This guy quits his $200k job at Apple to build his dream app and then gets UPSET that 2 apps are competing with him!!
THE REALITY: in the AI age, 100 apps will do what yours does.
17 things your app actually needs to win these days:
1. build audience 1st, brand 2nd, community 3rd, product 4th. (i should do a dedicated tweet on this)
2. start extremely niche so you don't have real competitors (they are more wide, you are narrow)
3. brand that feels like a cool friend, not a faceless corporation. worth hiring someone for brand.
4. email/text list you own (platforms die, direct access is forever).
5. UI/UX that makes people feel something (not just "works well")
6. built-in distribution loops so every user brings the next one (referrals, viral features, affiliate kickbacks)
7. undercut on pricing or figure out new model (ie: outcome based vs subscription based)
8. partnerships that deliver customers on autopilot (and looking at ways to integrate your product)
9. strong copy that fire people up
10. media is core part of the business. you crank out content like you crank out features.
proprietary data moat. collect data nobody else has
12. funnels and a system to build new ones (a good funnel can bring in $1M+)
13. lead magnet systems (to nurture audience into leads)
14. at least 1 signature feature that's 10x better than anything else (the rest can be at parity)
15. personality injected into every error message, confirmation email, and notification
16. swap generic CTAs for benefit-first verbs like “Generate my brief”
17. use video for conversion rate optimization and cold outreach (video sells)
It's a waste of energy to think about copycats. they'll be everywhere in this AI age when anyone can copy you.
100X COMPETITORS IS THE NEW NORMAL.
The first time you see someone clone your app, it feels like someone broke into your house.
your creation...your baby...suddenly feels less special, less yours. that pit in your stomach is real.
get used to these feeling 100x more in the AI age. but it'll get numb over time, youll get used the everyday new competition popping up.
but rest easy knowing..
the game isn't who builds what, it's who builds for whom.
Just keep going!!
BILLIONS ARE UP FOR GRABS WITH THIS AI WAVE
When I was 23, I watched fortunes get minted in the App Store gold rush in Silicon Valley because a handful of founders locked themselves in a room, ignored every shiny distraction, and got absurdly good at one thing...ranking on a brand-new leaderboard.
Same playbook today, except the leaderboard updates every sunrise. A new model, a fresh agent, an API nobody saw coming drops daily, and it’s easy to drown in release notes. Treat that overwhelm as proof you’re early. The only way out is to learn and ship your ideas at the same time.
Pick a single wedge in the AI stack, go six inches wide and a mile deep, and treat every experiment like a speed-run. Run 30-day cycles: build a micro-agent, thread it through the FYP, measure the spike, double down on what hits, kill everything else. Learn the tools, models, and workflows while you’re shipping...become an experimentation machine that levels up mid-sprint.
Keep score in happy customers, not VCs reaching out.
Energy matters while the window is cracked open, but focus compounds when it closes. The people who stay rich in the next cycle will be the ones who built distribution and product in the same keystroke, then said “no” 99 times out of 100. Calendar-block four-hour deep-work slabs, stack tiny launches, and let the market whisper which direction to sprint.
I'm here to tell you...
1. In five years we’ll call this chapter obvious. Right now it’s pure arbitrage.
2. Like all arbitrage, this window will close. I raised $2M to build a mobile app in 2018. It was too late. It made it 100x more difficult than launching in 2009.
3. There's a reason why Uber, Instagram and most of the mobile app success stories launched in the early app store era not post-covid.
4. you dont need co-founders or a seed round to get started
5. what you build this weekend could be worth millions by next year. new models + new platforms + new use cases = unlimited surface area for innovation.
6. the people who win aren't waiting for permission. they're shipping products and learning the tools simultaneously, treating each launch as data collection.
7. the window is temporary, but the wealth created during it will be permanent. the next Instagram, Uber, and Airbnb equivalents are being built right now with AI at their core.
8. there is a huge unfair advantage in knowing how to prompt, finding new workflows, seeking out new tools
9. the obvious AI use cases (content creation, coding assistance) are already saturated and extremely VC funded. the non-obvious ones (AI for physical world problems, niche industry applications) are wide open.
10. There is millions of dollars up for grabs just wrapping agents and selling them as work.
11. I will be sharing this stuff for free. i want to see you steal my ideas, my workflows, the tools I use and get absurdly wealthy, quit your 9-5, create happy customers and have fun.
12. THE WORLD IS YOUR OYSTER.
I always visualized her big happy face looking out in the number one spot and today is that day.
🇬🇧 Number 1
🇮🇪 Number 1
Of course those are silly little numbers as real stuff is the 80,000 dogs sterilized and the hospital.
This moment is for you Tina. I love you ❤️
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Investment banking is the most romanticized job that exists
Lets talk about bad experiences you have had in banking
I'll start
Once had to spend 2 hours away on a Christmas night because my MD wanted to change "US" to "U.S." across the entire deck, including the charts
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