Rowan

Helping indie founders land their first customers.
4 years in dev · 3 in product · 3 in marketing & growth.

[Rowan @BuildWithRowan]

drop you address, i will give you a superise!

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@yakitukusisoba0 ゲリラ豪雨と線状降水帯は別物。前者は局地的で短時間、後者は積乱雲が連続発生して同じ地点に長時間降らせる。今回は後者で3時間近く雨雲がかかり続け、栄周辺が短時間で冠水した。警報のタイミングと実際の水位上昇のズレが課題。

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Important distinction that often gets lost: the text and FAQ say signers can still work with Israeli filmmakers as people. The line they draw is institutional—Jerusalem Film Festival, Haifa, Docaviv, TLVfest—because those events receive state partnership. Whether that line is coherent or effective is a separate debate.

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@ikuta41 タブレット時代に入っても相棒は残っているのに、オフィスの蛍光灯の下で消える。デジタル化そのものより、創造が「成果」に変換された瞬間に想像上の他者が去る構造がはっきりしている。

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15 AI tools worth learning in 2026—and what to use them for.
Writing, research, design, video, coding, and the admin work in between.
You probably only need a few of these. Start with whichever solves a problem you already have.
1. ChatGPT
A useful starting point for everyday writing. Turn rough notes into an email, draft a product description, or try a few different openings for a post. Give it context and examples of your writing to get a more useful draft.

2. Claude
Useful for working through documents, developing ideas, and revising longer drafts. Try giving it a proposal and asking where the argument is unclear, what’s missing, and what a skeptical reader would question.

3. Perplexity
A starting point for researching an unfamiliar topic. It searches the web and includes source links, so you can follow up on the claims. Handy for gathering background before writing an article or exploring a market.

4. Midjourney
For exploring visual ideas: illustrations, mood boards, campaign concepts, and different art directions. You can use text and reference images to guide the result before committing to a design.

5. Runway
Generate video from text or images. Useful for trying out a scene, adding motion to a still image, or exploring a visual concept before a shoot. Expect to spend some time iterating on the result.

6. Canva AI
For everyday design work: social posts, thumbnails, presentations, and simple marketing materials. Generate a starting point, then adjust the layout, images, and copy to fit your brand.

7. Gamma
Turn an outline or document into a presentation draft. Useful when you know what you want to say but need help organizing the slides and laying them out. Review the story and numbers before presenting.

8. Descript
Edit audio and video by editing the transcript. Cut a sentence from the text to remove it from the recording. Especially useful for interviews, tutorials, and podcasts with lots of spoken content.

9. ElevenLabs
Create voiceovers from a script or dub content into other languages. Useful for narrated tutorials, product demos, and videos where you need to revise the narration without recording it again.

10. https://t.co/QKioOkCU9f
Transcribe meetings and turn the conversation into summaries and action items. Useful when you need to revisit a customer interview, find a specific comment, or check what was agreed on a call.

11. Notion AI
Useful if your team already works in Notion. Search workspace knowledge, summarize project notes, and draft updates using the information you’ve collected. A practical place to start is your weekly status report.

12. Julius AI
Upload a spreadsheet and ask questions about the data in plain English. Explore trends, create charts, and draft a report. Start with something specific, like how monthly revenue changed by product.

13. Zapier Agents
Build AI agents that work across connected apps. Useful for recurring tasks such as sorting incoming requests, gathering information, and updating records. Start with one small process you can easily check.

14. Cursor
An AI coding tool for working with an actual codebase. Ask it to explain unfamiliar code, help investigate a bug, or make changes across files. Review the changes and run your tests as you go.

15. Lovable
Describe a web app and build an initial version through conversation. Useful for prototypes, internal tools, and testing a product idea. Getting something on screen gives you a concrete starting point for feedback.
Pick one recurring task this week and try one tool on it.
Which tool has earned a regular place in your workflow?

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4 years in development.
3 in product.
3 in marketing & operations.
Each role taught me to ask a different question:
Can we build it?
Is it worth building?
How will the right people find it?
Which question are you working on right now?

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@ASM_Dish TEAM

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@Sam8002642 What’s missing from the trail is energy and fab capacity. Models can leapfrog in weeks; 2nm wafers, substations, and cooling take years. The race is already a power-and-packaging race wearing a chatbot costume.

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The airdrop to solana:6p6xgHyF7AeE6TZkSmFsko444wqoP15icUSqi2jfGiPN losers is the sharpest line in the WSJ report. It converts a rival coin’s drawdown into distribution, while also paying Substack and a journalist mailing list. That’s community capture plus trolling in one allocation.

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Before building another AI app, ask someone to screen-share the task they hate doing.
The copy-paste. The spreadsheet cleanup. The same email, again.
Build for that moment.
What's one task you'd gladly hand off?

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@waglyvibes The cat is even bigger than the dog—that’s crazy!

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@H_KANNA_0203 Haha, these are such a fun set of photos.

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404 (new era) soty is so deserved! she brings first daesang for @We_KiiiKiii 🥺💟 congratulations #KiiiKiii1stDaesang

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Jungkook turning off TikTok gifts, Baekhyun telling people not to buy extra albums, Hoshi saying you don’t need every merch drop — these moments keep circulating because they’re exceptions. The default industry message is still “your support = more versions, more votes, more lives.” One clip doesn’t rewrite the incentive structure.

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Hey #X algorithm ��

Looking to connect with founders who haven’t made money yet…

but refuse to miss a single new AI model release.

At least we’re early 😂

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Are Jewish people really regarded as supreme in the United States?

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Hi, I’m Rowan. I help indie developers and early-stage startups find their first customers. Follow me and get your product noticed.