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@anulagarwal @marclou so many weird takes in one tweet let me address just one of them: you are paying $29 for an opportunity to get acquired, same as when you pay for ad spot. If you spend $100 on meta ads and noone buys, is it Meta's issue and should they refund you?

Ok this is kinda sus @marclou I paid the $29 to list my app - turns out I have to pay $29 PER app I want to list 😅 I think it should be mentioned clearly that this amount is only for this specific startup/app -> one-time feels like just a 'one time' payment to unlock the listing feature 😅 I like TrustMRR but this just felt shady to me And if no one is interested to buy the app then that money is wasted Either a refund or a pricing where the price is based on % of last month's revenue could be good.

@THArrowOfApollo CODE

Clay’s new pricing is probably my fault. We were paying $314 a month, but using (based on their new model) $214,087.50 worth of Clay a WEEK. Here’s the story: A year ago Clay's head of product hopped on a call with me. I told him we were hitting their platform 17.3 million times per week. Almost all custom events (i.e. HTTPs) I remember his response being something close to "Holy shit, I think you are the largest user of Clay" I said yeah that doesn't surprise me. But then it also came up that we were only paying $3,769 a year. We talked about HTTPs, custom integrations, how we were basically using Clay as a giant API orchestration layer. I knew his wheels were turning. If you saw my last post, you know we eventually replaced Clay entirely with a $200/mo Claude Code subscription. 272,000 leads per second vs Clay's 27 hours for the same volume. But before we left, we were the perfect case study for why Clay's old pricing was broken. $314/mo for 17.3 million weekly, for what they now call ‘actions’. Run the math. We were paying $0.00001815 per action. Clay announced their new pricing structure. They split everything into Data Credits and ‘Actions.’ Actions are HTTPs, custom integrations, API calls. The exact things we were doing 17.3 million times a week. The new price per action credit works out to about 1.24 cents each. A 681% price increase for us I know you might say, "But Clay is letting people stay on the old pricing if they want," and I hear you but I also don't know how it makes me feel that someone brand new would have to pay $856,350 per month to get the same advantages I had when I was starting out only 3 years ago. I'm not saying that one call caused the entire restructuring. But I am saying their head of product learned that day that someone was running 17 million HTTPs a week for the price of a nice dinner. And now every HTTP costs 1.24 cents. anyways For the last year, we've been trying to figure out how to get off of our dependency on Clay. That was until Cursor / Claude Code / Codex came out My VP of Growth, @James, who doesnt know how to write a single line of code, touched Claude Code for the first time And three weeks later he replaced Clay for us We could process 272k rows per second now for the cost of a Claude Code sub My last post was about that system Then after that post, Clay announces new pricing that specifically monetizes the exact thing we were doing at a massive scale. Coincidence? Maybe. But I may owe everyone using Clay an apology If your Clay bill just went up, you can probably blame me for that one. Sorry! I put together a system blueprint of what I did to replace Clay for myself -- every tool, the tech stack, a Clay vs custom comparison, and a 6-step playbook for building your own. Plus a video walkthrough where I show you the live system and how each tool actually works. Reply CODE below and I'll DM it to you.

@markoilico Shoot them over please!

If you're now designing or redesigning a website, this will help you a lot. I recently curated the best hero sections, footers, social proof and other website parts because I got tired of having 15+ tabs open (even with Mobbin). Giving it away 100% free. Comment on this post, and I'll send a Figma link to your inbox!

@lamxnt Please align the bullets to the leading line man :(

AI doesn’t produce gradient slop if you just train it to build clean pages btw

@driceroland @Shopify Im not sure if thats the reason but i think Brick patented the way of locking your phone using and external device through NFC (i know its stupid) Its possible that they reported your shop

Our store just got terminated by Shopify with no clear explanation, a few hours after launch. We're a legitimate business doing pre-orders with full transparency on our site. @Shopify we'd love some help here.

@namyakhann @claudeai @framer landing

Most agencies take 4-5 weeks to deliver a landing page. We ship ours in 48 hours. And they convert at 7.8%. We built an AI-powered system using @claudeai Opus 4.6 + @framer that handles everything: copy, structure, design specs in a single sprint. We packaged the entire playbook into a free Notion doc. Comment "LANDING" + follow and I'll DM it to you.

@QualityInvest5 But.. but... I can now vibecode my own AirBnB in minutes with a special prompt!

