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With Uniblock we solved routing for blockchain
Now with Hopscotch we’re solving routing for LLMs
Keep your own SDK. No price markups.
Just two lines of code gets you 500 models
For the builders!
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Being entrepreneurial is also just a great way to improve your job prospects.
Showing agency and starting things is always going to impress employers
If you work a W2 job and don't have a boring business that pays you $5k-$10k a month on top of your salary...
I got you.
Here are 9 boring businesses for sale today (& where to buy them):
Community note
The "cash flow" figures are Seller's Discretionary Earnings (SDE) including seller compensation for running the business; these service businesses are not passive side income atop a W2 salary and require active management or added costs that reduce net returns.
bizbuysell.com/learning-cente…
acquidex.com/blog/take-home…
bigideasdb.com/passive-busine…
duedilio.com/absentee-owner…
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We are working to align our pricing model with how customers want to use AI. That means adopting a passes system that has been popularized by OpenAI and Anthropic.
This also means we need to align our business model to our customer’s and partner’s expectations.
A lot of work was done behind the scenes to make passes a reality.
If you have feedback, please let us know.
Today we’re launching Hopscotch Passes, an all-in-one subscription to virtually EVERY AI model at half price for a flat monthly fee per seat.
Each seat gets twice its price in model use at provider rates, frontier models included. You can buy one in three tiers:
Starter: $20 a month for $40 of LLM access
Growth: $50 a month for $100 of LLM access
Pro: $200 a month for $400 of LLM access
Over a year that’s up to $2,400 of bonus LLM access per Pro seat.
Starter costs the same $20 a month as ChatGPT Plus or Claude Pro, but it buys $40 of API use across every model. Other routers compete on charging nothing over list price. A pass goes below it.
For teams, you pick a tier and a seat count, then assign seats to members. Allowances reset every month.
It’s all a little crazy, so we’re offering 1,000 passes for a limited time only. We think this is the best LLM router offer on the market, PERIOD.
Passes are live now: platform.hopscotchlabs.ai/pr…
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There is a lot of interesting, never before seen information in Anthropic’s S1. Here are a few thoughts.
1. The revenue is ridiculous.
Revenue:
• 2023: $41M
• 2024: $386M
• 2025: $4.6B
• First six months of 2026: $16.3B
They made more in Q1 than in all of last year. Then more than doubled it in Q2.
2. Look at what customers are spending over the trailing 12 months:
• 11,900+ customers spending $100K
• 1,900+ spending $1M
• Around 250 spending $10M
3. Net revenue retention: roughly 900%.
That means the existing customer cohort is spending approximately 9x what it did a year earlier, including the effect of customers who reduced spending or left.
A normal incredible number is 150%
4. Economics are improving. Q2 revenue grew 1,368% year over year, while compute and infrastructure expenses grew 300%. They posted $974M in operating profit that quarter.
5. You’ll see headlines about an $80.7B first-half net loss. Most of that came from noncash financing-related accounting charges. H1 still had a $693M operating loss, so the period and the definition of “profitable” matter.
Truly a never before seen S-1. Absolutely incredible
Anthropic has filed an S-1 registration statement with the SEC related to its proposed IPO.
Read more: anthropic.com/news/s1-sec
Legal disclaimer: A registration statement relating to these securities has been filed with the SEC but has not yet become effective. These securities may not be sold, nor may offers to buy be accepted, prior to the time the registration statement becomes effective. This post does not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy these securities, nor shall there be any sale of these securities in any state or jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such state or jurisdiction.
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This is the kind of innovation I’m here for.
No excuses anymore for not honouring our glorious dead.
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Thank you Good Samaritan that put my lost AirPods on the table instead of stealing them at Sightglass on 7th this morning 🙏
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Feels incredible to see customers using, critiquing, and frankly, caring about what we are building.
Easily one of the best feelings in the world.
Playing around with @HopscotchAI for a cheaper OpenRouter (model router) alternative to access uncensored models (a must today for any security reseracher)
Reasons I'm looking for an alternative:
- OR has hidden defaults like "Allow free endpoints that train on request data" which annoy me
- The routing fee is wild, unless you switch to price-sort, which in return sends your prompts to the entire world
- Going to a direct provider (e.g. digital ocean) may be predicted, but again not ideal routing fee
@HopscotchAI wins I found so far:
- beautiful fine-grained controls over daily caps
- 1 click zero data retention guardrails and data leakage blockers
- Chaining providers (!!) - instead of relying on "cheap" as a decision chain, you can create an ordered provider preferences to have complete control on where your data is going
I use hermes as a harness to plug to this, you can set it up in anthropic if you enable developer tools but hermes is more native to that kind of work
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I didn’t know startup insurance was a thing (?!) until Corgi started showing up everywhere.
Now I constantly read about an insurance company via “Corgi girls”
- Opened several 24/7 coffee shops
- Got other startups to sponsor drinks
- Went from $1.3B val to $5B in under 5 months
- Expanded into trucking, small business insurance, and asset management
The wildest stat: Nasdaq says they’re on pace to become the 2nd largest US ETF issuer, behind BlackRock.
-What?
founded in 2024 btw
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The pace and enthusiasm at Hopscotch is infectious. The team is consistently pulling all nighters. Most of the team hasn’t had a day off in weeks (months?)
My whoop is telling me I need more sleep.
I’m thinking deeply about how to keep the pace up without burning everyone out.
Open to feedback.
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I’m really interested to see how Waymo works in winter and inclement weather.
My Tesla doesn’t work if the sun hits the cameras at a specific angle, and winter feels a bit scary.
Obviously the Waymo tech is different so let’s see how this goes.
We’re bringing the magic of Waymo to Toronto! 🇨🇦
In the coming days, you’ll begin seeing Waymo’s all-electric vehicles driving through Toronto’s streets as we lay the groundwork for our ride-hailing service.
Our goal is to begin serving riders in 2028.
Sign up for future updates: waymo.com/waymo-in-canada
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Go to college
It's a quick signal to investors and employers that you're worth talking to.
So as long as you pick a good school and a good degree, college is absolutely worth it.
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82 days left in 2026
Have you done what you said you would? More? More?
Still time. Lock tf in
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