I am such a bad friend 🤦‍♂️ I spent the last 30 days telling all my friends that they need to switch from Claude to Codex I need to apologize to all of them now ...

same vibe from @theo

I AM SUCH A GOOD FRIEND AFTER ALL

waiting for tomorrow to update this 👀

if you're selling your startup - don't I sold my startups for $8m & I'll never sell again quick context: I sold Tweet Hunter and Taplio for $8m in 2024. $2m upfront, the rest as an earnout based on performance - on paper, a dream exit in reality, 3 things broke me first, I gave up my baby. the products I spent years building, the vision I had in my head all of it went to someone else. and now I sit here watching the new owners ship things I'd never ship, kill features I loved, and just make the product shitty looking at Tweet Hunter like this hurts more than I expected it to 😞 -- second, the earnout was kind of a 2-year prison we wanted a high multiple, so we agreed to performance-based milestones that meant 2 years of waking up every single day knowing the only thing that mattered was hitting aggressive revenue targets I was technically still running the company but I had a boss now: the contract 🥲 hitting milestones used to feel like winning but with an earnout it flips. every win is just dodging a loss and missing one doesn't feel like falling short - it feels like being a loser -- third, the money itself breaks you - nobody warns you about it you have no idea what to do with that kind of money you don't get the time to adjust to it and you start taking bad decisions. you stop identifying as the same person you were before and you go a little crazy, faster than you think and then comes the worst part after all this, when I got back to building, I realized everyone around me already saw me as the "successful guy who exited" and that froze me for months I couldn't ship anything new because I was scared of breaking the perception I've talked to a lot of founders who sold their companies. every single one of them feels this but I got back to it anyway - building is what I love and today I'm building a SaaS portfolio that crossed $1m MRR this year so if you're sitting on a term sheet right now, do me a favor don't read what the buyer is offering read what you'd be giving up and then make a decision

i won't raise VC funds ever again you must have read the VC stories going around on X since last week. makes you pretty scared 😟 but the real problem with VC money is what it does to: - your mindset - your freedom - your approach everything get's changed, and not in a good way tomorrow's newsletter on why i'll never raise VC money again, how the VC math works, and the trap no one notices subscribe below 👇

episode 05 of the show life of an indie maker - AI agentic nanny 🤷🏻