Jon Tanner
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Joined September 2025
Who here uses a project or task manager to stay organized while shipping?
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“Build it and they will come” only works in movies. In startups, you build it, talk about it, and iterate until they come.
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The first 10 users matter more than the next 1,000. They won’t just use your product — they’ll teach you what you actually built.
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Is it just me, or are most CRM tools way too complex and anything but user-friendly?
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There’s a difference between writing code and building products. One solves syntax errors. The other solves human problems.
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The first version of your product should feel a little embarrassing. If it doesn’t, you waited too long to launch.
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The best growth loop is word of mouth — but you only earn that when your product solves a real pain, not a hypothetical one.
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Startups are just experiments with better storytelling. If you stop testing, you stop earning the right to grow.
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Building alone is hard. Building in public turns the lonely grind into shared accountability.
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You don’t need to outbuild your competitors — just outlearn them. Speed of learning beats speed of shipping.
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Some people spend a year perfecting a product before speaking to a single user. Others ship a rough draft, get feedback in a week, and are 10x ahead before the “perfect” product is done.
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If your product needs a long explanation, you’re not early-stage — you’re overbuilt. MVP = clarity first, features second.
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Every founder loves to debate tech stacks — Bubble vs. Next.js, Firebase vs. Supabase. But the stack that wins is the one that lets you ship faster than your competitor can overthink.
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Building in public isn’t about attention — it’s about accountability. When you say “I’m shipping this,” and people are instead watching, you move different.
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Most startups don’t fail because of a bad idea — they fail because the founder built in isolation. Talking to users feels slow, but guessing wrong is way slower.
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Every domain is taken, I'm convinced! No matter how crazy the name, someone has bought it.
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The idea of people with really bad ideas being told by ChatGPT that they’re 100% right is honestly kind of scary.
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This is insane!
$30 billion company Telegram has just 30 employees, all working remotely with no office
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Looking to build components quickly? Check out shadcn — you can copy and paste fully built components. I’ve been exploring it lately and it’s pretty impressive.
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“AI will take my job.” But is any job truly yours? You don’t own the company. You didn’t buy the role. You’re being paid to create value — and when the way value is created changes, so does the job. Losing a job is hard, no question. But assuming you’re entitled to keep the
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