AI Founder Weekly

Pigford says $1M ARR is a week away, sold only by DM

Josh Pigford says he is 97% certain his unreleased product hits $1M ARR by month end, with every sale so far closed through Twitter DMs. No ads, no launch, no landing page you have seen.

Real money

Pigford says all sales are coming through Twitter DMs, one week in

Josh Pigford says a product he has not shown publicly yet has done all its sales through Twitter in its first week. He says demand already makes him about 97% certain it reaches $1M ARR (annual recurring revenue) by the end of the month, before he flips the switch on a wider release.

Josh Pigford
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absolute madness how fast it's already growing just via twitter DMs.
Oct 3, 2026 · View on X

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Stolen playbooks

DHH says buy a cheap always-on box and run your agents there

DHH says every developer needs an "AI shed", an always-on machine on your tailscale network where most of your agents run, so you can close the laptop lid without killing them. His is a Minisforum MS-A2, but he says a Beelink box with an 8745HS or similar does the job for most things.

DHH
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Get a good shed, and you don't even need your laptop to be all that powerful.
Oct 4, 2026 · View on X

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What changed under us

The Information: agents are now half of Vercel's new business

The Information reports Vercel is at $600 million in annualized revenue, up 148% year over year, with coding agents now about half of new business, up from under 3% at the start of the year. Jason Lemkin picked it up and said Vercel and Supabase have become the default choices for agents. Vercel has not posted its own numbers here.

The Information
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Agents now account for about half of new business, up from less than 3% at the start of the year.
Oct 3, 2026 · View on X

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