Alexis Rondeau

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Bookmarked from Olga @o1echka

The wildest ideas started with unpolished prototypes:

  • Twitter? A basic SMS service
  • Airbnb? Air mattresses on a living room floor
  • Amazon? Just an online bookstore

If your first version isn’t a bit embarrassing, you’re waiting too long to launch. Don’t fear the „messy start“, it’s where the magic begins

Bookmarked from esther @esterezw

I used to think my life was boring.

  • I have no crazy stories.
  • I haven’t scaled to $10,000/day.
  • I’m not jumping out of a airplane daily.

So what do I talk about?

As I started writing on X….

I’d spend hours searching for the next life changing idea to talk about.

I saw big creators going viral talking about their romance stories and daily life.

It looked so easy for them.

Yet there I was starting at my blank PC screen and feeling like punching it every time I struggled to find interesting ideas to talk about.

So I gave up.

I quit chasing after the next big idea.

And thought I’d give a try to sharing my “boring” life:

  • my work life.
  • a cute pet I saw.
  • story of my classmates.

Somehow, I saw success with it.

My bunny picture went viral.

My story about quitting university got 100’s of people reaching out and sharing relatable stories to mine.

People were reading my “boring” stories.

But why?

This is nothing special….or ground shattering…why would anyone read it?

People want relatability.

They’re more likely to read to your story about getting fired than a story of scaling to $10,000/month because it’s more relatable.

Sure, big goals are cool to share.

But you won’t be jumping out of an airplane every single day.

You don’t need to chase after the next goal to have something to talk about.

Because your life is already the story you’re searching for.

And that small idea you have...

Could potentially change someone’s day.

Share it.

Bookmarked from Arthur @arthuryuzbashev

1960s: “COBOL will let non-programmers build software!”

2000s: “UML diagrams will let non-programmers build software!”

2010s: “No-code platforms will let non-programmers build software!”

2020s: “GPT-3 will let non-programmers build software!”

2022: “Copilot will let non-programmers build software!”

2023: “GPT-4 will let non-programmers build software!”

2024: “GPT-4o will let non-programmers build software!”

2025: “o3-mini-high will let non-programmers build software!”

We are still far from a normal individual who can copy/paste their way to actual production apps.

AI supercharges developers, not remove them.