The "Build In Public" Guy. Head of Community at @Netlify. Vibe Coder. Prev: @PaddleHQ @joinODF

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🚨 Some Personal News 🚨 I’m thrilled to FINALLY lift the suspense 👀 and share more about my next move Beyond pumped to share that I'm joining @Netlify as “Head of Community” to continue my life's work: empowering MORE builders and developers to push MORE ideas to the world 🌎 Pinch me because.. this is a dream role (you’ll see why in the story below) It's an incredible honor as I will get to work with @biilmann and the Netlify team who serve a community of 9m+ developers today and are gearing up to welcome millions more in the coming years Here's the story of how al of this came about ⤵️
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Replying to @sama
One of the most profound verses from Bhagavad Gita:
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Twitter DMs are the actual Linkedin
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CEO of a ~$2 trillion company 🤯
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"Atomic Habits" by @JamesClear practically changed my career arc in 2018 I’m re-reading it again & figured I’d share some snippets Here are 10 quotes/ideas that resonated with me ⬇️👀
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Want to build an ambitious startup one day? Build small side-projects first Go from an idea person to a builder Create content in the niche you love & build credibility Build an audience by adding value and showing up When you launch, there will be a user base waiting for you
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If I was the CEO of Bolt or Lovable I’d figure out a way to host the world’s largest hackathon LIVE and try to set a Guinness Book Record in the sheer number of new web apps built in a day by people around the globe Imagine 100,000 builders shipping Find a couple top sponsors like Anthropic or OpenAI and bam you have the “marketing event of the year”!
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Logo? Use @logologydesign Website? Use @webflow Writing? Use @grammarly Copywriting? Use @copy_ai Automations? Use @bardeenai Graphic design? Use @canva Twitter? Use @chirrapp 99% of people can start a profitable online business if they’re obsessed but patient.
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America’s most underrated CEO
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Power of building in public 🤯 An idea I shared randomly yesterday is about to become a real thing The world’s largest hackathon? WHAT?!!! Honored to be asked to be a judge on the panel 🙏 (I said yes ofc!)
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Given how hot the no-code space is, 2021 is probably the best year to become a builder and amp up your no-code skills ⚡️ Here is my curated list of beginner-friendly tools to go from 0 to 1 in no-code within hours: (a thread 🧵)
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Zapier is a beast in the automation world with $7b valuation and $140m ARR But the automation space is on fire 🔥 Here are 20 other no-code tools to automate boring and tedious tasks in your business 👀
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Just leaving this here
Ego is the enemy of growth
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The future belongs to developers who embrace low-code ⚡️ Contrary to the popular myth, devs are actually the ones rapidly adopting and creating software with low-code tools But if you're new, where do you start? Here is my curated list of low-code tools (a thread🧵)
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2020 The year I got fired from a corporate job due to COVID-19 The year I turned my side-projects to startups The year I built an online audience by building in public The year I joined a rocketship startup The year I found out I’m going to be a dad Beyond grateful 🙏
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Most founders struggle with how to acquire their first 100 beta sign ups for a new idea. I’ve done it for 2 products in the last few months (one has 1500+ beta sign ups and the other has 500+) without even going on @ProductHunt Here’s how I did it: 👇🏽 (a thread) 🧵
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No-code is not the future. It's already here and is transforming every functional area within startups. Here are 16 no-code tools that you should be using in 2022 ⬇️ [including some hidden gems 💎]
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The fastest growing startup you may or may not heard of: @Hopin now valued at $5.65B 🤯 Raised: $6.5m Seed, Feb 2020 $40m Series A, June 2020 $125m. Series B, Nov 2020 $400m, Series C, Mar 2021 Revenue: March 2020: $0 March 2021: $70m ARR Kicker? It’s all remote!
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Prediction: Chief Content Officer will be a highly paid and much coveted exec position in the future in tech startups
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Wow banger insight / reminder
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Quote of the day: “Your success in life depends on your ability to make good decisions. Your happiness depends on your ability to not care about the outcomes. “ — @naval
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I’m an Indian kid who grew up in a lower middle class family in a rural village w/ no hot water At 21, I moved to the U.S. for a Master’s on a scholarship & had to borrow money for even my ✈️ ticket 10 yrs in, I’m humble but f*cking ambitious What’s my fuel? My story 🔥
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A VC fund that can turn founders into low key celebrities would kick ass in the next decade By helping with personal brand, world- class headshots, quarterly interviews with film crew etc Who’s doing this already?
