Aman Mender
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Aman Mender
@AmanMender
Thinker & Creator. Building in Tech.
Milkyway Katılım Mayıs 2011
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Just spun-up my first agent-led company on @polsia
It’s addictive.
Much shorter feedback loops.
Instant action.
No waiting for weeks to see the results.
I’m thinking about launching a fund specifically to invest in agent-led companies.
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if i can give one advice to any ambitious fellow in europe 🇪🇺
you have one goal: come to SF 🇺🇸
honestly, this city is so freaking crazy.
so many extremely smart people within the same area.
you can talk about longevity, billions, crazy dreams, huge problems, AGI, robots, psychology… and still be understood.
it’s even the norm to be weird and fucking deeply delusional about something in the future.
here, people chase big. move fast. learn fast. fail fast.
the speed makes you care less about failures, cause you can win next day.
and the best part?
people ship daily cool shit instead of spending time on stupid certifications or giving talks about stuff they don’t even really master :)
i’ve been rooting for europe a lot but honestly it feels like comparing « la ligue 2 » to the champions league.
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I just made a full walkthrough on how I built an AI chatbot trained on someone’s YouTube videos so it can answer questions about what they teach
(I built one on @ryanclogg's video catalog)
inside, I show:
– how I collect and organize the video content
– build the knowledge base so it gives accurate answers
– set the rules for how it responds
– setting up guardrails so it doesn’t go off-topic or give wrong answers
– testing and improving it so it keeps getting better
if you want the walkthrough, comment “YT” and I’ll DM you the full guide (must be following)
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here's how to use Grok 4 to go VIRAL on X:
i grew this account from 0 to 10K+ followers in less than 2 months and already cracked the algorithm... but the integration of X inside Grok 4 is something different
i built a collection of 30+ prompts and tasks you can steal:
- find viral videos using x_keyword_research and craft banger tweets
- scrape for viral tweets with semantic search and repurpose them in threads
- weekly feed analysis to generate infinite content ideas in your niche
reply "GROK" + retweet and i'll send it for free (must be following so i can dm)
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you didnt build shit in 4 days
you yoinked a gpl-v3 code, slapped an apache license on it, and called it a startup
here’s a quick 101 on how not to steal open source
@garrytan @ycombinator is this what you invest in? yuck
Daniel Park@danifesto
Good morning, @im_roy_lee! In just 4 days we open-sourced the latest @cluely called Glass. Same real-time meeting assistant, sharper output & design, but 100% free. Distribution isn’t the moat; velocity is. 🔗 github.com/pickle-com/gla… (Highlights ↓ )
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Launching appsthatscale this week ✅
The most detailed
Guide on the internet
On how to create financial freedom
With B2C apps
→How to build your app in 7 days
→How to one-shot the review process
→How to scale from 0 to $10k/mo
in 30 days
Comment “Ready” down below
And I’ll DM you a 50% discount code
when it’s out.

