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What if building your startup felt like a video game?
Katılım Nisan 2026
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@Brenda__Patrick Absolutely. I guess the only question then becomes whether algorithms would ever prefer nice authenticity over engagement
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@ibhaveda I think audiences are getting better at detecting manufactured authenticity.
You can tell the difference between a well thought out post and one that was just put together.
The former pulls the reader in while the latter makes the reader lose interest by paragraph 2
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You see that post. The one that sounds too honest. Too specific. Too much like admitting you don't have everything figured out.
Post it anyway.
That’s the kind of content that builds trust.
People don’t connect with polished perfection. They connect with brands that understand their pain points- because they’ve been there, too.
And more often than not, the things you hesitate to say are exactly what someone out there needs to hear.
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@dara_venture Crypto may have normalized the idea that outcomes can be detached from value creation. The problem isn't speculation itself—it's when an entire generation starts mistaking financial engineering for building. Markets eventually force that distinction.
Dara@dara_venture
Crypto taught a generation that you can get rich without making anything. Nobody told them the part where you also lose it without doing anything.
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@tech__unicorn The tricky part is that great founders aren't anti-consensus. They're anti-premature consensus. They see a future that's invisible today, then spend years gathering evidence until everyone else calls it obvious.
Delia Lazarescu@tech__unicorn
wild how the best founders i know all have a slight disconnect from consensus reality they'll bet on things that look completely stupid at first weird ideas, weird markets, weird timing then 18 months later everyone pretends it was obvious solid observation here that the need for IQ keeps dropping the need for courage keeps going up.
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@neuralunlock One of the least appreciated founder skills is emotional load balancing. The work is hard, but carrying uncertainty across customers, employees, investors and runway simultaneously is what breaks most people.
Arjun@neuralunlock
It’s pretty insane to see founders having to juggle fundraising, managing runway, making product decisions, traveling to the edges of the earth to meet customers, managing board expectations, keeping the culture alive.. all with utmost composure like everything is going to be okay. Very few jobs have that much context switching, chaos, competing priorities, and uncertainty. Just superhuman stuff.
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@ChanningAllen When building becomes commoditized, judgment becomes scarce. The competitive advantage shifts from "Can you ship?" to "Can you consistently decide what deserves to be shipped?"
Daniel Smidstrup@DanielSmidstrup
as a founder, do you actually enjoy marketing? - yes - absolutely not
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@DanielSmidstrup @DanielSmidstrup Do you think founders dislike marketing itself, or do they dislike the version of marketing that feels disconnected from talking to customers and solving problems?
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as a founder,
do you actually enjoy marketing?
- yes
- absolutely not
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@AIandDesign @AIandDesign At what point does AI stop being a productivity multiplier and start becoming a crutch for developers who never build the underlying intuition in the first place?
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You're a dev. Your skills + AI => 10x dev.
Stop crying. Start building.
Raunak@caps_raunak
Bro, I'm so tired of this AI bullshit. You work hard for years to learn a real skill. You fail, you learn, you get good. Now this AI makes the same thing in 5 seconds and everyone is cheering like it's amazing. This is not help. This is just making real talent worthless. We're destroying our own value and smiling about it.
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@TheRealBradLea @TheRealBradLea What's the most valuable lesson you've learned from someone whose advice came from failure rather than success?
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@Iammartinyau @Iammartinyau How do you distinguish between a temporary lack of motivation and the deeper realization that you're pursuing goals that were never actually yours?
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Building on someone else's goals almost made me quit.
- Picked a new niche
- New schedule
- Went quiet anyway
I thought it was a discipline problem.
So I built systems around it.
Nothing held.
You can't keep a promise to someone you haven't decided to become.
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@Tancrededib Many products die from trying to be useful everywhere. The winners often have a single feature so valuable that users reorganize behavior around it. Distribution starts where habit formation begins.
Tancrede@Tancrededib
your whole product doesn't need to be loved ONE feature needs to be so sticky users restructure their day around it find that feature. double down. delete the rest
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Ibhaveda retweetledi
OpenAI slept on coding, so Anthropic stole the crown.
Anthropic didn’t secure enough GPUs/TPUs to turn that lead into a monopoly. Now Codex has caught up.
Gemini will catch up too. It’s only a matter of time.
AI coding is becoming a three-body problem.
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Ibhaveda retweetledi
Things that don't scale:
• Doing everything yourself
• Competing on price
• Ignoring systems
Things that do scale:
• Happy customers who refer others
• Standard operating procedures
• Reliable team members
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Ibhaveda retweetledi
Startup founders who don’t gatekeep - What’s a genuinely underrated way you’ve found to get clients?
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Ibhaveda retweetledi
AI architecture discipline is AI cost discipline.
Standardizing on a single AI platform can feel appealing because it seems simpler. Over time, though, it often becomes more expensive, more constraining, and harder to govern.
To control AI costs:
- Use the right model for the right job
- Invest in a horizontal context layer
- Centralize governance instead of pushing it to the edge
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Ibhaveda retweetledi
AI will not kill software agencies.
It will kill agencies whose only value was “we have developers”.
If you cannot sell judgment, product thinking and taste now, good luck bro.
The market is moving in a better direction.
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@edwardlando The uncomfortable truth is that timing often masquerades as brilliance. Most people only study the winners who caught the wave, not the equally capable founders who built too early, too late, or ran out of runway before the market arrived.
Edward Lando@edwardlando
A lot of succeeding in startups is just surviving long enough to catch a wave... have experienced many such examples recently.
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@ItsKieranDrew @ItsKieranDrew If recognition never arrives, what internal metric should ambitious people use to know they're actually making progress?
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This is just a friendly reminder you will not solve your insecurity chasing outward recognition.
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@dara_venture @dara_venture How do you distinguish between irrational persistence and a genuinely bad idea that deserves to be abandoned?
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Your brain is wired to quit.
'This is hard, the data is shit, everyone doubts me, fck it.....let's stop.'
That instinct kept your ancestors alive and away from danger......but it'll kill your company.
Keep moving while terrified and statistically wrong.
Your delusion is your fortune.
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