Flora Olivia

I refresh X as thoughtlessly as some twirl their hair...

[Will @athcanft]

to make quick money with ios apps:

1/ target an insecurity
looksmaxxing, fitness, quitting corn - apps that promise self-improvement convert insanely well

2/ no free trial
100% hard paywall. i am not going to expand on this just fucking do it

3/ charge weekly, not monthly
$9.99/wk feels like nothing and can pulls in $40/mo per subscriber - it anchors your $59.99/year as cheap too

4/ copy competitor ads
go on meta ad library, find what works in adjacent niches, run the same format on tiktok

5/ retention offers
if a user doesn’t subscribe, send them a noti a day later - if they’re subscribed and want to cancel, show them 50% off

[Marc Lou @marclou]

Nothing I buy makes me happy.

I find happiness in simple things: reading a book with a coffee, a hard workout, building apps, a walk with my wife.

Money solved my money problems. I don't worry about next month's rent anymore.

But everything that makes me genuinely happy costs little or nothing at all.

[Hridoy Reh @hridoyreh]

This GUY built his first macOS app.

And, gained 15,000 users in just 3 months.

First of all,

He shared the app on a Discord server.

And he continues to improve it regularly.

One day, a tweet went viral.

The app crossed 1,000 users overnight.

Since then,

It is growing through SEO...

[Will @athcanft]

i’ve spent over a year on b2c mobile apps

- $10K mrr
- 75% churn
- 15% apple tax
- 30% profit margins

i’ve recently started making b2b web apps

- $3K mrr
- 30% churn
- 2.5% stripe fees
- 80-90% profit margins

in making around the same profit from both

the only reason i want to move more towards B2B saas is because it’s far more mentally rewarding building something i’m proud of

[andrei saioc @asaio87]

I saw a guy on Reddit today: he built 9 apps, but has 0 users and 0 MRR

this isn't the guy I talked to a few days ago

apparently there are many more

think about how many vibe coders have built apps, and have 0 users, and havent even posted to social media

turns out after all, that a lot of those tokens were used to build slop

[Lily Ray 😏 @lilyraynyc]

I think the next frontier of spam fighting from the search/AI companies is going to hit one of the most popular page types in SEO/GEO right now: comparison and alternative pages.

These are pages on your own site that pit your brand against competitors, across the whole brand or a specific product or service (Brand X vs. Y, Product X vs. Y, [Competitor] Alternatives).

They've been making the rounds as an SEO/GEO goldmine lately, and "build a lot of these" is advice I keep hearing at conferences and reading in industry blogs and social posts.

This is similar to what I've been sharing all year with "listicles" - and I've got a new Substack piece coming out (ASAP!) on how Google and OpenAI are tuning their AI answers to lean less on brands promoting themselves. Stay tuned for that.

Comparison pages are trickier and more nuanced. There are genuine use cases for doing them well, especially at a small scale, and I've occasionally recommended them to clients in certain situations.

But like everything in SEO: once a tactic works, it becomes popular and people scale it. (File under: "this is why we can't have nice things" 🫠)

The "build these pages" advice inevitably leads folks to use AI to spin up as many as possible. I've already advised several companies that launched dozens, even hundreds of comparison/alternative pages (AKA an "SEO pattern") and ran into trouble. For example, A couple sites got hit by Google's late January update this year.

The fundamental problem: like any other "review" page, Google already has strict criteria for product reviews. The core requirement is that you prove you actually tried and tested the product, with evidence.

For a brand comparing itself to competitors, meeting that bar would mean you've hired your competitor(s) and your own company, and are authentically reviewing your honest experience using their services. How many brands can say they've actually done that? My guess is probably close to 0.

What usually ends up happening instead is brands do "research" about their competition, leaning on negative reviews of their competitors or worse - making up incorrect or untrue information to make your own offering look better than theirs.

I believe we're already seeing - and will keep seeing - Google, OpenAI and other AI companies look for "objective" 3rd party reviews* instead of leaning on biased brand content when they generate answers. This is ultimately why I think search/AI companies lean so heavily into Reddit discussions, YouTube reviews, Trustpilot, G2, and other major review sites.

