Dhruv🧘‍♂️

i fired a client today. it was very agreeable. my service was not a good fit for this particular client. instead of milking it for the full contract amount, I pulled the plug -- saving him money and myself time. it'd have been uglier later. it was refreshingly pleasant doing it now.

@zeejers @rcmisk Yes for read-only that's what I use. For write - you still need the browser

@dhruvkar @rcmisk Fyi. There is a better way. Use the .rss endpoint instead of the .json endpoints. They can't shut those down, the world relies on them :)

you built your SaaS. no audience. no newsletter. no connections in the space. you have 30 days to get 50 real users without running ads. walk me through your exact distribution plan. where do you start on day 1? what channels? what's your actual message? specific moves only. no "just post on social media."

@iTinyHomes haha! you are the one that got me hooked!

@dhruvkar I’m loving that you’re still rocking a manual transmission

Keeping my Claude sessions going during commute (hotspot + car laptop charger)

@heyblake so you were Amish strong for a day 💪💪

@dhruvkar I used a spreadsheet for the youth baseball team I coached, that's about it

I didn't use Claude one time today. AMA.

@ArjunMahadevan Congrats on this, Arjun! Will def be using

@dhruvkar I agree. What a time to be alive.

we're 6 months away from prompting a fully autonomous successful business only slightly kidding.

@RoyInProgress @mal_shaik you slacker! kidding aside, that 4a-6a window is brutal with toddlers. you're almost there! (we're almost done with our second)

@mal_shaik Basically my day 😅: - 23:00 Go to sleep - 23:05 - 03:00 Helping baby sleep - 03:00 - 03:50 Sleeping - 03:50 - 05:30 Helping toddler sleep - 05:30 - 06:00 Sleeping - 06:00 - 21:00 Busy with work, the kids and chores - 21:00 - 23:00 Try to build my brand

im curious when do founders usually sleep and wake up? wanna know what ppls sleep schedule look like

@rcmisk browser automation (unfortunately). I set it to do super slowly. I have gotten banned, but it was because it was dropping my link in too many comments, so the sub banned me. no issues using BA. hermes + codex or claude code -> both tried and tested.

@dhruvkar Whhhat! How do you post on Reddit they banned me from just using their API . Now I can’t access it or I think it’s gone no?

@sherifgjini I'm trying to follow the @AlexHormozi rule. if you're under $1,000,000 in annual revenue, spend 3-4 hours on "getting noticed"

Solo founders, be honest. How many hours a day are you actually building vs trying to get people to notice what you built?

@ndycodes @rcmisk yes

@dhruvkar @rcmisk So that's why linkedin and r/saas are unbearable rn

as a 38 yr old, I feel the same. I'm trying to make up for this by opening an ungodly number of tabs. I think the right way is -- build workflows and then hand them off. this takes understanding your workflows, stepping back, building re-usable components and skill-ifying them.

I'm 22 years old and Claude Code is deteriorating my brain. Every single day for the last 6 months I've had 6 to 8 Claude Code terminals open, waiting for a response just so I can hit 'enter' 75% of the time. And it's doing something to me. In convos with a couple of friends, it's been a point that's been brought up pretty frequently. None of us feel as sharp as we used to. I don't know if it's just us, or others in their 20s are feeling the same thing, but it's something I've been thinking about a lot. P.S. I know this is a problem with my reliability/usage of it, not Claude Code itself, but the effects are real nonetheless

at least one "david" signs up to clawdrop every day. i'd love to get to know you all!

@Shpigford what all have you tried? agreed. its not the prettiest. I think instantly was the best when it started -- now it's bloated beyond. i use manyreach + inboxkit (it has a lifetime deal) and it serves my purposes. lots of new entrants incoming...

i'm slowly coming around to cold email as a sales strategy 🫣 that being said, WHY IS ALL OF THE SOFTWARE IN THIS SPACE UNIVERSALLY TERRIBLE?!?!?!?! i've tried a dozen options and every. single. one. of. them. is the worst software i've ever used.

I'm liking hermes + codex for autonomous stuff. I'm liking claude code for my hands-on workflows. How are people using these tools?

@kevinasrx so true, Kevin! @karpathy has commented saying even he "feels behind" in these times. have fun + add value = success in my book

If you are overwhelmed and don't know where to even start with learning AI, read this. First, just for background, I received a message from someone telling me - I'm drinking from the firehose and drowning a little. - There's so much info out there and I can't figure out where to actually start This was my response. Almost verbatim: This is exactly what I think makes someone successful in this forming industry right now. It's not the tools that you know necessarily. It's your ability to conceptualize the big picture with what's happening with AI right now. Knowing each and every tool doesnt matter. What matters is: what can you do for a business using what you know is out there and what you know is possible. Think MACRO not micro. It's a lot. but If you can turn this learning process into "play time" and make this fun for you, then it will become much easier to soak it up. Learn by doing it for yourself and for your own projects and then translate that to others. There's too much to stay completely up to date on, but if it's fun and you are consistently building projects of your own, just by proxy, you'll stay pretty up to date.

@itsdangoldfield we think that "ancient" is better. and sure, the knowledge they brought is timeless. but each teacher that came along was perfectly modern for the time in which they existed. that's the only way to reach & transform people.

In the time of Gautama Buddha, the literacy rate was between 0 and 1%. That is such a profoundly different reality that it’s practically impossible to imagine. Yet we romanticize the way spiritual practice was done back then. (e.g. “enlightenment is dependent on divorcing your family, shaving your head and living in a hut in the woods.”) No doubt, there was wisdom back then. No doubt, that wisdom must be applied differently today if it’s to be useful.

@QuantumTumbler 🙏❤️

I respect that too. And yeah there are studies on meditation, but notice what they actually show changes in physiology, perception, stress response, even temperature regulation in some cases. That’s all within known biology. That’s very different from “healing anything,” or “influencing random systems,” or implying a deeper layer of reality. Those are much stronger claims and they need stronger evidence. So it’s not being dismissed “because of aesthetics,” it’s because the claims are jumping past what’s actually been demonstrated. If there’s more there, the path forward is simple make a clear, testable prediction that others can reproduce. That’s how it stops being personal experience and becomes part of shared reality.

Imagination creates ideas. Reality decides which ones are true. If you remove that second step, you’re not doing science; you’re just telling stories.