Tom Turcotte

I've spent the last 5 years mentoring developers, helping them ship code and build careers. But when it came to growing my own presence on X, I was stuck: endless scrolling, forced content, zero flow. So I quietly shifted focus: diving full-time into building X Growth Engine, a tool that handles post creation, smart scouting, and targeted engagement... all while keeping your authentic voice intact. Today marks Day 1 of sharing the journey openly. Excited (and a little nervous) to document the progress, failures, and wins. #buildinpublic

@buildwithmaya Pretty powerful to learn from your own data! I'm a big believer this is core to sustainable growth.

Insane Hack for X Growth: I analyzed my entire history on X How: > setting -> your account -> download an archive of your data > Drop the zip into Grok or ChatGPT, and prompt it to analyze what works and what doesn't and create a dashboard > use it to learn from your best posts and create a repeatable process

@yusukelp Nice article Yusuke, excited to see it and take away some learning

@AUDI_THORE @heyrohan7 Love that angle

@TomTurcotteTech @heyrohan7 Visual storytelling on landing pages is underrated until you see how much faster users “get it” in the first few seconds.

Day 157 of building X Growth Engine in public. A friend came through big time. @heyrohan7 created a motion video that is going straight onto the landing page. Visual storytelling has been on my list for a while and this nails it. Take a look below. Thank you does not feel like enough.

@YoannaJuille @heyrohan7 Thanks for that Yoanna, yeah seriously Rohan helped me out massively on that front. An excellent skill and friendship to have

@TomTurcotteTech @heyrohan7 That’s really cooool ! Hhaving a video on your landing page really helps with conversions. (And considering how long it takes to create one, it’s always great to have a friend do it for you haha.) Well done to both of you :)

@RoxanaLimban @heyrohan7 Thanks Roxana 😄

@TomTurcotteTech @heyrohan7 Nice 😊

@darekgusto @heyrohan7 Appreciate it Darek!

@TomTurcotteTech @heyrohan7 Love how such tools are showing up nowadays, and they look good too! Good X Growth Engine showcase.

@adrianatortja Fair enough, if you had to choose one which big name do you like the most initially? It's an interesting perspective because I'm at the point of using many. 😃

@TomTurcotteTech I have tested few LLMs. But Claude is a big No to me and I find it weird 😅 since I havent use it yet.

I refuse to use Claude, and I’m not sure why. I’m not comfortable using it yet.

@yusukelp @heyrohan7 🗒️ Makes sense, interesting findings!

@TomTurcotteTech @heyrohan7 the motion works really well here. From what I’m seeing in LandingBoost data, the safest pattern is still: show the actual product/output as clearly as possible above the fold. Motion can make that much stronger when it helps people “get it” faster.

@yusukelp @heyrohan7 Appreciate it Yusuke, I really do have more visuals in the plan. What does landingboost say about visual vs static in landing page?

@TomTurcotteTech @heyrohan7 looks sick!!

@MythThrazz @MartinTale Keep crushing it brother, will stay in touch

@TomTurcotteTech @MartinTale No problem, probably will write something about the dev-ops soon after finishing this housekeeping tasks

🤯 It's crazy... I decided to do a 'housekeeping' session to sum up all of my projects... STATS: Servers up 8 Sites 52 Databases 20 Containers 9 Total RAM 208.2G Total disk 1.4T Remember: "You can just do things"

@heyrohan7 Likewise Rohan, thank you so much!!

@TomTurcotteTech thankyou Tom! its great working with you I'm happy to be a part of your amazing journey man!

@MythThrazz @MartinTale Powerful setup, thanks for sharing :)

@TomTurcotteTech @MartinTale Plain terminal ssh, backups to Cloudflare R2, each project has it's own deploy .sh ( that also is used for updates - migrates, updates deps, clears caches etc. )

@MythThrazz @MartinTale Ah the classic but boring 😂 jk Plain terminal sshs or do you use a manager? Quick thoughts on deploy, backups and updates?

@TomTurcotteTech @MartinTale Sure, I can write about that - in my case it's just a bunch of VPS servers managed over SSH directly or via Tailscale

@MartinTale @MythThrazz I agree Marcin, share your hosting wisdoms! Martin checkout Dokploy, I was confused with coolify too but it's same concept just way cleaner

@MythThrazz You should write a blog about how you manage it all 😊 I just started using Coolify but already finding it a bit complicated 😅

@mattgillis An excellent reminder, nice phrasing Matt

@TomTurcotteTech True, advantage has never been the tool, it has always been a thinker behind. AI enhances judgment, it doesn’t replace it.

Day 156 of building X Growth Engine in public. Been seeing a lot of good takes lately on AI. Not the hype around the latest model. The more grounded observation that AI has not reduced people's work. It has enabled it. Skill and professionalism still matter just as much, maybe more, to get genuinely good results. Reminds me of something I used to say a lot when mentoring developers. Never outsource your thinking. As easy as it gets. AI is a tool. A powerful one. But the thinking is still yours to do.

@emaann28 True that, unfortunately sometimes it seems like it's becoming less common

@TomTurcotteTech The people getting the best results from AI are usually the ones who already know how to think critically.

@JakeKing Thanks for that Jake. It most likely will stay X only for a while.

@TomTurcotteTech Being consistent with social is tough. growthengine looks good. are you thinking you'll expand to other channels too?

🇨🇦 Canadian founders 🇨🇦 show me what you're building! I'll provide critique / feedback on what you're up to!

@jakobwhte Indeed we are, the ones pausing to think are getting more done in the right direction

I think we're entering an era where: Thinking becomes valuable again. Not information. Not content. Not noise. Thinking.