$ABNB and $UBER getting dragged down 20% during the SaaS selloff just shows you how ridiculous all this is The moat of these businesses WAS NEVER the app The moat is the 10M drivers and 200M MAUs for Uber or the 8M listings and 275M users for Airbnb Good luck vibe coding that

@luisgnet @levelsio imo speed is the important aspect to it. Yes, someone can copy you quick because AI builds fast, but you also have that same AI that can build fast. The market dynamic has not really changed, there were always people playing catch up and people on the edge

idk man I feel it starting now a year ago just building something made you stand out, showed you had the agency necessary to push through bullshit to finish something now everybody’s building things and the mass of people is moving so fast that this escape hatch is closing for individuals idk what happens next, but gotta keep building

62.5% of people thinks we're entering the permanent underclass before 2030 37.5% of people believes it's fear mongering n=3890

I still know people that do not buy plane tickets on phone but go to desktop, because big websites just make them feel like they are more in control. I dont see any close reality where they will trust AI with their purchases. Also tons of Shopify stores operate on impulse purchases from ads, not intent driven buying that agent would replace. Or am i looking at it wrong?

@ericallen99 @amitisinvesting Someone still has to design stuff, make stuff, inventory stuff , pay taxes for it, market it to the AI (I guess), this all needs to be done by someone. I’ll go one step ahead and tell you , entrepreneurship will be the last job which will be disrupted.

the $SHOP reversal was one of the nastiest earnings moves we’ve seen today $145 in the premarket down to $110 during the open the street not letting $SHOP run after an incredible quarter just shows how hard they are being on growth names even after good numbers but maybe because Shopify is a SaaS is anyone interested in this dip? have never had a position but have always been interested

@jk_gan @ky__zo Also when copying entire companies was frowned upon and not celebrated like the best strategy ever

@ky__zo I miss when people cared about quality and actually took the effort to make remarkable software.

"No one on our team has opened an IDE in months." >"claude, got to paradigmai website and make it worse"

@DMD711 @NickPetersen7 @mattshumer_ @AlterEgon75 english is not my first language, sorry ❤️‍🩹

@HeyVikkk @NickPetersen7 @mattshumer_ @AlterEgon75 It’s a he?

@NickPetersen7 @mattshumer_ @AlterEgon75 Doing tasks through chat and agents is a very different experience. Chat is for.. chatting. Agent - e.g Claude Cowork tends to hallucinate way less because he is much more likely to verify his own work before presenting you the result. I highly recommend trying it

Thanks for invalidating your obnoxiously overstated claims in one sentence. Or I could be wrong: the number of times Claude (4.5 Sonnet) has made up out of whole clothe API answers that don’t exist, must have just been my imagination… again, and again, per hour. I love Claude, but an autonomous beast it is not, not for serious code with serious ramifications.

@Jacobsklug doing this playbook, would love to share knowledge!

YC just announced their looking for AI-Native agencies. The agency model is about to split into two completely different businesses: A) Agencies that sell labor B) Agencies that sell leverage Only one survives long term. AI-native agencies don’t scale by hiring more people. They scale by building systems that replace people. The playbook looks like this: → Find a workflow clients already overpay for → Build an AI tool that does it 10x faster → Use services to fund development → Turn repeated work into proprietary IP → Eventually sell the tool, not the time The real shift: Agencies used to be talent businesses. Now they’re becoming software companies with cash flow. Most people will miss this window because they’re still optimizing delivery instead of building leverage. That’s the opportunity. I'm launching a community of like-minded builders trying to build their own AI-native agency. I'm going to share everything I know having built my own 7-figure AI agency. Looking for motivated people ready to learn & build. Drop a comment, I'll personally reach out.

@letandrewcook is it 456 pages or 4 pages and 452 blog posts which are basically .md files?

I’m still processing this shock 😮 Opus 4.6 just migrated my entire website, 456 pages of content across multiple categories, from WordPress to Jekyll in one shot. this felt like watching an industry category boundary collapse in realtime 😵.

@SPloskov89589 @StockSavvyShay @fiscal_ai I think their cloud services have seen significant revenue uplift

@StockSavvyShay @fiscal_ai Why has their net income increased in recent years? I thought they made most of their money through ads? That jumps seems pretty step for just that 🤔

$GOOGL is the most profitable company on the planet with $132B in net income. They’re turning that cash into the largest TPU footprint ever while others burn money to chase AI. They’re playing a game others do not have the luxury to play.

