John Rush

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@richterich_ It has happened already for people who are ahead the curve on adopting things

@johnrushx It makes sense if agents really do become the "primary interface"

The end game is that every serious tech company gonna build “general purpose agent” that can do anything (code, research, assist, etc). Same as the end game for mobile was a touchscreen with OS The skills/plugins/connectors/ will be the “apps” of the post-AI era for small teams

@alexanderisorax @paracast_io Alex is always ahead the curve Touching the atoms now since the digital world is commodified

I'm killing @paracast_io soon. AI creates any motion design videos via Remotion. No need for a SaaS. ... Creating a new SaaS in 2026 in a bad idea. The market is doomed. The only way to get $$$ is having a strong expertise in a field and create a SaaS for solving a particular problem in a particular way. "Just ship it" does not work anymore.

@alexanderisorax @kevinyun @unicornplatform I’ve been sharing it a few times Gonna reshare soon

@kevinyun @unicornplatform @johnrushx @johnrushx are you up to share the full story? people want it

I'm the luckiest indie maker in the world. I've sold @unicornplatform to @johnrushx in 2022. DAYS before the beginning of the AI era that is soon to turn SaaS into a commodity. If I were you I'd stop building and start asking oneself serious questions.

@alexanderisorax @DmytroKrasun @unicornplatform You should

@johnrushx @DmytroKrasun @unicornplatform i should try taking money for that from people

@DmytroKrasun @alexanderisorax @unicornplatform Financially it was a disaster but I had Alex mentoring me for 2 years every day 1-1 which was something priceless, I’d pay $1M just for that

@alexanderisorax @unicornplatform @johnrushx If you were lucky to sell, was then the buyer unlucky to buy? 😆

Most think they have a chance to get some returns and that’s a delusional thinking, but that’s okay, that’s kinda life, most people gonna fail in life, you can literally measure their iq and give them 99% guaranteed prediction, but that’d destroy the meaning of life for that person. 99% of founders gonna fail and they should have never even started, but it’s better that they have this delusional dream and they buy courses that won’t help them, they buy tools that won’t help them, they walk the path that won’t lead to success that the anticipate.. all of it is okay, because the journey of life is the destination, the goal in life is to do things, it’s not to achieve things. So after all, you look back at things you’ve been doing rather than at thing you’ve achieved and from perspective both failed and successful founders had the same fun ride, so the entrepreneur is an experience, where the process is what matters the most

@johnrushx But the car you can deliver. There is some substance behind selling the dream, at least. I always happy to see your replies and love your perspectives. Thank you! However, do you think people who pay a tiny fee monthly deep down know it is for fun and don't expect any returns?

I don’t envy at all. And I don’t judge either. But sometimes I ask myself why I don’t do it? Am I unambitious or what? My weakest character trait: I don’t start extremely ambitious risky projects where I don’t see how the dots will be connected at the end. If I were to build an AI CMO or an AI business generator, my goal would be others making money or getting real paying customers automatically. I wouldn’t sleep at night if my product didn’t deliver. I might be wrong, but learning fundamentals like economics and building a successful profitable business taught me a tough lesson: it is rarely scalable and replicable. I sincerely wish the best luck and respect people who jump without knowing if it will work eventually and try to deliver. Because maybe without such risky and bold moves, humanity wouldn’t progress.

@tedmirra 🙏

Helped someone with no expectations. They came back with something nice. Nice reminder: Good people exist.

Tbh I think not focusing on limitations is a better strategy for a startup founder or a maker. There are tons of limitations, but the chance of you adding value or getting better of my sharing and even focusing on limitations is lower than if you just optimistically and delusionally focused on the upsides only Impossible to sit on both chairs, you either go into one extreme or another, and the disbeliever extreme is obviously a strategy with no upside at all

@johnrushx Wait, but what is a type between 1 and 2? Who benefits from the AI advantage, but finds and shares limitations on the go?

If you think AI can’t, you’re right, if you think AI can, you’re right too. 1. AI disbelievers - when ai can do X, then I’ll change my mind… - AI does the X - when AI does the Y, I’ll change my mind 2. AI believers - they don’t bother proving it and simply benefit from this unfair leverage 3. Theorists - hallucinate opinions without any serious practice and hype things cuz they were paid for it

@kylegawley Same here But most saas are made for hired teams with unlimited time to waste and when you use them solo it waste so much of my time

@johnrushx I'd rather just pay for a SaaS so I don't have to deal with any of this and have more free time and headspace

I feel like the traditional apps & saas make no sense anymore cuz I can literally map every single work process into file structures & md-files, generate dashboards/CRUDs/CRONs on top of it and use it all via the agent..then it learns & evolves in real time trying to please me

@DmytroKrasun Yeah Very few people were using it as their growth tool back then, it felt like a coworking kitchen, where founders and professionals met for chats and insights

I miss Twitter of 2022-2023: No AI replies. People launching and celebrating small wins together. Community. Support. Sharing real lessons! Philosophical conversations. It was a lot of fun. And even a thought about programming could go viral.

