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If you’re a coder, you’re sitting on a ₹1L/month opportunity right now. Not hype. I’ve seen it play out. I’ve spent the last 8 years building #SaaS across B2B, B2C, even B2G. Shipped products, worked with real customers, made money, lost money, repeated. After enough failures, I finally cracked a simple framework: how to build products that actually make money while you sleep. Most devs miss this, even in the #AI era. I’m here to share: what works, what doesn’t, and how to build something that sells. Still new to Twitter, still figuring content out. But the lessons? Already paid for.
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i’m spending more time updating WhatsApp than using it. every time I open WhatsApp on my Mac, there’s a fresh update waiting 😭
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i hate making pitch decks because i don't want to explain everything 🤯
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people who code and design have an unfair advantage
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Stop trying to impress people who don’t matter.
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Do not hang out with losers. It is contagious.
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we are entering the "everything OS" era. founder OS, marketing OS, me OS, you OS... 🤡
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one thing i am not loyal to is LLMs. i change them rapidly, no strings attached.
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your business can quietly turn you into someone you never wanted to be. "you were an artist, not a CEO" - @matt_gray_ said it and it hit. i've done things i'm proud of and things that flopped. the pattern of what worked vs what didn't is now very clear to me.
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i'm tired of switching between notion, excalidraw, sheets, and a todo app just to get one thing done. half the time i end up using the wrong tool. notes in sheets. tasks in notion. sketches nowhere. data gets scattered. subscriptions add up. so i'm just building one thing that does all of it. no more tab switching. got a better hack? i'm listening.
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maybe I like mornings, because I can guilt-free plan but not execute.
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who else is coming?
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here's how I solved the product planning problem forever → honest question: is that roadmap a plan, or just a wishlist with a deadline on it? it helps me visualize things better, but it comes free with a constant dilemma of sticking to it or refining. week 4: a customer needed something not on it. week 6: money got tight. week 8: the roadmap was literally wallpaper. Solution-> 1. I keep going back to the bigger picture. where are we? and where do we want to go? 2. I have learned to prioritize customers' needs over my excitement for new features. 3. I no longer over-engineer features so they become never-ending. I plan MVP at the feature level. still not perfect, but at least my roadmap isn't wallpaper anymore 🤓
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most successful people I know are only focused on 3 things right now: 1. health & longevity 2. personal brand 3. business in that order. the sequence is the strategy.
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I grew retention 18% without building a single new feature. We had people booking demo calls but never converting to signups. Fixed the onboarding flow. That's it. Here's how you can do the same: 1. Stop asking what to build next: Ask where you're losing people silently. 2. Audit before you add: Spend 2 hours in your own onboarding as a first-time user. You'll find it. 3. Boring compounds. Shiny stalls: That backlog feature will wait. Lost retention won't come back. Fix the quiet thing first. Always.
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nobody tells you that founding a company means becoming really good at pretending you're okay 😿
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the loneliest moment in startups isn't when things fail. it's when things are going okay and you still feel empty 🤌
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nobody talks about this enough: the quality of your decisions on a Tuesday afternoon is not the same as Monday morning. same founder. same problem. completely different output. I shipped a half-baked feature once because I was too burnt out to think clearly. spent 3 weeks fixing what 2 hours of rest would have prevented. mental state is not a soft skill. it is literally a product variable. 🧠 how are you actually tracking yours?
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10 years of engineering and the hardest lesson was the simplest one: nobody pays you for clean code. they pay you for a problem that no longer exists. I used to treat the codebase like the product. optimized it, refactored it, was proud of it. meanwhile the actual business was waiting. the shift happened when I started asking one question before touching anything: does this move the needle for the user, or just for me? most of the time it was just for me. 😅 that's the founder trap nobody warns you about early enough. what's one thing you kept building that nobody actually asked for?
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I once spent two weeks perfecting an auth flow nobody asked for. users were waiting. I was refactoring. that's the trap. we mistake progress on the craft for progress on the business. the product isn't the code. it's the thing someone pays for, tells a friend about, comes back to tomorrow. code is just raw material. 🧱 what are you over-engineering right now that nobody actually asked for? 👇
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