Andrej’s advice on becoming an expert at anything:
- take on concrete projects
- learn on demand
- teach in your own words
- compete only with your past self
He is not describing school.
He is describing side projects.
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Andrej’s advice on becoming an expert at anything:
He is not describing school.
He is describing side projects.
If you want to start writing essays but are intimidated by the idea, one possible solution is to write about specialized topics you happen to know a lot about. Then there will be less pressure. And if you're a domain expert, you know you'll be helping your readers.
you can literally wake up one day and be like “actually, fuck everything ab my past and the self-sabotaging identity i had” and decide to live an entirely new life and be some1 who always fucking wins. it doesn’t take a feeling or breakthrough moment or epiphany. only a decision.
If I knew App Store pays this much for building just 21 apps.
I would've started way earlier.
I built a $1M app idea with Rork
And it went mega viral
The app is basically TikTok for
video games
Got 120+ comments and a bunch of suggestions in 1 hour
So I sent a few prompts to Rork
And it did these updates
→ Added 3 more games
→ Added collapsible UI
→ Added ability to favorite games
→ Added AI players
What do you think?
Should I ship this?
i had a $1M app idea after reading this post.
imagine this:
every scroll = you do an exercise.
basically tiktok but for quick workouts.
i built it with rork using 2 prompts.
would you use this?
In 2025, I became a social butterfly the likes of which i’ve never been in my life.
This development coincided with me becoming truly confident, happy, and (mostly) stress-free for really the first time in my life. Huh, how strange.
Introversion, or being anti-social, is just a reflection of how one feels about themself. If you cannot happily, confidently present yourself to the outside world, you will always find it difficult to be social, to be fun around others, and to do so with a carefree, magnetic attitude that draws people in.
It all comes down to what’s in your head.
I lowkey just built a $1M dollar idea.
Imagine tiktok, but everytime you scroll
you Play a new video game
Took 3 prompts to build this
with Rork btw
Be honest, would you use this ?
In 2026 my main goal is to build an app studio with 8-12 apps
Like this one making over $500k/mo
Each app is the same thing
Just a different focus.
This is how you build a $50M/arr studio
My main goal for 2026: build an app studio inspired by Turkish app studios
This one alone is making $200M/year with 24 apps. Insane.
2021 → $0
2022 → $5K
2023 → $50K
2024 → $100K
2025 → $300K+
Still work a 9-5.
No ads.
No team.
You can too.
I'm reminded of this:
FRAMEWORK FOR BUILDING A $60K MRR MOBILE APP LIKE THIS
1. Start with a behavior people already have.
Sleeping already happens every night, so the snoring app fits naturally into an existing routine!
2. Tie the app to a question people already think about.
“Do I snore?” often comes up through partners, jokes, or health concerns, so curiosity exists before the app.
This makes your life easier.
3. Use AI to interpret the signal for the user.
The app turns raw audio into meaning by identifying when snoring happens and surfacing what matters.
Tons of niches/ideas are opened up to BECAUSE of AI right now.
4. Deliver the answer immediately.
You wake up, open the app, and see the result from the night before.
Builds the daily habit.
5. Make the result easy to show.
Short audio clips and simple visuals turn into five-second videos, which makes organic sharing effortless.
Virality goes up. Helps with CAC and compounding.
6. Keep the scope narrow and intentional.
The app focuses on one problem instead of becoming a full sleep platform, which keeps it useful and easy to understand.
And the name reflects it too. Says what it does. Autosnore. Snoring recorder.
Perfect.
7. Charge for clarity and peace of mind.
People happily pay to remove uncertainty, especially around health and relationships.
This pattern shows up across a lot of categories because these moments exist everywhere. @ideabrowser has shared a bunch of these ideas.
If people already do the behavior, already ask the question, and react emotionally to the answer, there’s probably a product there.
The fastest way to test it is simple: ship a rough version, show the output on video, and see if people lean in. The response usually tells you quickly whether it’s worth going deeper.
There are more "dumb" categories like this than people realize
@GOP Yet to come…
7. It was at these series of parties that I personally witnessed the Plaintiff being forced to perform various sexual acts with Donald J. Trump and Mr. Epstein. Both Mr. Trump and Mr. Epstein were advised that she was 13 years old.
#TrumpEpsteinCoverup
If you make content about stuff you did and share the lessons you learned, you'll do well.
If you make content about stuff other people did, and share their lessons, you'll do poorly.
Do cool stuff
Talk about it
Make money
Invest money in doing cooler stuff
Repeat.
Bro just crossed $20,000/mo
Helping people stop DOOMSCROLLING
With 1 simple B2C app
You GENUINELY have no excuse..
2026 has to be your year.
→ Mau built an app in a few days
→ Hired 1 UGC creator
→ Made like 10 videos
→ Started running ads at $20/day
→ And scaled to $300/mo from there
Now he has a top #40 app
Just TURN OFF your brain.
Your input is not needed.
Follow the playbooks from people like MAU that share it here on X.
Do NOT try reinvent the wheel.
This is the TRINITY of notifications
Stripe: You received payment to fund your APPS.
Rork: your new APP is finished and ready to make money.
Superwall: New subscriber on your APP.
You can LITERALLY just doom scroll my X account and build a $10k/mo app.
Minimum.
Or join my haters and keep being a prideful broke programmer.
The onboarding structure I recently gave out for FREE here on X.
Got one of my new app
a 23% conv rate From 1 reel.
Everything I share will make you money
I know because the systems I give out
are all personally battle tested by me.
And I’m constantly experimenting
Then I share everything for FREE
Here on my X account.
So you don’t have to WASTE your time.
I love this quote! People who think a lot are great, but so long as it's coupled with action every now and then.
Because of LLMs, the only type of people I’d hire now are what I’d call “super-unicorns”
There are very few folks with all these traits …
but I just wouldn’t want to work with someone who didn’t have all these skills/behaviors.
This will keep team sizes very small.
2026 is going to be very interesting for the whole industry.
I’m excited to share a new repo: Agent Skills for Context Engineering
Instead of just offering a library of black-box tools, it acts as a "Meta-Agent" knowledge base. It provides a standard set of skills, written in markdown and code, that you can feed to an agent so it understands how to manage its own cognitive resources.
Most agent failures are not model failures; they are context failures. This is still an experimental project. The goal is to establish a platform-agnostic standard for context engineering that can be used in Cursor, Claude Code, Copilot or Codex.
skills/
context-fundamentals: What context is, why it matters
context-degradation: How context fails (lost-in-middle, poisoning)
context-optimization: Compaction, masking, caching
multi-agent-patterns: Orchestrator, swarm, hierarchical
memory-systems: Vector RAG, knowledge graphs, Zep
tool-design: Building tools agents can use
evaluation: Testing and measuring agent systems
I believe this is a good start, showing developers how to approach context engineering rather than relying on ready-made tools.
You will also find the aggregated research documents I used to build these skills in the repo. The skills are synthesized from technical blogs on context and prompt engineering that I bookmarked, AI Labs' documentations, and Anthropic Skills examples.
Try the 7 Skills, created using Antrhopic's Skills template format. Experiment with the provided scripts and references, and feel free to contribute to the repo.
Structured outputs create false confidence (boundaryml.com)
Don’t WASTE your time making an APP without this $100k/mo onboarding
great advice to become an expert at anything from Andrej Karpathy