Eloy

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[Eloy @riskmodboy]

The dream of most Saas founders is bountiful growth.

The reality will be the opposite.

At first you will be broke, passed down, ignored and overwhelmed.

It’s rare to start off with your dream.

You dream of higher demand than supply but the reality is that no one will care.

There are few instances when that is true but it’s opposite of your desired reality.

In order for your reality to be true, demand must be higher than supply.

Here’s some common supply side features founders showcase:

• You dedicate the entire time building features.
• Little to no attention in promotional work.
• Zero to minimum data insights (e.g., Heap or Mixpanel).
• No email marketing (except the ones required by law - Stripe handles this).
• No networking to customers or other founders.
• Using copy that states help rather than outcome.

Instead, work on removing the words help, learn, teach.

Replace it with develop, do, outcome.
Start creating “your problem is my problem” language.

Instead of only building features, complement it with marketing.

Let others know about your asset. And keep your customers sticky with sustained communication.

It’s cheaper to retain customers than to obtain them.

[Eloy @riskmodboy]

@giyu_codes Congrats. What was the name of the role they sought? Or did you reach out and made your own luck?

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@CathPoaster Thank goodness you aren’t into loops. It would have been such a tell.

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How well they can relate any given task to the whole of the business.

I.e. "we are going to support custom domains"!

This feature is a long term cost center did we budget?
Do we have enough customer support for the tickets?

Is copy team onboard to update articles. How about SEO? Will this create more demand elsewhere? Etc.

[Eloy @riskmodboy]

@randomrecruiter Every manager I’ve had had some long term disease or on the verge of divorce. While most ICs were less well off but free as pirates.

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@gfodor

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@gregoryblotnick “And you old men love building golden tombs and sealing the rest of us in with you.”

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@joelgrus Likely all in the App Store where no one uses or notices them

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@FreddyLA7 The incline is somewhat okay but not worth it’s entry. The real value is Rock City especially towards the sunset times. There’s a point where you can see, I think 5 states from one location.

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@BarryRoland19 40K reviews? Nothing suspicious here officer, let’s move along

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@s4rah_dev This is how you break into the cybersecurity industry. Congrats on your internship

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@tekbog It feels feature complete to me. Unless they want to extract ever more means to deliver food. My first guess to push beyond this reality would be to own the hardware layer.

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@emmettshine Thanks for sharing. Your article reinforces the need for critical thinking as more valuable than before AI became public.

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@ZackKorman None of this matters John, you’re just metadata living in someone’s markdown file. Go back to your homestead

[Eloy @riskmodboy]

This quote is amusing after coming off from a town hall in my present company saying to “power every transaction and interaction with AI”. Someone asked about token expenditure and was told to not be worrisome.

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

NEW: Amazon has reportedly scrapped its internal AI leaderboard as costs soared, with a senior executive telling staff: “don’t use AI just for the sake of using AI.”

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@MadisonMills22 Wow. Corporations are outsourcing to AI vendors who can in effect set their own salaries.

Thanks for the write up.

[Eloy @riskmodboy]

@gregorykennedy @BenPielstick @MatthewBerman Yeah that was disappointing. But my first guess when I read the tweet was a competency crisis. One where the older crowd isn’t readily refreshed with a younger generation, bringing about dilapidated states (digital or not).

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Management is all about “strong decision makers” until someone changes the UI button color from Regal Blue to magenta pink. Suddenly it’s all about “realignment”.

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@simonsarris My past months in corporate have been full push into using AI.

Then it’s followed up with leadership saying “what do you mean every dev costs a couple thousands of dollars more a month”?

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@GergelyOrosz My experience is disappointment from multiple fake jobs advertised as open. Dissatisfaction is inevitable after one too many fake interviews.

This tags along with other comments elsewhere about interviews going nowhere.

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@yacineMTB We used GatsbyJS for a series of marketing sales pages when Hugo would have sufficed. The framework was so bloated to fetch some frontmatter markdown