I didn’t lose my first 10 kg in the gym. I lost them in a hospital bed. Left: this was me in 2014 at my peak of weight Right: me -30kg today A thread 🧵

alright @AnthropicAI , you got me! finally upgrade to Pro plan, switched from Sonnet 4.5 to Opus 4.8 and Claude code will ship way faster as restrictions in Codex holding my product back now we'll get the things done, Claude! 🚀

figuring out the ICP is hard for me for now but it's the step i have to take to take @FocusMap_ profitable again and Claude is helping a lot recently! ChatGPT, even with the actual model 5.5 is misleading me way too often. it’s too agreeable and sometimes feels like it’s just telling me what I want to hear Claude is honest to me: tells me not to procrastinate and keep the lane to get to know my ideal customer profile for my product do you figure out an ICP for your product or just ship it?

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I thought I knew my ICP. Turns out I mostly had a persona. “Solo SaaS founder with live users” sounds specific, but it only describes the person. It doesn’t explain what broke. I don’t need to ask: “who is this for?” I need to ask: “what happened that made you look for this?” That answer is probably where the real positioning starts. Next step: Customer interviews to identify the trigger, sharpen the ICP, and finally market and distribute FocusMap properly.

turns out pushing my legs onto their limit at sundays run, pushed me to new records today broke a lot of my PRs at commuting today 49 km/h top speed at flat street 🤯 28.1 km/h avg speed sports is the best therapy for my mind felt good today

Analyzing Ads is great to learn marketing tweaks and what's working @marclou told this many times, and he's right This one reminded me at his approach: "Pay $5 to unlock early bird prices" The copy is good performing and not lying: it's $5 to claim the spot But the brain sees the product next to the pricing The result: "oh that's cheap, let's give it a look" It converted myself to give it a look Then you're already at the pricing page, and the sales copy could turn you into a customer But the product still needs to fit your need, and the pain big enough to pay the required price Result here: Pain is not high enough, product is way too expensive at $179 for something it is just a vitamin Learning from this: 1. Text copy is 50% to get a visitor 2. Pricing related to the outcome will do the rest Do you inspect Ads to learn from them?

I thought pricing was about the number. Today with Claude, I learned it’s mostly about framing. Claude rewrote my pricing page better than expected. And pricing sounds different with: “know what to build next without the guesswork" Sharper reason to pay. Also realized Reddit and X gave me attention, but LinkedIn/direct outreach probably reach people who can approve €15 without a debate. Might really switch more of my workflow to Claude Code now. What matters more from your point? price, positioning, or audience

GM builders! What's on your list today?

I'm curious Does this kinda move posts: a) motivate b) inspire c) non-relevant

5 AM workout is done 10 days into new morning routine and it's already kickin' yesterday i went through a lot of user feedback and reached out to the most valuable ones one thing became clear: i need to explain better why FocusMap is worth paying for when competitors offer free plans because the value is not “another roadmap tool.” it is helping founders stop guessing what to build next and building in public with their users what would make you pay for a feedback tool instead of using a free one like featurebase or canny?

Oops, i got my first ban at reddit finally I already touched the whole thread with gloves to NOT get banned 😅 Wrote the mods to turn it into a temporary ban 🤞🏻 What would you do?