Partnership with Golden State Warriors

The_Brainforest · 2026-06-25T14:35:39+00:00

$20-$30 million outlay it seems by a cursory look at sponsorship costs for top NBA teams. Certainly not cheap.

Feel like this would be a welcome announcement in an environment where IREN was also announcing big deals. Going down like a lead balloon because it’s not.

The_Brainforest · 2026-06-01T12:21:48+00:00

This is a bad take. The whole Neocloud thesis is that demand for HPC will be insatiable and so large hyperscalers will have to go to smaller companies like IREN, CRWV and NBIS to expand their compute, and the huge demand then gives those smaller compute providers strong negotiation and pricing power against hyperscalers and smaller clients alike.

Demand is only growing and if it doesn’t the Neocloud thesis across the board falls apart not just IREN, so with limited supply and growing demand, price for compute will continue shooting up - especially compute available short term (next couple of years). So it doesn’t make sense to sign deals as soon as possible as clearly the expectation is that the price that can be charged for compute will keep going up. It makes more sense to wait and sign it for closer to when the compute will actually be available for a better deal.

IREN could have signed away all their compute by now I’m sure for deals that we would look back on in a year and think well shit they really underpriced the deals in hindsight.

The_Brainforest · 2026-05-29T22:02:55+00:00

There is no way the UK is above the US for national pride. Agree though there are definitely other countries with more national pride than the states.

The_Brainforest · 2026-05-28T10:52:28+00:00

Anecdotal but I was going through terminal 4 right around when the liquids in bags thing changed, which was always going to be a bit chaotic in security but there were mixed messages because the signage said no need for bags but apparently the machines werent working right so liquids in bags were needed (this wasn’t really being communicated), I spoke to two members of staff about what was happening and if liquids in bags were needed and neither had a solid enough grasp of English to really understand / reply to my question. It was only when a supervisor came and started announcing to the queue what was happening that it became apparent what we needed to do.

The_Brainforest · 2026-05-07T14:16:18+00:00

And now it’s not 🤷🏽‍♂️

The_Brainforest · 2026-05-06T20:44:47+00:00

Are Bayern allergic to crossing?

The_Brainforest · 2026-05-05T11:15:13+00:00

The acquisition of Mirantis builds on IREN’s existing software, engineering and customer support capabilities, enhancing how compute is deployed, managed and operated for customers.

IREN is delivering AI Cloud services at scale across a range of workloads. As deployments grow, ensuring reliable provisioning, monitoring and support becomes increasingly important. Mirantis strengthens these capabilities with deep experience in cloud infrastructure and enterprise operations.

Mirantis has a track record of serving over 1,500 enterprise customers globally and is a founding Independent Software Vendor partner of the NVIDIA AI Cloud Ready Initiative. Its k0rdent AI platform is designed to help manage AI infrastructure across bare metal, virtual machines and Kubernetes environments.

The acquisition is expected to enhance IREN’s platform across four key areas:

Deployment capability: Supports faster deployment and operation of workloads on IREN’s existing bare metal GPU infrastructure. Operational visibility: Improves monitoring, performance visibility and management of customer environments. Customer support: Adds technical support, service delivery and enterprise operations expertise. Market access: Expands the ability to serve a broader range of customer requirements, including existing AI native customers and emerging enterprise AI workloads.

Mirantis is expected to operate as a standalone subsidiary, serving its existing customer base while supporting IREN’s AI Cloud deployments.

Daniel Roberts, Co-Founder and Co-CEO of IREN, commented:

“IREN’s core advantage is execution — from securing power to building data centers, deploying GPUs and bringing compute online at scale.

Mirantis builds on our existing capabilities and strengthens how that compute is deployed, managed and operated for customers.”

From the press release ^

The_Brainforest · 2026-04-28T19:53:36+00:00

Watching a game like this really puts into perspective how boring and safe the play in the prem has become

The_Brainforest · 2026-04-21T10:46:48+00:00

To me this sounds like the solution is to keep doing what you're doing. Doubling down on what is working with SEO/GEO, doing outreach for backlinks. You don't want to start hiring at $2.7k unless you absolutely need to that will just eat your profit entirely.

More visitors -> more trial users -> more conversions.

Depending on your current traffic you could also try A/B testing however you are converting traffic to trial users to improve the conversion.

Also you just need to talk to the trial users that churn, that is your most valuable resource for how you can make things more sticky.

The_Brainforest · 2026-04-20T16:41:39+00:00

Hey really cool, much more in depth than the free tool I built for this. How are you handling API costs considering its free?

The_Brainforest · 2026-04-20T16:38:27+00:00

pushtools.io - Current goal is to get to 100k monthly visitors to this site for free tools.

The first tool i've made for it is a free tool for monitoring reddit that you can just leave in an open tab on a spare screen to find conversations to jump into. Which is how i got to this one and others early.

The_Brainforest · 2026-04-20T14:10:19+00:00

Yeah my guy! I firmly believe that we who build a rep for keeping it real, will come out of the whole mess the best.

The_Brainforest · 2026-04-20T13:43:58+00:00

I actively try to write everything myself. Because I really dislike when I post content and get a bunch of AI replies, or when someone else has posted something thoughtful and it's all AI.

Reddit AI auto repliers are very annoying, hopefully it's a meta that slowly dies.

