Shayan H. 🇸🇪

Desire is mimetic, people want what other people want.

It's so nice having our YC company brain have access to slack, so I can use my agent to....search slack.

in @ycombinator they have a playbook on how to get customers ASAP for your startup. if you follow this, you’ll brute force your way to 100 customers, almost no matter what your product is. Here it is: 1/ launch-max. product hunt, hackerNews, devhunt, betalist, peerlist, indie hackers, etc. YC tells you to launch 3 times MINIMUM 2/ pull your competitor’s strongest backlinks and get yourself listed in the same places. whatever article they have listed, you make a better version and ask the site to replace it (or supplement) with yours. 3/ WARM OUTBOUND. Everyone knows about building in public. but you still need to capitalize on the 99% of leads who see your content but don’t come inbound scrape everyone who likes your posts on Linkedin each week, check if they fit your customer profile, and message them. you set this up to fire automatically with @origamichat (i dropped a prompt in the comments) 4/ find 20 to 30 ugc creators on tiktok / instagram in your niche. ask them to create content about your product, ideally from a fresh account. pay them a fixed fee ($15–$30 per video) plus performance incentives ($1k for 1 million views, etc). you can use @sideshift_app (best creators imo) and line up 20+ of these creators in 1 day 5/ when building in public, a video is 10x better than an image/text - spam use cases of ur product on X/Linkedin 6/ figure out where your customers actually spend time. which slack/discord groups are they in? what newsletters do they open? which podcasts and accounts do they follow? pay those people for shoutouts 7/ there's a fresh trend on x basically every week. jump on the relevant ones and fold your product in (like i’m doing right now). To find trends i just use Origami & search “Lead Gen/GTM posts that are viral on X” to find the best posts every week in my niche Then, I will reply to those, quote tweet them, and use the formats that work myself (that’s the secret to why my account has high engagement BTW - you can do this too) --------- if you are doing all this every single week and DO NOT GIVE UP (launching, posting demos, contacting new customers) I guarantee you will hit your customer goals. Then the game becomes retention. will be posting 2-3 more growth hacks every single week

@fin465 @ycombinator That was great 🤝🏻

before yc i used to message yc startups to land them as customers and now i understand why that was a waste of time

uv @astral_sh is simply brilliant. Installed it, blinked, and everything was done. Makes one look back on the pip years like a wretched country house weekend that somehow lasted a decade. Jolly good. Pass the gin.

fucking hilarious that HR people think they can judge technical people

The last step of any refactor always feels the best.

In AI most people are still trying to use old maps on a new territory. Throw the maps away. It's time to draw new ones. The only way you can do it is walking the land.

Act like you already have the term sheet, and soon, you will.

26 years ago.

rsi is a process that’s been happening at least since the renaissance

Delightful. Vague notions are now an adequate substitute for expertise. Progress, of a sort.

One has heard wilder things. Not many, but one has

Don't bill by the hour, dear boy. Tradesmen have rates

None of my real good friends are on twitter and I am thankful for that

Seventy billion in retail orders, finally, the common man can lose money in zero gravity

How terribly kind of them to treat one's modest SaaS subscription as a debutante ball entrance fee

NEW MEDIA is INSIDER MEDIA Rooted in Silicon Valley, but really a meditation on the moment. A theory of culture, taste, prestige, of TBPN, Mafia, Feed Me, and why a small audience of the right people beats a massive one of the wrong ones. Working Theory #100 Essay link below