Santiago Ramz

Learning keeps me alive…

I use my X to keep track of things that I find useful...

[Blake Burge @blakeaburge]

Major cheat code for life: Get organized. Just get your sh*t together, really. Stop creating emergencies for yourself by being all over the place. Pick a direction. Focus. Lock in. Discipline doesn't remove every problem, but it prevents a shocking number of avoidable ones.

[max @MaxHirsch13]

Want to market your app and actually make money?

Go to Meta Ads Library. Search your competitors. Sort by Impressions.

There you go: you’ve found what angles actually work in your niche. Someone did the homework for you. Now it’s your turn to copy it.

[Santiago Ramz @sramzc]

Reminder

[Codie Sanchez @Codie_Sanchez]

Hard truth…

[aether @bluewdrift]

"Only the disciplined ones are free in life. If you are undisciplined, you are a slave to your moods" -Kipchoge

[DAN KOE @thedankoe]

The average person does not try to solve their problems or struggles. They get stuck in a routine and live the same day over and over. It does not cross their minds to snap out of it, engage in strategic thinking, and change direction so they can eventually reach a more advantageous position in life.

If you want to get ahead of 90% of people, all you have to do is pause, think, and actually attempt to overcome the struggle you're faced with.

[Santiago Ramz @sramzc]

I keep seeing people recommending this combo Sanity CMS with Astro framework

[Mads Brodt @madsbrodt]

@AliAbdaal I would go with Sanity as the CMS, and then have Claude create an Astro site that consumes the content from Sanity.

Super performant site, whatever design you want (let Claude freestyle and then adjust as needed), and a solid CMS for editors afterward.

[Andrew D. Huberman, Ph.D. @hubermanlab]

The whole body MRI thing is controversial for obvious reasons. It’s costly & there are a lot of false positives. But I have neurosurgeon friends who tell me they do life-saving surgeries *every month* b/c people got full body MRI merely b/c they curious & found operable issues.

[Santiago Ramz @sramzc]

@HealthyAlfred Would you sell this to a cartel boss’ mom?

If not, you’re scamming people…

[Santiago Ramz @sramzc]

So basically, already promise some value and paywall it, the people get the app and the result of the mini app/value

[Jake Castillo @jakecastilloooo]

19. The next wave of 8-to-9 figure apps will 100% abuse web2app funnels to keep up to 95% of profits that come through those acquisition channels.

[Jake Castillo @jakecastilloooo]

23. The fastest way to blow $50k is to pay a big influencer or celebrity to promote your app.

The audiences you’re getting in front of hardly have trust built at all with that personality and you’re really just paying for vanity reach.

And you can buy targeted reach on Meta for a tenth of the price.

[Jake Castillo @jakecastilloooo]

16. App conversion metric benchmarks every founder needs to memorize:

> View to download ratio: 5 downloads per 1000 views
> Paywall rate (% of people getting to paywall): 75%+
> Paywall conversion rate (% of people paying): 10%

If you’re hitting these consistently, you’re on the right track.

[Santiago Ramz @sramzc]

Be the Kleenex of the tissues!

[Jake Castillo @jakecastilloooo]

11. If you really want to win in the app space, price your product for mindshare first, and margin second.

This helps you become the default option when people think of the niche your product lives in.

[Jake Castillo @jakecastilloooo]

9. Never underestimate the conversion power of cult-like audiences.

Arguably the most important factor when picking a niche to build an app in the B2C space.

[Jake Castillo @jakecastilloooo]

4. Your messaging in ads, UGC, and influencer campaigns should be outcome-focused, not feature focused.

Cal AI sold the body of your dreams, NOT calorie tracking.

[Jake Castillo @jakecastilloooo]

1. An expanding market
2. Cult-like audiences
3. Cheap creators
4. Existing demand

[World of Statistics @stats_feed]

World population by blood group types:

🅾️➕ 42%
🅰️➕ 31%
🅱️➕ 15%
🆎➕ 5%
🅾️➖ 3%
🅰️➖ 2.5%
🅱️➖ 1%
🆎➖ 0.5%

[max @MaxHirsch13]

Pro tip for app builders:

You don’t need to resubmit to Apple for every small change. Most bug fixes, feature additions, and UI changes can be done OTA (over-the-air).

[aether @bluewdrift]

You should study what makes you defensive. The topic you avoid, the joke that irritates you, the question that feels insulting, the feedback you instantly reject. Defensiveness is usually the guard dog sitting in front of a weakness you have not trained yourself to face.

[Santiago Ramz @sramzc]

If you think about this the hyper exclusive personalisation is coming to software experiences.
I wonder the level of premium that this can reach…
With commoditisation of software, this might only catch a short term trend (1-1-5year).

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

We're starting to leave the territory where you'd test an LLM by e.g. "create an svg of pelican on a bicycle". As one idea to generalize it, I was interested what Opus 5 would do if I gave it the first paragraph of the Lord of the Rings, a 1M token budget (~$10) and asked for three js render of it. Opus went off for ~2 hours and wrote 5500 lines of code that (procedurally) rendered the story. It's kind of janky but fun. But it's a bit mindboggling that the LLM has to place and orchestrate various polygon assets in (x,y,z) coordinates and write code that animates it all, and that it even does anything at all.

I also like this kind of examples because no one in their right mind would ever spend the time to write something this custom but LLMs have all the stamina and patience in the world, so it's an example where we go from "no one would ever do this" to "sure, why not, it's ~free". There might be a lot more. But I'm excited about creating hyper custom worlds that you can imagine dropping players into, e.g. here to participate in the LoTR story as a spectator NPC, or one of the characters, or etc. Something like an ephemeral GTA of X on demand.

Last thought is that the domain of worlds/games exposes a weakness in LLMs: they can't easily audit their work because they aren't able to efficiently and natively perceive videos or play games within them. Here, Opus 5 had to very slowly and painstakingly take screenshots at different points, and it messed up a few times and created a bunch of jank. An example of raw capability (multimodal, gameplay) that I think is still quite lacking.

[Santiago Ramz @sramzc]

This for a software company is sales and operations working in sync

[Yasser @yasser_elsaid_]

If you're a startup founder, please connect google ads, meta ads, smartlead, apollo, chatbase (if you use it), attio (or your crm) to claude/codex through cli/api (not mcp).

Make each of those tools a folder inside one main repo. Start a session inside each one or in the parent repo if you want them to talk to each other.

Have your agent write code so that when you ask for a "pulse" it fetches all data from all the platforms and tells you what's good, what's not and what you need to fix.

BUT make sure to fully understand the data and don't say yes to every recommendation from LLMs, LLMs are still not good at considering other variables they dont see, not good at correlation/causation, and jump to conclusions too quickly.

This setup is amazing for your to actually understand your business, what your customers want and what the market responds to and be able to run a big part of your gtm conversationally.