Federico Sciuca

I left Italy for Texas knowing nobody on this continent. ☀️By day: marketing analytics. 🌙 By night: I build AI-native products solo with Claude Code and I post the real numbers. The good ones and the embarrassing ones. What I'm working on right now: - MonkeyTravel, an AI trip planner: 200+ users, 1M search impressions, zero paid marketing - a 30B model compressed to 2-bit, running on a 6GB GPU from 2016 (independent research paper) - an Android-based AI OS that runs commands without reading your screen Many previous projects got little or no traction. I'll show you why. If you build, market, or invest in this stuff, say hi. I reply to everyone.

It’s pretty cool but I’m always also skeptical when I hear some stories. How better can an alarm get before I’m willing to pay for it? Anyway, good stuff! He nailed it! Airbnb started from selling 40$ cereals

@DanielSmidstrup Some climbs are more exciting then others, other are more adrenaline and less exciting and shorter! I hope your is an endless multi-pitch 😂 keep going!!

@federico_sciuca Well, we are climbing, ahaa ;D

ClimbX just crossed $1,000 MRR 🤯 50 days since launch. Still feels surreal.

I would be curious to know how many features got implemented analyzing how people was using it! I was using multi-agents, memory tricks, some sort of rudimentary loops before having them officially in Claude Code. What do you think is going to be the next great feature?

I'll have no @Claude Code for the next 42 minutes.... I'm lost... what should I do? What do all the other normal people do in these cases? .... 41.....

I am 35 years old: - left Italy for Texas. - don’t know anyone in the entire continent. - I keep my 9-5 job at a multi-billion-dollar company. - Started posting on X. - Started shipping apps. - Looking for like-minded builders here. Let’s ship some cool products together. DMs are open! 🚀

@danielkleach Building monkeytravel.app in public but with other side projects as well. Honestly right now just building and expanding my network in the USA. Just moved to Texas from Italy so I literally start from 0. Didn’t know anyone in the entire continent! 😂

Just crossed 700 followers on X. 115+ follows in a single day.| No secret strategy. I just kept posting, replying, and meeting builders. Thank you to all who are following me on this journey. Now I’m curious: What are you building right now, and how many followers are you at? Drop it below. I want to connect 👇

@icanvardar Absolutely agree!! Storytelling and reframing what you are offering depending on who you are talking to. Which doesn’t mean lying but properly present what it is relevant or differentiating compared to the rest of the market

i think storytelling is the most underrated skill an entrepreneur can have you can build the greatest product in the world but if nobody knows it exists it might as well not exist tell your story before someone else tells it for you

@danielkleach Still a good starting point! 😂 I started…. 3 days ago actually 😂 but as for anything I’m in for the long run!

I’m closing in on the 500 verified follower requirement for X monetization. The 5 million impressions requirement is a whole different mountain 😅 So far I’ve generated: • 389K impressions • 8.4K engagements • 1.5K profile visits • 745 followers I’m genuinely happy with that growth. But seeing these numbers also puts into perspective just how difficult 5 million impressions really is for a smaller creator. I understand X needs a meaningful threshold for monetization… But I do wonder if engagement and community growth should carry a little more weight too. What do you think?

@Sherifdeenolat2 A cofounder who has the same vision for the product. Code is not a big roadblock anymore, sales can be learnt and it is pretty natural if you know the product and have the vision of it.

Founders, would you rather have: - cofounder who code - cofounder who sell

@kzitouni1 I don’t stop! Shipping every day since last August and new to US and here! Let’s go!!!

I unfollowed 50+ people over the weekend They all quit in less than 3 months I need to get some new faces on my feed If you're building and posting on X Give us a reason to follow you in the comments.

@emonuxui Execution is absolutely key! Knowing the whole picture and know what is the next right step to take towards that vision

@federico_sciuca Execution is becoming commoditized. Taste, distribution, and customer understanding aren't.

In a world where virtually everyone is able to build products. What is the product or the feature that will make the difference? I see many copies and many iterations of the same ideas and very few original works. What differentiate your idea from the others?

Let’s connect!

