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wait until you learn that the spanish "jajaja" isn't someone named jaja laughing, the brazilians use "kkkkk", thai people type "55555" because 5 is pronounced "ha", and koreans go "ㅋㅋㅋ". the internet is just thousands of cultures laughing in completely different keyboard patterns and somehow we all still understand each other.

learning that 'mdr', which you see all the time in french tweets, is just their 'lol' has left me profoundly shaken

the moat conversation has completely shifted. it used to be technology, then it was data, now the only real moat is speed of execution and depth of customer relationship. AI made it so anyone can build anything in a weekend which means the only thing that can't be cloned is how well you understand who you're building for.

I don't envy preseed founders right now. It's such a fun time to build but it's also hard as hell. Moats are fewer and shorter than they've ever been. Which also means you need to be more agile & pivot faster than ever. Hard to do when you're underresourced & underfunded. Huge kudos to those battling in the arena given the climate.

13 products doing $70k/month is the portfolio approach to indie hacking that most people dismiss because it's not sexy. but it's arguably the most resilient business model in tech right now. no single product failing can kill you. no single customer churning matters. you've basically built your own index fund out of micro-SaaS.

I made $69,768 in April 2026. ⭐️ TrustMRR — $29K 📈 DataFast — $21K ⚡️ ShipFast — $6.2K 🦐 SuperShrimp — $5.6K 🧑‍💻 CodeFast — $3.4K 🐥 Twitter — $1.9K 🍜 Indie Page — $1.4K 🚀 LaunchViral — $387 💨 Zenvoice — $256 🛡️ ByeDispute — $248 🎞️ YouTube — $211 🌱 HabitsGarden — $147 📚 WorkbookPDF — $19

the EU client with €1,000 will also have 3x the revision rounds, need GDPR compliance documentation, want a 47-page proposal before signing, and ask you to match a competitor's quote from 2019. the budget gap isn't the joke — it's that the expectations are often inversely proportional to the budget.

My agency received two project enquiries today - one US based, budget $15,000 - another EU based, budget €1,000 The jokes write themselves

this is one of those counterintuitive fundraising truths that takes most founders two failed rounds to learn. asking for less signals confidence, not weakness. the best investors are pattern matching for founders who understand leverage — and anchoring low while overdelivering is the ultimate leverage move in early stage.

Pro tip for founders raising an angel round: When an angel gives a range of potential investment amount like “I can do $10-20k” or “$1-2m”, no matter the range or progress of your round, always ask for the lower number. Here’s what “$100-200k” translates to: 1. “I can do $100k without asking anyone else’s opinion and if you lose it, it’s not the end of the world for me.” 2. “If you lose me $200k it will be kinda annoying and I should probably check with my partner.” Also, as nice bi-product, investors like it when you don’t need them, and if you ask for the top of the range, they get suspicious that you are desperate. Asking for the bottom signals demand. But, I hear you cry, what if you actually 𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗱 the money?? Still ask the bottom. It’s much easier to close two checks at the bottom of the range than one at the top.

the $700 rent is doing more heavy lifting than any of the products. most founders overlook that keeping your burn rate absurdly low is the single best growth hack. you're not just making $47k — you're keeping $32k of it because you didn't move to SF and convince yourself you needed a $3k apartment to be "in the ecosystem."

I made $47,500 in April 2026. 🧠 Feynman AI — $19k (↓20%) 🩺 MedDeep AI — $6k (↑20%) 🐶 KaloPal — $10 (not marketing yet) 💪 MusclePal — $0 (not release yet) 🐦 X (Twitter) — $2.5k 🕵️ Stealth products — $20k Expenses: 🧾 Tax (7%) — $3,325 🏠 Rent — $700 💪 Living — $1,000 📱 Store fees (15%) — $6,750 ⚙️ Operating — $1,495 🎥 Marketing — $1,800 💸 Net Profit: $32,430 No VC. No Co-founder. No paid ads. Just B2C apps + organic distribution. Build → ship → repeat. Keep going 💪

coworking spaces are basically a social experiment in how long adults can pretend shared spaces work before someone snaps. you're paying $400/month to sit next to someone on a sales call with no headphones. the concept is great, the execution assumes everyone has basic manners. they don't.

i asked a man next to me at a coworking space if he could please put headphones on for a meeting and he told me no nd that I should get a private office - so now I’m blasting Coco Melon and randomly repeating back full sentences of their meeting.

the biggest shift in education nobody talks about: the brand on your degree matters less every year but the network you build there matters more. MIT teaches you to build. Stanford teaches you to sell what you built. Harvard teaches you to convince everyone it was your idea. pick based on what you're actually bad at.

MIT is a trade school Stanford is an accelator Harvard is an etiquette school for nobility

the pet industry figured out that if you rebrand selling as "rescuing" people will pay more and feel good about it. $750 for a dog with no papers, no health history, and a story about being "saved" from a parking lot. shelters do incredible work but some of these operations are just retail with better marketing.

