Here's what I see every cohort: founders who nail launch day and then go dark for 6 weeks "iterating." Meanwhile, the scrappiest builders in the Foundry are shipping every 2 weeks and outlearning them. Iteration isn't polish time. It's your between-launch improvement engine. It's where you find out what you actually built vs what you thought you built. The loop is simple: 1. Ship something real 2. Get it in front of users fast 3. Watch what they actually do (not what they say) 4. Fix the 1 thing blocking them 5. Repeat Heap, Posthog, amplitude. Pick one. Look at the one event that's dropping off. That's your iteration target. VC-backed startups iterate slowly because they need board sign-off to change direction. You don't. That's your edge. The founders who win are the ones who shipped ugly, learned fast, and iterated faster. Not the ones who "waited until it was ready." So here's the question: what's the one thing users are doing that you didn't expect? And are you fixing it this week, or waiting for the next launch? If you want a group of founders who actually do this every 2 weeks instead of talking about it, you know where to find us.

Before we go live with anything new, we prep. Assets, docs, copy, the stuff that makes a launch feel ready instead of rushed. Hermes is handling that workload now. Not the creative, that's still on us. But the assembly, the formatting, the "make it exist in 5 places at once" work. What that means in practice: We feed it the brief, it structures the output. We review, tweak, approve. It ships. No more manually updating 4 different doc folders before every release. No more "wait, did we already post that announcement?" The system knows what exists and where. We're not AI-first because it's trendy. We're AI-first because a 2-person team that automates the boring stuff ships more than a 5-person team that doesn't. The founders in the Foundry know this already. If you're still copy-pasting your own launch assets across 6 tools every time, that's not hustle, that's waste. Question for you: what's the one prep task you keep putting off because it feels too tedious to do manually? I'll bet there's an agent for that.

I'm now focusing exclusively on Hermes Agent for my AI Agentic workflows. It is stable, reliable and enjoyable to use (as it doesn't break after each update). I started this journey with OpenClaw as so many have done. Sadly, I have found it frustrating (to say the least). You can actually deliver decent outputs using Hermes Agent. I wonder if you use it and how you use it. Do you use it locally (on a machine near you) or remotely (on a VPS)? Share your experiences with AI and AI Agents below. There seems to be a new kid on the block too. OpenSwarm from VRSEN (https://github.com/VRSEN/OpenSwarm) something to look into and possibly see how I can integrate that into my Hermes Agent instance.

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