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Okay I'm full on on board the Vibe Coding era. Good vibes only. Step 1: Learn 1. @bentossell's vibe coding course. (Ben's one of my faves and OG #nocoder and he's all in on Vibe Coding) 2. @marclou's codefast course. (He makes money. Didn't know how to code several years ago. Nuff said.) Step 2: AI Stack IDE - @cursor_ai (debating between @windsurf_ai too) Guidance - @OpenAI & @AnthropicAI Design - @onlookdev just discovered this. I'm big on design and feel like I would be far too intimidated trying to design on Cursor IDE when I'm used to a visual editor (ala Webflow). This looks like the perfect tool for me to help bridge the design visually + coding. Backend - @supabase Will try to share my guidance. I'm super excited about my next project and it's been one I've been thinking about for a while. Has to do with current field in my main job (finance). Still debating on technical stack (leaning @reactjs @nextjs). LFG. Any #vibecoders out there? #vibecoding #buildinpublic #vibecode

@leylndd Aight followed. You know ball. Perfect blend of ball and tech

opus a month ago vs opus now

@devoncnp I got the lowkey part down. Now to aim for the rich part

Get lowkey rich. Travel. Wake up without an alarm. Don't explain what you do. Let them wonder.

Walking alone through a foreign city at night and realizing how far you’ve come has to be a top 3 peak moment of all time

@Gifftybabe Preach! (It’s 2am over here)

Late nights. Something about the whole world being quiet while you are building something from nothing hits different.

@michaelmiraflor @hypem Man! Hypem single handedly made me an indie music addict in highschool. I had no idea they were still around. I think I even paid for a monthly or yearly plan a while back

I log onto Hype Machine at least once every few weeks to listen to remix tracks that don’t exist anywhere else (not on YouTube and certainly not on Spotify). 2/3 of my @hypem music links are dead but I still like scrolling through them and listening to the ones that still work to remind myself of how special the blog era was. Truly the best of internet culture before the algorithms flattened everything.

@LakersReporter @RyanWardLA Glad to see Lakers increasing their comp band to more accurately reflect Los Angeles rates lol

The Lakers are looking to add to their analytics department: teamworkonline.com/basketball-job…

@clairevo I mainly do accounting for CPG companies. It’s brutal, even when they are doing really well (my best company went from $6M to $50M in just 4 years) , they still hate their lives. It’s a grind

Every time someone suggests getting into cpg food I send them this text from my friend in cpg food

@yasser_elsaid_ Legend as always Yasser!

This is my playbook for bootstrapping an AI agent business to $9M ARR. The most important thing is that you need something repeatable and scalable, something where if you do more of, you get more money. You need the equation where you can arbitrage every dollar you spend into more dollars on the other end. Here is how you get there: 1. if you're in B2B, just do the B2B stuff. self-serve is very hard to make work in B2B. it's so much easier to build a sales team, teach them the product, and let them sell it, instead of building a very intuitive platform and hoping people figure it out. that's why all these bigger companies are mainly doing "book a demo with us." they charge customers a lot more because there's no public pricing, and they can set the product up for them. you cannot rely on a middle manager at a non-tech company to put in the effort to use your platform, even if it's extremely intuitive. if you're bootstrapping, you can't hire a sales team on day one. so you need momentum from self-serve customers first. but the goal is to layer in sales as fast as possible, get on demo calls, set up the product for bigger customers, and invest in building an intuitive platform at the same time. 2. content is non-negotiable, even if you're sales-led. good content gets you brand visibility and brand awareness, and that makes all the other channels work much more efficiently. paid ads work much better if people recognize your brand. if they click on your page and see content that people are engaging with, good quality content, it compounds everything. here's what that looks like: video: it depends on your ICP, but we all know video is hard to do, and that's a good thing because it makes the barrier to entry much higher. you can signal that you are a serious business if you do good quality video content. be creative within video, but don't get too creative with the kinds of videos. the kinds of videos you should be doing are product videos and customer videos. that's it. you can be creative in telling your customers' story, you can be creative in launching a product, but don't do the stunt thing, the office content, the random skits. they can work, but you only do them after you do the things that you know will work. hire a videographer in-house. agencies are so expensive (this is just a good rule of thumb). text + personal brands: you need personal brands for everyone in the company. EGC (employee-generated content) needs to be a non-negotiable. everyone on the team posting at least twice a week. 3. warm outbound is the lowest-hanging fruit. warm outbound = outbounding people who have already seen your product. people who interacted with your LinkedIn posts. people who visited your site but haven't signed up. people who created an account but never finished onboarding. these people are the lowest-hanging fruit. email them, call them, put them in a sequence until they become customers. you can have very clear KPIs for your team on this. 4. cold outbound, if your ICP is big enough. be good at writing cold emails and managing your own infrastructure. don't go through an agency. build a system where you can send emails profitably. if it works, send more. if that works, send more. scale it until it doesn't make sense to continue. also do this in-house if it's an important channel. 5. SEO and AEO are extremely important. whenever I want to try a new product, I ask Claude. AI search is a non-negotiable channel now. you need to show up there. that means a lot of Reddit, a lot of review websites, a lot of talking to blogs and backlinking sites to make sure they write what you want with the messaging you want. 6. expansion: be friends with your biggest customers. get on a call with them. know them by name. they need to have your number. they need to be advocates for you. build community around the customer. a lot of founders do not see their customers as friends or a community. they just see them as revenue. that's so bad. your customers need to enjoy spending time with you and talking with you. 7. pricing is the fastest lever. you need to find a good sweet spot for packaging and pricing. incentivize people to spend more money and make sure it's a good deal for them. there's no shortcut, you talk to customers, see what they care about, see what they get a lot of value out of, and capture some of that value while making sure they're successful. 8. margins don't matter early on. if you have a $10M ARR business but you spend $10M to run it, that's fine. you can always cut costs. revenue is the most important metric. it's easier to cut costs than to make more money, so in the beginning, focus on making more money. That's how we built @chatbase to where it is today. Most of this will continue to scale with us as we go to 100M ARR.

