Malin Shirokanski

Building Shard ($0 → $10k MRR)

Claude + VS Code

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[Malin Shirokanski @MShirokanski]

I’m building Shard to $10k MRR in public.

It’s an app for ADHD students who actually want to get sh*t done.

The plan is simple, but the execution will be hard asf👇

[Malin Shirokanski @MShirokanski]

@CesareDadamo A 1% shot at 10m—gotta aim for the stars. And the risk isn't even that big; you don't lose much nowadays, only what you paid for your AI subscription.

[Malin Shirokanski @MShirokanski]

@Layton_Gott People blame the machine, but the machine only does what the person tells it. Yeah, it hallucinates sometimes, but most of the mistakes come from the person not doing his job properly.

[Malin Shirokanski @MShirokanski]

@omarvvvr If you know, you know.

[Malin Shirokanski @MShirokanski]

@siddharthwv Being delusional enough to believe you can make it is your ticket to play the game, but it doesn't guarantee a win. You still need to show up every day for years even when nothing is working.

[Malin Shirokanski @MShirokanski]

@AKirtesh Do you think that it's worth it considering you get paid very little for the amount of time spent? I'm guessing there are other benefits that make it worthwhile.

[Malin Shirokanski @MShirokanski]

@LinoLeighton Making content is addicting for that same reason. Seeing all the comments/likes/followers gives you a dopamine boost every time.

[Malin Shirokanski @MShirokanski]

The beauty of entrepreneurship is that it's experience-based. Every business, even if it's the exact same product/service, differs in so many ways because of the circumstances and locations, meaning you can never teach it. You just have to grind away at it until you figure things out.

[Malin Shirokanski @MShirokanski]

You need a healthy dose of narcissism if you want to succeed in this life.

To win, you need the kind of unshakable self-belief where you genuinely view yourself as an outlier capable of outperforming 99% of people.

The 99% will tell you to be humble, but that exact advice keeps them, and if you follow it, will keep YOU average too.

When you dream small in fear of being arrogant, you become just another data point. Mediocrity should be your paramount fear, not failure.

[Malin Shirokanski @MShirokanski]

@LunavoxAi Because when you post on Twitter, you attract other builders mostly, so it makes sense to sell a product that your viewers will want to buy. That's my guess at least.

[Malin Shirokanski @MShirokanski]

@PashaBorsai Congratulations on getting close to your milestone.

I'm also grinding, but my current goal is 100 followers.

Let's connect. 🤝

[Malin Shirokanski @MShirokanski]

@m4npreet006 Wait, so it runs locally and you don't pay anything? But surely it's not as powerful as the actual models themselves, right?

[Malin Shirokanski @MShirokanski]

I use it to analyze the plans that Claude proposes, and surprisingly, even without having access to my code base, it can find things that Claude missed. I just go back and forth until they both agree on one plan, but I'm sure a different AI will do better. It's also quite buggy recently; it gives me errors in just day-to-day usage unrelated to coding.

[Malin Shirokanski @MShirokanski]

@omarvvvr You just have to use brute force to make that shit happen. Post so often and comment so much that the algorithm has no choice but to push your content out. (Quality matters as well, obviously.)

[Malin Shirokanski @MShirokanski]

@arthuryuzbashew Do you invest in stocks? Surely you don't spend all of that each month.

[Malin Shirokanski @MShirokanski]

@BratDotAI It would have to be my laptop. You can't really do anything without one, and then it's my Claude subscription.

[Malin Shirokanski @MShirokanski]

@pcshipp Don't you need the $100 to use it? I never bothered, because I just didn't have a task for it. Maybe I missed out, but I don't care that much, tbh.

[Malin Shirokanski @MShirokanski]

@_annakulina The dog looks like a distinguished gentleman.

[Malin Shirokanski @MShirokanski]

@robj3d3 "Build me an operating system similar to Windows — file explorer, multiple draggable apps, a working file system, settings menu. Keep building and polishing until it's genuinely usable."

[Malin Shirokanski @MShirokanski]

@StefanRows It looks so perfect that I thought it was AI at first.

[Malin Shirokanski @MShirokanski]

@Preeti_ly It's easily Gemini. It's a buggy mess.