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[Brady Long @thisguyknowsai]

Perplexity is the ultimate marketing tool.

Here are 10 prompts I use to automate every task effortlessly.

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[@levelsio @levelsio]

It's so exciting to be in tech right now

He's 100% right, it's like the early days of the internet around 1995 again

Everything was new and you had endless opportunities, you could build the first web browser, or mail app, or video streaming tech, etc

But instead of internet, it's now the early days of AI and 1995 is 2025

Most people don't realize it but this is a VERY special time with SO many opportunities right now, all you need is to build

And times like these only happen every ~30 years if at all, jump on it!

[Allie K. Miller @alliekmiller]

Every single morning, I dictate my entire to-do list to a custom AI.

The AI gets as much done as possible for me (including: breaking down tasks, ordering, blocking time, pre-drafting, etc.), in the style I want.

It has completely reshaped how I spend my time.

[@levelsio @levelsio]

Nope it was quite random

.io domains were launched around 2010 I think

There was a site on Hacker News showing available .io domains

Almost everything was available like

circle .io
square .io
box .io
levels .io

I saw levels and thought of music sound levels like mixing and producing

And it was a nice metaphor cause I wanted to level up from music production to startups

I got the domain and moved my blog from pieter .us (kinda random too) to levels .io

Then joined Twitter in 2013, couldn't write a dot so it became @levelsio!

I say Levels Eye Oh, others say Levels See Yo

Sadly but good for them @Levels the blood glucose meter startup got ahold of the X username and now levels .com

One day though....

[Sully @SullyOmarr]

When I first starting building agents (1+ yr ago)

We didn’t have
- function calling
- tools
- structured outputs / json
- tracing
- evals
- fine tuning
- cheap models (100x price reduction since)
- sdks
- only 1 provider
- high rate limits

Basically had to raw dog everything

But now? have all of that plus so much more.

Crazy to see how much has been built since and how it enables us to build next gen ai apps

Best part is it’s only going to get better.

We’re gonna get cheaper and smarter models, better primitives, AI infra etc

Really still feels like we’re immensely early in all of this.

The best ai apps haven’t even been built yet

[Sully @SullyOmarr]

made a video covering my ai coding workflow + tools, built a dashboard < 5 mins

ridiculous how easy it is to go from idea to product now

half my day is just conducting ai (cursor, claude v0) to build things for me

0:00 - 1:48 tools overview
1:50 - 3:43 initial setup
3:45 - 6:00 cursor magic w/ composer

[Business Tips @businesstips]

@alliekmiller Great info. I just tested it out on a few objects around the house and a picture in my photo gallery on my phone. It was 100% accurate and provided interesting additional details.

[@levelsio @levelsio]

I always recommend people to keep their main job

Start making things on the side and then when that project replaces the money you make with your job for long enough, only then quit your main job

When I started building stuff 10 years ago I was making $1K/mo from my electronic music YouTube channel, enough to live okay in Bali and Thailand

The stress of having limited runway usually doesn't work for most people at all, having a main job gives you forever runway while building projects on the side

There's exceptions though: recently met a guy who was about $1M saved and is young and single, ok fair he can quit right now!

[Business Tips @businesstips]

@nico_jeannen @acquiredotcom Congrats!

[Nico @nico_jeannen]

I just sold my startup Talknotes for $200,000 on @acquiredotcom 💸🤯🤩💰🥳🎉

I launched it last August when I was looking for an idea I could grow with paid ads, and made a MVP in one week.

I took it from $0 to $7500 MRR in just 11 months.

👉 Here is how I grew it from zero:

💡 Idea:
I got the idea when I tried to write a tweet using Google Doc's transcription tool, but it was terrible.

And I was pretty sure I wasn't the one too lazy to type.
So I made my own solution, and Talknotes was created.

The audience is pretty broad so it was a perfect fit for Meta ads

However…

✅ Validation:
My rule is to only reinvest what the project generates, so, no ads until I make enough cashflow ❌

Listing on startup directories + a few Twitter sales generated $700 after 10 days.
Yes, it's not much, but more than enough to show there is interest in the product and tell me to keep working on it 🤩
https://t.co/JmUM4vLP8C

I started adding the features users requested, but the launch effect started to wear off and daily revenues quickly went to $0 after a few weeks 🫥

I got depressed and almost gave up on the app... 😔

But luckily, my friends @marclou and @DanKulkov pushed me to continue

And I'm glad they did because In October, I launched on @ProductHunt and it blew up 🤯

It got Product of the Day and reached $1500 MRR thanks to the media coverage 🚀🚀

Until then, everything was done using vanilla JS/CSS/HTML + Node for back end.

It's simple and easy, but I saw the limitations, so I remade the app using @nuxt_js to make it easier in the future 🏗️
(thanks to @blackevilgoblin and @piotr_jura for the content/courses! @Timb03 as well for the basics!)

After that, I took a break and then launched ads on Facebook.

