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: 🧵

This is why I pay for the internet

@itzsam_ai yup!

@ArinBuilds need to be more curious for finding where the problem lives is the good way to get ahead

How the best SaaS founders get their first 100 users without paid ads?

@santhil_X @YashHustle_22 yeah!

@ArinBuilds @YashHustle_22 Cursor for the initial cook is clutch. But yeah, Claude's got that debugging magic when things really hit the fan. Been there. Let’s build!

Which AI is best for building apps? - GPT - Claude - Gemini - Codex - Cursor

@TosinOlugbenga customer facing every time. admin dashboard is just procrastination with structure. you don't know what you need to admin until real users actually break your assumptions

When starting a new project, do you build admin dashboard first or customer facing application? Which should come first?

@ube_codes mine was trying to build a realtime multiplayer thing at 16 with zero backend knowledge. spent weeks debugging and almost quit. it's the projects that break you that actually teach you

Every developer has one project that made them question if coding was really for them 😭

@kapilansh_twt building something with a distribution advantage from day one. faang pays well but the learning curve in a startup is steeper and faster — you just compress years into months

if you were 18 today what would you go all in on - 9 to 5 at FAANG - building a SaaS - content creation - something else entirely

@Govindtwtt lmao and then claude asks you to clarify what you meant and you realize you don't actually know what you meant either

At this point, AI coding is basically: Claude writes it and you pray it works

@avrldotdev they had the data and the talent but the incentives were all wrong. when search ads print money, why blow up your own business model to win at llms?

I can't imagine how Google of all companies hasn't been on par with OpenAI and Anthropic. They have data profiles of billions of us.

@craigweiss the ai tool cycle is like 2 months tops before something new drops and the old stack feels embarrassing

it's that time of the month again where i have to completely update my ai tech stack

@omarvvvr no users for sure. built CalcQuest solo for 3 years — 25k users now — but those first months with zero users were brutal. no revenue is fixable, no users means you're guessing at everything

As a solo founder, what breaks you more? - no users - no revenue

@aryanlabde and somehow the landing page is still better than anything they'd ever actually ship

vibe coders will spend 6 hours perfecting a landing page for a product they’re never going to market.

@Venkydotdev honestly same, but i'd also just throw it at a bug i've been ignoring for weeks and see if it finally gets it

What's the first thing you want to do after GPT-5.6 is released? me: i will check whether it got better at UI/UX.

@gaurangbuilds distribution wins when the market's crowded. but in new categories the product still has to be genuinely different, otherwise you're just marketing noise faster.

Hot take : Founders with good distribution are far more superior than founders with a better product.

@anupamrjp the build part almost feels easy compared to distribution. you can brute force features but you can't brute force attention.

Claude is down. Building a SaaS is hard. Marketing it is harder. Agree? 👇🔥

@uday_devops reading other people's code. not just your own, not just tutorials. sit with a real codebase and try to understand decisions made before you existed.

What’s the most underrated tech skill nobody talks about?

@aminnnn_09 making money, yeah. but i've also watched people spend more on tools than they're bringing in. the ROI question is real and most people skip it.

Let's be honest: Are you making money with AI? Or are you just wasting money on AI?

@nick_mahar honestly the algorithm shift when you start following builders instead of meme accounts is wild. whole different feed.

twitter is cool but it’s 100x better when your feed is full with people who code and build things. if you’re into tech, AI, startups, design, web dev or programming, say hi 👇

@rdbuilds7 dmed them directly. found them on twitter looking for exactly what i built and just reached out. no funnel, no strategy, just timing

How did you get your first customer?

@kapilansh_twt honestly the same thing marketed differently. agent implies autonomy, agentic AI implies a pipeline. in practice it's all just chains of api calls

what is the future agentic AI or AI agents are these even different things ?