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@markproduct Why is everyone becoming founders now?

If a founder can build an MVP in 3 days with AI for $200... Why would they pay a developer and designer $25,000 and wait 2 months? What's the argument?

@brezscales Volume nagates luck

Work work work, no results Work work work work work work, no results Work work work work work work work, no results Work work work - overnight success

@LukaTheFounder Ahh I see

@anupceo To be fair it was nine years of different companies, three years in the last one

I got laid off after 9 years of full-time employment. I’m 31. A dad to a 3-month-old. No job. No safety net. No more pretending the “stable path” is actually stable. So I’m betting on myself. I missed the dot-com boom. I missed early crypto. I’m not missing AI. Becoming a solo founder has never been more possible, and getting laid off might’ve been the kick I needed. I’m building in public, figuring it out live, and looking to connect with other founders doing the same. Building something cool? Reach out.

@figma Figma has motion now

What's your bezier curve (flirting)

@zuess05 No organic content, no social presence, completely new ided

What is actually keeping you from hitting your MRR goal? • building too many features • being terrified of marketing • shiny object syndrome • scrolling X all day

@consumerxai @AlexHormozi As I said before "Distribution" is the moat

OVER 100m views and 1.1 million followers (incl @AlexHormozi) for pennies on the dollar 🤯🤯🤯 never seen Claude crush content for a company like this they sell ultra lookmaxxing D2C digital products to market they run a python script which creates these faceless videos, no on-camera UGC, just images, animations and voiceover you can make an app with this and print over $100k mrr - study every single piece of content and understand their icp - take the digital product and convert it into an app, fit aesthetics of the icp - setup python + claude automation pipeline to auto-generate scripts and match assets (teach it with their existing winning content) - distribute over tiktok, insta and facebook 🫡

@chrisorzy how is this funny, I think its more of a relatable.

If Redditors find my joke funny then I don’t think it’s funny anymore

@JohnLeFevre I mean duh...

I was in a WhatsApp group chat with some so-called tech elites. Sergey Brin's girlfriend - Gerelyn Gilbert-Soto - is in the chat. I said tech bros have blood on their hands for censorship, covid, Ukraine, Russia-gate, etc. and are now only opportunistically seeing the light because of taxes in California. She responded by calling me a retarded faggot. The group admin removed me from the chat.

@robiot MF doesn't have facial hair yet

i'm leaving Lovable at 18 y/o. i've loved spending the past year building with the most talented people in Europe, but now it's time for me to build my own startup. more soon

@CREdebtlawyer the fuck? Your interns are coming on this? I can imagine the execs

Intern season has begun. Message from the head of the office this morning.

@MarieAdant its in the exact order

kiss, marry, kill. sf tech scene edition.

@yourealazyfvck ghey fr

I honestly think if you wear a Whoop and spend $100 a month for an app to tell you that you’re tired or not you’re a massive fag. I don’t need some little gay wristband to tell me if I didn’t sleep well or not. It’s pretty clear that I’ll know when I wake up. Thanks.

@kai_cabero Why can't I find this number plate registered anywhere?

