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[Hong @Hong150488]

People think focus means saying yes to the thing you’ve got to focus on. But that’s not what it means at all. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas that there are… Innovation is saying no to 1,000 things.”

Steve Jobs

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@meshtimes_ cute

[AmirMušić @AmirMushich]

Pro designers know: presentation = sales

I'm building tools that help creators present their work a more engaging way - for their clients or for their audience

My new prototype - Bento grid builder/animator
It's rough, but feel free to test:

Link: https://t.co/BXQ2XxmBCJ

[Hong @Hong150488]

@rileyj_s No words created in all of human existence could ever describe it.

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@jenny_wen Nice

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@lucasxfields nice

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@RaminNasibov Bluetooth.

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@greg16676935420 Adobe Illustrator.

[Nils @nilseller]

How are vintage sardine can designs this good?

[breno @industrielegie]

Navajo weaver Marilou Schultz (1954-) and her woven chips

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@nikitabier I want the sense of satisfaction that dopamine provides; I don't want to see the whole process. And viruses are actually beneficial to the adaptive immune system.

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@famous_dyl How?

[Fabio - abduzeedo @abduzeedo]

Luciano Quintana crafts a beautiful visual language for RETIRO in Argentina with an elegant and classic look.

The dining space balances culinary precision with slow hospitality. A high-contrast serif wordmark anchors this branding design across print pieces. Subtle calligraphic flourishes introduce human warmth into formal printed artifacts. Natural paper stocks contrast with rich black typographic ink across touchpoints.

https://t.co/hgiAdY343e

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@RaminNasibov The book itself is an advertisement for the author.

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@Framer_X haha cool

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https://t.co/jidEU5eLQ9

[Hong @Hong150488]

you've been looking for a SaaS idea but don't know where to start.

Angus Chang had the same problem — until his bank wouldn't let him export transaction data to Excel.

here's how he turned that frustration into $40,000/month:

the idea:
→ needed years of bank data to track spending
→ bank only exported PDFs
→ wrote code to parse the PDF himself
→ realized thousands of people had the same problem
the build:
→ one week. one friend. that's the entire team.
→ Kotlin backend, Next.js frontend
→ AWS EC2 + Netlify + Stripe
→ launched. done.
marketing — everything that DIDN'T work:
→ Google Ads: spent $1,000, made $300 — stopped
→ cold email: 3 months, 1 sale, a lot of angry replies — stopped
→ Twitter and blogging: lots of attention, zero users — stopped
marketing — the only thing that worked:
→ stopped everything
→ just fixed bugs based on customer feedback
→ SEO compounded quietly over time
→ customers found him
the numbers:
→ 2021: $0
→ 2022: $6,000/month
→ 2023: $14,000/month
→ 2024: $27,000/month
→ today: $40,000/month
→ profit margin: 97.5%
→ employees: 0

what he'd tell himself on day one:
"save enough money for 2-3 years of no income. ignore social media. focus on the product."
you're in year one wondering if it's worth continuing.
Angus spent two years before he could pay rent with his revenue.
year four is when it started paying off everything that came before.
the idea doesn't need to be big.
it needs to be a problem real enough that people are already searching for a solution.
you just need to be there when they search.

[Hong @Hong150488]

@RaminNasibov “With Apple timeline too?”
Client: “Two days”

[Navalism @NavalismHQ]

"If you don’t care to be liked, they can’t touch you."

@naval

[MEK.txt @michaelmicasso]

we reap what we sow 🌱