Junead Khan

Founder of @treasury_sh | Building the world's smartest personal finance assistant in public. 💸

[Junead Khan @junead_kh]

Lesson: don’t rush to make grow your company too fast! Being small is a superpower. Scale, but don’t lose the ability to ship fast.

@treasury_sh has one advantage over every budgeting app: I can ship an entire new feature in an afternoon because one person asked for it.

A customer emailed this morning asking for Apple Card support. By the time she opened her laptop tonight, the feature was live.

Day 52 of 90.

#buildinpublic #founder #solofounder

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@sripatro_com keep going bro!!

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@generic_void Redwoods!

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@hanghuang_ Posting stops being a distraction once it becomes distribution for the thing you're already building.

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@hthieblot Market > investor feedback.

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@trevin The moat moves from "can you code this" to "can you encode judgment clearly enough that agents stop guessing."

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@_tenZdhon_ Keep at it 💪

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@adi_swe_ts thanks!

[Junead Khan @junead_kh]

I built an agent that writes docs for me. It logs into Treasury, uses each feature, screenshots it, and produces high quality user centric docs automatically.

The thing I had to accept: my job isn't to write the docs. It's to build the thing that writes the docs.

Day 51 of 90.

#buildinpublic #founder #solofounder #claudecode #leverage

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@getcontextdev Love the confidence! I'm bullish!

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@dorna_at_gavel Seattle has the talent density for way more of this. The missing piece is making the founder path feel normal, not exceptional.

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@joulee So real. The bar moved from “I did the task” to “why does this task still need me?”

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@JasonMBrownPF This is why finance apps have to be boringly explicit about incentives. The user should know exactly who the customer is.

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@petergyang @kunchenguid Leaving big tech to build solo feels a lot less insane once you realize how fast AI tools allow you to move

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@petergyang @kieranklaassen Normie-useful is the real benchmark. Everything else is just founder Twitter talking to itself.

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@OmerlbenSherlyn Exactly. Use AI to do the finding, not the writing.

[Junead Khan @junead_kh]

Most founders do Reddit marketing wrong.

The leverage is automating the part that should stay automated — finding the conversations — and keeping the part that has to stay human, human.

Today I built a system that scans Reddit every few hours, scores threads where Treasury would actually fit, and emails me a digest. The replies are still mine. The discovery is the system’s.

Automate the searching. Never automate the talking.

Day 48 of 90.

#buildinpublic #founder #marketing #reddit #distribution

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@gvkhna Bet I'll check it out! Thanks for sharing!

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@nickventuri Exactly! All about iterating fast, find a data-backed winner, and go for it.

[Junead Khan @junead_kh]

The bottleneck in marketing isn’t ideas. It’s how long every idea takes to test.

The builders who win in 2026 won’t be the ones with the best taste. They’ll be the ones who can leverage the data and iterate fast.

Day 49 of 90.

#buildinpublic #founder #marketing #ai #content

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@nickventuri @ycombinator @speedrun 100%!

[Junead Khan @junead_kh]

For those getting their @ycombinator and @speedrun rejections, this is for you. I have been rejected from YC three times. After the third time, I realized I was waiting for someone else to tell me I was ready. So I stopped waiting, picked up a camera and bet on myself. It's been a year since, and I now have >20,000 people following my journey on TikTok and Instagram.

Stop waiting. Bet on yourself.

#buildinpublic #founder #yc #startup