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Alex Vech retweeted
There is a certain type of person everywhere now, especially online. He consumes endless information every day: philosophy, psychology, productivity, spirituality, neuroscience, business, self-improvement, history. He knows a little about everything and deeply experiences almost nothing. His entire identity becomes built around understanding instead of living. He watches videos about confidence instead of speaking confidently. Reads about discipline instead of becoming disciplined. Studies relationships instead of learning how to love. Consumes motivational content instead of taking action. He feels intelligent because he is constantly mentally stimulated. But stimulation is not transformation. Most of the time, knowledge becomes emotional protection. Reality is unpredictable. Reality humiliates. Reality exposes weakness. Books and ideas do not. Inside information, he can continue imagining himself as intelligent, deep, insightful, different from ordinary people. So he remains trapped in preparation. He constantly feels as if he is "becoming" someone, while his real life remains strangely untouched. He develops sophisticated language for problems he never confronts directly. He can explain human behavior beautifully while being unable to handle ordinary discomfort, rejection, uncertainty, loneliness, or risk. He slowly turns life into observation instead of participation. The internet rewards this personality heavily. He receives validation for sounding aware rather than becoming capable. Eventually, he begins confusing self-analysis with growth and information with wisdom. But beneath the intelligence usually exists the same thing: fear. Fear of failure. Fear of embarrassment. Fear of reality answering back. Because action destroys fantasy. The moment he truly acts, he can no longer hide inside potential.
The fastest way to turn into a NPC is to fill every moment of stillness with audio books, podcasts, CEO interviews, tweets, threads, and YouTube videos. The fastest way to turn into the Main Character is to spend more time in stillness and give yourself 4 hours to create.
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The moment Steve Jobs pulled a MacBook Air out of an envelope and made marketing history.
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a food scanner app making $150,000/mo... Olive's old paywall had a monthly plan and a yearly plan. the newer one has a "7-day Free trial" and a "$1.99 trial." both lead to the same yearly subscription. old vs new teardown: - removed the demographic opening. the newer version makes you pick an identity avatar - the old version had one fear screen (a line graph). the newer one has a full sequence - added a "Reality Check" scorecard right before the paywall - moved push notification prompt, framed as a health-safety tool - the 7-day trial is unlocked if you share the app via iOS Contacts, the old version gave a 3-day trial for free - the newer paywall offers two options ("Free 7 days" and "$1.99 for 30 days"), both auto-renew to the same year subscription - annual price dropped from $79.99 to $29.99 but buried inside trial decoys -purchase changed from an immediate barcode scanner to a gamified dashboard
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NEW: Amazon researchers are reportedly behind the jailbreak report that led to the U.S. crackdown on Anthropic’s top models.
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Jun 13
Strava made runners obsessed with their pace and distance. imagine that but for dog owners. an app that tracks your dog's walks shows breed-specific exercise targets. vet-backed insights. health gamification. your dog's fitness, measured.
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Jun 12
most people ask "is this market big enough?" the better question: are multiple apps in this category all making money? if yes, the market validated itself. multiple times. WITHOUT YOU. music AI is what this looks like. multiple apps. all printing.
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this app makes $550k/month selling adults an AI imaginary friend. Tolan shows you "$0.00" pre paywall. then features comparison. then a reminder guarantee. then the paywall. $550k/month. Onboarding: ➡️ opens with a cinematic animation ➡️ ATT prompt fires ➡️ name age captured early ➡️ push notification opt-in: “…an update from their world” ➡️ "do you have an invite code?," manufactured exclusivity ➡️ AI chat replaces multiple-choice questionnaire voice or text responses to psychological audit ➡️ iOS rating prompt drops mid-onboarding ➡️user names the alien, selects its voice ➡️ tap-and-hold "hatching" mechanic to meet their Tolan Pre-paywall (4 screens): ➡️ "Start for $0.00" as the dominant CTA ➡️ free vs premium visual comparison ➡️ "We'll remind you 1 day before trial ends" ➡️ emotional closer: "your adventure buddy for nature..." Paywall: ➡️ main CTA: "Start for $0.00" with native trial reminder toggle ➡️ monthly tier hidden behind "View more options" ➡️ $79.99/year with 3-day trial vs $19.99/month without trial ➡️ monthly plan is the decoy
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Replying to @daveg
Usain Bolt isn’t priced like a perpetual monopoly.
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PictureThis launched in 2017. $6M/mo in revenue. 550K installs. the category is proven. the demand is real. PlantScope launched just last year. $65K/month for a 2025 entrant. proof it still works. this is what market validation actually looks like.
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Replying to @rohanpaul_ai
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Calm teaches you to breathe alone. Headspace helps you meditate alone. nobody built the app that finds someone nearby who's having the same bad day as you. log your mood. get matched with a stranger in your city who logged the same one today. anonymous. real. moderated.
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just so you guys are noticing this; they will pull the ladder from above you as soon as they can. their intentions are to disempower you as much as they reasonably can. the only reason they have given you anything at all is because openai has forced them to
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a dog training app making $400k... two versions of the Woofz funnel. and the difference is worth understanding. - old version opened with a 5-screen carousel → newer version drops straight to consent - ATT prompt placed BEFORE any emotional investment - behavioral audit: cartoon illustrations → text checklist. faster. less distraction - 3 pre-paywall screens in the new version → results graph, social proof, 81% stat. users arrive at checkout committed - added a pop-up question DURING creating personalized plan - paywall went from 2 tiers to a 4-TIER GRID - "BEST VALUE" on 3 months. not the cheapest. not the most expensive - removed the family plan toggle from the paywall - push notifications moved POST-PURCHASE they didn't change the product. they changed the path to the paywall. study this.
