Nesters Kovalkovs

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Nesters Kovalkovs

@nestersk

Fractional CRO.

Zero Reach Katılım Ocak 2011

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Nesters Kovalkovs@nestersk·29 May

You're paying $84/yr for X Premium. What did you actually get? ❌Posts still buried. ❌Feed is 80% AI slop and ragebait ❌"Networking" means replying to people who never reply back What if you paid less for: ✅A vetted room of builders and professionals, who actually read your stuff ✅Real feedback on your ideas and projects ✅No algorithm. No noise. Just people. That's what I'm building, anyway. Small. Curated. Capped growth. First batches open at less than an X Premium subscription. X promises you a place for meaningful conversations, but it works better, when you have a small town square, rather than a megacity, where everyone is fighting for attention.

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Nesters Kovalkovs@nestersk·2h

@Gerry That's for sure. This was literally the thing people have been complaining about for years, but probably only when some key metric was no longer looking good, bro had an epiphany that maybe people want to engage with other people they know.

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gerry🗯@Gerry·2h

@nestersk The comments are wild. They have been in an abusive relationship and asking the guy to stop hitting them for years. Now he announces he will and everybody is "oh thank you this change is amazing". 🤦

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Nesters Kovalkovs@nestersk·11h

Selling to indiehackers is back!

Nikita Bier@nikitabier

We're rolling out a small tweak to boost visibility of your posts to your mutuals (people who you follow back). We noticed this data was missing from the algo and it made your friends appear less in your replies. This resulted in the reply section feeling more like a battleground with people you don't recognize. This should also help clusters form around interests more easily, which many people have asked for.

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Nesters Kovalkovs@nestersk·8h

@DmytroKrasun Yes. I had worked on a similar thing for myself, and I looked into some angles to productize it. But the value prop varies so much between cohorts. If I do, I'll just focus on one group of people, and those most likely will already be making money. 😅

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Dmytro Krasun@DmytroKrasun·8h

@nestersk Yes, it didn't notice a lot of nuance, but for people who are starting and don't know any direction at all? At least as a brainstorming session, it might be useful. Also: x.com/elvissun/statu…

Elvis@elvissun

@DmytroKrasun i think it's good if you have 0 customers, but at the strategy level it's not as cohesive as what I have put together. like it moves you in the right direction but not exactly the most optimal way.

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Dmytro Krasun@DmytroKrasun·10h

I ran the skill for ScreenshotOne.com. The potential customers it found are close to the profiles of my actual paying customers. Some recommendations were based on older posts, but that can be improved. It also identified pain points that ScreenshotOne solves and that my customers often mention. This would have been the most valuable insight if I didn't know that and were starting from scratch.

Kappaemme@Kappaemme1926

CODEX SKILL THAT FINDS YOUR STARTUP’S FIRST CUSTOMERS! I made a Codex skill that analyzes your startup and finds potential customers from real public signals. Paste your startup URL while Codex defines your ideal customer, searches public discussions, qualifies each prospect, and generates a polished report with personalized outreach openers. -> ideal customer profile analysis -> public pain + buying signal research -> evidence-backed prospect shortlist -> fit, timing + reachability scores -> original source links for every prospect -> personalized outreach openers -> polished HTML report -> one-command install Install: npx --yes codex-first-customer-finder-skill 100% open source. Repo in Bio.

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Nesters Kovalkovs@nestersk·10h

@thekitze It's over.

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kitze the 🐐@thekitze·10h

@nestersk Sadly

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Nesters Kovalkovs@nestersk·11h

@RaulOnRails Actually, I do.

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Raul@RaulOnRails·11h

@nestersk Need a dynamic OG image generator, Nesters?

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Nesters Kovalkovs@nestersk·12h

@gumroad

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Gumroad@gumroad·12h

Worth our fees tbh

Gumroad@gumroad

Gumroad has the best customer support on Earth

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Nesters Kovalkovs@nestersk·12h

@mttjon Yes, I was in Stockholm a decade ago and while entry salaries were reasonable, the whole pay progression felt flattened. And entrepreneurship still appeared to be thriving!

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Matt Jones@mttjon·12h

I don't have good sight on salaries outside of Western Europe but I know the Baltics and Poland have risen a lot in the past 15 years and there is less degradation in the public realm — less crime, litter, better infrastructure relatively speaking I do know that places like Germany and Sweden have much higher starting salaries than the UK but you hit peak earnings much quicker, although in the past 6-7 years the UK has stalled big time and our tax rates have got worse as they didn't rise with inflation

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Nesters Kovalkovs@nestersk·23h

What the fuck is going on in Europe? When I look at job listings in Western Europe for roles that might be relevant to me, the listed salary sometimes hardly even beats my last job offer in Latvia in 2018(!) Switzerland aside, given the inflation over the last 8 years, even the best offers seem... mediocre. It's better to be unemployed.