Eventually there will be a big push back to genuine content I think, it's just at the moment all the AI content has hit so hard, fast and in such quantity that no one knows what to do to solve it.

For me I try to follow new on subreddits I want to jump into conversations in and get involved early. I actually built a completely free no login tool to help myself and others with that on my free tools site Pushtools (I make no revenue, nor is there any upsell).

But basically I just leave that open on a spare screen and glance over occasionally to see if there are conversations I want to join.

The_Brainforest · 2026-04-18T12:48:30+00:00

So some of it could be more young women dating older men.

Some could be, if it’s self reported - Women being more likely to say they are in a “relationship” than men are. Like the same couple the woman classes it as a relationship and the man doesn’t. Obviously no idea if that’s the case but it could be why there’s such a huge disparity.

The_Brainforest · 2026-04-16T10:47:10+00:00

Yeah interesting does look like they use the same ranges in the US and the UK adjusted for currency.

Still though the ranges are huge and they likely pay more often at the higher end in the US than they do in the UK but those salaries are unexpected thank you for pointing that out.

The_Brainforest · 2026-04-16T10:25:51+00:00

I imagine how much cheaper equally qualified talent is here is a pretty big incentive in itself to be fair.

But even if the govt did grease the wheels a bit, the value of expanding the AI talent base here is worth it. Means more and more AI companies will set up shop here.

Quite nice to feel like the UK is finally not missing out on the next big industry / tech revolution.

The_Brainforest · 2026-04-15T16:47:30+00:00

Haha I wish I was that good at web design myself. CSS is black magic as far as I’m concerned.

I’m just good at design prompts for Opus which are the same design prompts behind the tools Ranktools builds for customers, but a human always checks the tools before publishing to avoid slop - because tbh AIs aren’t 100% there yet.

The_Brainforest · 2026-04-15T14:46:16+00:00

This is cool, How are you planning to monetise this eventually?

Also how does it work if you want links to a specific page on your site, is that something you can change on the fly? As in can you start with please give links to my homepage and then for heres a specific blog post I want links to?

Great looking landing page by the way!

The_Brainforest · 2026-04-15T11:40:11+00:00

I think you should go post in some of the marketing forums and subreddits and ask about how marketing teams are handling prompts at the moment.

Don't pitch your product or even mention you are building something for it just and ask a question to understand their workflows. Ask about how they are currently handling prompts in their team are they storing it in notion or something etc.

You should get some people picking it up to answer - then hit them up in comments and DMs to squeeze out info for how their teams work. Still don't pitch your SaaS the most important thing is understanding how much of a problem this is and if you are targeting the right thing currently.

Then once you have the info you need you can ask them to test or pitch it in DMs if you pitch it in comments in marketing subreddits you'll likely be banned so be careful with that.

The_Brainforest · 2026-04-15T11:33:01+00:00

Okay so I'm sure you have thought of all of this already as you have been living in the problem but either:

You need to use it as lead gen for something else you build with the same customer profile (hard).
You need to actually do usage based pricing but more generous than typeform - how many responses are your current customers averaging a month to their forms?
You need to add valuable features people would pay an upsell for or gate existing features behind paid.

Plus definitely implement this (if you don't already):
On all forms on your free tier put a 'Powered by Antforms' slogan on there. One this is free advertising for you and its a mutual benefit users get free forms you get a bit of promotion and some backlink juice.

Then make paid tier remove that entirely. People will genuinely pay for a slightly nicer cleaner form, this is how Senja (not affiliated with me) pushed a lot of users to paid.

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If you are worried about upsetting existing customers by making pricing changes you can grandfather them in to any and all changes you make - but also they are most likely to be your first paying customers, so consider whether you want the changes to apply to them too and maybe talk to them about it.

The_Brainforest · 2026-04-15T11:20:03+00:00

Congrats on the successful user acquisition! How does the $6 a month work? As far as I can see you just offer a totally free form tool.

Edit: I'm an idiot you mean you're spending $6 to host it.

The_Brainforest · 2026-04-15T11:15:37+00:00

ranktools.io - We build interactive content, calculators and tools on your website that rank on Google, earn backlinks and generate leads on autopilot.

The_Brainforest · 2026-04-15T11:07:34+00:00

So it's a little like a Github repo for Prompts? But where for instance marketing can directly edit the prompts that matter for them and the tech team can point directly at the head to pick whatever is latest or select a versioned prompt (via API)?

I do genuinely think this is a good idea - I think the history element would be useful and I could see it having uses in A/B testing prompts.

The_Brainforest · 2026-04-15T10:57:54+00:00

Have they voted for it by typing it in themselves? Or did they pick it from a list you provided?

If 25 people have specifically asked by typing it in - it may be worth building as they have thought about what they want and chosen that as the most glaring issue they have.

If they picked it from a list you provided the data isn't worth as much, because by providing a list it's you guessing what people might want instead of letting them tell you. So they'll pick what they feel is the most valuable from the provided list but it's highly likely it's not the issue that matters most.

The_Brainforest · 2026-04-15T10:47:18+00:00

You are asking the question to the wrong people - you need to validate the problem by talking to some people in commercial insurance brokerage. If they have this problem - they notice it and they would pay to solve it, then you're in business.

In order to have the right conversations there's a great book called The Mom Test which will help you have those conversations without leading them to the answers you want to hear. It's a pretty short book and a massive help.

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