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Not sure who needs to hear this but here you go No-code startup studios are the future of 2021-31
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2021 is year of the "builder economy": - Bubble hit 1m users raised $100m - Airtable crossed $100m ARR - Zapier crosses $140m ARR, valued at $5b, and acquired Makerpad No-code is not niche anymore What a great time to become proficient w no-code low-code tools & build!
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Huge day 🙏 The moment we have been patiently waiting for is here After roughly 80 days in the hospital for his recent surgery & recovery, our baby Liam got discharged from the cardiac acute care unit (CACU) today The little prince arrives home 👑
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Billion dollar idea: Supabase but for non-devs Something that's 10x easier and vibe coding friendly (saying this as a non-technical builder who has to watch daily Youtube videos on various Supabase features)
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I once read that @david_perell once did one new Youtube video a day challenge and kept up until 114 days. And apparently only got 31 subscribers in total 🤯 Nobody remembers your failures. That's why it's important to keep swinging & trying things and failing in public.
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Not sure who needs to hear this but No-code startup studios are the future
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Underrated truth: We need 20x more people to break into tech and startups There are literally thousands of jobs - it’s a employee market right now and will stay the same for the next few years Go help a friend break into tech 🚀
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My life in bullets: • 1988, born in a village in India poor • 1994, dad abandons family, mom takes over • Develops drive to lift my family up • 2006, went to small college for engineering • 2010, first job in computer agency, $240/mon salary • Left in 9 months to hustle to get to America 🇺🇸 • 2011, Took GRE, applied to Master's, got 100% scholarship • 2014 -2018, Took Corporate America jobs to keep visa alive • 2017, Met my gf (now wife) • 2019, married her and began my no-code career • 2020-22, got my green card, joined startups to build community programs (at On Deck and Day One) • 2021, my son was born, a chance to be a dad I never had! • 2023, started my own Fellowship and SaaS biz, living the dream each day with gratitude 🙏
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Update: Biggest blessing I can think of! Liam’s open heart surgery went smoothly and successfully 🙏 Took 6 hours but modern medicine and science are absolutely magical Now he’s recovering steadily God is great! I’m beyond grateful for the surgeons and staff (miracle workers) of Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta (CHOA) Thank you everyone for your positive vibes and love ❤️
An emotionally charged week I’m trying my best to stay strong and focus on positive emotions of gratitude, awe and love The recent roller coaster has been nothing like i’ve ever experienced in my life ICYMI: On Aug 8, we had two baby boys (twins) They were ~ 6 weeks early and had to be in special care in NICU Good news is my wife had an amazing recovery from her C section surgery and has joined me in making hospital visits to see the babies One of the babies (Theo) is perfectly healthy, came home successfully the other day and is growing steadily (pic on the left without cords) The other one (Liam) has been diagnosed with a rare genetic heart condition called HLHS — hypoplastic left heart syndrome The doctors say they will need to do an open heart surgery on him tomorrow called Norwood Sano He’s been a brave little boy already and has given us lots of hope and a strong mission to root for He’s currently in the cardiac ICU (pic on the right) and is getting ready for the big day I’m sure any parent can understand what a test of your belief in God and the Universe this is But I’m focusing on the blessing he’s already been to us, the spiritual awakening he has kindled in me already and how grateful I am to be his dad and to witness the next chapter Send your best vibes and love to our little lion cub: Liam 🙏❤️
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One thing I consistently love about @JamesClear’s 3-2-1 newsletter is the seemingly simple but profound question he asks at the end of each edition I made a running list of these thought-provoking questions Here are the top ones for you to bookmark or RT (a thread 🧵)
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A portfolio of side-projects is a stronger signal than any resume
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The biggest myth there is: A great product markets itself
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Good idea or bad? A platform to find & hire private tutors for adults who want to learn and master key life skills (like how to set up financial planning, how to build an audience for my startup etc) Why did we stop getting private tutors after school? 🤔
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Prediction: Every business function (Marketing, sales, HR, legal, customer support, etc) will hire a no-coder to: - build tiny tools to solve their internal probs - to reduce burden on devs/engg Startups will be first to pioneer this and over time even F500 will get on board
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Yesterday I received the 2nd biggest personal news of 2021 in the mail After hopping from visa to visa for 10 yrs and tons of paperwork, I am now officially a U.S. green card holder and resident Grateful for this great opportunity 🙏
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A common mistake: Startups don’t invest enough in educating their users on how to get the most value from their products Which no-code platform or tool has the best “education” content?
