Albiona Hoti

I built a visual reference finder with Jev One single prompt → 100 images from Cosmos, NASA, and The Met my new rabbit hole for creative work 🌻

tiktok has this new feature I just saw leaving comments as voice messages, imagine having that on the everything app

dentists are like therapists. they know you’re not flossing, but they’ll still spend 15 mins walking you through it and making you swear you’ll floss every day mind virus successfully implanted anyway the cocofloss + philips electric toothbrush combo is 🔥

i used to journal so much, using different templates: 'future self journaling' by Dr. Nicole LePera, the five minute journal by Mimi and Alex, and, of course, morning pages from Julia Cameron’s the artist’s way i find myself journaling less and less. these days, I do voice journaling and camera + voice journaling, use specific prompts to reflect on what’s been happening in my life, and do EFT tapping based on those prompts curious to hear what other people’s journaling rituals have been

can’t believe apple did this, my lenovo yoga laptop of 8 9 years ago was extremely sweet but I can’t imagine having a macbook with a touchscreen

i see a future in which we will ditch phones and computers, and the never ending scrolling, as ai gets better and takes on different forms

It’s true, oct is a life changing month, here’s an overview throughout the years > oct 2016 startup weekend in kosovo, started by entrepreneur journey, met my ex boyfriend > oct 2018 left first job, finished my bachelor thesis > oct 2019 big breakup, started profitable business, won bid to bring deb OS conf to kosovo > oct 2020 took ig seriously, gave up business > oct 2021, already working in blockchain, ig 65k followers, nomad traveling started > oct 2022, lisbon blockchain week, started working with @zksync, started my official nomad life, lived in: lisbon, NYC, Barcelona, Montenegro, Paris, Denver > oct 2023, moved back to lisbon, nomad continues since I couldn’t find my bubble > oct 2024, thailand for 2 months, @JanineLeger and @TelamonArdavani strongly suggest me to demo every sunday, wrote 6 threads on the social network i am thinking about, learned about TEEs, met flashbots people, built AI CEO, start as EIR for @flashbots_x > oct 2026, starting my company, in SF for a few months, before I officially move here i am feeling the same way i felt when i moved to portugal and SF has been so electric and magnetic to my soul ✨⚡️

we adapted to driving, commuting, inboxing, sitting in front of a glass all day none of that is first principles; it’s leftover logistics ai’s real gift isn’t more convenience! It’s deleting the loops that never deserved a human in them

combining attention with human intention makes the next step feel so obvious but until those two match up, iterate

I started doing calls early in the morning and walking in the park, and it's been sooo good

the best feeling to experience as a founder is being in this constant state of the unknown until something is so clear you can't really ignore it!!

with all of Anthropic's moves, I'm looking at it from the perspective of being a consumer founder, and how much of a business one person can actually run with AI 1. demand for AI and demand for your app/service are separate hypotheses: anthropics' reported $16.3b in first half revenue is evidence of spending on its products, and your particular consumer problem still needs paying customers from day 1 2. small teams can aim for more output. all those numbers raise an interesting question: how much can you accomplish before you need to hire? 3. the competitors get the same building tools. faster building gives you more attempts. your single advantage is to develop through what you learn from those attempts: which problems matter, where people struggle, what they'll pay for 4. latest model improvements can change which products are affordable to offer. If Opus 5.5 reduced customer costs per task by ~40%, how can your specific experience be economically viable? 5. your happiest customer can become your most expensive customer. with a fixed subscription and usage-based AI costs, someone using your app constantly can squeeze your margins. calculate what heavy use actually costs 6. a standalone app needs a compelling reason for someone to add another subscription 7. a specific first result makes the product easier to understand and start using! "Practice tomorrow's interview" gives someone a starting point. "Your personal AI companion" asks them to figure out what to do 8. distribution needs its own design. as a consumer founder, you need to figure out your own route to users: creators, communities, AI search, referrals, or something else that you can actually test 9. retention needs oversight; Anthropic's roughly 900% net revenue retention measures spending expansion and excludes Pro and Max subscribers. it doesn't establish that consumers keep returning to an app; measure that separately 10. personal context creates a trust obligation. a voice product might become more useful as it learns about someone. people need to control what gets remembered, stored, exported, and deleted. 11. the strongest solo founder milestone is a business you can sustain. people pay, get a useful result, return when the need comes back, and receive support you can realistically provide track those alongside how quickly you ship

wow!! what a day

coordinating a messy team of agents feels suspiciously like coordinating a messy team of humans

someone needs to study how i went from "dying" on my period to thriving just finished my 6th call and i'm close to signing 4 clients in ONE day!

i think i’m on my villain era, like literally i can feel it, and i’m so comfortable in that a serendipity proof of the vibes

when friends happen to be in the same city!!! launch prep talk walks with @FUCORY and @dcbuilder