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@SableHummer
I make stuff sometimes| PLEROMA Founder|
Katılım Şubat 2026
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@CRMullins College and k-12 school are largely pointless and have been since the mid 2010s with the internet. But the value is in being social
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College is good, everyone who can should go! And costs have been creeping up for years, it was already bad when I went.
But if you pay $100k for a year of college, you're just getting scammed.
Nothing they teach at NYU that's not taught at any reputable state school.
Financial Dystopia@financedystop
Upper-middle-class families are in a weird dead zone with college. They make too much to qualify for meaningful financial aid, but not enough to casually write $100,000 checks every year without it completely changing their life. So the kid looks rich on paper, gets little help, and the parents are expected to absorb the cost of a house down payment every single year. College pricing has also obviously become absurd.
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@CRMullins Not the point, NYU is a prestige marker and valuable for connections. It absolutely matters where you went to school if you’re a Mormon
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@the_phfs @jakecastilloooo Who’s paying for the app? How do you market it? How do you deal with the churn? It’s just untenable
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@SableHummer @jakecastilloooo yep, that I’m aware of. I was curious why you think targeting 8th graders with micro-learning is not something that could be monetised.
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4 app niches to avoid like the plague right now:
(do not build these apps)
1) Wellness and Meditation
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@the_phfs @jakecastilloooo It’s a fundamentally different ball game. It’s a marketing and financial engineering game. It needs hard paywalls proven market share and good ad strategy
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@SableHummer @jakecastilloooo could be 🤷♂️
I’ve only done B2B IIoT and Industry 4.0 stuff for nearly 20y. So it would genuinely help me better understand B2C mobile if you could develop on that.
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@the_phfs @jakecastilloooo You’re trying to wring money out of 8th graders in other countries? You’re not gonna make a penny
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@jakecastilloooo thoughts on a micro-learning app targeted at 8th grade students to help them pass the cycle-end exam (country specific)? gamified and with styling based on games/trends they enjoy
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@jakecastilloooo Your monthly reminder that this advice becomes meaningless like a month after you post it because everyone copying
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YOUR FIRST 1,000 APP DOWNLOADS IN 30 DAYS WITH $0 IN ADS
week 1: a few thousand views, nothing special
week 3: first video breaks 10k views
week 5: first video goes properly viral
week 8: multiple videos past a million views
still $0 spent the entire time
my article's step 9 budgets $10-30/day for paid UGC ads
this replaces that budget with a system instead
that gap right there is a process vs a recurring bill
bookmark this before you spend another dollar on ads you didn't need to
kuch (vibecoding arc)@thekuchh
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This is very true. Job interviews are basically very rough IQ tests combined with a cultural fit, integrity, and domain-skills assessment. An organization sorting through many applicants would save a lot of time and immediately raise the quality of their pipelines if they were allowed to layer an aptitude test on top of these measures.
Hitchslap@Hitchslap1
Companies could save time and money if they hired people almost entirely on IQ. Not sure if that’s legal, but would make good sense. Think about it.
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@ErnestoSOFTWARE Not true, you might just have low caps/heavy comp that makes scaling hard
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Making multiple apps is a
permanent mistake
I made this mistake 1 year ago
made like 12 apps
it split my focus too much.
theres so much to optimize
in 1 single app
and no time to be thinking about another one.
Just to name a few things:
→ Day 1, 7 , 30 retention
→ Onboarding completion rate
→ Conversion rate at paywall
→ Trial conversion rate
→ ARPU ( test best pricing )
→ CPA on ads ( tied to product )
→ Web funnels
→ Profit margins
→ UGC deals
→ Organic marketing systems
→ Team culture
and so much more.
there are infinite things to do with 1 app
making $10 - $20k/mo means nothing
because once said apps stop
running ads,
They will go to $0
and at that point you are not building an app that’s just a cash grab,
might as well pack it up and start drop shipping
so focus on 1 app, and make it generational.
thats the only way this business model makes sense.
Will@athcanft
one app doing $20K MRR or five apps doing $3K MRR?
