Alex Llull

@THArrowOfApollo CODE

Clay’s new pricing is probably my fault. We were paying $314 a month, but using (based on their new model) $214,087.50 worth of Clay a WEEK. Here’s the story: A year ago Clay's head of product hopped on a call with me. I told him we were hitting their platform 17.3 million times per week. Almost all custom events (i.e. HTTPs) I remember his response being something close to "Holy shit, I think you are the largest user of Clay" I said yeah that doesn't surprise me. But then it also came up that we were only paying $3,769 a year. We talked about HTTPs, custom integrations, how we were basically using Clay as a giant API orchestration layer. I knew his wheels were turning. If you saw my last post, you know we eventually replaced Clay entirely with a $200/mo Claude Code subscription. 272,000 leads per second vs Clay's 27 hours for the same volume. But before we left, we were the perfect case study for why Clay's old pricing was broken. $314/mo for 17.3 million weekly, for what they now call ‘actions’. Run the math. We were paying $0.00001815 per action. Clay announced their new pricing structure. They split everything into Data Credits and ‘Actions.’ Actions are HTTPs, custom integrations, API calls. The exact things we were doing 17.3 million times a week. The new price per action credit works out to about 1.24 cents each. A 681% price increase for us I know you might say, "But Clay is letting people stay on the old pricing if they want," and I hear you but I also don't know how it makes me feel that someone brand new would have to pay $856,350 per month to get the same advantages I had when I was starting out only 3 years ago. I'm not saying that one call caused the entire restructuring. But I am saying their head of product learned that day that someone was running 17 million HTTPs a week for the price of a nice dinner. And now every HTTP costs 1.24 cents. anyways For the last year, we've been trying to figure out how to get off of our dependency on Clay. That was until Cursor / Claude Code / Codex came out My VP of Growth, @James, who doesnt know how to write a single line of code, touched Claude Code for the first time And three weeks later he replaced Clay for us We could process 272k rows per second now for the cost of a Claude Code sub My last post was about that system Then after that post, Clay announces new pricing that specifically monetizes the exact thing we were doing at a massive scale. Coincidence? Maybe. But I may owe everyone using Clay an apology If your Clay bill just went up, you can probably blame me for that one. Sorry! I put together a system blueprint of what I did to replace Clay for myself -- every tool, the tech stack, a Clay vs custom comparison, and a 6-step playbook for building your own. Plus a video walkthrough where I show you the live system and how each tool actually works. Reply CODE below and I'll DM it to you.

@beechinour ugc

i just made a full walkthrough how to make ai ugc content that's hyper scaleable, adaptable, and actually gets views it includes: > the tools needed > prompting realistic viral ugc > how to edit for trends and performance comment "ugc" and RT & i'll dm it to you (must be following)

@jspujji influencer

Yesterday, I met a client who grew his TikTok Shop to $2.6M/year, from $72K. I interviewed their assistant, who manages 9000+ influencers and 33x’d annual revenue. My team made our interview into a 6-step playbook. Like + comment “Influencer” to get the playbook in your DMs.

@itsolelehmann definitely don't come to Madrid on the summer unless you go near the mountain side (and even then, get a house wit ha pool 😂)

I was planning where to stay during summer and had claude code create me an interactive dashboard to compare tourism per capita and it made the decision much easier took 2 minutes

@AlexLlullTW Es la campaña del mes... Que en 2026 estén aún revisando cuentas de 2024 tiene tela

You can’t make this up… I just received a notification from Hacienda. They want to review all my income and expense invoices from 2024. I bet they won’t find a thing out of place, but they’ll still come back with some nonsense claim that some of my expenses are not business-related and that I owe them a few hundred €. Nothing really worth fighting them over. I also bet the “suspicious” expense will be travel-related. Hacienda hates when I travel. It always has (anyone else feels this way?) I’m leaving this in writing so that when the resolution comes back, nobody can say I didn’t call it.

@thepatwalls @HubSpot massive, congrats!!! big fan of what you've built!

8 years ago, I started a side project inside of a tiny Starbucks. Today, Starter Story is being acquired by @HubSpot. Here’s how it happened.

@floriandarroman lab

Ok, this blew up! I’ve got hundreds of questions in my DMs after this post. So I launched an OpenClaw Community for founders. Where you can get my full 11-agent setup, weekly lives, AMAs, and a community of founders like you! Comment “Lab” to get the link.

