@garrytan @ruima @garrytan Another nearby school board candidate worth a look: Jason Lin for Fremont Union High School District. He has a tech background, two kids in the district, and a focus on strong academics and preparing students for an AI-driven future. studentswinwithlin.com

@TrevMcKendrick I know, right? I want an MCP for everything.

A founder recently asked me, “If entire products are built in weekend, what is truly defensible?”

Next time, I’ll just send them this.

@negligible_cap Mine was rejected for the first time ever. Then I put it all in cowork and found the preparer's 11 mistakes.

Don't file your taxes without running them through Claude Cowork first.

My tax preparer made 11 errors across two drafts this year. Claimed a $1,874 Social Security credit that didn't apply. Missed $6,288 in reportable income. Never filed the $1,200 childcare credit I was owed. Section B of Form 8283 instead of Section A. That last one got my return rejected by the IRS. First time in 20+ years.

Eleven errors. From a professional I pay to get this right.

Uploaded 40+ documents into Claude Cowork. W-2s, 1099s, donation receipts, camp invoices, property tax records, bank statements. PDFs, images, spreadsheets. One prompt: audit every line against the source documents. Waited about 30 minutes. Got back a full audit: 65+ line items cross-checked against source docs, tax math recalculated independently, and checklist of corrections needed.

~$9,300 in errors caught. Pretty sure this is the last year I pay someone to do my taxes.

@itsolelehmann This is great. Installed. Do you find that it triggers too frequently on small decisions? Looks like it will eat tokens. Have you tried creating a custom council with relevant "experts" to the decision?

@elliotarledge Proactive mode will be a game-changer over swimming in scheduled tasks.

@akshay_pachaar Are Cowork and Code .claude/ folders shared? How do projects in chat interplay?

@JJEnglert Helpful thanks. Do you have clarity on how chat projects and cowork projects work together? How do you manage related project work across cowork and chat?

Get the full founder dashboard with benchmarks, valuation bands by stage, and deck-ready charts: goodwatercap.com/sonar/

Takeaway: growing 60–80% YoY with strong retention puts you in the mix. 2–3× YoY moves you to the front of the line.

Breakouts: 2× YoY = 18%, 3× YoY = 7%

P75 YoY MAU growth at raise: ~75%

Median YoY MAU growth: ~40%

What does great Series A growth actually look like in consumer tech?

Fresh data pull from Goodwater Capital Sonar...

Fundraising too early is a massive time sink.

Every week pitching VCs = a week not talking to users or shipping.

But how do you know if you’re actually ready?

That’s why we built @GoodwaterCap Sonar: real consumer tech fundraising data, not outdated SaaS benchmarks.

What h rates at Seed, A, B
💵 Current valuations by stage
🚀 Consumer apps crushing it now
📊 Deal activity vs pre-pandemic

Sometimes the best fundraising move is not fundraising yet.

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