Sanya Jolly

@iouione ostryaai.com

Drop your startup URL Let's help each other drive traffic

@NitishaAgrawal3 That's the plan

Builders a simple launch plan for you with 0 audience: 1. Find 30 people with the exact problem 2. DM them with one specific question 3. Build a tiny version around repeated pain 4. Share progress publicly for 14 days 5. Launch with their words, not yours most launches fail because founders market to imaginary users

@GohilHardy Feeling is unreal

Just got another sale 🚀 Revenue is now: $642 💰 Still a tiny number compared to big SaaS founders. But seeing strangers pay for something I built never gets old.

@jm_martiinez That's what happens man

day 1 of building a startup: "this is going to change everything" day 365: "why is this button not centered"

@jigyasacreates Hope you get to learn whatever your heart desires

I’m 19 and so far in life, I have: - freelanced a lot - felt confused - upskilled - learnt some more marketing And I dream of learning code and building something mine someday. I love the life I’m building for myself.

@rdbuilds7 ostryaai.com

Drop your startup link.

@RoyInProgress LLMs at the end of the day is better for execution rather than treating them like your thinking partner They are their to execute on your behalf but critical thinking should be yours only

Anthropic just launched Claude Fable 5. Cool. But it won’t tell you what problem is worth solving. It won’t fix your distribution. It won’t make your startup work. The hard parts are still up to you.

@thought_harbor Authenticity creates connection. -- This is so trueee

The people who inspire us most usually aren't perfect. They're authentic. They keep going. They keep learning. And they share the journey honestly. Authenticity creates connection.

@omarontape @officialvlogit damn!! That's impressive What's your growth strategy ?

300 days of building @officialvlogit in public: day 0: - 0 followers - 0 on the waitlist - 0 users - 1 hated corporate job day 300: - 215k followers on IG/Tiktok - 63k person waitlist - 2500 beta users - self-employed submitted to app store, launching 🔜 you’re early.

@TheGeorgePu this is what I feel yesterday there's a calm before a chaos and then suddenly you feel like you're at ground zero but the best thing is to figure out a solution with your team rather than feeling sorry

Startup life: quiet for weeks. Then a problem hits & from every direction at once. App goes down. A partner hikes prices. A deploy breaks. Support tickets spike. Your co-founder's offline. Never one thing. Always all of it.

The last few days made one thing clearer for me. Ostrya is not for every creator. And that is probably a good thing. If someone only wants a prettier link-in-bio, they don’t need us. If someone just wants to upload a few videos and call it a course, they may not need us either. We are building for the educator who has already felt the mess. The one who has taught live classes. Sold through payment links. Managed students in WhatsApp groups. Tracked leads in Sheets. Sent reminders manually. Copied Zoom links more times than they want to admit. Because a creator’s brand is not just their landing page. It is also the checkout. The payment confirmation. The class reminder. The Zoom flow. The WhatsApp group. The follow-up after class. The way the next offer is introduced. And when all of that feels patched together, the offer starts feeling smaller than it actually is. That is the part I keep coming back to while building Ostrya. A course is one product. But the business around it has a hundred small moving parts. We are building for that layer.

@thenareshannam Quality > Quantity

One thing that helped me build strong relationships with top creators and founders: I never put them on a pedestal. Most people approach successful people like fans. They seek validation, try to impress them, and subconsciously place themselves below them. That kills real relationships. Creators and founders don’t want to spend time with people who worship them. They want to be around people who bring value, have their own opinions, and treat them like normal human beings. The best connections happen when you stop thinking, “How can I get something from them?” and start thinking, “How can I add value?”

@thenareshannam India has a very specific creator reality. Trust forms on WhatsApp/LinkedIn/Instagram, money moves through UPI/Razorpay, and delivery happens live. The creator who turns attention into a clean operating system has a real advantage.

India has more people with time than people with money. That’s why creators can monetize faster than startups. A startup may need 10 years to convert valuation into cash. A creator can convert attention into cash today. In India, attention is not just an asset. It’s a business model.

@KDeepThoughts This is the hidden part of course businesses. A webinar can create revenue and still leave the creator with chaos behind the scenes - follow-ups, delivery, proof, next offer, retention. Conversion is not the same as a real business system.

Nobody tells course creators this: A webinar can “convert” and still be unscalable. If CAC, payback, and revenue per registrant don’t work, the funnel is not healthy. It’s just temporarily alive.

@thearslaniqbal Exactly. The learning journey is the product. A lot of creators have enough knowledge already - the hard part is packaging it so the student knows what to do first, what to ignore, and what progress should feel like.

