Fahim ⚡️

From $400k ARR to 0 and back up again with AI
Vibecoding Product Builder & Manager
£2.5 M crowdfunded
Ex-VC-backed founder

[Fahim ⚡️ @drfahimp]

Having a bias for action is one of the top qualities I want my children to have when they grow up.

There are people who never get going with their ideas and projects for the fear of the How, the What, the So What, the What If and the list goes on.

And there are people who are relatively careless about much of the above. The Truth is, this group learns much faster.

Studying my bachelors back in 2012, like many others I had a limited budget to get by on weekly basis. An idea came to my mind, one where a platform would manage student grocery budgets and offer them personalised shopping baskets from major supermarkets.

The 2012 naive version of me woke up the next morning and registered an official company, calling it YomoYobo, and yes I've always been a genius at branding :D

Once the initial entiusiasm fizzed out, the harsh reality of resources needed to make this happen slapped me right on the face. 6 months later I wrote to the council asking their help to close the company down without any accounting charges.

Experiencing the failure for the first time hurt a lot at the time 🤕 , but I look back it and laugh 😁 Life's so boring without trying crazy things, ups and downs...

A year later doing my masters in entrepreneurship at Royal Holloway, University of London I decided to launch a student startup, a much more thorough plan, with smaller milestones and achievable goals.

My classmates told me it would be a waste of time to do it, but I knew I would learn a lot regardless.

That same year I was invited to pitch in front of Surinder Arora of @Arora_Group, sold the product I had developed to students at fairs, and won the Student Enterprise Award for 2013.

One of the most thrilling experiences I have had so far in my life. All because I ignored Nay-sayers, took a bit of risk and went ahead explore horizons I hadn't seen.

That journey still continues today...

[Fahim ⚡️ @drfahimp]

Recent images have made one thing clear: war only brings destruction, suffering, and loss of innocent lives. 💔

This AI tool to help you contact your local representative in under 60 seconds:

So easy

Use your voice: https://t.co/uKaBl62v2b

[Fahim ⚡️ @drfahimp]

@leylajmsh من خانواده دارم اونجا، کدوم خیابون پاسدارانه؟؟؟

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Naval is right, and the math proves it in a way most people aren’t processing.

GPT-4 launched at $60 per million output tokens. Today, equivalent capability costs under $1. That’s a 98% price collapse in two years. Demand didn’t fall. It exploded. OpenAI went from $1B to $12B+ in ARR while slashing prices every quarter.

This is Jevons Paradox at civilizational scale. When coal got cheaper in the 1800s, England didn’t use less coal. They burned 10x more. Intelligence is following the same curve, except the adoption rate is compressing a century of energy economics into 36 months.

The part nobody’s thinking through: every previous commodity with “unlimited demand” eventually restructured the labor market around it. Electricity didn’t create unlimited demand for electricians. It eliminated most of the jobs that electricity replaced and created entirely new ones that didn’t exist before.

The 280x cost reduction Stanford measured between 2022 and 2024 means a task that cost $1,000 in AI compute now costs $3.57. At that price, companies don’t just automate what humans were doing. They start doing things that were never economically viable at human-labor pricing. Analysis that would have required a $200K analyst for a year now runs for $50 in an afternoon.

Unlimited demand for intelligence at near-zero marginal cost means intelligence stops being the scarce input. Taste, judgment, and the ability to ask the right question become the bottleneck. The returns flow to people who can direct intelligence, not people who provide it.

That’s the real trade: the value of raw intelligence is cratering while the value of knowing what to do with intelligence has never been higher. And that gap is only getting wider.

[Om Patel @om_patel5]

post your app/startup on these subreddits:

r/InternetIsBeautiful (17M)
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thank me after you get an additional 10k+ sign ups

[Fahim ⚡️ @drfahimp]

We've had our first ever free trial signup on Scoutara
🎉🎉🎉🎉

I'll donate $100 to @UNICEF once we get out first paid signup 😃

[Fahim ⚡️ @drfahimp]

Developed the easiest AI feature last, the AI Summaries for Competitive Product Analysis on Scoutara

- Player with most/least features
- Player with most/least features
- Standout player
- Competitive gaps
- Strength & weaknesses of each player retrospectively
- Overall SWOT

[Fahim ⚡️ @drfahimp]

There're +200k SaaS and AI businesses in the world, and some still develop in the dark.

Pricing, features, positioning, product intelligence and a lot more need to be accounted for to STAND OUT.

That's why I built https://t.co/t7VuFhLduB

Don't vibecode for the sake of it

[Fahim ⚡️ @drfahimp]

You're the business, and the business is you.

For me it was the night sky, turquoise colour, the Magi, constellations and signals to predict the future.

"Product Intelligence for PMs" with Scoutara

Make sure you stand out in this ocean of apps

[Fahim ⚡️ @drfahimp]

When I was doing the branding for Scoutara, I wanted it to be unapologetically linked to my Persian roots

Authentic Persian culture is so beautiflul, just Youtube it

Some say it may be a tongue-twister, but so are Perplexity and Anthropic

Tara is the ancient word for star

[Fahim ⚡️ @drfahimp]

RIP Stack Overflow
So many builders relied on it for years...

If your product is a step in the workflow, AI will compress you. If you’re not embedded, you’re optional.

This is exactly the shift we track with Scoutara. AI doesn’t kill products. It exposes blind spots.

[Fahim ⚡️ @drfahimp]

I used Vibecoding to build Scoutara to compare businesses.

I personally used Lovable and compared it to other solutions on the market.

Hope this is useful for other builders out there too

Verdict in comments

[Fahim ⚡️ @drfahimp]

The rookie mistakes vibecoding platforms make are so frustrating.

A job completion email implemented on the frontend instead of the backend. Wondered why I'm not receiving the email, I had navigated away from the page.

How stupid can it be?

[Fahim ⚡️ @drfahimp]

@donvito waitlists are often used to validate ideas anyways

[Fahim ⚡️ @drfahimp]

@donvito and then?

[Fahim ⚡️ @drfahimp]

Built https://t.co/ZHT1jtOP7V in 3 months vibecoding, doing these

- ICP: PMs at PLG SaaS
- Pain point: Product-1st Competitor tracking to be wasting 15 hours per week
- Solution: Developed weekly scraping, screenshots, tracking an analysis

Small niche in a huge market, wy to go

[Fahim ⚡️ @drfahimp]

3 months of vibecoding and Scoutara is here, and this is my best try at a launch video 😄

Have a SaaS business and product-1st competition intelligence matters to you, I have a 30 day free trial promo in comments

helps with:
- Positioning
- Change Tracking
- Pricing & Plans
etc

[Fahim ⚡️ @drfahimp]

@caraisuppp Congrats, I celebrate those kinda days once a year minimum

[Starter Story @starter_story]

> Claude Code launched in Feb.
> Lovable hit $100M in July.
> Cursor hit $1B in Nov.
> Claude Code hit $1B in Dec.

All of this happened in the last 12 months!!

We are still so early.

[Fahim ⚡️ @drfahimp]

Braver than building in public is actually talking to your users instead, and I don't mean session recordings, I mean real Zoom calls.

I best less than 10% of people actually do it consistently