Royal Tomar

co-founder @spurnow_com | bootstrapped | ai that markets + serves | 550+ shopify brands in 25+ countries 🌍

[Royal Tomar @_royaltomar]

Got inspired by @marclou and moved to Thailand for a month 🤙

What we’re going to do -

- Build / Market @spurnow_com for 30 days
- Muay Thai for 30 days
- Swimming for 30 days
- Perfect sleep for 30 days
- Healthy food for 30 days

We don’t have Whoop, but we’re using the @AmazefitGlobal Helio Strap and it’s amazing (no subscription lol - also not sponsored xD)

Here’s to having a productive month.
Lemme know if we should explore anything while we’re in Bangkok.

[Marc Lou @marclou]

For the people who say "it's a useless number" 😇

What you don't see:

- Perfect sleep 365 days/year
- Healthy food 365 days/year
- Workout 365 days/year

@WHOOP didn't do it for me.

But it made me and my wife addicted to becoming the best version of ourselves.

(not affiliated, I don't need money)

[Royal Tomar @_royaltomar]

@theali @dimensionOS @elijaldir That he is, it’s like we’re all clicking a photo with him haha

[Royal Tomar @_royaltomar]

Attended my first event of the New York Tech Week
Hosted by good friends at UpScaleX, Ugly Talk and new friends @theali and Eli from @dimensionOS 🙌

Great talk around agentic commerce, and amazing people. Good start of the week and we go to a Tech Week Boat Party in an hour haha

[Royal Tomar @_royaltomar]

@JyotbirLamba @claudeai yeah

[Royal Tomar @_royaltomar]

so i was using @claudeai copilot to create a vendor for a partner on zoho books

then i thought i also have to update the partner profile on our partner portal - so that they are both in sync

then i was like what if claude could do this too

then i have to generate a bill for each partner for the commissions they are supposed to get

then i was like what if claude could do this too

then paying the partner, informing them, etc

what if claude could do all of this, and if it knew about all the processes and tools that our team uses

and it could suggest improvements in the process and implement those too

then it would truly become AI founder / manager / team leader

[Royal Tomar @_royaltomar]

couldn't have said it better and this also applies if you're a small bootstrapped team building your startup

you need to stay focused
and find more paying customers like your customers who already love your product
and only build what customers who love your product wants

[Marc Lou @marclou]

Remove your free plan.

Free users are leeches. They increase support, server costs, and make you build features your paying customers don’t want.

Less than 3% of free users ever convert.

VC startups can afford free plans because they’re optimizing for growth, not profit.

If you’re an indie founder, never give away your product for free.

[Royal Tomar @_royaltomar]

@mrsnhl you got it boss! 🙌

[Royal Tomar @_royaltomar]

I am in New York for the tech week and I prepared this Google Sheet with a list of all the events happening this week.

Comment "Tech Week" and I'll DM you the link to this Google Sheet.

[Royal Tomar @_royaltomar]

@i_Udita sent 🙌

[Royal Tomar @_royaltomar]

interesting - chatgpt for gst filings and claude for email labeling

what hacks are you using these days?

[Royal Tomar @_royaltomar]

NEW YORKK!!!!! 🗽
w/ @AmoghGulati <3

I am here for a month, if you're in the ecom space and you're in NYC - let's meet

Also tag any event I should attend during the tech week hehe

[Royal Tomar @_royaltomar]

It’s weird that from India if you go east towards Singapore you’re going ahead in time (2.5 hours), but if you keep going east from Singapore to California, you’re now 12 hours behind India.

[Royal Tomar @_royaltomar]

Going to NYC for the tech week
Flight got delayed but we locked in and did some founder work

[Royal Tomar @_royaltomar]

@leteyski But about the space I feel like everyone is becoming an all in one support and marketing app.

[Royal Tomar @_royaltomar]

Made it to the @getrecharge office in LA today.
They are a team of 450 people all working remotely across the world.

But this is where the big man @OisinO works from and I am looking forward to our chat on Friday!

[Royal Tomar @_royaltomar]

iMessage bots are picking up these days, so many possibilities - why need an app, when you can do everything in chat?

we'll be adding iMessage capabilities soon to our stack as well for ecom brands to add their Spur AI Agents there along with WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook, Live Chat and Email.

[Pontus Abrahamsson — oss/acc @pontusab]

Introducing Caltext, open-source calorie tracking in iMessage.

Built with:

• Bun + Turborepo
• Hono on Nitro (Vercel)
• Chat SDK + Sendblue
• AI SDK + GPT-4.1 vision
• Upstash Redis
• Vercel Workflows
• USDA FoodData Central

Link ⬇️🧵

[Royal Tomar @_royaltomar]

what's the most weird @Shopify business you've seen so far? I'll start -

[Royal Tomar @_royaltomar]

@jackerhack @IndicGames Hahahahaha

[Royal Tomar @_royaltomar]

Razorpay does not consider my name as a real name 😭

[Royal Tomar @_royaltomar]

@vavasthi 🥰

[Royal Tomar @_royaltomar]

@fareesh Very Indian name 🤣