Avan Chan

consumer founder rite of passage: post the cringiest tiktoks ever to promote your app

@demireren_ 🇻🇳🇻🇳🇻🇳

Over the next few weeks, I’ll be visiting: - Lisbon + The Algarve 🇵🇹 - Seville 🇪🇸 - Istanbul 🇹🇷 - All of Vietnam 🇻🇳 - Seoul 🇰🇷 Hmu if you’re around :)

after 9 hours in secondary screening, the department of homeland security has bestowed upon me the title of Engineer

@alexcooldev 🐐

No matter how busy I am, I always set aside 30 minutes to 2 hours to work out, discipline 💪

@jedcal Goat

i now have a vetted roster of 900 creators on ugctank.com (all personally reviewed by me!) how it works: if you, (a tech brand), post a campaign to my platform, my creators that are good fits automatically get texted to apply to your campaign 50 campaigns have been posted already & hundreds of creators have been hired. all under my self serve platform lowkey building a LinkedIn but for creators <> tech brands

@demireren_ @finta lfg

Heading to SF this summer to join @finta (YC W23) as an AI Software Engineering intern! We're automating the most painful parts of accounting and taxes with AI, and I can't wait to hit the ground running Who else will be in the Bay? I want to meet anyone and everyone :)

.@meetgranola can you please make a hardware product? we'd like to record every conversation in every meeting room by default.

@alexcooldev lfggggg

My new app just had a viral post, one video reached over 100k views and is still growing. New users are continuously starting trials. I’m hoping for a high conversion rate, and I’m considering removing the trial and switching to a hard paywall 😌 Still waiting for Apple to approve the TikTok Ads SDK update so I can start testing.

I’m scared I focused on the wrong thing all this time. I used to pride myself in prioritizing career over other facets of life - health, romance, and for a lack of a better word, fun. It was easy when it came to myself. But recently, I found myself rushing through a conversation with my mother asking about my day. What am I even rushing to that’s more important than being present with my own mom? It seems like these days we’re always trying to optimize - code, to time spent on meals (Instacarting groceries, DoorDash over cooking, to multitasking over dining with friends) and don’t get me started on peptides. But what time can you not get back? Ambition is great. I will always be ambitious. But ambition kills if you lose track of what’s actually important in pursuit of achieving those goals. I think about this image a lot. It shows the number of certain life experiences quantified. Events as a unit of measurement, rather than time. After moving out for college, then to your big new city post grad, you’ve “set” the dinners left with family around the table to a finite number. By 18, you’ve spent 90% of your total in-person time with your parents. The amount of time you have with your family is a definite decreasing function. I hate that. Today, I FaceTimed my parents each for 2 hours and my dad told me stories about his twenties and his life before me. Gatekept information until as of late tbh (trust me I’ve always pried) but finally being at that age where they can finally tell you stuff has its advantages. My goal this year is to spend as much time as possible with my family. None of us are getting any younger. But realizing this means you can intentionally create more squares on your grid. Call ur folks!

@stellawang @waitbutwhy 👏🏻👏🏻 well said

@alexcooldev KILLING IT

Sorry guys, I’ve been super busy this week with my current apps so I haven’t had time to share more about skills yet. But well, this week I just hit 5 million total views fully organic from automated video posts. I’ll share it in the future (hope it stabilizes soon).

@lilyyang169 community

Starting a community builders group chat for community leads from Startups. Comment "community" to join.

@fahdananta 😹😹😹

Wallahi we’re cooked fam

Bruh… I’m flabbergasted. My kid just told me they do a land acknowledgementevery morning in his kindergarten classroom What are we doing man…

@CharlesLiu9 whoaaa what an experience!

We flew our Waterloo intern on a company trip to Bangkok! Ana’s 21, first time in Asia — it’s been superrr wholesome The internship program definitely benefits us a ton, but we try our best to make it a decent experience for our interns too 😊 (having gone thru 5 internships myself) If you’re still in school and wanna work a high-growth startup that isn’t a b2b sass, send me a DM!! We’re hiring across the board Things we’re looking for: → High IQ → Culturally tapped in → Works really hard Things you’ll learn: → Viral social loops → Viral marketing → Product design → UI/UX design → Consumer psychology Photo 1 [March 18 10:09am]: Squad marching to a cafe in 90°F weather Photo 2 [March 19 1:55pm]: First cooking class ever — newfound appreciation for Pad Thai :p Photo 3 [March 25 3:04am]: Decided to end the day with a late night foot massage (only $5 each!)

[DAY 3] lotushacks 2026. Judgement day. 36 hours of building. Done. Now it's time to pitch. Teams presented across the VNG Atrium this morning to present what they built to the judges. Five minutes each. No Q&A. Make it count. Judges huddled around laptops, listening, watching live demos, digging into the details. You can see it in the photos. Everyone leaned in, focused, taking it seriously. From here, the top 20 get selected. Then narrowed to 10. Then the final round on the main stage. This is the part where 36 hours of relentless hard work (even no sleep), energy drinks, and late night debugging either pays off or becomes a really good story 😊 Results coming soon. Stay tuned 👀

@CharlesLiu9 💯

I left my $300k job exactly one year ago to build an app Learned a lot and grew our app from less than $5k/month to $80k/month in our fourth month Finally convinced the team to let me ungatekeep what I know since we’re working on smthing different now Stay tuned!

@CharlesLiu9 @kelvinzhg let's gooo

Last month we made >$100k in sales with Gleam We actually stopped working on Gleam five months ago because it felt more like building a marketing agency than an actually useful product Idk if other people in consumer feel that too Our new app doesn’t have a paywall, and probably won’t for a while If you live and breathe consumer social, I want to talk to you!! We’re hiring across the board for our office in NYC (we sponsor visas)

@Ethan_Ng_13 @cursor_ai @vogentai inspirational

Excited to share I'll be joining @cursor_ai I left school and spent the past year building and scaling growth playbooks across GTM and Marketing at @vogentai & Arcade. This wouldn't have been possible without George, so thank you. Excited to get to work.

@jedcal him

UPDATE - my income streams ranked from the past 30 days (gross revenue) 1- ugctank.com 2- content creation 3- full time swe job 4- clothing brand crazy to see this list compared to my post from Jan 1. my bootstrapped startup has risen the ranks :)