2-time startup founder & YC alum | Write about bootstrapping software startup cheaper & faster with AI. Current: https://xitter.cf/t.co/MANWoK1kdB https://xitter.cf/t.co/JPxgGJ6WfF
Austin, TX
Joined April 2012
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The new toy I've been working on
Video Wiz: Summarize and ask question with any youtube video
Tech stack
- @nextjs
- @tailwindcss & @shadcn UI
- @langchain4j
- OpenAI API
- @vercel for hosting & AI streaming
- @upstash for memory
- @supabase for db & vector store
Took about 5-6 hours to get to this point. Shamelessly copied from multiple starter kits to get here
- TailwindUI Salient template
- Azure ChatGPT
- @a16z companion app starter kit
Learning so far:
- Building chatgpt wrapper is not easy. It took me a few hours to get summarization work
- Langchain devx leaves a lot to be desired
- Need to more ruthless trimming down scope
What's left:
- Adding auth to keep track of chat history
- Adding chat
1 day from launch, stay tuned
#buildinpublic @_buildspace
Trung Vu retweeted
I've known @jamestalarico for nearly 20 years. When we were at @UTAustin in 2009, he ran the University Democrats and I ran the College Republicans. Although we disagreed, I once considered him a friend. But then he betrayed the entire student body for his own political gain.🧵
Happy birthday America!
When I was 6, my mom left Vietnam to do her post-doc in America. Two years later, she came home with pencils, erasers and toys that are so much better than what we have at home. I finally became the cool kid at school
My dream of going to America started that day
I finally landed in LAX when I turned sixteen. Since then, America has given opportunities to achieve everything my 6yo self could have only dreamed of
- Got my master in 2011
- Bought my first home in 2013
- Fell in love with entrepreneurship, started my first company in 2019, got into YC, exited
- Become a US citizen in 2021
America gave me the love of working hard, to be a maker and finally the optimism that the best is yet to come.
America, thank you for everything and I can’t wait to celebrate your 300th birthday
I was early beta user of Positional and it’s become my go to tool for all things SEO
Highly recommend checking them out
We made it! Today is @GoPositional's public launch day! Go sign-up! 📈
But in all seriousness, getting here has been a long road. We did a very hard pivot into Positional 13 months ago. We had spent two years building something that people didn’t want, and we decided to return to our roots… content, SEO, and inbound marketing.
Since at least 2019, Matt and I have wanted to build our own toolset. We were tired of using seven separate tools to do our jobs.
We wanted to connect the workflow from end to end, from keyword research to analytics, and the actions that users take that ultimately drive revenue for a business. With Positional, you can start, grow, and scale your inbound marketing and SEO strategy with a toolset optimized for results — not vanity metrics.
Today, Positional has 11 core features. Of course, we have tools for keyword research and tracking. But we also have a number of really unique experiences and workflows for internal linking, content optimization, content analytics, and mapping buyer journeys.
We have a lot of work left to do, but I’m proud of what we’ve shipped today.
There are lots of thank yous. Thank you to my wife, Emma, who has been so supportive. I call Emma my mini-management-consultant (MMC). Emma has been here for a few startups. Being a startup-founder-significant-other is really hard. Lately, Matt and I have been working some insane hours.
Thank you to Matt for being the best co-founder a guy could have. Thank you to my dog, Jasper, who, despite going on much shorter walks lately, has still been incredibly supportive.
Our team, you guys rock. Post-pivot, things were a little crazy. But we stuck together.
Our private beta customers, thank you for trying us and for signing up early. Many of you signed up way too early, but we’ve really appreciated your feedback, suggestions, bug catches, and patience as we’ve built Positional.
We’ve got some wonderful investors, too. Shout out to @snowmaker, @bradflora, @ycombinator, @lachygroom, @briannekimmel, @pioneer_fund, @grinich, and so many others for giving us the opportunity to build Positional.
Again, we’ve got a lot of work left to do. There are bugs still to catch and new products to ship, but we had to launch. If you sign up today, I’d love to hear your feedback. Plus, if you become a customer this week, you’ll get an awesome 3-pack of SEO-inspired hot sauces (“Link Juice”).
Over the long term, we are working to build the toolset for inbound marketing and GTM. Onward!
Get Started with Positional: positional.com/
Clearly my 15-yo profile picture from wifeless, kidless days is to blame for this
Still appalled at the phrase high quality women. Wtf
My friends ask for a bot that can help husbands ask their wife for spending money
... in Vietnamese.
What can I do but oblige
It's hosted on Founder.Chat which lets you build & publish GPT-like bot that anyone can use, not only those with ChatGPT plus subscription
I spent thousands of $$$ on courses for creators
Most of them are disappointing
But Justin Welsh’s latest Creator OS is head and shoulders above others
For example: every course and business book will tell you how to craft a unique value proposition
But they stop at telling you to find what unique about your offer. 🙄
Justin show how to identify
- value statement
- customer pain points
- customer aspirations
But my favorite is identifying a movement and an enemy of your customer
You want to make your customer a hero. You are their partner joined in a common struggle against a common enemy.
You are learning from the master himself.
He is all about Solopreneurship movement before it was cool
And he has helped countless broke free from the 9-5
But seeing how he identify a movement and enemy for a different product and industry is eye opening
The course is 29 hours worth of video. It even has a bonus mini course that is a speed run through the entire material.
Even the speed run is 3 hours long. INSaNE!!
He’s running a limited half off offer on the course first launch week that ends tonight
learn.justinwelsh.me/a/21477…
Do you like Justin Welsh's content?
It took me 75 hours to train an AI chat bot with his 64 articles & more than 100 newsletter. founder.chat/experts/justin-…
Ask it any questions to learn how Justin build his diversified solopreneur to $5m in revenue.
The bot cost $0 to use
Make 2024 the year of your personal brand
There must be a market for making auto dm less obnoxious
Empty platitudes repeating what found on receivers’ bio
I thought this is solved with recent advances in LLM. Apparently not
When I was a CS major at UT Austin, Jason was one of my first inspiration to be a startup founder
His writings has been a great source of knowledge in startup and business.
I’m beyond thrilled to work with him to build his AI persona to make his content even more accessible
You can check it out at founder dot chat. Lemme know what you think
Yes, thanks to @thetrungvu
Let us know what you think!
I'll be promoting it more soon.
founder.chat/experts/jason-c…
If you build GPT with static knowledge file
It's outdated the moment you hit publish
A better way is to create an API that the GPT can call to get latest knowledge.
For example:
I just published a @thejustinwelsh GPT with all content updated in real time using Founder.Chat API
You can now ask Justin for banger advices how to build your personal brand.
Without having to read his 70 articles and 200+ plus newsletter
Check it out at chat.openai.com/g/g-WAkPPr56…
Is your new year resolution to go to the gym and get healthier
But you don't know where to start?
Here is a gift for you.
I trained a AI persona of @FitFounder with more than 150 of his articles to give you exercise & diet advices
So you can benefit from his 10+ years experience
Like, reply with 💪 and I'll dm you the link
