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@KumarRahul65727 Nothing changed except the speed. That's both the promise and the problem.

AI did not make bad devs good. It made good devs 5x faster and bad devs 5x more confident. Big difference.

@khushiirl but survivorship bias is doing heavy lifting here. Most builders and creators make $0. Most engineers get paid every month. Different game, different risk.

Hot take: People who build startups or create content usually earn more than engineers.

@FlorinPop17 Exactly brother, distribution is leverage. Same product, different reach, completely different outcome. Builders who ignore it are building in the dark.

In 2026 distribution is the moat

@martin_valchev_ “Boring” usually means it actually makes money. No hype, no noise, just something people keep paying for.

I like “boring” businesses. Maintenance, small SaaS tools, plugins that just solve a problem. Less drama, more stability.

@TTrimoreau Building feels productive. Distribution feels uncomfortable. That’s why most people stay stuck in “building mode” forever.

Everyone is building. Few are distributing. Most founders spend time on: -features -design -code But growth comes from: -content -outreach -distribution Where do you spend most of your time?

@eliana_jordan Most people don’t have a money problem… They have a “I’ll start when…” problem. Free tools removed the barrier. Now it’s just execution vs excuses.

No budget to launch your SaaS? OpenStreetMap > Google Maps Resend > email tools PostgreSQL > paid DBs Free tiers > your excuses Money isn’t the problem

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@jahirsheikh8 Man, these hidden costs really add up quick Never thought about how much they eat into the margins until I saw a few of these on my own bill.

8 hidden costs of running a SaaS: 1. Payment fees 2. Server costs 3. API usage 4. Email infra 5. Auth systems 6. Analytics tools 7. Support tools 8. Refunds/chargebacks Margins aren’t what you think.

@Tim_Denning This works, but only if you already have demand. No audience, no skill, no offer? Then it’s just a checklist that burns time, not money.

After 12 years building a digital business, here are the 11 things I'd do if I had to make $1M+ a year: 1. Sell high ticket products 2. Get lost in the world of high ticket sales 3. Write on one social media platform daily 4. Collect phone numbers from all leads 5. Only focus on building an email list 6. Ignore what gurus say 7. Start a Youtube channel 8. Run free webinars to anyone who didn’t buy 9. Use low tickets products for lead gen, not to make money 10. Hire an ad expert to help you run ads 11. Learn funnel building Copy these if you want to become a millionaire.

@andi_losing Solid post man, I feel you on the distraction trap. Smart move sticking mostly to marketing while slowly tweaking the app. Shorter onboarding and lower pricing sound like quick wins though. Keep shipping!

i’m not really happy with my app right now thinking about changing a lot: – pricing much lower – way shorter onboarding – more gamification – online mode to compete with friends and strangers – mascot – maybe even a free version (???) but i know this is probably just distraction so i’ll still spend 95% on marketing and improve the app step by step on the side :)

@RobHoffman_ Totally agree! AI is making full-funnel marketing way more doable without huge teams. Game changer for 2026.

Marketers used to focus on specific channels like ads or SEO. Now they need to own the whole funnel. This used to require big teams of specialists so it was expensive and hard to do profitably. But AI has changed the unit economics. Therefore, the way to grow profitably in 2026 is building systems with AI to accomplish more with less resources.

@DmytroKrasun “Just” hides the hardest parts. $10K MRR isn’t math, it’s distribution, retention, and trust… all working together.

“$10K MRR is just 200 customers paying $50/mo.” What the word “just” means: > You found an idea valuable enough for people to pay you $50/mo repeatedly. > You know how to attract this specific customer type and can do this in volume. > You manage to convert at least a portion of them. > You have a wonderful onboarding experience and deliver value to them. > You reply to all support requests. > You analyze churn reasons and keep reducing churn. > And you have a better solution than your competitors in at least one area. And let's put aside that all of these should be executed at a decent level. English is not my native language, but the word “just” doesn’t feel like a good fit in such sentences.

@forgebitz People don’t want “AI that does everything.”They want one thing that works insanely well. Generic loses. Specialists win.

a lot of ai saas companies will get lost in making generic agents "marketing agents" that aren't really good at any marketing or "finance agents" that barely can parse a csv file right now all the problems are so extremely complex on their own that just solving one thing is the key customers are not interested in generic agents that can't perform well; they would rather have a dedicated agent/saas who absolutly nails one thing you only care about the best ones, if you have to pick between generic marketing agents or one that is 20% better at just running ads or writing content, what do you pick?

@pmitu Totally agree! That hunger keeps you sharp and pushing every day.

Bootstrapped founders have one advantage: hunger it's still the best fuel

@heyblake Exactly. You don’t build a brand by posting, you build it by being useful enough that people mention you when you’re not in the room.

Your personal brand is NOT what you say about yourself It's what people say when they recommend you to someone else

@SimonHoiberg True, this stack makes shipping super fast at the start, but yeah... it does feel like you're building on rented land. Makes you think twice about long-term costs.

"Just use Vercel." "Just use Supabase." "Just use Clerk." Cool. Now your auth, database, and deployment are owned by 3 different companies who can change pricing whenever they want. And the rest of your product is wrapping OpenAI. At some point you have to ask yourself: what do I actually own here?

@TheGeorgePu True, but most of those “sentence-built” apps won’t survive 6 months. Distribution, taste, and persistence still aren’t automated.

App Store submissions surged 84% last year. You, your aunt's son and everyone is vibe coding. 600,000+ new apps hit the store. Most are garbage. If you spent 4 years learning Swift. You just got lapped by someone typing sentences.

@Dwriteway Those lines hit hard.

Everyone wants the one-person business making $20k/month. Nobody wants the 14 months of posting to zero likes, rebuilding the same offer 6 times a week, questioning everything at 2am, and comparing yourself to 20 year olds.

@rashiumapathi Totally agree. We pour months into the product like it's everything, then rush the marketing and get surprised when it flops. Both need real time and patience.