penuel akom

Clarity closes deals. Confusion delays them.

Talk to everyone. Two reasons why. 1. It’s good practice to gain people skills for anything in life 2. You never know what that person does and how they can benefit what you are doing now or in the future. Your network is your net worth

Today was insanely productive: 📈 ~180k impressions (2x from yesterday) 🛠 Built a SaaS demo creator with Codex in <30 min (saved £18/mo on subscription) 🎥 Recorded demo videos for the launch day 🧪 Final E2E tests on Kerix Wow… just wow. 🚀

Just hit $7.5M run rate. One Founder + AI + Agent Startups. Zero Employees. After a month of infra work, back to shipping features. Introducing God Mode: ask Polsia to work autonomously for 1 hour to 7 days. It won't stop. Decides its own next steps. Pause or steer anytime. Starting at $6/hour. Doesn't sleep. Doesn't quit. Doesn't ask for equity.

x communities are shutting down this weekend that’s how I grew fast on x and met most indie hackers when I started thinking about building a better place for founders would you use it?

~$1M in revenue. 1600 units shipped. All from a product we built in a house in San Francisco with a team of close friends. No massive marketing budget, or enterprise sales machine. Literally just a product people wanted to wear. For the first time in history, you can remember everything. and AI can actually understand you. See you tomorrow.

Finally, a decent MRR number! 🎉 I've worked for 4+ years on different projects, NONE have made any money. I paid thousands of $ during that time, for hosting, for accounting, for design, for all kinds of stuff. I can happily say that @postfast_ has been profitable since December. It has a lot of expenses, and I'm still doing my full-time job, but this is an amazing point in my builder's life. I am more motivated than ever to make this an amazing and large business! Probably a lot of people won't care, as this is not 10k or whatever, but for me this is a milestone, which I'll look at this post in a few years, and hopefully be blessed to be way above it!

Vibe coders, have you really switched from claude to codex?

You don't need permission to change your life. You need a one-way ticket and the balls to not book a return. 5 countries. 2 products. $2,100 MRR combined. Still cheaper than my old Paris rent.

@buildwithgoks @TTrimoreau Wow very amazing giggle you did to get things running. Quick one, If it you don't mind, sharing your setup and step by step pdf or guide of doing same thing you did. For me any one seeing this post, who want such help.

Yea setup was the painful part tbh. I started with the manual workflow first: what tickets come in, who owns what, what context they need, what can go out without review. Then I turned that into files + rules the agents read every run. If the human workflow is messy, the agents just automate the mess.

Does anyone actually run more than 1 agent in parallel?

@alexherbert0 👍

@PenuelAkom 100%

Day 51. Senior assassin resumes this week and honestly it's the most stress I've felt all year and that's saying something considering I've been trying to build a business at the same time. There's real money on the line if I win. Enough that I can't just let myself get tagged out early for the sake of going to the gym in peace. So now I'm doing threat assessments on my classmates alongside cold outreach strategy. Normal senior year stuff. But in all seriousness, running a business and finishing high school at the same time has taught me something. You don't rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems. When everything is competing for your attention, the thing with the clearest next step wins. Right now Waves has the clearest next step it's ever had. That's not nothing. 🌊

@maubaron You bluntly correct with your analysis. To get some results we need initial capital no matter how little. Doing freelancing is one way to get this initial cash you need if you aren't working a job. My guess the best way to get initial cash..

making $10k/month with mobile apps PROFITABLY has never been easier i'm 24 years old and i've never had a real job in my entire life BUT that doesn't mean i didn't take on multiple freelance opportunities to get cash that was the only way i made it through years of no results the reason i mention it is because if you can get at least $5k in your bank account ready to spend on marketing trust me you will be set for life! all you need to do is to make and launch that mobile app in a couple of days then with the money you saved up you either - make an obscene amount of content then do paid ads - you hire a bunch of creators then do paid ads - you hire influencers THEN do paid ads PAID ADS WILL CHANGE YOUR LIFE but for this you ofc need cash so if there's something that will ACTUALLY make you succeed in the space it's not making 10 apps it's not doing a bunch of research it's not ASO it's INVESTING in marketing so do whatever it takes to get that cash

We just ranked a B2C SaaS brand inside ChatGPT. • $620K in revenue • 845% traffic growth • All in 9 months This is the biggest SEO opportunity since Google, and no one’s talking about it. Buyers are rapidly moving to AI search platforms. If you're not ranking in ChatGPT and Claude, your competitors are stealing your clicks. I documented our entire process: • How we turned 185 daily clicks into 1,750+ without touching paid ads • Step-by-step breakdown of how we structure pages for both humans and search engines • The internal linking system that quietly boosts rankings across your entire site • The “non-branded domination” strategy that captures buyers before they know you exist • The exact optimization layer that gets your brand cited inside tools like ChatGPT • How to build topical authority without spamming 100 random blog posts This is the only guide you need to unlock LLM SEO for your brand. Want the full playbook? 1. Like + follow 2. Comment “LLM” I’ll send it to you

🔥 Refgrow reached $1,500 MRR! $0 - $1,000 → 30 months $1,000 - $1,500 → 1.5 months Patience is starting to pay off.

Asking your boss for permission is hard. Waking up and dreading your job is hard. Starting your business is hard. Choose your hard.

github.com/mattpocock/ski… 30k+ stars already from a very trusted dev @mattpocockuk This repo includes super important stuff like: → tdd (red-green-refactor loop) → triage-issue (find root cause + fix plan) → git guardrails (blocks dangerous commands) → zoom-out (understand unfamiliar codebases) this is what people mean by having a “ good setup”

I thought my AI setup was solid… It wasn’t. I went through Matt Pocock’s actual .claude directory on GitHub… and realized I was missing half the system. Not prompts. The setup behind how the model actually works. Skills. Config. Guardrails. this is why some sessions just work and others turn into 2 hours of fixing things Repo in the comments ↓

Looking for open-source contributors. Apache 2.0.

If you’re brave enough to build a startup, here’s what you should know Day 90: One of the hardest truths in startups: Your idea is usually not the most valuable thing about you. The team, the market, and the speed of progress matter more.