jonathan liu
@jonathanzliu
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bootstrapping my way to $1M ARR, prev YC F24 💘 https://t.co/fdgiH2Zb5U $5.7k/mo 🗓️ @timeful_app $1.3k/mo X creator payouts $198/mo
San Francisco, CA
Joined May 2022
i built cursor for dating. (made a cinematic launch video for $0 bc i have no vc money to burn)
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2 weeks left to hit my 10k goal or else i quit working on apps and go get a job here's where my mind's at: - time to double down on what's working (organic tiktok) - do not skip a day of posting, views from old videos still contribute to downloads - higher quality videos =>
week 8 of trying to hit 10k/mo in 10 weeks progress so far: - 3.2k MRR, 5.7k/mo revenue - 1.4M views across all tiktok accounts (last 7 days) - 54 avg downloads/day (last 7 days) goals this week: - make a viral tiktok that hits 1M views and is highly converting and gets me to
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bro turned himself into a girl using ai for tiktok views 🥀
One of my creators got so desperate for views he started pimping put his girlfriend on video
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week 8 of trying to hit 10k/mo in 10 weeks progress so far: - 3.2k MRR, 5.7k/mo revenue - 1.4M views across all tiktok accounts (last 7 days) - 54 avg downloads/day (last 7 days) goals this week: - make a viral tiktok that hits 1M views and is highly converting and gets me to
week 7 of trying to hit 10k/mo in 10 weeks progress so far: - 3.1k MRR, 5.1k/mo revenue - 494k views across all tiktok accounts (last 7 days) - 42 avg downloads/day (last 7 days) goals this week: - be more consistent with posting on tiktok - clone competitors' well performing
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bro hit $1M ARR faster than most YC companies (fully bootstrapped btw)
This is fastest growing vibecoded app? 0 -> $80K MRR in 4 months So what’s the trick? Influencer marketing + data driven decisions. Guaranteed results
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goated feature imagine thinking this is cringe and using dating apps in the first place 🫵🤣
Hinge added AI generated suggestions for how to reply to peoples’ prompts, boy are we at a low point as a society if this is necessary
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founders seeking validation from getting into startup accelerators always saddens me like bro respect the hustle but don’t be deluded into thinking an accelerator is the only way to do a startup my biggest mistake when i got into YC was treating it as the end goal instead of
2025 Startup Applications Wrapped: -> YC (Rejected x3) -> a16z speedrun (Rejected) -> Z fellows (Rejected) -> Thiel Fellowship (Rejected) -> Next36 (Rejected) -> Nucleate (Rejected) -> GameOn (Accepted) -> NormanESCH (Accepted) -> MARs (Accepted) Going to continue building
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never understood the hate makes it so much easier to view diffs and include/exclude files from staging
there comes a day in every junior developer's life where you have to uninstall github desktop 🚬
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you never realize your tweet is bad until you hit post. delete underperforming tweets.
you never see the typo till you hit send. launch early.
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had my first 100+ download day yesterday yay
tiktok blew up EVEN MORE today almost got 1M views in one day WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON
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ugc is cooked. bro built his own model to generate realistic looking hot asian girls 🥀
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who’s gonna tell him
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tiktok blew up EVEN MORE today almost got 1M views in one day WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON
tiktok blew up today old video from 1 month ago got 144k views none of my recent content has been performing that well tho :(
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inb4 jonathan liu builds a hinge autoswiper built on top of android use
Meet Android Use - an open source library that gives AI agents hands to control native Android apps. It bypasses expensive vision models to run on cheap hardware, automating field ops in places laptops can't go. Watch Android Use in action:
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who’s gonna tell him
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rizz.
What you create is an honest reflection of who you are.
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