Sujay Vivek

Founder @Verbatim_

IIT Kharagpur
Googler

[Sujay Vivek @SujayVivek]

@SystemsForScale Thanks Adam,
I'm creating an app for music lovers..

I will be documenting my entire process here, and hopefully find ppl who would find it useful :)

[Sujay Vivek @SujayVivek]

Using react native for the first time :)
Something rly awesome coming up

[Sujay Vivek @SujayVivek]

@pcshipp Congrats, you've done more than 99.999% of twitter users claim to have done

[Sujay Vivek @SujayVivek]

Posting consistently is soo hard.
How do yall even do it ? 💪

[Sujay Vivek @SujayVivek]

@shipscode What do you use? Just curious

[Sujay Vivek @SujayVivek]

@shipscode @athcanft Haha😂
Would you give him a refund?

[Sujay Vivek @SujayVivek]

@vitaliidodonov Perfectly said, Ive thought about the same, just so many times during my entire journey

[Sujay Vivek @SujayVivek]

@Jbm_dev Excited ngl, cause it's out of my comfort zone

[Sujay Vivek @SujayVivek]

@DanielSmidstrup Building Verbatim & Lumea
Happy to connect!

[Sujay Vivek @SujayVivek]

@vitaliidodonov Trusting the process :)

[Sujay Vivek @SujayVivek]

Buying followers is basically paying money to lower your engagement rate.

[Sujay Vivek @SujayVivek]

Fake followers create fake feedback loops.

You start optimizing for appearance instead of actual value.

That’s how people end up building “viral” products nobody uses.

[Sujay Vivek @SujayVivek]

People underestimate how obvious fake growth looks now.

10k followers.
14 likes.
Zero real conversations.
The internet can smell fake traction instantly.

[Sujay Vivek @SujayVivek]

A founder with 300 real followers who genuinely care is way more powerful than someone with 50k ghost followers.

Attention isn’t the metric.
Trust is.

[Lulu Cheng Meservey @lulumeservey]

It feels like every other launch is faked now

The comments and QTs are all fake accounts with fake followers, barfing out AI content to simulate an ecstatic reception for their cluelyslop launch video

It’s perpetrated by a fungal bloom of agencies that prey on nervous founders to sell fake engagement

If you’re planning a launch, I hope you take this reassurance: it is far better to get fewer clicks from real people than to go “viral” for an audience of bots. The latter will never pay for your product. They can’t. They don’t exist.

[Sujay Vivek @SujayVivek]

The underrated part of building in public:

You stop overthinking launches.

You’ve already shown:
• the messy drafts
• the broken versions
• the pivots
• the late-night redesigns
By launch day, people already feel part of the journey.

<This is one of my messy drafts>

[Sujay Vivek @SujayVivek]

Building in public is funny because people think you’re documenting success.

Most days you’re actually documenting confusion, bugs, bad ideas, and random breakthroughs at 2am.

That’s why it works.

[Sujay Vivek @SujayVivek]

@FacilSIA @SahilPanhotra Amazing!
How did you do so well?

[Sujay Vivek @SujayVivek]

@FilipPanoski What if you build a team?

Always good to buy yourself some time

[Sujay Vivek @SujayVivek]

@vusalmran Some solid traction I see.

Do share insights :)

[Sujay Vivek @SujayVivek]

@unitycoderr Market research ftw