Dominik Habichtsberg

VideoLog - it's getting there 🎉 ✅ Mac & iPad MVP done ✅ HUD-Widgets finalised ✅ Count-Ups and Countdowns added 🟧 iPhone App still acting up a bit. Tomorrow! ⬜️ AppStore Publish for Review (Sun. May, 24th) ⬜️ Marketing

@TTrimoreau Interesting thought. The faster everything goes, people might actually loose patience because they are not used to things taking longer anymore. So probably yes?

If AI keeps reducing the time to build… does patience become more valuable than ever?

@Iam_KOSI_ Managing, organizing & orchestrating

By 2030, coding won’t be the bottleneck anymore. What skill takes its place?

@stijnnoorman I feel like this post is popping up every other day. Starts to get a little annoying tbh. You have so much more to share :-)

It took me 3 months to hit 183 followers. So I quit. Then I restarted. 2,5 years later I hit 55,000 followers. Trust the process.

@sukh_saroy Thank you for sharing. Very valuable. And it makes a lot of sense. Self-Control and self regulation ... if you don't have it, it's hard to stay on track. Hard to not quit when things get hard. Luckily it is possible to train that muscle

A team of researchers in New Zealand followed 1,037 babies from the day they were born for the next 45 years to find out what actually determines a successful adult life, and the strongest predictor they found had almost nothing to do with intelligence or family wealth. The findings have been published in the most prestigious scientific journals in the world. Almost no parent has heard of them. His name is Avshalom Caspi. Her name is Terrie Moffitt. They are a husband and wife research team based at Duke University and King's College London, and the study they have spent their careers running is called the Dunedin Multidisciplinary Health and Development Study. It started in 1972 in a single hospital in Dunedin, New Zealand. Every baby born there in a 12-month window was enrolled. 1,037 of them. The study is still running today. The retention rate is the part that should astonish anyone familiar with how research usually works. After more than 45 years, over 90 percent of the original participants are still being tracked. Most longitudinal studies lose half their sample inside ten years. The Dunedin team has lost almost nobody. They measured everything. Blood. DNA. Brain scans. Income. Criminal records. Romantic relationships. Drug use. Dental health. Sleep. Mental health. Lung function. They flew participants who had moved abroad back to Dunedin every few years for a full day of assessments. Some of those people now live in seven different countries. They still show up. For the first decade of life, the team did something nobody else was doing systematically. They measured each child's self-control. Not IQ. Not family income. Not parenting style. Self-control. They watched 3-year-olds in a research lab and rated their ability to wait, regulate frustration, follow instructions, and resist impulsive reactions. They added teacher ratings. They added parent ratings. They added the children's own self-reports as they grew older. They combined all of it into a single highly reliable score. Then they did the thing nobody else had the patience to do. They waited. When the data came in at age 32, the result was so consistent it should be illegal to teach a child without it. The children who scored lowest on self-control at age 3 grew into adults with worse physical health, more substance dependence, lower incomes, more credit card debt, higher rates of single parenthood, more criminal convictions, and worse mental health than the children who scored highest. The pattern was not subtle. It was a clean gradient. Every step up in childhood self-control produced a measurable step up in adult outcomes across every domain the team could measure. The detail that should disturb every parent reading this is what happened when the researchers controlled for the obvious objections. When they controlled for IQ, the effect held. When they controlled for family income and social class, the effect held. When they compared siblings inside the same family, the sibling with lower self-control still had worse adult outcomes than the sibling with higher self-control. Same parents. Same house. Same dinner table. The trait was running independently of everything researchers expected to explain it. The paper landed in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in 2011. The title was as plain as it gets. "A gradient of childhood self-control predicts health, wealth, and public safety." It has been cited thousands of times since. Almost no policy maker has acted on it. The reason most people resist this finding is that it sounds like a sentence handed down before the child could speak. If the trait that determines your adult life is locked in by age 3, the rest of your life is a formality. The Dunedin researchers say that is the wrong way to read the data. They found something else in the same paper that almost nobody quotes. Some of the children whose self-control scores improved between childhood and adolescence ended up with adult outcomes far better than their early scores predicted. The trait is not destiny. It is a muscle. Children who learned to wait, regulate, and resist between ages 5 and 15 caught up with kids who started ahead. Self-control is the one childhood trait nobody seems to teach on purpose anymore. Schools focus on test scores. Parents focus on activities. Coaches focus on performance. The part of the brain that decides between five seconds from now and five years from now is left to develop on its own, and the data shows it usually does not. The most uncomfortable part of the research is the cost calculation Moffitt and Caspi ran. They estimated that if a country could move the bottom 20 percent of children up one rung on the self-control ladder, it would measurably reduce healthcare spending, welfare dependency, and incarceration costs at the national level. The intervention is cheaper than almost any other public health investment available. Almost no country has tried it at scale. The reason adults struggle with money, weight, addiction, and relationships is rarely intelligence. It is the gap between what you want right now and what you want in ten years, and which side of that gap your nervous system is built to listen to. Most people lost that fight at age 4 and never went back to learn the technique. You were not behind because life dealt you a bad hand. You were behind because the part of you that decides between right now and the rest of your life was never taught how to choose. The good news is the muscle is still there. Almost nobody trains it after age 10. You can be the one who does.