@dirtyculture Tbh I haven’t experienced hallucinations in a long time Ai makes mistakes when it comes to things I can’t directly verify (e.g. generating 3d models..)

@johnrushx how do you handle the agent hallucinating or messing up your file structure though? like what's stopping it from corrupting data when it 'learns"? :)

@primex001 Just the info sites, in md format, heavy on text explaining what the product does

@johnrushx sites will need to be built for ai to consume?

Who cares about your beautiful micro animations on your landing pages if humans don’t open them anymore but ask ai to do it? Soon literally all of our consumption gonna happen via ai as a proxy and it changes the entire marketing game. AI respects authority: build it asap

@d4m1n i think it's connected to the culture, i barely ever seen any story where "this dude is 40yo, hs spent 20 years working on boring things, building up the skill and taste and digging deep into the niche to become the best...." i only see "this 16yo reached 100M in 5min..

@johnrushx prob has to do with the current generation and lack of prospects among impossible housing prices You think the only way out is to gamble and hit it big

I have exactly the opposite view Random viral bangers don’t convert into anything valuable, high effort bangers convert into millions of dollars over time, cuz u earn respect & authority, others cite u, trust you & recommend their friends.. Don’t fall for a slot machine dream

@fonsvandamme this post was well underappreciated for some reason :(

@johnrushx Still rereading this one every 2 weeks 🤠

me at a xmass table when dad asked for a toast: 1. Things I learned after 20 startups 2. Hire slow, but fire faster. 3. Don’t raise VC money until PMF. 4. Hire/partner with people you wanna hug. 5. Learn to write. 6. Learn design. 7. Learn UX. 8. Learn coding. 9. Not scalable marketing ->PMF-> scalable marketing. 10. Don’t outsource. 11. Don’t hire before traction. 12. Never do consumer apps unless you own distribution. 13. Write and publish content from day one. 14. Make writing a lifelong habit. 15. Validate ideas before building them. 16. Grow your social media accounts. 17. They will be your biggest asset. 18. Only hire full-stack coders. 19. Kill your EGO, the customer is always right 20. Before PMF, partnerships are a distraction. 21. Focus on product 99% of the time before PMF. 22. Ignore shiny objects. 23. They come and go. 24. Build for an audience you genuinely love. 25. Bootstrap if you can. 26. VCs turn you into their employee. 27. Don’t hold a project longer than 2 years without traction. 28. Ignore conferences and events. 29. Unless you sell to an enterprise. 30. Scrum is a scam. 31. It’s BS invented by people selling it. 32. Do SEO early. 33. It takes months to work. 34. Word of mouth from happy users is unbeatable. 35. Listings and directories are passive gold. 36. List everywhere. 37. Start paid only. 38. Offer refunds. 39. Freemium comes later. 40. No-code and vibe-code are fine for MVPs. 41. Speed matters less than direction. 42. Optimize UX for time to aha-moment. 43. Say yes to everything in your 20s. 44. Say no to everything in your 30s. 45. Build for your own pain first. 46. Be your own user. 47. Perfectionism is procrastination. 48. Ship ugly. 49. Iterate. 50. Affiliate partners actually bring users. 51. Don’t quit your job until the business pays your bills. 52. Think in 10–20 year marathons. 53. Not sprints. 54. Learn by doing. 55. Courses and bookmarks don’t build skills. 56. Knowing what and why beats how in the AI era. 57. Don’t chase cofounders. 58. Solo is fine. 59. Don’t code from scratch. 60. Use boilerplates. 61. Your life will pass while chasing success. 62. The perfect time to see parents never comes. 63. Take at least one day off every week. 64. Sometimes take an entire month. 65. Spend it with family. 66. Your kids won’t be kids again. 67. Your parents may be gone by then. 68. Taking 10% time off won’t hurt your business.

people tend to buy the slot machine advice over anything else any time...when looking for gf, growing on internet, building startups, making friends, etc... the worst possible strategy, but somehow it's compelling and the dopamine from the anticipation every time you pull the handle is insane, so i kinda understand why people fall for it

@johnrushx looking at where you got in such a short time and where that guy got I think I go with your advice 🫡