KC
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KC
@howbadeh
Designer & Developer | https://t.co/CrjQsQ2o7d | Currently running https://t.co/OLLVg9srEw, Prev AdtraceAI (acq) , founding designer @stickHQ (acq. by Google)
Bali, Indonesia Katılım Ekim 2011
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@_aaronpaul25 @madebycol any guesses as to what her end goal is? i don't think anyone serious will hire a $300/h consultant who claims to make millions in arr
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This is the other video I was referring to.
@madebycol and I worked on Glam Up together, and she contributed real work. After that, we brought her onto Sprout.
But the framing around who built, designed, owned, and grew both apps is materially inaccurate.
I designed and built Glam Up, primarily funded/incorporated it, was majority owner, and drove the early growth, including the first breakout post and our highest-viewed account.
On Sprout, I designed and primarily built the product, helped drive growth, funded/incorporated the company, and recruited the team alongside @dillonmendes_ and @GindinMike.
Nicole had minority equity while working on Sprout and hasn’t been on the team since September 2025.
These were not solo founder stories.
Joseph Choi@JosephKChoi
I saw the $400k MRR screenshots from @madebycol so of course I had to investigate turns out she's built 4 apps—first one hit 150k MRR, second 250k MRR, latest two in stealth at 400k MRR combined. been running the UGC playbook for years. we went deep on the growth strats👇 0:00 Nicole's App Portfolio and Numbers 2:14 How GlamUp Was Born in a 10-Minute Phone Call 5:29 The Copycat App That Made Them $100K in a Week 9:49 The Viral TikTok Formula They Ran Across 40 Creators 17:16 The Referral System That Took Over TikTok Comments 22:43 What Happened When They Tripled the Price 24:50 The Discounted Paywall Strategy and Upgrade Triggers 30:28 Scaling Sprout to 250K MRR and 100M Monthly Views 31:42 Inside the Creator Course That Gets People Viral in 2 Weeks 44:42 The Paywall Test That Showed a 50% Conversion Increase 53:16 Advice Most App Founders Never Hear
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I’m about to hit 10 years at Vercel. You can’t imagine the amount of memories I have. It’s been beautiful.
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Right now just did it with one prompt, if iterate more, i can match it and make the same
shawn.@zzzzshawn
"design is dead" try asking claude to make this
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For some reason I’ve got a new DM interface on @x, and I’m suddenly seeing loads of hidden DMs that I’d already accepted and replied to before… but now I have to accept/report them all over again 🫠
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@karrisaarinen So like, still be a designer?
I think the most valuable path would be to build something that you want, find customers, learn to optimize the business.
Basically become a founder (as a side business) even if its a very small level.
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The obvious path for designers in the AI age is to move closer to code.
But the more valuable path may be upstream: closer to the customer, the business, and the problem.
If everyone can prompt agents to code, the scarce skill becomes knowing why, what, and how to build.
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The casualty of AI is anyone who stays narrow. The pre-AI economy rewarded specialists. The post-AI one rewards generalists.
Saw exactly this at our startup over the past year. A junior design role became a communication bottleneck. I’d brief them on what to build, they’d implement it, I’d correct it, we’d iterate many times. At some point it became faster to just go to Claude Code and get it built directly. The role that survives is the person who can specify what the product should be in enough detail that AI can execute on it.
Most of the disagreement about whether design is dying is people talking past each other. Designers already using AI to build aren’t getting replaced. The same is true in product and eng. PMs can’t just write specs, they have to prototype and build. Engineers can’t just ship frontend off a designer’s output, they should think about the product and design too.
Ascend up the automation chain, or your role won’t survive.
Gokul Rajaram@gokulr
DESIGN: THE FIRST AI CASUALTY I'm increasingly sure that 2026 signals the end of product design as a full-fledged stand-alone function within companies. If so, it will be the first role / function to be eliminated by AI on a go-forward basis. Instead of hiring FT designers, startups are hiring / will hire design consultants to create a design system that the founder likes (this takes a few weeks max). Once the design system is finalized, PM/Eng feed it into their AI tool of choice to generate prototypes. The design system is refreshed annually by the same consultant. Larger companies will likely not backfill design roles and will do some targeted attrition to reduce the design department to 20% the size it is today. If you're a designer, I think you have two choices: 1. Become an entrepreneur: Start a design agency and become the go-to resource for design systems for startups and even larger companies. This can be a good recurring revenue business. 2. Become a builder: Add PM/Eng responsibilities to become a product builder. Would suggest you embrace this proactively vs waiting for the other shoe to drop. I'm really sorry about this - some of my best friends and the people I admire most and have learnt the most from are designers - but it seems inevitable.
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Are there any builders here in Bali?
I've been here for a month now I need to meet some people haha
Let's connect😎
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the web has been quiet for a while.
for the past few months i've been building something to fix that. declarative audio for the web. describe a sound as plain data, play it with one call.
→ audio.raphaelsalaja.com
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Couple more sponsored posts and you can pay this guy I guess.
Brett@BrettFromDJ
I'll never understand how an extra $20-$30k per month is pocket change to someone.
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KC retweetledi
Available for fractional work.
Product Design, Design Engineering, Design Direction.
I work with early-stage teams who need senior design thinking and execution, without the full-time overhead.
justinschueler.com
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@nikolak47 @heyreach_io Bali is dope, once you find balance! Also GG on Heyreach!
If you wanna shoot some pool in canggu , let me know :D
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if you are a remote worker, there’s literally 0 reasons why to not be in Bali and spend your money here.
Since I came here:
> my productivity increased 300%
> @heyreach_io grew by $3M in 3 months
> life quality increased indefinitely
> work-life balance is unmatched
> health & happiness are ∞
> my cost of living is 2x less than in Europe, and 5x than in US
the networking here is also extremely amazing.
out of every place I have visited, only San Francisco can top in the networking game.
the people I met here are probably the highest quality of people I have ever met.
… why more people are not moving to Bali? 🤷♂️
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Have a friend with 0 dev experience, built an app and is selling it to F&B ambassadors in south east asia for 1k/yr per user. Sold 5 licenses to 1 brand in less than 20 days.
andrei saioc@asaio87
Uncomfortable truth: you cannot vibecode an app unless you are a developer yourself.
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