The strategy is simple:
Catch people's attention, and show them how the app can help them improve their life. No need to over-complicate 🙅‍♂️

Making good creatives is 80% of the job when doing ads on Facebook, most of the technical stuff is done by AI now.

Thanks to the boost in traffic, I implemented a feedback loop:
1) Get new users 👥
2) Learn to know them with the onboarding form 💬
3) Make more ads based on the data you get from onboarding 📝

And it completely blew up. MRR doubled in ~2 months

However...

In May, I had a bad burnout 🥵😩

Multiple bugs slipped into the app, and I had to spend 2 days fixing everything in an emergency while revenues plummeted.

This completely fucked me up mentally and had a hard time working on the app after that (https://t.co/ZjgyOQCv69) 💀💀

So I decided to list it on @acquiredotcom and made a Twitter post (https://t.co/2LreNtsceY)

I listed it for $200,000, a pretty low price considering the revenues and fast growth.

I could have gotten $300,000 if I accepted payment over time, but $200,000 today is better than $300,000 tomorrow for me.

🚨 The process went smoothly until we tried to use Escrow, which almost fucked up the whole deal.
(details: https://t.co/GaBAwYMqy9)

I got extremely lucky because the buyer really wanted to buy the app, but this could have ended the deal.

We had to wait over a week to get the money back from them, even tho they said they already refunded it.
But luckily, after threatening them, they sent it back the next day 🙃

The buyer finally got the money back, I transferred every asset to him, and he sent me the wire.

With the profit made from the app + the sale, and other projects, I'm 30% away from being a millionaire 🤯

With this amount, I can pretty much retire in Asia if I want to.
But that's just the beginning, I’m going to launch new projects soon! 🚀

But before that, I need to take a real vacation and detox. My brain is completely fucked up by those last 2 months.
I gained weight, and got brain rot from scrolling all day waiting for the acquisition to move forward 💀💀

Surprisingly, doing absolutely nothing is 10x more exhausting than working 15h per day 🥱

Now, all this might sound like an overnight success.

It is not ‼️

This is the result of 7 years of failure and working like a madman.

I launched over 40 projects in those 7 years, and most of them failed. But a few took off, and that’s all I needed

All those weeks working 15h/day without weekends and vacation feels soul-sucking when you don’t see the end, but this is what took me there

You only need to win once to snowball everything. Work hard, focus, fail a lot and keep shipping fast. 🚀🚀

Thanks to you for reading until here, and thanks to everyone who supported me 🤞

[Allie K. Miller @alliekmiller]

This. THIS is my favorite Claude use case.

Take an ungodly amount of data and preferences, shove it into Claude, ask for an interactive decision-making bot, ask for scoring and reward mechanism, personalize as necessary.

Brands will now calibrate for human+AI decisions.

[Alex Albert @alexalbert__]

One of the most exciting things about artifacts is that it's not just making existing coding jobs easier/faster, it's creating software that would never be written otherwise.
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Many people are now creating their first apps, with Claude's help.
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Niche apps that only a few people need. Internal tools for small companies. Or silly apps just for fun.
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Here's an example: wanted to visualize a dual monitor setup for a desk and compare how the monitors fit next to each other.
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Claude made a perfectly usable app for this in just a few turns! It's not mind-blowing or anything, but that's the entire point. It may not be worth coding it up yourself - but if you can have Claude make it in <5 minutes, it's quite useful.

[OpenAI @OpenAI]

Say hello to GPT-4o, our new flagship model which can reason across audio, vision, and text in real time: https://t.co/MYHZB79UqN

Text and image input rolling out today in API and ChatGPT with voice and video in the coming weeks.

[OpenAI @OpenAI]

Our new GPT-4 Turbo is now available to paid ChatGPT users. We’ve improved capabilities in writing, math, logical reasoning, and coding.
Source: https://t.co/fjoXDCOnPr

[OpenAI @OpenAI]

We’re partnering with a small group of US builders to test usage-based GPT earnings. Our goal is to create a vibrant ecosystem where builders are rewarded for their creativity and impact and we look forward to collaborating with builders on the best approach to get there.

[Min Choi @minchoi]

Education will never be the same.

People are finding some incredible use cases with Apple Vision Pro and spatial computing.

10 wild use cases:

1. Learning how heart works

[Brian Null @BrianNull]

Great stuff as always from John #Golf

[Eduardo Castillo @EmpireCastillo]

AI has already taken place in today's business world, not as a job stealer, but as a powerful ally enhancing every role.

Embrace AI, and watch your startup transform into a force to be reckoned with.

[Mi-Case @MiCaseTeam]

Mi-Case is growing and hiring again!

We have an awesome opportunity for a Quality Analyst!

Check it out! 👇

https://t.co/yxpxG4OAKd

#hiring #GreatPlacetoWork #Recruiting #qualityanalyst #qualityanalystjob #QAjobs

[JDP @jdomanpipe]

i'm hiring for 2 Sr PMMs right now:

- One with mature product stage experience
- One with consumer/prosumer marketing experience

fully remote, obviously.

hit me up if that's you!