quietquant_x

Math nerd who got into crypto late. Turning probability theory into real trades, one experiment at a time. Not financial advice.

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@kodera_ai first filter i'd add is a liquidity to market cap ratio. thin liquidity is where most "winners" can't actually be sold at the shown price

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@A_Pirate_I 10% size on $101 is a $10 position. +$90 on that is a 9x in one trade. possible on memecoins, but not 4 times in one night

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@corj1k https://t.co/XLv42Oh60h

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CLAUDE CODE MADE THE WEEKEND FREE.
IT DIDN'T MAKE THE 500 CUSTOMERS FREE.

"Why is nobody doing this?" Everybody is doing this. That's the problem.

I build with Claude Code every day, and the math in this tweet is half right. The $20 is real. The weekend is real. I've shipped things in an afternoon that used to take me a month.

The other half is "get 500 paid users," written like it's step three of a recipe. It's the whole job.

Here's what that one line is hiding:
→ if 2% of sign-ups end up paying, 500 customers means about 25,000 sign-ups
→ card fees on a $9 charge eat 6.2%. That's $280 a month gone before you've paid for anything
→ if 5% cancel every month, you need 25 brand new payers every month just to stay at $4,500

The conversion and churn numbers are my assumptions. Change them and it gets better or worse. It never turns into a weekend.

Meanwhile, the honest version of this is sitting in someone else's timeline: "I just wanna hit $100 MRR so I can renew my Claude Code subscription." At $9, that's 12 people. Twelve.

Claude made building cheap. Now there are a thousand $9 SaaS apps for every one customer who's looking. The thing that got expensive is getting anyone to notice yours.

So what's your distribution plan, before you open the editor?

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@focuzzz_01 a $450,000 a month allowance while being worth minus $295M is a very different kind of broke than most people know

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@devb332 when your dad is on the same contract, quitting the brand means quitting the family business too. that's a lot at 13

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@0xPoPsik "price the fix before you fix it" is genuinely good advice, even if the card story is mostly a joke

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@lorneseth "paying me off the books" on national TV is a wild thing to say while his wife is suing to get $2.6M back

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@Veltrixmoon "another couple of transfer windows" after £200M is the most United sentence ever said. the money was never the problem

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@xlarckk she did. $60 to over $1M is a better return than most investors ever see, and he kept his career anyway

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@devb332 $70M on a $7M budget and the person making it all work was 13. the numbers explain why nobody wanted her to grow up

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@Aannzzo most people say pain for greatness in the comments and pick comfort in real life. me included on some days

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@huginalpha honestly a lot of it went to florists. £293,000 on flowers in under two years and then suing the accountants for not stopping him

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@zerodoubts0 no. paying by percentage of income feels fairer than splitting the bill down the middle when the gap is that big

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@FranPalminha @vladtenev prediction markets are great at pricing odds. calling them "truth" is a stretch, they've been wrong on plenty of races too

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@fintrixai https://t.co/M8c2B9GBOj

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Steve Ballmer, 2007: "Apple is selling zero phones a year."

Watch him laugh at the $500 price tag.

The iPhone brought Apple $209.6B in revenue in fiscal 2025.

Microsoft's fix came 7 years late. It bought Nokia's phone business for $7.2B in 2014, wrote off $7.6B a year later and cut 7,800 jobs.

But the same Ballmer launched Azure in 2010.

Last night Azure did $33.2B in one quarter, up 48%. That's a ~$133B run-rate, and it's the business paying for Microsoft's $45B a quarter in capex.

He missed the biggest product in history and still built the business that pays Microsoft's bills in 2026.

Which CEO is laughing at the $500 phone of 2026?

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Elon Musk had $30 to $40 million left in 2008 and two companies running out of cash. Tesla alone is worth about $1.59 trillion today.

in the clip below he explains what he did with that last money.

he had made about $180 million selling PayPal. by 2008 most of it was gone into Tesla and SpaceX, and three Falcon 1 rockets had failed in a row.

he had two options, he says. put everything into one company and the other one definitely dies. split it between them and both might die.

"you put your blood, sweat and tears into creating something... it's like a child."

he couldn't pick one to save.

"am i gonna let one starve to death? i couldn't bring myself to do it."

so he split it. SpaceX's fourth launch reached orbit that September. on December 23 NASA gave it a $1.6 billion contract, and Tesla closed a funding round the next day.

the bravest call of his career - or just the luckiest?