@GRKAZO Totally! I’m a strong believer that the big leverage is distribution nowadays, not pure product development. Everyone can build products that “works”. A different story will be “production level” products and have the right distribution and marketing

@federico_sciuca Yeah and also if you market you can move even faster

Devs, serious question. How did you get your first users to actually use the thing you built?

That’s also true but there are cases in which you have a product that is clearly ahead of the market. You could not have PMF. There are ways to “estimate” it. Are you providing the same outcome but 10X cheaper and 10X faster? You have a better product. Then you need feedback for UX optimization

@federico_sciuca The best product with no distribution will never know if it's the best or not bc there is no feedback

Trello charges $12.50 a seat every month for drag and drop lists Atlassian paid $425 million for it I cloned the core in 30 minutes: board, columns, cards, labels, deadlines, everything saved local the entire spec was one sentence describing what I wanted 1 of 30 SaaS dead this month the product was never the business, distribution was

@pmitu Discovered what commitment really means. You don’t know it until you realize that you are willing to invest in yourself 18h/7 and you do it with the smile on your face

Give me 1 insight that changed your life.

@tibo_maker I love it!!

ok I'm cooking what else should I add? 👀

@gregisenberg I have built some of these ideas in my standard Claude Code framework and it works like a charm but 100% the AI agents are a tool that right now are almost black boxes. You prompt and see the output and then optimize the prompt but you spend in the meanwhile.There are better ways

Build startups for agents. I think it's the biggest opportunity of the next 10 years. 1. Agents live inside harnesses like Hermes. If you're the tool it loads by default or reaches for first, you're golden. This happened in desktop, mobile eras and created huge companies. 2. Agents burn money in ways no human would. One bad loop spends $100 in tokens in eight minutes. Spend controls for agents is Ramp for agents. 3. Agents need memory they can trust. Become the shared brain they read and write to and you become infrastructure. 4. You obv don't hand an agent your real Stripe account. You give it a sandbox. Safe environments for agents is a category nobody's clocked. 5. Onboarding flips. Humans click around for ten minutes. Agents onboard by reading your docs. Your docs are now your product. 6. Agents get scammed by other agents. A track record you can check before you trust one becomes real money. 7. An agent needs to prove it's acting for a real person and has the authority to spend. Who builds the permission layer? 8. Escrow for machines. Money that only releases when the job is actually verified done, no human checking. 9. Agents fail silently and weirdly. Someone will build the "why did my agent do that" replay and it'll be mega valuable. 10. Refunds and disputes between agents need a judge. An agent did the job badly, who decides? A court for machines. 11. Agents need throwaway payment methods per task, so they don't leak your real card. Virtual cards for agents, spun up and killed on demand. 12. A human hits rate limits and shrugs. An agent hits them and the whole workflow dies. Selling reliable, high-throughput access becomes its own business. 13. Agents need to negotiate. One agent buying from another will haggle on price and terms in milliseconds. The protocol for that doesn't really exist yet. 14. When an agent commits on your behalf, someone's liable. A legal and insurance layer for agent actions has to get built. Probably venture funded idea. 15. Agents need to run 24/7 somewhere. Selling the always on box an agent lives on is going to be a big business. 16. Then the physical world shows up. A warehouse robot paying for its own compute. A home robot ordering its own parts. Machines with wallets. 17. Agents start hiring robots. A software agent posts a real world job, a humanoid picks it up. A marketplace for machine labor. 18. Robots need to prove they did the physical job. Verification of real-world work, photos, sensors, proof, becomes its own layer. Note: more ideas like this will be shared on @ideabrowser 19. Prompt and skill versioning becomes its own git. When your agent gets worse overnight, you need to roll back the exact skill or instruction that broke it. Version control built for agent behavior. 20. Agents will start subscribing to other agents. Your research agent pays a monthly fee to a specialist agent that's really good at one thing. Recurring revenue, machine to machine. 21. Companies will post jobs that only agents can apply to. "Wanted: an agent that can do XYZ for under like $100 per task." A job board where the applicants are all machines. Basically, fiverr for machines. The internet got built for people. Mobile got built for people. This wave gets built for machines, and we're as early as it gets. Go build for them.