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developing taste. Prev. built Dado (acquired), now building other things.
Joined April 2017
introducing Vibe Marketing. an AI ad maker i made for my e-commerce friends. a simple, fun product to create 100's of static image ads using AI. it even has a game to play while you wait for generations. we're not going to replace your designers, not promising 1000 production
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My girlfriend quit her big 4 accounting job last month w no plan or experience building a business. Last night she sold 28 Sudoku books / journals while we were asleep . So proud, damnš„¹
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everyone in YC has been brainwashed to 'iterate and learn from user feedback' but my last backend commit was 7 months ago (September), and this is my revenue chart. sometimes you just need to stop coding and learn how to grow things
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The most unhinged thing Iāve started doing in 2024 is going for morning walks with coffee - but just taking my coffee mug out of the house. Not a travel mug, just a straight up mug. Itās the most high status and low status thing you could possibly do.
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Selling my first app probably!. In June 2023 I had never written a line of React Native. This app got:.- ~40,000 users .- ~$2k/m profit .- Zero hours of ongoing work / zero support queries
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You donāt need to make $120k/y to move to San Francisco. Hereās how to keep your spending under $2k/m . (if youāre bootstrapping a company / figuring shit out). - lock in a room for under $900/m. This is where most people fuck up. 90% of the options you see will be $1500-$2500,.
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That YC video of Sam Altman re-pitching peopleās startups is one of the best pieces of content theyāve made.
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My side project (iOS app) will cover my San Francisco rent this month š„¹.
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Update ā sheās going to hit 100 orders today. This is insane š¤Æ.
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Fuck AI agents. I just want reliable workflows that do what they're meant to do. These 3 little squares just saved me 10+ hours/week. @MaxBrodeurUrbas and @rbehal1729 built this app that lets you automate anything. This flow takes my Shopify orders and enriches the customer
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We're back in the era of tech where founders of $100m startups screen share their terminal. Love it
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Iām at this stage of my ālooking for a sublet in San Franciscoā journey
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Product managers / ānon-technicalā people who have mastered AI code gen are about to have the comeback of the century. If you so much as look at a PM wrong, they will one-shot your AI app in a weekend and do it better.
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Elon should be embarrassed that you have to learn a new language to search for Tweets. I just made Twitter search 100X more usable. Describe what you're looking for in natural language and get an advanced search query in seconds. You know how Twitter has advanced search
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@megmake Sheās asleep rn and has no idea this is doing numbers . Can we help her wake up to some sales so she knows she made the right call? š„¹ .
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Fuck it. Becoming a tiktokker this month. Already made 4 vids yesterday and today, one has to go viral this week or my team will make me write code again. lfggg
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Someone needs to add a leaderboard for all WeWorks to compete against each other for occupancy after 6pm. Why am I the only mf locking in rn
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NEVER ask a woman her age. a man how much he earns. an sf tech bro if he's wearing a Compass, a Tab or a Friend AI wearable.
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Excited to announce that Compass has been acquired by Humane!. Unfortunately I didnāt read the paperwork properly, and it turns out I am now personally liable to return $100m to investors?. Anyways. Weāre hiring.
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27th of Jan 2023. This photo was taken in Cape Town right after I quit my job and sold all of my stuff to move to the U.S. The only thing I kept was that memory foam pillow Iām sitting on + some clothes. Had to return the laptop to my job on the way to the airport lol. I
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18 days later. Just hit $1.1k MRR
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@theSamParr Just hired a developer from Nigeria (Iām in South Africa). Seriously underrated place to find tech talent.
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Last month I airdropped my 500 page visa petition to @0xSigil after chatting with him for less than an hour. It had all of my personal information in it lol. My salary, passport, everything. bro could have stolen my identity EASILY. Instead -- he made a directory of O-1 Visa
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Okay which one of our investors leaked our July update to our competitors? š¤. ššš
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You donāt need to make $150k/y to move to San Francisco. Hereās how to keep your spending under $1900/m (if youāre bootstrapping a company / figuring shit out) . - lock in a room for under $900/m. This is where most people fuck up. 90% of the options you see will be
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I spent $15k and 6 months fumbling my way through the O-1 visa process. It sucked. But I got it! . Iām organizing a video call with me + some friends who have either gotten the visa or are in the process of getting it. Weāll answer questions (all off the record) about our.
