JAIME LEUTI

21 | Sharing progress and keeping it real |
Notes to self below:

[JAIME LEUTI @JaimeLeuti]

Goals for June & July:

1) Earn €2k+ from summer job
2) Post daily on X and reach 500 followers
3) launch first app

[Ad Professor @The_AdProfessor]

23 lessons from David Ogilvy:

1. Search all the parks in all your cities; you'll find no statues of committees.

2. The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible.

3. You are advertising to a moving parade, not a standing army.

4. Do not address your readers as though they were gathered together in a stadium. When people read your copy, they are alone.

5. Remember you are a human being writing to another human being. Neither of you is an institution

6. Tell your prospective client your weakness before they notice them. This will make you more credible when you boast about your strong points.

7. Avoiding excess in all things is a recipe for dullness and mediocrity.

8. A good advertisement is one which sells the product without drawing attention to itself.

9. There is no need for advertisements to look like advertisements. If you make them look like editorial pages, you will attract about 50% more readers

10. Big ideas come from the unconscious. This is true in art, in science, and in advertising. But your unconscious has to be well-informed, or your idea will be irrelevant

11. People who think well, write well

12. The most important word in the vocabulary of advertising is 'test'.

13. On average, five times as many people read the headline as read the body copy.

14. When you have written your headline, you have spent eighty cents out of your dollar.

15. Tell the truth, but make the truth fascinating

16. Advertising is only evil when it advertises evil things.

17. Advertising people who ignore research are as dangerous as generals who ignore decodes of enemy signals.

18. Raise your sights. Blaze new trails. Compete with the immortals.

19. I am a lousy copywriter, but I am a good editor. So I go to work editing my own draft.

20. If you're trying to persuade people to buy something, use the language in which they think.

21. Insist that due dates are kept even if it means working all night. Hard work never killed a man. People die of boredom

22. If you are lucky enough to write a good advertisement, repeat it until it stops selling.

23. At the start of your career in advertising, what you learn is more important than what you earn.

[Jay Yang @Jayyanginspires]

Naval Ravikant on how to get rich (without getting lucky):

[JAIME LEUTI @JaimeLeuti]

Making really good progress on my first ever app

The best and ultimate task, habit and goal tracker.

On track to finish by the date I set, hopefully.

Many things to improve, fix and add.
But it's been going way smoother compared to when I started

Some demo pics:

[JAIME LEUTI @JaimeLeuti]

Progress on my first ever app

With Zero technical knowledge or experience

Rough start but going really well now

Building my ideal task, goal, habit tracker

Demo below, still a long way to go, would love any feedback

[JAIME LEUTI @JaimeLeuti]

PLAYBOOK

[JAIME LEUTI @JaimeLeuti]

Life is too short to spend doing things you don't want to do,

But to do what you love for a living you need to give it all your effort and focus

Play on your strengths and cards delt, don't try to copy what others are doing

Live your best life

[JAIME LEUTI @JaimeLeuti]

Yes, try many things, but the reality is that to be the best, you need to put in countless hours and improve endlessly, otherwise, you'll be outcompeted or simply not good enough

So choose what you dedicate yourself to, and commit

Choose wisely

[JAIME LEUTI @JaimeLeuti]

Was making progress until I hit a infinite list of errors. Does anyone know how to fix this. Was building with bolt. Runs fine in the bolt previews but I get this error when trying to open it on expo go

[JAIME LEUTI @JaimeLeuti]

Next steps: I'll try and debug my cursor version, if that doesn't work or isn't as good as the bolt version then I'll use the bolt version as a base to improve upon

[JAIME LEUTI @JaimeLeuti]

Updates on building my first ever app:

Got a clear idea of what to build including all featured for V1

Trial and errored for hours trying to get a MVP, ran into endless bugs, the thing that surprisingly worked best for first draft was bolt out of all tools

[JAIME LEUTI @JaimeLeuti]

Delaying something for longer than it would actaully take to just complete it makes no sense, and we all know that, but we still delay

[JAIME LEUTI @JaimeLeuti]

"The world rewards a specific ask, and punishes the vague wish"

[JAIME LEUTI @JaimeLeuti]

If reframing your mind or perspective on a problem solves it, then it wasn't really a problem.

And the reality is that you can fix most, if not all, problems by reframing your perspective on them.

[JAIME LEUTI @JaimeLeuti]

In a world full of choices and possibilities you have to be able to decide, or else you will stay exactly where you are, with the benefits of no choice

[JAIME LEUTI @JaimeLeuti]

The belief that something is stopping you, is what's stopping you.

[JAIME LEUTI @JaimeLeuti]

@waleedsmind good point for switching the name tho, maybe something more generic would be better

[JAIME LEUTI @JaimeLeuti]

Day 1 of building my first app

Not a crazy complex AI app to make billions

Just an app that I myself would like to have

Would be interested in any feedback on the idea:

[JAIME LEUTI @JaimeLeuti]

@waleedsmind During onboarding, but updated anytime, based on two books, "The One Thing" & "Essentialism", and what works for me, not strictly 5, +-, but more is discouraged. tasks not necessarily connected to goals, but ideally to some degree, yes

[JAIME LEUTI @JaimeLeuti]

Current routine for June & July:

9:00 am - wake, breakfast, morning routine

9:30-15:30 - gym, work on first app, lunch

16:00-24:00 - summer job at restaurant

Repeat

[JAIME LEUTI @JaimeLeuti]

Goals for June & July:

1) Earn €2k+ from summer job
2) Post daily on X and reach 500 followers
3) launch first app