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And just like this, dev tools have a completely new acquisition and monetization vector.
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RT @proxy_vector: @arvidkahl learned this the hard way early on
had a trial user with a gmail account asking super basic questions. almostâŚ
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This is really cool, and Iâd love for you to try it out.
My persona is much better than me at remembering exactly where I already talked about something. And it really has my vibe.
Give it a whirl and then let me know how it felt to talk to âme.â
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Something I see a lot with my more corporate customers: they trial Podscan on a personal account and only when theyâre ready to purchase, do they sign up with their business domain.
Thatâs why every trial should be treated like theyâre a Fortune 500
In disguise :)
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Podscan found a mention of Podscan in the 11th minute of @startupspod 9min after the episode was released.
I'll never tire of being amazed by this tech. It finds mentions before anyone even had the chance to listen to the whole show.
(Unless you listen on 2x like @robwalling)𤣠https://t.co/gP1tjdgpnU
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I have, I do, and I will keep doing it. Shows good results every year.
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Are you running any Black Friday deals for your SaaS?
Why (not)?
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I donât get it. Otherwise smart people proclaim the end of SaaS because AI takes over the software part.
Software-as-a-Service was never about the software and always about the service.
AI changes nothing about the business reasons to buy instead of build.
And yes, you can built much faster with AI assistance. But professional software never had an implementation problem. People figure these things out every day. The hard part is the spec, the requirements, understanding what this will cost to run and maintain, not just to build.
Thatâs what the -as-a-service part does. It outsources the headache of everything but the cost to build.
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As a developer, you will not be able to avoid being compared to this tool in output, development speed, and ease. Either you embrace it, or you have a really good answer as to why you wouldn't.
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Even if you're against vibecoding, AI-assisted coding, and want only organic, hand-crafted free-range code... do not ignore these stories.
Claude Code might not write code as well as you do, but it can interface with data and build impactful tools in seconds rather than days.
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The work that was previously done by junior engineers slowly with a lot of experimentation and wonky dashboard solutions that took weeks is now done by a tool that was trained on all software written previously.
We will see this move from the small single-issue tools to bigger comprehensive suites to standard on services rather soon.
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RT @ryancbriggs: You guys if this is slop then I like slop https://t.co/pQZOayWhqO
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So... Cyber Week.
A/S/L? đ¤Ł
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A lot of hopeful early-stage founders dismiss this very important insight about customer psychology, particularly when it comes to enterprise and previously "in-house" focused buyers.
You really, really have to offer much more than what they could possibly build in-house. Your moat is not just time and money; your moat has to be something that they could not replicate even if they wanted to.
And it has always been like this with a lot of people. But the capacity to get 80% there for almost anything people want to build will make this much more of a visible problem compared to years past.
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RT @bibryam: "Your codebase isn't broken â it just wasn't built for AI."
Your Codebase Is Probably Fighting Claude
https://t.co/1C3cuf3wDâŚ
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Rule of thumb for any established business: they know what converts. And who they want to reach.
If you donât like their approach to pricing, youâre actively being repelled. They donât want you to use their service. Itâs intentional.
Youâre their Non-Ideal Customer Profile.
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RT @istupidpreneur: @arvidkahl Just grabbed this a couple of hours ago and itâs sooooo good.
Highly recommend. https://t.co/qN5bVLfU0D
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Is there a SaaS for pruning your @kit email lists?
"Automatically unsubscribe/remove all people with tag XYZ that have a Gmail address and haven't opened the last three emails?"-style?
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Build a product.
Build a business.
Build an audience.
I highly recommend buying the bundle before it jumps from $25 back to $100+
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RT @aniksingal: @arvidkahl Best bang for buck business education right there.
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RT @arvidkahl: Pretty much all I know about entrepreneurship in a $25 package.
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If youâre building complex software, this is a great way to allow agents more insight.
I did this for Podscan, too. I recorded myself going through the app, page by page, every component, and had Claude turn the transcript into a knowledge document.
Loads with each prompt.
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RT @JackEllis: I am writing every knowledge breakthrough we've ever had, why we do things, how we do them, etc. into an agent instructionsâŚ
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If you think ads in AI apps are avoidable or shouldnât be allowed, I really recommend reframing this into: instead of hoping that it wonât happen, what can I do or offer to people who only hope?
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Pretty much all I know about entrepreneurship in a $25 package.
