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Sep 19, 2020 9 tweets 5 min read Read on X
To have a home run, the best way to come up with a startup idea is to look at every day items their nuances and the annoyance factors associated with them. Then see if reducing the friction and scaling it are practicable. If so, you have market product fit. For example
Every one has white space behind them for the billions of zoom hours of meetings that are happening. Why isn't there some one doing a trackable background product with in call ad displays for zoom. Talk about captive audiences? Likely not easy else every one would do it.
That's one way to look at the boring and the mundane and explore other people's rails to build a new product or service. There are 100s of such things hiding in plain sight that could potentially have reward at scale for the founders who crack the but. Similarly for Twitter
An other thing one sees every day are tweets that say going live in ten mins on fb or yt or where ever but tweet was from an hour ago or so. A method or tweet format that allows to show one a timer perhaps via @TwitterAPI that counts down time to live so ppl know upcoming stuff.
The list is as far and wide based on what u think ud like to solve for . With a power crisis looming a local site that has a solar calculator and base cost + install guide for helping ppl figure out benefits of solar by being a lead funnel to equipment suppliers=monetization
An app that highlights based on user input all the places citizens are being harassed by traffic police etc a waze app but for local issues. Instead of cop speed traps actual cop trap identification to save citizens grief built on real time data. Monetization by subs + ads
We have to think a about hyper local and it will become evident what we can build for or solve for. Ten mins a day on every ride to and from where ever u are headed to every interaction and every wfh activity is an opportunity to discover the boring.Find your boring & monetize it
More than anything it's a mindset thing. If you can train ur self to be captain obvious and filter the noise & capture the signals you will be on a path to scale & monetization but if u get lost in the noise u will likely be like the rest of us who talk in problems vs solns
Boring is the new fun depends on the lense. Make sure yours is clean. @rebootdude @jehan_ara @SaadGH @Ash_Kalim @shahjahan_ch @TheNestiO @YusufJan @TalhaIzhar @ishaheen10 @ShahidM99 @ZMoosaPK

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Apr 13, 2023
Every one Talks About Elite Capture in 🇵🇰 but most don't do any research to find out what it really means or where it started or how it impacts us daily

We are quick to blame

Lazy to action

Indifferent to learn from history

Heres a 🧵 an attempt with some facts & data points
The concentration of business ownership has been an interesting economic case study in 🇵🇰 ever since 1968 when Dr. Mahbub( then the Chief Economist of the Planning Commission) Named Pakistan’s 22 Families that dis proportionately controlled its economy.

web.archive.org/web/2013072200…
A report by KASB in 2018 stated the following with some in-accuracies. The top 11 family-controlled groups have 53 listed companies which have a collective market cap of $27bn, which means they account for around 35% of the market capitalization of Pakistan Stock Exchange. Image
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Mar 8, 2023
The Economic crisis & its impact explained in simple terms.A guide for Millennials & Gen Z.🧵

Boomers will tell you, they have been hearing since time immemorial that "the country is at the brink of disaster"
What they don't tell you:

1)Their lack of contribution to fix things

2)Their inability to call a spade a spade

3)Their lack of involvement in street level community building let alone national

4)Their lack of ownership from any thing that "didn't impact them" economically
They are right in one thing for sure. We didn't get here over night, their entire life was spent "hearing things are bad", but it was also spent ignoring that same message.

How many took any "action"?

Every one buried their head in sand and said "sanu ki" this too shall pass.
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Pakistan Inc. “Retiree Entrepreneurs, Saith-a-preneurs, Startups & Failure Dollars.”

Full Blog Post here:
blog.chinookstrategy.com/pakistan-inc/

TL;DR⬇️🧵
Despite years of poor governance, economic difficulties, security challenges, and internal issues, the average Pakistani remains optimistic that better days are coming. This response highlights the deep bond between man and his creator and the belief that things will improve.
Another possible explanation is the lack of education and access to understanding economic fallout. Because we have always "heard things are bad". But clearly things have continued to go on..
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Mar 6, 2023
I was today years old when I found out what a 'designer' "lawn" suit costs🧵

15-20k Price points for an outfit + cost of tailoring

Made me question my professional choices & of many other entrepreneurs

Perhaps the best thing to do is to build tech around lawn ..
For niche designers this is how the process works:

1)Call ahead
2)If you are an old customer(no deposit)
3)If you aren't well heeled then you may need to do a bank transfer to hold(with more niche designers albeit)
4)On the designated day show up
5)Avg cart size is 5 outfits
The name “lawn cloth” comes from the French city of Laon, which was where this textile was first woven. (says the internet)

At first, lawn cloth was primarily made with linen, which was more abundant in Europe at the time. material.
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YouTube Black Outs & Curious Case of Destroying Startup Value(ations) 🧵

Without the who/what/why of blocking,understand this,there is an other side to this saga that is slowly going to kill startups

What? Really?Let me take you & the powers be on a Journey of value destruction
Be it popular media, social media, political parties, influencers, opinion makers or the government it self. One thing is clear. Youtube outages happened (happening in🇵🇰).

What matters, It is happening since Aug 21st

netblocks.org/reports/youtub…
1. YouTube Runs on Googles Cloud Platform(GCP)

2. Some government body with the ability to do deep pack inspection goes in and decides to throttle YT

3. YouTube likely keeps shifting ip pools/being served from various locations of the GCP infrastructure as a redundancy measure
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The middle class is dead

Economic UnCertainty is not Joke. This is no longer a question of doing better, trying harder, working your way up.

If you were on the fringe of just making it, you likely crossed over to a dark place

Why?
💠Power/Gas/Fuel
💠Education
💠Healthcare
Inflation may be global, but the way we handled

💠Politics
💠Economic development
💠Geo Political Stability
💠Public Infrastructure
💠Health Care
💠Taxation
💠Defense Spending
💠Foreign policy

We have no one but our selves to blame.
Lets get some facts right:

Take a look at the attached Telecom Indicators, what they aren't a measure of:(contrary to what the govt/startups want you to believe)

💠Success
💠Productive Youth
💠Strong Consumer Market
💠Globally Competitive Workforce
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