Chad DePue 🤠

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Building the App Store for AI @usecowboy

United States cowboy.inc Joined April 2007

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Chad DePue 🤠 @chaddepue Nov 4

Developers are building incredible agents, with no way to share them or get paid for what they’ve built. Cowboy changes that.

We're thrilled to launch Cowboy, the app store for AI agents.

Build it, own it, get paid for it. cowboy.inc 🤠

cowboy.inc Cowboy — The App Store for AI Build and sell agents, models, compute, and more.

Alex Konrad Verified account @alexrkonrad Nov 4

EXCLUSIVE: AI agents are getting their own app store.

Cowboy launches from stealth today with $5M, and 100 agents in its marketplace.

I spoke to CEO Chad DePue (@chaddepue) about his vision for a safe way to deploy and trade agents that doesn't depend on Anthropic or OpenAI.

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Chad DePue 🤠 @chaddepue Nov 2

+devices (both wearables and Class-3 medical devices)

Alex Lieberman Verified account @businessbarista Nov 2

I asked Claude: "What types of businesses outside of the labs will get stronger as raw intelligence explodes?"

Honestly, spot on response.

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Chad DePue 🤠 @chaddepue Oct 31

You Can Be Anything (for Halloween)

Chad DePue 🤠 @chaddepue Oct 28

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Nemil Dalal Verified account @nemild Oct 28

At @ycombinator, we're excited to fund more crypto startups solving financial needs including AI capital raising, stablecoins, trading, and agents.

Here's our latest crypto request for startups. Our next application deadline is Monday.

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Chad DePue 🤠 @chaddepue Oct 28

I’m a big fan of thinking about AI agent runtimes the way Erlang thinks about on-device processes. You can have 1M processes on a laptop in Erlang because they’re mostly idle and not tying up a system thread. Agents should not be running 1:1 with a VPS

Hunter Leath Verified account @jhleath Oct 28

it seems pretty obvious that things are rapidly going to pivot this way, and i'm always finding myself in conversations about it.

agents running inside of sandboxes is the same thing as renting a VPS with LAMP on it was in 2003

why did we move away from that model?

it turned out that identifying the fact that all of these website workloads were similar allowed us to build multi-tenant platforms [github pages, netlify, vercel, wix, framer, webflow] which not only made building websites more accessible to the broader developer community, but also significantly improved security (since not everyone can lock down a VPS), AND allowed everyone to capture economies of scale -- driving down prices and improving the overall experience

the idea that agents are uniquely going to sit in this mid-stage of the internet where you rent egregiously over-provisioned single-tenant infrastructure for each of them, is just not going to be tenable in a few years

i've started to think of this simply:

sandboxes are great for building *one* agent, but building an agent platform requires infrastructure like archil.

the thing that is going to stick around is like this AWS thing -- massively multi-tenant the harnesses and then provide some serverless, yielding tool calling

we know how to do this, the industry just hasn't gotten there yet
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