Akshay from Startup Spells 🪄
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I cover 0.1% Marketing Strategies of Startups from The Past, The Present & The Future. Get them daily in your inbox at https://t.co/kk9u7nveNp
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I just replied to a random newsletter… and got one of the most valuable breakdowns I've ever read about growing a B2C app. More value than most "mentors" ever gave (no shade to my New Frontiers crew 😅). Big thanks to @StartupSpells - your reply was gold. 🙌 Covered: •
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Incentives rule the world. If government makes money, they'll promote bad products. Addiction, gambling, p*rn, etc...
Look I LOVE Robinhood But we have a gambling epidemic that is sweeping our nation & literally nobody is talking about it If you could see our user data you would be horrified Ppl are losing their entire life savings, their spouses are leaving them It’s not fun anymore 😕
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TIL TikTok Searches places you in the right niche. Holy fuck, why didn't I think of this? It makes sense that algorithm takes signals of what you are searching to put that content in front of you.
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Slowly, then all at once.
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Chances are you are not Amazon. You can absolutely do research and spend more time ideating unless you are building a 0 to 1 company. Most aren't.
Amazon has all the money, information, connections, and brand recognition you could dream of. Yet, most of its projects go nowhere. It’s not a skill issue. It’s a fundamental property of business. Chance plays a huge role and nobody knows what’s going to work and what won’t.
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I did not know Grok had shared conversation views. Another little UI/UX gem. Grok is the best when it comes to this very little things.
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Check the simple prompt below: https://t.co/6YP9DUUNec PS: I wasn't using Grok before but now I use it the most since it is so fast. And the design/UX is #1.
grok.com
https://resellbot.com/closet-tools-is-now-resellbot/ Read the link that I've provided above and let
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Just saw Grok 4 Fast analyze an SEO expert's site. It scraped the blog, checked its Google rankings, and prescribed specific fixes for H1s, meta descriptions, and images. And found keywords like doing competitor analysis. Next-level usage of AI for SEO.
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OMG this is what Grok does right now. It asks me for feedback all the time.
DSPy / GEPA Pro Tip: Have your module signature output both a reason and a red-flags text field. In your UI add a thumbs up/down that users can click to agree or disagree with the result. If they disagree toggle the value. Based on the updated value, display a feedback field
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Field of standup comedy is cooked. AI wrote better jokes than most comedians deliver now. This 30 minute talk was so valuable. My main problem with prompt engineering was finding the "right" English words. Finally found a solution in DSPy/GEPA. Worth a watch!
DSPy is great at classification tasks, but it's hard to make a formal eval metric for 'fuzzy' creative tasks like writing a blog post or telling a joke. Solution: train a judge with DSPy to agree with you 90%+, then use that judge as the eval metric for the creative task.
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Next.js sucked for a really long time and all it took was this post for everybody to move off from Vercel. TanStack Start is a good alternative with self-hosting.
🇺🇸 🇮🇱 🇦🇷 Enjoyed my discussion with PM Netanyahu on how AI education and literacy will keep our free societies ahead. We spoke about AI empowering everyone to build software and the importance of ensuring it serves quality and progress. Optimistic for peace, safety, and
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So just like humans do? Humans learn better from doing than reading but both help.
AI that learns from experience will be way more data efficient than learning from human knowledge
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Grok 4 Fast is so good at math. It explains me accounting/loans/bank stuff to someone who has zero knowledge about it. I know this is basics but it's not in my circle of competence.
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Best thing Grok 4 Fast has figured out is how not to start every chat with "Here's what this is" etc... Literally every single AI is obsessed with wasting tokens while starting each chat with that. Grok 4 Fast fixed it.
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Grok 4 Fast won because its fast AND free. DeepSeek and others are free but they are slow af. Grok will win based on speed of execution & speed of serving models. Unmatched performance.
Grok Code usage has skyrocketed to 2T tokens in less than a month, while the runner-up barely hits 350B Grok Code is still the only top player in AI Coding space on Kilo Code and nothing is even close... The chart's red section is all Grok Code
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Think I've understood SEO now that works in 2025: Earlier, big sites could write about any niche & take from everyone. Now, every site is a niche in itself. Hubspot can't write about quotes anymore. Only a quote site can. This is true for social media as well.
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Nano Banana is real good. I turned the first image into custom one within 5 mins.
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I feel like @IndieHackers is back if they keep this level of quality. Yet another one I loved was the one on Rosie AI:
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"If you could do only one marketing activity, which one would it be?" "If you could focus on just one channel, which one would it be?" "If you could only run one-type of paid ad, which one would it be?" There's layers to this question. Just tweak it accordingly.
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Phenomenal question spotted in the wild: "If you could watch one Korean film, which would it be?" For me, Decision to Leave. You can tweak the question for any scenario. "If you could do only one startup, which would it be?" It shows you your actual priorities.
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