maikeru
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maikeru
@LearnedVector
ex ai researcher. making gpus go brrr. aspiring polyglot







The new trend seems to be people showing a single feature app making $400K, like an alarm app or an affirmation app or a faxing app, and claiming how easy it is to build a utility app studio. The truth is that you cannot, and do not want to, compete against the big Turkish app studios. Or, to be fair, against other non Turkish single app companies like Alarmy at their own game. Monkey Taps , Spanish co, started back in 2014. They created an ecosystem of apps that goes after extremely competitive keywords, smart acquisition strategies, solid viral features, and ends up dominating a category that is nearly impossible to break into + their cross selling ecosystem, with scale, lets them consistently outcompete others in the Meta CPI/CPM game.l never beat their effective CPMs. Even an app like Alarmy probably has over 50+ employees, and most of them are performance marketing. Monkey Taps below, Spanish co, started back in 2014. They made an ecosystem of apps that goes after extremely competitive keywords, smart acquisition strategies, solid viral features, and ends up dominating a category that is nearly impossible to break into + their cross selling ecosystem, with scale, lets them consistently outcompete others in any CPI game.


On Opus 4.5: “I don’t have a pressing need for it to be smarter than it already is.”, just make it cheaper, faster with a 500k context window. – from a software engineer working in C++ writing JIT compilers




just whip up your own in @wabi with no dark patterns or annoying subscriptions 🙃




I met with a startup in the current batch who seemed demoralized because fundraising was going badly. Later I learned they'd already raised a million dollars. Fundraising going badly is not what it used to be.

Shipped it before t3, aifeasta, or any rando AI app could
















