David Pawlan

my top 5 favorite claude code 'thinking' words: 1. boondoggling (makes me laugh every time) 2. boogieing 3. garnishing 4. dilly-dallying 5. pontificating

@TTrimoreau pretty sure it already happened

can one person really build the next unicorn with AI?

@hridoyreh no just because other methods of search are popping doesn't mean seo doesn't still have insane value

Is SEO dead?

@DanielSmidstrup founder

I am a founder scare me with 1 word

@gauravsbuilding does @UseFastlane dish out metrics for how long trends tend to last? i want to see a tool that doesn't just surface trends but helps you identify the peak would be sweet to see: - start ripping trend A - cool down on trend B - keep an eye on trend C as it has pop potential

There’s a new format of TikTok slideshows emerging > slide 1: pretty girl from Pinterest > slide 2: aesthetic list of “tips” (that plug your app) This account has done 50m+ views just repeating this one winning format Takes 10 seconds to make 100s of these on Fastlane btw

@ecomchigga i'll create you some badass pdfs if you create twitter accounts and sell them

i make $8,247/month selling a PDF on a twitter account that has no name or face attached to it. the whole business runs in 14 minutes a day. 6 months ago the account didn't exist. here's every step. 1. picked a niche where people were already spending money on guides and courses. not what i found interesting. what people were actively paying to learn. 2. searched twitter and reddit for "how do i" and "struggling with" inside that niche. looked for the same question being asked by different people in different words. 3. checked gumroad and whop to see if products already existed in that space. competition isn't a warning sign. competition is confirmed demand. 4. picked the one problem i understood well enough to explain clearly to a stranger in one sitting. 5. opened google docs and wrote the complete answer like a long text to a friend who genuinely needed help. didn't format. didn't design. just wrote until it was done. 6. organized the mess into: what the problem actually is, why most free advice doesn't fix it, the specific step-by-step solution, and real examples with real numbers. 7. kept it between 11 and 22 pages. short enough to finish in one read. detailed enough that the reader doesn't need to google anything else. 8. added screenshots wherever a step needed proof or visual clarity. 9. exported as PDF. made a cover in canva with a free template. 8 minutes. 10. created a gumroad account. free until your first sale, then 10% per transaction. uploaded the PDF. wrote a title that describes the outcome, not the file. 11. priced it at $39. low enough for an impulse buy. high enough that buyers actually respect it and open it. 12. pulled 2 pages from the guide and turned them into a free preview. this is the lead magnet that feeds everything. 13. created a free telegram group. pinned the free preview at the top. pinned the $39 product link right below it. 14. set up the telegram so new members land in a room where other buyers are posting screenshots, asking questions, and sharing progress. the community does the selling. not you. 15. created a faceless X account. profile picture with no face. bio explains who i help and what result i deliver in one line. bio link goes straight to telegram. 16. used an aged account (6+ months old) to skip the algorithm's new-account suppression. fresh accounts get buried for the first 60-90 days regardless of content quality. 17. found 10 accounts in my niche between 10K and 50K followers. screenshotted their 50 best-performing tweets. studied the hooks, the formats, and the structures that consistently pulled views. 18. set up a Claude project with 3 reference files: a bank of 170+ proven viral tweets with view counts, a voice profile with rules that strip every AI tell, and a formatting guide that controls rhythm and sentence variation. 19. used Claude to generate 3 tweets per day. every tweet checked against the reference bank and scanned for AI patterns before posting. 20. scheduled everything through TweetHunter. posting times locked at 8am, 1pm, and 8pm with 4-6 hour gaps. spacing defeats the algorithm's session decay penalty. 21. never posted more than 3 times per day. the algorithm runs a penalty called the AuthorDiversityScorer that exponentially cuts your reach for every additional post from the same author in someone's feed. your 4th tweet of the day gets roughly 20% of the reach your 1st one got. 22. made 1 of the 3 daily tweets a CTA. structure: first 70-80% is pure value strong enough to bookmark on its own. then "comment [KEYWORD] and i'll send you the free guide. must be following + RT." 23. set up TweetHunter's silent auto-DM. when someone comments the keyword, they get the telegram link automatically. no public reply. silent only. public auto-DM replies get flagged as spam behavior and tank your reach score. 