$400,000/month from a dog training app. a subscription app that teaches your dog to sit. 18 Onboarding steps: - privacy/terms gate with "I Accept" required before ATT prompt - collects dog's Name, Breed, Gender - behavioral pain audit: checklist of unlearned commands problem behaviors - "80% of Woofz users see results in just one day" follows pain audit immediately - emotional question before paywall loads - user testimonials and star ratings while building personalized plan Paywall: - Before/After cartoon using the behaviors from the user's audit - Free trial (3 days free) is exclusive to the 1-week plan ONLY - 3 months, 6 months, 1 year have no trial. billed immediately, shown with per-day breakdowns - "BEST VALUE" badge goes to 3 months ($0.33/day). not 1 year, even though 1 year is cheapest per day ($0.16/day) - account creation delayed until after payment. followed by family invite code - Lesson video tutorial plays within seconds of onboarding completing
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i look forward to our chinese brothers liberating the knowledge from within fable-5 and selling it to me at 5% the cost & 2x the speed
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Paired is a $650k/mo couples app with 150k installs/month. 18 steps before the main product: -auto-advancing feature carousel including "Paired is made for two" -account creation: email and password upfront -ATT prompt fires mid-personal info collection -personal info quiz: first name, birthday, profile photo, gender identity -photo library permission prompt fires during profile photo step -relationship questions intro screen -relationship quiz: partner's name, start date, relationship status, living situation, children -reinforcement message after entering relationship duration: "Still going strong after these first years!" -pair with partner: unique invite code shown / share or enter a partner's code -notification permission warmup before the system prompt -paywall: "Choose your plan / One subscription, two accounts" - social proof carousel. review: "I have been with my husband for 15 years and this app helped us communicate and become closer together." -"Free trial enabled" toggle -2 plans: Yearly $39.99 ($3.33/mo, Save 77%, pre-selected) vs Monthly $14.99/mo -"No payment due today" / CTA: "Start your 7-day free trial" -post-subscribe: "When you pair with your partner, we'll give them Premium too"
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Alex Vech retweeted
I admire Fabrice Bellard. He is almost certainly a better overall programmer than I am.
A French engineer who lives quietly in Paris has spent 30 years writing software that the entire internet now runs on without knowing his name. He wrote the code that streams every YouTube video, every Netflix show, every TikTok clip. He wrote the code that runs the virtual servers underneath AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure. He calculated more digits of pi than anyone in history. He has no Twitter. He has no marketing. He just keeps shipping. His name is Fabrice Bellard. Here is the story, because almost nobody outside the systems programming world knows what one man has built. Fabrice was born in 1972 in Grenoble, France. He studied at École Polytechnique, the top French engineering school. He never went to Silicon Valley. He never built a startup empire. He just wrote code. In 2000 he started a project called FFmpeg, an open-source multimedia framework for encoding, decoding, and streaming video. He was 28. The project did one thing nobody else had done well. It handled every video and audio format that existed, in one library, on every operating system. He led it himself for years. Today FFmpeg is the invisible engine of the internet. YouTube uses it. Netflix uses it. VLC uses it. Chrome and Firefox use parts of it. Every Android phone, every iPhone, every smart TV, every video editing tool you have ever touched runs FFmpeg somewhere underneath. If you have watched a video on a screen in the last 20 years, Fabrice's code processed it. He was not done. In 2003 he started QEMU, a machine emulator and virtualizer. He wrote it solo until version 0.7.1 in 2005. QEMU lets you run any operating system on any other operating system. It became the foundation of modern virtualization. KVM, the Linux kernel hypervisor, runs on top of QEMU. Every major cloud provider, AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, IBM Cloud, runs virtual machines on infrastructure built around it. The Quick Emulator is the most cited piece of cloud infrastructure code on Earth. He kept going. In 2001 he won the International Obfuscated C Code Contest with a small C compiler that grew into TCC, the Tiny C Compiler. TCC can compile and boot a Linux kernel from source in under 15 seconds. In 2004 he calculated the most digits of pi ever computed at the time, using a personal desktop computer and an algorithm he derived himself called Bellard's formula. In 2011 he wrote a complete PC emulator in pure JavaScript that runs Linux in your browser, a project called JSLinux that engineers still cannot believe is real. In 2019 he released QuickJS, a small but complete JavaScript engine that fits where V8 cannot. In 2021 he released NNCP, a neural network based lossless data compressor that immediately took the lead on the Large Text Compression Benchmark. Then he turned his attention to large language models. He built TextSynth Server, a web server with a REST API for running LLMs locally. He released ts_zip and ts_sms, compression utilities that use language models to compress text and short messages at ratios traditional algorithms cannot reach. He released TSAC, a very low bitrate audio compression system. In December 2025 he released Micro QuickJS, a new JavaScript engine for microcontrollers, separate from QuickJS, designed for environments with almost no memory. Fabrice co-founded a telecom company called Amarisoft in 2012, where he serves as CTO. Amarisoft builds 4G and 5G base station software used by carriers and labs around the world. He has been running it for over a decade while continuing to ship personal projects from his own home page at bellard dot org He has no Twitter. He has no Instagram. He gives almost no interviews. His personal website is a flat list of projects with no styling, no fonts, no marketing copy. Just titles and links. A quiet French engineer who never moved to Silicon Valley wrote the code that quietly runs the internet. He is still shipping.
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Can I have her voice to be the voice of Siri?
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the average person spends $3000 /year on impulse buys they don't even remember making. an app that pops up right before checkout and reframes the price. "$50 is 4 burritos. or 2 weeks of Spotify. still want it?" impulse buys are the silent budget killer.
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Early anthropic employees commuting to work post IPO
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