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[ecoffie @ecoffie]

My government contract Secret Weapon.

“The FAR”

Studying the government's rule book FAR (Federal Acquisition Regulation) is boring and time consuming ..

So if you ask me where to began your learning I would say these are my Top 8 sections.

[ecoffie @ecoffie]

Great video of the world changing around us

[TBPN @tbpn]

Status is "Sims but social media." And it grew to 1M users within 19 days of launching last year. The platform now has more than 5 million user-created characters.

It's an AI-powered social RPG where users can create alternate identities, live inside simulated social worlds, and scroll simulated social feeds.

"Create your persona, join 100s of different fandoms, and watch as you gain your favorite characters as followers, post with them, become famous, or...get cancelled."

Here's our full interview with cofounder & CEO @faionur:

0:30 - What is Status?
1:16 - How the app works; growth metrics
3:16 - Monetization strategy
4:20 - Why AI creates a new form of immersive entertainment
6:35 - Why younger users embrace Status, but reject AI
7:29 - Entertainment companies exploring AI experiences to keep fans engaged between seasons

[Joseph Choi @JosephKChoi]

so apparently the head of product at Cal AI previously founded a $2M ARR dating profile analyzer app AND was a designer at Robinhood, Snap, Meta

most ppl see Cal AI as "the influencer growth case study" but when you watch how this guy thinks it's obvious that a thoughtful product team was key to the Cal AI story

0:00 Intro
1:48 Why Daniel picked the dating niche
4:45 The pre-launch Instagram playbook
5:39 Charging $15 for manual profile reviews before the app existed
6:30 The TikTok slideshow system
8:10 Unbranded to branded: how to warm up a new account
9:22 The Christmas Day post that did $5-6K in a single day
10:30 Scaling past organic with paid ads
11:05 Working with one influencer to fuel ad creative
13:14 Why the dating niche is brutal for influencer marketing
18:51 The photo pack upsell and the whales theory
19:36 Why he defaults the paywall to annual
23:02 The psychology behind onboarding screen order
26:03 Retention features that survive the 3-day trial
27:42 Groups, streaks, milestones, building network effects
30:23 What he learned at Cal AI, Robinhood, Snap, and Meta
35:32 Cal AI's design philosophy: three screens an influencer can show
37:10 Daniel's framework for picking a new app idea
40:53 Finding viral content niches before you build
44:27 The influencer-equity playbook for shipping multiple apps
46:52 Distribution strategies that are dying vs coming up
48:57 The Cal AI acquisition by MyFitnessPal
51:07 Final Thoughts

[ecoffie @ecoffie]

Saving this for reference later

[Zach Yadegari @zach_yadegari]

I'm 19 years old.

At 16 I sold my unblocked gaming website for $100k.

At 18 I sold Cal AI while at $40M ARR.

Now, my co just hit $300K MRR a month after launch.

The most important lesson I've learned to be successful in consumer is to dumb everything down.

1) Demonstrate the value of your product in 3 seconds or less in any advertising material.

2) Write messaging as if you are talking to a 3rd grader.

3) Make buttons so obvious that you can't get lost.

The is the key concept that makes apps viral and also high converting.

[Big Brain Business @BigBrainBizness]

Byron Allen, Founder of Allen Media Group, explains how treating business like a contact sport unlocks unlimited capital:

Byron once borrowed $310 million on a Friday to acquire the Weather Channel. He paid it back in five months.

When the lender hit him with a $28 million prepayment penalty for closing too quickly, he paid that too.

His philosophy on why capital is never the real obstacle:

"Business is a contact sport. You're nothing more than economic athletes. They will see your passion. They will see your stats. And they will always want you on their team because you make them money."

The framing shift here is everything.

Byron sees founders as athletes whose performance is being evaluated by people who need them to win.

"You have unlimited amounts of capital available to you if your hustle is at the highest level."

@RealByronAllen drives the point home:

"Keep your hustle at the highest level because capital is always looking for you to get the money back and a return. There's trillions and trillions and trillions of dollars of capital looking for you. Go get it."

The takeaway: Capital is hunting for operators who can put up the stats. Hustle at the highest level, and the money will find you.