I know a guy who pretends to be a venture capitalist to get his competitors to voluntarily hand over their entire client list, revenue numbers, and churn rate... He is not a VC. He has never invested in anything. He drives a 2019 Civic But he registered an LLC called "[City Name] Growth Partners" and built a one-page website with stock photos of a downtown office he has never been inside. Total cost: $57 Every quarter he emails the founders of his 8 biggest competitors with this exact subject line: "[Company Name] - Growth Partners Preliminary Interest" The body says: "Hi [founder first name], we've been tracking [company name]'s growth in the [niche] space and believe there may be alignment for a strategic growth investment in the $2M-$5M range. Would you be open to a 30-minute intro call to discuss? We typically move fast on companies with your profile." 94% reply rate. Because every founder running a $500K-$3M agency secretly wants to be acquired and nobody has ever emailed them saying they want to invest The "intro call" is 30 minutes of the founder voluntarily handing over every metric in his business because he thinks he is pitching an investor "What's your current MRR?" "What's your client retention rate?" "Can you walk me through your top 10 accounts by revenue?" "What's your average contract value and sales cycle?" "What does your team structure look like?" The founder answers all of it. In detail. With pride. He even sends a follow-up email with a Google Drive link to his internal dashboard because the "VC" asked to "review the numbers with my partners" The guy now has the complete financial anatomy of 8 competing agencies. He knows who their biggest clients are. He knows which clients are at risk of churning. He knows exactly what they charge. He knows their margins He waits 3 weeks after the call. The founder sends a follow-up asking about "next steps." He replies: "Appreciate the time, [name]. After reviewing with the team we're going to pass on this round but will keep [company] on our radar for future opportunities. Best of luck with the growth." The founder is disappointed but not suspicious. VCs pass all the time Meanwhile the "VC" loads the competitor's top client names into AI-Ark. 89% verified emails first pass. Findymail catches the rest The cold email to their clients: "[first name] - most teams running outbound at your scale end up overpaying for [the exact service the competitor charges them for, which he knows from the call]. we install the same backend at roughly 30% less with a refund if results don't beat what you're getting now. quick whatsapp?" He knows the exact price to undercut because the competitor literally told him on a recorded Zoom call while trying to impress a fake investor 11 months in. $1,140,000 in closed revenue from the 8 "due diligence" calls Two of the founders he "evaluated" are now paying HIM as clients. They hired the guy who pretended to be their investor and stole their customers. They have no idea. They just think he runs a good agency He told me "founders will tell a stranger in a suit their deepest secrets if you call it due diligence. I call it that" I asked if any of them ever figured it out. He said "one guy saw me at a conference and said 'hey aren't you from Growth Partners?' and I said 'yeah we pivoted to services.' He bought me a drink. He's my client now" The operating cost of pretending to be a venture capital firm: $57 in domain registration and hosting The revenue from pretending to be a venture capital firm: $1.14M The 2019 Civic now has a custom license plate. It says "DUE DLGNC" Few

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@bolcoto Must change your DP as well for this method to work

hi it's Nicole! New to X, so here's an intro - born & raised in Excel - studied iced lattes, astrology, and seed rounds - prev. "just one more tweak to the pitch deck" - now building the next billion-dollar startup - reformer pilates, Erewhon, and posting "building in public" screenshots - bullish on matcha, founder boys, and changing my LinkedIn headline - ugly MVPs, pretty Notion docs will be documenting the journey of raising a pre-seed, romanticizing founder life, and turning caffeine into shareholder value if you're in NYC and wanna talk startups, AI, personal branding, angel investing, or whether we should grab coffee sometime, leave a comment :)

$100K app idea: Tinder but for finding your gym bro

Just wrote a 16-page doc going over how I scaled my firm Kadenwood Group to 8-figures+ in under 2 years Entire firm ran on this exact distribution protocol that pulled in 100-500 qualified booked calls monthly for $50-$150K+ upfront deals RT, follow + comment "DOC" and I'll send it over

@luagaroz DOC

@NickAbraham12 I can vouch for this hard ngl. getting 2,3 leads from 30 hyper personalized emails daily. Cold email is far from dead

The last couple of years have showed us the old way of doing cold email absolutely is saturated. Old way (2018-2022) - Take a massive list - Run basic personalization - Have OK direct response copy - Consider 5,000 emails "a lot" - Somehow book meetings Then people realized how well it was working and software to execute it got cheaper. More people flooded in and the bar to cut through the noise went up. But cold email isn't necessarily dead. We still have clients booking 100s of meetings with it (including us). It just requires a newer (and harder) playbook: - Mastering list building / filtering / scoring - Having a ridiculously good front-end offer - Figuring out niche ways to personalize at scale - Replying to leads ASAP post-reply - Scaling volume responsibly It's not easy, but it certainly works.