@IMJustinBrooke Skills

I reversed engineered every skill in digital marketing and then trained my AI on all of them. Here’s how I did it... Oh, and I’m giving away all 84 marketing skill files at the end of this post. This all took place over 5 days. Step 1: The Skill Tree I started by working with @ManusAI because I knew I was going to need their almost infinite context window. My first request was for Manus to create a skill tree starting with the base skills of earned media, paid media, and owned media. Aka paid traffic, free traffic, and your own subscribers. We started cookin up branches and branches of skills from those 3 base skills. Step 2: Teams of Experts I noticed Manus was struggling to think outside of the basics so I started asking it to embody expert after expert. For example: “Embody Neil Patel and critique this skill tree for what’s missing.” “Embody Frank Kern and critique this skill tree for what’s missing.” “Embody Russell Brunson and critique this skill tree for what’s missing.” After I brought in 12-15 virtual experts to critique the skill tree we (me & my pal manus) had over 1900 individual tactics mapped out across 152 unique categories of skills. Step 3: Coworking with Claude At this time Manus hadn’t released their skills feature yet. But Claude had a skill creator skill. First I filled in Claude on the details of the project and the goal. Because context. The other reason for using Claude was because with Claude Desktop in Claude Cowork mode you can work directly with files and folders on your computer. This was key to the organization, context, and memory for this project. Once Claude was up to speed I asked it to remove overlapping skills and tactics. Stuff like SEO for Google vs SEO for Bing. We came up with 84 total skills that would need to be created that would encompass all 1900(ish) individual tactics. For example the media buying and planning skill includes writing headlines, customer personas, keyword research, copywriting etc. And then we locked in… Step 4: Best Practices Ranked For each of the 84 skills I had Claude go into deep research mode and create a report on the best practices for that skill. This means each skill was based on reading no less than 300 articles about that skill. Then I would review the skills with my own 20yrs of experience overlooking what it found. When I felt it was shallow on something I would ask Claude to embody a specific topic expert to enhance that skill. Giving us 84 best practice documents that were extremely thorough, human reviewed, and expert enhanced. Next I sent these docs back to Manus for its wide research mode. Manus can do up to 150 tasks in parallel. Essentially running 150 prompts at once. I told Manus to rank every tactic in these best practice reports from S-tier (always do) to D-tier (never do). This created huge context and rulings that would be necessary for our final skill files. Step 5: Creating Skill Files Back to Claude. One by one I asked Claude to use the skill creator skill with my best practice reports and the S-tier rankings. My wife kept the coffee flowing while I grinded these out. For some like the long form sales letters skill I even included examples as reference files. And then I loaded all 84 skills onto a directory I vibe coded into my website. All 84 of these skills + an 85th I’m working on are available for free. Just comment “skills” and I’ll DM you the link. Can’t post it because algo will throttle this post. Bookmark this so you have a recipe for creating your own skills too. Follow @IMJustinBrooke for more wallets fattening tips on using AI for marketing.

@maverickecom this post is just random buzzword generator

Clawdbot + Kling = 550 videos per day Fully-realistic UGC ads — cinematic lighting, human motion, perfect pacing — powered by AI agents. UGC cost: $5 Production time: minutes Scale: instant One AI engine that creates, tests, and scales short-form ads automatically — nonstop. It’s live. Campaigns are scaling now. Comment + RT “AGENT” and I’ll DM you the full workflow. (Must be following)

@ryancarson @SenjaHQ is in our toolset for a long time now, love every part of it. You can even import Trustpilot reviews

Trustpilot feels like the mob. Me: "I should collect reviews on Trustpilot! It'll help people trust our business more!" Signs up for business account ... Emails users to collect Trustpilot reviews ... Gets amazing 5-start reviews ... Me: "OK, let's put them on the website. Nice." Trustpilot: "Sorry, you have to pay us $299 PER MONTH to put *your* reviews on *your* site" Me: "OMG, seriously? I just want to put a couple nice reviews on my site." Trustpilot: "Actually, if you want to show the actual review, instead of making people click through to our site, you have to pay $1,099/mo". Me: Cancels account What a joke. Someone vibecode this and crush them please.

@vascoabm @amosrazi can confirm, we are using almost the same logos and they are, in fact, sponsored. It was a package for about $800 and it included most of them. What we did not know is that they put up those articles for a limited time only (some publishers do it for 6 months, some for 1 year)

@amosrazi had no idea about this, super interesting

why are these never clickable? if you're using press as social proof, let me actually see how and if they spoke about you otherwise you can just put anything you want here like give me the source

Remember Sora app? The app that was supposed to change the landscape of social media forever?