxjack

Stripe offered to acquire us for $1.2 billion when we had $2M in revenue. Today, we've raised $330M at an $8B valuation and reached $1B ARR. We could've died three times during this journey. This is the story I've never told anyone before:

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29K likes1.5K repliesSaaSX9mo ago

In FY26, over 200 million new players came to XBOX and our games, but our business did not grow with our audience. We need to close that gap by investing in what players value. That will take time, but we expect to return to growth by the end of FY27.

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16K likes2.1K repliesGrowthX1mo ago

Zac Bowden@zacbowden

2014: - Windows Phone in third place - Microsoft buys Nokia 2015: - Big layoffs - Cancels hardware 2017: - Windows Phone is abandoned 2023: - Xbox in third place - Microsoft buys Activision 2024: - Big layoffs - Closes studios

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12K likes186 repliesHiringX2y ago

Tibo@thsottiaux

A little secret. About 5% of our production traffic is on the Pi harness, about another 5% is on OpenCode. Reminder you can use your ChatGPT account in a flourishing set of other tools. We’ll continue to make Codex awesome, but you have options.

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8.5K likes404 repliesGrowthX3mo ago

Netflix rejected a $12M offer from Bezos in 1999. Blockbuster "laughed [Netflix] out of the room" when Netflix offered to sell to them for $50M. Today they announced their acquisition of Warner Bros, and have a market cap of $426B.

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3.3K likes47 repliesGrowthX9mo ago

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