Distro

“When you look at what I'm doing right now, which is I have this personal startup studio. I have four companies. I have Storyarb. I have Growth Pair. I have distro. I have 10 X. They're all totally different businesses, different business models required differ…”

“The best product thinkers I know look at an experience for the 1000th Time as if it's their first. They do this sort of psychological jujitsu to create quote unquote fresh eyes every single time they dive into a product. I haven't quite figured it out, but it …”

“The vision for Distro is to be Canva for content. It's your AI content co pilot that helps you with every part of the content journey from thinking of content ideas, to creating content, to editing content, scheduling and distributing content, to seeing how co…”

“The long-term view of Distro is we want to be Canva for content. We want to be the AI-powered end-to-end content platform that helps you with every step of the content journey.”

“My co-founder from distro is working full time at a company right now. He's just been building distro on nights and weekends.”

“We're raising 1.1 million dollars for the company.”

“You know, approach to this round will be raising from one VC who's open to the idea of us being totally free to choose what our path is, then raising the rest of the round from angels.”

“Lots of content software companies do a lot of work in kind of the creation, refinement, distribution, and insights part of the journey. Almost no one focuses on ideation.”

“We've had 10,000 people come to the website, 2000 signups, 660 dollars in monthly recurring revenue, 20% of people are doing repeat sessions”

“So for our whole thesis, which is we want to build the end-to-end operating system for Internet creators globally, and ideation is our wedge into that, but we want this whole business to sit on a foundation of AI and truly be an AI native content platform.”

“For the last few months, I've been working with a technical partner who has the world's greatest name for a developer. His name is Dev. And Dev and I have been building Distro, which is the first AI content strategist. My goal with Distro has been to build the…”

“Basically, the vision is to make high quality content creation as low friction as humanly possible, which in my humble opinion means keeping the expert in the equation, but only in the steps of the content supply chain that are absolutely necessary.”

“I posted once about distro on X and LinkedIn, and here are the following stats as of, let's call it five days post launch. Across the two posts, I had 200,000 impressions. Two percent of those impressions converted into visitors to site, or 4130 unique people.…”

“A cracked engineer with AI can probably rebuild Distro in a day or a weekend.”

“My theory is that to win with a product like distro, we will need to win with speed, taste, distribution, and data.”

“Our goal is to five X in the next 30 days with 5000 free distro accounts and get to a 150 paid customers.”

“Our long-term vision for distro is to create cursor for content”

“We know that like what we, what needs to be communicated between these things, the two, the different nodes are just these few key pieces of information. And that is necessary. That is a necessary condition or rather a sufficient condition To get the equivalen…”

“We've gone up through seven B now, like seven B models.”

“What we have seen empirically is that as we make it bigger, the differential between distro and MW actually gets wider.”

“And we've re-implemented now a third time in their framework, and we're able to reproduce their training run exactly, and then did it again with Distro, got the exact same results we got with Natron and stuff.”

“What might happen sooner would be a redesign of the types of chips that NVIDIA or someone would make. Okay, under this model, we can dedicate more VRAM versus, there's like this question of how much VRAM versus how much processing power is on a die, and that, …”

“Because you're able to distribute it so wide, I think the gaming GPU angle is really going to be like the sweet spot. If, as long as there's continued to be sort of like higher end gaming GPUs, and those are on comparison with the high end training GPUs, even …”

“I think it still is, it would still be, you know, like a next year sort of environment thing that we would have to do. There are some scaling problems, or not scaling problems, but technical things about how you shard the model, because at that point you get t…”

“So with distro, what we found is that rather than bringing everyone back home and averaging it back together, what you want to do is give each of those little nodes that are searching for the lowest point in the lost landscape, the freedom to move around. And …”

“I think there's, you know, immediately coming out. What you'll see is the ability for even centralized actors who might have multiple data centers to now, like just use them in a more efficient way. Like just have N equals two, you know, like anything. And eac…”

“In the first few months we started building product, within, I don't know, six weeks or so, we learned that what we had already built needed to be deleted. What if we had built that for a year? We would be done. We would have already missed the boat.”

“And so but you know, that comes with a lot of disadvantages, like, you know, a lot, lack of control. You don't know you're hiring. They're not, you know, they're not like in your team infrastructure. They don't really understand the purpose of the products the…”

“Once you make a hire that hires placed through distro, we don't have any like long-term agreements just to use your agreement.”

“So we just, we're just a hair under two million of error currently.”

“So we are 25 or so, 25 or 26.”

“That would be top line. So that's the full marketplace charge. So like the full salaries and everything. So the way we recognize revenues, we take the whole thing in.”

“So we think that three will get us to where we need to go. We can definitely take a smaller number because, you know, a little bit more context, we're profitable right now.”

“So we'll net, you know, 15 to 20,000 a month right now.”

“So about two 50 is what I said.”

“What we found is that it wasn't a money thing. Though they're saving money, they were really concerned about, you know, Just getting the right team members with the right experience and time zones. So we're finding that most of our customers right now are, and…”

“The problem is, is that only the less qualified people are applying. The really qualified people are happy where they are. They're being recruited.”

“So all VCs I've talked to, even some customers that have asked us, well, you know, like circumvention is your biggest problem, right? Well, we haven't had that happen yet.”