🧘🏻Calm

Everyone knows @calm Not as many know how @tewy made his first million and proved his product/marketing genius while waking up a nation of young entrepreneurs like myself to the huge opportunity the internet presented. It’s probably not what you expect. Time for a SaaStory👇

A few years later, the email app Mailbox launched with a similar strategy. An incredibly compelling—albeit a tad more professional—demo video racked up one hundred thousand views in less than four hours. This one-minute video, combined with a very cool interface that showed users how many other users were in front of them on the app’s waiting list,

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Below, co-founders Dylan Diamond and Max Baron share their biggest lessons on building a viral social consumer app, including:

1. Embracing single-player mode as a wedge for social products


2. Building a product that users feel was built just for them


3. Why it’s OK to be unscalable—you can make it scale later


4. Building a familiar product is much easier if you’r

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Modern "Silicon Valley Creator" Playbook: • 100% software-driven • Targets a hyper-specific niche • Creates content to acquire users • Self-funded with zero outside capital • Calm Company • $1-$10M+ in revenue A new path for those seeking freedom, flexibility, and financial independence.

Playbooks for creating viral products

1.  Novelty/Entertainment


2. Instrumented

In 2003, University of Virginia gaming roomies Alexis Ohanian (History Major) and Steve Huffman (CS major) were starstruck with the entrepreneurial dream. Their make-the-world-a-better-place idea at the time was a food-ordering app named mmm😋(MyMobileMenu). During their senior year, Steve's girlfriend told him that Paul Graham(PG) was coming to Bo

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