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Sahil Lavingia

@shl

now @IRSnews. founder @Gumroad. formerly @Pinterest. in the new Michael Lewis book 🫠

 Brooklyn, NY
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Joined September 2008
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Introducing the official IRS app!
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Jon Kol
@thePalenimbus20h
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The IRS now sends you a confirmation for submitting 83b and it is so much better than how it used to be where you just kinda sorta hope you did things right and never know for sure. Hugely improved in the last couple years!
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Gianfranco
@gianfrancopianaNov 2
You can now play games like these on @gumroad I made my own 8-bit crossy road: gianfrancopiana.gumroad.com/…
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@AmirMushichOct 31
3D pixel games with Claude Opus 5.5 (OS) Open source: github.com/amirmushichge/pix… Play: pixel-plays-ruby.vercel.app/ Inspo credits: @awwbhi2 / @zzzzshawn
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mikedemarais.eth
@mikedemaraisNov 2
it’s truly terrifying that shl now runs the IRS, don’t love the idea of hyper competent IRS
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@shlNov 2
The IRS now says "thank you" when paying your estimated taxes online
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The IRS now says "thank you" when paying your estimated taxes online
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Tyler Tringas
@tylertringasNov 1
I somewhat unexpectedly find myself operating a B2B SaaS business again. I built topoclimb.com to run our climbing gym (@bkup_climbing) now bringing on our first beta customers. Everything has changed in SaaS, but here are some strategies I'm trying this time around 👇
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Paul Millerd
@p_millerdNov 1
Replying to @shl
This app is amazing now I've now eliminated whatever annoying time I used to spend manually trying to pay estimated taxes and entering the wrong addresses
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You can now use login.gov to login to the app (and the web)!
The public’s one account for government. | Login.gov

The public’s one account for government. | Login.gov

Use one account and password for secure, private access to participating government agencies.

login.gov
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@shlSep 25
Introducing the official IRS app!
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ROI is a drug
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10 years of work in five days
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December > November > October > September > August
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Frank Bisignano
@frankjbisignanoOct 29
This morning, I returned to where I grew up in Brooklyn to announce a donation from The Bisignano Family Fund to @TrumpAccounts for children ages 2 to 8 who reside in zip code 11234. These children will now have a major financial advantage to achieve the American dream.
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There is no moat
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Gumroad
@gumroadOct 28
Sellers can now put a waitlist on a product page before it's published. Share the link early, collect signups, and email them the day it launches. It's the same link that sells the product, so launch day starts with an audience already waiting.
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Gumroad
@gumroadOct 27
Interesting
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Getting a job can be a full-time job
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Interested in beta testing a future version of the app? Reply or DM!
Sahil Lavingia (@shl) profile pictureSahil Lavingia
@shlSep 25
Introducing the official IRS app!
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Ershad Kunnakkadan
@ershusOct 25
Our video transcoder at @gumroad runs on Hetzner, so every video pulled from S3 was billed as internet egress: $935 last month. Now it pulls via a signed CloudFront URL. S3 to CloudFront is free, and our private CloudFront pricing is far cheaper. ~$860/month saved, ~$10k/year.
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Ershad Kunnakkadan (@ershus) profile pictureErshad Kunnakkadan
@ershusOct 25
We just moved all of @gumroad's Redis to Valkey and cut our ElastiCache bill by 69%: about $2.2k a month, or ~$27k a year. Valkey is a drop-in fork of Redis that AWS prices 20% lower, and our app needed no code changes. Right-sizing and reserved nodes did the rest.
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Ershad Kunnakkadan
@ershusOct 25
We just moved all of @gumroad's Redis to Valkey and cut our ElastiCache bill by 69%: about $2.2k a month, or ~$27k a year. Valkey is a drop-in fork of Redis that AWS prices 20% lower, and our app needed no code changes. Right-sizing and reserved nodes did the rest.
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Ershad Kunnakkadan (@ershus) profile pictureErshad Kunnakkadan
@ershusOct 15
Inspired by @dhh, we moved a high-traffic @gumroad endpoint from Rails to Go. It only checks an email webhook's signature and queues a job, yet ran our full Rails app on 12 servers. Go runs it on 3 smaller ones, in 11 MB of memory. 86% cheaper, saving about $14k a year.
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