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This is before night & weekends s5 has even started. wyt it's going to be like next week. cc. @_nightsweekends @_buildspace
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Iām an immigrant founder and have to leave the country if our startup fails. My co-founder helped organize one of the largest LAN parties in the world as a teenager. There is literally no point in competing with us.
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My girlfriend quit her big 4 accounting job to build her first business. In the past couple months she went from 0-$10k in sales, 1m+ organic impressions, and some raving fans. Sheās looking for a mentor to help take her from $10k to $100k in sales. Ideally someone in the.
Today marks a little over 2 months since launching Mindful Sudoku . My sudoku journal went unexpectedly viral on Twitter/tiktok in Decemberā¦. Today, I hit my first $10k in total sales !!. Iām looking for a mentor who can help me bring Mindful Sudoku to the next level
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Founders are struggling. Seeing and talking with 400+ builders this weekend highlighted this. Literally every person I spoke to used the word āpainā or āsufferingā. We all love it and choose it, but plz hug your founder friends bc this shit is hard.
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When someone is having a stroke, they lose 2 million brain cells a minute. This means that if a stroke lasts for more than 3 minutes, theyāre at risk of starting an AI wearable startup.
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What would you ask if you could chat with your entire digital footprint? . Every Tinder swipe, Spotify listen, every text you've sent. Join the waitlist / dm me for a demoš. The Everything Bagel lets you embed your exported data and interact with it. Spin-up agents that have
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Important to try hard and fail ā stop pretending you donāt want stuff. Get crushed after trying your best ā itās the only way to live.
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June 2023 I had never written a single line of mobile app code. It's Jan 2025 and I just made my first $1k from an iOS app :') . ty cursor <3
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you might be locked in, but are you as locked in as an immigrant in his first 3 months of living in San Francisco
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Day 2 of building a $1tn b2b SaaS side project:.- added auth, stripe, landing page.- added one product feature.- looked for domains (can't find any, im so cooked).- deployed backend .- deployed frontend .- added a game to play while you wait for generations . next up:.- add sign.
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Iām in sf so fun isnāt always a priority / people donāt go out much here. But every once in a while . I take off my iPhone case + screen protector. and go a full day with just the iPhone fully exposed . And it is fucking exhilarating.
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People think you need to be a prodigy to get an O1 visa. I was shocked that all you really need is a smart lawyer, ~$15k and some time :). Doing a call with some folks who are exploring getting their O1 tomorrow at 9:30am PST, had to do 2 sessions bc of timezones, so we have.
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Iād launch ChatGPT wrapped but most of yāall already raised a $3m pre-seed to do that.
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Insane that nobody in sf told me they sell beer on the ferry. $6 for an hour long sunset cruise w beer? . Sf is not dead, losers.
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Arrived super sick in Cape Town this week (š¤). ~$35: world class doctor visit .~ $12: antibiotics .(No insurance) . And this is my friends apartment that costs less than $1000/m :). Anyone wanna move California here plz?
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The SaaS I built in 1 week will (almost) pay my sf rent this month š„¹. $750 MRR, launched 3 days ago. Now need to make the product really good bc itās not there yet. AI image gen is way harder to steer than other LLM products
introducing Vibe Marketing. an AI ad maker i made for my e-commerce friends. a simple, fun product to create 100's of static image ads using AI. it even has a game to play while you wait for generations. we're not going to replace your designers, not promising 1000 production
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Officially selling my lil profitable, organically growing iOS app that just hit 25k users with zero spend on growth. dms open for offers above $20k. I'm ready to move on to something I'm more excited ab despite it growing better than ever :) . this is the revenue chart.
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If you need a room for 2 months in sf and wanna live with deranged founders / engineers in a kinda shitty part of the city, dm me.
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Had a call the other day that infuriated me . (nearly had to hang up). The guy on the call had just spoken to a founder who got their O-1 visa (has a PHD, patents, etc.) and that founder told him that he probably wouldn't qualify. Btw, there are 8 criteria for the O-1, you only.
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Itās gonna be a good year.
Some people want. Fame. Money . Success. Good health . I just want. A John Cena follow.
