Tanya Jalal

Looking for a cofounder. Requirements: - can sing at their top of their lungs to Gracie Abrams with me - knowledgeable on circuit design & hardware Thanks dm me

We don’t talk enough about how we had Covid and TikTok rise at the same time

@YashViratstan Physics Wallah is a fire name

Imagine making it to Forbes from here

Ok new goals for my X account: - 1 moodboard tweet/day - 1 quality thread/week - 10 replies to tech community Just publicly holding myself accountable 🤸🏽‍♀️

Be boring. Eat. Lift. Build. Write. Sleep. The boring life is the best life.

Wrote about where I think AI is headed and what Silicon Valley has wrong, check it out: open.substack.com/pub/tanyajalal…

@CodeWizard On TikTok, you have to make something controversial enough for people to stop at your video, and go “no way, WTF is going on”

@techsocialite I don't know what the secret to virality is! Where do I find that memo 😂

As a founder, what’s the best way to get your first paying user? 1. Building in public 2. Cold DMs 3. Paid Ads I'm asking because patience isn't exactly my strong suit 😆

@rcmisk Make a new TikTok, make sure you first post is viral proof and would be scroll-stopping, advertise your product.

you're launching tomorrow. no audience. no email list. no budget. you have 6 hours to get 10 paying customers. what's your exact move? be specific.

@christiangori96 Yet accelerators/investors might still be wary of investing in a solo founder...

2026 is the year of solo-founders, mark my word

@aliByteCode So true. But, you have to build your product to be appealing enough to actually work when marketing.

Hot take: Marketing your product is harder than building it. Change my mind.

@zuess05 Learning how to distribute your product. UGC and influencer marketing are still massively underrated. If you can make something viral and spread, you have something people actually want.

As a founder What is the absolute best investment you can make?

@hthieblot Completely. It's really comforting to know others are going through the same. Building is lonely, but you have to be ruthlessly obsessed with your vision. And the time horizon is much longer than you'd like.

One of the loneliest and most brutal stretches as a founder is holding unbreakable belief that you'll make it... when you have literally nothing to show for it. 2–4 years of: - Zero traction - Telling people "this is going to be big" and feeling like a fraud the second the words leave your mouth - Shrinking bank account - Friends buying houses / getting promotions while you explain to your mom why you still don't have a "real job" The imposter voice gets loudest at 3 AM: "Am I delusional?" "Can I actually pull this off?" "Am I really built for this?" Everyone around you might doubt it quietly, but the real killer is when you start doubting yourself. The truth: Yes, you can. Yes, you are that guy. But belief has to come before proof. You have to choose to back yourself hard when the scoreboard says zero, because that's exactly when most people quit. Those empty years aren't wasted. They're forging the version of you that can handle the win when it finally hits. Keep showing up. Stay obsessed. Never ever give up. The breakthrough comes after the doubt has tried to kill you a hundred times.

@striver_79 I completely agree. We only see the top 1% online and think that must be everyone. I struggle to find anyone who actually wants to build near me.

The world is not as competitive as it looks on the internet.

@thenowhereway Hiii :) Building manequin, a platform that tracks your daily habits and gives you actionable daily steps to become your dream self.

Twitter is cool. But it’s 100x better when your timeline is full with people who code and build things. I need to connect with more founders and tech people. If you’re into Tech, AI, Startups, Design, web dev, SaaS, or programming, say hi.

@paulg This is really great insight. Being a 22-year-old with ambitious goals, but barely anything on my resume, makes me kind of wary that VC's wouldn't want to invest in me. But my goal has always been to make a product people love.

Someone asked if it's a good idea to start a startup when you have nothing notable on your resume. Absolutely. All that matters in a startup is whether users like the product, and users don't care (either way) what's on your resume.

@trentjhughes This sounds awesome. How did you manage distribution and gaining credibility?

Side hustle idea locally: Local young adults social club Monthly fee of $99 a month Hiking trips Bowling nights Rooftop dinners Holiday parties 200 members That's $19,800 a month People are craving it We did a version of this in NC Not a bad little business...

@garrytan I’ve always found this a bit contradictory to lean startup thinking. Aren’t you supposed to solve a problem people already want fixed, not invent one?

You don’t need to be ahead. You just need to start. The people who use these tools now are the ones who catch up fastest.

But the opportunity is that this is the easiest it’s ever been to start something. Even a few hours a week on a personal project can compound.

Where the f*ck is AI actually headed? Everyone says it’s going to change everything. But if that were true… why hasn’t your life changed yet?