Jared James

Building the social media project management platform @maeve_social with @brieanna_jade to 10k MRR, while growing our engagement ring company LILY DIA

[Jared James @jaredjames_]

Hey everyone, I want to introduce myself :)

I'm Jared. I quit my 9-5 (as a previous software/product engineer) to build LILY DIA, an engagement ring company in Melbourne.

I am now building @maeve_social with my partner @brieanna_jade, an all-in-one social media management platform to help build and grow brands. Which we're using to grow our engagement ring brand and personal brand.

Follow along as I share our journey to our first goal of 10K MRR so we can get Brie out of the 9-5 in the next 300 days.

I would love to connect with other early-stage founders ❤️

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@mrclhnz The Chinese use red as a positive colour in their charts. These guys are just missing out and you’re better off 👀🤓

As Taylor swift would say, shake it off.

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@adamofk_ Goodluck bro

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@levelsio @ScrapingBee lol reading this hurt my head with no one understanding your main issue is with SERP blocking 🤦

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@khushiirl Gitlords clearly

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@skirano Hmm wonder if it’ll get engagement rings right. Would save me so much money in design assets.

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@Isaac_Dev0 Need to start doing both 👀

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@bogdan_ai @Meta @stripe @OpenAI @claudeai Decent breakdown ! Thx for sharing :)

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@arvidkahl

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@TerekhinIvan the average position is juicy

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@neelnimbalkar Nice mostly X or LinkedIn?

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@eliana_jordan These backgrounds though... I’m a firm believer that when you take both feet off the safety line, you can do some pretty cool things!

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@CinderwayInt 🤌time to get those DM fingers warmed up.

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@Guronnimo Yeah feed seems to be showing posts from quite a few hours ago.

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I got in an Uber from the airport and he had free Spotify on. The same woman saying the same thing over and over and over and over again.

He was also playing some song about f’n a grandma, while driving a 1990s car with seat covers straight out of the movie Psycho, lol.

Overall, a great experience being back in Melb.

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@JonBuildsHQ A SaaS vanished locating orb, clearly.

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@abeltennisxtech haha yeah okay that makes sense. I have configured both to be super to the point because I also get annoyed when they decide to have quite the chat when you just want the answer.

I guess humans woft too right, that's where they got it from 😅

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@mikeydsoftware 😂how is something so small and fluffy so painful. I'm allergic, so this is my worst fear haha.

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It’s because it’s a feature within other social apps. Stand alone is harder to sell.

You also have to be technical sales driven to understand the benefit of it and how to use it correctly. So it’s not an inherently easy to use product for most people.

If I was to sell this as a stand alone I would probs pitch agencies as they can sell it to their clients as an extra ad and it’ll make them look more active.

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@Shpigford @1Password Haha yeah, and it’s even better when it pops up when it shouldn’t or you even get two of them !

Think the designers forgot what invisible design looks like unfortunately.

Ty for posting this tho because I didn’t look to see if you can switch back 🫡