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Feb 14 17 tweets 6 min read Read on X
AI won't replace the entire profession, but it's replacing the bottom 20-80% in {translation, design, coding, content, marketing,sales,design, operation, account, law}

Small teams like mine beat big corporations
because AI brings huge leverage for A players

Real examples of AI:
1. First AI Admaker.

It can create winning ads in minutes.
(and replace $2K-$30K in monthly costs)

Used by $100M+ revenue customers like Ridge, Jones Road, Backbone, & MUD\WTR. I personally hate ads, but I'm giving this AI a try.

2. @seobotai - world's best AI Agent for Blog & SEO.

I'm the founder and I'm the first user of this agent.

The agent went totally viral all over the internet and thousands of people tell me it's "sick", "best AI Agent they've tried" and more.

3. AI replaced junior developers for me.

I used @Replit AI agent to build a real tool I needed.
in 2022, I'd hire someone on upwork and wait a week,
today it took me an hour of prompting to go from 0 to launch.

the tool I built:

seobotai.com/broken-link-ch…
4. Motion Design.

AI can turn static images into videos. It'd cost $10k just two years ago and take a week of work.

5. Simple mobile apps can be built by noncoders, designers, PMs, founders...

@a0_dev can pretty much do 80 to 90% of the work. Human is still needed. e.g. a senior dev can just use a0 instead of having a team of junior/middle devs (as I do)

6. Design tools have perhaps the most impressive effect.

For me, these tools work even better than human designers, because I can iterate with these tools way faster and get an outcome that's closed to what I actually wanted.
7. AI for accounting.

I have been using AI for most of my accounting since 2023.
Ofc I get a human check after all, and I must say there weren't any mistakes spotted. AI is perfect at categorization, way better than human

8. AI Agent for Law.

It can break down legal projects into plans, execute work across multiple documents and apps, review its work and re-plan as needed.

9. AI for translation is a reality already.

It can translate text between any language,
also audio in realtime.

I hope nobody is sending their kids to be translators anymore, cuz this job is gone

10. AI for Project Management.

I built another agent that acts as a project manager. But it does the job way better because it never forgets things and has every single chat message it its memory. Image
11. AI for web testing.

Can figure out how to test and perform an infinite number of tests.

12. AI for devops.

Makes it possible for founders like me to do most of devops myself, no need to hire someone inhouse.

13. AI for sales.

I never liked sales because it always felt like repetitive work with lots of routine. Now, it's instead a creative work, and AI does the boring part.
Actually the creative part can be done by AI too :D

14. AI for manual form filling and signups.

I built one more agent ( @listingbott ) it can list my project on all relevant web directories.
So much time is saved. It also browses the internet every day to find new directories (over 10k directories in db)

15. AI agent for loan approvals.

The agents look up credit score, DTI, LTV, assets, property valuation and income to assess the risk profile of the application

16. AI to build landing pages, waitlist, personal page, directories & static websites

(it used to cost me thousands and time back and forth with the marketing team to build landing pages. Now it literally takes minutes).

(The tool is @unicornplatform )

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Jul 16
The Tech Drama recap for July:

[windsurf, soham, google, openai, devin, agi, cluely, truely, amazon, elon, nikita, ilya, sam, satya, ai browsers, grok4, jeff bezos, roy]

(you can thank me later, for saving you weeks of doomscrolling)
1. One dude cemented his spot as the idol of a new era next to Hawk Tuah, "cheat on everything guy", "$20M ARR in 7 hours bro" & bonny blue.

He worked (pretended to work) at 15 YC-backed startups at once. When caught, claiming it was to make ends meet. Maybe he has 500 kids or India is costlier than we thought
2. Drama of the year:
> OpenAI acquires WIndsurf for $3B
> Satya Nutella (the real openai boss) kills the deal to save VS code+Copilot
> Google hires windsurf founders for $2.4B
> Devin hires the remaining 250 devs into the Pied Piper office to replace their AI developers
Read 21 tweets
Jul 6
How I got my first 100 users for each of my 24 startups:
1. Cold emails:

- go for quality, not quantity
send to 20 people; if no reply, change the copy and resend. repeat until 2 replies.
- make it super short and include 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"
Read 23 tweets
Jul 2
I had a dream tonight, it was the year 2055, I saw this:

1. Attention is the ultimate currency that replaced money, time & resources
2. Work is optional (full abundance with artificial scarcity)
3. 99% of the population doesn't work, they...
...play e-games, all life
4. Every human owns a generic humanoid robot, as we own smartphones
5. Unethical games dominate: Hunger Games, Squid Games, Gladiator Games, Mortal Combat, and more
6. Children are produced in the lab and taken care of by robo-parents
7. The invention of anti-aging medicine completely eliminated reproduction in rich cities
8. The ww3 is ongoing in the form of never-ending drone/tech/ai/info wars, very similar to sports games, with minimal civilian casualties
Read 6 tweets
Jun 13
> Traditional SaaS is done (soon)
> commoditized
> founders clone successful products & halve the price
> a race to the bottom, down to $0
> everything is about to look & work the same: the social mediaschedulers, web builders, calendar apps, etc

I think this is what comes next:
AI Agent will dominate the software.

AI Agents will be the only proxy between humans and machines.
Non-AI software will still be necessary, but it'll be used by AI, not humans.

Today, we build software for humans, tomorrow, we'll build for agents.

The Future of UX:
Old UX will be gone and most traditional software will simply expose API for other agents(e.g., MCP servers).

The new UX: chat, canvas, mindmap, AR

Most consumer UX will be AR, e.g. we'll be wearing glasses and AI will augment the interface on top of the real world.

Canvas UX:
Read 7 tweets
Jun 13
Don’t do this until you made $10k with your startup:

> hire > google/fb ads
> redesign > registering a company
> outsourcing > more features
> refactoring > start a new project
> VC funding > events
> dark mode > conferences

Why:
No employees!

> they can perform well-defined tasks, but at the beginning, most tasks need creativity & exploration.
> they don’t care as much as u, they won’t be obsessed with making the product better, listening the users and working their ass off. The customers gonna feel it
No Google/FB ads!

> paid ads can’t magically bring traffic to a product that sucks organically. So first get some organic traction

> if u still go for paid growth, use: influencers or niched networks like @TinyAdz , if you're in b2b tech
Read 9 tweets
Jun 3
My 17 ideation methods 🧵:

(I shipped more than 50 products doing this)
1) Marketplace, where you're the chicken.

To solve chicken & the egg problem, you should be the chicken and your users are the eggs. E.g. in TinyAdz I was the first advertizer, I paid to adevertize my own products, so that publishers could earn money on the day one. So easy.
2) Build a tool for yourself.

If u truly satisfy yourself & become a big fan of your own tool, the chance you won’t find external users is zero.
(I built SeoBot and listingbott this way)
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