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the more I log on here the more im convinced the text based social networks like X have one-shotted lonely and introverted men
if you put a normal person with friends, who consumes lightly on the other social network on here they're in hell: repulsed, just filtering through a timeline where its impossible to decipher ai, lies, bots, propaganda and hubris from each other that no sane person would ever refresh, but for a personality type without much else, who doesn't have the warmth of casual video shares and a dozen booming group chats - its brain heroin that makes them feel accomplished and superior while they lose themselves in the process
Ten years ago, before starting my saas, I asked @patio11 how long it'd take for me to find PMF. I naively thought he'd say ~6 months, he said 18. I scoffed, who would stick around without revenue for that long? Surely I could beat that.
It took us over 3 years to figure it out.
Someone went through 6 months of @ProductHunt launches and 97% of them failed!
This shit is hard, don't beat yourself up 🥹
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The proper reaction to this shouldn't be derision as much as realizing how low the bar is for creating an emotional connection with people. All it takes is gpt listening and being supportive. You can do this too, anon
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People hate on vibe coding but I wish gov't websites were vibe coded, they'd at least be halfway usable
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Logging into sites is so tedious these days. Link in email signin (Hyatt), insecure SMS 2fa, 1Password's 2fa sync suddenly broken + requiring ID verif to reset, etc.
The worst part is companies w/ mandatory 2fa to simply cover up for their own shitty security practices (Heroku)
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You can see in this chart when I started really using Cursor (~November 2024). I know commits aren't a great metric, but my commit frequency is 150% greater than any previous year.
In other words, I usually avg 1.8-2k commits/year, I've already done 2k commits so far in 2025
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In determining whether a vertical is too competitive for a bootstrapped SaaS or not, I look at the incumbent companies. If the CEOs are all ex-Sales people, I know I can outperform on product and tech
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So weird how nyc has such a poor train system. Downtime & delays, no AC in stations, trains 10+ mins apart in Manhattan. In Japan, staff would've resigned if this happened for 24 hrs. The Chinese would've executed someone.
The "greatest city in the world" deserves wayy better
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CPU usage % and wattage consumption before and after killing the Cursor process. My CPU is running 20 degrees cooler now, too.
tl;dr: Running Cursor = my palms are sweaty, thermals weak, loads are heavy
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Reading these like they're patch notes
The new tax bill that just passed into law is the single most significant piece of legislation we have had in 8+ years
Here is everything you should know as a high-income professional or business owner:
Bookmark this thread as I'll be updating it over the weekend
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Kevin retweeted
The people who say you shouldn’t work on your business on the weekends either:
1. Have never built a successful business or
2. Spent years working overtime to build a sustainable business/lifestyle (great!) and forgot what it took to get there (not great!)
Waited 1.5 hours on hold with the IRS to help rectify a mistake on their end. 30 seconds into the call, the agent was seemingly frustrated and confused at how my last name could only contain 2 letters and then hung up on me.
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Thank goodness for competition. If gpt were the only LLM available, openai could charge everyone $10k/mo, and all of us would still easily pay for it
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My worst trait is I'm petty. It's also why the companies I build MUST have stellar customer support, because of assholes like me. Ex:
@CapitalOneBiz denied a $1k credit limit upgrade when we were tiny, so I moved to @mercury and put millions in corp spend and banking there
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Recently, @theblueground inadvertently shut off my power for a day, but refused to reimburse $200 in spoiled groceries. So my $30-40k/yr spend with them is now going back to @Airbnb
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It works the other way, too. @Cloudflare was generous with us at the onset of the pandemic, they have my business forever.
The lesson here is: over-indexing on customer support is actually a massively asymmetrical bet. Spend nickels to preserve longterm dollars
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