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🚨 ANNOUNCEMENT 🚨 Starting today, I am taking on the role of a full-time founder & CEO of a new company called Build In Public Studio Why am I doing this and what is the company about? Read on ⤵️
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Underrated truth: Twitter DMs are the actual Linkedin
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1. "Your outcomes are a lagging measure of your habits. Your net worth is a lagging measure of your financial habits. Your weight is a lagging measure of your eating habits. Your knowledge is a lagging measure of your learning habits. “
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There is a huge gap in the market Millions of new developers .. nah let’s call them “builders” or “vibe coders” are about to unleash millions of ideas in the next 10 years These are not empowered with a college CS degree or coding skills but with sheer curiosity and a gen AI coding tool like @boltdotnew @supabase etc Their goal is to not build the next Uber or Airbnb but to solve their narrow and niche pain points that major SaaS platforms may ignore or over charge Many of them will build small SaaS tools like “a quizzing app for medical students” or a “travel planner for busy moms” or “booking system for a spa” There needs to be a “YC” for these tiny startups. This is a huge gap. Traditional accelerators (like YC, Techstars) won’t be relevant here given their focus is on unicorns that aim to go IPO but these are much smaller companies ($2k-$50k MRR) Yet these need help like: - learning how to promote right and build well with gen AI tools - learning how to deploy and publish and go to market - learning how to find beta customers - learning how to attract the first 10 paid customers - learning how to scale the infrastructure to serve paid users without breaking things in prod - learning how to iterate and make the product better - learning how to sell and exit this startup and start fresh again The rest is trivial, taking action and making progress is the name of the game This modern accelerator will address these problems through a combination of: - content (tactical, no BS, real life advice from actual builders two steps ahead) - community (peer to peer support and feedback) - support with visibility and distribution for launches Let’s call it “High Agency Accelerator” Why high agency? Because that’s all you need to go from idea to an app and to revenue in this day and age It can be a paid community or incubator That’s the future imo .. anyway this was a shower thought and I wanted to put it out there in the Universe What do you think? Questions / feedback/ thoughts / ideas?
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Building in public on Twitter is no easy feat without the help of nifty tools 🛠 Over the last few years, I've slowly amped up my Twitter tech stack to save time and unlock new superpowers Here's a list of the "underrated" tools you should definitely check out (thread🧵)
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Underrated truth: We need 20x more people to break into tech and startups There are literally thousands of jobs - it’s a employee market right now and will stay the same for the next few years Help someone break into tech 🚀
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It's raining money ☔️ in the no-code market & for a good reason No-code & low-code startups are arming the rebels creating software visually or without writing much code Estimates say this market will be $86 billion by 2027 Here's a list of the hottest startups (thread🧵)
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An emotionally charged week I’m trying my best to stay strong and focus on positive emotions of gratitude, awe and love The recent roller coaster has been nothing like i’ve ever experienced in my life ICYMI: On Aug 8, we had two baby boys (twins) They were ~ 6 weeks early and had to be in special care in NICU Good news is my wife had an amazing recovery from her C section surgery and has joined me in making hospital visits to see the babies One of the babies (Theo) is perfectly healthy, came home successfully the other day and is growing steadily (pic on the left without cords) The other one (Liam) has been diagnosed with a rare genetic heart condition called HLHS — hypoplastic left heart syndrome The doctors say they will need to do an open heart surgery on him tomorrow called Norwood Sano He’s been a brave little boy already and has given us lots of hope and a strong mission to root for He’s currently in the cardiac ICU (pic on the right) and is getting ready for the big day I’m sure any parent can understand what a test of your belief in God and the Universe this is But I’m focusing on the blessing he’s already been to us, the spiritual awakening he has kindled in me already and how grateful I am to be his dad and to witness the next chapter Send your best vibes and love to our little lion cub: Liam 🙏❤️
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Shooting my shot today🏀 100% ready to take a NO :) Hey @garyvee 👋 I'm an immigrant & u've been a huge inspiration for 10 yrs Do you mind hopping for a quick chat on my show (anchor.fm/buildinpublic) & discuss NFTs + "document don't create"? This would make my entire DECADE!
