Sahil Lavingia
@shl
@ IRS. Founder @Gumroad. Author of The Minimalist Entrepreneur. Views are my own!
Sahil Lavingia, founder of Gumroad and author of "The Minimalist Entrepreneur," offers brands direct access to an engaged audience interested in AI, startups, and SaaS. His content provides practical insights into building and scaling businesses, making him an ideal partner for relevant product and service promotion.
I turned The Minimalist Entrepreneur into 9 Claude Code skills. /find-community — find your people /validate-idea — test before you build /mvp — ship in a weekend /first-customers — sell to 100 people /pricing — charge something /marketing-plan — make fans, not headlines /grow-sustainably — spend less than you make /company-values — define your culture /minimalist-review — gut-check any decision http://github.com/slavingia/skills
Gumroad’s test suite of 16,000 tests has been flaky for years. This slowed down shipping tremendously. This week, Gianfranco used @karpathy’s autoresearch and @steipete’s OpenClaw to stabilize our test suite overnight. And his code is open source, so you can (have your agent) do it too. (And our code is open source too so you can see every single fix on GitHub.)
Slack eliminated. Notion eliminated. GitHub open sourced. Done
Some of the best software engineers are losing their jobs to AI
If you can vibe code your idea, you’re thinking too small
Gumroad / Antiwork office, NYC https://x.com/shl/status/2026050889136365761/photo/1
AI is going to eliminate UI like TV eliminated radio
5 years to go!
The older you get the more you realize that the small talk was big talk and the big talk was small talk
Retire to get a new job