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Kai Hua

@thekaihua

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Many people fail their first year of freelancing. Here's why: 1. They serve everyone that comes to them. 2. They need clients more than clients need them. 3. They spend more time on client work vs. building a client pipeline. Tomorrow, I'll share what I learned about this.

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Struggling with freelancing? Here are 3 pitfalls to avoid: 1. Serving everyone that comes to you. 2. Needing clients more than clients need you. 3. Spending more time on client work vs. building a client pipeline. Yesterday, I told my story of how these pitfalls almost wrecked

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I survived as a design solopreneur, but discovered something better. 8 months ago: "I'm struggling with my freelancing business" Last month: "I'm barely succeeding at the wrong business" After documenting my solopreneur struggles, I kept trying to build my design business. Some

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Just spent the morning deep in "market-product fit" research and had one of those moments where things start to click. So we all say "Product-Market Fit" right? Turns out three major thought leaders think we're saying it backwards. They argue for "MARKET-Product Fit" instead.

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Hot take: If you're not letting AI make your daily decisions, you're wasting brain cycles on the wrong problems. I used to burn 20+ minutes every morning just deciding what to work on. Now AI helps me do everything

Hot take: If you're not letting AI make your daily decisions, you're wasting brain cycles on the wrong problems.

I used to burn 20+ minutes every morning just deciding what to work on. Now AI helps me do everything
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Back in August, I ran my first Foundation Sprint (created by Jake Knapp and John Zeratsky) workshop with an AI startup. 2 days of strategic work turned complete confusion into a testable hypothesis. Here's what happened... The Werd.ai team showed up on August 18th with a

Back in August, I ran my first Foundation Sprint (created by <a href="/jakek/">Jake Knapp</a> and <a href="/jazer/">John Zeratsky</a>) workshop with an AI startup.

2 days of strategic work turned complete confusion into a testable hypothesis.

Here's what happened...

The Werd.ai team showed up on August 18th with a
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Peak over-engineering: Used 3 AI tools to remix a website πŸ€– My "brilliant" setup: - Figma MCP (design extraction specialist) - Warp (code execution agent) - Playwright (testing professional) - Sonnet 4 (the supposed "project manager") Should take 30 minutes. Famous last words.

Peak over-engineering: Used 3 AI tools to remix a website πŸ€–

My "brilliant" setup:
- Figma MCP (design extraction specialist)
- Warp (code execution agent)
- Playwright (testing professional)
- Sonnet 4 (the supposed "project manager")

Should take 30 minutes. Famous last words.
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Hot take that might trigger some founders: User research isn't about validation β€” it's about discovery. Yet most founders are using user research completely wrong (if they even do it to begin with). I should know... I've made this exact mistake myself. Here's what I've

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πŸ” Learning PMF in Public: I studied how Palantir ($65B), OpenAI ($157B), and Anduril ($14B) discovered breakthrough B2B product-market fit Found a powerful customer discovery method most founders completely overlook THE APPROACH Instead of just customer interviews, these

πŸ” Learning PMF in Public: I studied how Palantir ($65B), OpenAI ($157B), and Anduril ($14B) discovered breakthrough B2B product-market fit

Found a powerful customer discovery method most founders completely overlook

THE APPROACH

Instead of just customer interviews, these