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Looking forward to people pointing out that businesses that want to make money occasionally do things that make them money.
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One of the scariest emails to get.
AWS sends this when the hardware underneath one of your instances fails catastrophically. Total crash levels of fail.
Of course, a resilient system works around that. Still, itâs not a fun email to receive. https://t.co/N84GdhYnof
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See these, for example :)
and https://t.co/7IxZpWomwm , for maaaany more deals.
and, most importantly, https://t.co/7P1eP1LE1K ;) 50% off, all plans, perpetual. https://t.co/6vYScmDPit
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Lots of people tell me that SaaS shouldn't ever run a Black Friday deal, because subscriptions work differently. You'd lose too much money. And so on.
These same people then try to time their SaaS dev tool purchases with Black Friday deals offered by their makers.
đ¤ˇ
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RT @zilvestro: @arvidkahl thanks for sharing đđź https://t.co/K9NGiALY85
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Even my digital clone knows about my Black Friday deals :)
https://t.co/jUodnBlXBE
(This is wild!)
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$10k MRR after 3 years is so meaningful. It means that it wasnât just some flash in the pan, some hype that quickly ballooned and deflated. It was work.
That struggle makes this number incredibly significant.
Non-founders will never get that.
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RT @martinpcolley: @arvidkahl Grabbed it look forward to digging in, the embedded entrepreneur picked my attention
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RT @arvidkahl: For this year's Black Friday, I'm slashing the price of my already discounted Bootstrapper's Bundle by 50%.
It contains allâŚ
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RT @hustlin_heev: Finally cracked $10K MRR đĽ
It took me:
⢠3 years (1 year with a 9-5 + 2 years full-time)
⢠6 products (4 failed, 2 succâŚ
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RT @php100: @arvidkahl This was great listening to on the road thanks for sharing your insights
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This is the way
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I still struggle with marketing. Talking about my products still feels like something I shouldn't focus on.
Even when in every single one of my books and courses, I suggest that it HAS to be done, and even show how to do it without being cringe.
Being a founder is hard đ
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But, and I guess that's the point, it can still be done. So if you want to start on your own entrepreneurial journey or you're just interested in building a personal brand around what you already do, check out the Bootstrapper's Bundle, which will be 50% off for a few days.
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And if you're interested in the sections that teach how you can overcome your reluctance to be a marketer, you will find several of them in Zero to Sold, where I will share how I approach setting up a marketing process that allowed me to stay honest with my customers.
You'll also find a lot around this topic in The Embedded Entrepreneur with a strong focus on marketing inside communities without being salesy.
Ultimately, you'll find parts of Find Your Following revolving around being an authentic founder in front of your customers and peers.
So yeah, each product in the bundle has something to help you do the thing that might be the hardest: marketing.
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You can have this in your inbox as soon as it's out, every week. You'll find the newsletter with over 20.000 readers at https://t.co/TbXIWV61XA.
I'd love for you to subscribe to get my weekly insight into running a real business with real paying customers.
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RT @illyism: @arvidkahl đŻ Arvid's AI Integration Playbook
đĄ Core Thesis: AI systems are nondeterministic and constantly changing. Your jobâŚ
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This is my AI cost plummeting after implementing the practices I talk about in today's podcast episode.
Same exact throughput. Massive dip in $.
None of these are hacks or secrets. But they're non-obvious, and took me far too long to understand.
https://t.co/MSRhvELgDg https://t.co/qFN5RTveFc
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RT @BillDA: This is the most Microsoft Office thing I have ever read https://t.co/CVTp70Bx7y
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RT @ayushtweetshere: This is a steal..
Arvids books and courses have helped me so much over the years..
Donât miss out đ
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| Nov 27 |
RT @gumroad: Gumroad creators: Drop your Black Friday deals below. And if you set up a deal with the BLACKFRIDAY2025 discount code, we'll fâŚ
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| Nov 27 |
Happy Thanksgiving to all who celebrate :)
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So yeah, $25 for all this.
You'd be supporting an indie creator while setting yourself up with a founder toolkit that'll pay for itself many times over.
Grab it at https://t.co/heHTsJtZ3B before the sale ends.
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Find Your Following: My complete Twitter course on building an authentic audience. Not growth hacks or engagement pods, just real strategies for finding your people, creating content that resonates, and turning followers into a community.
Still works beautifully despite all the platform changes.
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| Nov 27 |
For this year's Black Friday, I'm slashing the price of my already discounted Bootstrapper's Bundle by 50%.