(*Yes, I know these 3rd party sites are often influenced / manipulated / pay-to-play as well... so that's a big challenge for them too.)

So, as always: test, experiment, learn. But my spidey senses say that building these pages at scale - and doing it inauthentically - like trashing your competitor while calling yourself the best - is risky. When too many sites adopt these approaches, they become a liability long-term.

[Dan Kulkov @DanKulkov]

experimenting with parity pricing 💰

> $24.99 default lifetime price
> Big Mac index

🇮🇳 India and 🇮🇩 Indonesia getting the biggest discounts

[Nami₊˚⊹ ᰔ @psyuttik]

Elon Musk: Trillionaire
Bill Gates: Billionaire
Neymar: Millionaire

what are you ??

[Kevin Szabo @KevinSzabo14]

Number 1 growth hack to build your X:

Take care of your health.

•Sleep for focus
•Eat well for focus
•Hydrate for focus

You don’t need more time, you need to build consistency by having the right energy balance.

[Hridoy Reh @hridoyreh]

Most founders don't get 100 customers.

Not because their product is bad.

Because nobody knows it exists.

Here's how to fix that:

[Starter Story @starter_story]

If you think abt it, you're really only a few DEEP WORK hours away from completely changing your life:

[Foundr @foundr]

Carry the vision clearly enough that the team can make decisions without you in the room.

[Hridoy Reh @hridoyreh]

20 productivity hacks for indie hackers:

1. Time-block your day.
2. Build before you consume content.
3. Use the 80/20 rule for every task.
4. Ship something every day, even if tiny.
5. Keep a "Not To Do" list.
6. Automate repetitive tasks with AI.
7. Batch social media content weekly.
8. Use templates for emails.
9. Limit meetings to 15 minutes.
10. Validate ideas before building features.
11. Document processes once and reuse.
12. Turn customer questions into content.
13. Check analytics once per day.
14. Kill features nobody uses.
15. Keep your tech stack simple.
16. Launch ugly, improve later.
17. Start distribution alongside product.
18. Delegate low-value tasks first.
19. End of each day, plan for tomorrow.
20. Focus on revenue-generating work.

[Jesper Nissen @JespernissenSEO]

Google is indexing and ranking Facebook posts for company pages.

When you make a Facebook post, they create a standalone page in the background for that page.

I discovered that they use the first 12 to 13 words in the post content, and put into the url and in the pagetitle for the page.

What that means for SEO is, these pages rank extremely well for those first 12 to 13 keywords.

So if you want visibility on page one for your branded search terms, use Facebook posts as one of the most important weapons in your parasite seo playbook...

#facebook #seo #parasiteseo

[Henrick Johansson @compliantvc]

SpaceX stock is up $100 billion today

In one day.

And you're telling me Elon Musk can't pay a $100 billion annual wealth tax to the European Union?

It's literally just one day of wages for him.

Tax Elon Musk NOW.

[Nathan Gotch @nathangotch]

Simple SEO strategy for new brands:

Use LinkedIn to publish keyword-driven assets while you grow your website authority.

LinkedIn content often outranks our own website.

[Simons @Simon_Ingari]

Salary Negotiations

1996:
- Candidate expects 60K salary
- Company offers 90K salary
- Good fit, no wasting time

2006:
- Candidate expects 120K salary
- Company budget is 130K
- Quick discussion
- Offer letter issued

2026 ↓↓

[Starter Story @starter_story]

My daily routine while I had a full time job & building https://t.co/DjldVm9tw1 on the side:

> 5:43am: wake up
> 6:03am: walk to cafe
> 6:10am: open laptop
> 6:15am: deep work for ~2 hours
> 8:15am: close laptop
> 8:30am: go to full time job, try to stay sane
> 6:00pm: go home, workout, etc
> 9:00pm: in bed early, to do it all over again the next morning

In less than a year, I handed in my resignation.

[Hridoy Reh @hridoyreh]

Landing Pages are most important.

It can convert visitors into customers.

Here are 10 Landing Pages:

[Darius Dan @dariusdan]

I don’t hate AI. I just think the world has enough content and not enough craft.👀