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@Berry_cooool Auto

Claude can now sell for you 🤯 Meet Autosales An AI Employee that sells your Product FOR You 24/7 Just Paste your website URL and watch it sell. Trained on Brain data of a $1.2M/year Sales Guy Comment "Auto" for Exclusive Invite.

@indiesoftwaredv What’s the real conversation? Assuming this has a trial then paid …

> $365 spent on Meta Ads > $0.70 for per install > 525 app installs Meta Ads or TikTok Ads?

@YacineSibous Thank you for sharing this so openly! We need to hear more honest stories like this. Also, who cares what anyone thinks. You built an empire and learned along the way. Your next journey will be even more amazing.

Well, that was a crazy turn of events. Three weeks ago, I thought Parker was going to be acquired in a deal worth nearly $90M. Yesterday, we filed for Chapter 7. I spent most of my twenties building Parker. We went from an idea in YC to processing over $1B in annualized volume, pioneered products that became standard across fintech, and built something I believed could last for decades. And now it’s over. I know there’s going to be speculation about why Parker failed, but a lot of what’s being said online is simply not accurate. Over the last few years, we faced leadership turnover, a much tougher market, slowing growth, and the realities of trying to scale a venture-backed business after momentum fades. Earlier this year, we decided the best path forward was to pursue a sale of the business. We ran a process and spent months working toward a potential acquisition that ultimately did not close. After that, things moved quickly. The hardest part is the impact on the people involved: •Customers dealing with disruption •Employees losing jobs they worked hard for •Investors who believed in us losing money What I am proud of is the team. Parker was built by incredibly talented people who deserved a better outcome than this. Helping them land somewhere great is my top priority right now. If you’re hiring operators, engineers, designers, finance, credit, or growth talent, please reach out. To everyone who believed in Parker over the years: thank you.

@MichLieben ads

I'm giving away the Claude Code skills we use to manage $300k/mo in ad spend at ColdIQ. 4X ROAS on $1M+ spent. Ivan, our head of growth, built them off 300+ hours running ad campaigns for our clients. They run Google, Meta, and LinkedIn ads from the terminal in plain English: → bulk edits across platforms → custom audiences from CRM lists → creative fatigue detection before CTR dips → bid adjustments at scale → performance audits across periods Reply "ads" and I'll send the full repo. Must be following.

@tibo_maker I cannot agree more!!!

I'll never raise VC funds again for my startups ever ❌ not because I hate VCs - some of them are great people but the math just doesn't work for what I'm building here's why the math never works for builders like me: - say a VC raises a $100M fund - they'd need to return 3x to their investors - that's min $300m from one fund with maybe 20 bets - so every single company they back needs to have a shot at a billion-dollar outcome. that's not a preference, that's a structural requirement - now if Revid does $1M MRR, that's life-changing money for me but for a VC fund, it's a rounding error - the only way they make money is through a big fat exit. acquisition, IPO, or another round at a higher valuation so someone else can take the risk off their hands 🤯 our incentives are completely misaligned from day one, and when incentives are misaligned, pressure follows raising forces you to grow at a pace that you and the market aren't ready for you hire fast, burn fast, pivot fast, and die fast trying to hit a number someone else wrote on a whiteboard meanwhile I wake up every morning and decide what to build, who to hire, what to charge no board meeting, no quarterly targets I didn't set, and no one asking why I didn't grow 3x this year Revid, Outrank, SuperX, PostSyncer, Feather - all profitable, all mine 🚀 the portfolio just crossed $1m mrr and the best part isn't the numbers it's that I feel completely free ☺️ free to move fast, change direction, double down, or slow down - whatever feels right no one wrote that on a whiteboard for me staying small and profitable keeps you alive long enough to actually figure things out that's not a consolation prize - that's the whole game, at least for me 😇

@retireearlybro Nice! Visited Warsaw a few months ago :)

@BoredGirlBuilds Poland

I retired with $3m by age 36. My friend told me he thinks I'm wasting my potential. He's grinding 60-hour weeks, chasing promotions, fearing layoffs, climbing a ladder he didn't build and doesn't control. I wake up without alarms. I spend my time how I want. I own my days and my LIFE. So who's really missing out? We were taught that "potential" means squeezing every drop of productivity out of our lives. But what if real potential is freedom? Not everyone wants the same finish line. Some want status. Some want wealth. Some just want time. I chose time. And I'd make that trade again every single day.

@claudeai What’s the point of this when the limit reaches with just a few messages. I sent less than 10 messages on my pro account and already reached the weekly limit. Already switched to other platforms.

Introducing Claude Managed Agents: everything you need to build and deploy agents at scale. It pairs an agent harness tuned for performance with production infrastructure, so you can go from prototype to launch in days. Now in public beta on the Claude Platform.

@EditorRuwan @MrVisma @Meta She doesn’t work at meta anymore.

@BoredGirlBuilds @MrVisma @Meta What is his name?

I have spent over $20m on @Meta ads. Had my profile since 2013. Never had any ads rejected. Never used my profile for anything but ads manager. Then wake up permanently banned with no email, no appeal, no reason. I need help getting my profile back.

@brettcalhounn Define “interesting” ! Every business is risky!

If your idea is “interesting but risky,” you’re our type. Writing $250k–$500k checks. Early stage. DMs open.

@hridoyreh Nothing new. Not just Google. It’s everywhere. Etsy shutdown my half a million dollar business, no explanation, no response. Never got my access back. Can’t even get my tax info. These companies are ridiculous!!

Google killed a $250k/year business:

@Framer_X This is really cool!

Seedance 2.0 might take kids animation to the next level 🚀 Style, colors, and shapes - Now fully consistent. Short tutorial👇

@khushiirl Every day :)

There are so many ways to start without VC funding. It’s cheaper than ever to build companies. Your early adopters can literally pay for your expenses if you build something people actually want. That’s how you start without funding. I’ve done it, not once, but three times 🙂 VC money can help you scale faster, yes. But you don’t need big names like YC to build a unicorn.

@BoredGirlBuilds @___4o____ It's not possible to start a startup without backing from YC or others, unless you already have money in your pocket.

Guess how his company is doing now

@csaba_kissi Not even the execution. Marketing and distribution.

Ideas are cheap. Execution is where most people give up.

@ridimabuilds Absolutely! In fact, we built an educational robot for kids that teaches them AI among other things :)

Would you teach AI to your kids ?

@corbin_braun What’s that? 😅😂

do people still use stack overflow?

@TTrimoreau We did crowdfunding on indiegogo. But for SaaS I’d say ProductHunt, Reddit, and then AppSumo.

As a founder, what’s best way to get your first 100 paying users? 1. Building in public 2. Cold DMs 3. Paid Ads I’m asking because launching my SAAS next week

@feifei_qiu What’s the product?

Founders, If you just raised $100K pre-seed funding, how would you spend it?