Channel
@cto_signals
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7subscribers
+2 since we began measuring on 7 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of Under 1,000.
| Telegram ID | -1003964827887 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @cto_signals |
| Created | Between 1 April 2026 and 29 April 2026 — estimated from Telegram’s id allocation, not measured. How this range is calculated. |
| First recorded | 13 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 13 October 2026 |
| Measurements held | 4 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 5 times, most recently 13 October 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/cto_signals |
Technology — a classification, not a measurement. An on-box language model (Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-FP8, prompt version 1) read this channel’s own recent posts on 2 October 2026 and assigned it the closest of 31 fixed categories, at 100% confidence. This is a model’s judgement about what the channel is likely to be about, not a fact this register measured the way a subscriber count or a view count is measured — it can be revised on a later pass, and it carries no weight anywhere else on this page. How this classification works, and why it has no browse page of its own yet.
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 30 Aug 2026, 15:13 | 7 | +1 |
| 22 Aug 2026, 22:35 | 6 | +1 |
| 13 Aug 2026, 00:48 | 5 | no change |
| 7 Aug 2026, 12:37 | 5 | first reading |
20 posts held, back to 29 April 2026 — the reader has not yet reached the start of this channel’s public history, so older posts may sit further back, unread. Read across 1 page of Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.
Nothing published in the last 30 days. ERR and ER are rolling 30-day measures, so there is nothing to compute — we hold 20 posts for this entry, the most recent from 12 August 2026. An engagement rate over an empty window would be a number about nothing.
You can build almost any product now with Lovable, Cursor, Bolt, Replit, Claude Code. A weekend, sometimes a week, and you have something working. Here's the question nobody asks before they ship it: is the architecture actually right? Would you get on a plane someone built by vibe-coding the design? No chance. You'd want someone who's designed a hundred planes before and knows exactly where they crack under pressu…
IT digest for August 11: agent infrastructure, model trust, and the first test of a new source - GitHub Trending AI and Agents 1. Mojo 1.0 - a language from Modular designed specifically for GPU/AI workloads. https://www.modular.com/blog/modular-26-5-mojo-1-0-is-here After years of beta, this is a bid to replace parts of the CUDA/Python stack in production. 2. H3-metal - native MiniMax-H3 inference on Apple Silico…
Went through a month of Reddit threads and pulled out 115 startup ideas that actually have demand behind them. 17 subreddits, filtered by upvotes so it's not just random noise. Grouped into 11 categories, PDF has the full breakdown.
Google just dropped a free 34-page guide on building Gen AI startups in 2026 🔥 Most AI media startups die from compute costs before they find PMF. Every user prompt triggers a 4K render. Every iteration hits full price. Margins collapse before revenue kicks in. Google's guide shows you how to avoid that trap. It's the blueprint for founders shipping AI apps that generate images, video, or audio at scale on Google's…
Hi, sharing this week's report with a curated overview of the most important AI product launches, startup signals, and discussions from the past 7 days.
Four projects offered me a CTO partnership in the past six weeks. This has happened before - I remember dozens of offers over 15 years in the industry - but now it feels like a different phase with different rules. On one hand, there are more projects than ever. A lot of founders are using vibe-coding to enter the market faster, test something, and quickly realize that to move forward they need to build on solid gro…
Anthropic reverses course The Claude Code restrictions announced a month ago are gone. So is Fable, their latest model. My reaction is mixed. The agentic workflow in Claude Code is back to normal, which is good. But my ai-zavod framework already has multi-model routing built in, so I was not waiting on Anthropic to fix this. I have also shifted resources to Codex - same $200, roughly $14k worth of compute per month…
How to fund an AI startup in 2026: it's all in one file A directory of 40+ funding programs - grants, cloud credits, accelerators and funds. My CFO agent put the whole report together: went through the programs, lined up the terms and checked the numbers. What's inside: - No dilution. Grants and compute credits that don't take a stake in your company - around 1.4 million dollars in total. - Accelerators and funds…
Apple WWDC 2026: what Siri AI actually means for builders I watched WWDC with one question: what here actually changes how we build products? Here is what stood out. Siri finally stopped being a timer. For three years Apple showed a Siri that "understands context". This time they showed it writing an email from scratch - found the contractor's contact, pulled the reason we picked them from context, pitched a short…
My first small exit A few days ago I had a small but satisfying exit. l've been investing alongside an American syndicate for a while now. Small amounts - but this year one position returned over 88% in a single year. I won't name the company since I'm not sure what's public, but it was an Al startup. Technically this isn't classic venture - VC usually means waiting 5-7 years for a 10-20x. This was more modest on t…
175 people signed up for DrakeAI in 2 weeks. They came from 25 countries. We ran zero paid ads. Here's the full picture: 61 are actively logging expenses. 441 expenses tracked. 35% activation - that's the number we're working to move. Top countries: US, Israel, Ukraine, Moldova, Russia, Thailand, Singapore. What we shipped in 2 weeks - Recurring expenses - set rent and subscriptions once, they log on schedule - …
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Showing the 12 most recent of 20 posts we hold for @cto_signals. View and reaction counts are the latest single reading for each post, not a live figure, and a recent post is still accumulating both. A view count marked ≈ was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints views in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈1,200,000 means somewhere between 1,150,000 and 1,249,999. Unmarked counts are exact. Text is reproduced from the public post preview and truncated for length.
A live page changes as we take new readings, so a citation should name the measurement it is based on, not just the URL. The line below cites the subscriber count as measured 30 August 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“CTO signals” (@cto_signals), 7 subscribers as measured 30 August 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/cto_signals.
Full measurement history, CC BY 4.0. Every reading this register holds for this entry, not just the latest one, as a dated, downloadable record: CSV · JSON. Free to use with attribution to tgregister.com. Each file carries its own generation timestamp, which is the figure to cite for exactly when the data was retrieved.