Steve Hoyek

Techie. Yogi. Entrepreneur. Health freak. / Founder & COO @ Journable. / Bootstrapped to $1M ARR. On the road to $10M. / Building in public.

[Steve Hoyek @stevehoyek]

@rohandave_ Nice one mate. When the same thing happened with me I set up an AI agent to handle all customer support emails. Instantly managed 90% of all emails, leaving me with 10%. Over time and with improvement the agent now manages 95%, and a part timer handles the remaining 5%

[Steve Hoyek @stevehoyek]

@FirasHelou90 Congrats 🎉 solid milestone

[Steve Hoyek @stevehoyek]

@jeiting Couldn’t think of a better holiday activity

[Steve Hoyek @stevehoyek]

@yongfook Highest value across all dimensions of personal growth, knowledge acquisition, and financial gains. It is always worth it when it works out, and consistency will always make it work out.

[Steve Hoyek @stevehoyek]

@oliverhenry Best of luck. You got this. What are you building?

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[Steve Hoyek @stevehoyek]

@Jason I’m in

[Marc Lou @marclou]

I overworked myself.

For the past 5 years, I barely took a day off.

I shipped 30 startups, wrote 30,000 tweets, made 70 YouTube videos, and answered thousands of support requests.

The weird part is, it never felt like work. It felt like play. Until recently.

For the first time in years, I’ve struggled to get things done. I don’t want to open my laptop. The things that used to make me happy suddenly feel heavy.

That scares me a bit, because the playful side of work is what got me here. And right now, it feels like I lost it.

So I’m taking a break.

I’ll still do about an hour of maintenance work a day, but the rest of my time will go to real life. I’m training for Hyrox in Korea on May 25, so I’ll put my energy there for now and train 20 hours a week.

I went through a little burnout once before, in 2021. What helped me was going back to basics: training, reading, eating well, and sleeping 8 hours.

It brought the hunger back then.

I trust it will again!

[Steve Hoyek @stevehoyek]

@andrewxroas That's funny, I wish I could do the opposite. I love optimising the product, and not the funnel.

[Steve Hoyek @stevehoyek]

@dstl_app @SawyerMerritt @DavidSacks @theallinpod or was it @chamath

[Steve Hoyek @stevehoyek]

@dstl_app @SawyerMerritt you should credit @DavidSacks for this one, i heard that exact wording on @theallinpod

[Steve Hoyek @stevehoyek]

@Archetapp the first one is always the hardest. now all you need to do is find the other 100,000 people who are also willing to pay for your app, and get the app in between their hands

[Steve Hoyek @stevehoyek]

@aryanlabde lol in the mid triple digits

[Steve Hoyek @stevehoyek]

@SaidAitmbarek first-mover's advantage is crucial, especially as the current landscape is shifting every couple months.

e.g., new foundational model update > unlocks use case previously non-feasible > shipping fast and marketing fast > ??? > profit

[Steve Hoyek @stevehoyek]

@alexcooldev AI apps do not suit having customers on the long tail of superusers.

If one charges a subscription that gives users unlimited token usage, then one should plan for extreme power law dynamics

[Steve Hoyek @stevehoyek]

@katarinaore if you have a hard paywall after the onboarding: it's the most valuable thing on your app

[Steve Hoyek @stevehoyek]

in short, my initial impressions are that they have created a very structured and precise taxonomy of system prompts, for so many different individual cases, which create an optimal user experience and gives the illusion of a superintelligent coding assistant.

[Steve Hoyek @stevehoyek]

very rarely do we get to see beneath the hood of large software products.

in this case, we can see the inner workings of the fastest-revenue-growth product in history.

it makes sense how claude code grew so quickly, they've effectively created order from chaos.

[Steve Hoyek @stevehoyek]

...Plan your work to fill it productively. The target is a hard minimum, not a suggestion. If you stop early, the system will automatically continue you."

[Steve Hoyek @stevehoyek]

my favourite system prompt from the claude code source code:

[Steve Hoyek @stevehoyek]

"When the user specifies a token target (e.g., "+500k", "spend 2M tokens", "use 1B tokens"), your output token count will be shown each turn. Keep working until you approach the target...