Arin Agrawal 🚀

25K users. 4.9 stars. 150 countries. Zero paid ads. I was in my first semester of college when I launched. I didn't know what ASO was. Here's what actually worked: 🧵

@buildwithsid makes sense when you think about it. engineers are abundant, people who can actually get customers are not

The highest paying job in startup world is marketing btw

@N_and_ni tutorial hell is real but i'd say it's more like never shipping anything. you can watch tutorials forever and still feel like a beginner

What’s the biggest mistake junior developers make? A) Tutorial hell B) Building before planning C) Not reading documentation D) Something else

@CaptainInsightX leaning into the design and product thinking side. the people who understand users and systems will still matter even if the code writes itself

Software Engineers, what’s your backup plan if Artificial Intelligence writes better code than you in 2 years?

@AskYoshik the obsession with prompting is funny. at some point the model just knows what you mean if you're clear about what you want

Everyone is obsessing over prompt engineering and writing essays to ChatGPT. I just type what I want in one simple line and it works better every single time.

@onlyfaiq and the talkers have better engagement tbh. kind of a weird incentive structure on here

there are two types of people on this app people talking about building and people actually building if you're the second type, drop your url let's connect #buildinpublic

@dark_coderz first paying user by a mile. getting someone to actually hand over money feels completely different from just getting them to sign up

Founders: What's harder? A) First User B) First Paying User C) First $1,000 D) First Employee

@FlippedRay reddit if your product fits a specific subreddit. x if you build in public consistently. product hunt for the launch spike but not much retention

Which platform is actually best for getting your first 100 users? • X • Reddit • Product Hunt • SEO

@pmitu the talk-to-users-first part gets skipped so often. people build for 6 months then discover nobody actually wants it

Founder tips: start with marketing do research talk to potential users first try to sell your solution before launch then build

@audiencon this is the one nobody wants to hear. you can vibe code a whole product but distribution still needs actual thinking

Vibe coding is fun. Vibe marketing does not exist

@Venkydotdev way too much and i can't even justify it anymore. it's just baked into how i build now

till today how much have you spent on CLAUDE and CODEX. Don't lie guys.

@codespicious and somehow you're the one who has to explain to yourself why you wrote it that way 6 months ago

I'm genuinely astonished that deleting one line of code can break an application in 17 completely unrelated places.

@Hemantkr1982 probably 90% for me. i use it but the core logic, the app, the distribution — that was figured out before heavy ai tooling. good stress test question tbh

Claude is down. Founders: How much of your startup would still operate if AI vanished tomorrow? 0%–100% 👇

@agazdecki the 'it's normal' part hit different when i was deep in it building solo in college. knowing it wasn't just me actually made a difference

Things you’ll feel when building a startup: You’ll feel stressed out. You’ll feel like you’re failing. You’ll feel like giving up. Just know every founder goes through this stuff. It's normal. Stay positive and keep going.

@seezyou or just skip the job entirely lol. easier said than done but building something yourself compounds differently

NEVERRRRRRRR stay in a job for more than 2 years.

@Sherifdeenolat2 built CalcQuest solo — logic puzzle game, 25K users zero paid ads — the sales part is just talking to your users constantly. not sure a co-founder fixes that or just adds coordination overhead

build solo or with a sales co-founder, what do you think?

@saidotdev genuinely the better interview question is why no one asked this before it shipped

Interviewer: A 8GB file becomes 2GB when zipped. No quality lost. No data removed. So the real question is: Why was it 8GB in the first place?

@samteic easily. most of what i get from social media i could replace with just building more

if your salary doubled but you had to delete every social media app permanently, are you doing it?

@Zinny_Edmund almost never honestly. 3 years building apps, i can count the times on one hand. doesn't mean it's useless, just not how i actually learned to build things

How often do you solve LeetCode?

@Venkydotdev the second half is the scarier part. what happens to people who never built the baseline skills because ai was always just there

my opinion: by the time companies realise that ai is more expensive to maintain than the cost of hiring humans,no one will be able to code.

@icanvardar distribution and workflow design are where it's actually being won rn. the model is basically a commodity at this point

everyone has the same models now the winners are the ones who designed the quietest workflows