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we're in the golden age of $1M AI apps:
– 2 founders
– 0 to 500K users in one year
– 550K visits/month
INSANE 🤯
My revenue since I started self-employment:
2019 $33K
2020 $351K
2021 $337K
2022 $541K
2023 $467K
2024 $620K
Just build more apps
If your app does not generate revenue, do not spend months trying to change it.
You should receive $ as soon as possible.
Move forward with next app idea.
It is highly likely you need ~10 attempts to create your first $1k/month app.
How to build $1k/mo mobile app?
Everything you need to know to create a $1K/mo app from scratch in 1 thread
Based on my 5+ years of experience with 20+ apps in different categories
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Stimulation Clicker (neal.fun)
Cracked the code to going viral.
1b+ impressions, 148k followers, 355k shares—no ads
Why you’re not growing:
What does not matter:
How to win:
Keep creating, let’s break the algo
Great advice on cold emailing. Especially "keep it 5-8 sentences"!
This is a cliff.
That's a kilometre tall.
On a comet.
Mushrooms work in mysterious ways
Airbnb founder Brian Chesky on how to design an amazing user experience
“How do you make something for a million people? I don’t know where to start. But if you pick one person, study them, and take their journey, you can actually build something really personal. You can design something and keep iterating until they love it. Don’t stop improving it until that person loves it, and you’re not allowed to move to the second person until the first person loves it. Then you get the second person and keep iterating until they love it. And so on.”
As Brian argues, designing the perfect experience for one person is a much easier place to start than trying to design something for a million people. You can figure out how to scale it later.
“If you can design something really amazing using the hand-crafted part of your brain, then you can reverse-engineer how to industrialize this millions of times over. And what happens is people love your product and they tell everyone else about your product.”
When people truly love your service, they become your marketing department. But counterintuitively, the biggest and best products seem to mostly get started by solving a very specific problem for a very specific user.
Video source: @StanfordGSB (2023)
the only career advice i have is make every decision that moves you closer to not having to be on linkedin
Quantum Leap.
2025 Goals
Newsletter link below :)
how to validate your next "big idea":
is it solving your own problem?
do you NEED it to exist (because this problem is painful)?
yes to both then build, no to any then probably dont build. if you have only a yes to Q1 then build and pivot when you find a more painful problem.
@bryan_johnson Looks like you didn't understand much from Skin in the Game. It states that we are not supposed to be immortal; only our genes.
This is aside from, in my general work, the contempt, perhaps even disgust I have for your brand of non-stoical neurotic overoptimization.
Naval Ravikant: “Try to be one of the people who creates things”
“You should actually go out and build the thing you want to see exist—not just say ‘oh, that’s gonna happen. I’m just going to sit back and wait for somebody else to do it’… Things don’t just automatically show up. There are great men and women who go out there and create these things. So try to be one of those people who creates these things.”
If you’re going to be an investor, Naval urges you to “at least bet on things that you think may not exist without you betting on them.”
He continues:
“The other mindset — which is I’m just going to hustle ahead of other investors and slip some money in before they get there and mark it up — maybe you’ll make money, sure, but it’s a very unfulfilling life. And I would argue long term you will not make the most money because the greatest winners of the last few decades have been unexpected winners.”
He gives SpaceX, Tesla, OpenAI, and Apple Computer as examples.
“These are companies that were written off because it was believed that their dream was impossible and too expensive…. When you see these impossible dreams come true, not only is it the most fulfilling thing, it’s also where you make the most money.”
Video source: @AngelList (2023)
When states discover oil, they’re hit with the resource curse — incentivizing them to stop investing in people. When we achieve AGI, we’ll face the intelligence curse:
Patio Installation
📹Cnyturf
"The task is, not so much to see what no one has yet seen; but to think what nobody has yet thought, about that which everybody sees."
This is what it looks like when the winner feels sorry for the loser.
Ukrainian chess player Vassily Ivanchuk and his reaction to losing at the World Blitz Chess Championship vs US player Daniel Naroditsky.
Mobile apps are the best way to drive 5-figure months and travel the world.
But how do you validate app ideas?
After building an app to $40k MRR, here is how I validated the idea:
If you're not using AI apps in 2025, you're at a huge disadvantage.
I've tried 100s of new apps this year, and here are the best 14 AI tools that actually stuck with me!