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In 2021, I was a solo founder hacking on an app I thought would change the world.
I was willing to do whatever it took -- I coded for 12 hours a day, pulled countless all-nighters, and neglected everything else.
I kept repeating to myself "the only way you lose, is if you…
Excited to announce that we have raised $1.4M led by
@fdotinc
& amazing investors Carya Venture Partners,
@gaingels
,
@untamedvc
,
@alevelcapital
,
@zeeg
,
@kiwicopple
, execs
@google
@angellist
.
We're helping teams build no code AI workflows and apps to automate their work 👇🧵
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Announcing Headshot AI 👨💼
Get Professional Headshots with AI in minutes! 100% free and open-source.
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Something new ✨
A simple, clean API for generative image models.
We built it to easily handle three use-cases: inference, fine-tuning, and text-to-edit images.
No need to worry about GPUs.
Customize your endpoints via a dashboard -- hit the API, and go.
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So sunday I’m talking to my friend ab how cool it’d be to get an upright piano.
Today saw a free piano on the street in SF.
My buddy comes to help move it.
We convince an Uber XL to put it in the trunk.
A random stranger walks by and offers us an extra hand.
Somehow we get…
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i joined
@fdotinc
back in november.
since then, i’ve had the chance to work + build with some of the best founders in sf.
through the journey, i decided to write down some of my key learnings.
here's a snippet:
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Starting Marina Plunge Club.
Cold plunge every Sunday AM at Crissy field.
Comment if u want in 👇
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Grateful to speak to
@johnshopkins
freshman class today.
I remember sitting in the same spot as them not too long ago.
Hopefully convinced a few that now is the time to start building.
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1/ I’m really excited to announce that my startup
@joinPaths
is launching! We’re building a new social network for students to explore life & career paths, and get advice or mentorship through short audio clips 🤩
But first I want to share how we got here...
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Reflecting on 2022:
✅ graduated from
@JohnsHopkins
+ moved to SF in June
✅ launched
@joinPaths
✅ filmed the first
@thepathpod
w/
@kevinlin
✅ joined
@fdotinc
to ship & build epic companies
✅ dove into AI + launched
Crazy what can happen in 6mo 🙏
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This is our stripe dashboard
@leap_api
.
We've been steadily growing revenue MoM.
This past month, we more than 3x'd it.
Here's are the operating principles that make our graph go 📈
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A year ago I booked a one-way ticket to SF.
I remember my first week
@Andrewjaykeller
offered me a desk next to his and welcomed me to
@fdotinc
.
Excited to be able to invest in him now.
Lets go
@neurosity
🧠
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So pumped for this release.
Building your AI backend is about to get 10x easier.
Introducing Leap Workflows, the fastest way to build, test, & iterate multi-modal AI chains in your backend.
Design, test, monitor, and deploy in minutes.
We've been working on making this big for developers.
And later this week we're launching it to the public. 🧵
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We’ve come a long way.
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GTFOL (get the f*** off localhost).
Most builders think this is just shipping to production.
But then end up with a feature rich product and that no one knows how to use.
Trust me, I’ve been there and it’s not fun :)
Here’s our rule: ship a feature, tell someone.
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Looking for high-converting leads? Try this growth hack.
1. Export your Linkedin Connections
2. Use AI to find warm leads that fit your ICP
In 2 mins I found 25 warm leads directly in my network.
Link to try below! 🧵
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Only at Founders Inc man.
Walked in to see
@justinkan
and
@mytechceoo
doing a content skit.
Bullish on Sf.
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96 days since
@leap_api
launched...
📈 some numbers
🚀 35,000+ developers signed up
🚀 17,000+ custom models trained
🚀 millions of images generated per month
here's a recap on what's new this past month 👇
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First Marina Plunge Club ✅
No better way to start a Sunday morning than 10 mins in the ocean w friends.
Comment if you wanna join the next one 👇
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Update
Running sf half marathon tm morning.
Did my first (and last) ever training tonight.
Any tips?
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Headshot AI open-source repo has been blowing up.
Got a few shoutouts from
@twistartups
,
@bentossell
, and
@Replit
.
And it's not too late to build on top of it.
Github repo:
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We're hiring at Leap!
If you're a rockstar product-minded eng who wants to ship product to 100,000+ users we'd love to chat :)
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Running sf half marathon tm morning.
Did my first (and last) ever training tonight.
Any tips?
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We announced our fundraise earlier and got lots of congratulations (thank you all).
But this message was by far the best.
We're committed to building a product customers LOVE.
Customers > hype.
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Epic group of 20 people today for Marina Plunge Club!!
Thanks everyone for coming out 🙏
Plunges every week Sunday / Thurs AM.
DM / comment to join
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.
@_buildspace
&
@FurqanR
just dropped one of the most high value vids on Youtube on finding pmf.
Generated blog summarizing it in <5 w Leap:
I recently gave a lecture at Buildspace for the students in SF2.
Got a lot of positive feedback, so sharing here in case its useful for anyone else.
Take everything in this lecture as an opinion from what i've experienced as a founder and not fact.
If you find this talk…
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Met w
@faroukdey
a year ago for dinner.
I had recently moved from east coast to Sf and was couch surfing.
We met again today to catch up.