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

I’m in love with this sentence:

“Your laziness is disrespectful for the people who believe in you.”

[Tim Healthy lifestyle 🏋️‍♀️ @clint_timmy]

Put lime on watermelon and watch what happens. Pharmacies don't want you to know this

[Noisy @noisyb0y1]

17 year old Spanish student opened Google Maps and typed "roofing contractors near me."

Found Maggie Roofing Contractors - 5.0 stars, 5 reviews and no website. A company doing $5,000-15,000 roofing jobs that nobody can find online.

He pasted their name and reviews into ChatGPT 5.5. 2 minutes later - a complete website brief with tone of voice, page structure and SEO meta tags. Opened Emergent, pasted the brief - an hour later a live site with a "Scranton's Trusted Roofing Experts" header, services section and a "Call Now" button.

Then he opened Gmail and sent them a link to the finished preview. Not a proposal - a finished product they could already see.

The owner called the next morning. Because he'd been meaning to build a website for two years and never found the time.

First week - 7 emails sent, 3 clients, $4,200. First month - $11,000.

Five million businesses on Google Maps are still waiting for that email.

[leopardracer @leopardracer]

3 guys. Same apartment. $1.5 billion paid out by Roblox in 2025.

They figured out the code doesn’t matter anymore.

Roblox has 380 million monthly users. $1.5B paid to creators last year. Up 31% from the year before.

The top 1,000 creators averaged $1.3 million each.

The wall that kept everyone out was always Luau - Roblox’s custom programming language. You needed to learn it. Most people never did.

Claude writes Luau. And it connects directly to Roblox Studio via MCP.

One developer built a full mining tycoon - currency system, shop, rebirth mechanics, persistent data - in 2 hours. Zero scripting experience. Every line of code generated by AI.

These guys live together. They share a kitchen and a game engine. And they claim to make millions doing exactly this.

The barrier is gone.

The window is open.

Most people still haven’t noticed.

[Alex Hormozi @AlexHormozi]

If you're on your last dollar and struggling to get customers, you need to raise prices, not lower them. If customers are scarce, you have to make them count. Do WAYYYY more for them. And charge WAYYY MORE to do it.

[Michael Seibel @mwseibel]

It took me 43 years to realize there are no adult. Just kids in adult bodies trying to figure it things out the best they can.

[𝐀𝐍𝐓𝐔𝐍𝐄𝐒 @Antunes1]

Boomers will tell you you’re not working hard enough.

[✒️ @Literariium]

“Asking is a moment’s shame; not asking is a lifetime’s shame”

— Japanese Proverb

[ecoffie @ecoffie]

My brother did this and has been saying this for years.

Everyone thought he was crazy. He got the last laugh.

[blue @bluewmist]

new concept: reverse retirement

i do what i want until i'm 60 and then get a shitty desk job for the rest of my life

[ecoffie @ecoffie]

I did one of these in Colombia, great experience.

[Kana @Kanatunga]

if u have money, u can waste ur time in different ways

[Frankie™️🦅 @B7frankH]

A Turkish proverb says, “If a father bathes his children, both will laugh, and if a son bathes his father, both will cry.” Such is the painful beauty of life, where love comes full circle with time.

[ecoffie @ecoffie]

I am experiencing this first hand.

Invigorating feeling building what you want

[Naval @naval]

Vibe coding is more addictive than any video game ever made (if you know what you want to build).

[ecoffie @ecoffie]

Gary Vee has been saying this for a minute.

Shout out to the 🐐

Thanks Chris for confirming.

[Chris Koerner @mhp_guy]

Meet Kip. Kip is making $450k/ year in a business he started with zero followers, zero experience and a storage unit full of kitchen appliances.

In the last 30 days he made $45k.

Some days, he can make up to $1500/hour.

The business:
Live selling on WhatNot.

If you even have the slightest bit interest in something like this, you can do what Kip has done.

He breaks down how anyone can make their first $1000 live selling.

This episode was so fun!

Also taking suggestions for my next livestream on WhatNot.

[Watcher.Guru @WatcherGuru]

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