John-Dag Addy

All government websites are garbage. I’ve never applied for a visa or a drivers license or any sort of form and been impressed with what is going on there. Like has nobody there heard of ShadCN? Even vibe coded could be better than some of what is out there.

There’s a massive MASSIVE difference between a programmer using AI tools to vibe code and a regular normie attempting the same thing.

@Timmysofine Lool. I need to learn how to bait like this. Whats the skillset?

I narrowed my eyes and whispered, "There's ALWAYS a board." Then I stormed out, grabbed my computer and marched to HR. Turns out, there was no board. Because there isn't even a company. This is a made-up story. I'm actually an executive assistant and I’m looking for a job.

This morning, the CFO of the finance firm I work at called me into his office and told me I was being let go because I was “too quiet” for a corporate environment I blinked at him and said, “I’m a financial analyst. I literally build spreadsheets in silence for nine hours a day”

@delightfjohnson Couldn’t have said it better. Better to learn it sooner rather than later. And virality doesn’t equal profits. I’ve never posted anything that got 2M eyeballs but I make enough to get by.

Permit to be brutal and honest. Change your Twitter bio and make it exclusively about your business. No one cares about your motivational quote. Second, always add a call to action (e.g. ‘place your order’) Anyone who sees your post won’t know you’re selling and would think you just cooked it for fun. Finally, asides from a call to action, make it super clear how to place an order (insert a link, slide into your DMs, etc.)… people like being told what to do.

@paolo_scales Monopoly

"linkedin is cringe and nobody uses it" meanwhile i'm closing $5k-$15k deals from executives scrolling during their lunch break you're avoiding the platform where people with actual budgets spend their time any B2B company can scale to $100k+/mo using only linkedin content + outbound created the complete playbook showing how follow, rt & comment "monopoly" and i'll send it over

@JamesonCamp Might be a strategic genius honestly

I ignore most cold DMs from people saying they want to work with me or intern or soemthing But every once in a while an interesting one comes in…

@damienghader @lovable NEXT

Free @lovable website template. Perfect for GitHub & open-source projects. Drop "NEXT" below – I'll DM you the link.

Your MVP’s job isn’t to be perfect. Its job is to prove whether your idea deserves a future

I’ve always loved turning ideas into something real. But as a founder, I’ve also felt the struggle of trying to build and architect a product. That’s why I started my agency: I want to help others build without the pain

Graph Databases reveal hidden influence you'll never see in rows & columns. I was running the Graph of Thrones dataset in Neo4j and rediscovered what all fans know. Tyrion Lannister was the real power broker of Game of Thrones. Have you ever graphed your data?

This process helped me ship 100% of MVPs in less than 6 weeks in the last year 1️⃣ Planning (1–2w) – scope, flows, wireframes 2️⃣ Dev (3–4w) – frontend (@lovable ), backend (@supabase / in-house templates), core features 3️⃣ QA (1w) – test, deploy, docs How do you build?

@Finaltoucch @Emgreene001 Yeah and also you still practised your craft. It could turn into a portfolio piece, which may get you more clients down the line. Money is not the only reward for work.

@Emgreene001 Bro, life itself is a risk. I will rather design and not get hired than not design and lose a big client

I used to run away from clients who asked for free test designs before a contract. I saw them as red flags. But with time I have realized I was making a mistake. Please do the test, but always send it watermarked. I have secured some good clients from doing free test designs first

The #1 mistake founders make with MVPs? Trying to perfect it before launch. I once spent 6 months building an app… only for it to flop on day one. Nobody cared enough to actually use it. Now I ship fast and messy. I want feedback in days and weeks, not months. Has this happened to you?

@Finaltoucch If you want to make money, market. If you want to KEEP making money, then skill.

I have a question. Is freelancing really about skill ? or about knowing how to market yourself ? Which one wins in the long run ?

There’s been several times in the past decade where I thought I was working as hard as possible I’ve had these warps where I discover an extra gear I didn’t know I had and I’m able to push out so much more volume.

we are so back

I’m spending a few years building a lifestyle business, and then I want to spend the rest of my time on earth building random solopreneur apps.

@MicroFlashFic Are you ever coming back?

@ui_kingsley You must have been new on the platform. Once you submit the work, after 14 days the funds are released to you. After that you could have ended the contract. Or disputed the refund also.

I had this client on Upwork. He reached out sometime around April. We agreed to work together for $600. And he paid, full payment. But it was in escrow. Waiting to complete project, then he’ll approve all of it to be released to me. It was going smoothly. Until he ghosted for about 2 months. I had even completely forgotten about the money in Escrow. This Month, he recalled the payment. And I just wasted my time. 💔😭 But the thing is, in as much as there are horrible clients as this, there are also great clients as well. But eitherway, God forbid Upwork.