Tech Alex

The person who learned to code in 2015 is mass-applying on LinkedIn right now. The person who built a SaaS in 2015 is watching AI replicate it for free. The person who built an audience in 2015 is collecting checks. Skills depreciate. Attention compounds.

As a solo founder, it’s really important to focus on marketing. This guy on Reddit: - spend 7 months building - got 0 users - stoped building - focused fully on marketing Results? - crossed $1,900 MRR in a week

You're tracking the wrong email metrics. Open rates and clicks don't matter if nobody's buying. Here's what actually matters: • Revenue per recipient (RPR) • Conversion rate (clicks to purchases) • Average order value from email • Attributed revenue (last-click and assisted) You can have a 40% open rate and make $200. Or a 25% open rate and make $2,000. The difference: who you're emailing and what you're offering. Example from a client: Campaign A: sent to entire list (12K people) • Open rate: 28% • Click rate: 4.2% • Revenue: $1,800 Campaign B: sent to engaged VIPs only (2,400 people) • Open rate: 41% • Click rate: 8.7% • Revenue: $3,400 Same product. Same copy. Different segment. Campaign B made 89% more revenue with 80% fewer recipients. That's the shift: stop optimizing for vanity metrics. Start optimizing for revenue per send. Here's the framework I use now: • Segment by engagement (L30/L60/L90) • Segment by purchase behavior (VIP vs one-time vs never-purchased) • Match the offer to the segment • Track RPR, not just opens If you're sending the same campaign to everyone, you're optimizing for the wrong goal. The complete revenue-focused segmentation system (with exact Klaviyo setup, AI prompts for each segment, and campaign frameworks) — I've mapped it all out step-by-step. Details in the comments 👇

Day 12 building @lab_startups Stats: Visitors: 72 Visits: 78 Views: 174 Featured: 1 (Paid) Spotlight: 1 (Payment Pending) More people finding Startups Lab. Consistency starting to compound.

@Priya_Upadhyay_ The companies that win aren't the ones that ship fastest. They're the ones that sustain. AI builds, humans maintain.

AI can build full apps now Can you maintain them after launch

Developers - where do you usually buy your domains? I’m still using Vercel exclusively.

@zuess05 No one cares about your startup as much as you do. Making others care is the real work.

Looking back at your journey so far. What is the single hardest lesson you had to learn as a founder?

@TheGeorgePu Comfort is seductive. It convinces you yesterday's skills are enough. Meanwhile, the market moves on without you.

The most dangerous position in 2026 isn't unemployed. It's employed, comfortable, and replaceable. At least the unemployed person knows they need to move.

@nzemmili Inventing practices to justify hatred says more about the accuser than the accused.

Some cultures needs to die, and if your culture is tampering on human rights, it needs to die! If your culture tells you that there are days meant to rape and molest women, then that culture must die! It’s a useless culture!

Shopify isn’t just another platform. It removes tech headaches (hosting, security, payments, scaling) so you can go from idea to real store fast. If you want out of the 9–5 and into your own online income stream, Shopify is one of the fastest paths.

Dev starter kits = amazing business: SaaSRock → $10K/mo Gravity → $11K/mo Supastarter → $12K/mo NativePHP → $100K in 3 months No churn. High margins.

Ever notice how work becomes heavy the moment we add too many steps? Execution slows down when complexity enters the room. If you want to move faster, simplify: • Reduce steps - remove anything nonessential • Shrink the task - make the first action obvious • Lower the threshold - start with the smallest version • Ask - What would the simplest version of this look like? Clear work moves. Complex work waits.

@rcmisk Direct outreach to 50 people who trust you. Call your network, explain what you built and why it matters. Relationships outperform every hack when you start from zero.

you're launching tomorrow. no audience. no email list. no budget. you have 6 hours to get 10 paying customers. what's your exact move? be specific.

@KodyNordquist Solid list, but burnout kills creative edge faster than bad CTR. Weekend plans matter.

You don’t need weekend plans. You NEED to: • Launch net-new creative concepts (not iterations) • Pull your 7-day ncROAS, not blended • Spend 7-10x AOV before killing a creative • Move losing ads into a Zombies campaign • Audit your creative angles, not just CTR • Feed GEM high-volume creative • Map your CPA to contribution margin, not revenue • Read everything on Andromeda's creative signal shift • Know break-even ROAS before you touch your budget • Understand why your best ad from last quarter won't work next quarter The list goes on.

The vibe coding dream: build a SaaS solo, make $10k month, work from anywhere. Reality: launch and then figure out why no one is using it.

@MercureCopy Price is the first chapter of your brand story. If it doesn't match your positioning, no amount of PR can fix the disconnect.

When you price something low to “make it accessible,” you’re also telling your high-value buyer that they’ll be surrounded by people who bought because it was cheap. This is fine for some products. For others it’s a death sentence.

@CliftonSellers Bad AI content and bad agencies share the same flaw: they optimize for output, not outcomes. The brands that learn this the hard way become the best clients.

Hot take: Agencies that are actually great will benefit from the AI slop that is being created right now because it’s just like hiring a bad agency and realizing you need to bring in someone who understands the problem you are aiming to solve

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Most people who say “AI will replace developers” have never actually built a real product. Coding is the easy part. The real work is: • Clearly understanding the problem • Designing a solid system • Handling unexpected edge cases • Debugging strange, real-world issues • Making things run smoothly in production • Adapting to constant changes and ambiguity

@alexcloudstar Same in PR. Anyone can write a pitch. Knowing what journalists actually want to write? That's the real skill. Execution vs. expertise matters everywhere.

The biggest lie in tech: "Anyone can learn to code." Sure, anyone can learn syntax. But programming is problem-solving, not code-writing. Most people can't debug their way out of a paper bag, let alone build scalable systems.