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John Rush

@johnrushx

Feb 4 • 27 tweets • 10 min read • Read on X

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I've tried all (24) AI coding agents & IDEs 😵‍💫

[Cursor, Softgen, Windsurf, Wrapifai, Copilot, Lovable, Bolt, v0, Replit, MarsX, Claude, AmazonQ, Pear, Devin, Github Spark, IDX, Webdraw, Tempo, Cline, Continue, Databutton, Base44, Qodo, Aider]

The Vibe Coding giga-thread:

1/24. @SoftgenAI
- works well for both coders and non coders
- can fix its own bugs
- can host the web apps

It worked really well for my little project (Vacation calendar manager)

2. Cursor
- a fork of a VC code
- raised loads of funding turning into a unicorn
- founders went on a Lex Fridman pod
- turns coders into 10x devs. Not the best fit for non-coders.

3. Wrapifai
- perfect for mini tools (lead magnets or tools to drive SEO traffic)
- mostly produces functioning app right away with one prompt
- doesn't handle serious apps
- unlimited apps (instead of per token..)

4. Windsurf (works well for advanced apps. my top 3)
- acts as a true agent
- offers deepseek
- can use the web search
- has a memory.

5. GitHub Copilot ( the OG of this game, started back in 2020 )
- can generate code
- handles large codebases
- can merge PRs, fix bugs, search code

6. Lovable
- fastest-growing EU based startup today ($10M ARR)
- has native supabase integration
- has the best AI+NoCode mix on the market

7. Bolt
- started as a side project of stackblitz and went huge raising $105M
- works similar to softgen, lovable & windsurf

I built several lead magnets using bolt

8. v0
- best for making well-designed web pages or UIs
- doesn't work well for fullstack apps
- can use figma as a starting point
- lets you edit elements one by one

9. Replit
- most advanced AI Agent for coding imho
- has two modes: Agent or Assistant
- true full stack app generator. Has its own server, db, hosting...

Here is the real app I built using it

seobotai.com/broken-link-ch…

10. MarsX (my own product)
- a mix of AI, NoCode and High Code
- I built @seobotai, @indexrusher and all my other products using marsx
- it basically takes the whole coding world to the next level since it isn't a website builder, but "SaaS builder"

11. Claude
- it can write and run code
- super easy to get started (free)
- works for basic cases. e.g. building components or learning coding

12. Amazon Q
- very few people use it
- totally lagging behind the top players

13. Pear AI
- entered into YC
- had a huge drama around forking a github repo
- had a mentor call with them, two very talented guys taking an alternative path on competing with cursor

14. Devin
- super expensive
- targets corporate world
- acts as a junior dev in a dev team

very good review:

15. Github Spark
- works well for small or demo apps
- still behind the "waitlist"

16. IDX
- free alternative to cursor
- can build mobile apps
- uses gemini

17. Webdraw
- best for people with zero coding experience
- totally genius UX
- free
- turns sketches into web apps

18. Tempo Labs
- Generates full-stack apps using a text or image prompt
- It starts by making an architecture and diagrams
- I think they have the best AI Coding UX, wow

19. Cline
- VC code plugin
- works for large codebases
- supports any LLM
- runtime awareness

20. Continue dot Dev.
- an open source alternative to Cursor

21. Databutton
- from Norway
- backed by VCs who backed one of my startups
- has very unique approach, different from most of the players
- works great for true nocoders

22. Base44
- for noncoders
- all in one
- creates dashboard-like apps pretty well

23. Qodo
- for coders
- can write tests, refactor and generate code
- supports all llms(including deepseek)

24. Caffeine AI
- new player
- too early to say anything. for now just putting them into the list to come back to them later when they launch

25. Aider
- a terminal app for generating web apps out of prompts

26. That's it.

I built lots of AI tools using AI. Some of my projects:
↳ unicornplatform.com
↳ listingbott.com
↳ seobotai.com
↳ indexrusher.com More here: johnrush.me

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John Rush

@johnrushx

May 9

It’s 2012.

I sold my bootstrapped startup, made my 1st mil.

I wanna build a unicorn, raise from big VCs, move to SF.

One day I meet a guy looking like a movie star.
This day is gonna change my life.

He makes a pitch:

“Imagine you sit on a couch with your girlfriend, she wants to watch a romantic comedy and you wanna see an action movie. You open this app, that has sliders for each genre from 0 to 100. You set Drama=40, Comedy=70, Action=60 and it shows you those movies magically filtered this way”.

I’m a big fan of movies, I watched every single movie from the top 500 on IMDB, and the guy looks like the next Steve Jobs, so I say: cool, I wanna join, I’ll be your Woznyak.

I invest around $100k and join as a CTO/CoFounder.

[The Mobile App]

We build this app in a few months and hire a team of people who watch every movie (10,000 movies) and categorize every minute of the movie into genres.
We launch the app and it goes viral.
Back then the app store was empty, people just find your app when you launch it.
We win the App awards, and we get into a 500 startup accelerator. The Startup Founder dream.

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John Rush

@johnrushx

May 8

In 2023, I decided to learn marketing & distribution from zero.

I had no followers on social media, no content, sales, or SEO skills.
In 2 years, I built a semi-automated distribution engine.

