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@oussamabuilds honestly love it. the corner angles really help it stand out

What do we think of this nav bar?

@iamjochems rooting for you!

Yesterday was a hooray moment on my new app!🥳 After a struggle getting AI to read and understand my files it's now there to analyze, categorize and file the data. A huge step because this is the core of the product. As a half-baked coder myself (still got imposter syndrome) it feels so good to make progress.

@JayHoovy def following just based on this insanely valuable post

Stan just hit $40M ARR. I grew up with nothing - and started with $0 in my dorm room. I failed through multiple ideas before I found Stan. But through Stan, we got really good at building distribution + a product that genuinely helps people. Here's exactly how we did it: 1) Built in Public ($0 > $100K) You need to recognize that if no one knows your business exists, they will never buy from you. I posted dozens of cringey TikToks about my company building journey. Most people won't get through that level of cringe. But you will, because you recognize that if you don't put a stake in the ground for your business, no one will. I posted 3 times per week: - My wins - My ups and downs - My learnings This taught me a ton about: - What people found interesting about my company - How to talk about my product in a way that resonated - How to persist through embarrassment 2) Sending 10,000 Cold DMs In parallel, I sent 10,000+ Cold DMs to land our first 100 customers. Most people won't do this level of unsexy, manual work. Every night, I would follow back anyone that looked like a potential customer and try to get them on a call. On the call, I would do everything I could to help them, and see if they were a good fit for Stan. I'd do 10+ hours of back-to-back calls, and then post TikToks until I passed out. I would get rejected on 4 out of every 5 calls. Then I'd finally land one. Then, they'd backtrack. Or something else would go wrong. But eventually - through sheer willpower - you land your first 100 customers. 3) Do Everything for your First 100 ($100K > $1M) We did everything we could to help our first 100 customers become wildly successful. I would personally: - Make their first product to sell - Consult them on how to make more money - Draft them content ideas to help them go viral That level of client-service slog was insane. But it ended up being so worth it. As a result, we made multiple people in our first 100 customers millionaires. 4) Building the Flywheel ($1M > $10M) And what do people who you made a million dollars do for you? They shout your name from the rooftops. Every successful customer of ours became our best distribution channel. Your job is to build a flywheel for your business: For us, we built a "success story" flywheel. For every new customer, our job was to make them as successful as possible. Those customers would then shout us from the rooftops. Then, we added a marketing team / engine on top that amplified those success stories via: - Paid ads - Email campaigns - Documentaries - PR Our Flywheel: New Customers >>> New Success Stories >>> Amplify those Success Stories >>> More New Customers 5) Compounding that Sh** ($10M > $40M) From here, your job is to build a compounding competitive advantage. That way, for every turn of the flywheel, you get to play a higher level game. A year ago, I raised the largest Creator round ever done: - The Hormozi's invested - Steven Bartlett invested - GaryVee invested I did this because at the time, Distribution was our top bottleneck (and one of the few things that matter in the age of AI). Your job at this level is to constantly ask yourself: "What is the top bottleneck in my business?" Then evolve your time, identity, and skillset to get that job done. Eventually, that bottleneck becomes things like: hiring, culture, strategy, new bets, org structure, or operating efficiency. What I've learned is: whatever the topic, you will eventually figure it out if you just stack days and have a growth mindset. 6) My Final Lessons Learned This journey will kick your a**. It will constantly humble you. It will make you doubt yourself in ways you didn’t think possible.  But the person you will become will be so worth it. So just persist, have a growth mindset, and you will succeed. You've got this. (and btw - follow me if you want more free advice like this!! I'm going to be posting here a lot more)

@oussamabuilds thankyouu

@harneetsahi goodluck!!!

week 4 of #FramerChallenge $0 so far but finally signing a project with a client. things are about to pick up 🥹

@shekhartanmay06 thankyou :)

@harneetsahi Congrats on the client! Good luck for the rest of the challenge!

@marclou @illyism legend. your shipping speed is so inspiring

Coworking with @illyism this morning. He wanted a 30-day overview across all his websites in DataFast, so I dropped the idea into Cursor and it’s now live. It also supports last 7 days.

@Jerrythe2d so sickkk 🤯

4,000 Followers🥳 Thank you so much guys!❤️LFG🔥

@_heyrico noise on gradient is stunning

This modal design not made by AI

@starter_story cors was a pain to debug in the beginning

The beauty of coding with AI is that I don't have to debug semicolons or CORS errors anymore. I can simply describe what I see in my head and steer it until it's real. Building is more creative than ever.

@marclou that is so creative

I met this founder yesterday, and he's working on an awesome project called TheGitCity.com It's a city where your building gets higher and higher with your GitHub contributions. He's making $2K/month from sponsorships which is really nice so I wanted to share this!

@adriankuleszo absolutely. if someone doesn't find value in books, they are most likely only reading to extract value than to just read. ideas flow and creativity works when you're not chasing it with all your might.

Hard disagree, reading books is awesome. It is also one of the last things that actually trains your attention span. Some of the clearest thinking I’ve done came from sitting with a book for two hours, taking notes, not a research agent. The slow processing is the whole point. Writing this post as I’m reading The Startup Way in the sun. Some would say it’s inefficient as hell but I already had like 5 ideas on what to implement in our agency.

@stevelauda_ place looks stunning. i need to visit bali

Sunday hustle while waiting for my wife finishing her baking course

if you’re a designer who can also build, you might be very dangerous

@stevelauda_ @linear @karrisaarinen pretty sure they leave it vague for people to actually be confused or worse assume they were officially commissioned

This post is misleading. Some people, including myself, will perceived this post as if @linear actually hiring this fella to make a video for them. I am sure @karrisaarinen will become Homelander and lasering his screen if he sees this video actually being posted by Linear official account. My point here, please be clear with your post copywriting. Otherwise, we'll assume that you're a grifter.

@FirozCodes spotify for sanity. youtube to learn basically anything. x to grow with community. linkedin to yapp about how you saved a dog on the way to an interview and the interviewer ended up being that dog

Which premium is the best investment?

@marclou looks so fun 😍 the little girl with heart glasses is so over it though 🤣

Apparently you can also build bootstrapped startups in SF Thanks for coming everyone, it was insane ❤️

@framer super cool

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@araghougassian vancouver in any season is unbeatable

Vancouver on a sunny day is unbeatable