Oleg Melnikov

@ennucore love how creative you are

Made a little ultrasonic fountain! It makes jet of water which you can move around. It also turns cold water into mist:

@gregisenberg yes, because "distribution = moat"

I think we’ll see a lot more creator/media acquisitions over the next 5 years in the age of AI

I vibe coded howtogetrich.ai — you can get a personalized advice on how to make money with AI in just 30 seconds based on the knowledge from @gregisenberg , @liamottley_ , @ycombinator , @garrytan and others

@johnhelmuth_ @bcherny @wongmjane @BenLesh I know big companies, who have "own it" as a part of their culture. For instance @mikekamo and his company NP Digital (with 1000+ employees).

@olegrows @bcherny @wongmjane @BenLesh It's the new generation. Accountability means nothing. It's always the "system" to blame, not the person. From tech companies to politics and everything in between. Same story. The only place that is not true is in small businesses. That shit comes down to individuals.

Apparently Bun might be the cause of Anthropic leaking the Claude Code source code today. A 3-week old bug where source maps are hosted when they shouldn't be. It's wild there were no tests to catch such an issue #issuecomment-4163277829" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">github.com/oven-sh/bun/is…

@0xRaduan for how long Claude Code will stay popular until being replaced by something else, what is your prediction?

claude became the "work AI" for normies. chatgpt for random stuff, claude for work. people are installing vs code to run claude code in integrated terminal. why? the app exists exactly for that reason... anyways, everyone I know at this point is using claude, which is exciting

@bcherny @wongmjane @BenLesh why it's never an individual's fault? I think the best culture is where people OWN their mistakes and are willing to learn from them otherwise people just pass the buck

Mistakes happen. As a team, the important thing is to recognize it’s never an individuals’s fault — it’s the process, the culture, or the infra. In this case, there was a manual deploy step that should have been better automated. Our team has made a few improvements to the automation for next time, a couple more on the way.

@0xRaduan what is an example where opus lied vs codex was honest? I'm using Claude Code all the time (btw thanks for introducing it to me) and I didn't experience any advantages on the Codex side

I trust codex 10 times more than I trust opus. Something weird with how opus lies too much.

I'm 25, and as a founder here are 5 simplest things that make me happy every day: - deep focused work (6+ hours) - workout (30 min) - meditation (3 times 5 min each) - offline by 9 pm - last meal before 7 pm, no coffee after 12 pm Focusing on fundamentals.

I stayed away from X for months, but now I realized this: News and cool ideas discovery happens mostly on this platform. So I will spend more time here from now on. Any tips on whom to follow to get the best insights on the AI and tech businesses? Like Greg Isenberg.

@g_fedorenko what are the examples of apps that started like that? with one perfect feature

The new formula: → ONE core feature → ONE user flow → Make it PERFECT Then scale from there.

The "ship it broken and iterate" MVP is dead in 2025. Here's the new playbook 👇🏻

@Rhyscryptoo what a crazy scale. it would be cool to ad AI that analyses what hooks have worked in these 10,000 videos. this data will increase chances of going viral again by a lot.

A founder gave us one video. We turned it into 10,000 uploads. Here's exactly how it works: Step 1: The founder records one long-form video. Who they are. Why they do it. What they built. Raw. Unedited. Just their story. Step 2: They hand us the file. Step 3: We distribute it to our community of 12,000 Clippers. These aren't random people. They're trained on our guidelines. They know what goes viral. Step 4: Each Clipper creates optimal viral edits. Short. Punchy. Designed for the algorithm. Step 5: They upload to their personal pages. Not the founder's page. Theirs. Step 6: Views start rolling in. We pay Clippers per 1,000 views. The founder gets mass exposure. The result? Instead of hoping one post goes viral... The founder controls how many people see their message. One video. Thousands of uploads. Millions of views. You're not gambling anymore. You're the dictator of your own reach. That's the difference between hoping for attention and engineering it.

i've been building ai automations for content creation for a year now. here are 3 tools i keep coming back to: 1. n8n this one's not simple, but it's powerful. you can automate finding viral ideas from top voices in your niche. analyze their best-performing posts from the last 60 days → get those ideas in a Google Sheet. it's a probabilistic game. this increases your chances by at least 5x. 2. Claude (not ChatGPT) most people i know who actually create content at scale prefer Claude for copywriting. my marketer friend with 50K followers on LinkedIn uses Claude for everything. there's a reason. 3. Kie AI unified dashboard for all visual generation models (NanoBanana Pro, Sora2, etc). cheaper than going direct to OpenAI or Google. i use it in my own n8n workflows. people who ignore these tools in 2026 will lose the competition. what tools are you using?