24. replied publicly to every commenter for the first 30-60 minutes after every single post. each author reply fires a 75x engagement weight in the algorithm. this is the single highest-leverage action available to any creator on the platform and almost nobody runs it on purpose. 25. that 30-minute window exists because X's engagement cache refreshes every 5 minutes for new tweets but only every 10 minutes for tweets older than 30 minutes. engagement velocity in the first half hour propagates through the scoring system at 2x speed. after that the window closes and the same engagement is worth half as much. 26. spent 20 minutes every morning in DMs answering questions from new telegram members. kept answers short. when someone asked something the guide covers in depth i'd say "i cover this inside the full system, i don't normally go this deep in DMs but i can show you what's inside if you want." not a pitch. a boundary. 27. used yes-stacking in longer DM conversations. 4 questions the lead can only say yes to before the product ever comes up. by the time price is mentioned they've already decided without realizing it. 28. for anyone who said "let me think about it" i replied "honestly i don't think you're ready for this yet, let's revisit in a few months." took the sale away. 30-50% of stalled conversations closed same day from the near-miss psychology alone. 29. posted proof constantly. every gumroad notification screenshotted. every testimonial shared. every result documented. nothing on earth sells like receipts from real people. 30. raised the price $5 after every 20 sales. $39 became $44 became $49. same product. growing proof. more perceived value with every bump. 31. self-reposted top performing tweets at 12-24 hours with no penalty. re-posted them fresh after 48+ hours when the algorithm's cache resets and the tweet re-enters the candidate pool as brand new content. one great tweet performs 3 separate times if you time the reposts. 32. wrote one long-form X article per week. articles pull 300K-1M+ views in 2026 because they trigger dwell time (weighted +10 in the scoring) and bookmarks (weighted 10x). highest-reach format on the platform right now. 33. never posted off-topic. not once. one viral meme tweet feels good but mathematically drifts your content vector in the algorithm's embedding space. every on-niche post after it reaches fewer people because the system is less certain what your account is about. 34. stayed consistent even when growth felt invisible. the algorithm scores your posts based on recent engagement history before anyone sees them. going silent collapses that baseline. recovery takes 5-10 consecutive strong posts before reach returns. consistency isn't a motivational poster. it's a mechanical input to the scoring system. 35. added a $497 comprehensive course behind the $39 front-end product. 2-4% of $39 buyers upgrade within 30 days without being pitched. 36. added a $5K 1-on-1 partnership behind the $497 course. one person applies every 2-3 months. this single tier changes the entire math of the business overnight. 37. batched all content creation on sundays. one 90-minute session writing the full week of tweets. the system runs the remaining 6 days and 22.5 hours without me. 38. tracked what actually drove replies and bookmarks and cut everything else. likes are weighted 1x in the algorithm. replies are 13.5x. bookmarks are 10x. reposts are 20x. optimizing for likes is optimizing for the cheapest signal. the scoreboard is public knowledge and most creators have never looked at it. the tools: TweetHunter: $49/month (scheduling + silent auto-DM) Claude: $20/month (tweet generation with reference system) Gumroad: free until first sale, then 10% per transaction Telegram: free Canva: free Tally: free (application form for $5K partnership tier) total monthly cost: $69. total daily time: 14 minutes. the timeline: week 1-2: setup, first tweets, $0 month 1: 800 followers, finding the rhythm, $340 month 2: 2,100 followers, CTA tweets clicking, $1,800 month 3: 4,400 followers, telegram compounding, $3,200 month 6: 11,000 followers, backend kicking in, $8,247/month consistent the first $340 took 6 weeks. the jump from $340 to $8,247 took 4 months. the system compounds because the telegram community grows every day and never shrinks. more members means more proof. more proof means higher conversion. higher conversion on the same traffic means the revenue climbs without the effort climbing with it. i put all 38 steps into a full system. way more detail than fits in a tweet. module-by-module walkthroughs, the exact Claude prompts, the DM scripts word for word, the telegram setup, the pricing framework, the algorithm breakdown, and every template i use. comment "SYSTEM" and i'll send you the link. must be following + RT.

