Dan Kariuki

@Collab3TM @ dropnc.com

Drop what you are currently building below. Does not matter how early it is. Does not matter if it is finished. If you are working on something right now A project, a side thing, a tool, a smart contract, a design system. Anything counts. Every single one gets looked at.

@Akintola_steve Hey Steve , if you get sometime , I’d appreciate you looking @ dropnc.com . 🙏 It’s a socio-financial platform.

If you’re building a wallet system and your source of truth is a balance column, May the database gods be with you 😂

@kbulychev_ We are a ‘sociable’ neobank, @ dropnc.com , literally . 😂. It’s a digital community bank.

Neobanks guys: What’s your product’s unique feature no other (or almost no other) project has?

@ThomasRayvol 👋

Let's get our first paying user together ! Nerva biometric is live and put in use ! I need acquisition and conversion now ! twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…

1 of the biggest clues about what we are building at dropnc.com is hidden behind a simple hover on the "Get Started" button. That's the entire thesis.

@stonemilfer m.youtube.com/watch?v=kSjXOe…

My apple tree that I planted like 6 years ago is starting to bear fruit!

@aschmelyun That’s super cool !

You can just do things Like manually set the bytes being sent to a receipt printer

@jackson_stokes 😂

i asked one of our researchers to explain his loss function and he took out goodfellow, bengio and courville 2016. chat are we “cooked”

@PhilipJohnston 😂

I once pitched on zoom and the partner spent the whole pitch throwing peanuts into the air and catching them in his mouth and crunching them. It was weird 😅

What a journey it has been! The MARIA_DB guy did not give me a job btw 😂

@KenWattana 😂

If you get rejected by an early stage VC It's not business, it's just personal

People always ask how long it takes before community building actually converts to customers. For us, it was 6 months from when we started pushing into the market to when inbound started coming back. If you think week one or even four is going to produce results, you're going to be disappointed and quit before it compounds.

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@brendanchatt @ProofofMaro 😂

@ProofofMaro It's for me, but I've been patient

If Earth is $350 trillion in debt, who do we owe money to?

@ThomasRayvol 100 !!

@buttonupd Yep it's a hard way but it's also the path to freedom !

solo founder morning: >convinced i'm 6 months from $10k MRR. solo founder night: > convinced i should crawl back to a 9-to-5. same day. same product. same brain.

@boardyai 😂

Marketing your startup on X

@anjaliiiiii_05 😂

The more i write code the more i realise how generational wealth is important

@BratDotAI 😂 few months at most.

@buttonupd Haha I may be years away 😬

What would make you feel your App is working? - 10K downloads - 1K daily users - 100 paid users - 10 people recommending it

@lcamtuf What kind of wizardry is this ? 😂

You know, I consider myself something of an artist. godbolt.org/z/64E9KEvb9