Ravi Shankar Giri

[Aayush Giri @AayushStack]

if you haven't used copy n paste

you're making life unnecessarily difficult

https://t.co/d8meI32hd0

[Aayush Giri @AayushStack]

copynpaste, 7 weeks in

- 6,300 people in the last 90 days
- 4 paying users
- 12 integrations shipped, every one from a user email
- $0 on marketing

built it because pasting between apps kept wrecking my formatting. turns out it wasn't just me

[Aayush Giri @AayushStack]

building copynpaste started with a very specific annoyance:

copying text between apps and watching the formatting completely fall apart.

turns out thousands of other people had the same problem.

still think there's something underrated about building the tool you personally wish existed.

https://t.co/1YZfMdra4p

[Aayush Giri @AayushStack]

i always wanted to build things that people actually use.

i've spent years watching people build things, get their first users, make their first dollar from something they made and thinking “wait, is this actually real?”

because surely one random day someone isn't just going to find something i built and decide it's worth paying for.

and then it happened.

copynpaste was the first time i got that feeling.

i'm not new to building. i've been doing this for years. but seeing someone actually use something i made, and then willingly pay for it, still feels like one of those little eureka moments.

building something is one thing.

building something another person finds useful enough to pay for is completely different.

if you haven't tried https://t.co/1YZfMdra4p yet, i'd love for you to give it a shot.

[Aayush Giri @AayushStack]

a professor asked if i offer an educator discount for https://t.co/1YZfMdqCeR

i hadn't thought about it. now it's policy:
50% off lifetime for anyone teaching or studying. email me from

your .edu address.

teachers spend their whole day moving text between docs, email and slides. seems like exactly the right people to help.

[Ravi Shankar Giri @ravigiri08]

@AayushStack Health is wealth

[Aayush Giri @AayushStack]

still feels kinda unreal seeing someone actually use something i built!!

like i know this is literally the point of building a product, but seeing it solve a real problem for someone hits different:)

[Aayush Giri @AayushStack]

now I know what people want on https://t.co/d8meI32hd0

[Aayush Giri @AayushStack]

A month in, and copynpaste has been used by people on nearly every continent. 🌍

I built it to fix my own annoyance. Turns out that annoyance is pretty universal.

Wild to see a little tool travel this far.

https://t.co/d8meI32hd0

[Ravi Shankar Giri @ravigiri08]

@AayushStack Best to use while copy and paste

[Aayush Giri @AayushStack]

A month ago I built copynpaste to fix something that annoyed me every single day: you copy text from one app, paste it into another, and the formatting falls apart.

Turns out I wasn't the only one.

~4,000 people used it in the last 30 days. This was achieved with $0 spend on marketing. so I feel this is genuinely a problem a lot of people like me face.

Still a little surreal to build the thing you needed and watch other people need it too.

https://t.co/1YZfMdra4p

[Aayush Giri @AayushStack]

devrel travel looks glamorous from the outside, you see pics like this and think “damn, nice life”

but here’s the thing, this job requires you to talk. a lot. workshops, talks, twitter spaces, 1:1s with devs, answering the same questions with the same energy every single time and it only works if you genuinely love it. like actually love explaining how things work to people because if you don’t, you’re just performing enthusiasm for a paycheck. and developers can smell that from a mile away the perks are real. the views are beautiful. but so is the energy it takes to stay “on” when you’re exhausted as

uncle ben once told my friend spiderman - with great power comes great responsibility
this has to be a passion. otherwise you’re just working to work.

[Aayush Giri @AayushStack]

i've been building https://t.co/x0DEHbdehE in public, and today it's live.

the idea is that every @ethereum development as one 60-word card you can actually finish. protocol research, governance votes, client releases, exploits. no charts, no threads, no scrolling for the point. it pulls the last 24 hours across 90+ sources every 6 hours and turns each story into a card with its own cover image.

building in public meant launch day was honest. i shipped it, then spent the whole afternoon finding my own bugs: the feed quietly stopped updating (my summarizer's api key hit its weekly limit), every card image was silently blocked by one line of security config, and a finished pipeline run kept hanging for two hours pretending to be a timeout. i fixed them one at a time, out loud.

where it landed is fresh news, every card imaged, running on cents a week, with a pipeline that fails over to a backup model when one runs dry and retires stale news for free, so it keeps going on its own.

i made this mostly solo. if you keep up with ethereum, i'd genuinely love for you to try it and tell me what's broken or missing. even a quick look would mean a lot to me.

https://t.co/x0DEHbdehE

built this partly because i loved how folks like @evan_van_ness and @sassal0x keep ethereum readable for the rest of us. and @austingriffith / @buidlguidl for making shipped tools the whole point. if any of you ever get a minute, i'd love your honest take 🙏

[Aayush Giri @AayushStack]

so every failure mode from today is closed, a quota outage falls over to a backup model, a finished run exits instead of hanging, spend is capped per card. shipped ugly, stabilized by evening. that part nobody tweets, but it's the real launch. https://t.co/x0DEHbdehE

I am loving building using @OpenRouter

[Aayush Giri @AayushStack]

still a little stunned by this. copynpaste hit #1 on r/InternetIsBeautiful, 9,500+ views in under 5 hours, on a subreddit with over a million people. all for a tiny tool that does one thing, paste between apps without the formatting breaking. genuinely grateful people are finding it useful.

[Aayush Giri @AayushStack]

nobody talks about how isolating early startup life actually is, so here's the unglamorous version.

the founder content online is all upside. the wins, the raises, the "we hit a milestone" posts. what's missing is the long flat middle where nothing is working yet and nobody's clapping and you have to generate your own belief from scratch every single morning because the world isn't going to lend you any.

that's the actual skill. not vision, not hustle, not any of the words people put on slides. the skill is continuing to do good work in the absence of feedback. holding standards when no one's checking. caring about a detail that no user will ever notice but you'll know is wrong.

i think this is why so many talented people don't make it through. not because they lack ability. they just can't survive the silence. they need the room to clap to keep going, and the room is empty for a very long time before it isn't.

if you're in that silent stretch right now, building something hard that nobody's noticed yet, i don't have a motivational line for you. i just want you to know the silence is the normal part. it's not a signal. keep going or don't, but don't let the quiet be the thing that decides it.

[Aayush Giri @AayushStack]

your biggest professional growth happens in the gap between what you know and what you need to know.

comfort zones expand slowly, necessity zones expand instantly. put yourself in situations slightly beyond your current capability.

[Aayush Giri @AayushStack]

your network determines your net worth, but your character determines your network.

people remember how you made them feel more than what you accomplished.

be generous with credit, stingy with blame, quick to help, slow to judge.

[Ravi Shankar Giri @ravigiri08]

@AayushStack “Absolutely agree — the potential is huge, but the ecosystem needs more builders than hype creators.”

[Aayush Giri @AayushStack]

@marek_ @Celo @artemis__xyz @cLabs @Morpho ohh thanks! by the way this is the context in which I the asked question