Tal Flanchraych

I love dogs but I can’t eat a whole one // Bad pun aficionado // Building the “get me a job” button @

[Tal Flanchraych @TalMahaj]

January was our first-ever profitable month.

I’m proud of our growth, and am excited for the future. We’re now driving between 500-1000 interviews and job offers per month for customers.

BUT, the screenshot doesn’t tell the whole story…

👉 Our profit is still only around $7.6K.
👉 My first-ever paycheck (!!!) is for $3.8K — not exactly life-changing money in Los Angeles.
👉 I’d spent the past 1.5 years draining my savings to bootstrap the company and pay da billz, and it will take a long time to recoup that
👉 If I’d taken a job instead, I would’ve made ~$300-500K in the same timeframe without draining my savings

To put it into perspective: if you have a SaaS that’s doing only $3K MRR, but has been profitable w/ high margins since Day 1, you’ve made FAR more money than I have.

I’m not saying any of this to poop on my own parade — I’m stoked to be where we are! — but I still think it’s important to share the reality behind the flashy Stripe screenshots, which is often not as glossy as it seems.

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@Wehbs @hthieblot I WAS LITERALLY ABOUT TO SAY THE SAME

I will never forget those faces of death videos, the stuff of nightmares

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@nickventuri Opus

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@PumpkinnSpicey My neighbor’s apartment in the building next door that may be for rent soon in that budget, ill keep you posted! Good luck to him!

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Please rent my Brooklyn condo *or* help me find a good enough excuse to move back and be able to afford to live in it again.

It has a private roof with 360 Manhattan and Brooklyn skyline views. It has a cool floating bridge thingy upstairs and two full bathrooms. It’s the most awesome apartment on earth and I’d love to be able to afford to live there but…
- Me: bootstrapped entrepreneur
- Also me: now owe $26k a year just in property tax and HOA, and that’s on top of an NYC mortgage. Also it’s been empty since Jan for renovations. I need to stop the damn bleeding so put me out of my misery in exchange for extreeeemely sick views k thx

https://t.co/ocqTIZj7eQ

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@RDRembert I don’t take it personally, trust me. I get it. Thank you for the compliment regardless.

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@everestchris6 OMNI, I love all your biz ideas and have already been using GPT’s new image model to do virtual staging for my own rentals, so lfgggg

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@itsalexvacca Ads

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Roast our new landing page

(or lavish us with compliments, that’s aiight too)

https://t.co/8uahJXxgB8

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@trentjhughes @jasonmpearl @Tribefounders @alex_borkin @sternburger_ @ethan_kohan I’ll be there! Can’t waitttt!

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@everestchris6 Van! Fun! Would love to see

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So interestingly enough, our data from ApplyAll (outcomes from >2 million job apps sent) actually contradicts the one page thing. Our top 3 highest performing SWE or SWE-adjacent resumes in the last year were all 3 page resumes with 8-15 bullets for the most recent role.

That aside, this is excellent advice that is mostly applicable beyond software engineering as well. E.g. even for non-technical roles, I’m seeing far more JDs mention AI capabilities than I see resumes mention them.

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@PrajwalTomar_ Brand

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I know it’s wildly irrational in the grand scale of animal and human suffering, but the Laika story still breaks me every single time I see it

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

Laika, the first dog in space. No provisions were made for her return, and she died there, 1957

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The women’s rifle team at Drexel Institute of Technology in 1925.

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One hill I will always die on:

Being an AI-native company is not at odds with delivering legendary customer support.

@cursor_ai is by no means perfect, but I’ve never gotten this helpful of a response within 24 hours of a bug report from any other co.

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@tejashaveridev @cursor_ai @claudeai Must’ve been a weird coincidence. Composer 2 was down the same time CC desktop was spitting errors for me, but other cursor models ended up working fine

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here are my top 3 rn:

- Auto-merge when tests pass (including bugbot/autofix)

- “Bugbot running” and “bugbot autofix WIP” states on icon to the left of each agent, sooo annoying to see it turn green and click only to find bugbot still running, or completed running but you then look at the PR only to see there’s some shadow autofix agent now going with no way to be notified when it’s done

- Folders to organize projects nested under repos, eg I have all sorts of agents related to scrapers and monitoring scrapers that are hard to pin down at times when I can’t group then thematically

LOVE the multipane support btw

[kanav @kanavtwt]

Someone built a Google translate for Linkedin 😭

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@rileycx Can I flex on behalf of a friend? No idea if he’s on X

https://t.co/ptXYYO0ezD

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@everestchris6 Bot