Jano le Roux

I help 100+ high-growth brands do marketing that doesn’t feel like marketing. I share what I learn @Medium

[Jano le Roux @janoleroux]

I spent 30 days analyzing Airbnb’s marketing, here’s what I learned:

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@SmolMacApp Saves me a ton of time

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Photos are STILL the #1 thing absolutely murdering website speed.

[Smol @SmolMacApp]

✨Introducing Smol for Mac.

A tiny app that makes huge files dramatically smaller — right on your Mac.

• 100% offline & on-device
• Compresses images, PDFs, and videos
• Built with a neural compression pipeline
• Designed for faster websites & workflows
• Lives in your menu bar
• No subscriptions
• No accounts
• No uploading private files to random servers

Made for designers, developers, creators, and anyone tired of seeing:

“File too large.”

Intro pricing is $29 one-time.

First 100 people to repost this, follow us, and tweet about Smol, DM us.

We’ll send you a free lifetime license 🤝

[Jano le Roux @janoleroux]

@yahyavision I love @SmolMacApp. Very Mac first app. Great for working with assets and making them web-ready on the fly.

[Smol @SmolMacApp]

Introducing Smol.

Smol makes files smaller — images, PDFs, and videos — instantly, right on your Mac. No cloud. No uploads. No accounts.

Every designer, developer, and creative runs into the same invisible tax:

Files are too big.

Too big to email. Too slow to upload. Too heavy for Notion. Too annoying for Slack. Too bulky for Git.

So we all do the same dance:

Find a website. Upload the file. Wait. Download it. Rename it. Move it back.

Over and over again.

Smol is the faster way.

It lives in your menu bar. You drop a file, it gets smaller, and you move on with your day.

No browser tabs.
No subscriptions.
No sending private files to strangers’ servers.

The best local compression for a one-time $29. (Introductory price.)

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@SolidariDirk @elonmusk This is blatant racism. Not even hiding it anymore.

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The Zero-Markup Domain: Transfer Your Domain to Cloudflare for Price and Security. Wholesale Pricing: No markup, ever. You pay what Cloudflare pays: https://t.co/1ToSU0E6Th

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@AlexBurlis Fly io?

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@AlexBurlis For speed I also recommend mlx-lm. Very fine-tuned for performance on M chips.

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@AlexBurlis I recommend giving the Liquid AI models a try. I’ve been very impressed by their speed and knowledge. :)

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@wannercashcow 11

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@simonfaceless VOICE

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One of the most useful AI tools I’ve come across on X today.

[Alex @AlexBurlis]

✨Today I'm launching Paraspeech on Producthunt.

It's one of the fastest real-time speech to text apps for Mac and it's:

•⁠ ⁠100% offline and on-device
•⁠ ⁠<40ms cold-start time
•⁠ ⁠⁠<300ms transcriptions
•⁠ ⁠barely touches battery & just needs 200MB of RAM
•⁠ ⁠⁠no subscription!

First 100 people get it for $19.99 before prices increase to $39.99. If you tweet about, I'll send you a free lifetime license.

[Jano le Roux @janoleroux]

I don’t know what @elonmusk did, but my X feed is so much better put together lately. Really interesting intellectual posts this week.

No more political nonsense and brain rot.
What a beautiful difference from Meta and TikTok!!

I’ve really been enjoying the changes.

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@VibeMarketer_ FOREPLAY

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@budapp You forgot about me 😢

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@sandboxvibe I’d love to try it. I just downloaded the app.