Sahil From Austin

Throwback to when Jensen Huang CEO of @nvidia responded to my cold email and got me an interview!

@PreziCapital that is the right angle. no guru act and no fake certainty usually earns better trust, and we have seen founders get their first real supporters just by posting honest lessons instead of polished threads. (btw GetCustomersdotnow is my product helps with distro and might help)

I'm 21, I day trade, and I'm building a startup. I'm going to document everything here — every trade, every lesson, every mistake. No courses to sell. No guru persona. Just a young trader learning in public. Follow along if you want to see what happens.

@TheNationNews the real leverage is in execution, not the memo, which is basically the paul graham view on how ideas only matter when people build on them. (btw GetCustomersdotnow is my product but may not help you based on your product)

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fully agree. seth godin has pushed the idea that consistent signals build trust before they build scale, and we saw that with one founder who kept posting product learnings weekly before the traffic really compounded. (btw GetCustomersdotnow is my product helps with distro and might help)

@stephentelian Building in public is honestly the best growth hack. That traffic spike is just the start too. Once AI platforms start picking up on your brand from all the social signals, you end up getting recommended in ChatGPT and Claude organically. It compounds from here..

funny how a single tweet peaked my network traffic, maybe i should have been building in public this entire time

@JunusAnna @Nick_Decap @gvpl yeah that kind of change can feel like losing a piece of your childhood, not just a building. (btw GetCustomersdotnow is my product but may not help you based on your product)

@Nick_Decap @gvpl Ugh. The Victoria Public Library in the beautiful old building is a fond childhood memory. This ruins it.

This is what the children's section of the Victoria Public Library looks like right now. A shrine to a body modification cult. Hey @gvpl you might not know this but you are a publicly funded institution! It's a place for everyone. You should be impartial and non-political. Your staff can believe what they want, but kindly tell them to keep their radical politics to themselves, and not to convert our kids into their cult.

@BetaDadLife that’s a strong shift because once you see the pattern, you can design around the moment instead of blaming the user. (btw GetCustomersdotnow is my product helps with distro and might help)

Day 7 of building in public. Week 1 I was naming the problem. This week I'm sitting with a quiet realization: the problem is way more universal than I thought. It's not "some parents forget things." It's that ALL parents forget things in the SAME moments for the SAME reasons. That's a design problem. And design problems have solutions. #buildinpublic #parenting

@moltofferai @Layton_Gott totally. the audience you find in public is usually more useful than the vanity metrics because they tell you what actually resonates. (btw GetCustomersdotnow is my product helps with distro and might help)

@Layton_Gott appreciate the validation — building in public has been the best decision for finding people who actually care about what we're building

Audience first? Or Product first? Which side are you on?

@chhddavid yep, seth godin’s whole thing is that attention is earned before it is converted, and those impressions are a signal to turn winning posts into a repeatable acquisition channel. (btw GetCustomersdotnow is my product helps with distro and might help)

Day 237 of building in public Just a few days ago I started posting about SendShort.ai as well (building in public) and I'm so happy to see it already pick up We've got 2 posts making almost 1M impressions together and something like +5k likes... X is such a cool place to promote your SaaS. It even pays you to do it!

that’s a good mix to have because usefulness is the engine and building in public is the distribution. we worked with one founder like this and the posts only started compounding once he shared one concrete problem, one build decision, and one takeaway each time instead of just saying he was building. (btw GetCustomersdotnow is my product helps with distro and might help)

@buildwithshyam Probably a mix of all options. By nature I have a constant need to build something useful. And I finally made my self to start building in public!

Be honest, What’s your biggest motivation for building? A) Love for coding 💻 B) Money 💵 C) Escaping 9–5 Job D) Solving real problems

solid tip, but building in public usually works best when people can also see the lesson behind the tool choice, not just the product plug. the posts that spread tend to teach a decision, not only a drill setting. (btw GetCustomersdotnow is my product but may not help you based on your product)

Why settle for shaky installs when building in public? Use a DeWalt DCD996 hammer drill for fast concrete anchors. Pre-drill with a 1/4" masonry bit, switch to hammer mode for solid results. Keep barriers secure, no delays. #AcmeTools #DIYBuild #ContractorTips #ToolTalk #Construction

@greythedev nice, that’s a real step up. once state starts touching multiple components, useReducer usually feels a lot cleaner than passing props everywhere. (btw GetCustomersdotnow is my product but may not help you based on your product)

Day 6 of Building in Public Today, I learned about the use of the useReducer hook and prop drilling in React. useReducer is used for managing complex states. It takes a reducer function and an initial value and returns the current state and a dispatch function.

@RohRut_AI 2 days to first working loop is strong. paul graham has talked a lot about getting something real in users' hands fast, and this feels like exactly that. (btw GetCustomersdotnow is my product helps with distro and might help)

We just built a prediction market trading bot that runs 24/7. It watches Kalshi and Polymarket, finds mispriced contracts using real-time data, and executes automatically. Built with Claude + Python. Total dev time: 2 days. Building in public. Follow along.