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on @lovable , monetization, and the vibe coder economy
| these are all just notes from a 30-minute conversation i had with somebody. a fun little exercise, as you will see.
when people ask me what a hot take is, here's mine: more agent tools and ai tools should be pricing on outcomes and trying hard to figure out what that means.
the question hit me personally as a small investor in lovable and a consultant focused on value-based pricing: why am i not building my consulting business, my courses, my job board on lovable instead of spreading them across stripe, maven, circle, kit, and podia, it's because i could only possibly pay $100/month, and for that, they could not possibly offer me the features i need to.
there's an emerging class of creators, called "vibe coders", who can build functional applications through ai tools without traditional programming expertise. they have ideas, they have distribution, they can ship. but they get stuck on the boring stuff.
hitting the stripe wall
here's my reality: i have a course that generated about $800,000 last year. but it required me to pay about $8,000-$9,000 a year in subscription software like kit and podia, as well as over $100,000 in fees to maven. and i'm happy to do so because maven handles things like a little bit of marketing email automation as well as other tools, and someone on support to help me process group sales commissions, discount codes, etc. have a job board that does $2,000-$3,000 a month, but it's all set up through zapier integrations because i don't really want to figure out how to write code that does interfaces with stripe.
for something as small as a job board that makes $2000 a month, i could make it better. i could add subscription tiers, group discounts, automated listing management, upsells. but i don't want to figure out stripe testing, webhook handling, refund flows, and all the fintech minutiae that turns building into accounting.
this is the paradox of ai coding tools. they make creation effortless but leave monetization painful.
considering revenue sharing
what if ai platforms flipped the model entirely? instead of charging me monthly credits to build, what if lovable took 5% of whatever i make? suddenly, their incentive aligns perfectly with mine. they don't make money unless i make money.
instead of charging me monthly credits to build, what if lovable took 15% of whatever i make after some total revenue, what would it take for me to be completely happy with that?
heres some examples of what i'd want:
one-click monetization infrastructure. give me templates for subscriptions, one-off purchases, group deals. connect it to auth in an opinionated way. handle the stripe complexity behind a simple interface. helped me set up test accounts and test payments and process refunds with the admin ui, so that i don't feel like an idiot figuring out all of this stuff myself.
real support that scales with success. that 15% doesn't just disappear into platform profits. sure, some could become credits for platform features, but what if some other value gets enabled at higher price points? what if i allowed lovable to take 30% of my revenue? do i get better customer support? who knows?
migration and optimization services. when your supabase bill starts hurting, lovable could help you migrate to more cost-effective infrastructure. when you need cdn optimization or database scaling, they're incentivized to help because your success is their success.
as a consultant myself, i know people would happily pay 5% for this level of support. the alternative is hiring agencies, managing multiple vendors, or learning infrastructure management while trying to run a business.
compare that to piecing together stripe, customer support, infrastructure management, and scaling expertise across multiple vendors. even 15% starts looking like a bargain.
consider a hypothetical:
the lovable partners program
imagine this as a structured "lovable partners program." you opt into revenue sharing, and suddenly you have access to white-glove services that most platforms could never economically provide.
but here's the genius part: every forward deployed service becomes training data, and if you are one of the ones handling the payments, you know exactly who to reach out to.
the first time lovable helps someone migrate from supabase to a dedicated postgres instance, it's expensive. they might even eat some of the integration costs. but they capture every step: the schema analysis, the query optimization, the auth migration, the deployment changes.
this creates a compounding advantage. if i hire some team on upwork to handle my supabase migration, lovable learns nothing. they can't capture the code paths, the edge cases, the solutions that worked. but if they do it in-house through the partners program, every manual service eventually becomes a automated capability.
the platform gets better at helping all vibe coders succeed, while the early adopters get premium support during the learning phase. it's a flywheel that benefits everyone.
usually, successful ai-built apps eventually outgrow their platforms. traffic scales, costs climb, and builders face the dreaded migration to "real" infrastructure. it's like being kicked out of college for doing too well.
but with the partners program, success triggers support rather than abandonment. the platform becomes your technical co-founder, paid for by success rather than equity or hourly rates. and every challenge they help you solve makes them better at helping the next vibe coder facing the same problem.
the billion dollar mission
what if lovable's mission became: pay out $1 billion to vibe coders.
this reframes everything. customer success means revenue success. platform improvements mean better monetization tools. growth means more builders making more money.
why this matters
we're watching the emergence of a new creative class. people who can build functional software through natural language and intuition rather than syntax and systems thinking. they have taste and distribution, they understand problems, they can ship solutions but the long tail of the business is where they get stuck.
but they shouldn't have to become fintech experts to make money from their creations.
the platforms that figure out frictionless monetization – and align their incentives through revenue sharing – will capture this wave. the ones that stick to traditional saas pricing will watch their best users graduate away.
if you're building in this space or thinking about monetization models for ai tools, i'd love to hear your thoughts. the future feels wide open right now.
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@nikunj @omooretweets @a16z Very common. The launch date is often just moved around, after a “failed” launch
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@omooretweets @a16z When is the “start” of the clock? A lot of the data is not right given a company is pivoting or conveniently changes the date to show fast ramps.
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🚨 Data drop!
Our team @a16z published benchmarks on revenue growth for AI startups, from our proprietary dataset
The median B2B co is going 0 -> $2.1M ARR in year 1, while the median B2C co is going $0 -> $4.2M
(yes, consumer startups are growing revenue faster 🤯)

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@nico_jeannen Appreciate the honesty 🙌
I honestly struggled a alot with this when I was solo. Having a cofounder helps alot with the overall stress (self imposed).
I still always feel like I am never doing enough. But now I try to prioritize enjoying the ride.
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ok, honestposting time
Since I sold Talknotes for $200k last year, I have been pretty miserable
My bet was to lock in for a year and double down.
And it failed.
I've made almost no progress toward my goals since then
It was after 2 years of grinding non-stop, from learning to code, up to the $200k cash exit.
When I sold, I was already burned out, and I didn't take time to cool off cause there was 2 other apps I wanted to grow.
But neither really went anywhere (reasons in first comment)
In October, I started getting super depressed cause I was not growing a biz anymore, and that drove me crazy.
Started to have really dark thoughts. Even started to get white hairs (I'm 28!!).
Gym didn't help.
I also shipped less, cause I think I became scared of failing and wasting more time
I still got some sales ($1,300 MRR from the B2B app + its $25k exit in April + other projects), but nowhere near what I aimed for.
I feel like every hour not spent working is wasted, cause there will be more and more competition + less opportunities cause of AI (total bullshit btw, I know it's not true, but I always think of the worst, so that's still how I feel)
When I try taking time off, I want to go back to work immediately.
And it sucks, cause I can't make good decisions with the head "in" the business.
Also lots of instances where there are so many things I can do that I end up doing nothing (analysis paralysis)
I'm lucky cause my GF is super understanding with how much I work, otherwise it would have cost my relationship too
Tbh I don't mind not being happy in the present if I know I'm moving toward my goals (cause once I'm rich then I can chill down, focus on relationship, family etc). But right now I have neither
I don't post much about all that cause I don't like whining.
But I think it's also important to show the reality, and it's not always happy, cause ppl only post the best part on social media
So, yeah monk mode + solopreneur is amazing to get shit done fast. But if you don't have a plan or if it fails, you get double the slap
Will try to force myself to take vacations soon, my last day off was in December. Hopefully, this will help me think.

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people are making BANK with these viral baby podcast clips..
so I built an n8n flow that lets you automate the whole thing in minutes.
just drop in a topic + baby description and the flow will:
– write the script
– clone the voice
– generate the baby avatar
– create the full video
– upload it to Google Drive
want the JSON + set up guide?
like + comment “baby” and I’ll send it over (must be following so I can DM)
ps... I literally used this exact flow to get the inspiration for this post
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