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Dan Shapiro

@danshapiro.com
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CEO glowforge.com, research fellow at gail.wharton.upenn.edu, creator RobotTurtles.com. Once Google, Sparkbuy, Ontela. Author of Hot Seat: The Startup CEO Guidebook. Lucky dad.

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Dan Shapiro @danshapiro.com · 11/03/2026
Dark Factories are arriving. You can have your own - meet the Trycycle. www.danshapiro.com/blog/2026/03...
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Dark Factories: Rise of the Trycycle
Companies are now producing Dark Factories – engines that turn specs into shipping software. The implementations can be complex and sometimes involve Mad Max metaphors. But they don’t have to be like…
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Dan Shapiro @danshapiro.com · 11/03/2026
Excellent piece by @harper.lol on Dark Factory patterns. 2389.ai/posts/the-da...
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The Dark Factory Is a .dot file
StrongDM published a spec, Dan Shapiro built Kilroy, we built three more. Every implementation converges on the same architecture. The interesting artifact isn't the factory code — it's the pipeline g...
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Dan Shapiro @danshapiro.com · 09/03/2026
Congratulations @toni.bsky.team on the new role as CEO of (waves around) all this!
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Dan Shapiro @danshapiro.com · 15/10/2025
The folks at the cutting edge of AI are doing something new - Slot Machine Development. www.danshapiro.com/blog/2025/10...
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Slot Machine Development
Something new is possible. Four weeks ago, I braved the gaggle of Waymos nosing around the Presidio to check out Connected Stack. I plopped next to my buddy James Cham, notorious partner at Bloomberg ...
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Dan Shapiro @danshapiro.com · 13/02/2025
Here's how I pick my AI models today
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Dan Shapiro @danshapiro.com · 11/12/2024
We've been using Librechat (librechat.ai) at @glowforge.bsky.social to ensure everyone at the company has access to great AI to help them do their job. It's very, very good.
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LibreChat
Free, open source AI chat platform - Every AI for Everyone
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Dan Shapiro @danshapiro.com · 02/07/2023
I have an obscure food question. Why is Dole putting acerola juice concentrate in their canned fruit? www.amazon.com/dp/B01MG1BWXG
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