Cherian Thomas
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@impending - @UseClear, @HeadsUp, WebRoulette team, Ex-SVP Byjus, built @Cucumbertown, Ex-Zynga, https://t.co/SO1UwWA9cC. Cook | I make stuff. [email protected]
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Joined October 2007
We had a pretty good run yesterday with our product TravelAnimator #2 on Product Hunt. It was months of meticulous preparation, shepherded by Angel, Varsha, the design team, engineering, and others. Thank you to everyone who uploaded and commented over there. With
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There was a significant discrepancy between our app store earnings and our revenue reporting tool for December. Our collections ended up much lower than what was reported. I got Claude to scrape the App Store and the revenue reporting tool and give me an analysis. We do not
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I have undergone training with some of the world's best agencies and individuals, spending thousands of dollars per hour on negotiation skills with ex-FBI agents and on political PR training. A lot of these have helped me immensely, but the one that stands out the most all
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All toppers from my school or college are doing great in life. The ones who toiled day & night and got 9 pointers are working in some big MNCs, doing PhD, MS, got government jobs. Hardly I have seen any topper who is struggling, but I have seen backbenchers who are still
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I was discussing this with a fellow founder and realized it's worth noting. Almost all startups go through a bell curve if they survive. The lower part of the bell curve is the extended 3-4-year period when it does not seem like you will survive, when you need to micro-pivot or
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On one hand, Gemini in voice mode is infinitely patient to address my daughter's insatiable curiosity, often on repeat mode. On the other hand, sometimes I feel less useful as a dad. Welcome to the new world.
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One interesting feature engineering approach that has emerged as a serendipitous outcome of AI's capabilities is discovering random patterns in data. We have an app that's pretty popular and has search functionality. We aggressively log everything that's being searched to our
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I didn't post much in December for a couple of reasons: one good and one bad. But my lack of posting was, in some ways, a good revelation. I had friends and followers reach out and ask if there was something wrong. I'm guessing my posts do matter after all. So, for the bad news
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Someone asked me today what's the most motivating thing I've ever read. It's this quote: "The definition of hell--on your last day on earth, the person you became met the person you could have become." The most profound regret is not about things you did but about the things you
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Onwards @jijosunny! πͺπͺ
TIL we processed 2.41 million payments in 2025 More importantly, 50k+ creators got paid on Buy Me a Coffee this year so far! πβ€οΈβπ₯ From Stripe 2025 wrapped
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It seems counterintuitive, but I want us to slow our revenue growth so we can focus on our foundation and become indefensible. Growth hides problems, and if we do not build our moat, many small companies will take an interest and build faster. Unless, unless, of course, you
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One interesting mindset change that I needed to make from venture capital-based businesses to bootstrapping companies was in how I viewed growth. Look at these two graphs. The expense-to-revenue ratio exists in the venture capital business world. But I haven't seen absolute
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One interesting side effect of moving your aha moment earlier in your customer journey is how quickly we can convert people to paid. This is not an intentional left attempt, but rather the result of many optimizations over many, many months to get people to complete what we want
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It's interesting how much guest posting was a marketing tactic five years back and barely even mentioned right now in campaigns.
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Forget 10-minute delivery in US cities, if we can solve for instant transactions in the US, consumer consumption will skyrocket. The bureaucracy and lobbying to not allow for this in 2025 is ridiculous
I just discovered that Robinhood will generate approximately $150 million (~βΉ1,300 crores) in revenue from the fees it charges for processing instant client withdrawals. Their cost to process these is around $35β40 million, which means a clean $100 million to the bottom line,
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Your once-in-a-while reminder that eBay did $2.8 billion in revenue last quarter and has $5.3 billion in cash. Yet no one I know uses them anymore. An excellent example of my bubble problem. Any why some of these businesses can accelerate much better being private.
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