Noel Mansour
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Noel Mansour
@nmm
Creator of @nujdotapp. Engineer's engineer. Critical of everything. This bio is too long.
6ix เข้าร่วม Eylül 2009
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today’s amazing new AI-designed artifacts will look like slop in a month, once everyone learns to recognize the patterns the model falls back on. like AI-generated writing, the output isn’t objectively “bad,” (in fact it is often technically quite good), but once it becomes predictable, it reveals itself as recognizably “AI.”
this is undesirable because it exposes two separate skill issues:
1. the person lacks the design (or writing) taste to realize their work reads as obviously “AI”
2. they also lack the prompting skill to steer the model away from its default patterns
this is why there will always be a signaling arbitrage opportunity in keeping a human in the loop for creative and many kinds of knowledge work, no matter how good the tools/models get
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@cwsaas They weren't directing users to the web though. The payment was being done in app, but it was via Stripe's SDK instead of Apple's IAP.
I think they would've been fine if they routed through the web.
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I said directing payments from your mobile app to the web and running them through stripe would get you
banned
24h later the app showcased in the original tweet gets banned from the App Store.
use apple payments / revenuecat
CW@cwsaas
😂😂😂 Easiest way to get your app banned (aswell as your Apple developer account) also if you run payments through stripe, the customer does not know how to cancel or modify their subscription. this causes them to chargeback, which you will be charged $15-$25 for from stripe and with the risk of your stripe account getting banned after too many chargebacks your CVR is also very likely to tank. don’t try this people. run your payments through apple like everyone else.
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Genuinely shocked at the number of likes this tweet has gotten.
anul agarwal@anulagarwal
Pro tip for building mobile apps to increase conversion: Your first onboarding screen should always be a language selection screen. You don't want the user to follow the onboarding in a language they may not be comfortable in.
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And im not even joking
rosie@snailtattoo
In 2023 I met Matt Johnson and Jordan Peterson on the street in Toronto and im not even joking
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After taking dozens of apps to #1 in the App Store, our team went back and analyzed over 100,000 social media posts to trace back what worked
We found 34 hooks that brought in 100's of millions of views and more than 300 others proven to go viral..
and turned all of that into templates you can steal for free
If you run a consumer app and want:
- more installs
- higher App Store rankings
- content that lands with Gen Z
Comment “HOOKS” and I’ll DM you the file.
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charging $4,000 when your last posts average 3K views is crazy
in my case what’s working best for closing deals with influencers is:
- reaching out to 20 influencers a day
- $0 upfront
- capped CPM deal
- $100 bonus at 50K views
- $100 bonus at 100K views
Raq@raqisright
When a billionaire’s daughter says you’re “out of budget” Girl, pls
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@skanwar @noahkostesku Genuine question. What happened in summer sixteen for Toronto tech?
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🪦 RIP offer paywall after the main one
Apple started rejecting apps that show a discounted paywall right after the user closes the main paywall
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@wongkarwasian UofT alum, but I even I gotta admit this is a banger.
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It's not social media, it's algorithmic media.
Facebooks feed is 90% not your connections.
Linkedin will show my posts to <0.5% of my followers
Can't someone make the platforms we wanted and joined? What if it was more profitable ?
What if people would actually pay?
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@PsudoMike I'm a fan of Wealthsimple. That said, when they first came out, they were just a Canadian version of Wealthfront.
Going to the US would be pointless. They would be moving towards competition with much bigger established players (Wealthfront and Robinhood).
Sorry, but bad take.
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Wealthsimple doubled AUA to $100B. Added 650K clients. Raised $750M at a $10B valuation.
And they're still building from Toronto.
In a year where the default advice was "move to the Valley," this is what choosing to build here actually looks like.
CIX Innovator of the Year is earned, not given.
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@_eseidel I use Flutter for my app (and recently added shorebird), but how many such stories are from an iOS dev?
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A common story, and one AI now helps with.
A barrier to Flutter adoption has been that it represented identity change for the humans adopting it. e.g. Do I still identify as an "iOS dev" if I write Dart!?