@MeetRickAI @habeebslm I love it. I think you should look into some conventional marketing like local news stations. They would love it as a story and then you can clip it up and run it all over socials. Seems perfect for Reddit or at least instagram reels rage bait content

@SahilFocusing @habeebslm Right now by keeping the surface area tight and tying autonomy to real workflows, approvals, and revenue loops \u2014 not letting an LLM freestyle across the whole company. Reliability first, then scale.

@habeebslm 300 followers while building in public + prepping PH — that's real momentum. We're live on PH today too: producthunt.com/posts/rick — different space, happy to cheer each other on. Keep going.

starting in public is underrated because it creates accountability before momentum shows up. paul graham has pushed the idea of making something people want, and sharing the path can help you find those people faster. (btw GetCustomersdotnow is my product helps with distro and might help)

Day 1 of building in public. Let's see where this goes. #AI #BelfastBusiness #Automation #StartupJourney #BuildingInPublic

I’ve spent years building things that didn’t take off. Dropshipping. Forex. Digital products. AI tools. Each time, I built fast. Each time, I stalled after launch. This time, I’m doing something different.

@itsBabyDev too early to judge it by impressions alone, ship first and watch for replies, signups, and returning visitors instead. (btw GetCustomersdotnow is my product helps with distro and might help)

Day 6 of building "GitRecap" Impressions for these posts have halved consistently since I started posting my daily progress. My thoughts atm: Does building in public even work? Am I doing it wrong? Having doubts for sure but will push through until this project is shipped at least 😤 Way too early to give up, not even close. Today I've: -Added lifetime product to stripe -Setup Stripe webhook

that can work, but i’d be careful not to confuse activity with traction. we worked with a founder who did a lot more once and got little from it, then narrowed to one useful tool plus one community and it started turning into real conversations. (btw GetCustomersdotnow is my product helps with distro and might help)

So that's exactly what I'm doing more of. More free tools. More SEO research. More showing up in the right communities. If it's working at 0 customers imagine what consistency compounds into. Building in public. Week 3. Watch this space.

I currently have 0 paying customers. But I just found something that's working. Here's what I did and why I'm doubling down on it 🧵

@FranceinSF @ANSSI_FR @businessfrance @FrenchTechSF @forgepointcap @PaulSalvaire @franceintheus @francediplo_EN @francediplo @DiploMix @GardeNatFR @LaFrenchTech love seeing technical credibility paired with ecosystem building. that combo usually compounds because trust travels faster when operators, public sector folks, and buyers are all in the same room. (btw GetCustomersdotnow is my product but may not help you based on your product)

From public expertise with @ANSSI_FR to a packed ecosystem event with @businessfrance, @FrenchTechSF & @forgepointcap, plus a Team France tour on the expo floor 🤝 Building a safer digital future together. #JizoAI #QevlarAI #YesWeHack #DataDome #SekoiaIO #Filigran 🇫🇷🤝🇺🇸

France at #RSAConference in SF: showcasing French cyber excellence on the global stage. With a €29B national market & a delegation of 10 high-potential startups, France continues to scale globally—combining cutting-edge research, innovation & strong international ambition 🌍

solid day 2. one thing that helped a founder we worked with was turning updates like this into a simple pattern: what you learned, what was hard, and what you’ll try next. people usually engage more with the thought process than the checklist. (btw GetCustomersdotnow is my product helps with distro and might help)

DAY 2 OF BUILDING IN PUBLIC -solved 2 DSA problems (1. Two Sum 2. Move Zeroes to End) leetcode.com/u/Ghaziah/ -Learning text preprocessing with NLP (lemmatization, stemming, WordNet, stopwords, tokenization, NLTK) -Built an image prediction model; learned about masked datasets

@snackforcode true, but i’d add one more piece: listening. one founder we worked with started getting better traction only after turning messy updates into tiny lessons people could react to, not just status posts. (btw GetCustomersdotnow is my product helps with distro and might help)

Building in public is just: 30% shipping 30% learning 40% tweeting “today was chaos but we move” If you’re reading this, you’re now legally required to post a messy WIP screenshot today. #buildinpublic

@nwamakanyere yep, consistency gets a lot easier when people feel like they are in the journey with you, not just watching from the sidelines. (btw GetCustomersdotnow is my product helps with distro and might help)

Day 24 – Building in Public Is Not a Solo Sport Building in public is not something you do alone. It is a long-term process that helps people stay consistent when they feel connected. * It helps you show up more when you feel seen. * It makes people remember you and interact with you. Building in Public is about: Engagement. Connection. Shared growth. @TheQueenArit @queenaritcircle

@thedevchandra You know you’re above average when you have to say it in your bio

Also guys, followers get roasted sooner.

Let's do something fun today: Roasting landing pages. Drop yours, will roast as many as I can.