It contains all my books as eBooks + audiobooks as well as full access to the (still very effective) Twitter course.
For $25. Limited time. Link below! https://t.co/b6iUymjyTx
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| Nov 27 |
RT @nixcraft: OpenAI has been hacked. If you have used their API services, hackers may now possess your name, location, user ID, and otherâŚ
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I bet the agentic coding AI providers are working feverishly on a feature that lets your local agent maintain a full representation of the entire codebase in memory at all times.
Right now, we still get a lot of "I have to check up on that/let me read through the code to understand how it works" messages from our agents, but I bet this will be completely replaced by a persistent and permanent internal representation of your codebase that new Agentic prompts can tap into immediately quite soon.
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For me, that's the one thing that makes agents less reliable than humans because human developers have that internal representation in their brains when they code.
Once that's externalized, either into memory or a file that can be loaded quickly, these agents will be even more powerful than we can possibly comprehend.
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This is what most successful SaaS businesses you never even heard of look like. https://t.co/82W38ZQk7P
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| Nov 26 |
You know, the ones that donât show up on socials all day. The ones that entrenched themselves in their niche that didnât even know was a thing.
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Guess when I was tested. https://t.co/QOPoyVtyzD
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| Nov 26 |
Guess who just passed their driving test at 40. https://t.co/RbKsLTerhF
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| Nov 26 |
TFW my founder friends are talking about my podcast business on their podcast and my podcast business detects that mention 80minutes into the episode 18minutes after it has been published :)
With sentiment analysis, too đ¤
Thanks for the kind words, @mijustin and @CasJam 𼰠https://t.co/s5G7OVxaiT
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I really like this graph from a data visualization standpoint. Y-axis is reduced to the relevant bits, differences are clearly visible (and would be lost in 1-100%. Even has a little indicator showing that axis is shortened.
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The one pictured above is clearly not related to Podscanâs Vue/Inertia frontend.
As much as I love jQuery, I am not using it.
I wonder how I can restrict error tracking just on that script.
Any ideas?
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I really love having @Sentry track my fronted JavaScript errors. Itâs really solid at helping me find issues quickly.
The annoying part is that it ALSO tracks all browser extensions and user script errors people run in their browser.
Any way to filter these out? https://t.co/QzTM6rPDsR
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| Nov 25 |
RT @arvidkahl: To be an entrepreneur, you must get comfortable with a certain baseline amount of chaos.
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RT @arvidkahl: I agree with a lot of this!
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RT @arvidkahl: Which one of these is Hufflepuff?
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RT @arvidkahl: Claude Opus/Sonnet/Haiku released v4.5, and it seems to be a very good one.
- Preserves thinking blocks
- Context awarenessâŚ
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RT @arvidkahl: Cool cool cool. https://t.co/JruGL2z0a3
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RT @arvidkahl: Making best-in-class image gen LLM: â
Cutting-edge text LLM, fast and cheap: â
Logging into Google Docs with the account yâŚ
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| Nov 24 |
I agree with a lot of this!
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Also, super intersting benchmarks: https://t.co/0aRf0onAhi
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Which one of these is Hufflepuff?
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That to me is why I'm always flexible with both the APIs and the providers when I'm experimenting, but I'm also relatively trustful that over time, excellent new features on cutting-edge models for one provider will make it into the standard offerings for regular models on any other provider.
I guess at this point, if you're building a software product, this becomes a concern because certain things are possible only with certain providers. But the more they're working on trying to catch up with each other, the more reliably we can expect this feature to be part of the offering that we arbitrarily chose at some point.
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Claude Opus/Sonnet/Haiku released v4.5, and it seems to be a very good one.
- Preserves thinking blocks
- Context awareness
- Significantly cheaper
- Code execution containers
- The tool search tool (lol)
Between all these updates and all these models, OpenAI, Grok, Anthropic, and all the others, I am so excited to see the competitive pressure. Any improvement quickly makes it into competing offerings.
https://t.co/YumJ4xFoG0
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Cool cool cool. https://t.co/JruGL2z0a3
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RT @arvidkahl: Iâm looking forward to the point when âcreator economyâ is just called âeconomyâ.
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RT @JohnRaptisM: Reading and understanding code is harder than writing it. Agentic coding definitely made me a better code reviewer and itâŚ
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Making best-in-class image gen LLM: â
Cutting-edge text LLM, fast and cheap: â
Logging into Google Docs with the account you actually want: impossible.
