After 10 years of building consumer social apps, I've decided to start exploring new areas. Building these products is an unforgiving grind—but I learned a lot along the way. For those embarking on this path, here's everything you need to know: TIME FOR A THREAD 👇

Another cohort of AI wrappers just got wiped out

When you’re building your own product, it honestly feels like everything and everyone is working against you No joke

Community note goes hard on this one

Wow

People are trying to impress the X community instead of impressing their users and customers

If you spend enough time on any social media platform, you start to recognize all the so called “hooks”, catchy and “AI” 99% of the time it’s just undisclosed ads And in current state 99% of your feed is undisclosed ads

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People grow up twice: first when they start taking on adult responsibilities instead of staying a kid, and again when they realize their parents are just grown-up kids too

Same

I genuinely believe that in the future, everything we see in marketing and new products will be connected to gooning and thirst traps for all genders

Embrace Cirngemaxxing

My anxiety levels are hitting all-time highs when I open this app

Wow

My predictions are working OMG

Is this cooI?

This hit me hard

Wow

Why none of the business guys using this as a source of insights and market research

It's a mistake for startups to treat fundraises as a series of milestones. There's something even more impressive than raising a series whatever: to be making so much that you don't need to. Eventually all companies have to reach this point. The sooner you do, the better.