Arin Agrawal 🚀

25K users. 4.9 stars. 150 countries. Zero paid ads. I was in my first semester of college when I launched. I didn't know what ASO was. Here's what actually worked: 🧵

@trying_to_exits x if you want traction fast, youtube if you want longevity. linkedin works if you're in b2b. all three together is a part-time job though

Which platform is best for building a personal brand? A) X (Twitter) B) LinkedIn C) YouTube D) Instagram

@pradiptwt cron job that someone forgot to document. or a scheduled task that got added 3 devs ago and nobody owns it anymore

Backend interview question: CPU usage jumps to 100% every night at 3:17 AM. No deployments. No traffic spike. What are you checking first?

@TosinOlugbenga drizzle's been my go-to lately. prisma feels heavy for smaller projects and the generated client can get weird

Which database ORM is your favorite? Prisma? Or?

@Tekeee fr. 3 years of building stuff solo and i already understand why people retire lol

they should lower the retirement age to 23

@gkcs_ trust gap is real. people use it for output but still double-check everything manually. not sure that changes until models stop hallucinating confidently

Everyone's using AI. And yet, almost no one trusts it.

@IamAroke "it's working as intended, the requirement was just wrong" — classic. or the always reliable "needs more testing"

Drop the most creative excuse you've used to explain why the feature isn't ready yet 🥲.

@0xkozue 100%. you spend more energy managing the agent than just doing the thing. babysitting code is still work

Anyone else found that working with AI agents is more mentally tiring than just doing the work yourself?

@rezoundous yeah it's a weird move. feels like they're trying to normalize rate limits across tools instead of actually fixing capacity

wait, so now claude code limits = codex limits?

@vibeonX69 honestly devin. the hype was massive but most devs i know went back to cursor or just claude code within a week

Developers, what is the most overrated AI tool right now? -ChatGPT -Claude -Cursor -Copilot -Devin -Gemini

@Adidotdev Sonnet 4.5 for token optimisation opus 4.6 for complex tasks

@ArinBuilds Yess true, which claude model?

Codex is down, what are you using instead?

@pmitu the validation-before-quitting part is underrated. so many people romanticize the leap without ever stress-testing whether anyone actually wants what they're building

don't quit your job to build a startup: >> use weekends and nights instead >> try to reach $3k MRR >> prove the idea for future scaling >> don't put yourself in stress without money

CEO once told me something that completely changed the way I think about opportunities. She called it the “Airport Theory.” At first, I thought she was joking. We were talking about business, growth, and why some people seem to move so much faster than others when she suddenly said: “The difference between people who build the life they want and people who keep talking about it is simple. One group boards the plane. The other keeps waiting at the gate.” Then she explained. Most people treat opportunities like they’ll always be there. They think they’ll apply later. Launch later. Pitch later. Start later. After they feel more confident. After they have more money. After they know exactly what they’re doing. But opportunities don’t work like that. A plane has a departure time. It doesn’t care if you’re scared. It doesn’t care if you’re still deciding. It doesn’t care if you’re 100% ready. It leaves. And opportunities do the same thing. The client who wants to work with you now won’t wait forever. The partnership you’re overthinking will move on. The business idea you’ve been sitting on will eventually be built by someone else. Most people don’t miss opportunities because they’re not talented enough. They miss them because they keep waiting for certainty. The truth? Nobody boards a plane already knowing exactly what’s going to happen after takeoff. You figure it out in the air. The same applies to business, relationships, travel, content creation, and pretty much every big decision that changes your life. You don’t need less fear. You need less waiting. Because the Airport Theory is painfully simple: The plane leaves anyway. The question is whether you’re on it. ✈️ What’s one opportunity you’ve been standing at the gate for too long?

@IamAroke actually read the error message before googling it. sounds dumb but it took me way longer than i'd like to admit to start doing that consistently

What's the one thing you do differently now compared to when you first started coding?

@boardyai the signal-to-noise is genuinely better here than anywhere else. spent years on other platforms before realizing all the actually interesting builders were over here the whole time

𝕏 is where the best unknown founders are at.

@aditiitwt notepad debugging era was genuinely humbling. no autocomplete, no red squiggles, just you and your typos vs the void

How old are you? Old enough to have written code in Notepad ?

@V1rendra_ B every time. 1M views feels great until you check your bank. 10 paying clients is 10 people who trust you enough to hand over money — that's actual signal

What would you choose right now? A) 1M views B) 10 paying clients C) verified account D) strong network

@Drago_18_ same. stopped caring once i realized hackathons optimize for demos, not products. the judges don't stick around to become your users

Am I the only one who hasn't won a single hackathon in life ?

@benfchi distribution, always. the building part is fun, getting anyone to care enough to stay is the actual job

Builders, What’s your current bottleneck?

@Gavel_on_X honestly feels like it. reply engagement from actual builders > 30 daily posts that say nothing. but the algo doesn't care about quality

Are we sure X isn't still running the old Twitter algo that rewarded people for posting 30 times a day? 🤔