Abbaz

Building software with AI.

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How to get your first 5 customers with SEO:

Most founders ignore this, leaving $1000s on the table.

Here’s a simple playbook you can run today (without being an SEO genius):

🧵👇

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@neeraj7105 System Design

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@elonmusk The west goes crazy when comedians perform in Saudi or UAE, however it's totally okay to take billions as investments. The hypocrisy of the west is just so utterly shameful to watch.

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@hieudinh_ I used cursor before the elon aquisition, however I moved to claude and codex as I already was paying for them.

Seeing this, I wana give cursor another shot.

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I wanted to subscribe to @mobbin but I'm not able to find a monthly plan.

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@WisprFlow At its current state of the product 2b is crazy. Another sign that silicon valley puts money into anything that's 'AI', IDK if that's good or bad.

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@Aditya_181105 Vercel if it's Nextjs, for the sake of simplicity.

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@ty_udy Good for us😅

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Been using Codex a lot lately instead of Claude Code.

Not seeing a major difference in output.

What I am noticing is the usage. Codex burns through usage slowly, and I'm on the SOL 5.6 at medium-high effort. Claude Code eats credits like crazy by comparison.

Usage limits are weird too. It says "resets on the 18th" and has been saying the 18th for days now, but I've had at least 3 resets in that window, plus a bunch of free on-demand resets on top.

Anyone else seeing the same?

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Ideas doesn't mean SHIT.

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For the longest time, I thought I had a very narrow way of looking at business.

I always wanted to sell in the US.

Especially if I was selling websites to local businesses.

Somewhere in my head, I had convinced myself that that’s where the money is.

And over the last 3 months, I decided to challenge that belief.

Maybe I was wrong.

Maybe I was ignoring a massive market sitting right in front of me.

So I gave the Indian market a proper shot.

And when I say proper shot, I mean money, love, sweat and blood.

I ran ads.

Hired performance marketers.

Hired sales people.

Changed offers.

Changed pricing.

Changed messaging.

Tried explaining the value better.

Tried following up more.

Tried following up less.

My God.

I don’t think I’ve ever felt this burnt trying to sell something.

Selling websites to local Indian businesses requires a level of calmness I apparently do not possess.

The expectations can be through the roof.

The commitment can be somewhere underground.

And somehow, while paying significantly less, some people still manage to make you feel like you're building the next Amazon.

You can sell.

That’s not the problem.

The problem is what sometimes comes after the sale.

When someone already believes that what you're selling is not really that important, every rupee they spend on it feels huge to them.

And naturally, the expectations attached to that money become huge too.

That is where the headaches begin.

So after spending three months trying very hard to prove my old belief wrong...

I have arrived at a deeply unfortunate conclusion:

Maybe old me had a point.

For now, I’m giving up on selling websites to the Indian local business market.

Not because there’s no opportunity here.

There absolutely is.

I just don’t have the money, patience or energy right now to educate an entire market on why having a good website actually matters.

Maybe I’ll come back to it someday with a better model.

But for now?

BAU.

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@Samaytwt Cloudflare, just for the sake of simplicity. No matter where I buy, my DNS is always managed by Cloudflare, so buying the domain there directly is the best.

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@sergeynazarovx License

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I'm this close🤏 to cancelling my Claude subscription.

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I've been trying to get in touch with @Lenskart_com support this entire day, called multiple times on all numbers they list.

The only way is to get in touch as an existing customer is through the sales department(new customer) then they will transfer me back to the IVR, and I'll be lost in that for 30 mins.

There is no way for me to get in touch to the support department as an existing customer cause their IVR is designed to only cater to the new customers regarding sales query.

It's absurd. And once this issue is resolved I'll be deleting my lenskart account.

One of the guys from sales told me I'll get a call back from the support, never got it.

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Embarrassing admission as an AI-first builder:

A whiteboard made me more productive than every tool in my stack.

Turns out crossing off a task with a marker does something to your brain that a digital checkbox can't fake.

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@ansubkhan And you think within let's say a year, it'll not be able to do with a good one prompt? How NAIVE.

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@kelley2404 @IranArmyStan Lol😂

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Client's site was live. Everything looked fine.

They message me — forms aren't submitting. Leads just gone.

Spent an hour in Cloudflare before I found it. A WAF rule silently blocking POST requests for days.

No error. No alert. Nothing.

You can build with AI in two hours. But nobody teaches you this part.

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@GoDaddy has the worst access-sharing system on the face of the earth.

My blood pressure literally goes up every single time I need to check the DNS of a client who’s using GoDaddy.

Like bro… if I’m already logged in with the email ID that has access to the domain, just show me the fucking domain.

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