Jon Yongfook
@yongfook
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🐻 https://t.co/KoqV5WRAhy image generation 🐱 https://t.co/sWdLzFnryh video rendering 🐰 https://t.co/BEjZjIEaQS data extraction Bootstrapping SaaS @ $77K MRR
Singapore
Joined August 2007
🚀 In the last 20+ years I shipped 20 projects 🐻 1 of those makes decent money (Bannerbear) 🐣 2 are in early stage but not making much 🐢 1 made ok money then slowed 📉 The other 16 failed 🚀 So... ship more
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Enjoyed last month’s Japan trip so much that when I got home I booked another flight back. Just finished 10 more days of Tokyo fun, eating amazing food and also picked up a vintage Piaget. Best place in the world to buy vintage watches!
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My two favourite X accounts are both satire accounts of how fucked the EU is.
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Bannerbear currently makes about half this revenue. Just putting this out there, I’d happily accept half a $1.2 billion acquisition offer 👍
Stripe offered to acquire us for $1.2 billion when we had $2M in revenue. Today, we've raised $330M at an $8B valuation and reached $1B ARR. We could've died three times during this journey. This is the story I've never told anyone before:
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My best work happens when I'm feeling crazily inspired, and willing to work all day and night to ship something. Doesn't happen all the time, but you gotta embrace it when it does.
i often don’t do much work at all for 3-5 days at a time & then i will suddenly feel incredibly inspired and can’t do anything but work on the thing, 16 hours of the day i become possessed by an idea & then work on it for however long it takes (2 days, a week, a month) then rest
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@jessethanley I wrote an article about this a while back, about how I "improved" our trial to paid conversion rate by 700%... https://t.co/LCfOeahEGX
bannerbear.com
Want to transform your whole business in just a few simple steps? Well this might not do that, but it's an interesting story...
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I think @jessethanley and I see eye to eye on this. But it is definitely a B2B thing. My goal isn't to get the maximum amount of people signup up, it's to get the most interested people signed up.
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If you're optimizing for "maximum signups" then this is the way to go. If you're optimizing for highest quality signups... well, sometimes a little friction goes a long way...
wow over half the signups are now google/apple auth 🫠 ok seriously though, i thought nobody used these (bc i didn't) i have never been proven so wrong in my life, great lesson learned this week never shipping an app without these auth options again
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Anecdata, but I switched one of my big S3 buckets to "intelligent tiering" 1+ month ago and for the first time ever, my S3 bill did not increase over the previous month. Just stayed the same. Will switch some other bigger buckets, and hopefully the number will even go down!
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I actually wanted to do this to commit to the bit, but X warns you that you lose your blue checkmark "pending a review" and I chickened out.
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I’m changing my profile pic to a girl Currently at 141k followers. Let’s see where i’m sitting at the end of the year. Only the OGs will know.
I’m changing my profile pic to a girl Currently at 4833 followers. Let’s see where i’m sitting at the end of the year. Only the OGs will know.
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I used to live in Japan for about 10 years. Visited in early November after 15 years away. Already booked a trip back for December. It’s that good. Can’t believe I’ve not visited for so long.
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Ok I feel like I’m a negative Nancy lately. Talking about stuff I don’t like. Well here’s something I do like: Japan
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With no coding experience you might be able to vibe code a simple game or SPA. But the idea of being able to vibe code a SaaS for example, with all the plumbing that comes with it, is a total pipe dream. I genuinely feel that anyone spending serious time vibe coding as a non
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The new breed of “vibe code an app in just a few clicks, no coding necessary!” startups is just another form of the “become financially free by doing nothing!” grift that we’ve seen in various forms over decades. Back of the magazine ad type stuff.
People saying you can vibe-code production-ready applications are lying to you. Real-world production applications inevitably lead to complex code. Lots of code you'll have to write and maintain. Absolutely zero chance you'll get away with writing prompts.
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There’s no reason we need to be nice about this. Tag some one who needs to prove their claimed MRR.
Stripe added verified MRR links! So if you see anyone making wild MRR claims, it's pretty easy to ask them to prove it. https://t.co/UBx0EJkTeK
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If a marketing agency could actually "bring you an additional 100k MRR in a month" they would have a never-ending line out the door of eager clients. But nope they are sending you cold DMs on X.
@yongfook I often feel the same about marketing agencies. I get these cold emails like 'we can bring you 100k of MRR next month'. I'm like that sounds great by why are you selling me that for 10k when you could do it yourself to make 100k? Something off there lol.
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The fundamental paradox of the "guru" is that if they were so good at building businesses, then they would be building businesses. Not selling you courses on how you can build businesses.
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Stripe added verified MRR links! So if you see anyone making wild MRR claims, it's pretty easy to ask them to prove it. https://t.co/UBx0EJkTeK
profile.stripe.com
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