Building too much, marketing too little Focus: https://xitter.cf/t.co/ND18ZCEYW9 & https://xitter.cf/t.co/0V79uKSOB6 Creating open source tools to help w/ marketing & share w/ others
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A reminder to all of us builders. The most successful business isn't the most interesting challenge.
Crazy story. I once made around 100k in a month on probably the dumbest project I ever built. I’ve also made near $0 on the most interesting one.
Ask me anything.
Crazy story. I once made around 100k in a month on probably the dumbest project I ever built. I’ve also made near $0 on the most interesting one.
Ask me anything.
Decided to increase the # of free unlocks for BuyerCue to help founders find other founders who ACTUALLY BUY services.
Now you get 5 personalized unlocks.
Hey @x
Looking to connect 🔗 and share ideas with anyone else having fun building and frustration distributing!
Let’s connect and brainstorm how to change that equation.
We just open sourced promotion-agent 📣
A free marketing agent that runs inside Claude Code, Codex or OpenCode.
Point it at your product repo → get drafts, demo videos, launch packs + a next-action list.
One project or many. Draft-first.
Setup is one sentence:
"Set up promotion for my project X and draft one X post for review."
It finds your repo, builds a private workspace, and writes from your actual product docs. No made-up metrics. Nothing posts without your OK.
apsquared.co/posts/promotion…
X just sent me money for no reason. That mad me happy and sad at the same time.
That free gift was more than my last side project had made.
You shouldn’t have to become a media buyer just to find out if anyone wants your idea. That’s why I built Idea Launch, and this week I simplified it to one offer: a real demand test before you build.
Describe the idea, use your own page or a focused test page, and review the ad before it goes live. It runs to real strangers on Facebook, Instagram, or Reddit. You get clicks, signups, and a plain read on whether to keep going.
Setting up the idea and previewing the ad is free. A test is $49 when you run it, and your first is half off with code HalfOffAdRun. If the response is weak, the readout says so.
idea-launch.io
This is so true. AI has somehow made people more productive yet more stressed at the same time. I see this both in X with solo founders and at large enterprises. Something really interesting about that to me.
AI was supposed to make us work less
I've never been this tired in my life
most days I have up to 10 agents running at the same time. one fixing a bug, one writing pages, one refactoring something I already forgot I asked for, 3 other I have no idea what they are doing but i suppose i ask it?
and I jump from conversation to conversation all day
compared to 5 years ago, I probably context switch 100x more
by the end of the day my brain is fried. completely toasted. nothing left, not even for the people I love
I call it the fried brain effect
thought it was just me but almost every founder I talk to lately says the exact same thing
we got superpowers, and somehow the pressure only went up. if you can ship 10x more, you feel like you have to ship 10x more. every single day
I don't have a solution
honestly I have no idea where this goes from here
anyone else feeling this?
Selling SEO or AI-search tools to SaaS?
Build a prospect list (of buyers who buy):
1. Describe what you sell
2. Keep companies with a confirmed paid directory or launch-board listing
3. Check each source and date
4. Cross off competitors and consumer apps
