Jay Clouse

Felt kind of weird to make the intentional effort to capture this moment. But, in hindsight, already grateful we did it. I’ve never regretted documenting a moment — but I l’ve often regretted not.

Claude hasn’t destroyed fishing yet

@MillyTamati thanks so much!!

This episode of creator science is legit one of the BEST I’ve heard in ages, great stuff @jayclouse 👏 open.spotify.com/episode/7aV0B4…

There’s so much “you need to start getting comfortable with AI” advice that I see a ton of people now wasting a huge amount of time. Instead of just sending random prompts to Claude or ChatGPT, start with time tracking. How are you ACTUALLY spending your time? Then, take the highest leverage, most annoying, or most time consuming tasks and bring them to Claude. Ask it how it can do that FOR you to reduce your time as much as possible (ideally to zero). Start with an actual use case rather than an empty chat window. Ask it what it needs to do the work for you. It may need access to tools via API or MCP and then it can talk you through how to connect those things. Connect the tools that are necessary to solve that problem. Most webinars, videos, paid products etc. boil down to, “And then I asked Claude how to do it and it told me!”

The only certainties in life are death, taxes, and that FedEx will absolutely not deliver your package the day they originally promise.

@ashnichrist @rileybrown @vibecodeapp_ he's the man!

@jayclouse @rileybrown @vibecodeapp_ Aw yay Riley! :)

He posted the FIRST TikTok about ChatGPT...and his audience grew from 0 to 200,000 in two weeks. Today, @rileybrown has 1.5 million followers, raised $9 million to build @vibecodeapp_, and one of the most impressive content machines I've seen. And he talked me through it. Timestamps: (00:00) How Riley's first ChatGPT TikTok got 20 million views (04:56) First mover advantage: (07:50) How Riley films his videos (11:24) Why structure made his content worse (13:06) My honest moment (21:33) The case for educational screen-share YouTube videos (26:45) His content strategy (30:43) The seven-account Twitter strategy that tripled revenue (37:37) Gimmicks that actually boost retention (41:00) Why AI writing your scripts is suicide in the long run (42:37) The content farm future and how to survive it (50:14) Platform rankings: where to start today

@edtech808 @rileybrown @vibecodeapp_ he's a legend!

@jayclouse @rileybrown @vibecodeapp_ The codex remotion video was really good

@kadavy That's the bet I'm making!

@jayclouse Opportunity for those with the focus to put their head down and keep making their thing

The number of creators who have changed their entire strategy to become unpaid marketers for AI tools blows my mind

@gbaroth 🎯

@jayclouse “____ just got me 5,000 followers in 2 months and if you comment ____ below I’ll send you the playbook “

@mukund @Lovable @emergentlabs some are paid, many many more are not

@jayclouse I don’t think the “unpaid” part is right. I know several who get 6 figures a year to promote @Lovable @emergentlabs and others.

@thesamparr @lennysan it’s truly incredible. fantastic role model

Of all the biz creators, I think @lennysan is in the top 5 people I admire. The way he creates, thinks, runs his life, his business. I think he's the guy to replicate. review.firstround.com/reluctantly-in…

@jonnym1ller im back! so far so good. feels reliable again

@jayclouse In case it helps, I use the Claude extension in VS Code to do everything for me (non technical noob here)

My OpenClaw usage dropped like a rock when my choices became 1.) paying for the Anthropic API or 2.) using a different model. API was more expensive than expected (i.e. cost-to-value isn’t worth it for a lot of what I’m doing). Different models routinely disappoint. Business hasn’t changed. A lot of fake work and fun novelty was happening in my case and I suspect in a lot of others’ too.

@jonnym1ller ok perhaps i try again

@jayclouse it was surprisingly easy to set up, been running this for the last 36hrs and had no issues.

@jonnym1ller yes and no, I spent a day getting CLI working, then it stopped working, and i dont want to figure it out again just to have the same issues soon x.com/steipete/statu…

@jayclouse you can use the claude max account again...

@im_ytoufik probably building inside the Claude suite directly. i’m starting to consider rebuilding my useful things back inside claude directly

@jayclouse so what's the move now ?

Hasn’t gone to zero though — just made me much more discerning about what’s actually worth building/doing

@ankurnagpal @cyantist @naval such a cool project. congrats!

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