Reda Kaafarani

@Moimaere Easier said than done, it's why I respect your courage, keep building

@aderkdev don’t get stuck in comfort zone bro!

Turned 30 today. Left the 9–5 behind. Got a one-way ticket. Launched my first product. Hit $100+ MRR in a few weeks. Met creators I used to only follow. Stopped caring about “safe paths.” Calling this chapter: living.

@priyankapudi I build. But I would really like to do it full time. One day hopefully

@aderkdev so what do you do after 9-5 ?

Just finished building text feature for PostMaker. Still buggy. Alignments are off. Can't wait to wake up and fix it tomorrow. This is what building feels like right 😃

@marclou I play games waiting for my agent to finish lol

Gemini is cooking Eyes on the surf When the tide shifts, I’m out there

@iyoushetwt I hate cold

What’s stopping you from coding like this ?

@lmkeev Thanks for all that information mate

Stop posting on X. Seriously. If you're under 500 followers, every tweet you publish is not worth the time. Here's what I figured out after wasting weeks making tweets: You're playing the wrong game for your follower count. I call it the "Engagement Ladder". And 90% of people are on the positioning themselves on the wrong rung. The brutal truth: Until you hit critical mass, nobody cares about: → Your morning routine → Your hot takes → Your project updates → Your motivational wisdom They don't care because they don't know you yet. You haven't earned the right to flex. Ever copy a viral tweet from a 50k account and get 2 likes? "Hard work beats talent" gets them 8,000 likes. You post the same thing → 3 likes, 1 from that random account with a picture of a cat. It's not the content. It's the ladder. Here's the actual Engagement Ladder: STAGE 1: 0-500 followers: STOP POSTING. START REPLYING. Your tweets get zero algorithmic reach. You're invisible. So stop screaming into the void. Instead: 100 replies per day to trending posts in your niche. Make yourself visible in OTHER people's comments. That's the only strategy that works at this level. 500-3,000 followers: VALUE ONLY Now you can tweet. But ONLY tactical lessons they can use today. "Here's how I got 1,000 users" "The exact cold email that got 30% replies" "My Cursor setup that saves 10 hours/week" No fluff. No motivation. No "building in public" updates. Nobody cares about your journey (yet). Give them something they can steal. STAGE 2: 3,000-10,000 followers: OPINIONS UNLOCKED Now you can share takes. "Here's why no-code is dead" "Agencies > SaaS for first-time founders" "Y Combinator is overrated" You have enough credibility that people want to hear your POV. But it still needs to teach something. STAGE 3: 10,000-100,000 followers: LIFESTYLE FLEX TIME This is where you can post: → "Coding from a beach in Bali" → "My morning routine as a 6-figure founder" → "What I had for breakfast" People know you now. They're invested in your journey. The mundane becomes interesting because they care about YOU. STAGE 4: 100,000+ followers: POST WHATEVER YOU WANT Politics rants. Random thoughts. Shower wisdom. At this scale, you're a personality. People follow for you, not just your content. Why this matters: Most people try to skip rungs. They're at 800 followers posting: "Building in public! Day 47 of my SaaS journey 🚀" Zero engagement. Meanwhile, someone with 80k posts the same thing and gets 500 likes. Same content. Different rung. The mistake I see everywhere: People at 1,000 followers trying to post like they're at 50k. Motivational quotes. Morning routines. Hot takes on politics. Nobody cares. You haven't earned that yet. What actually works: Match your content to your rung: Under 500? Don't post. Just engage. 500-3k? You're a teacher, not a personality. Teach. Give tactical value. Make them smarter in 60 seconds. Save the flexing for when you have 10k+. The controversial part: Those "inspiring" tweets from big accounts? They're not what got them big. They got big by providing insane value when they were small. Now they've earned the right to post lazy motivation. You haven't. Based on my learning of this platform: Stop trying to be motivational. Stop sharing your "journey." Stop posting your hot takes. If you're under 500 (lik me), stop posting completely. Just reply. If you're 500-3k, stop posting anything that isn't pure value. Until you're over 3,000 followers, you're invisible. So give value so good they can't ignore you. Teach them something worth stealing. Every. Single. Tweet. The Engagement Ladder is real. Know which rung you're on. Or keep wondering why your posts get 3 likes while the same content from big accounts gets 3,000.

This is my workstation. It was built for gaming but it has seen more building than it has seen gaming. And I plan to keep that up. How does your work setup look like?

Day 9: Setting up push notifications using expo wasn't as easy as I thought it would be. I got it working after hours of debugging and it was so satisfying. Next step: buy an old iPhone for testing.

@Xolani_Sib I will💪

@aderkdev Just keep building and updating us💪💪.

Day 8: I just got the logo and app icon designs back. I don't know how to feel. I'm happy, but at the same time, it's here that my doubts start to kick in.

✋️ Your best tip for marketing Go

@WhiskyToad Ultimate challenge: build everything from scratch

Bootstrapping is wild 🤯 Can't afford emails yet so built a dashboard to automate the generation Work smarter not harder 🚀

Are you team native development or more the React Native way? I just recently started working with React Native, I really like the fact that we can build once and then deploy on iOS and Android but I think that I'll hit a roadblock somewhere (FOR SURE)

@PriyankaSaini28 I barely get anything, still post for myself. It'll be cool looking back at it a few years from now

If you want to build in public, get comfortable with slow days. Not every post will spark fireworks.

@phuctm97 All you have to do is reach 10k$ MRR first month. Come on it's not that hard

Growing from $1K MRR to $2K MRR is harder than I thought. It's already a month since PDF Vector hit $1K MRR and we're still struggling to get to $2K MRR. This SaaS thing is tough!

@lukecodez Funny enough, GML = game maker language. This was back in 2012 when I was only 14. I wanted to make games so bad that I spent days learning Game Maker

What was the first programming language you learned ? Mine : Java

@itsjoaki All day everyday 💪

Good morning, Who’s building today?

@AdityaShips I also got inspired by Marc, hopefully I'll reach your current followers ;)

A year ago, If this video hadn’t appeared on my feed, I would have never even tried building apps. - I wouldn’t be at 11.5K followers today. - I would still be at $0 (totally dependent on my parents for everything) - People would still be calling me an idiot. But today, I want to take a moment to thank my inspiration @marclou. 👑

@stijnnoorman 27 as well. Working on exactly that. The best way to escape the rat race🤞

I’m 27. If you’re 16–27, this is for you. Start creating online. Write. Record. Publish. Every day. Build a personal brand. Solve your problems. Sell the solution. This will give you freedom.

@theandreiverdes Well played mate

I made $4K on my first project took 15 hours total still had my corporate job. did it on a weekend That's more than I made in a month at my $24K/year job. I thought it was luck. Second project: $3K for 12 hours. Third: $5k for 20 hours. Not luck. That's just what the market actually pays for dev work. Corporate had me thinking $24K was normal. It's not. The same skills they paid me poverty wages for? Worth $150-200/hour to businesses with actual problems. I quit 3 months after that first project. If you can code, you can build yourself. The clients are there. The money is real. You just have to start.