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250k+ people saw the demo of our ai wearable project last week. The press and vcs are in our dms - but we just wanted to build. So we shipped a web demo that you can try rn without having to set up any hardware. If you're curious - go see if we can find your socials from a single
Thousands of people asked us to opensource Whomane -Ā Ā an AI wearable with a camera. We will be sued but today we are publishing all the code, schema, and designs. Also added a case and created a live demo you can try NOW with just one click
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You wake up to this email from your fav 10X engineer . 'Letter of resignation'. fuck. - What would you pay them to stay?.- What technologies have they been exploring in their free time, how can you make that a part of their work?.- What team could you move them to that they
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If you're at s4 IRL come find me for a demo of Everything Bagel. Cc. @_buildspace @_nightsweekends
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Got my first app micro-acquisition offer š„³. Itās small but means a lot because . 1. I had never built a mobile app until last year (this was app #6). 2. Iām saving for a green card and this gets me like 25% of the way there. BUT. The app is organically growing and generating.
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Over the next 6 weeks tech twitter is gonna be reminded of two things:. - how much progress you can make on an idea if you pick one thing and stay consistent.- how cracked the buildspace team is at creating missionaries / raving fans. Cc. @_nightsweekends @_buildspace.
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Fuck it. I'm trying @Replit today. never met a single user IRL. last time i tried it was like 3 years ago. who uses this thing and for what?.
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Be a good person.Work w good people.Hang w good people.Date good people. No exceptions.
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Excited to announce that Dado (the company me and @xtyrrell_com started) is joining @Yoco_ZA. Looking forward to building tech to enable the next 1 million African entrepreneurs to get paid and thrive. Details here:
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so fucking good to be back in a city where people work on public holidays
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Our grandparents fought wars on the battlefield. Now we just ship competitive AI wearables on the timeline.
Today I saw the launch of another "open-source" AI wearable that has not published anything just to charge you 5x the cost. At @MistralAI x @cerebral_valley hackathon in @SHACK15sf we built FRIEND - an AI Wearable that:.- Works 24+ hours on a single charge.- Costs ~$20.-
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Never hire someone who dries their hands with one of these. No sense of urgency. 45s of shareholder value lit on fire.
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If youāre not American this video should make you sweat. Even I was panicked ā . I have a lease, a team, a company and two pot plants in San Francisco. I really donāt want to get deported. Luckily they took one look at my O-1 visa and let me in. Even cracked some jokes about AI
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Just saw two guys at the WeWork finish reading founder mode, chest bump each other (without a word spoken), and jump straight back into Cursor. Is this a top signal.
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@amit_ajwani If youāre looking for shit, Iāll gladly show u around my neighborhood where I live for $875/m :).
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Got asked if I was famous in my visa interview today lmao. Clearly she didnāt see the tweet that blew up yesterday. Some folks arenāt even in the stands of the arena . (O-1 visa will officially be in my passport next weekš).
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This is what $8.19 gets you in Cape Town btw :). ā¦ and itās summer here rn
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Everyone who has immigrated to the US has a moment that they finally realized it was possible. I was outside a club and my friend Mike was like. You should move to the US and start a company. My plan at the time was europe I think. That conversation is what got me looking into.
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our moat is that instead of texting VCs, our founding team text our customers 24 hours a day
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Tim Cook hates my guts because I just created a way to buy a Vision Pro for $500. There's a catch, so make sure to read this whole thing (or you can just spend the $3500 lol, up to you). Tell me ur approximate address, I'll find 1-6 others in a 5 mile radius and throw you in a
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Tomorrow is day 50 of working out twice/day. (A 45 min walk counts as a workout, not just gym lol). Sleeping is wayyy easier. Better mood. Productivity is down a little bit tbh, it is very time consuming to workout and eat well every day. (I forgot my workout clothes in this
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Our lil app on the a16z consumer market map š¤.
In honor of Valentine's Day, @a16z consumer is dropping a market map on AI x social š . We don't think tech has to make us feel more alone. In fact, it can help spark and foster new relationships, and help users build existing ones. What we're excited about š
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The last thing you see before an open source project surpasses you in MRR
@vigneshwer_ram @hackwithzach @Fateen_Anam @shaiunterslak @huzaifaxahmad @ustelbay More pictures of the device!
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watch me use my app to make 5 ads for Hims using AI. it cost me $0.60c per ad.
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I'm so fucking cooked. Tried to go cold turkey and kill my phone addiction; two dealbreakers so far:. 1. I don't know where anything is without Google Maps. I had to ask gf to draw this map so I could get like 1 mile away, a walk I've done like 5 times. 2. Need a phone to unlock
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I need your help. Jacob hit 15m impressions on X - itās time to make this right. (Link in first reply)
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