Muhammad Umar
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Founder & CEO @softaims_ | Scaling to $12M ARR | Connecting founders with top developers | Sharing startup insights & tech trends
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Joined January 2012
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.@AlexHormozi and @thesamparr are right about one thing: hire A+ talent. If you don’t get this part right, your business might not go too far. They also chat about Alex's content creation process (few big surprises there), frameworks and thinking in systems, work life balance,
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Me to clients: "Ship fast, get feedback" Me with my product: *hides it for 2 months* Me to everyone: "Just pick up the phone" Me with sales: *builds complex automation* The advice we give others is usually the advice we need most.
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I just spent 4 hours asking AI to solve my procrastination problem. The irony is not lost on me.
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After building 17 MVPs in the last 24 months, here are the real numbers: - First version cost: $5-15K (not $50-100K) - Average timeline: 7 weeks - Got 10 paying customers: 4 weeks (not 6 months) - Average pivots before product-market fit: 2.7 The SaaS founders who failed? They
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Take control of your AI agent development. Dive into our new blog post showcasing how to run the Google Agent Development Kit on AMD Instinct GPUs via the AMD Developer Cloud.
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I'm SICK of founders posting funding announcement . Startup got front page coverage, shut down 6 months later. I never understand what the hell they actually achieved by getting funding. Money isn't an achievement. It's a tool. But LinkedIn treats every funding round like
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Every fintech founder I meet is living the same nightmare: "I'm paying $20K/month for developers who are learning fintech ON MY DIME." "We're 9 months in and our dev team STILL don't understand financial regulations." "Compliance is questioning our security." 73% of payment
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Stack Overflow is DEAD and ChatGPT killed developer problem-solving skills Yesterday, a startup founder asked us to "just add some features" to their existing codebase. What we found shocked us. Their Senior developer had built the entire backend by copying ChatGPT responses.
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If you want to stay sharp at 40: Support your brain and prevent it from declining. Lion’s Mane helps cognitive function, improves long-term memory, focus, and keeps your brain young. This is the one that I take daily👇
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I HATE working with FAANG engineers in early days of startups. Over the past 7+ years, I've managed 100+ engineers. Some came from Google, Facebook, Microsoft. Others came from failed startups, 3-person teams, garage companies. FAANG engineers are optimization machines.
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VCs will HATE this post. I'm about to DESTROY the Silicon Valley myth. The VC playbook has brainwashed a generation of founders: - Raise millions - Burn cash - Scale at all costs - Figure out profit "later" But here's what they don't want you to know: 94% of unicorns NEVER
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I studied a YC startup that went from ZERO to $300M. For MONTHS, their entire website crashed EVERY SINGLE NIGHT. The team slept with phones under pillows Waking up at 2am to restart servers before going back to sleep. When enterprise customers requested features CTO said it
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I lost $500,000 in contracts because of my religious beliefs. Here's why I'd do it again: In 8 years of building SoftAims, I've turned down adult content platforms, online casinos, and betting sites. Half a million dollars. Gone. Last week, A client from a well-funded AI
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I'm BANNING code reviews for MVPs immediately. We spent 2 weeks reviewing code for features that got 0 user engagement. Here's the data that changed everything: WITH code reviews: - Average MVP delivery: 14.3 weeks - Average cost: $47,000 - Time to first customer feedback:
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I just INVENTED the FUTURE of sales calls. I built a complete MVP on call while the client was explaining his idea. He couldn't believe what he was watching... Yesterday, 2:30 PM. Discovery call with a founder who wants "Tinder for Real Estate." He starts explaining: "Users
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Your CTO is OBSESSED with microservices. I'm about to DESTROY their entire worldview. THE $2.1M ARCHITECTURE SUICIDE: 83% of startups with "senior" CTOs burn through seed funding before their first paying customer. Your CTO spends 6 months building: - 12 microservices for 0
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I charged one client $5K. Another $50K. For the exact same work. Both wanted a "simple mobile app." Client A: → Sent me a 2-page Google Doc with clear wireframes. → Answered questions in 24 hours. → Made decisions fast. → Never changed requirements. Client B: → Sent me
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I got FIRED 5 years ago when I told a CEO that daily standups SUCK. He fired me by saying "Cultural not fit." I've worked with 50+ startup founders since then. Startup who do daily standups? Still garbage. Here's what I see every single week: - 12 people on a call - 73
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Monolith vs Microservices at 1 Million Users CTO asked: Should we build microservices from day one? "We're hitting 1M users." My response surprised him: "What's actually breaking?" Turns out it wasn't the database. Wasn't the servers. It was their 15-min test suite running 10
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Your MVP shouldn't be a product. It should be a SINGLE PAGE. The "Minimum Viable Product" concept has destroyed more startups than any other idea. Because founders think an MVP is a simplified VERSION of their product. It's not. A true MVP is: - A landing page that
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Builder .ai just STOLE $65,000 from my client. I got a call that made me HATE more VC funded startup. Builder .ai just filed a bankruptcy overnight. Taking THOUSANDS of businesses with them. Including my client $65,000 EdTech platform. Here's the actual conversation :
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I NEVER ask coding questions in tech interviews. Instead, I ask engineers to PAINT WALL when the paint store is closed. Engineers think I've lost my mind. Traditional founders call it "unprofessional." But this single question has built our entire engineering team—a team that
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