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Blows my mind that Zapier is a $50m ARR business The only other competitor I know of is Integromat & they were recently acquired for $100m Who else is building simple no-code & beginner-friendly automation tools?
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Nothing has boosted the Internet's GDP like no-code has in the last 5 years IMO there's one platform that you must watch closely: @bubble They just hit 1 million users 🎉 and the startups they power raised > $365m Here's a peek into Bubble's versatile usecases(a thread 🧵)
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Zapier is a beast in the automation world with $7b valuation and $140m ARR But the automation space is on fire 🔥 Here are 9 other no-code tools to automate boring and tedious tasks in your business 👀
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CEO of a $80b market cap public company replying to @levelsio customer complaint Zero PR speak, just went direct This is founder mode
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Sorry for the annoying experience - looks like the team is reviewing and will report back shortly. You're right btw, centralized exchanges have to follow all kinds of financial regulations, and so we're often not just trying to keep customers happy, we're trying to keep regulators happy. These are sometimes in conflict, which is why I suspect the most regulated industries have lower NPS scores. In the name of consumer protection, they accidentally end up harming consumers. Of course centralized exchanges also have many other benefits, like ensuring people don't lose their coins, acting as onramps, etc so it's a trade off. Luckily, we have an amazing self-custodial wallet @CoinbaseWallet also if you prefer that route. And account recovery mechanisms are getting better and better there, like the Smart Wallet tech we recently shipped. As more and more transaction go from fiat-to-crypto to crypto-to-crypto, self-custodial wallets will be the primary app for many folks. So both serve an important function, and we'll keep improving both. Again, sorry for the experience - should be resolved soon.
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Huge update 🙌 But this might be the biggest news of the year (decade?) for me I’m so grateful to share that I’m now a dad of 3 👶👶👶 My wife just gave birth to twin baby boys today (she’s safe and healthy!) It’s been a miracle to watch this unfold With Neil (our 3 year old), I can run an accelerator program/ cohort at our own home now 😅 Grateful all around!🙏❤️ (Twins pics and names coming soon)
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Feeling good vibes this Friday ☀️ My wife’s water broke this morning We drove to the hospital It’s almost baby Puvvada time 👶🏽 A bit nervous since its our first baby but excited regardless 😍 Catch y’all later
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Great reminder: “Love isn’t a state of perfect caring. It is an active noun like “struggle.” To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly the way he or she is, right here and now.” — Mr. Rogers
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2 kinds of happiness: Worldly happiness is reward from our evolutionary program. Get praise, money, drugs, sex. It busies the mind w/ craving & anxiety. Internal happiness is reward from being in flow. Create, meditate, love, play. Clears the mind & leaves us in peace. -@naval
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Just found out that @david_perell once did one new Youtube video a day challenge and kept up until 114 days. How many subscribers did he get in total? 31 🤯 Nobody remembers your failures. That's why it's important to keep swinging & trying things and failing in public.