@coreyhainesco bold - how do you control for clients not upholding their end? just being selective on who you work with?

Most agencies don't put their fee on the line. We just did. conversionfactory.co/offers/growth-…

@denohawari google seo is the mechanism that surfaces reddit reddit can't destroy seo, if seo died then reddit wouldn't appear on google when you search reddit is capitalizing on seo

Reddit just DESTROYED Google SEO And this graph says it all Reddit now pulls over a billion visits a month from Google Google trusts those threads, and ChatGPT was trained on every one of them So when your brand gets into the right threads, it starts showing up in AI answers about your category There’s no six months of grinding content to get there This is the exact method we used to rank a B2B SaaS #1 in ChatGPT with a 825% traffic growth in 3 months I put the whole system in one guide: - the subreddits that get pulled into AI answers fastest - the exact post format ChatGPT cites - how to get mentioned without it looking like an ad - the 3-step play we run for every client 180M+ people are asking ChatGPT for recommendations right now The early movers are the ones getting named Want the full Reddit playbook? Just follow me + comment "Reddit" and I'll send it over

@FoxyhitsW starting a trend of sharing lead sourcing workflows that i've seen work for people, one a day value goal being that anyone who reads it, sparks their mind to think about unique ways to source leads for their biz

if 100% of your growth strategy depends on being a "300x a day reply guy", its an L people will just see you as a number (a +1 on their posts) yes you get insanely fast metric growth but people only follow you so that youll regularly engage with them you have 0 influence, 0 leadership in your niche, 0 impact instead focus on being a "quality poster" not a "reply guy" you might see slower growth but your net worth and influence will increase and people will follow you for your content, not E4E always push the content youre insanely proud of

@PedroGuiti access any service/tool without needing a subscription, pay only for what you need when you need it

founders, drop your startup below what does it do in one sentence?

@shafu0x @noahhhlzl

@DavidPawlan @noahhhlzl I'm unc dude, you think I live on the internet? 😂

hiring: someone to run our X account. part-time. $10K/month. I don't care about hours. I care about results. you need to: → actually live on the internet, not just post on it → be deep in AI news (not newsletter-deep, actually-there-deep) → have taken an account from 0→10 before, and can prove it if that's you → comment, I'll reach out. know a virality magician? tag them below. if we hire them, you get a $10K referral fee, minimum.

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Founders, I'd love to know more about you, What are you building ? 👇

@ionleu tryponcho.com

drop ur startup link

@Will_McKelvey We midwesterners do love our block parties

Idk I’m a midwest transplant and threw a 1,000-person block party a week and a half ago (co-hosted with an Australian and a New Yorker friend) New York is a special city, so naturally people want to move here. We should probably just build more housing

@itsalexvacca Targeting unqualified leads, so 2000s

the sdr could've sent one email but chose violence and called a broke lead 50 times

@tankots @WisprFlow Hard to hate when you’ve fallen so hard in love

Calling all haters of @WisprFlow - give me your biggest issue with Wispr. Yes I will personally read through each and every comment and have our team right some wrongs.

@omarvvvr Bc I sat in a coffee shop, drank my matcha, and told it what to do

If Claude wrote almost all your code, what actually makes you the founder?

@launch_llama Tryponcho.com

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@askOkara Okara, create me an influencer campaign to influencer the influencers

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@zuess05 Hammering warm leads, find ppl who engage with your content / competitor content and target them They’re already raising their hand

What is actually the most overpowered growth strategy right now? • cold dming 100 people a day • building a personal brand • cracking organic SEO • farming short-form UGC videos