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pussy mindset
business is gambling
you won’t make real money otherwise
Shashikant Katariya@heyshashidev
@athcanft I do not want to risk my money on ads because I don't know anything about ads yet. So it is gambling for me.
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This is all part of a great hermetic plot to make people return to sun worship
Roy@usr_bin_roygbiv
sol autoresearch is something else
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Fable is still too narrow in how it solves by default. You have to break it out of wack-a-mole mode and into systems level thinking yourself.
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What the dorks at Pangram and the Foid don’t understand is that if you aren’t already doing this with a fine tuned model and sending out at minimum 24k apps a year you aren’t seriously looking for a job.
Max Spero@max_spero_
You're "solving unemployment" by spamming job applications with AI slop? Welcome to SF. Congratulations on finding a negative externality to abuse for profit.
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@AyaHuntington @pcshipp Running ads is brain dead easy and it’s astonishing people make it out like some voodoo magic. A. Your app idea should be validated already B. Find your comp and copy and iterate lmao. Run Apple Ads then TT
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@pcshipp People telling you to full send running ads don't have your best interest in mind. Running ads should be done if you a) have the capital and/or b) know what already works. Otherwise you're potentially going to burn thousands of dollars and have a low ROAS
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I'm very disappointed with my app revenue, so I stopped building new apps and started focusing on marketing instead of building.
People on X always say marketing is hard, but I never cared much about it. Now that I've started doing it myself, I realize it's even harder than I thought.
Now I'm working 15 hours a day, and that will only increase until I reach $1,000 MRR. I still feel like I'm not doing enough, so I'm going all in on marketing.
I just started improving my skills in ASO, running ads, SEO, and social media marketing. So far, I haven't seen any good results.
I'm not focusing on the results anymore. It hurts, but the grind has already started.
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@max_spero_ @scootykins Name of the game , how else are you supposed to apply? By hand?
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@scootykins All you have to do is post a software engineer job and within an hour you have a thousand applications with AI-generated cover letters all “personalized” to the job description in the same way, and resumes stuffed with keywords from the job requirements.
It’s all so tiresome.
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You're "solving unemployment" by spamming job applications with AI slop?
Welcome to SF. Congratulations on finding a negative externality to abuse for profit.
Wendy Lyu@WendyLyulv
hey everyone! i’m wendy I’m new to sf, x and tech so here’s an intro :) - just graduated from @UofT - content creator with 200k+ followers across all socials - turned down multiple 6fig modeling offer to follow my passion - love lifting heavy things and training for my first HYROX this Oct - had an awful experience applying to tech jobs so bootstrapped @ quickapply to solve unemployment i’ll also be in SF this week! if you’re around and want to grab coffee, cowork, or chat startups, i’d love to meet☕️
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@jakecastilloooo Distribution requires a toll every time you try something new it’s easy if you have capital otherwise you’re sol
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Distribution is actually fairly simple and it can be learned
It just needs to be trained like a muscle
Practice crafting hooks, showcasing benefits, exploiting psychological triggers in your messaging, and eventually you’ll become a master at distribution.
It’s not nearly as hard as people make it out to be, but too many people are afraid to fail enough to figure out how to do it at an elite level
Nick Lawton@nicholasnlawton
once you understand that distribuition is the ultimate skill to learn is the day you will stop being broke. because, nobody cares you came up with an original idea that never got a single pair of eyeballs on it, instead of your friends and fam. the world does need more originality, no doubt there, but if you understand distribution then you can truly do anything.
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@tadasgedgaudas I’ve built one that I and some people I know regularly use. It’s extremely useful
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Seems like there really is a business with flight tracking
TadasG 💻@tadasgedgaudas
I'm seeing a lot of air traffic tracking apps being released and crushing it on socials And it's really just a Flightradar API wrapper, probably one prompt to build the whole app 🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷♂️ appkittie.com to do research on more ideas
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“I can learn to do anything i want” is basically psychotic btw
Maia Bittner@maiab
I know people are supposed to have a growth mindset but I am pretty sure I do not (and the whole premise seems a little fucked to me)
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