Product is 100x more difficult than marketing Marketing is easy, cuz you can try a million things and if a few of them blow up, you're good. But a great product means saying no to a million ideas & focusing on a few details. Which details? What form? UX? that's the hard part

What work would you do if money wasn't a concern?

unless u plan to work for a boss, drop school now, it's a pure waste of time. "but what about networking...???" do this instead: startup incubators, tech twitter, build in public, hackatons. my friends and i did it, and years later, zero regrets

I was a young kid when I first read this, but it changed my life forever ! Ever since people around find me annoying because I always pitch ideas on how to improve, change and build new things. I literally can’t think of anything else. Im addicted to it

Summing up everything I learned after building startups for 20 years, the best way to succeed with a startup is to apply on-demand learning & reverse engineering problems into solutions:

I had a dream tonight, it was the year 2055, I saw this: 1. Attention is the ultimate currency that replaced money, time & resources 2. Work is optional (full abundance with artificial scarcity) 3. 99% of the population doesn't work, they...

Tech drama & news recap 😳: (to save you 1000 hours of doom scrolling) 1. Entire X startup community was triggered as fk when they saw vibe coders doing text-to-$50k MRR from their phones during their school breaks.

Top devs soloed entire projects even before AI. Vibe coding simplified prototyping & replaced juniors. But true democratization came from AI-powered social media algorithms, letting founders like me gain millions of free views The "code" wasn't the gatekeeper, the attention was

1/ In the attention-based world, we'll see mostly "unusual & entertaining" founders winning: - super young (or old) founders - from exotic places(remote village of Mongolia, a farm, Alaska, North Korea, minorities...)

“Attention” is king; it’s more valuable than money. it’ll survive AGI. Everything else will become a commodity.

The Growth Stack for Busy Founders & Marketers: AI Agents (100% autopilot): > tinyadz.com for b2b ads > seobotai.com for blog SEO > listingbott.com for directory listings & domain rating > indexrusher.com for seo indexing(google, bing, chatgpt) My other agents in making:

My bootstrapped founder report for 2023-2025 - no VCs / Offices / Employees - near a million users & $3m arr - 7 SaaS, 3 AI Agents, 20 Directories, 8 comakers - 200k followers & 0.3 billion views - 52 podcasts & interviews & 4 wins on PH Plans for 2025-2030:

If You Have No Idea what to build & how to grow it:

> Traditional SaaS is done (soon) > it's commoditized > a race to the bottom, down to $0 > big founders clone successful small products and halve the price > everything is about to look the same & work the same: the social media schedulers, web builders, etc I think this is what comes next:

Don’t do this until you made $10k with your startup: > hire > google/fb ads > redesign > registering a company > outsourcing > more features > refactoring > start a new project > VC funding > events > dark mode > conferences Why:

I Ended Up With Just 0.15% of My Own Startup Beginning It was the year 2013, I was working as a part-time CTO in several software startups in a startup incubator. 🧵

I'm risking being unfollowed for saying this, but I really wanna help, so I'll still proceed: 90% of founders who never had a successful product think their problem is marketing. But that's false. 1/

My 17 ideation methods 🧵: (I shipped more than 50 products doing this)

What would I learn to be prepared for 2025-2050 > prompting (some people are 1000x better than others at it) > content creation & storytelling (text, video, visual, audio) > coding (knowing how to code helps to think in problem/solution space) > 🧵

My Starter Story recording is live 🥹 - my story - from a VC-backed founder to a bootstrapper - how I ideate, build, iterate, promote - the comaker model - a must-know tip for bootstrapped founders

My founder report for May 😶‍🌫️ : (crazy growth of tinyadz, free embedded analytics in unicorn, monthly plans for listingbott, 4 new projects, maker week & hackathon, my entry into the construction, moving my holdco to a tax-free zone, monetization of my social media, and more)

I've tried all (46 😵‍💫) AI Coding Agents & IDEs [Factory, Cursor, Heyboss, Windsurf, Emergent, Wrapifai, Copilot, Lovable, Bolt, v0, Replit, MarsX, Canva, Devin, Github Spark, IDX, Stitch & more] The most complete list ever made (with demos & notes):

An essay: Why founders fail, despite being good at coding & high IQ. Being mathematically smart hurts startup founders. Math doesn’t account for emotions, and this is why devs easily build useful products but fail to get to Product Market Fit in 99% of cases.

I acquired Unicorn Platform for almost $1M. I've literally tried every growth method I've heard of. It all failed until I found what worked & went from 25k to 551k users. All my marketing failures & successes:

I built 30 startups in 20 years. VC-backed, Bootstrapped, Apps, SaaS, B2B, B2C, AI Agents. 99 mistakes I regret making: 1. Doing consumer apps. The Failure rate here is 100x of b2b rates, nearly a lottery. 2. Raising VC money too early.

48 days ago, I launched TinyAdz.com I see a huge gap in the "tech B2B ads" it can solve. > millions of small sites/newsletters/blogs/social-accounts lack monetization; > ads are too costly & complex for solopreneurs & small teams Imagine the AI Agent: - creates your ads 🧵

My Startup log from 2005 to 2025, TLDR; > exit > invested > failed > failed > failed > lost investments > failed > scammed by cofounders > failed > failed > investors diluted my 15% to 0.15% > failed > c0vid kllled my tourism startup > failed > failed

If you’re a corporate employee, Cancel your hobbies, Netflix & entertainment. Free up 30h a week to build a $10k+ MRR indie project in the next 3 years. Take it as an existential challenge. You may fail to achieve it, but not trying is the ultimate failure. How to start:

Why dont you fking focus on one winning product?? literally everyone asks me I come up with ideas every day based on my own pain, and it hurts so much not to turn them into products. I know I'm missing out on building one giant decacorn if I focused, but I dont care about money

Business MOAT evolution: > tech > patents > funding > talent > ux > distribution > attention > the founder <-the final moat

My AI Agent just landed a job 🥹

I failed 15 startups until I learned this: Make something YOU yourself want to use & pay for. Stop guessing what others want. We can't read minds & people often don't know what they want. Custdev is a fking scam. If it worked, corporations & startup studios would eat the world

They finally fixed my acc, I’m new here, give me some advice pls! How do I go from 0 to 60k followers in a year?

I can't see my own tweets. Is bsky blocked in Turkey?

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I co-founded a startup as CTO, had Lego, McKinsey, and Macy as customers, entered the best b2b accel in the world, moved to SF... But one event turned my 15% stake into 0.15% 🥴: