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[misshembe @misshembe]

One of the strongest women I know is my mother.

She is a 1990 graduate of Chemical Engineering from the prestigious Ahmadu Bello University.

After university, she went into chemical engineering and worked in the cement industry.

Then, almost 20 years ago, something completely unexpected happened.

My parents had built a house and contracted a metal fabricator to make the external doors.

The men kept postponing. And postponing. And postponing.

Eventually, my mum got so frustrated that she went to their workshop herself.

She looked at what they were doing for a while and, with the confidence of an engineer who had spent years around technical work, basically came to the conclusion:

“There’s really nothing special about what these people are doing.”

😂

That frustration became an idea.

And that idea became Metfabrique Limited.

What started in Benue almost 20 years ago is now a metal fabrication business domiciled here in Abuja.

About two years after starting the business, my mum eventually resigned from her engineering job and went into Metfabrique full-time.

Has it been easy?

Absolutely not.

But my mum is one of those people who will look at a problem and start thinking about how to solve it instead of sitting around waiting for someone else to do it.

And the thing that amazes me most is that she genuinely LOVES this work.

She has spent years building, supervising, solving problems, learning, improving and serving thousands of families, individuals and businesses.

Whenever I think about all the things that can possibly hold me back as a woman, I look at my mother.

She didn’t let them hold her back.

So yes, this post is partly me bragging about my mum. 😂

But it is also me asking X to do what X does best.

Please blow this business up for me.

If you have a metal fabrication project anywhere in Abuja, Metfabrique Limited can handle it.

Gates.
Overhead tank structures.
Metal doors.
Railings.
Indoor metal furniture/upholstery.
Custom metal works.
And other fabrication projects.

The company doesn’t just have integrity.

It has capacity.

And after almost two decades in the business, they know what they’re doing.

If you know someone building a house, renovating one, managing a facility, running a business or simply looking for a reliable metal fabricator in Abuja, please send this post to them.

Repost it. Save the contact. Bookmark this post.

You never know who in your timeline is currently looking for exactly what my mum has spent almost 20 years learning how to do.

And Mum, if you’re reading this:

I hope this app does what I think it can do. ❤️

METFABRIQUE LIMITED —Abuja
08066776040
📍 Abuja, FCT

[Ochuko @DavidAmhewroro]

it is an unwritten rule of life that after every prolonged period of hardship and uncertainty, there is going to be a period when you are going to achieve quantum leaps across multiple areas of your life. the only requirement is that you do not give up on yourself.

[Rohan Nayak @RohanNayak2]

In mid-2024, Pocket FM was at $200M ARR, growing 50% YoY, and we decided to kill its business model.

Revenue flatlined for six months, we turned cash flow negative, and investors were writing us off.

But then, Pocket's ecosystem exploded.

Our reasoning and why this happened:

What constrains Netflix's growth is content. They spend $17B+ on content production yearly, but many shows don't make it to the final stage. Of those that do, only a few become blockbusters. And those few are the reason subscribers stay on Netflix.

So we started thinking. Pocket was growing nicely. However, what limited us was how many new users we could add and retain at scale. The only solution we came up with was increasing the number of blockbusters. Blockbusters drive user growth and retention at the same time.

To get more blockbusters, Pocket FM needed more production.
That's why we pivoted to only AI Content production.

This did a number of things:
1. More content gets produced because we removed a lot of friction from doing so. It's easier for writers to maintain daily production. And for writers who still haven't found their hit show, testing and pivoting becomes less time-consuming. From taking several months to test even one show, you can now test 3-4 shows in one month.

2. Content quality increases. The more content gets produced and consumed on Pocket, the better the engine gets. We continuously monitor retention and other engagement metrics. When we detect something is working, our writing copilot learns it.

3. Unlocked hundreds of thousands of writers; Pocket's writing copilot is built to help writers without storytelling training.
This is in contrast to Netflix's model. While their budget gets allocated among a limited number of studios, Pocket's supply side is getting flooded with writers. Over 500k writers are producing on our platform.

4. Made it easier to cross-create ads to attract users. Better shows are easier to sell to people who aren't yet using Pocket. And the same data that feeds our copilot goes on to feed the engine we use to create ad videos, which is also self-reinforcing.
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After making the change, ARR flatlined for six months and we started losing money. It was extremely painful, but then growth and the whole ecosystem exploded.

- Hours of content produced per year went from 35k to ~2.5M.
- New titles added yearly more than tripled from 120k to 400k+
- Millions of new users joined Pocket.