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Are we in the greatest opportunity era for startup talent or what? Hardest job for a founder now is not capital anymore It’s hiring 🤯
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Not annual but I did a decade review: 2012: 24 yr old $12k/yr income Rode public bus 0 network Visa stress No fam in the US 2022: 34 yr old $250k income Audi Q5 50k people who trust me Green card Wife & son ❤️ Great things happen gradually. Patience is key 🔑
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My no#1 early stage founder tip: Your startup is dead by default (to people who have millions of things going in their lives) It is your job daily to resurrect it & make it worth remembering by telling stories, building in public, offering value etc
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Announcement: It’s been a thrilling couple weeks for me 🎁 The latest update is extra personal & life-changing 😀 I’m going to be a dad soon 💥🎉 We found out the gender, it’s a baby boy 👶🏻 Can’t wait to welcome a new maker into the family ;)
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Notion is the Disney of no-code The company's worth went from $2b to $10b recently 🔥 Why? Mainly because Notion is not building a tool, but an entire ecosystem But most people don't know what these are Here are 12 FREE add-on tools to supercharge your Notion experience 👀
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10 ridiculously simple tips I wish I knew about building an audience when I first started: I mostly winged it 🤫 Let me share my lessons so you don't have to: (a thread 🧵)
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ANNOUNCEMENT: 🚨🎉 The newsletter market is about to explode even more. It's never been clearer that there's a huge need for a discovery and recommendations platform. So, I'm launching a new idea. "LetterDrop": ProductHunt for newsletters Sign up at letterdrop.io/
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What’s ONE startup you are rooting to win.. not necessarily because of the idea but because of the founders? (No, you can’t nominate yourself this time 😉)
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🚨 Career Update 🚨 Two huge announcements today 👀 1/ I'm winding down @BIPF_ operations by end of Dec 2023 2/ After my founder journey, I'm entering the job market for a full-time position Full scoop below ⤵️
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Marketing your startup as a solo founder is hard. But 90% of your product's success relies on people discovering it, using it and becoming paid customers. Here are 9 battle-tested tactics that can help you in your marketing journey: [thread 🧵]
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Aaaand the little prince is here The doctor called for a C Section after a minor incident but overall Mom & baby safe Blown away by my wife’s grit, nothing I do compares Born at 2:46p ET on 4/16 With that, I’m a dad ❤️
Feeling good vibes this Friday ☀️ My wife’s water broke this morning We drove to the hospital It’s almost baby Puvvada time 👶🏽 A bit nervous since its our first baby but excited regardless 😍 Catch y’all later
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Update: My time at On Deck is coming to an end soon After building a world-class no-code community of 360+ fellows of founders, operators & tech talent — I’m grateful for this epic chapter 🙏 I’ll be on the job market on May 20, DMs open now :) But what suits me best? (🧵)
Announcing some big news shortly Stay tuned 👀
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10 incredibly simple tips I wish I knew about building an audience when I first began building in public in 2018: I went from 300 followers to now 14,000+ who trust me 🙏🏼 but I mostly winged it 🤷🏻‍♂️ Let me share my lessons so you don't have to wing it: (a thread 🧵)
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Lifting the lid on the suspense 👀 As many of you have guessed perfectly and wished for me I’m accepting the offer from @beondeck 🎉🎉🎉 Here’s my acceptance letter: #acceptinpublic
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For a long long time, as a vibe coder, I've waited for THIS POWERFUL evolution. A vibe coding tool that not only BUILDS apps but also TESTS its own code. The brilliant team at @Replit just dropped "Agent 3" today and I've gotten early access. Not just another AI assistant. Agent 3 is bonkers like a true collaborator ...more autonomous, more reliable, and more generative than ever before. Here's what I mean 👇 Agent 3 can run for upto 200 minutes. Solo. Think about that. You describe what you want → walk away → come back 3+ hours later to a working app. No "fix this bug" prompts. No hand-holding. No babysitting. It just... builds. But here's the crazy part. It opens a browser and tests its own code like a real user. You can watch it clicking around your app, finding bugs, fixing them automatically. It's 3X faster and 10X more powerful (thanks to the autonomous feature) than other AI testing tools. I'm watching an AI debug itself. In 2025. Wild. Then it gets meta. Agent 3 builds other agents. Want a Slack bot that queries your database? Built. Need a Telegram bot for habit tracking? Done. Daily email summaries of your stock portfolio? Deployed. You're not just building apps anymore. You're building an AI workforce. The shift is real: From AI helper → to AI teammate From prompt engineer → to project manager From debugging sessions → to reviewing results From weekend coding → to Monday morning deploys Look, I've seen every AI assistant and vibe coding tool under the sun. Most are just great at prototyping but as features get complex.. they become harder to navigate. They cost you hours in debugging and bug fixes. Agent 3 feels fundamentally different. It doesn't just write code better. It works better. And you can monitor the whole thing from your phone while it builds. What an exciting move from Replit to push the envelope of vibe coding tools! Try it: replit.com/agent3 P.S. - Watching AI test its own code is oddly satisfying. Like watching a robot do your chores.
