Steve Ruiz

tldraw: $14.1M raised, powers drawing in Claude, 25K+ GitHub stars

Founder of tldraw — the open source infinite canvas that powers drawing features in Claude and is used by millions of developers. Built as a personal project that accidentally became essential AI infrastructure. Previously at GitHub.

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Josh Pigford@Shpigford

Founded Baremetrics; shipping 5 AI tools simultaneously including Rumored and ReplySocial

Serial maker and founder of Baremetrics. Currently shipping 5 AI products simultaneously: ReplySocial (X mentions inbox), Rumored (detects and fixes false AI claims about your brand), Rerun (Mac app that captures and makes your work searchable), Chops (browse and manage AI agent skills), and InitialCommit (fractional AI co-founder for startups). Known for shipping fast and shipping often.

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Apoorv Lathey@apoorveth

Swiss-Knife.xyz: 212 GitHub stars; Impersonator: 314 stars — used by Ethereum devs worldwide

Open-source Ethereum developer building a suite of tools for the EVM ecosystem. Creator of WalletChan — the wallet for the AI era, letting you use your Bankr address across all dapps like MetaMask, with support for Base, Ethereum, MegaETH, Polygon, and Unichain. Also building Swiss-Knife.xyz (all your EVM tools in one place), Impersonator (log into any dapp as any address), and EIPTools (explore all EIPs/ERCs/RIPs). Consistently ships production-grade OSS tools used by Ethereum developers worldwide.

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Elizabeth Stark@starkness

Lightning Network: billions in BTC payment volume

Co-founder and CEO of Lightning Labs — building Bitcoin's payment and asset layer. The Lightning Network enables instant, near-zero cost Bitcoin payments by routing transactions off-chain. Also building Taproot Assets, enabling stablecoins and other assets to be issued natively on Bitcoin and transferred over Lightning.

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