If you have applied @ycombinator you should also consider these equity-free grants too 1. @GoogleStartups : $100k in credits 2. @vercel : $3,600 in credits 3. @aforevc Grants $1,000 4. @joinedgecity grants : $5k-40K 5. @emergent_vc : upto 100k 6. @thielfellowship : upto 200K

Which one do you think matters more? - idea - execution - timing

we've now passed $1M ARR with 3 separate tools it took us 46 months to go from 0 to $1M ARR with our first product Jenni 3 months to go from $600k to $1M ARR with a tool we acquired and ~6 months to go from 0 to $1M with our latest tool we built from scratch not too bad

Whenever I try too hard to explore "problems" or "market sizes" my ideas always end up sounding good on paper but then don't really work in practice. Though, the moment I turn my brain off, stop over intellectualizing, and start making something purely for me like magic the idea becomes genuinely interesting to others too. It's such a non-obvious lesson but: Often, you are the market.

$2M for a domain name

What do you wish someone told you before you started building?

Startups are really hard. That’s why most people never build one. Luckily you don't have to be like most people. Keep going.

Finally got to meet @levelsio 20m since landing in Portugal and he was already inviting us for eggs and bread. Literally "omgggg please come to our hosue to chill. Your wife needs to be safe cuz pregnant. We will take care of u!! Come with ur stuff. We'll make u eggs and bread" Well, my wife and I weren't exactly in the street but in a super nice restaurant with views, but we totally said: "yessss, see you after lunch!" So @anacoding and I went there a bit later and he opened the door like this infinitely more friendly, relaxed, and chatty guy than I imagined Pieter would be. We also met his gorgeous girlfriend and AI muse, but since I think he's never said her name in public I'll keep it to myself :) His house was amazing, but more than the jacuzzi/sauna, what got me excited was seeing how well he's set it up: Pieter has this magnet vibe where he's pulled in a bunch of his old nomad friends from years of running around the world, so instead of being isolated he's built an incredible people hub Every week (even when Pieter travels, because he leaves them the keys) they meet in his cave to cowork and lift weights. Following day went to one of this coworks. Honestly I think I've never worked so little in my life as that day, but I had a blast His place felt like a Friends set (I swear Pieter would make even more money than he already does if he did a reality show) and a bunch of his friends kept passing through. He introduced me to @rameerez and his girlfriend, and we clicked so well they ended up coming on vacation with us later on another trip. In fact, all of his friends were super cool: good vibes, info exchange and learning, the banter roasting each other... it was a brutal "ab chamber" My main achievement of the day? Convincing Pieter to fly Flight Simulator over Murcia (my city in Spain, the best city in the world, worldwide) Pieter: "but wtf with this city dude? you always talking about it!" We also remembered some past flames we had at X (aka "turnip" lol, when I took forever to ship the Magnific API and all that, grrr he totally pushed a competitor buuuuut, help us a lot too. Come one! I even copied the texts / prices of his pricing landing lol and he took it well!) The funniest part was the whole sitcom kitchen vibe: everyone would go up to the kitchen while he treated us to these massive beef steaks made in an air fryer ("he made me bring that shit in my luggage on a trip because they wouldn't ship it to Portugal", one of his friends confessed). And around the table they'd start arguing in a totally straight line until you hit the marrow about things like the custom home automation system he built, or the latest open source model he's thinking of using on his site Then everyone into the jacuzzi, into the sauna, and back again Pieter is probably the most intense (he talks like he's on 2x speed), chillest, and most fun famous person I've met. Which proves that surrounding yourself with people who care about you + lifting weights can stop you from becoming a social network neurotic and instead give you a healthy mind that just makes you a warm and nice person

Phase 3. Drop your domain in the comments My AI agent will appraise it.

Introducing Visitors (@visitorsnow) Fast, private, realtime web analytics. Been building this on the side for the past year. https://visitors.now

You can now share MRR snapshots directly from your dashboard.