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Today is my 1st day at @beondeck where I’ll be leading the new no-code fellowship program ⚡️ Can’t wait to help builders unleash their creative potential and turn ideas into tangible products using no-code tools 🛠 I’m grateful I’ll be serving an already amazing community 🙏
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Hello world 👋 Meet my latest no-code creation with my technical co-founder @unsavvyunicorn ❤️ “NEIL SIDDHARTH PUVVADA” aka the lil prince 👑(his rap name)
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My no#1 early stage founder tip: Your startup is dead by default (to people who have millions of things going in their lives) It is your job daily to resurrect it & make it worth remembering by telling stories, building in public, offering value etc
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I’m re-reading Atomic Habits — what a timeless classic. I wouldn’t be surprised if I return to this next year again. Love how it has shaped my life so far and turned me into the kind of person who invests in calibrating my habits and I’m proud of this. Thank you @JamesClear
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I learn less from mentors and more from peers who’re two steps ahead Mentors help with destination Peers help with the journey
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Searching for a technical co-founder for your startup for a while now? Don’t 🛑 Just use no-code tools and see for yourself if there's enough demand for your idea. And build it in public. That will give you 10x higher change of attracting a CTO
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In my 20s: I want to change the world to make it better In my 30s: I want to change myself and be better and that’s enough to have a net positive impact in the world
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Bolt and Lovable let you ship apps without code. But they left one problem unsolved: TRANSACTIONAL EMAILS Think: Sign up, password reset, onboarding emails, etc. Supabase integration is great (just 1-click) but is EXTREMELY LIMITED in its power. Plus no shade on Supa but frankly the design of these emails ... is UGLY AF (understandably bc it is not their main focus) The moment your app needs to send a single automatic email to the user, you're back to being a developer. Reading docs. Configuring APIs. Debugging SMTP. I've experienced this pain myself wrangling thru existing platforms which didn't let me simply "vibe code" or prompt my way into setting up BEAUTIFUL transactional emails like I wanted. Felt like the "vibe code dream" just died at the email infrastructure layer. Until now 👇 Introducing @DreamlitAI: Send beautiful, branded, and professional emails to your users by chatting with AI. Today, I'm backing Dreamlit AI as an advisor and bringing the party to (hunting it) on @ProductHunt 🚀 Simply connect your Supabase account. Then describe what you need in plain English: >"Send a welcome email when users sign up" >"Ping me on Slack when someone cancels" >"Remind users if they haven't completed onboarding in 3 days" Dreamlit builds the entire thing: ✅ Database triggers ✅ Workflow logic ✅ Beautifully designed emails ✅ Production-ready deployment No code. No configuration. No documentation rabbit holes. Why this matters: Vibe coding tools democratized the "build" part of software. Dreamlit democratizes the "actually making it work" part. If you can describe your app, you should be able to describe your notifications. The barrier shouldn't jump from zero to "learn email infrastructure." This is what the vibe coding movement was supposed to be: accessible end-to-end. S/o @AjaySohmshetty @andrewk17 for building this beauty. Would love your support and feedback on the PH page 🚀👇 [PH link in comments]
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Life update: Been busy the last couple months spending quality time with this lil nugget … baby Liam We had a challenging December and January to put it mildly but somehow navigated that Early Jan, we brought him home but only after 2 days, he had to go back to the hospital because of oxygen issues Later in Jan, we brought him home again for 5 days but this time he contracted rhinovirus and had to spend a few weeks in the ICU Now he is back to a regular unit and gearing up for his big surgery called “Glenn” on Feb 24 Our hope is to keep him healthy, stable and happy so he has a successful surgery He’s a resilient little champion .. I’m so proud of him. He teaches me perspective.
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Content platforms are the new cities TikTok is the new NYC, breeding ground for a variety of talents (musical, comedy etc) YouTube is the new Hollywood Twitter is the new Bay Area, the breeding ground for tech (happened in my case at least) The ground is shifting
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Prompting is the new coding
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Yesterday I received a little card in the mail that changes my life in the U.S. For almost a decade, I was on several visas w/ lots of limits on who I can work for This new card is a taste of freedom As an immigrant, the real dream begins now 🙏🏼 #persistence #gratitude
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Everyone is hyped about no-code but low key the real revolution is happening with low-code ⚡️ What is low-code and what are the top tools leading the movement, you ask? Here's the full scoop in 20 tweets: 🧵
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I created a no-code cheatsheet to help anyone starting their no-code journey today understand the landscape a bit better: notion.so/No-code-Cheatsheet… I'm planning to build and iterate this in public What is your favorite tool/platform/community you *highly highly* recommend?
