@willtests

I found a game niche where the top site makes $75-100K revenue/month off a single banner ad. I'm building a site in this niche. Here's the plan - There's a few different types of tools for this specific game. The top tools get 1.5-3M hits/mo traffic. They are outdated, bloated with ads, and not mobile friendly. One site makes $11K recurring subscription revenue with a single feature. I'm going to combine all of these tools into one site. Goals are to focus on SEO, building a brand, and adding cold hard value. Here's what I've done so far: - Purchased a <4 letter domain name that is perfectly aligned with this niche - Built a single tool that got 2000 users in a single day off a Reddit post - Built out the base tools that receive ~100k searches/mo Stay tuned for more updates #buildinpublic

@AIAdsApps App

I collected 25 apps published on the App Store in 2025 and making $50K+ MRR. Comment "App" and I'll send it to you. (must be following so I can DM you)

@hunterjisaacson short form content addiction

There’s one problem nobody wants to solve Here’s a hint: It’s the biggest issue facing young people today

@levelsio Pop open the remote, bet the button is still there

I just got a new AC installed by Mitsubishi Electric I was wondering why it was so weak and tried to find the Powerful (or Turbo?) button like any AC has On the images on the internet the Powerful button is shown below the Econo Cool button Weirdly, on my remote the button seems to have been removed, showing an empty space Of course you can see where this is going 🤡 Yes you're right! The European Union has banned Turbo modes on AC units now because it's not 🍃 Eco friendly

@Adel_Katergi "delulu"

how do i respond.

@julianivaldy Invite

The 𝗠𝗼𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗲 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘀𝘂𝗺𝗲𝗿 𝗖𝗹𝘂𝗯 has nearly 1,000 members! It's our free Discord group for mobile founders. Here's what's next for the club: - Inactive members (30+ days) will be removed to maintain engagement. - We'll add bots for App Store/Organic/Ads tracking to learn from what works directly in Discord. DM me to help integrate. - I'll select 3–4 members for a 2 month mobile app marketing bootcamp in Paris, including housing, meals, and a bonus. This group is member-run, share your reco! Want to join? Comment for an invite.

@traskjd @tekbog @levelsio Amazing. Thanks for sharing

Keen on levels answer. I saved up $70k at my first job. Took 3 years. I didn’t go out a bunch and I just cranked super hard at work. Started the business, did some bootstrapping (got some customers to pay for some services, but also we took equity in their businesses sometimes too, which is how we helped create New Zealand’s largest philanthropic giving site). One thing I was fanatical on however was watching the money. There were times in early years when we couldn’t pay ourselves (though we’d pay staff, the founders wouldn’t - but we’d pay back later). Revenue levels rose. We didn’t fall into ego traps of hiring big teams. We let go of managers who didn’t get on the tools or who wanted to bloat teams for their ego. We kept things lean, so we could be cashflow positive. It helped a bunch through the bumpy Covid years! I’m 42 now. I started my business career at 23, after three years working for somebody else. I’ve built several, invested in a bunch and love helping folks get into business. One thing that strikes me is that I was a teenager in the 90s. I watched the .com bubble and it really rubbed off on me: if these VCs are so smart, why can a kid in backwater New Zealand see them making bad calls? I never entered the tech game thinking investment was a required precursor. I was biased towards low capital after watching the bubble burst. Now, this story really only works because it was a software business. You and I can write code. There’s not much capital needed there (just a computer. I also enjoy @levelsio highlighting you don’t need a huge AWS bill either, a modern day way some software businesses get capital intensive too early). I personally found it better to go all in too. Save the money and just go for it. You can live on a lot less than you think you can. I still have a 17c noodle packet in a frame at my desk, a reminder of what it took to get off the ground. I’m sure a side hustle can scale up but, tbh, it requires a lot of energy. Being able to focus is a hell of an unlock, even if you’re burning through savings. We did eventually bring in a small amount of capital for certain things (7 years in, and last 9 years ago). It’s still controlled by me, the various things we do. Levels is bang on about being the real boss — that’s the real unlock of business, not just trying to make a lot of money. So TLDR: external capital should only be necessary if you’re choosing a capital intensive business (eg buying GPUs), but you could consider a capital light business for your first one. It will make things a lot easier for you, and leverages your existing skills. Use revenue to fund things that need capital a bit further down the road if needed. I hope this helps.