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Nesters Kovalkovs@nestersk·13h

@mttjon Looks like it! What's crazy is the shrinking gap in salaries between regions of Europe, while cost-of-living keeps getting worse in Western Europe.

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Matt Jones@mttjon·13h

@nestersk It seems like many salaries haven't moved since 2019

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Nesters Kovalkovs@nestersk·23h

@HeyLuisBianchi Job listings will put someone in ER soon.

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Luis@HeyLuisBianchi·23h

@nestersk Yes, absolutely maddening to see. I stopped looking at job listings to reduce cortisol spikes

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Nesters Kovalkovs@nestersk·23h

@YvrFernando That's true, indeed.

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Fernando TF@YvrFernando·23h

@nestersk Get a single American client on a retainer and you can outearn the average Euro white collar worker

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Nesters Kovalkovs@nestersk·1d

Remove the need for people to build. Okay. But what about actually understanding your ICPs, doing marketing, sales, networking for investors? Most of the things that bring money are people skills. If you remove the need for "people to build", you remove the need for autists.

andrew chen@andrewchen

the 1-autist unicorn theory: if AI removes the need for people to build, it removes the need for people skills... this means that ultra high IQ / ultra low EQ autist incels become the most important and valuable people on the planet, going forward not just the 1-person unicorn company theory, but the 1-autist unicorn theory. QED

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Nesters Kovalkovs@nestersk·1d

Local domains work, but becoming less impactful as we move toward AI chat + overview. People just don't see the source link at all! If you target locals, then i18n + making it clear that you're from Netherlands (+city) in the copy will help. Might even add that to meta title/description. That's the context you should feed into AI at least for the Dutch version (Google My Business / Bing Places for Business setup aside).

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Paul Bertrand@pbertrand_dev·1d

@nestersk I agree. Tried it because I think people are more likely to click on a local domain. Before I only had a dot com and I think local has extra value these days. I did do the href lang thing and a redirect after changing from subdirectories.

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Paul Bertrand@pbertrand_dev·1d

Still getting some impressions, very little clicks I did split into a Dutch domain and an English domain which ruined the stats a bit

Paul Bertrand@pbertrand_dev

We are getting clicks now, lets goo

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Nesters Kovalkovs@nestersk·1d

@BenjaminHouy You'll miss too much macro-level stuff, if you get stuck in a 24/7 grind with agents. Is it really worth doing this to find some local maximum?

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Benjamin Houy@BenjaminHouy·1d

I keep reading posts like this but I don’t know how to stop. I work from 9 am to 11pm most days. The only breaks I get are watching Netflix and meeting friends. Even when I watch Netflix, I keep an eye on my AI agent. I know I should take more breaks. I just don’t know how to do that.

Aurelien Dio@aurelien_dio

It's something you can learn over the years Fifteen years ago, I had a major burnout and developed intestinal problems that almost triggered cancer because I was working way too hard. The doctors had prescribed me lifelong treatment I have a friend who developed early-onset diabetes at 30 and another who had a heart attack at 35, both because they were overworked Once it happens to you, you understand that your body has limits and that pushing them too far can seriously jeopardize your future That's one of the reasons I'm slowing down now. There's no point in rushing if it's just going to shorten the time I have left on this planet If you're in your twenties or thirties, remember that, barring serious health problems (which you could cause yourself), you probably have more than 40 or 30 years of your career ahead of you to achieve your goals You have all the time in the world. There's no point in putting yourself under immense pressure (no pun intended) Even though I'll be 45 this year, I reckon I have at least 25 years left to reach my goals That's more than enough, so there's no need to jeopardize my health just for that

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Nesters Kovalkovs@nestersk·1d

@DmytroKrasun It's better not to know, but sloppy games make millions a month there.

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Dmytro Krasun@DmytroKrasun·1d

@nestersk I don’t know what is Roblox 🙈

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Dmytro Krasun@DmytroKrasun·1d

Imagine an open-world Roman game where you play as a citizen. How far are we from vibe coding a playable game like that? I asked both Fable 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol to build it. At least a prototype, at least one district. And both managed to accomplish that! Thoughts: 1. I am still surprised by how far one prompt can bring you. A fully working prototype! 2. Both versions had bugs. And you will need to invest in testing and improving that. But that part can also be automated. However, I have a question: if you don’t know how to code, don’t plan the architecture, and don’t review the code. What if you are stuck in a problem that agents can’t solve? 3. Neither challenged me to use a game engine or a different library, e.g., Unity or Unreal Engine. Nor do they ask any additional questions. Which sometimes might be good, but a bit of pushback and testing my intentation for such a huge project could have helped? 4. I didn’t review the code. There is no clear winner for me in terms of the quality of the game. Both require a lot of investment in assets, testing, and craft to improve the game and make it really enjoyable and playable. I wonder if I could automate asset creation with the quality as in my reference image. If that’s possible, it might take game development to a whole other level.