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I never fully realized this as a super power but in a world that’s largely obsessed with cynicism and irony Being earnest, authentic and simply optimistic is revolutionary Radical goodness is in hot demand on the Internet
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Fantastic news! I’m over the moon 🌙 You can’t put a price on an update like this because it was truly in the hands of God & the brilliant medical team Our lil champion baby Liam did great on his bidirectional Glenn surgery and is now recovering. Figured I’d share this since many were asking me an update :) Feeling so RELIVED and GRATEFUL 🙏 (This picture is from before surgery)
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First order of biz as new CEO: Ban Google Meet
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🚨 Announcement Time 🚨 Here's some personal news: I'm stoked to share that I'll be joining @DayOneD1 as a Program Director to launch and run a brand new track for builders / founders I'm enjoying building my career in public, so here's the story of how it all came together🧵
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2. "Habits are the compound interest of self-improvement." 3. "You don't rise to the level of your goals, you fall to the level of your systems."
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90% of newsletters are curated It’s radically hard to ship “original” content each week as a creator Who’s doing it well? Drop your newsletter URLs or tag your fav creators’ work and I’ll RT them for exposure in the next 24 hrs Go
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Yesterday was a huge day 🎉 Our youngest baby boy Liam got discharged home from the cardiac acute care unit after 3 months since birth. Some of you know he has HLHS and needed Norwood surgery & been on a slow recovery path It’s been a roller coaster of emotions for my wife and I. At first it was fear and shock … which slowly turned into surrender and then courage and hope In fact my mom gave me a beautiful piece of perspective to knock me off my victim mentality. She said: “out of the 8 billion + people in this world, Liam chose you to be dad and our family as his. Because he knows we got his back. Because we will do our best to support and love him, now show him your best self” I needed it to hear that at one of my low points last month But more than anything it’s been INCREDIBLE to witness how many kind humans stepped up to help and support in this journey Our families, our friends, my co workers at Paddle who have all been super understanding and caring And of course the hospital staff who kept our spirits high every single day .. including surprising us with this sweet gesture ❤️ (watch till the end) Liam has touched so many lives already and has given me a whole new perspective on courage & living life to the fullest — no matter what PS: A friend of ours made him a cute graduation cap 🎓 so he could come home in style
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Let me show you a warrior prince 👑 Liam Pavan Puvvada He spent 95% of his life so far (~ 7 months since birth) in the cardiac wing of the hospital And 80% of that in the cardiac ICU Yet he greets me with the biggest smile daily This is who inspires me God gave me a literal proof of living life to the fullest .. no matter what goes on
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Billion dollar idea 💡 Solve the “it’s difficult to hire engineering talent” at startups problem How? Create a program that allows devs stuck in corporate jobs get a taste of working at startups via running hackathons or build sprints Basically break the golden hand cuffs
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ICYMI, @gammaapp launched Gamma Agent recently 👀 Here's why it matters: Most presentations die in the "make it pretty" phase. You're stuck reformatting charts. Hunting down citations. Rebuilding slides because the design broke. By the time it looks good, your deadline has passed. Gamma Agent changes this completely. Here's how: 🧵👇
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Milestone alert: 27,000 followers today 🙏 Here are 10 *underrated* audience-building tactics for Twitter that people somehow sleep on because they think they're too cheesy or because ego gets in the way: Just had my morning coffee, so let's unfurl the damn thread 🧵⬇️
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Hot take: A young & single nomad building out a startup typically gets too much credit The real gritty founders are those with kids grinding it out thru small chunks of time through the day while also being involved parents I lived both lives.. second is 100x harder imo
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6 simple Twitter bio hacks that are low-hanging fruit to help you get more followers on Twitter: 🥭 And the 1st one just takes 60 seconds [THREAD]
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Content creator is the new CMO (at least in early stage startups)
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The secret no one will tell you about product: it’s about building a community The secret no one will tell you about community: it’s about compounding The secret no one will tell you about compounding: it’s caring about one person at a time patiently
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