Sumith

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@hii_mohit @kalashvasaniya @star_yutish Wow!!

I'm going to vietnam for this crazy hacker house where 10 builders work on their startups for 30 days full cracked guys are coming like @kalashvasaniya @star_yutish and more only 2 spots remaining

@notdvb done!

I'll send 1 of you $100 🎁 like & comment my latest IG post to enter. first link below.

@JamesBa75050571 This Quote tells it all: Live your life today as most people won't so that you live the rest of your life as most people can't.

Learning of the day: Stay Shameless by @blakeir I'm going to stay more shameless now.

Expose yourself to things you have no clue about. Watch videos of secluded jungle tribes, walkthroughs of $100M houses, and summaries of school subjects you never studied. You’re far more likely to find what you’re looking for if you know all the looking places.

This is what @ChatGPTapp thinks about me:

@priymrj Excited for next part!

building a $5,000 app in public (part 2)

@tibo_maker Let's goooo!

Tom and I are working together again 🎉 we joined an existing SaaS which had stagnating MRR so we worked with the maker revamped the product shipped the updates and MRR starts to boom (and not even announced yet) bullish on this one 🤩

@AlexAndBooks_ 💯

Reading 25 pages of a book a day is the equivalent of 10,000 steps for your brain.

@nanahrii Your website is amazing and really cool. Did you build it or use some AI tool(if AI, which tool is it)?

I spent today fixing a couple of bugs 🤯 Starting to feel like everything is finally moving forward Launch is getting close 🤩 What are you building today? 👇

@harshgvnd @delhivery @DelhiveryD @delhivery @DelhiveryD look into this and solve it ASAP.

. @delhivery @DelhiveryD My parcel with AWB no. 2827785456500 is out for delivery, but I haven’t received any call from the delivery person. Please look into this. The hub agent is also not responding to calls.

@tibo_maker Indie way is the real freedom.

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 😇

@rjgilbert @workspacesxyz Both @workspacesxyz and @h1gallery are really interesting projects to work on. If someone is starting a newsletter, then how to figure out the right niche or idea to work on And what metrics initially to aim for subscribers, open rate, demographic location or something else.

@HeySumith @workspacesxyz anything specific you want me to write about?

Restarting my personal newsletter! Almost everyone else talking about building newsletters is selling something. A book. A course. An agency. I'm just focused on growing @workspacesxyz into a real business. Time to share the weekly thoughts, experiments, wins and losses.

@StartupArchive_ @JeffBezos ❤️

Jeff Bezos explains why he didn’t take additional equity building Amazon Jeff is asked why he only paid himself $80,000 per year and never took additional equity during his tenure as CEO of Amazon. He responds: “I asked the comp committee of the board not to give me any comp. My view was I was a founder. I already owned a significant amount of the company, and I just didn’t feel good about taking more. I felt I had plenty of incentive. I owned more than 10% of the company, and earlier — before it was diluted by various things — more than 20% of the company. I just felt how could I possibly need more incentive?” Jeff continues: “Most founders own big chunks of the company. They’re more like owner-operators. The way they increase their wealth is not by getting more equity. They just want to make the equity they have more valuable. And so I just would have felt icky about it. And I’m actually very proud of that decision.” Jeff is especially proud of how much wealth he’s created for other people: “Somebody needs to make a list where they rank people by how much wealth they’ve created for other people — instead of the Forbes list where it ranks you by your own wealth. Amazon’s market cap is $2.3 trillion today. I own about $200 billion-ish of it. So if you take $2.3 trillion and subtract out the piece I kept for myself, then I’ve created something like $2.1 trillion of wealth for other people. That should put me pretty high on some kind of list. And that’s a better list — how much wealth have you created for other people?” Video source: @nytimesevents (2024)

@ai_for_success X aims to be a news platform that replaces traditional news channels, which might be the reason why they are promoting location-based content, I guess. Basically, a news platform where everyone goes out and watches, perhaps. What do you think @ai_for_success ?

Too early to conclude, but it looks like the X algorithm is pushing your content more to a local audience rather than global, even though Elon said changes would not be implemented. I will monitor for a few more weeks. 28 days vs 7 days stats. US has always been my top region for Impressions. I am posting the same AI content.

@hii_mohit Interesting project, Mohit.

I have a bad habit Whenever I start working I pick up my phone after 2–3 minutes So I built a tiny Mac app that literally shouts at me when i stop working Added 10 sounds ( funny, weird and motivating ) It’s called IdleMac.com

@EricJorgenson 😄

An early reader just sent me this 😂:

@ShishirShelke1 Any automation to automatically stop charging at 80%?

10) Fun Charging Alert Make charging your iPhone more fun: • Create an automation: When iPhone is connected to power • Add action → Speak Text • Customise the message, e.g., “Charging process started!” Now your iPhone will announce a fun alert every time it starts charging. You can set whatever text you want.

Shortcuts is the most powerful app on your iPhone. Reading the replies, it’s clear many people still don’t know how to use it. So, I’m sharing my 10 favorite shortcuts that are super useful and handy 🧵