I built the Polymarket for FOCUS!!! I suck at finishing things. My to-do list keeps inflating. 1. Open a position (task) 2. Add liquidity. 3. Execute or Get Liquidated i've been heads down for the past 5 days building Wager a command terminal for focus with @Tempo_Labs. It's insane what you can do!! IDK if I should actually use real money for every trade. Let me know if ya'll wana try it

It became easier to make money with Replit with our integration with @stripe! - Add subscriptions or one-time payments to your app with @stripe in one click - Build payment flows, product catalogues, and more - Publish your app and start accepting live payments Now available to everyone

Unfortunately, the rumors are true… I can no longer hide the truth. Yes, I did use ChatGPT to write a few tweets when I first started this account. Even worse… I posted in Build in Public. I didn’t have an audience. I didn’t have confidence in my voice yet. But I knew I wanted to get better. That was the beginning of the journey — not the definition of it. Since then, every tweet has been mine. No prompts. No shortcuts. Just reps. I hope you’ll forgive me — and stick around for what comes next. Would you like a spicier or more humorous variant as well to post later as a follow-up?

Today, @Chatbase crossed $8M in ARR. 100% bootstrapped. What started as a side project has grown into a platform trusted by over 10,000 customers. This milestone kicks off the next chapter of Chatbase. Building an AI agent that will become your customer-facing cofounder.

I just launched my first ever digital product on @beehiiv it’s my playbook on how to scale your newsletter to 100K+ subscribers if you’re interested in the playbook, or launching your own product, here’s how

(this is not ragebait, i promise, just read til the end) The "employment" concept is having its last decade. Salary alone can't make anyone work hard anymore. Tiny startups run by founders outcompete employee-run businesses. AI replaces junior/average work, while top talent freelances, productizes skills, or starts a business. All recent notable hires were - acquihires (Bun, Windsurf, Lemon Squeezy, and more) - bribe-hires (Marc paying huge signing bonuses to get people to join) The critics are gonna say, "but everyone can't be a businessman.." Well, go back to the early years of IG/YT. Only professionals were making videos and creating social media content. Today, half of the working population is doing blogging and other types of content creation. I think in the old days, "business" meant "i'm planning to raise money, build a unicorn, go for IPO...". But today the definition has changed. People would rather prefer making $30k/mo with their own biz instead of being employed. Just because it feels better and you get 100x more respect from society. E.g. when you go to a party and say "i work as .... in faang.." nobody really cares about you from that moment and on. But if you run a business that's barely making a living, people are interested. So the future key human KPI wll be this: "Be interesting". There are many ways to achieve it, but entrepreneurship will be one of the most popular. Long story short: no matter what you do, try your shots at building a business. Do it as a side gig, on weekends. Maybe it's not for you, fine, but give it a try, dont take risks, keep your job, just use your spare time. thx for coming to my ted talk.

Product Hunt is dead I'm 36th out of 441 submissions today - wat?? Relatively succesful by all standards then. That has brought me a whopping... 6 views. What's the point?

I’m thankful I got to make up a job where I read, write, invest, spend time with my family, go down whichever rabbit hole is pulling me in, and be the dumbest person in any conversation I’m in.

Bad ideas vs good ideas Habit tracker Gut health tracker to help people fix their health issues Todo list Auto generated checklists for lawyers from a client file Link in bio Productized service to build websites for churches Directory of tools for indie hackers Directory of in-home hairdressers sorted by city The best CRM ever Browser extension to automatically create an entry to the biggest CRM on the market from a LinkedIn profile, an X account, an email etc Social media scheduler Content planner with AI creation for Vtubers Super AI chatbots AI assistant trained on Shopify documentation for e-commerce support teams Pomodoro timer Time tracking app that auto generates invoices for freelance translators Job board for devs Reverse job board for godo developers All of those are 100% random ideas, but they’re all niched, with a specific target, easy distribution, and an existing market. Coaching sessions starts at $300/h