@shengkun_ye @fdotinc love the energy 🔥 Keep going 🚀

six weeks ago, i quit my job. then things started moving crazy fast. we got into @fdotinc in our second week. started launching every day. got our first paying customer. our paying customers keep topping up. got our first check, then the second. every day there’s so much going on. all your energy and emotions get compressed. before you can react, the next thing hits. there are ups and downs. sometimes it’s exhausting. but i love it. i love that life can hold so much more in the same amount of time. and i love being a founder.

@Sherifdeenolat2 Building (Finalising), Preparing for Review, Marketing

Good morning founders. How are you spending your weekend? - building - marketing - chilly

@Tobby_scraper Building! At least for me it's also kind of charging my batteries 😅

GM Guys. Building this weekend or charging batteries?

@dflieb The only question from my side would be: Where do you find the people that are working on the same part obsessively. I feel like X has a lot of noise. On my main project I am working on optimising ASR to drastically increase reliability and transcription accuracy.

Founders overestimate how hard it is to become a top 100 expert on most subjects. For most things you need to solve, there’s usually a very clear path: just go do the work, obsessively, and become friends with everyone else doing it.

@buildwithshyam Coding, Deploying, Marketing, Celebrating my BD :D

How are you spending this weekend? A. building features B. doing marketing C. just scrolling on X 😁 D. another side project 😭

@S_N_SH_E_ WOW. wouldn't have expected that on here. Congratulations 🎉

Build in public works😭😭

@DanielSmidstrup Absolutely... all those days where I don't drink coffee at all? Most stable energy levels... Except - have you tried bullet proof coffee? I still like the taste of coffee and bullet proof is actually interesting because you don't have the jitters or dip and it lasts longer

hot take: coffee is overrated water wins

@pcshipp Giving it another shot

Hey solo founders, what if your startup fails? What’s your next plan?

@santoshstack TRUE. Especially the friction part. It's one thing to be fancy but the harder it is to get the result you want, the more likely it is that people drop out

You don’t need to invent demand. You need to reduce friction. The biggest businesses often win because they are: • faster • simpler • clearer • more convenient Not because they invented something nobody had seen before.

@alex_lrz_nmv Interesting. So you mean when they post a reply to your post and follow you in that moment?

@Habichtsberg Usually I ask them few questions before following them, if they don't even reply you know that they are just here to get a follow and not having a genuine connection with you!

Day 8 back on X - Good morning everyone Genuine question: How do you spot the follow-then-unfollow accounts before you follow them back? 🤔

@el_barto_20 You're welcome :-)

@Habichtsberg I got references from some landing/saas that looked nice for me, but I will change it if it doesn't add value. I've done some small tweaks but it's almost 4am here and still shipping. Thank you!

I started posting on 𝕏 7 days ago with a dead account since then: • 60 new follows • learned that tweeting alone isn't enough • got in touch with an amazing community But who am I? I'm Dominik. German. Digital nomad in Europe. Frequently in the US. • At 8, I wrote my first line of code. • At 12, I opened my first online store (and got sued) • At 14, I shipped my first SaaS. • At 17, I started my first business. • At 19, I quit school for it. Tomorrow I turn 38. I experienced: • 1 exit • 1 lawsuit • 2 bankruptcies • 8 failed app ideas • Sold my last company after 10 years and went back to building apps. • A Decade in German political contracts — shark-tank intense, personal attacks included Wouldn't trade any of it for the world. I write about building, challenges and more. Feel free to ask me anything. My goal is to sprint to 10k by end of year If you're building in public, let's connect. 🙂

Thank you very much :-) I could have listed so much more tbh. 😅 Ultimately my learning is "determination" is the thing that matters and ever "failure" or "mistake" is just an amazing learning opportunity. You are not perfect when you ride a bicycle the first time. Why do we expect to be perfect in adulting or in building a business or anything we do for the first time then?

@Habichtsberg I'm seeing you for the first time and you inspire me with this. If there's one thing I really need to learn is that downtimes aren't the end of the world, most times they're what makes us wiser🫠 I'm into CRM and AI automation and I'd love to connect😊

@asaio87 Without writing a single line of code? And how many time did you have to tell AI "This is not how we do it"? :D

I just vibecoded an app without writing a single line of code tech stack: - laravel 12 - sqlite - stripe payments - $5 vps with ubuntu - cloudflare Used ai to configure the server, just create a script, and run it in the server Yes I am a developer with over 15 years of experience and knew how to structure, how to create the intial prompt But its easier

@Tim_Denning Not necessarily something I wish on anyone. And honestly, sometimes it also just needs a good idea that excites someone so much, that they actually just want to do it.

Letting a 9-5 boss almost ruin your life is the motivation most people need to build a digital business and access personal freedom. I hope you experience a bad boss.

@asaio87 @schedpilot Hehe, yeah, I feel you. I especially when the numbers are growing or you have an upwards trend

I don't know but there is something satisfying about looking at these analytics screens every single morning Very soon, we will have an email summarizing the past day with analytics and everything all in @schedpilot