@nicholasnlawton 👀

we spent months perfecting our creator briefs at SideShift trial campaign brief. official campaign brief. pay structures. hook banks. persona templates. upload workflows. the whole thing. brands are using these to onboard 20+ creators at a time without chaos RT this and i'll DM you both templates for free

@nicholasnlawton 👋👋

Finally someone is cracking B2B UGC... Super impressed with the work these guys have been doing lately Videos feel more productionitized, in a good way If you have a more complex product that isn't a simple calorie scanner app, you should chat w/ these fellas Ping me if interested

@alexolim_ guide

We helped an AI fashion app get over 400,000 downloads with organic content. And I put together a 27 page guide explaining EXACTLY how we did it. Want it? 1. Like this post 2. Comment “GUIDE” And I’ll send it to you for free. (must be following so I can DM)

@alexcooldev the tricky part is finding them 😂

Hiring students to handle organic growth, then layering paid ads on top. I’m currently working with 4 students, they manage and create contents almost all of my 40 TikTok accounts. Personally, I don’t even like using TikTok. It’s cheap dopamine and kills focus.

@juliapintar so you think it can't be done in b2b? 🤔

i'm extremely selective with what companies we work with at playkit i'll never work with: > b2b > crypto > ai girlfriend/boyfriend apps for two reasons: 1. need to be 100% confident ugc will work with every client 2. i want to be proud of every company we promote

@georgeclem 🫡

@nicholasnlawton I assume b2c?

have been working closely with a new rising UGC agency whose about to blow up have sent them 3 deals already 10k budgets / 300-400 videos their stats: > every campaign above 10M views > smaller quality creator cohorts > each creator getting multiple million view videos these guys are doing something truly unique dm me and ill connect you with them

@anything LFG

Introducing Anything Max: Vibe Coding that's leaps above Lovable and Bolt We've raised money at a $100M valuation and built what we believe is the future of vibe coding. We asked 100 vibe coders to build their apps side by side on Lovable, Bolt, and Anything Max and they rated Anything Max the winner across all 3 categories - accuracy, design, and 'overall'. Here's why: • Full-stack control: Max can test backend hooks, branch database states, and debug issues, because Anything owns the full infrastructure. • Max can load up your app in its own browser and click on all buttons like a human tester to find all edge case bugs, then trace the bug across the stack - could be a frontend, backend, or a database issue (only we can do this, read #1) and autonomously fix it with 97% accuracy. Lovable and Bolt build prototypes, but Max users are building production-ready apps and already charging money for them. Blake built a gut biome app to $10K run rate Anthony built a referral tool to $20k in revenue Yuri built a suite of apps doing $40K Build your app with Max: createanything.com/max -------------------------------------------- We're hosting a $100K Hackathon to help people grow their app to $10K MRR. - We'll teach you everything we know about growing to 1M users. - You'll have 30 days to build a real product in public and get paying customers for it. If you do it well, you can start the New Year with a functioning business. Retweet and comment “LFG”, and we’ll send you a $100 discount code and the link to participate

@foliofed @gummy_search so sad to hear Fed! best of luck for what's next 🙏

It's a very difficult decision to wind down a profitable business But in this case, I think its the best one for current @gummy_search customers, as well as myself I wrote up the "why" here, as well as what what to expect in this final chapter gummysearch.com/final-chapter/

@juliapintar interested :)

the first edition of the playkit report is here a weekly (probably) report going to anyone interested in following along our journey > what we're experimenting with > internal updates > behind the scenes > trends we're noticing excited about this, lmk if you want the link :)

@Davidjpark96 would love to learn more details on the ugc

very happy with latest growth of jenni 🥳 - revenue +17.9% - new customers +37.3% - churn -1.08% - LTV +1.46% growth is due to seasonality + UGC + improved product still have a long ways to go, but it's a good start! 🫡

@mikefutia Sora

OpenAI just released Sora 2 and it's completely nuts🤯 It can create hyper-realistic UGC-style ads in seconds... ...if you know how to prompt it. Perfect for e-commerce operators & ad agencies who need endless UGC content to test and iterate. Each Sora 2 video looks nearly indistinguishable from real UGC and can be generated at scale. Just follow this workflow and get near-perfect UGC videos with your product in seconds. → Research trending UGC videos in your niche → Analyze winning patterns with Google Gemini → Use Gemini to write a UGC script for Sora 2 → Upload your product reference image to Sora 2 → Get hyper-realistic UGC-style videos instantly I recorded a 9-minute Loom video breaking down my entire process, including the prompts. Want access? Comment "SORA" + like and I'll send it over (must be following so I can DM)