Arpit Jacob

Founder SevenX Ltd, helping businesses in 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 🇷🇼 build human centered software.

[The Ways of A Gentleman @Gentleman_Ways]

“Since it is so likely that children will meet cruel enemies, let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage. Otherwise you are making their destiny not brighter but darker.”

-C.S. Lewis

[Arpit Jacob @arpitjacob]

@cramforce @rauchg Lol I literally thought the same, signing up for WhatsApp developer console is a terrible experience. They don't even let you signup for a new facebook account they just ban you outright.

[Anthropic @AnthropicAI]

We've signed an MOU with the Government of Rwanda—the first partnership of its kind in Africa—to bring AI to health, education, and other public sectors.

Read more: https://t.co/txgEScvKtP

[Arpit Jacob @arpitjacob]

@kvnkld Looks great if this was a real app, I'd use it.

[Arpit Jacob @arpitjacob]

@JustJake @Railway @railway_status

Our app is not able to connect to the database its been over 3 hours or more. Its hosted in the EU region.

[Arpit Jacob @arpitjacob]

@railway_status same here our app is not able to connect to the database its been over 2 hours or more

[Arpit Jacob @arpitjacob]

@pontusab @b_azarkhalili @0xmatti

https://t.co/s8CcBS8UZu

Its there in the screenshot but doesn't exactly look the same.

[Shayan @ImSh4yy]

Separate your frontend framework from your backend and don't use RSCs.

[Arpit Jacob @arpitjacob]

@AdamrahmanGTM Alpha

[Felix Haas @felixhhaas]

Winning Teams Hire Founders 🔥

The best companies aren’t run by people doing jobs. They’re run by people acting like the company is theirs. High urgency. Deep customer obsession. A willingness to push far beyond any job description.

I realized this early at Lovable. From the start it was obvious that everyone cared about the product and the company vision with an intensity I hadn’t seen elsewhere. It was as if each person behaved like they were a founder themselves. And that changed everything.

Most people don’t get that being a “founder” isn’t about the title. It’s a mindset. And once you pick it up, building stops feeling like work. It becomes fun, almost addictive. You care more, you improve faster, and you end up outperforming everyone else.

The Hiring Trap:

The conventional wisdom says that as companies grow, they need to specialize. Clear roles, narrow expertise, tidy swim lanes. It sounds professional. But in practice it kills the very energy that made the company succeed in the first place.

Regular employees wait for direction. Founder-minded employees create their own. They optimize for the mission, not just their function.

Why don’t more companies hire this way? Because it’s harder. You can check whether someone knows a specific tool. You can’t check ownership as easily. Hiring processes optimize for what’s easy to measure, not for what matters.

This is why so many teams feel mechanical. They’re full of people optimized for doing their jobs, not for building the company.

The Founder Type:

The irony is that people with a founder mindset rarely look like perfect candidates on paper. They’re generalists. They’ve switched between roles. They’ve run side projects, sometimes unsuccessfully. They care more about outcomes than titles. To a hiring manager, that looks like inconsistency. In reality, it’s initiative.

At Lovable, this mindset is what keeps the company in motion. Everyone behaves as if the company’s success is their personal mission. And when enough people do that, momentum compounds. The company stops being something you work at and becomes something you push forward, so strongly that slowing down doesn’t even feel like an option.

Hiring “founders” doesn’t literally mean only people who’ve started companies. It means people who think like owners: urgent, customer-obsessed, unwilling to let problems slide. People who bend reality instead of waiting for instructions.

[ThePrimeagen @ThePrimeagen]

i never saw this coming

[Arpit Jacob @arpitjacob]

@bekacru please write one for @supertokensio

[Arpit Jacob @arpitjacob]

The technical skills are there – it's the communication barrier that's holding back potential. The solution? Invest in developing clear, precise communication skills. It's not optional anymore, it's essential for competing globally.

[Arpit Jacob @arpitjacob]

This quote perfectly captures why so many talented African developers aren't seeing the 100x AI productivity gains everyone talks about.

Building tech teams in Rwanda & India, I've seen brilliant coders struggle not with code, but with clearly articulating their ideas in English

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

The hottest new programming language is English

[Naval @naval]

If You Want to Learn, Do.

[Arpit Jacob @arpitjacob]

@coldemailchris outbound

[Arpit Jacob @arpitjacob]

I can relate 😅

[Thrilla the Gorilla @ThrillaRilla369]

I now understand why my dad used to wake up at 4AM and just sit at the kitchen table for an hour

[James Clear @JamesClear]

It only takes five minutes to break the cycle.

Five minutes of exercise and you are back on the path. Five minutes of writing and the manuscript is moving forward again. Five minutes of conversation and the relationship is restored.

It doesn't take much to feel good again.

[Magatte Wade @magattew]

If we want to eliminate poverty, the answer is simple: 

Create jobs.

Make it easy for entrepreneurs to build and run businesses.

Get rid of the regulations that stifle economic prosperity, and create business environments that actually allow people to succeed. 

In most African nations, starting a business is like swimming through molasses.

Commercial laws in Africa are among the worst in the world.

You can look it up for yourself.

Of the twenty lowest-ranked countries in the world for starting a business, Africa makes up thirteen of them.

That’s nearly 70%!

We Africans will stay stuck in an endless cycle of poverty until these chains are finally broken and our markets are set free.

[Magatte Wade @magattew]

The most revolutionary act for an African today is not to give a speech about oppression.

It's to start a business. To solve a problem. To create value.