@ycfra nice! where can I check your viral videos? very curios to see the engagement metrics I understand that getting engagement with AI-generated content is not always easy, I'm building an AI system for LinkedIn myself

I never run out of viral video ideas. Because I systematized creativity. I save trending audio, study viral patterns, and turn one good concept into 5 different videos. Result? I can batch 30 videos in 2 hours. Most creators wing it and wonder why they burn out.

@starter_story I've built my YouTube to 13k. Confirmed.

The "10K Rule": If you can organically build something to 10K followers, 10K email list, or $10K profit, then you are set for life. Not for the audience or money specifically, but for the skills you develop on the way & the persistence required to get there. Knowing you can do it gives you the confidence you can do anything in life.

@xFarhanFyzee @thejustinwelsh the first post that I did using Justing' "Copywriting 101" technique got 3k views and 30 likes not bad for my 2.5k followers profile I also added his frameworks to my AI system and results are just subjectively better btw, why didn't you implement much from it?

@olegrows @thejustinwelsh I got this a while back I haven't implemented much though. How's it going for you?

I did $1,043,516 in revenue in November 2025 at 90% margins. 60% partner deals, 38% courses and subs, and 2% sponsors. Then, I killed 3 out of 4 of my top revenue streams and am retooling for 2026. Should be a fun rebuild.

@Reinhardt_17nel thank you brother! we are hustling in the same trenches 💪🏻

@olegrows Love your work mhan just a saffa 🇿🇦trying to replicate your hustle here in the motherland 🤌🤌

how i quit my 6-figure job in amsterdam and moved to dubai, in the pursuit of my dream it all started 3.5 years ago - i began my career as a researcher in a trading fund in amsterdam the job was hard, competitive, and addictive. it was pure science, but directly applied to finances and the goal was to predict assets’ prices in the future (like in any type of trading lol) and to be honest, to me it was about making money and becoming financially independent from the day one (money meant freedom to live the life i wanted, not to buy expensive stuff) i knew it wouldn’t be the industry where i will spend the rest of my life, i knew i wanted to build something that people use, i knew i wanted to inspire people at scale and that does not happen in trading so after i made enough money (to comfortably live for 2 years) I quit and moved to dubai the very next day (wondering why dubai? - that’s another story) what was on my mind at the moment? - i wanted to build an audience on youtube, talk about ai automation and build some sort of business around it long story short: after 8 months of living in dubai and making absolute ZERO money i closed my first b2b deal with a business from the US - the client came completely organically from my youtube and this summer my international youtube channel has crossed 10k subs all while i was shy to make content in english, not confident of my accent and feeling the imposter syndrome but i did it anyways i didn’t earn anything close to what i was making in trading (yet), and i’m still a rookie when it comes to business but i take risks, and live my life on my own terms which no money will ever buy

@Sronds oh man I love how this onboarding feels makes me want to go get my future wife PS. i already know what youssef is building and you'll be blown away when he'll reveal it 🤫

boys. can anyone guess what app i'm building?

@danieldalen man, how are you so authentic and sincere on camera? this is literally a hack for explosive growth on social media it reminds me of Drake's word from one of his songs "everybody's fake, you can crack the code"

Everything happens twice.

@wizofecom if you go vanilla - it's boring and no one cares if you go bold - it's polarizing and viral

The founders whose content people wait for are thinking deeper than everyone else. They're the ones who sit with an idea long enough to say something no one else has put to words. That's what makes people remember them and follow them. To do this right, you don't need to be a philosopher or spend hours writing every post. You just need to say what you believe enough times, with enough conviction, that people remember you for it. Most founders I work with already have the experiences. They've lived through enough to have real takes. The problem is they've never sat down and articulated what those lessons are. So start there. 1. Write down 5 things you believe that most people in your industry don't. 2. Write down 5 opinions you'd defend at dinner. 3. Write down 5 mistakes you made that changed how you run your business. That's your content for the next 3 months. Once you know what you stand for, the only job left is saying it enough times that people finally believe you mean it. I've helped hundreds of founders get to that point. I can't teach them how to think or what experiences to have. But I can help them systemize how they share those lessons so the right people hear them.

@wizofecom thanks for sharing! I'm building an AI for personal branding and training it on the best strategies available already added Justin Welsh's course "LinkedIn OS" into it might add this strategy as well

If I was building a personal brand from 0 as a founder & nobody knew me, my business, or anything at all This is everything I would do to build a presence that attracts leads and authority from scratch: (90-day roadmap)