Most people think creating a course starts with writing lessons. It doesn't. It starts with organizing knowledge. That's why so many course creators spend months building content... and still struggle to create a clear learning journey. NotebookLM changes that. Instead of staring at a blank screen, you feed it your knowledge. And it helps turn that knowledge into a structured course. Imagine uploading... 📚 PDFs 🎥 Video transcripts 📝 Notes 📄 Research papers 🎙️ Podcast transcripts 📊 Reports and frameworks Then asking... "Build a complete course outline from these materials." That's where the magic happens. A simple course creation workflow... 1️⃣ Collect your source material 2️⃣ Upload everything into NotebookLM 3️⃣ Extract key insights 4️⃣ Build a course structure 5️⃣ Create lesson content 6️⃣ Design exercises and assignments 7️⃣ Refine the learning experience 8️⃣ Publish and improve The biggest mistake course creators make? Teaching everything they know. The best course creators teach exactly what learners need. Because information isn't valuable. Transformation is. NotebookLM helps you find... ✅ Core concepts ✅ Learning gaps ✅ Logical lesson flow ✅ Practical examples ✅ Actionable exercises This means less time organizing. More time creating. Whether you're building... 🎓 Online courses 💼 Corporate training 🤖 AI workshops 📈 Business programs 📚 Educational products The goal isn't to create more content. The goal is to create better learning experiences. And the creators who master AI-assisted education today will have a huge advantage tomorrow. This cheat sheet breaks down exactly how to use NotebookLM to transform scattered information into a professional course. Follow @thearslaniqbal for more AI related insights.

@bandhiyahardik8 @DevrelUni This is such a real founder/educator arc. When you’ve spent years mentoring, running workshops and building learning spaces, the real unlock is usually not “more content” - it’s turning that trust into a repeatable education/business system.

I've been active in developer communities for years. Organizing events. Mentoring students. Running workshops. Building spaces for people to learn and grow. I thought I knew what @DevrelUni Cohort 7 would give me. That confidence was half right and half dangerous. Because it didn't just add to what I had it made me question the foundation. Here's what five weeks with five incredible mentors actually did to how I think. 𝗪𝗲𝗲𝗸 𝟭 @buzea200 I had been obsessing over building. She made me realize building is only one piece. If people can't discover your work, understand it quickly, or give you feedback on it the value stays invisible. Distribution and feedback loops aren't extras. They're the work. 𝗪𝗲𝗲𝗸 𝟮 @dabit3 "Don't optimize for a title. Become a technologist." The people who get left behind aren't the ones who lacked talent. They're the ones who got too attached to a specific identity and stopped looking up while the landscape shifted underneath them. Still thinking about this one daily. 𝗪𝗲𝗲𝗸 𝟯 @PSkinnerTech My busiest week of the year. Everything felt like it was slipping. Then he said: speed without systems is chaos. I didn't have a motivation problem. I had a structure problem. Those are very different things, and fixing the wrong one wastes months. 𝗪𝗲𝗲𝗸 𝟰 @nutlope Keep products simple enough to explain in one sentence. Mine took four words: Tinder for developers. A platform where devs can find hackathon teammates, study partners, collaborators, and contributors matched by goals, not just skills. GitHub login required. Real builders only. That became the product. Week 4 is also when I finally gave it a name. Welcome to Navra. 𝗪𝗲𝗲𝗸 𝟱 @francescoswiss The hardest question of the whole cohort: Are you building this community for yourself, or for the people in it? Communities don't survive on branding. They survive on solid foundations good onboarding, real learning resources, and members who feel like the thing was genuinely built for them. That's the bar I'm holding NavraCommunity to. Five weeks. One idea that became real. I wrote the full story every lesson, every moment it clicked, and where Navra goes from here. Link is here 👇 @hardikbandhiya/devrel-uni-changed-how-i-think-heres-what-five-weeks-actually-taught-me-d3c47b19be84" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">medium.com/@hardikbandhiy…

@svinoth @udemy 100,000 students is massive. And this is the part most people underestimate - a course is not really “videos”, it’s the ability to make complex ideas feel simple enough for someone to act on. That clarity is the real product.

Recently crossed 100,000 students. One thing I have learned is that creating a course is much more than recording videos. It is about finding the simplest way to explain complex ideas so learners can succeed. Thank you to the learners and @Udemy for being part of the journey.

@ayushguptaz @cyvanessali But why not build your own brand out of it ?

@cyvanessali I’ll not be shocked if more Indians got into yc & then started topmate session for getting a referral like faang guys

If you're applying to YC Startup School, DM me for referral!

@ANKYIIMR @akshaybothra_ Paid calls are such a strong signal. The next step is usually packaging that trust better.

@akshaybothra_ I do it in 1:1 discussions on TopMate. Don't prefer to share publicly anything. Edge sharing means edge losing.

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@haniaa0515 sleepless nights comes with success

hey X, im Hania. im 17,  building a silicon valley based vc backed startup, recently launched beta and got hundreds of users, linkedin filled with users asking for more credits, but this is not as fancy as it looks. nobody talks about the sleepless nights or sprints you pull with your partner and team to build something impactful.