I don't have a boss Raising means a VC will be my boss

bought a 3d printer and started making stuff found a script based modeller called openscad on the right im prompting chatgpt and pasting code into the modeller the interesting part was I used agent mode in chatgpt which ran a shell command to look at the code

@sammcallister @th3mus1cman @iannuttall @trq212 this is amazing - thank you

@th3mus1cman @iannuttall @trq212 has a great thread :) x.com/trq212/status/…

Jumping on the bandwagon and creating videos with Claude Code! Here's a teaser video for my email newsletter, fully vibe coded. Maybe Claude Code is the everything app?

@_ProfitPath i like the way you write

russian stripper named anastasia taught me more about sales in one night than four years of business and she did it while stealing $3,000 from my wallet (with my full consent) her technique was genius: instead of asking boring questions like "what do you do" she'd hit me with "what's the weirdest thing your boss ever asked you to do" suddenly i'm telling this stranger about corporate espionage while sliding her hundreds she knew that weird questions bypass the logical brain and go straight to the emotional brain where all the money lives which is why every car salesman asks about your kids instead of your budget started using her technique on sales calls and my close rate went from 40% to 67% because instead of "what are your marketing goals" i ask "what's the most money you ever lost on a stupid marketing idea" and they trauma dump for 20 minutes then hire me to fix their pain the questions that print money: "what would your competitor panic about if you did it" makes them reveal their entire strategy "what's the one thing you'd never tell a consultant" makes them tell you immediately "if you had to fire everyone except one person who would it be" shows you who actually runs their company study the yegor method want to learn how to turn emotional manipulation into a legitimate business model that scales to $31K/month? dm me "pdf" and I'll send it over

@dylanottt @cluely Link

week 2 startup update: We’ve successfully automated @cluely’s UGC marketing strategy. Our product now: - generates videos using viral formulas to create hundreds of ads instantly - connects to unlimited TikTok and IG accounts and automatically schedules and posts each video - analyzes the results and self improves the brand strategy Launching in alpha tomorrow! Comment if you’re interested and I’ll send a link.

@Davidjpark96 Love your openness in these posts

@krushil_a @nikitabier @levelsio 😂

@nikitabier @levelsio Better go to UMich football games

POV building an AI startup

who's building the cursor for video editing?

@Davidjpark96 awesome really interested to hear how you fixed the conversion flow

Details of our Acquisition (revenue multiple, amount paid, structure, etc) Jenni paid: - $250k upfront - $200k in Jenni stock - $300k in deferred payment over 9 months Acquired startup had: ~$5,200 MRR ~$7,000 Ad revenue Total monthly revenue: ~$12,200 Revenue multiple paid: 5.1x Key Terms: - This was an Asset Purchase Agreement - Full and exclusive IP Rights - No Employees Transferred - 3 months of advisory support At face value, the acquisition wasn’t cheap For a startup this small, a revenue multiple of 5.1x is pretty good deal for them, but we believed that our product knowledge could 10x the company in less than a year Most importantly, we knew that our product knowledge could be transferred without diluting the focus of our core jenni team Btw this is pretty dumb that I’m sharing this publicly because future founders may give me a headache by pointing to this post and also demanding a 5x revenue multiple 😢 But I’m hoping in the long, long, long-term benefit; founders trust that we generally pay somewhat fair prices and getting acquired by us is a viable exit strategy The jury is not out yet whether this acquisition will be a flop for us or not, so we'll have to wait and see whether we can get to $1M ARR as fast as I think we can 🤷‍♂️

wait so you can just make stuff, and put a stripe checkout link, and tell people about it, and people will buy it?

wild how the perspective shifts when you zoom out a year

@codyschneider send payment link

hacked together a youtube channel email extractor for my team scrapes channel emails, copy emails into instantly ai for cold outbound asking for pricing for 3 video package, creators respond, compare pricing against each other should i ship it do you want it

@henkjan @codyschneider makes it easier to stand out imo

@codyschneider Is declining M&D costs causing low-quality app/content saturation, making it harder for valuable projects to stand out?

cost of marketing going to zero cost of code going to zero basically free reach with social basically free to build an app