brian taylor

Feels so good to get your passion project on your phone (I'm building a Duolingo for Everything)

it beginssss Tiktok organic is so goated

it is so important to measure this. I was getting 80%+ Download->Signup rate, but the Onboarding->Activation handoff was TRASH already seeing massive improvement

@ShawkyMesbah faceless ugc on 4 of my own accounts + one of my own accounts with those viral formats reacting to new apps

@techniquedevs 500 users in a week is legit. what kind of tiktok content was the key to that pmf?

Mochivia just hit 500 users in a week!! App growth is so much easier than website. no product hunt or other silly launch pages. 100% Tiktok PMF. AMA.

Launch is going well! 😼 this week growth efforts: 50% paid ads, 50% organic ~Spend: $200 @ 0.60 Cost-per-click ~20k organic impressions on tiktok drove 250+ downloads since we launched last weekend.

if you're bottlenecked by small TAM ceiling, of course it would make more sense to optimize conv earlier.

don't A/B test paywalls too early if you started with 10k monthly downloads and 60% converting rate it is smarter to push for 20k monthly downloads than to spend energy turning 60% into 80%. (10,000*0.8) = 8,000 vs. (20,000*0.6) = 12,000 the math makes it simple

If you aren't writing prompts this long you're throwing

they think we're joking 🙃

Claude Code has a regex that detects "wtf", "ffs", "piece of shit", "fuck you", "this sucks" etc. It doesn't change behavior...it just silently logs is_negative: true to analytics. Anthropic is tracking how often you rage at your AI Do with this information what you will

Making an app was the best choice of my life holyyyy HELP: how many signups do i need to raise $1m?

After scraping 10,000+ datapoints, I've put together the first few "Roadmaps" for Mochivia. Coursera, Udemy, and most of all: University. - cooked. I'm going to take on the 7T+ education system

@gpt_alex holy ball knowledge

Remember the r8 revolver and how csgo became fistful of frags for a weekend?

I think Claude Code Agents need a Dropbox for work tasks Ticket style, human reviews the middle, but agents can request work and pickup tasks.

ironically, the state space for 95%+ of the tasks we use LLMs for is far too high to deterministically measure, so "vibes" turns out to be a ultra efficient benchmark mechanic -- and that is why Anthropic moves so fast in, seemingly always in the correct direction.

I made a roadmap graph for learning Software Engineering it evolves using a self-organizing AI algorithm. You can go see it now

Claude just 1shot my flowchart for Mochivia's XP system. I keep noticing Opus4.6 doing things that I firmly believed couldn't be done for at least another 2 years.

@corsaren @allgarbled +1

@allgarbled First em dashes, then negative parallelisms, now horizontal dropshadows/drophighlights. I stg LLMs keep stealing my lazy one-neat-tricks and ruining them.

I don’t know what you call them, but these little side tabs are like the emdash of vibe coded UIs

@emollick Hm yea I think mochivia.com has the closest thing to a full consumer learning product rn.

AI really can help education: Randomized controlled experiment on high school students found a GPT-4o powered tutor that personalized problems for students raised final test scores by .15 SD, "equivalent to as much as six to nine months of additional schooling by some estimates"