Apparently its weird to prefer reading when there's free wifi on a plane...
We've become too adhd as a society
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Mike Gindin
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Mike Gindin
@GindinMike
Always building Cofounder and CTO of @usesproutapp (1M+ downloads).
Katılım Kasım 2016
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When it comes to marketing and sales, Dillon is the real deal
Dillon Mendes@dillonmendes_
we bootstrapped from 0 to $3M ARR in 7 months no vc, influencers, or founder-led marketing
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You get llm reliability from evals. Run the existing prompt vs your changes with an llm judge (use a good sample size).
Now... how do you ensure the llm judge is reliable?
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You try a "smarter and faster" model in your AI product. Everything looks great until 2 weeks later a user reports a serious degredation. Turns out many were affected, you just didnt notice. Whats your course of action?
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When they say the devils in the details, they're not joking. It can take a day to build a feature, but weeks of refinement when you deal with scale, compliance, customer feedback, etc.
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@etscrivner Im no fan of OOP, cant stand writing Java
But from a large business software point of view, this seems like a reasonable tradeoff?
With teams shuffled, layoffs, changing devs - like politics, forced bureaucracy prevents fast changes that can break things
Games are an exception
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OOP was (at least partly) an attempt to create a mechanical system for modeling any area of knowledge with only partial understanding. As a result, its default result is usually extremely defensive and verbose code (see screenshot).
Techniques like abstract base classes and inheritance hierarchies are precisely for guarding against future changes caused by ignorance or lack of planning. The problem is this level of generality/flexibility is almost always unnecessary and has non-trivial compile time, run time, and complexity costs.
Łukasz | Wookash Podcast@wookash_podcast
I just learned that this style of OO programming is still taught in 2026 that's 200k views, 2months ago, "Rebuilding Pokemon with Object Oriented Programming"
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Anybody doing consumer app marketing should be paying attention here
Aaron Paul@_aaronpaul25
So I watched the podcast that @madebycol did with @JosephKChoi about Glam Up + Sprout. Most of it was directionally accurate, but the real value is in the details. Not gonna nitpick every detail from it but here’s 5 things I would’ve added / super valuable for anyone building in consumer 👇
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Mike Gindin retweetledi
So I watched the podcast that @madebycol did with @JosephKChoi about Glam Up + Sprout.
Most of it was directionally accurate, but the real value is in the details.
Not gonna nitpick every detail from it but here’s 5 things I would’ve added / super valuable for anyone building in consumer 👇
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Mike Gindin retweetledi
The video covers the highlight reel, but the real leverage was the operating system behind it: product, UGC, creator coaching, onboarding, paywalls, backend ops, and constant iteration.
I was Co-founder & CEO across Glam Up + Sprout and just started sharing more context and will continue to share more from the builder side.
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Mike Gindin retweetledi
About time @_aaronpaul25 is taking some credit for what we've built 😂🌶️
Aaron Paul@_aaronpaul25
Cool to see this story getting attention. A short interview naturally compresses a lot of context, so I’ll add my side. I was Co-founder & CEO across Glam Up and Sprout, led much of the product, growth, and execution behind both, and owned all the design + engineering for Glam Up. Glam Up reached 1M+ downloads in under 6 months, fully bootstrapped. Sprout is now bootstrapped to $250k+ MRR. The highlight reel is fun to talk about. The operating system behind it is what’s actually valuable. I’ve stayed mostly quiet online, but I’m going to start sharing the playbook behind building AI mobile + web apps from 0 → scale. Verified metrics below 👇
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@_aaronpaul25 You're not gonna find someone with more insight and experience about this other than @_aaronpaul25
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Mike Gindin retweetledi
Cool to see this story getting attention. A short interview naturally compresses a lot of context, so I’ll add my side.
I was Co-founder & CEO across Glam Up and Sprout, led much of the product, growth, and execution behind both, and owned all the design + engineering for Glam Up.
Glam Up reached 1M+ downloads in under 6 months, fully bootstrapped. Sprout is now bootstrapped to $250k+ MRR.
The highlight reel is fun to talk about. The operating system behind it is what’s actually valuable.
I’ve stayed mostly quiet online, but I’m going to start sharing the playbook behind building AI mobile + web apps from 0 → scale.
Verified metrics below 👇
Joseph Choi@JosephKChoi
I saw the $400k MRR screenshots from @madebycol so of course I had to investigate turns out she's built 4 apps—first one hit 150k MRR, second 250k MRR, latest two in stealth at 400k MRR combined. been running the UGC playbook for years. we went deep on the growth strats👇 0:00 Nicole's App Portfolio and Numbers 2:14 How GlamUp Was Born in a 10-Minute Phone Call 5:29 The Copycat App That Made Them $100K in a Week 9:49 The Viral TikTok Formula They Ran Across 40 Creators 17:16 The Referral System That Took Over TikTok Comments 22:43 What Happened When They Tripled the Price 24:50 The Discounted Paywall Strategy and Upgrade Triggers 30:28 Scaling Sprout to 250K MRR and 100M Monthly Views 31:42 Inside the Creator Course That Gets People Viral in 2 Weeks 44:42 The Paywall Test That Showed a 50% Conversion Increase 53:16 Advice Most App Founders Never Hear
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We're bringing the best founders together during Toronto Tech Week.
No pitch decks, no panels, no name tags - just people are actually building...and open bar 👀
Come through!
link to register 👇🏼
luma.com/4l6qduyl
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And every line of Instant is open source. Including our launch essay too.
After 4 years, this is Instant 1.0.
Give us a try today by running npx create-instant-app.
Essay: instantdb.com/essays/archite…
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@stopachka Lets goooo
Highly recommend instant, it will blow your mind
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1/ We just raised $2.7M to give AI "hands" to do real work. 🚀
Browser automation has been broken for 20 years. If a button moves 10 pixels, your script breaks.
Meet Skyvern: The open-source agent that fixes the "maintenance tax" of automation.
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@itssuchintan Congratulations guys, well deserved!
Loving the product so far and looking forward to seeing where it goes in 2026 and beyond!
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