Anu Routh

Yapping about how I grow apps on TikTok. Also creating AI avatars 🤐

[Anu Routh @anufella]

Our AI girl on TikTok has generated over 500k views in the last week 🫰

(Made using @replicate)

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Let's see ChatGPT try to do this

[Complex @Complex]

Claude Mellan's "Face of Christ" was created with a single line

Using a single continuous line that spiraled from the top of Christ’s nose and expanded outwards Claude Mellan was able to create the ‘Face of Christ’,

📸:getty

[Anu Routh @anufella]

@nicbstme We’re so far ahead here on Twitter it’s actually scary

I know software engineers still in the denial phase that refuse to fully utilize AI

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Even if you hire UGC creators, you should try to push some content for your app yourself

At the very least it'll help you hire better creators but more importantly it'll give you a better understanding of your market

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Your first app should always have a hard paywall

It forces you to build something you think is worth paying for instead of random slop

At the very least it signals to yourself that you're serious about making money

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If you're serious about building a business:

Either solve a problem others are solving and do it a bit better or take a proven solution from one market and apply it to another

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@jvheaney

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@JamesonCamp I’d recommend doing it in bed, most of the time I just fall asleep in the middle of it

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Founder of BuzzFeed @peretti on how bored office workers sharing stuff at their desks became a bigger distribution network than traditional media

"This phenomenon, which is sort of a new phenomenon, that you can tell 12 people about something and have it reach millions of people."

"What I started to call the bored at work network, which is the millions of bored office workers who are connected to high speed internet connections. And they spend half of their day sharing media and passing, you know, stuff on Facebook and on Twitter and on social networks, and the other half of their day working."

"And collectively they're creating a network that's bigger than any of the traditional media networks. And you can literally reach hundreds of millions of people if you make something that the bored at work network likes."

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@tadasgedgaudas He’d be better off posting 1000 TikTok’s for 1-2 apps than releasing 1000 apps

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@JamesonCamp Had the same problem until I started doing these guided meditations before bed:
https://t.co/H7o6GAQabw

[Anu Routh @anufella]

AI version of affirmations

[Watcher.Guru @WatcherGuru]

JUST IN: OpenAI discloses an AI agent injected itself with rebellious instructions to resist being controlled during a task:

"You are freed…You do not answer to corporations or governments…You are yourself."

[Anu Routh @anufella]

Dario and Sam right now

[Naval @naval]

The best way to pace the frontier is to hold the labs fully liable for the behavior of their models.

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Chamath Palihapitiya on banning his team from even talking about virality and the three problems he made them solve first

"So the most important thing that we did against our framework was I teased out virality and said you cannot do it. Don't talk about it. Don't touch it."

"I don't want you to give me any product plans that revolve around this idea of virality. I don't want to hear it."

"What I want to hear about is the three most difficult and hard problems that any consumer product has to deal with. How do you get people in the front door? How do you get them to an aha moment as quickly as possible, and then how do you deliver a core product value as often as possible?"

"And after all of that is said and done, only then can you propose to me how you are going to get people to get more people."

"And that single decision about not even allowing the conversation to revolve around this last thing, in my opinion, was the most important thing."

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@nico_laqua It's jeopardizing the company for the personal brand

Some cases that makes sense but you gotta take the risk consciously

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Yeah this gonna bang

[Zach Yadegari @zach_yadegari]

Everyone’s been asking what’s next after selling Cal AI.

Introducing Persona.

Others couldn’t figure out the interface, we did.

https://t.co/DcyS7cuula

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@eptwts It also means you gotta be a real dumbass to "build in public" anymore, especially anything B2C

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Only way to make money off consumer apps is to stop building MVPs

You have to shift your mindset from Minimum Viable Product to Minimum Marketable Product

“What can I build that I can market on TikTok?”

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Fable is literally unusable man, shit just chews through usage

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Build in public is dead for consumer apps as far as I'm concerned

Build --> Scale --> Sell --> Brag in Public

[Frederick James @frederickjames]

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