JM

Man on a mission!
Think and act.

[BeyondAfrica.org, Austin TX, Nov 7 @AdewaleYusuf_]

Feature is not what makes your app a business; it's revenue!

[Sam Otigba @SamuelOtigba]

Money or not, unnecessary humility is a shield.

It protects you from the parts of people’s nature they only reveal when they think you have nothing they need. That’s when they stop performing.

That tells you everything you need to know.

[Finn Mallery @fin465]

in @ycombinator they have a playbook on how to get customers ASAP for your startup.

if you follow this, you’ll brute force your way to 100 customers, almost no matter what your product is.

Here it is:

1/ launch-max.

product hunt, hackerNews, devhunt, betalist, peerlist, indie hackers, etc. YC tells you to launch 3 times MINIMUM

2/ pull your competitor’s strongest backlinks and get yourself listed in the same places.

whatever article they have listed, you make a better version and ask the site to replace it (or supplement) with yours.

3/ WARM OUTBOUND.

Everyone knows about building in public. but you still need to capitalize on the 99% of leads who see your content but don’t come inbound

scrape everyone who likes your posts on Linkedin each week, check if they fit your customer profile, and message them.

you set this up to fire automatically with @origamichat (i dropped a prompt in the comments)

4/ find 20 to 30 ugc creators on tiktok / instagram in your niche. ask them to create content about your product, ideally from a fresh account.

pay them a fixed fee ($15–$30 per video) plus performance incentives ($1k for 1 million views, etc).

you can use @sideshift_app (best creators imo) and line up 20+ of these creators in 1 day

5/ when building in public, a video is 10x better than an image/text - spam use cases of ur product on X/Linkedin

6/ figure out where your customers actually spend time.

which slack/discord groups are they in? what newsletters do they open? which podcasts and accounts do they follow? pay those people for shoutouts

7/ there's a fresh trend on x basically every week. jump on the relevant ones and fold your product in (like i’m doing right now).

To find trends i just use Origami & search “Lead Gen/GTM posts that are viral on X” to find the best posts every week in my niche

Then, I will reply to those, quote tweet them, and use the formats that work myself

(that’s the secret to why my account has high engagement BTW - you can do this too)
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if you are doing all this every single week and DO NOT GIVE UP (launching, posting demos, contacting new customers)

I guarantee you will hit your customer goals. Then the game becomes retention.

will be posting 2-3 more growth hacks every single week

[Startup Archive @StartupArchive_]

Peter Thiel on the question he asks every startup founder he invests in

“Why will the 20th talented person join your company when they can get paid way more at Google, they will have to work way less hard at Google, and it will look better on their resume to go to Google?”

The 20th employee won’t get the equity or prestige that someone on the founding team will get, so there needs to be another incentive if you’re going to build a truly great company and attract the best people in the world.

Thiel believes the best answer is something along the lines of:

“This is the only place in the world where you can work on this incredibly important problem.”

He continues:

“It has to—on some dimension—be a really important problem that at least some people think is the most important problem in the world. Those are the kind of businesses that are unique, and when they work, they end up being leaders in their respective markets.”

If it’s a problem that a bunch of other team are working on, it will be hard to attract a truly world-class employee #20.

[Ivan Burazin @ivanburazin]

The founder of Postman says you have to kill your existing org chart, especially if you're still operating with a pre ai hierarchy arrangement.

The modern org chart, according to @a85:

- wide span of control (even within exec team)
- work directly with ICs, not through layers
- either you're building, or you're selling

Projects are led by staff/principal engineers with high agency. They see across the board as well as deep in the stack.

Product managers are building APIs and prototyping in Claude instead of writing PRDs.

Designers are shipping PRs through Cursor directly instead of relying solely on Figma.

Everyone is building. And the management's job is to develop better judgment.

[Andrea Bosoni @theandreboso]

Not sure what’s happening with Claude but since yesterday I’ve been hitting my usage limits with just a few prompts. Until a few days ago the same prompts would have consumed maybe 5% of the limits (I’m on the Pro plan). I hope this is a bug and not the new normal because this is absolutely unusable.

[Osas @osazenoo]

Don’t overshare your plans.

Most of the big ideas you see around were stolen from people who over-shared.

[ℏεsam @Hesamation]

CS students need to hear this. if you don’t have a deep genuine passion for the subject, building stuff, and learning to become one with AI, drop out. the field has no tolerance for mediocracy at this point, the saturation is real.

[Lawrence @iKillCuriosity]

Should have taken this information to the grave.

[JM @echoesofjohn]

From telegraphs to wire transfers to digital wallets. Now it’s stablecoin. That’s survival and not marketing. When a legacy player moves on-chain, it’s a sign that the real game has shifted. This next phase of payments is not about speed. It’s about adapting. #WesternUnion

[JM @echoesofjohn]

Over time, focus and attention compounds and yields results.

[samuel Opoku @sammy_opk]

Experiment 101: Building In Public!
Take 2 🎬 Fear of Failure 😨

[JM @echoesofjohn]

@solscanofficial @solana_devs @solana @solana_devs Does the ATA program mean anything in this case?
Can the USDC be retrieved?
Please, I'd appreciate all the help I can get

[JM @echoesofjohn]

🚨 Help Needed – I sent @USDC to Wrong Wallet on @solana
I snt 11,363 USDC to 4x2jefuuMijBhy1xuwu1DoAaRHPkfWxrw6Q9QUvJUXE instd of 4x2jefuuMijBhy1xuwu1DoAaRHPkfWxrw6Q9QUvJUXEL
The tx minted a new SOL wallet & is confirmed on-chain but cannot be assessed.

[JM @echoesofjohn]

As seen on @solscanofficial, the tx is confirmed https://t.co/RXCn58Bow1

Is there something that can be done @solana_devs

[JM @echoesofjohn]

Awaken the genius within

[JM @echoesofjohn]

Verifying myself: I am jotmaxx on https://t.co/EBs1ptljBO. gOnDQMe4pQDMGL-y7V_8OEHtAxcqXA5Q2qYz / https://t.co/zjKaOBGVXs

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Improved version of @Neuralink update

[Upright @uprightventures]

Tune in to the latest conversation with @Celo’s @angeloptk, @celo_camp Batch 8 Grand Prize recipient @BitGifty, and @uprightventures @alonshavit_ about launching a project on @minipay!

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