RafiqIslam

Cofounder/CEO@Safewheel. Generalist.

Built a VC-funded startup straight out of college. Failed. Took a career break to travel. Now trying again.

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Hiring means absolutely slowing down your company unless absolutely needed.

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When you talk to successful founders, they always wish they'd hired fewer top managers from outside. I don't think I've ever met a founder who wished he or she had promoted fewer people from within.

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Your usage restrictions are my opportunity.

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@scooby_dooby07 @X Awesome, let’s stay connected

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@saloniiio We are already connected @saloniiio still this post keeps coming to my feed. Should I unfollow you and follow again everytime? 😂

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@clicknify Hey man, sure. Followed you

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@zarazhangrui I think I am quite good with names. Monkeyslap, wondarlone - these are some example names of my products. And I somehow always get the dot com available for my names.

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4. Promise the client "production-ready by Monday." It's Friday, 5pm.

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The only negative part of vibe coding is when it’s handed to sales people.

They build a landing page and as always acts hyper confidently over the engineers.

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3. Underestimate the thinking behind stack architecture and establish office wise small talk saying engineers are adamant, unsocial and unaware of business urgency

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2. Come up with unrealistic expectations from devs in terms of speed.

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1. They then thinks AI already replaced engineers and it’s the sales that is needed now.

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@inferredbylisa Same. Google meet over Zoom anyday for me!

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@inferredbylisa I think this rather creates noise sometimes that shifts your attention from true potential customer to generic audience building.

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Describe your startup in three words. Then drop the url.

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@LauraLoumd @mytwillot Thanks, did you visit the site? What’s the one thing you loved and one thing you hated? Also, followed you

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If you are trying to build something with no users yet, drop your url and I promise I will use it and give feedback. Let’s connect as well.

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@mytwillot I will definitely check it out and will give you feedback. I am building https://t.co/LAo12D2bdi

Feedback welcome. Also let’s connect. Followed you.

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@ercdamco Followed you, let’s connect

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