Hassan Bin Arshad

Thinking in public about the creator economy, branding, modern work with AI and making money.

[Hassan Bin Arshad @HBAverse]

@itsnathanhirsch The workforce is in trouble!

[Nathan Hirsch @itsnathanhirsch]

For 3 years every pharma company announced an AI partnership.

Almost none of them changed anything.

Incyte just deployed Kosmos across their full R&D pipeline. Not a pilot. Production.

That's the difference between a press release and a bet.

[Hassan Bin Arshad @HBAverse]

Page 2 here, the last bubble is a bit misplaced but it generated page 2 all on its own after I said "Continue this with Page 2"

[Hassan Bin Arshad @HBAverse]

ChatGPT Image 2.0 is Insane, specially with Thinking.

Here's the cover and first 2 pages of a Manga I always wanted to make but never was able to (I suck at drawing) lol.

The character consistency and intelligence is amazing. Stay tuned for the entire Volume 1 soon!

[Hassan Bin Arshad @HBAverse]

@Buzzy_now_AI Buzzy NOW

[Buzzy Now @Buzzy_now_AI]

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Stop reshooting. Start Video "Photoshop".

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[Hassan Bin Arshad @HBAverse]

@HeyGen AvatarV

[HeyGen @HeyGen]

We solved character consistency. Forever

Avatar V captures you in 15 seconds and holds your identity across every video.

Change the look, outfit, and setting to create unlimited versions of you.

RT + comment "AvatarV" below and I'll DM 100 credits to test it out (must follow)

[Hassan Bin Arshad @HBAverse]

@NathanHirsch99 @LumaLabsAI Hahaha that's sick, we can make action figures now

[Hassan Bin Arshad @HBAverse]

@ConnorGillivan Man, that's super cute

[Hassan Bin Arshad @HBAverse]

@ConnorGillivan You need to do the reps for that man

[Hassan Bin Arshad @HBAverse]

I can't stand seeing another one of these posts.

Every time I read one, something in me resists it.

Not because it’s completely false.

But because it leaves out the part that actually breaks people.

Yes, AI has made things cheaper.
Yes, one person can do more now than ever before.
Yes, the barrier to execution is lower.

But if we’re being honest, the hardest part of building something was never really the tools.

It was sitting there with all that freedom and still not knowing what to make.

It was watching your first few ideas go nowhere and trying not to take it personally.

It was dealing with the silence when nobody cared, nobody clicked, nobody bought, and nobody told you whether you were early or just bad.

That’s the part I wish more people talked about.

Because a lot of these posts make it sound like business was mostly a software problem, and now AI has solved it.

But building was never only about access.

It was always about judgment.

About taste.
About patience.
About emotional stability.

About being able to keep going when your excitement fades and the work starts feeling repetitive.

AI can absolutely help you produce faster.

But it cannot tell you what is worth producing.

It cannot give you conviction.

It cannot make you trust your own ideas.

And it definitely cannot protect you from the self-doubt that shows up when things are moving slower than you hoped.

So when people say the cost of starting is just $20 now, I understand what they mean.

But I also think the real price is still the same.

Confusion.
Insecurity.
Consistency.

And the willingness to stay in the game long enough to become good.

That part still costs a lot.

I know it's costing me a lot.

Building a business is freaking hard!

[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.

[Hassan Bin Arshad @HBAverse]

@NathanHirsch99 Exactly, its something you need to learn the hard way

[Hassan Bin Arshad @HBAverse]

@NathanHirsch99 Crazy

[Hassan Bin Arshad @HBAverse]

Finally, an image gen model with actual intelligence where you don't need to be an expert at prompting.

[Nathan Hirsch @itsnathanhirsch]

This is insane.

The consistency, realism, reasoning of Uni-1 is amazing as I test it.

Uni-1 by @LumaLabsAI doesn't reward clever prompting. It rewards clear thinking. I love that.

I was never a prompter so this is very helpful.

Will share more of my test results here.

[Amir D @starks_arq]

https://t.co/3GWxwm5d0a

[Hassan Bin Arshad @HBAverse]

X just isn't the place it used to be.

Substack is where the real people are going now.

[Nathan Hirsch @itsnathanhirsch]

I run 5 businesses and I'm not on the org chart of any of them.

That means every meeting I take has to earn its spot.

The meetings were never the problem.

Losing what happened in them was.

That's why I started using @meetgranola

Here's what changed:

[Hassan Bin Arshad @HBAverse]

The guy every aspiring and young entrepreneur should be following!

[@levelsio @levelsio]

how to build a bootstrapped startup without funding:

1. pick a problem you personally have. if you don't use your own product daily, quit now

2. skip the pitch deck. open your code editor. ship something ugly in a weekend

3. charge money from day 1. free users give you nothing but support tickets

4. use boring tech. PHP, SQLite, vanilla JS. frameworks are a trap that mass waste your time

5. host on cheap VPS ($5-20/mo). not AWS. you don't need kubernetes for 1,000 users

6. do customer support yourself. it's the fastest product feedback loop that exists

7. automate everything you do more than twice. cron jobs > employees.

8. grow on Twitter/X by building in public. your journey IS the marketing

9. keep your burn rate near zero so you never need to raise. ramen profitable > series A

10. say no to investors, cofounders, and "advisors" who want equity for intros

i've been doing this for 10+ years now. no employees, no funding, no board meetings

the entire VC game is designed to make you think you need permission to start

you don't

[Perplexity @perplexity_ai]

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