Lenny's Podcast · Jul 17The AI-native startup: 5 products, 7-figure revenue, 100% AI-written code. | Dan Shipper (Every)
Its new version writes three tweets, judges them with Opus 4, and improves them before replying. Run by Danny, who spent days in a library's internals before going back to directing Claude Code.
Tips
- Spot expensive services AI can cheapen, then unbundle them into apps▶ 57:45Cora (an AI email chief of staff), Sparkle (file cleaner), Spiral (content automation) and Monologue came out of this. Monologue passed the test when everyone inside Every started using it.
- Use Claude Opus 4 as a judge so agents improve their own output▶ 38:30Every spent three months building a complex system to make a model judge writing, and Opus 4 did it in one shot.