Thankful for him,
@FurqanR
,
@hthieblot
& more for believing in me from day 1
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I’m back baby
i got a seat open next to me.
i'm looking for someone to help us with socials.
we've gotten over 40,000 tags in just the last 7-days.
goal: surface the people building cool shit + help them go viral.
if down to start wednesday -- dm me.
only sf.
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1/ last week we launched
@leap_api
tldr so far
⚡️almost 2k sign ups
⚡️5 paid users
⚡️
@itsandrewgao
shipped a sick project in <1 day
here's what's coming 👇
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last week we made some big moves
@leap_api
.
the result?
all-time high average revenue per user.
all-time revenue continuing to trend up. 📈
here's a peek into the experiments we ran 🧵
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Drove from SF to Monterey + Carmel.
10/10 and can do it all in a day.
SF rocks.
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Something is happening
@LeapAI_
.
If you're leading a Marketing/Growth team we've got some legit magic to show you.
Let's chat :)
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Well-capitalized start-up,
@LeapAI_
seeks extremely talented full stack developer (next.js, react, typescript) to help pioneer AI automation and agents.
You must have experience designing and building large and complex (yet maintainable) systems.
You should be able to do so in…
On that note - we're looking to hire a full stack eng.
If you think this is you, or know someone;
PS. not for the faint of heart
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Good run.
- Went 4-2 w
@FurqanR
- Caught a few
@ShaanVP
back door passes
- Learned something ab functional patterns (FP)
Saturday Startup Pickup Runs:
- 3 hours
- 0 injuries
- my jumper is broken
- MVPs:
@RTorenberg021
&
@thealexshaq
- unexpected baller award:
@zuhayeer
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Working on a new pod w
@vishalkolr
@fdotinc
Talking about 🏀 + tech + entrepreneurship
Who should we talk to?
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Founders Inc. taught us to always talk to our users.
We used to go through a list of interesting leads everyday and manually research + email them to get on a call.
Now this workflow sends me a Google Sheet every morning w/ personalized emails and background summaries. 🧵
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Devastated and heartbroken to hear the news about Pava. She was a mentor and friend, and a shining light for everyone
@JohnsHopkins
and the greater Baltimore community. She had so much more to give.
Grateful to speak to
@johnshopkins
freshman class today.
I remember sitting in the same spot as them not too long ago.
Hopefully convinced a few that now is the time to start building.
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60+ members now in Marina Plunge Club.
Every Thurs / Sun AM.
DM for link to join :)
Enter: Marina Plunge Club
You probably know by now that I am OBSESSED with cold plunges
I would do it 3x/wk in SD
Then... I moved to SF
I join a gym 3x the price of my SD gym, but no cold plunges!?
So I start jumping in the bay as an alternative.
I invited anyone who wanted…
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we are building a growth machine
@leap_api
📈
in last week alone, we've had more sign ups than in our first 2 months combined. 😳
and it's been completely by design.
here's are some insights into how we made it happen 🧵
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Met
@FarzaTV
2 years ago…
He brought me out to SF and safe to say it’s been pretty life changing
Can’t recommend
@_buildspace
enough 👇
~4-years ago, this company started as an education platform for kids ages 4-9.
We had 200,000 students on it.
But, struggled to monetize.
In a moment of desperation, I decided to pivot -- it turned into
@_buildspace
.
Now, nearly 2-years later...it's time for another change 🧵
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The quality of the team
@leap_api
and
@fdotinc
is absurd.
I’ve learned so much from these incredibly ambitious + generous people.
Couldn’t ask for a better team to build a massive company w than
@claud_fuen
and
@atbeme
🚀❤️
We interviewed
@thealexshaq
, one of the growth minds behind
@leap_api
's engineered virality.
Here's what he had to say 👇
@thealexshaq
(left),
@claud_fuen
(middle),
@atbeme
(right)
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Did a podcast on my past year in SF.
Talked about:
- Moving to SF & joining
@fdotinc
.
- Going viral.
- Personal & company growth playbooks.
Shoutout to
@omarwasm
+
@thedockpod
-- was a dope conversation.
Alex cofounded and built Leap from 0 to $500k ARR + 250k users in under a year
We made a video where he shared the entire growth playbook — what worked and why, how much $ spent, etc.
Watch it now on YouTube 👇
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Growth.
Something new ✨
A simple, clean API for generative image models.
We built it to easily handle three use-cases: inference, fine-tuning, and text-to-edit images.
No need to worry about GPUs.
Customize your endpoints via a dashboard -- hit the API, and go.
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Safe to say the new years resolution has been going well.
Shoutout to my trainer
@leap_api
#progresspic
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On hacker news and I see top post on AI generated stories
And top comment is ab !
No better feeling as a builder 🤩❤️
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POV you’re a founder trying to pack in 30 sec while Uber is outside.
We made it:
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Introducing Invest or Pass, an updated generative AI party game that features
@aribk24
🎉
No further explanation needed. All images generated with
@leap_api
🫡
Introducing Invest or Pass, a generative AI party game where you decide whether to invest in a startup based solely on the founder's linkedin profile pic 🎉
No further explanation needed. You know what to do📷
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Amazing group up to cold plunge this morning.
People are awesome.
Community is growing.
Join us Sunday mornings! 🌊🤙
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AI Avatars have taken over.
We just wrote up a guide on how you can generate your own in <5 min w/
@leap_api
Try it for free via dashboard or API
- upload 5 images of yourself
- train model for free.
- get crazy custom pfps
Check it out below 👇
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