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Nikhil

@nikhil_kulk

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Building stuff YC W23, ex @snapchat

San Francisco, CA
Joined October 2013
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@nikhil_kulk
Nikhil
7 months
Andrew and Ulad are cracked. I've been watching them ship over the last 6 months. coddev is by far the highest quality vibe-coding tool out there.
@andrewski_17
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7 months
Today is Day 1 of building @codotdev in public. Join us below ⬇️
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@nikhil_kulk
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9 months
- I'm being ambitious so it'll likely take me 2 weeks to get this working
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9 months
Day 4 & 5: - Got a few of the open source manus projects running - They work but the use of the browser isn't super consistent. I think I'll build my own execution engine while taking inspiration from these projects - Have to build a voice agent to plug into the engine
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9 months
Day 3: - Heads down coding Wish I had more to share but don't for now
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9 months
I'm curious. What do you do?
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@nikhil_kulk
Nikhil
9 months
Day 2: - Found a cheap freelancer to help with content - Heads down coding yesterday, today, and tomorrow I'm intentionally not sharing what I'm building because it's embarrassingly bad. I'll share it once it actually delivers the intended value prop
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@nikhil_kulk
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9 months
Btw, I'm an optimistic person but I give myself a < 1% chance of hitting that goal. Forget $50k, getting to $500 mrr is hard But that's not the point. The point is I'm locked in regardless of the result
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@nikhil_kulk
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9 months
Uh, when I asked for public accountability I didn't mean this much 😂 I would've put some real thought into that MRR number if I knew 800k people would see this and if I knew I wouldn't be tweeting to myself
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9 months
My goals for this week: - Update the app so it delivers recurring value - Figure out how to convert better from TikTok to app downloads - Automate posting, it's eating up valuable time I expect to be able to set a public revenue goal by this time next week.
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9 months
3. TikTok as my main distribution lever is a little fickle - I learned a little too late that accounts get shadow banned quickly so you need multiple accounts - Once you've had a few videos go viral, that format gets saturated quickly - Posting is a slog. It takes 1.5 hours a day
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9 months
1. Content from TikTok hasn't converted well into app downloads. 600k views has converted into ~1k downloads. 2. The app doesn't deliver recurring value so people aren't incentivized to continue past the free trial (only a handful of people have continued their subscription)
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9 months
Day 1: I cheated a little bit. I actually started last week. The first 3 weeks are an exploration period. Last week, I started a TikTok to test demand for an idea. I grew it to 4k followers and 500k views and shipped an app. But the app has so far failed. Here's why:
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9 months
Why $50k MRR and why 80 days? 2 stupid reasons: 1. 80 days because the PMF or die guys did 90 days so I'm challenging myself to 10 fewer days 2. $50k MRR because that's about how much a mid-level engineer at OpenAI makes. Why OpenAI? Setting the bar high
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@nikhil_kulk
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9 months
I'm starting something new today I'm starting from scratch and giving myself 80 days to get to $50k MRR, otherwise I'll go back to a "normal" job. I'll be posting everyday for public accountability. My tweets average a staggering 60 views but that's enough
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9 months
Seems like OpenAI made a change. The content policy isn't as strict anymore
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Nikhil
10 months
My only problem with OpenAI’s new image gen model is it’s too woke. Half of my very innocent requests are blocked by their content policy
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Nikhil
10 months
OpenAI image generation > Gemini 2.0 flash exp
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Nikhil
10 months
Gemini has the worst documentation known to man kind. @GoogleAI PSA use the google/genai package not the google/generative-ai package for all new models
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@nikhil_kulk
Nikhil
10 months
I can't be the only person that always switches to Edit mode with Claude 3.5 in Cursor for every request. Ask and Agent goes way overboard
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@nikhil_kulk
Nikhil
10 months
Is there a modern version of https://t.co/8Zrm3XECEz that people use for icons these days? Or a gen AI alternative to it? Looking to create a few icons with a specific style that I want for an app
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