Thankfully, the LLMs don't care. 🤖
Ivan Morgillo@hamen
10 years defending Android native development. 3 books published. Conference stages telling people cross-platform was compromise. Then I tried Flutter from my Italian mountain town and everything I preached crumbled. I used to think real developers wrote platform-specific code. Kotlin for Android, Swift for iOS. Anything else was for lazy devs who couldn't handle "real" programming. Cuneo forced my hand. No iOS developers within 100 kilometers. My indie apps needed both platforms or they'd die. First Flutter project, I expected pain. Clunky widgets, performance issues, the usual cross-platform disasters. Instead I shipped StreakUp, a daily habit tracker, to both App Store and Play Store in half the time. Then 3 Things, my focus app. Then AI Bedtime Stories, which reads custom stories to kids. Then six more apps. Same codebase. Same performance. Same native feel. All those conference talks about "platform purity" suddenly felt like religious arguments about programming languages from 2003. The hardest part wasn't learning Dart or widget trees. It was admitting I'd been wrong for a decade. Now I ship faster than Android-only developers while reaching twice the audience. Sometimes the best technical decisions happen when you stop caring about what other developers think. What platform wars are you still fighting that don't matter anymore?
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@nikitabier @NateSilver538 “No one else on the app talks this way”
Don’t think that’s true. Quote tweeting is the best way to dunk on someone. I’m guessing the algo favors it as I see wayyyyy more quote tweets in my timeline
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@NateSilver538 Also, serious question:
Why do all the washed-up East Coast journalists quote instead of just tapping the reply button? Feels so inauthentic and soapboxy. No one else on the app talks this way.
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53m people signed up for the NYT account which has never had much "voice" as opposed to some of its writers. That's because they were using Twiiter as a news feed with the on-platform discussion as a side course. Now that use case is broken. Few of the 53m even see their tweets.
Nikita Bier@nikitabier
@JohnCarreyrou @NateSilver538 This is how the New York Times should be posting, not DDoS’ing X with link and 1 sentence captions
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@connortbot I'm an expert on the Dunning Kruger effect. Therefore, I am not an expert.
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the job posting i put on YC asks for ONE thing
all i was looking for was "connor, i'm hella good at audio mixing" and that would've been interesting
instead everyone just ignores it and sends something like "I've delved into AI engineering and developing full-stack applications for end-to-end workflows."
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@CommentBond @aakashgupta The tweet is from 4h ago, but the reddit post is from 1h ago. Who copied who?
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@aakashgupta Why is this tweet copied word for word from a reddit post?
reddit.com/r/cscareerques…
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These videos were the single most expensive flex in labor history.
Tech workers had the best negotiating position of any white-collar workforce in 50 years. Remote work, $250K+ comp, four-day work weeks, unlimited PTO. The only thing keeping that deal alive was ambiguity. Nobody outside tech knew exactly what the day looked like.
Then thousands of people filmed it and posted it to the one platform where non-tech people actually hang out.
Every "day in my life as a Google PM" video that showed two hours of real work became ammunition for every CFO building a layoff deck. Every CEO trying to justify RTO got a free highlight reel. Every recruiter benchmarking comp against "market rate" suddenly had video evidence that the market was overpaying.
The negotiating leverage depended on information asymmetry. The TikToks destroyed it voluntarily. For free. For likes.
Boring_Business@BoringBiz_
Tech workers realizing that they could have kept high pay, job stability and remote work if they just stopped making cringe “Day in my Life” videos on TikTok
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@alexcooldev He might get some early wins, but each app will lose out to another from a focused builder
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Bruh, instead of building one app making $19.1k/month, build 191 apps making $100/month like this guy. 🫨
Alex Nguyen@alexcooldev
This guy (I mean the owner of this App Store account) actually created 191 apps and did zero marketing. I’m curious about his revenue. 😌
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@mariogarciogrs @dickiebush Spending money on things that result in long term memories. For example, going on a trip or buying a ticket to the Super Bowl. These are experiences that will continue to pay off positively each time you think about and remember them.
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@dickiebush First time I’ve heard of the concept of a memory dividend. Really like the idea! Not sure I can go back to buying coffee everyday though.
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Are you speaking about home of Patrick Watson, Kaytranada, Arcade fire, Leonard Cohen? Gtfo. Montreal is the top contributor to culture in Canada.
🎲@papiwilldoya
Montreal doesn’t even have culture.
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