@JustenEcom I can explain in-detailed if needed. Saving it for later.
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Adarsh Kumar
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Adarsh Kumar
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Most founders figure it out too late. I built @realhow_net to change that. Real playbooks. Every Thursday 11:30 AM EST/ET.
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There's a time to build and a time to optimize.
Most people confuse the two.
Building phase: Test fast, fail fast, learn fast
Optimizing phase: Refine what works, squeeze more from it
Trying to optimize before you have something that works = wasted time
Trying to build new when you should optimize = not smart
Know which phase you're in.
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I should livestream more
build businesses live with AI
people tune in and learn along the way
could be fun
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@sidebusiness What did you do with the account that did gain followers and views?
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I posted the exact same video a few days ago on 10 TikTok accounts with less than 200 followers.
On the 2nd account:
→ 3.2M views
→ 10,000+ new followers
On the others:
→ NOTHING. Zero. Nada.
This still blows my mind 🤯
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@victor_bigfield Take small steps toward what you want to achieve. No need to do it all at once. Let it sink in. Pause. Then work on the next part.
That little halt before making a decision is all you need. Everything else will fall into place as you move toward your goal.
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advice for indie hackers building their first saas:
"ship something you'd actually use yourself."
"momentum builds fast once you stop waiting."
"if you're spending nights and weekends on this, make it matter."
"pick a problem that genuinely annoys you. the grind hits different when you care."
wait - scratch that.
"pick a real problem. caring is the only thing that keeps you going."
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@thepatwalls Stripe notifications are dopamine slot machines. Every ping trains you to check metrics instead of build product.
The founders who scale turn off all revenue alerts and review weekly. Daily revenue checks are anxiety management not business intelligence.
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PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT
After you hit ~$10K per month, turn off Stripe notifications on payments, subscriptions, cancellations etc on your phone AND email.
It is not information you need to act on, and it's better to look at revenue reporting as a whole less often.
This kinda stuff fries your dopamine and overall energy.
Hieu Dinh@hieudinh_
Waking up to this makes me want to go back to sleep 😭
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Most people don't have an idea what engineering with agents really mean. Myself included.
Anyone here in Startup Community want to explain?
The Boring Marketer@boringmarketer
There’s a massive difference between vibe coding and engineering with agents
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@thejustinwelsh This is why we always follow customer discovery first, customer creation second, then product development. Company building comes later.
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It is 4:24 AM. I woke up to finish pending work left yesterday night: fixing the OpenGraph (OG) image for all our Real How pages.
If you don’t know what an OG image is, let me explain: it is the preview image shown every time you share a link on any social media platform.
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I have been testing Stitch for the past few hours and still can't create designs, as it only supports the mobile app or web app. I thought it would be for designing creatives.
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We are not a designer. Designer. We are designers with Human Intelligence. I think Google just gave 90% of the design power you could do with Stitch.
Thank @Google
blog.google/innovation-and…
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@hthieblot Don't wanna promote but that's exactly the reason I started The Real How's. I write about how founders really do it while working a 9-to-5.
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You either take the risk or end up working for someone who did.
Worst case scenario: you learn.
Best case scenario: it changes your whole life and trajectory.
Playing it safe never built anything worth remembering.
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Culture to me is set of rules where you get rewarded for what you actually do right… and corrected for what you don’t.
Not what’s written. Not what’s said.
What’s consistently reinforced.
Marc Randolph@marcrandolph
Culture is observational, not aspirational. Culture doesn't come from what you hang on the walls of the breakroom. Culture is how you act.
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This needed to be said.
Feels like everyone’s either panicking or chasing the next AI tool.
But the fundamentals haven’t gone anywhere.
If anything, taste matters more now. Execution matters more now.
Because when everyone has access to the same tools, the difference is how you think and what you choose to build.
AI is leverage. Not identity.
The people who stay consistent with their craft are the ones who’ll stand out.
Same thing I’m seeing while building The Real How Playbooks.
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Designers.
I don't write like I used to. Mainly because the feed is flooded with how the industry is dying, newest AI tool, blah, blah, blah...
I'll say this:
LOCK IN on your craft.
Continue to test, iterate, study and leverage your skills & showcase what you can do. Sketch, build, test, and CREATE. You are a tastemaker.
A beacon for clients that need design guidance.
We're not going anywhere. Most clients DO NOT have the bandwidth to test like we can. Hone in on your art, find ways to leverage AI, but lean on your intuition and learn and use the fundamentals.
Universal Principles of Design, UI fundamentals...LLMs are a median. Remember that. They are the median result of what is already out there.
Your experience, your life, your unique perspective is what sells.
Now go forth and MAKE.
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This is how it usually starts.
You follow the signal. Feedback keeps coming in. And suddenly it’s not a “project” anymore.
It becomes a product.
Most people try to force SaaS from day one. Rarely works.