@fin465 sick. GUIDE

Now that we’re done at YCombinator, we’re revealing how we went from 0 → $10k MRR in our first 30 days, using only ONE channel (step by step). We spent less than $100 and didn’t have any paid ads, SEO, waitlist, or content marketing. Instead, we sent 50-75 highly targeted cold emails a day. Cold email is the most underrated channel because it's hard to get right, but if you figure it out you can sell ANY B2B product. Here's what we did from start to finish: STEP 1: Build an ultra‑specific customer profile at both company and person level. If you do this right, you can mess everything else up and still succeed. The goal here is to create such a perfect customer, that if they heard about your solution they would have no choice but to say "tell me more". Step 2: Build your list After you create this customer profile, find the companies that meet this criteria. Find 30–50 target companies on LinkedIn, then grab decision‑maker emails via Apollo/Wiza. STEP 3: Writing a killer email I used to run an outbound email agency and we'd send 50k+ emails/month to book b2b sales calls via cold email. Here are the basic principles of cold email writing that I always use: -Keep it 5-8 sentences. 70%+ of emails are read on mobile, so make sure they get most of it from that screen view. - Never write more than 2 sentences without breaking up the lines. People skim, and that’s the best way to keep their attention - DO NOT talk about your product’s features. - Instead, talk about the person, their company, and their pain points. STEP 4: The call I took 493 sales calls in Origami’s first 3 months. Here's what I learned: The 2 biggest goals for this call are - Figuring out the customer’s problems - Getting the customer excited about your solution Unless you already have PMF, it doesn't matter if you have a full built product. You still need to spend 90%+ of your time figuring out what the customer actually needs. In the early stages, you can even offer a full refund if they aren’t satisfied to give them maximum confidence and get your first few deals over the line. STEP 5: Closing/After Congrats! You cracked cold email. This was the exact approach we used at Origami to get our first $10k MRR, and the highest converting outbound approach I’ve seen when I ran my agency. I posted the stats in my prior tweets, but in our first 40 days we sent 3119 emails (~77 per day) and got a 5.3% response rate, resulting in demos with 64 founders at companies within our ICP. This resulted in ~$22k new MRR by the time our sales for all of these calls had closed. The best part is that once you nail this process, you can automate it. We've got our Origami AI Agents (@origamichat) finding new customers 24/7, which frees us up to explore new channels and focus on scaling. CONCLUSION This is a very short version of my guide. The full guide I posted on X last year (@fin465) hit 800k impressions and 10k+ bookmarks. If you want me to DM it you, comment GUIDE.

@basketOfries1 @Sean_Davi Sure but he still passed the ball successfully. It’s everyone’s fault kinda but Boozer should get most blame

@Sean_Davi Everyone gonna blame little Boozer but Sar should've never passed to him at that point.

In a must foul situation just hold the ball and get fouled, or at the very least just play under control

@julianweisser Lost in Translation was such a transcendent film for this reason

I love the run and gun nature of some film/tv productions. No permits, just making it happen. It transfers through to the final result. In the films like Lost in Translation you can feel the energy of shooting on the edge. Chase that feeling in your own work.

@iiiitsandrea Liquid Gold Popsicles are gonna hit so hard

can’t wait to show you the colostrum puffs that are launching in summer 👀

@richkuo7 Me too bruh. But the audacity of Opus to say co-authored by Claude Code SMFH

IDGAF i use Opus 4.6 to commit and push

@MitcheIl Launch

@KamBrothers Roma not winning best picture still makes me mad today. The academy hates Netflix

One Battle After Another Parasite* Moonlight Everything Everywhere All at Once Anora Oppenheimer CODA Nomadland The Shape of Water Green Book** AK * - Could easily flip Parasite and OBAA, depending on the day ** - Still too high

@OvOBrezzzy @CountOnVic Him looking at his next few roles

We about to see this mf go on a generational run after what happened yesterday 😭

@tweetboutnuthn @CountOnVic

@CountOnVic I feel like showering in the morning helps me feel more awake and alert before work

Explain what?! Lmao there’s no better feeling than showering before bed. It’s relaxing, you clean yourself from the whole day and get in bed fresh and cozy. Showering in the morning is diabolical unless it’s summer or you’re a morning gym person.

@jjmaples55 Almost like people wearing shoes inside their house… bruh why (tho I know this specifically is an Asian thing)

I don't like going to bed dirty

@redsteeze It’s the voters hating Netflix, unfortunately

Train Dreams loses Cinematography. So I'm out.

@serafimcloud 👀🙏👀🙏

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