how I’d build a startup
Work isn’t war
Look for how your brand can connect to more than just one part of someone’s life. There is a story to be told that is much bigger than your product.
Make the connection and go deeper into your consumer’s world.
Solving a problem for your user is great, but easing their cognitive dissonance can have a much greater emotional impact.
There is likely something that your user wants more than just a solution.
There is likely something that your user wants more than just a solution.
Current AI creative tools are made by non-creatives for other non-creatives to feel creative.
We’re a team of creatives who founded FLORA to solve our own problem: the lack of creative control in AI.
We’re a team of creatives who founded FLORA to solve our own problem: the lack of creative control in AI.
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youtube.comSlow and steady against hard problems. Start my turning your social media apps off because that will give you a break. Slow compounding
f you want to be successful and we do then you have to be willing to be misunderstood okay come on this has been a main theme the last month and do things that do not seem sensible to most people for example if you the employees come into the office in the morning thinking how are you going to beat number one number two and number three in the
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This is how I would build a startup
It's something we shouldn't even be thinking about at Workflow
Just had an incredibly illuminating conversation with @pontusab about how he's building @middayai and @languine_ai on Vercel.
Example: Midday has 150+ @nextjs Server Actions already. In his previous life, this would have been a soul-wrenching microservice fleet 🥴. Even a separate REST API would massively degrade his... See more
One of the fundamental lessons of successful social networks is that they must first appeal to people when they have few users. Typically this is done through some form of single-user utility.
This is the classic cold start problem of social. The answer to the traditional chicken-and-egg question is actually answerable: what comes first is a single
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