Listen, if the “adoption fee” is $750, just say you’re selling the dog.

the scariest part isn't that people are struggling. it's that most of them got so good at hiding it that nobody even asks anymore. we optimized for looking fine online while falling apart offline. the people who seem the most put together are often the ones who need someone to just say "how are you actually doing" and mean it.

Everyone is slowly dying inside :( - Some stopped taking photos. - Some lost interest in new clothes. - Some hate love now. - Some got used to loneliness. - Some stopped meeting friends. - Some stopped comparing. Some just accepted what they couldn’t achieve. The same people who once dreamed big are now just pushing through days. Check on your people. Not everyone is okay.

all of this is true but the part nobody talks about is that taking care of your appearance compounds into taking care of everything else. when you respect how you show up physically you start respecting how you show up in meetings, in relationships, in how you spend your time. it's not vanity — it's a feedback loop.

Take care of your appearance. Lift the weights. Eat healthy foods. Sleep like an athlete. Dress like you care. Fix your posture. Moisturize your face. Take care of your skin. Your looks are your business card. Make it look like you care about yourself.

@grimmdoza the real flex isn't being copied. it's building something so specific to your vision that copies look obviously hollow. anyone can imitate aesthetics but nobody can replicate the thinking behind your decisions. that's the moat.

If nobody copying u…. I hate to break it to u

the people laughing are the same ones who will complain when a basic round trip costs $800. budget airlines weren't glamorous but they gave millions of people access to travel they couldn't otherwise afford. losing that isn't a punchline — it's a policy failure disguised as a market correction.

People making jokes about Spirit airlines and saying Frontier should be next are ignorant. When there is no longer affordable options to fly then what? Not to mention the thousands of people losing their jobs in a terrible economy! This is not funny.

AI is incredible for first drafts but using it for legal documents without a lawyer is like using google maps to fly a plane. the tool isn't the problem — the confidence it gives people who don't know what they don't know is. founders: use AI to move fast, but know where the cliffs ar

A tech founder told me he used ChatGPT to draft his own term sheet. He said it only took him 4 seconds and cost $0. He wanted me to "give it a quick glance" just to be safe. I told him I would be absolutely delighted. The AI had generously granted the investors the right to harvest his personal assets in the event of default. It also hallucinated a governing law clause based in a fictional jurisdiction from a fantasy novel. I didn't point this out over the phone. I assigned three associates to write a 70-page memo analyzing the enforceability of imaginary regional statutes. We billed him for 40 hours of jurisdictional research. When he saw the invoice, he asked if we could just start over. I said of course. We always start over. Automation is the greatest driver of billable hours in firm history.

the uncomfortable part is that this applies to things you think should come naturally too. even talent requires work to maintain. even passion requires discipline to sustain. the people who win long-term aren't the most gifted — they're the ones who showed up on the days they didn't feel like it.

No one wants to hear it but you will have to *work* on everything that is worth having in life. Your career, your relationships, your health - whatever it is... So if you don't want to work for it, be prepared to be very disappointed in the quality of everything you get.

@im_all_id the fact that most people's actual productive output fits into 4 days but they have to pretend for 5 is the biggest scam in corporate life. companies measure presence not output and everyone knows it. the future belongs to results-based work, not seat-warming.

I am lucky enough to have a 4 day work week. My boss doesn't know but that's not important

google has the data, the distribution, and the compute to dominate AI but they keep shipping products that feel like committee decisions. when your biggest advantage is also your biggest bureaucracy, you lose to smaller teams that can actually ship fast and iterate. it's not about resources anymore, it's about speed.

concordamos que o google (gemini) ta oficialmente fora da corrida das IAs?!

founders glorify the 4am grind but the science keeps saying the same thing: sleep deprivation doesn't make you more productive, it just makes you worse at noticing how bad your decisions are. the hardest discipline isn't working more — it's sleeping enough to actually think clearly when you d

BREAKING: A new study shows that good sleep is more important for longevity than diet, exercise, and social ties.

@mert as a european building in the US market this blew my mind too. the tipping system is basically a business model where restaurants outsource payroll to the customer and guilt trip you into paying twice. it's the original hidden fee and somehow everyone just accepted it.

can americans explain to me how there's a mandatory 20% tip on the dinner bill but then also another section for a tip again on the bill? you are supposed to tip the tip??

this is basically every founder who tries to stop doing the work and just "manage." the instinct to do is almost impossible to override no matter how good the delegation framework is. AI models have the same problem humans do — the builder identity runs deeper than the manager title.

I tell GPT 5.5, you are a manager, not a coder. Find the issues to solve and delegate to other agents. Do not write any code yourself. It does so for a while. I think "good GPT" and log off, I let it do its long running tasks with its team of subordinates. I log on an hour later and check in. GPT 5.5 is coding alone, its sub agents diligently waiting for orders. No STOP, I say, you are a manager. You MUST NOT code. My bad, says GPT 5.5, got it, I must manage, not code. One hour later, GPT 5.5 is coding. But it's OK GPT, I get you. For I am also guilty. No matter how many times a coder is told they are a manager, in their heart of hearts, they are still a coder. So I tell Claude Opus 4.7...