The better path is this. Put something out, listen closely, and let the market pull you into it.
That shift is everything.
Trying to do the same with The Real How Playbooks.
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feedback continues to be killer. starting the move to a proper SaaS product. 🚀
Josh Pigford@Shpigford
i've been heads down lately working on a new thing: @RumoredAI and today it's available! everyone's familiar with SEO and everyone's becoming more familiar with AEO/GEO (which is optimization for AI). yes it's interesting to know what terms/phrases surface your business, but what nobody has tackled is what to do when AI is getting your business *wrong*. and we found that AI hallucinates business facts for quite literally every brand. rumored.ai surfaces what AI is saying about your brand, what it's getting wrong, how you compare to your competitors and (most importantly) the exact things to do to fix those issues. you get a ridiculously in-depth interactive threat report covering 12 sections: from executive summary and active threats to competitive analysis, schema audit, and a prioritized action plan with copy-paste fix prompts. this isn't a subscription (yet?). it's a one-time purchase of an in-depth audit of your business. launch price is $25. but the price goes up by $25 each time someone purchases. 📈 have been testing this with a lot of companies and the response has nearly universally been 🤯. i think you'll love it.
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This shift is actually crazy when you think about it.
It used to be about how many engineers you throw at a problem. Now it’s about how much compute you’re willing to spend on it.
Same underlying question, just a different constraint.
Good engineers today aren’t just writing code. They’re constantly making tradeoffs between speed, cost, and scale.
You’re not just building products anymore. You’re managing burn at the infrastructure level too.
Changes how you think completely.
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The new “how many resources should we put on this project”
Thariq@trq212
an increasingly large part of the job of an engineer is deciding how much compute to spend on a problem
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Just the other day I was talking about how simple tools could make massive dollars if you know how to really do it. Blindly launching products and hoping they’ll catch on doesn’t work here, as it never did.
You need a solid foundation before going deep at least have a plan for the next 2 years, that is, if your idea is validated and you’ve got thirsty people waiting for you to ship.
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This AI study SaaS makes $769,000 in ARR!
With gamified quizzes & flashcards.
Now live @acquiredotcom:
> $1M TTM revenue
> $313k TTM profit
> 72% gross margin
> 10k paying users
Full listing: app.acquire.com/startup/kDCAvf…
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@paulg Do not wanna promote it but I did name it studying you.
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This is a really good heuristic. The only downside is that someone will later invent a name for what you do, and you probably won't like it.
Raph. H.@Rapahelz
@paulg Learn, do and invest in things that do not have a name yet.
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Phones didn't kill reading. They killed boredom.
Kids used to read because there was nothing else to do. Now there's always something else. Reading requires you to be uncomfortable for the first 20 pages. TikTok requires nothing.
The question isn't how to make kids read more. It's how to teach them to sit with discomfort long enough to get past page 20.
Most adults can't do that either. We just pretend it's a kid problem.
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Did phones kill reading?
"The data shows that both boys and girls are reading less, and they're both saying they like reading less, and it's way worse for boys.
And that's existential. If people don't read as kids, the chance of them reading as adults goes way down.
It also has a huge impact on our society because there's no better way to develop analytical skills than reading. And the research shows that kids who aren't reading at grade level by the 3rd or 4th grade have less successful life outcomes, too."
— Jon Yaged, CEO of Macmillan
(And the quote is lightly edited)
David Perell@david_perell
Jon Yaged runs Macmillan, one of the five biggest publishers in the world, so I asked him to explain the book publishing industry to me. My main question: why should authors work with a traditional publisher, especially when self-publishing is taking off? What I got was a full tour of how book publishing works. Everything from how authors make money, to how publishers choose which books to back, to the traditional vs. self-publishing debate. Timestamps: 2:01 Consolidation in book publishing 4:01 Celebrity books 7:57 The scale of the publishing industry 9:48 How to get your book published 14:15 New York 16:25 Using data to find great books 29:33 How to work with a publisher 31:11 The economics of a book deal 36:42 How sequels work 42:21 Children's books 48:42 Books in Europe vs. America 50:25 Should writers use AI? 1:00:57 How printing works 1:04:52 Book marketing advice 1:09:48 What a publishing CEO does 1:11:06 Audiobooks 1:15:17 Are people getting stupider? 1:18:20 The publisher business model 1:19:08 Macmillan I've shared the full interview with Jon Yaged below. If you'd rather watch or listen to the interview somewhere else, check out the first reply tweet where I've linked to the interview on YouTube, and also on Apple / Spotify. Enjoy!
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@matt_gray_ 12-18 months ahead is right. Rest is theater.
Never had mentor. Studied 15 founders for RealHow. Notch, Pieter, Daniel, Tobias.
Dead or busy but decisions documented. Learned more than brain picking would teach.
Most want mentors to avoid thinking. Playbooks force it.
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