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I have been humiliated. People ghosted me. Loved ones left me. I want to make sure it won’t happen to you if you are chasing your dream. No matter what it is. The easiest way for Pond to create value is we can help you avoid what I have been through. We might not deliver the best but we will promise you that we work the hardest. The team works 12 hours 7 days around the clock. You have our promise. The team will do their very best. I’ll do my very best. I promise you this. We are proud that we work the hardest in the space to accelerate innovation. To benefit humanity. To create value for the society. Thank you all.

Before I started Pond, I was in the founding team of a startup whose CTO spent some time at SpaceX. He said it was a CRAZY company. I thought, crazy is good. What’s normal anyway? He must be happy today. I didn’t ask.

Pond today ranked 3rd on Product Hunt @ProductHunt We had 0 expectation. We curated the content and did nothing beyond that. Thank you all for recognizing us. We will push harder to support you. Making AI relevant to you. 🫡

Our intern from last year is now an intern at a YC startup and is connected with at least 40 YC companies. That’s the thing about Pond: whenever Pond needs help, people who have been part of the journey come back and support us. That is the Pond spirit. That is our culture. Once you join us, you are always part of the team. The same goes for our partners. Once you choose us, we do our best to serve and support you. We value our promises. Pond is a family. We take care of people.

Mau is one of the smartest founders Bootstrapped with 0 funding to $60K MRR We truly wish that the next Mau will have an easier founder journey because of us, because of @JoinPond We are here to support you if you are going through a tough time. ❤️

Followed by industry legends and OGs such as @arvidkahl and @Jason @IdeasDirectory is very underrated but it will prove to the market how valuable it is soon. Excited to work with the team to support the new AI economy.

Looking for someone to help us with SEO and AEO. Freelancer & studio/agency only. Work with us to support hundreds of founders and investors! Comment below so I can check your DM. Send me a DM with your case studies of your similar business cases like our business model @JoinPond and metrics in the past.

This is like a venture scout, but for indie hackers or early stage founders with traction to raise their first round before VC!

Cursor has attracted builders like crazy. Finally not many people taking off their shoes at the entrance anymore. The vibe is epic. Thank you @mntruell @benln

Get paid up to $500 for referring founder friends who are looking to raise capital! Finding a growth hire in San Francisco is a headache, so we thought: why not pay the community instead? Payments are settled instantly once the referral conditions are met. Join the program 👇

Hey @X I’m looking to connect with crazy wild responsive founders with more than $2k MRR who are open to new things building: - consumer - ai prosumer tools - developer tools And so on. We might be able to get you funded.

Learnt from Cartier’s CEO about the importance of ICP. Had the opportunity to talk to the Cartier CEO (yes, the French luxury brand) when I was in college many years ago. I learnt the importance of ICP (ideal customer profile) from him because, without a clear definition of your ICP, it is impossible to gather counterintuitive insights and identify business patterns. Let me break it down for you: There was a question: after the 2008 financial crisis and the economic downturn, was Cartier ever impacted? Intuitively, we think that if the economy is doing badly, all luxury brands are likely doing badly as well. Here comes the counterintuitive insight that, without a clear definition of the ICP, you would never understand from the outside: Cartier wasn’t affected that much because most of its customers are hyper-wealthy, so their purchasing power wasn’t impacted nearly as much. Although Cartier is a very well-established company, think about it: if you are operating a startup, without a detailed understanding of your customers, you will never fully understand who you can provide value to, let alone build a sustainable business process to support them. Insights are important. If you don’t know how to profile your ICP, make assumptions, build something, and talk to people. Ultimately, you need to narrow down your focus and develop deep insights about the people you are serving. Business insights cannot be discovered without a clear investigative process and a well-defined ICP.

Indie hackers and bootstrapped founders, the round that takes you from your first $1K MRR to $50K MRR is still wide open! If you want to accelerate your business with funding, let me know.

Vibecoders commuting to work after getting funded on @JoinPond

I have been thinking about @levelsio's words for nearly six months while building Pond, where indie hackers can raise their first round on the platform, scale to gain more traction so they can either keep indie hacking or raise from VCs (VCs could reach out to you if you have good traction), and have a community of 10,000 solve their problems. I was a little anxious after his reply because I highly respect @levelsio and his words - he is the OG of indie hacking, and I love his work so much. He is incredibly talented. Let me explain why I am determined to support indie hackers after his reply after careful thinking. I think we are both right. And thank you @levelsio for being so kind to offer advice. If you search for indie hacker fundraising on Google, it shows you nothing: The first result says, "Startup fundraising is a numbers game. Stop taking it personally." The second result gives you nothing useful. The third result tells you to get a job so you can indie hack. I feel it in my guts. I have been through the whole damn journey by myself. Having a daytime job and working on something on the side, and having to fly around the world to raise money and rizz up strangers. Back in 2022, I was building a founder community on the side in London while working at another startup in SF full-time. 12 hours of work per day. Seriously. I built one of the biggest builder communities in London, and I always remember spending weeks filling out a bunch of forms to get a $500 sponsorship for an event. So many people were building something at that time. That was before AI coding, by the way. I started our company in London. I always remember getting our first $10,000 angel check by flying to Hong Kong and Paris. We had 2,000 users at that time already. I gave 100 pitches, iterating based on the feedback of everyone I pitched to. Wouldn't it just be nice if I had a place online where I could raise a little money from home, raise again and again, and once I had more traction, raise from VCs directly? Or even have VCs come to me? Or keep bootstrapping? I kind of feel that my life would have been so different if I had had this at that time. Because of AI, software startups are booming - exponentially, in a way. Micro-SaaS is twice as big as AI coding and is growing rapidly. Every supply surge creates a platform. More e-commerce vendors led to Amazon. More photos and videos led to Instagram and TikTok. Those platforms created even more vendors, more creators, and more content. Today, we have more startups and applications than ever before. Don't we need a platform for this? Historically speaking... Look, guys, building the next Calendly is not hard anymore. Commercialization is. And it is getting harder. Speed is everything. We are in an era where everyone can build something, so why is commercialization still not matching the pace of building? Everything should be in equilibrium, right? Some of the best indie hackers we talked to said that if they had had some funding at the start, that would have greatly helped them. So let's fucking do it. Boys, I have been through the whole damn rough journey by myself, and I don't wish any of you to go through what I have been through. I did some numerical analysis, but more importantly, I want to help. I want to help indie hackers because I want to help the younger version of myself. This is a regret for me. I am rooting for indie hackers because some of the smartest people I know all started from indie hacking. They are not the CEO. They are freaking marketers, engineers, product managers, and sometimes troublemakers - all at once! And I was one of you, and I still am. Fuck getting a full-time job so you can indie hack on the side. If you have traction, let us help. If you are building something cool with traction, comment below. I am not even writing this post for traction. I will keep doing this even if nobody cares. Fuck it.

My founder friends, if you feel bad, feel lost or lonely, no matter what you are going through right now: My dad turned 60 last December. He told me life is short. I’ll leave the rest to you to fill.