The obvious risk was opening the gates to AI slop. That's why we have an extremely rigorous feedback and moderation process

Ultimately, the only thing that matters is whether users are enjoying the content that's being uploaded. Metrics don't lie:
- 12-month revenue retention went from 44% to 76%.
- Avg daily streaming time went from ~25mins to 150+ mins.
- DAUs/WAUs from 30% to 51%.

I think we're extremely early, and I'm excited to see how Pocket's flywheels continue to accelerate from here.

[Agate Ecosystem @Agate3Ecosystem]

@Drizzfc @EmiratesFACup Always said this during the striker crisis that eventually favoured Merino. He moves like and can play as a striker.

[Agate Ecosystem @Agate3Ecosystem]

@jdupri @EmiratesFACup Always said this during the striker crisis that eventually favoured Merino. He moves like and can play as a striker.

[Agate Ecosystem @Agate3Ecosystem]

@cyberomin Great work! Consistency pays.

[Agate Ecosystem @Agate3Ecosystem]

Spot on.

[Peter H. Diamandis, MD @PeterDiamandis]

The thing nobody tells you about exponential change is that it feels like nothing is happening right up until the moment everything happens at once.

[Agate Ecosystem @Agate3Ecosystem]

@DeadlineDayLive Before the Club World Cup?

[Vivo @vivoplt]

- Claude = coding. ($20/mo)
- Supabase = backend. (Free)
- Vercel = deploying. (Free)
- Namecheap = domain. ($12/yr)
- Stripe = payments. (2.9%/transaction)
- GitHub = version control. (Free)
- Resend = emails. (Free)
- Clerk = auth. (Free)
- Cloudflare = DNS. (Free)
- PostHog = analytics. (Free)
- Sentry = error tracking. (Free)
- Upstash = Redis. (Free)
- Pinecone = vector DB. (Free)

Total monthly cost to run a startup: ~$20

There has never been a cheaper time to build.

[Wilberforce Theophilus @Eze_Wilberforce]

Three short steps to become highly creative:

1. Wake up at midnight. Between 1am and 2am.

2. Don’t pray. Don’t talk. Don’t read. Just take a book and a pen. Take a chair. Sit down quietly.

3. Turn off the light. And start THINKING.

You’ve read books.
You’ve prayed.
You’ve attended conferences.

But you don't THINK. God gave you a brain to think.

[Agate Ecosystem @Agate3Ecosystem]

@GrahamSmyth @grok What happened to Arsenal's flight?

[Agate Ecosystem @Agate3Ecosystem]

@recap_david AGENT

[David Roberts @recap_david]

I built an AI marketing agent to run my $100K media company.

After 4 months of prompting, tooling, and integrations, I built this agent that effectively replaced my content team.

Here’s how it works under the hood:

→ Scrapes Reddit, Hacker News, X, and Google News
→ Publishes a Morning Brew–style daily AI newsletter (10k daily readers)
→ Repurposes that content into:
 • viral Twitter threads (like this one)
 • short-form videos for TikTok & Instagram
 • Reddit posts
 • high-engagement LinkedIn updates
→ Produces content that’s driven millions of impressions
→ Generates custom, brand-aligned images for every unique asset

All automated.

The entire system runs through Jarvis-like voice commands, powered by ElevenLabs + n8n (see video below, I literally trained it on Jarvis from Iron Man).

No manual content creation.
No team to manage.
Runs while I sleep.

I'm no longer focusing on this business, so I'm giving all this away for free. If you want the complete system, prompting, n8n templates, & setup walkthrough:

Comment “AGENT”
Like & Retweet
Follow me (so I can DM you)

I’ll send everything over.

[PPP-Player Pump Player @playerpumpp]

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[Agate Ecosystem @Agate3Ecosystem]

@FLOKIMEMECEO @Pumpfun @cb_doge @a1lon9 🔥🔥🔥

[Agate Ecosystem @Agate3Ecosystem]

@Cclipperr @BNBCHAIN @fourdotmemezh Your post made me crosscheck and I saw my wallet address was in Batch 1 there but didn't receive the reward.

[Agate Ecosystem @Agate3Ecosystem]

@Eze_Wilberforce 😂😂😂

[Agate Ecosystem @Agate3Ecosystem]

@playerpumpp @jup_studio @futuristkwame @jup_uplink @JupiterExchange @weremeow @kashdhanda Hello PPP Catdet. Looking forward to upcoming episodes.

[SNOW (ARC NOT DETECTED) @Alwaysunphased]

Still very early

$FLOKI to millions