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idea guy. surf+golf. building Poke for health & fitness. Eat, move, sleep better—without guilt👇

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@franjohn21
francis john
5 months
Creating a group of locked in consumer app builders who want to bounce ideas off each other. DM me if you’d like to join. Core values: * judgment free- safe place to share good or bad ideas, concepts, prototypes, marketing strategies. this is a high EQ, socially competent, kind
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@franjohn21
francis john
3 days
If wabi had automated qa running through your app daily and automated PM agent coming up wit new features.. then maybe idk. I think you’d need to get to that level of autonomy though
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@franjohn21
francis john
3 days
Code has a shelf life. It decays over time. I don't think AI has changed that equation (although maybe slowed the decay). Most vibe coders will come to this inevitably given some more time.
@franjohn21
francis john
3 days
v v curious to see where Wabi is in like 3 months. reduced friction to creating apps is cool.. but gut says ppl don't want to maintain apps even if it's ai doing most of the maintenance. Most of software eng is QA'ing stuff anyway, does everyone want to do software eng? No.
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francis john
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v v curious to see where Wabi is in like 3 months. reduced friction to creating apps is cool.. but gut says ppl don't want to maintain apps even if it's ai doing most of the maintenance. Most of software eng is QA'ing stuff anyway, does everyone want to do software eng? No.
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@franjohn21
francis john
5 days
in my fitness app, rest days earn you points
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francis john
9 days
google's app vs my app (bodybuddy) ... one gives you actionable insights based on your real life, the other gives you generic advice based on data. which would you prefer?
@_philschmid
Philipp Schmid
9 days
Super excited for this! 🚀 We’re rolling out a Gemini-powered personal health coach inside @fitbit. It uses a deep-agent architecture to orchestrate between conversational, data science, and domain expert sub-agents. - Performs complex numerical reasoning on physiological time
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francis john
11 days
Does anyone remember https://t.co/HW8sThuDNn ? what happened to it? Glitch made it dramatically easier to remix software... yet they appear to have shut down (this yr of all yrs) if there's any indictment of the vibe coded platforms, wabi, etc. it's that glitch was that, yet
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francis john
11 days
Automatic health trackers work great except when they don't. Better to be a master of your body from first principles. Just your body, mind, weight room, and kitchen. Think most would be better off spending 10min writing down on pen and paper everything they did for their
@levelsio
@levelsio
11 days
Not sure if I'm the only one but I think @WHOOP isn't very good tracking lifting weights It generally doesn't auto detect weight lifting (instead showing it as ACTIVITY) and then rates it as low strain compared to cardio, probably because it's lower BPM But that doesn't really
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francis john
13 days
Seeing a LOT more slop on Reddit these days.. here's a painful but maybe necessary idea to counter: Disable copy/paste. Force people to type their posts (or label posts that had pasted content differently
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@franjohn21
francis john
14 days
> try to create a google adwords ad > site broken in multiple ways that does not let me continue > try to do a gemini integration > aistudio literally will not let me get to billing page while i'm literally using google chrome.. at the end of the day, this is google's internet
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francis john
15 days
🚨 PSA 🚨 I think we’ve hit a tipping point where we can stop redesigning major websites. They work. We don't need to keep changing them. The most frustrating browsing experience in 2025: - can't find something on a website - ask chatgpt for help - instructions are useless
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francis john
15 days
What are your best tips for talking to users? I try to follow The Mom Test guides: – Don’t ask what they think. Ask what they did. – Don’t pitch. Just learn. – Focus on past behavior, not vague future hypotheticals.
@franjohn21
francis john
15 days
Today I created a blog for my app ( https://t.co/aFqWT6oeOD) for SEO. - One text to Poke to create first drafts of the blog posts. - A few Claude Code commands to wire up a custom Notion integration. - Had the whole thing already live in under 30m end to end 🤯. Pretty crazy how
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@franjohn21
francis john
15 days
Today I created a blog for my app ( https://t.co/aFqWT6oeOD) for SEO. - One text to Poke to create first drafts of the blog posts. - A few Claude Code commands to wire up a custom Notion integration. - Had the whole thing already live in under 30m end to end 🤯. Pretty crazy how
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francis john
16 days
I think the AI generated content sounds compelling but you're also 1 google change away from a manual action / deranking of your domain
@jakezward
Jake Ward
16 days
I've been saying this for 17 months. The data keeps proving the same thing. Ahrefs released a study analysing 600,000 pages. The data shows Google doesn't penalise AI content. The correlation between AI usage and rankings was 0.011. Basically zero. This might sound familiar.
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francis john
16 days
Just launched this recently as an iMessage experience with a complementary web app. It's helping me daily to eat healthier, sleep better, and move more. Working on iOS next! https://t.co/aFqWT6nGZ5
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bodybuddy.app
Build lasting fitness, nutrition, and recovery habits with someone checking on you every single day.
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@franjohn21
francis john
16 days
🫡 $5k mrr by end of yr. Building an app that helps me make a healthy plan for the day and actually stick to it.
@jackfriks
jack friks
16 days
who else wants to join, hitting $5k/month by end of year on new app (or less than $5k app)
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@franjohn21
francis john
19 days
Scratch that I do have an agenda on X: Manifest @bryan_johnson to become the face/voice of my ai health coach. He’ll text you every night at 9:45pm to go to sleep on time. (or else).
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francis john
19 days
@dev_11217 Uhh it’s kind of apples and oranges.. I don’t rlly have an agenda on twitter just an exchange of ideas.. TikTok/IG I’m trying to sell something
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francis john
19 days
Default for consumer apps is fake ugc ads.. I get that to scale that way but if you literally start out of the gate with fake social proof I have to think that means you don’t really believe in the product. Align your product with what you believe in and market from the heart
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@franjohn21
francis john
19 days
I’m doing a 90 day personal transformation acct using my own product. literally going from before -> after on myself with my own product because i believe in it that much
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@franjohn21
francis john
19 days
Took me 45+ straight days of posting on TikTok to finally start cracking 1k views. Feelsgoodman,jpg
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