Annie Yang

Day 6 of #buildinpublic 🤓 looking to #connect with #founders, builders & growth people. especially interested in: > AI startups & SaaS > eCommerce & local businesses > AI content creators Happy to swap some notes about acquiring my first 300 users on Reddit, what posts worked vs didn’t work when trying to get users to sign up, and my career pivot to quant dev 👋

@TTrimoreau database

I'm a vibe coder, scare me with one word

@Sirichandana44 Followed you!

@annieqyang Great. Let's connect.

@Hercul_sweb3 Followed!

@annieqyang Let's connect

@alexcooldev Yes I’ve been noticing the same with these posts, 3-4 cofounders, large budget, tons of spend on ugc, but they’re usually marketed as “I built xx app to $100k MRR”

People online be like: “I solo-built 2 apps to $150k MRR” 😭 Meanwhile behind the scenes: full team massive ad spend influencer campaigns low/no profit eventually shut down 🥴 Algorithms love success hooks, not the painful reality. My first app: ~2 months to hit first $100 MRR My second app: ~9-10 months just to figure out a viral format + build an organic content farm finally hit ~$8k/month Most people don’t show the boring middle part. Stop comparing your chapter 1 to someone else’s highlight reel. Focus on your own product. Keep shipping. Keep marketing. Keep going.

@Yovnes100 I see this style of AI everywhere on TikTok. I wonder when it will become saturated

Some dropshippers need to be locked up behind the bars

@iamfra5er This is incredible, but scheduling tools are incredibly difficult to grow. Did he stand out by focusing on devs? There are likely 5+ that focus on APIs

THIS GUY BUILT A $80K/MO SAAS BY SOLVING A PROBLEM HE KEPT HAVING OVER AND OVER Miki was building startups and every time he needed to post to social media he had to deal with 13+ different OAuth flows, rate limits, and API changes each integration took weeks so he built Late - one API that replaces all of them developers can now post to Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn and 10+ other platforms with a single endpoint the MVP was brutally simple: no dashboard, no analytics, just POST /posts and GET /accounts because developers don't want drag-and-drop interfaces, they want to write code launched on AppSumo, then started writing technical tutorials and integration guides one hour a week posting on dev.to and Reddit with working code examples CAC is $150 per customer from organic search alone the "oh shit" moment came when Instagram changed their API with no warning and he lost 30% of users in one week almost quit but the unfair advantage is this: platforms change APIs constantly and maintaining 13+ integrations is a full-time job developers will pay for reliability over "free" integrations that break every month now at $80K/mo, 30% margins, built with $500

@_aaronpaul25 Warmup

Glam Up hit $1.8m ARR in 8 months. Sprout hit $3m ARR in 7 months. The key to that was our UGC playbook. I'm finally dropping the playbook and lowkey I'm scared to drop this. You'll understand why once you read it. It's gonna be three parts but here's part 1. Part 1 itself is 40 pages long. I made sure it's tactical advice and upfront with no BS. Bonus: repost + reply 'warmup' and I'll DM you the Account Setup + Warmup module from our internal creator course. Must be following so I can DM. prep-ai.typeform.com/to/X7g0nh6E

@olivercingl I see this as well on mine and it’s pretty frustrating 😂

what is happening to my feed

@sherifgjini 5 polite compliments is like my worst nightmare

Would you rather get: - 1 brutal review from a customer - 100 likes from builders - 5 polite compliments - 1 paid annual plan

This is crazy - we’ve hit a point where people are claiming real UGC is AI (versus the other way around) in order to sell courses and digital products 🤯🤯🤯

@JohnGregQuantum Hey Greg, followed you!

@annieqyang Hello Annie, we are in the same boat Let's connect and grow together!

looking to #connect with people interested in: - SaaS - AI - App development - Startups - Indie hacking - Building in public my current goal is to reach 300 followers and build a small network of builders to learn from. if you're building something, let’s connect 👻

@Mho_23 This is very obviously not AI

we've officially hit the point where AI UGC is cheaper AND better than real UGC this video is 100% AI & i made this entire video for under 12 cents.. and no it is not seedance, veo, kling, sora or any other model you have seen this system is optimized for mass scale organic across thousands of accounts my V3 system has mastered every part of AI video: > the visuals are now more realistic than ever (notice how the natural physics actually look right now)z > it's extremely cheap. literally much cheaper than launching a real UGC program for mass scale organic > consistent high quality voice throughout the entire video > infinite length videos that stay cost effective no matter how long they run this is going to change everything..

@gauravmetrics Thanks for the feedback!

@annieqyang The promise is strong “30 days of content in 1 minute” is very clear. Small first-time user note: the visuals catch attention, but the main action feels a bit unclear. I wasn’t instantly sure whether to paste a link, click the checkmark, or sign in first.

day 4 of #buildinpublic hi solo founders and builders 👋 please roast my landing page i quit my job as a quant dev at a hedge fund to build startups i started viralfarm because i was constantly blocked by distribution and marketing after many pivots it's a great product but i want to hone in on the messaging

Day 5 of #buildinpublic i've gained 33 followers and a handful of signups on myviral.farm super excited to continue to meet cool techies and builders on here myviral.farm solves marketing for me and i'm hopeful it will help others as well