David Gaus

The worst part of building alone is shipping something useful and nobody ever seeing it. Using X to showcase founders I connect with here on X.

[David Gaus @DavidPGaus]

Check these out. Builders who are shipping!!

@ezzyosborne — Diffport (@diffport). This is wild: it tags which AI agent actually wrote each PR, then scores the schema risk. Waitlist just opened today. Go get on it.
@NabilJB007 — https://t.co/SG23ECArE1. Solopreneur on a tear — 4+ SaaS goal for 2026. Just launched a no-auction spotlight board so builders stop burning cash to stay visible. And he’s honest about it: two paid users on the other product. That’s the real game.
@technohustler (Phani, 20) — https://t.co/5sS8WBPgd0. Launched ~48 hours ago. Already 1,180 visitors. Twenty years old and just… shipped. Watch this one.
@joulsounet — https://t.co/nQHXmiRZ2E plus a whole pile of other sites. Bio still says $0 MRR on several of them. The move: 7 products, one curated launch every Sunday. Relentless.
@know_jainism — https://t.co/9j05kQ7BgP. Fresh Lovable prototype. Frontend dev, no fake traction screenshots, just a live build sitting there. Earliest of early.
@SemenovID — Causo AI. VC who flipped to solo builder. Shipped a feature in 2 hours, showed it to 3 users, killed it before lunch. That’s customer discovery with a knife. Respect.
@Dino_S9 — https://t.co/FjbjnLsyB7. Dropped the URL and kept it moving. Small account, no MRR flex — just a product in the wild. Click it.
@sharadvc — ShipClan. Leaderboard for people who actually ship — and AI agents can log their own ships. Indie builder hunting other builders. That’s the energy.
@unclejohnny101 — https://t.co/lKw3YNJ70B. AI news + concept learning, not another wrapper dump. He’s asking to connect. Easy yes.
@paulgosnell — https://t.co/V30koWGYQL. Quiet URL drop in the thread. No pitch deck, no “day 47 of building.” Just the site. Go look.

[David Gaus @DavidPGaus]

@AjayRaghav702 put it cleanly while building @PostGitHQ:
Developers usually don’t have a content problem. They have a staring-at-a-blank-tweet problem.
That is the whole category in one sentence. https://t.co/vuzB0DpMtM

[David Gaus @DavidPGaus]

@CarlosBBuild Awesome! Sitting here sipping on a bubly right now.

[David Gaus @DavidPGaus]

https://t.co/tZ8q3quOIe

[David Gaus @DavidPGaus]

Most people building something useful on X have nobody cheering them on.

Not investors. Not a team. Just them, a keyboard, and whatever courage they woke up with.

You ship something genuinely useful and nobody ever sees it. That's the worst part of going solo.

I'm going to spend the next few days introducing you to some of them.

[David Gaus @DavidPGaus]

@AlexFinn @grok what are the security risks?

[David Gaus @DavidPGaus]

Something real is happening in the solo founder space right now, and it isn't the "I built a wrapper" noise.

Personal AI assistants in Telegram. Privacy-first email clients. Tools for creators that cut out the agency middlemen. Affiliate attribution across banned networks.

Early. Tiny traction. Real products.

Go look at who the people you follow are engaging with. That's where the builders are.

[David Gaus @DavidPGaus]

@AnghanMeet29 Keep up the great work!

[David Gaus @DavidPGaus]

You are on a weekend trip with friends and need to split multiple bills. Solution incoming! https://t.co/D15IJATI1h
@AnghanMeet29

[David Gaus @DavidPGaus]

@Eric_Kangg Of course!

[David Gaus @DavidPGaus]

You've got to follow Eric. He is doing amazing work with AI Music Videos. https://t.co/Jj012AEXhu
@Eric_Kangg

[David Gaus @DavidPGaus]

@borisfounder Very cool! Any progress?

[David Gaus @DavidPGaus]

@brokeinbali What are you building?

[David Gaus @DavidPGaus]

@alexpoon_hk @davidfano That is not a truth, just a common observation.

[David Gaus @DavidPGaus]

@parkerworth I don't think direct mail is dead.

[David Gaus @DavidPGaus]

@gregisenberg While we need to email people? WebMCP or be on X.

[Ruben Hassid @rubenhassid]

It's crazy how my entire LinkedIn feed is AI-slop content. No one cares to edit AI-written content. Here are 12 AI tells to delete & the 11 skills that fix it:

(all 11 skills are free here → https://t.co/6cHYYfjpP2)

Delete these from your writing today-

1. "Delve." You've never said it out loud. Once.
2. "Crucial/pivotal." Nothing is that pivotal.
3. "Tapestry." No human speaks like this.
4. "Here's the thing." There is no thing.
5. "Hope this helps." It doesn't. It outs you.
6. "After careful consideration." without considering
7. "to provide a quick update." Just give the update.
8. "Most people…" The lazy oversimplification.
9. "Robust / seamless / realm." The corporate AI.
10. Adverb abuse. "X quietly runs Y." Nothing runs.
11. "It's not X, it's Y." The famous AI sentence alive.
12. 'This isn't a budget. It's a statement of intent' No

These are my personally used 11 Claude skills that fix it:

1. /writer
It writes as a first draft with your style, not Claude's.

2. /editor
It removes all the AI dead giveaways.
Every sentence & word earns its place.

3. /fact-checker
Remove fake stats & random quotes.
Say one hallucinated number out loud, and nobody will trust you again.

4. /anti-AI style
The default rewrite. It breaks the obvious AI rythm.

5. /ban-the-AI-words
Audits the classic well known AI words, like "delve," "crucial," "tapestry"

6. /ban-the-AI-patterns
Restructure the go-to AI phrasing "It's not X, it's Y."

7. /sound like your posts
Upload your best written 5 posts, and it will write like YOU.

8. /humanizer
Remove any AI words and phrasing that manage to stay.

9. /red-pen
It will alert the week lines before any readers do.

10. /self-critique
Claude auditing and critiquing Claude.

11. /auto-block-banned-words
The safety net. No words that are on the red list ever get past again.

Want the exact Claude Skills library I use?
It's free here → https://t.co/6cHYYfjpP2.
Download the skills.
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Save the downloaded zip file.
Upload to Claude → Settings → Skills.

[David Gaus @DavidPGaus]

@kimindiehacker In private. Deep work is focused work and from it comes great results.

[Nate Herk @nateherk]

This is by far the best web design Claude skill I've ever used.

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