No team, no marketing budget, just me. The details:

1. Social media.

At first, i tried random things, and nothing worked. Once in a while, I'd get semi-viral content, but it didn't lead to a serious spike in followers or clicks.

Then, after trials and errors, I landed on this strategy:

> focus on one platform only until u reach 10k followers

> focus on followers more than impressions, because if people follow you after seeing your content, it means they respect you as an author and will read your next tweets and maybe check out your products

> focus only on high-effort content. Ignore all sh&posting and hypetrains, see content as a product people would pay for. If you dont think people would pay to read your next tweet, then this tweet doesn't deserve to exist.

> stick to one topic, never deviate, no politics, no wisdom, no nothing, just your main topic, so that people associate you with it and you earn the topical authority.

> post every single day. For 600 days. But analyze your past posts, to see how you can improve. See those that bring more followers and use them as positive reinforcement for your next posts

> always schedule your posts, so that you can read them the next day before posting. You'll be surprised but 95% of your own posts gonna look like sh8t when you read them the next day. So produce 3-4 posts per day, schedule them, then unschedul 3 of them and let 1 go live.

> ideally, your content must be useful for the readers, but also showcase your own product. See this thread, I'll be sharing my products organically within it.

P.S. I'm launching a tool for social media called SocialBot this month, it'll be an AI Agent to help you become better at social media, like your personal PR manager. Reply if you wanna be in the first early adopter round.

2. SEO.

I'm not gonna teach you on how to score millions of clicks on a highly competitive area, but I do know how to score thousands of clicks in non so competitive areas without doing too much work

> keep your blog under the same domain/blog path

> use .com, .ai, .dev, .io, .org

> try to find the best keywords for your biz and make sure your domain name is similar or it's a direct match (but shorter than 15 chars)

> the web pages should be server side generated, not client side. Otherwise google won't be able to read the text from them easily.

> robots txt should not dissalow google bots (use any online checker for this)

> have a sitemap (again, use online checker for your sitemap). Make sure all pages are present in the sitemap and submit your sitemap to google search console manually

> have meta title and description tags on all pages (do a quick kw research and make sure keywords are similar to the text in title/description. Also have an OG image.

> have h1 and h2 on every page with keywords that have some traffic (use google ads planner to research this or ahrefs/semrush/ubersuggest

> make sure the pages are indexed by google and bing (i have a tool @indexrusher that helps a lot with this)

> back sure you have backlinks to your home page and other pages (i have a tool for this too @listingbott )

> create 10-100 blog articles (my @seobotai can do it, or do it manually, use grok research mode)

> create mini tools to drive seo traffic, (use @wrapifai or other vibe coding tools)

> create a subdirectory under your main domain that overlaps with your topic (if you use @unicornplatform for your website, then it's super easy)

That's the basic effort for SEO. It takes an hour a day or less, and brings moderate results. Worked out

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John Rush

@johnrushx

May 6

How to be ultra productive:

(I run 20 startups simultaneously)

(( the tips most wouldn’t expect ))

1. Develop great memory, to ditch docs and notes. It’s 100x faster to put & pull information from your memory than from a computer.

I’d say this is the most important for being productive. Memory is like a muscle, the more you use it, the stronger it becomes.

2. Learn to switch tasks & contexts. When I chat with someone, instead of watching a “typing indicator” I switch to another task and then come back. Think of it as a CPU that processes commands on cycles. That’s what I do, evey cycle I touch many tasks, then on the next cycle I touch them all again. So there is never any “idle” time tor me.

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John Rush

@johnrushx

Apr 30

The Time Has Come for Robots.

I build AI Agents to replace boring office jobs, but these demos convince me! AI Robots will also take over most boring physical labor.

If you disagree, watch it.
The most complete robot thread ever (48 demos):

1. Robot model autonomously folded 850+ napkins in 24 hours with:
• 99.4% success rate, no human help
• 60% human speed
• 4.3/5 quality rating

2. Boston Dynamics' handle robot for warehouses, can move heavy loads and replace most of the heavy human labor at the warehouse.

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John Rush

@johnrushx

Apr 28

Let's get the first 100 users for a startup,

21 methods I've personally tried multiple times for my SaaS, Directories and AI Agents:

1. Cold emails:

- go for quality, not quantity
send to 20 people; if no reply, change email and resend. repeat until 2 replies.
- share the outcome E.g. for @listingbott I'd send this "100 backlinks from relevant directories in one click"

2. Social media DMs (Li, X, IG, FB, RD, etc)
- send 15 sec loom with an audit of their biz/site/profile...where the preview makes it obvious it's personalized.
- impress them with your quick effort
- e.g. for @seobotai it'd be: "SEO audit of their website"

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John Rush

@johnrushx

Apr 25

I automated 90% of my startup empire[24].

My biggest monthly expense is AI; it's no longer human labor.

41 AI agents & tools for coding, marketing, seo, research, design, sales, accounting, legal, paid ads, data entry, scraping, and everything else:

1. Suna from @kortixai is an Open Source generalist AI Agent.
- browses & scrapes the web
- generates files/docs/sheets/pdfs
- can execute and run code, deploy sites

Builds a list of funded startups with their contact info for outbound sales:

2. @seobotai best AI Agent for Blog SEO

All my websites run on Seobot, on autopilot.

it has driven over 1 billion impressions combined to all the websites.