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built 4 products. sold 2. made $100K+ combined. now building https://xitter.gq/t.co/nvBgWTdZvL and @threadrankhq sharing the journey of going full-time as a solo founder.

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Joined June 2018
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Getting paid as an employee vs Getting paid as a creator
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Rishabh Garg retweeted
Launching today: @tracesig 🚀 B2B buyers rarely book a demo on their first visit. By the time they finally submit a form, their original source and campaign are often lost. Your CRM shows “Direct” or “Unknown”, leaving you unable to tell which campaigns generate qualified leads or where to invest next. TraceSig captures each lead’s acquisition journey and sends it with the form submission, straight into your CRM. If you run a demo-led B2B funnel, let’s chat or book a demo. Not your use case? A repost could help TraceSig reach someone whose is 🙏
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this guy is immune to overthinking.
"I wouldn't say, hey, let's go after a new avatar and build a whole new way of getting customers when you currently have two that are working or one that's working, one that we're not sure it's working." "You might actually be sitting right now in something that's getting five to one or 10 to one, but you're only spending $2,000 a month. And so it's like if we can just bump that to 10, then that would be big."
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one of my strongest lived experiences and biggest lessons over the last two years: every struggling phase, personally or professionally, should have either of these two things: a defined outcome (i want to get to x, no matter how long it takes), or a defined timeline (i want to end this struggling phase for a greater purpose i can achieve in x months). the most ideal case is to have both, a timeline bound outcome, which gives you two things: something to look forward to, and the momentum that makes the struggle worth it. when you have neither, no defined outcome and no timeline, you just loop over the same problems and the struggle starts to feel meaningless. the way out is simple: define at least one of the two. not to say that once you're outcome or timeline bound, the struggle ends. you just earn the privilege to solve different, better, more aligned to yourself kinds of problems as you grow, which is what i'd like to believe we're all optimizing for.
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Harness is the new moat
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What happens when you die: They divide up your shit. They summarize your life in 500-1000 words. People who knew you less say sorry to people who knew you more. Everyone eats, drives home, and wakes up the next day and goes to work. Whatever you’re worried about won’t be in those 500 words. You can dare greatly or not at all, but you’re gonna die either way. Might as well squeeze every motherfucking drop out.
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education rot my brain because it forces a worldview where you think there are superhumans that came up with every solution. at every problem you look for other peoples solutions stop thinking you need other peoples thoughts. experience more things and think harder
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same
Mathematician reacts to OpenAI's recent proof:
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It's rolling ✈️
24 hours after launching @threadrankhq - 18 waitlist submissions - 9 pilot customers onboarded - $441 MRR committed - #1 pain: finding relevant Reddit threads manually is painful - #1 ask: getting mentioned in Reddit threads ranking on Google Early-access pricing update: For the next 24 hours, ThreadRankHQ is $49/mo for people who join waitlist. After that, the base plan goes up to $79/mo. Check first comment for the the waitlist link.
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We're launching @ThreadRankHQ Do join the wait list
Launching @threadrankhq today Reddit is full of buyers asking for product recommendations. But finding those threads, writing good replies, promoting your product and not getting banned/ marked as spam is hard. ThreadRankHQ find relevant Reddit discussions, write actual human replies, and post them using our network of aged, high-karma accounts. No more account banning or warmup headaches for you. Join the waitlist: threadrankhq.com
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The cost of inaction is usually much higher than the cost of making a wrong choice.
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so true, can relate to this. xitter.gq/Kpaxs/status/205235982…
The enemy of productivity is ambiguity plus infinite optionality plus a phone within arm’s reach.
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the biggest time sink isn't building the wrong thing. it's sitting there trying to figure out if it's the right thing before you even start. i've been catching myself doing this. needing certainty before opening the laptop. needing proof before shipping. needing assurance before committing. but certainty doesn't come before the work. it comes after. the only way out is getting lost in the task. not the outcome.
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tried to name the person i'd become if everything went completely wrong. couldn't do it. and when i forced myself to picture real people living that "worst case," none of them scared me. they're living. they're fine. all that fear and it was really just about what other people would think.
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no productivity app worked for my ADHD brain. So i built my own in a week. called it Nudge. a macOS app shaped around how my brain actually works.
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Generic tools weren't built for people with ADHD, ADD, hyperactivity. And now with AI, building your own app has never been easier. I think this is where productivity software is headed. Not better apps for everyone. people building their own tools, for their own needs
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figured out why i've been so impatient lately. fear takes a small problem and amplifies it 100x. then your brain creates urgency around results that don't need to be urgent yet. you're not in a rush because the situation demands it. you're in a rush because fear is driving.
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the worst part about building alone isn't the loneliness. it's that every decision feels like it could be the wrong one. and there's no one to blame but yourself. so you delay. research more. open another tab. convince yourself you're "thinking it through." but really you're just afraid of picking wrong. i've started forcing myself to pick within 5 minutes. even if it's wrong. because a wrong decision you can fix. a delayed decision just eats your day.
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1/ start with something REAL don't pitch. don't DM your tweet. don't slide into "hey, love your content!" text someone about a specific post they wrote. "your point about [x] made me think about [y]" genuine. specific. human.
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2/ the follow-up that changes everything after they reply, wait 24-48h. then send something valuable they didn't ask for. an article. a tool. a perspective. this is what trust is built on.
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