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- Rauch says open models hit 78.4% of Vercel gateway tokens
Moonshot AI and DeepSeek ranked third and fourth on spend, and Rauch says adding Z.ai pushes the group past OpenAI.
- Lemkin says agents closed $2.7M in leads reps never touched
Three humans, 20+ agents in daily production, and revenue that he says moved from -19% year over year to +47%.
- Pigford ran 10,000 HN comments through Jev, 43% corrected
A new model spent a day on founder timelines, and the interest is about classification, not chat.
- levelsio says hotel bookings made $3,240 in two weeks
His first affiliate revenue that actually worked, and he thinks he knows why.
- Tibo says Outrank hit $300k+ MRR in a "dead" SEO market
Two years after everyone said the category was finished, he is posting the numbers and the comparables.
- dax says OpenCode Go broke even two weeks running
The OpenCode founder followed the milestone with public math on how a lab sells a $200 plan without going broke.
- Founders split three ways over Dario Amodei's AI letter
Capture, liability and open access are the three camps forming in the replies, and none of them agree on what happens to open weights.
- levelsio says YC's batch is harnesses and hardware only
Greg Isenberg looks at the same shift and says the work itself is now the product.
- Marc Lou says body ad auction raised $112,000 for one race
Higgsfield spent $80,000 to outbid every sponsor, two bid back, and now Marc Lou says athletes are asking him to run the same play.
- Shumer says one manager agent is enough, and his mom's closed $600
The founder says he runs hundreds of agents a day and still only needs one session that farms work out to the rest.