Tony Dinh's predictions
Public predictions Tony Dinh (@tdinh_me) made from 2023-11 to 2026-11, each checked against what happened.
Oracle#1 of 5
4 came true · 2 mostly true · 3 pending
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- AI 94% of 4
- Business 88% of 2
Scored predictions
- Came true2026-01-05· AI
A native code sandbox would let TypingMind support new standards like Anthropic's agent skills.
TypingMind now has a Skills system that installs SKILL.md-based agent skills from GitHub, plus a public skills directory.
- Came true2025-07-28· AI
Deep Research would soon come to TypingMind.
TypingMind ships a Deep Research plugin that plans, searches and reads the web to produce reports.
- Mostly true2024-11-22· Business
After hitting $1M trailing revenue, the plan was to grow TypingMind's B2B Team side (sales closer, resellers) so it relies less on one-time personal licenses.
By October 2025 Team recurring revenue passed 50% of monthly revenue, at about $130-160K/month in total; whether a sales closer was hired is unclear.
- Came true2024-11-22· Business
He would build a small team to explore new products such as an email app.
In November 2025 he announced he was building a new email client.
- Came true2023-12-22· AI· due 2024-12-31
ChatGPT plugins will be replaced with GPTs with Actions.
Plugins were shut down in April 2024 in favor of GPTs with Actions.
- Mostly true2023-11-07· AI
Prediction: all the GPTs are going the “feel” the same. Then people will just use the default model (now GPT-4 Turbo) for everything instead of picking a GPT to start a conversation. Then OpenAI will see that and ma...
GPT Store stalled. The default ChatGPT absorbed browsing, code, images and agent features.
Pending
Not resolved yet, so not counted.
- Pending2025-10-09· Other
If the November 2025 Da Nang Hacker Residency went well, it could repeat every year or so.
No 2026 edition confirmed yet.
- Pending2024-09-29· Other
It would be sad but I think in the future you have to pay more to talk to real human, eat real food, or even see real trees. Blade runner 2049 vibe.
Open-ended.
- Pending2024-03-19· Business
After he sold it, Xnapper had a shot at becoming the #1 or #2 macOS screenshot app.
No deadline was given and there's no reliable market-share data; CleanShot X still looks like the category leader.
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How accurate are Tony Dinh's predictions?
Tony Dinh got 92% of 6 resolved predictions right (4 came true, 0 were wrong), with 3 still pending.
How does Tony Dinh rank as a predictor?
Tony Dinh ranks #1 of 5 makers with at least 3 resolved predictions on IndieMakerList.
How is the score calculated?
Came true = 1, mostly true = 0.75, partly true = 0.5, wrong = 0, averaged over resolved predictions. Pending predictions aren't scored until they resolve.