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I’ve always been fascinated by people who seem able to accomplish an unreasonable amount in one life.
I finally went looking for what actually explains it. This is what I found and what I want to take into my next decade.
A feature can take an afternoon to build and ask for a little of someone's attention every day after that. We count the first cost because it's ours. The second one deserves a place in the calculation.
You can spend years becoming known for something and then realize you'd rather do something else.
Being good at it makes that harder to explain.
Some people see what’s wrong before what’s right.
I’m one of them. I catch myself debating with AI over frivolous ideas and little details. Call it culture or upbringing: some people celebrate the good first, others spot the flaw.
Nothing is wrong with either. It’s just different wiring.
Got into SheBuilds Season 4 by @lovable_dev !🎉 #shebuilds
Next week I have 72 hours to build Marle.
I'll share the build here as it happens.
Waitlist is open: marle.app
I'm having one of those moments.
I know a lot but don't put enough out there, because I assume everyone already knows it. Then I'm surprised when I realize they don't.
Does anyone else feel the same?
D.Y. retweeted
I actually want personal operating systems optimized for co-working with AIs, including fine-grained ideas of security, easier ways to dynamically see & understand what AIs are doing, and independent secondary "audit" agents that check the results of the AIs on your system
D.Y. retweeted
Such a cool idea
Introducing @Supertake, a new platform that transforms your unique takes on the world into real, shareable investment portfolios using frontier AI and trading agents.
Supertake makes it easy for anyone to invest in their ideas, even if they know nothing about investing.
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I think we’re missing the point.
The bubble we live in doesn’t define the real world.
Just because we’re using all the latest AI tools and platforms doesn’t mean that’s how most people work.
It mostly means we’re lucky enough to have access to those things.
SaaS is dead, or whatever the clickbait headline is this week, doesn’t mean anything in a lot of places.
You don’t have to sell in Silicon Valley. There are smaller markets where you can still run your own thing and actually help people down the road. The world isn’t one country or one market.
We all fall into tunnel vision and start thinking this is it.
Remember where you came from. What you saw. The small conversations you had with people or cultures you used to think were weird.Nothing’s really weird.
It’s just perception and the path someone ended up on.
Call me old school, but physical things still hit different.
Just picked up a 500-page Sudoku book.
Yes I’m a millennial. No I don’t want the app.
🤖 Made with AI
D.Y. retweeted
60+ creative growth ideas
Everyone's running the same growth playbook: high-production launch videos, paid influencers, AEO, social, maybe some (poorly attended) events. Your competitors are in the same channels competing for the same eyeballs.
But attention goes to what people don't see coming. The unexpected gets shared for free, remembered for months, and usually costs less than one week of ad spend.
@TomOrbach has dedicated his life to collecting creative growth ideas that worked. Every time he sees a startup do something clever, it goes on the list.
Here are his 64 best, sorted by what you're trying to do:
1. I want to generate buzz (without paid ads/influencers)
2. I want my launch to make noise
3. I want other people to spread the word for me
4. I want more leads and conversions
5. I want to outsmart my competitors
6. I want customers to pay more (and be happy about it)
7. I want customers to stay forever
All 64 ideas: lennysnewsletter.com/p/60-cr…
Applied to the Solo Founders Program. Got rejected.
Weirdly, I’m fine. Not beaten. I’ll keep going as a solo founder. That’s who I am and who I want to be.
Everything else is “dust in the wind,” as Kansas sang. @solofounders
D.Y. retweeted
Wait I had an Aha moment today on how APIs actually work.
I was talking to a developer friend on the call and we came up with this analogy
Think of your app as a restaurant.
The front door is the UI. Built for humans. Menus, tables, a nice experience.
The loading dock out back is the API.
Trucks pull up, drop off, pick up, never touch the dining room.
Same kitchen. Different entrance.
Now the rest falls into place:
API key = the dock badge. Proves the truck is allowed in and logs who showed up.
Scopes = which doors the badge opens. Dock yes, walk-in freezer no.
Rate limits = the dock schedule. You can’t back up 40 trucks at once.
Leaked key = lost badge. Anyone holding it drives in as you. That’s why you rotate keys and never leave one in a public repo.
Most builders obsess over the front door. For Stripe, Twilio, Netlify, most of the business value runs through the dock.
I share what I build and never mention my gender. Everyone assumes I'm a bro.
Funny how "builder" reads as male by default.
It is not.
I want to see what's being built before it ships, not after. Does anyone know a directory of apps that are still just a landing page and a waitlist?
Things I ship:
Marle, a stylist that starts with the closet you already have.
marle.app
Range, jobs for people whose work doesn't fit one title.
yourange.app
Candidate Kindness, hiring that still treated people like people.
candidatekindness.com
D.Y. retweeted
Bidstack.bid just took #1 spot & 26.9% of the internet's funnest billboard. 73.1% left for everyone else. 🥳🚀biggestlogowins.com/s/bidsta…
Spending out bid budget one stack at a time. #bidstacking