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| Nov 24 |
RT @dvassallo: Remember the Cloudflare outage? Looks like Spain does that on purpose every weekend! 𤯠https://t.co/Wb5oG3WNFU
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RT @arvidkahl: X releases a hoot of a broken feature that has less reliable data than a random number generator. People take all these locâŚ
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RT @arvidkahl: Couple things AI canât yet replicate:
- tangible resources
- taste
- genuine connection
- reputation
- the emergent spark oâŚ
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X releases a hoot of a broken feature that has less reliable data than a random number generator. People take all these locations for granted without second guessing concepts like shared account access, global teams, VPNs, and their impact on the data.
Priceless.
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Couple things AI canât yet replicate:
- tangible resources
- taste
- genuine connection
- reputation
- the emergent spark of creative invention
Apply liberally to your own work.
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RT @smitmartijn: excellent tip for any OpenAI calls that can take longer
I've been using this for data classifications in my background joâŚ
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| Nov 23 |
I learned about OpenAI's service tiers much too late.
By default, all req's are priced at standard rates. And they don't go out of their way to show their "flex" pricing, which is 50% of that. Realistically, flex workloads get the same results at +50% execution time.
Worth it!
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Flex tier is slower and might sometimes 429. At that point, you can use the default tier. But half the cost for a little bit slower responses is such a no-brainer, particularly for async background work.
More details about the flex tier:
https://t.co/gwuHF8Lnlg
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Honestly, if I could only watch the Star Trek series (from TOS to SNW & DIS) for the rest of my life, I'd be alright.
Rewatching ST:DS9 right now. I'm so glad I found this on TV as a teen. Gave me a strong moral compass and respect for duty, sacrifice, and service. https://t.co/lurG77RjCA
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| Nov 23 |
The more I interact with real customers, the more I realize that I know nothing about their needs and challenges unless I actually ask them to tell me what they do and why.
Founder assumptions are really hit or miss.
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| Nov 22 |
Sometimes, as both a founder and a European, I am ashamed of these priorities.
Iâve encountered them back home before. And now, from a distance, they look even more ridiculous. https://t.co/ssER9HUNB6
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| Nov 22 |
Blows my mind.
These models are de-slopifying at an alarmingly amazing rate.
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RT @bygregorr: @arvidkahl Because most founders think podcasts are just for listening, not monitoring.
I never thought about tracking braâŚ
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| Nov 22 |
âHey. I notice you and I are both on X.
We should like totally connect.â
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Not because these changes are bad. Theyâll likely be really good.
But itâll be weird because theyâll shift our memories around. We will constantly experience the Mandela effect as we experience retroactively improved content.
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| Nov 22 |
And then, thereâs the whole thing with personalized entertainment.
If your Star Wars episode 10 has a completely different cast and storyline, but kinda hits the same beats, will it be the same story?
Will we care? Will this rip through the social fabric?
I wonder.
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| Nov 22 |
I bet that weâll be seeing a George-Lucasification of past movies and shows. You know, the Star Wars âimprovements.â
Video and audio AI systems are getting better and better.
Firefly will get new seasons. Game of Thrones will see their final seasons redone.
Itâll be weird.
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| Nov 21 |
If you are doing any marketing and are not yet using a social monitoring tool like Podscan, whatâs the holdup?
We have customers who really embrace it for outreach, lead gen, competitor intel, and then some.
And yet, a lot of people donât even think about podcasts. Why?
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| Nov 21 |
Show your agentic employee some appreciation every now and then. https://t.co/ZMyMZH6RGJ
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When I invent a time machine, the first thing I'll do is go back like 15 years and offer a historical IP-to-geolocation service.
If the "Date joined" location starts working in the next few days, you'll know I have succeeded.
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RT @nocodelife: Loved @arvidkahl's latest newsletter.
I've been thinking about this a lot. If building software becomes so easy you can sâŚ
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See: https://t.co/m4mJFWhZu8
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You'll find the rest of the podcast â all 423 other episodes â over at https://t.co/EvCE1g9Pkx :)
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| Nov 21 |
Since I'm getting some good (and varied) feedback on my latest podcast episode, here's the whole thing.
So, do YOU love coding? Or do you love what your code does for you? And if so, does it truly matter for you to have written it?
Here's my journey: https://t.co/xUqk4PTvOF
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