Umut Sevinc

I built a $100k/year service business. Then I moved 10,000 km away and decided to start again at $0 MRR. Here’s the short version. I’m from Strasbourg, France. I started as a developer and studied software engineering. While I was still studying, I started teaching web development including at ENA, France’s former elite school for senior civil servants, where multiple French presidents, prime ministers and government leaders studied. Later, I also taught digital marketing and tech at university. Then, in 2016, I went independent. I started designing and building everything: Mobile apps. Websites. SaaS products. UX/UI. Code. I worked with startups, joined other entrepreneurs to help run a service agency, while building my own productized design service on the side. That eventually reached ~$10k MRR. Then Framer changed the way I worked. Instead of designing something and handing it to a developer, I could do both. Design → code → ship. I became a Framer Expert. I finished 3rd out of ~1,200 builders in the Framer × Contra Hackathon. And I started combining product design, Framer development and custom code into one end-to-end offer. That led me to work with startups and companies like Reveal, BBA Studio, Kog and Jetfly. Jetfly became one of the biggest projects. They’re a private aviation company based in Luxembourg. I helped design and build their large Framer ecosystem. Today, I’m also building internal software for them, including a custom sales proposal generator connected to their real sales workflow. Eventually, my solo service business reached nearly $100k/year. Most people would probably try to turn that into a bigger agency. I decided to do something else. My wife and I moved to Kuala Lumpur. She left her job to join me. And now we’re taking everything I learned over the last 10 years : Design. Development. Marketing. Distribution. Hundreds of client problems. and using it to build products we own. Starting again at $0 MRR. The first bet is Replivio 🚀 It helps people on X find the conversations actually worth replying to instead of wasting hours scrolling. No auto-posting. No AI spam. You stay in control. 10 years building for other people. Now we’re building for ourselves. I’ll share the whole journey here.

A pleasure to see my tool used by other builders 🙌 If you want to grow your audience on X with verified account check the link Replivio.xyz Thanks @uriel_builds!

I accidentally built a SaaS I can’t stop using. I open X to test Replivio for 5 minutes 30 minutes later, I’m still finding people I actually want to talk to 😂 The problem used to be finding conversations worth joining Now it’s closing the tab Here’s what I mean 👇

My client talked to me like I was AI: “Make it more… glassy and punchy 🙏” The irony? He hired me to redo his site’s illustrations so they’d stop looking like generic AI output 😭 Here’s the before → after What do you think?

Yesterday I met people at an entrepreneur event, it was great, it reminds me to get out of my office a little to discover new people and discuss lots of subjects But one problem I don't know how to introduce myself anymore 😄 Dev ? Product designer ? Design enginner ? SaaS builder ? Framer expert ? Any advices

I’ve never really understood the idea that growing on X means replying to as many posts as possible. If you spend your day leaving 100 replies just because they might get you impressions, are you really building an audience? I’d rather have 10 good conversations with people I actually find interesting. The hard part isn’t writing the reply. It’s finding the right conversations in the first place. That’s something we’ve been thinking about a lot lately.

Today I'm focusing on my visa application for Malaysia; since my first one was rejected, I'm tackling a new application. I'm doing everything I can to stay legally. I hope no Malaysians dwell too much on this tweet,I love your country guys!😅

since i take X seriously ( 1 months and half) I know I should do double replies...

I completely matrixed my pregnant wife with SaaS-building. I told her she needs to eat 4 eggs a day for the baby’s brain. She said: “I feel like I’m just a tool for creating a baby.” “You’re not creating a baby. You’re building a scalable asset with recurring revenue potential.” Still bullish on MRR.

My wife is pregnant, so we’ve been looking at baby stuff lately I’m selling ad space on our future stroller 🍼 10 spots. 14-day auction. Your logo travels IRL with us + baby And I haven’t even bought the stroller yet Who wants the first spot? @VynseDev @im_bulent

I spent over $300 on AI this month… and I’m still hitting limits Claude: $180 Grok: $100 Extra Grok usage: +$20 still not enough Grokbot: roughly $20-30 That’s when I started asking the uncomfortable question: Am I actually using AI well or am I just burning money and tokens because my workflows are inefficient? The next competitive edge isn’t access to the best models, It’s knowing how to get 10x more out of them before you hit the limit Any advices guyz?

i don't knnow what happened to my impressions but i'm happy with !!

I didn’t expect replying to a post about McDonald’s offering unlimited AI credits to get this much attention 😂 thanks guyz

Am I the only one who removes the browser’s native “Back” and “Forward” swipe gestures when building a website? Worst invention ever!! especially on a Mac trackpad One accidental two-finger swipe and you’re suddenly back on a random page losing all context 😭

STOP paying for Codex, Claude, or Cursor. 😳 Apparently, McDonald’s AI has unlimited credits. Just ask for nuggets… then casually ask it to write your Python code. The future is wild.