Amedeo

marketing and distribution is where most builders end up dying. i am building a tool that tells you what strategies fast growing companies used to get traction. would love to get your thoughts if this would be helpful to you. Systemaic.com

i guess old twitter is back… BUT all i see in my timeline now is people talking about how old twitter is back…

@adrian_horning_ Lets go! Got worried yesterday…

Ok this is looking resolved! So far so good

@thenowhereway But we all already have a co-founder that can code that doesn't take equity and only costs $200 a month. 😂 so definitely one that can sell

Founders, would you rather have: - cofounder who can code - cofounder who can sell

@wickedguro At this rate, you're about 11 days away. Congrats!

Postiz reached $155k MRR. $2m ARR getting closer 😵‍💫

@NaivaidyaY66600 But then there is an internalized excuse to keep building and not have to market. 🤪

Hot take: Most MVPs are 50% bigger than they need to be.

groundcover pulls 39% of its ~86k monthly visits from organic search. almost none of those visits start with someone typing "groundcover." they start with someone typing "exit code 137" at 2am while a pod is crashing. i went through their top-ranking pages. this isn't top-of-funnel content, it's mid-incident content. crashloopbackoff. oomkilled. exit code 137. each page answers the exact question someone is googling while the pager is already going off, then puts the product in the room right as they're deciding what to do next. their paid search runs the same play from another angle: 13 active ads (longest 327+ days) not bidding on their own name, but on datadog, prometheus, new relic. same instinct twice: stop competing for people casually browsing, show up for people already stuck. what i haven't figured out is how they picked which errors were worth a page, out of hundreds they could have written.

@rdbuilds7 If you’re dropping a link here, the hard part isn’t the product. It’s that nobody knows it exists. That’s the whole thing we work on: how one growing company actually gets customers, broken down every day. Free. systemaic.com/?utm_source=x

Looking to connect with more founders who build in public. Share your profile and what you're building .

@sophie_launch We break down how fast-growing companies actually get customers. One company, every morning, free. systemaic.com/?utm_source=x

I want to be someone's first customer. Drop ur startup link

full breakdown, free to read: systemaic.com/t/cod-dex/px?v…

Everyone assumes coding-education growth needs either brutal ad spend or an SEO content farm. Codédex has neither. Direct traffic alone is 47.6% of their 1.25M monthly visits, up 24% in three months. Paid channels combined don't clear 1%. The real engine is creators, not campaigns. TikTok and Instagram accounts gate the course link behind "comment for it," running the whole funnel at zero ad spend. @sonnynomnom's own 6M-view trailer supplies the brand underneath. Search just harvests people typing "codedex" into Google, landing on the homepage. No listicles, no content farm. Even the recruiting is passive: GitHub's Student Developer Pack pulls in a fresh cohort every semester. Worth checking your own branded search volume. It's the cleanest read on whether the top of funnel is real.

Everyone assumes coding-education growth needs either brutal ad spend or an SEO content farm. Codédex has neither. Direct traffic alone is 47.6% of their 1.25M monthly visits, up 24% in three months. Paid channels combined don't clear 1%. The real engine is creators, not campaigns. TikTok and Instagram accounts gate the course link behind "comment for it," running the whole funnel at zero ad spend. @sonnynomnom's own 6M-view trailer supplies the brand underneath. Search just harvests people typing "codedex" into Google, landing on the homepage. No listicles, no content farm. Even the recruiting is passive: GitHub's Student Developer Pack pulls in a fresh cohort every semester. Worth checking your own branded search volume. It's the cleanest read on whether the top of funnel is real.

@aryanlabde Distribution, Distribution, Distribution. I am building systemaic.com to help founders study what other companies are successfully doing.

your landing page is clean. your product works. your friend liked it. but your MRR is still $0, why?

Read the full teardown for free today: systemaic.com/t/topicals/px

i opened topicals' meta ad library expecting a normal DTC skincare account. heavy paid social, standard stuff. instead i found out their biggest single growth moment cost $100k and ran through a tour operator, not an ad platform. a trip to ghana. $1m in revenue in 3 days. here's the part that got me: social paid is 0.6% of their traffic. under 1%. for a brand running a dense stack of meta creatives since march. so the ads aren't the growth engine. they're mopping up demand something else already created. that something else: a tiered insider program, about 4,000 people deep, seeded before launch, plus trips built to generate press and tiktok views rather than clicks. the trip isn't the tactic. it's the wrapper. what's inside it is the actual mechanic, and it's not something you screenshot from an ad library. if you're spending on meta and wondering why organic keeps outperforming paid, this is worth sitting with. what would a $100k trip need to look like for your category to pull off the same math?

@firstfruitsapp Yeah, I was targeting new parents, and learned the hard way that spending power in that audience type is sub-optimal.

@Lattariaa Whoa. Yeah our conversion rate is great. I only get one or two failed charges per day.

Quitting apps forever.

@arvidkahl I know, was pleasantly surprised the last couple of days seeing my timeline be all founders 😀

Okay, I see WAY more of my founder pals with this new algorithm. Amazing :D

@divvsaxena Probably wrong audience. Sometimes less views but right audience outperforms. Problem with vanity metrics.

78,000 people saw my posts yesterday. my apps made less than a coffee. nobody shows you the gap between attention and revenue. i'm living in it right now.

@oliverbrocato 😂 funny seeing these two tweets on the exact end of the spectrum back to back.

one of my clients launched a new product. hit $200K in organic sales in his first week! eleven days later the copycats showed up. eleven. days. 👏 ripped the photos, jacked the listing copy word for word, and undercut the price by 40%. site traffic dropped - any1 have ideas?