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Feb 14, 2025 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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Jan 29
Here's what "AI agent era" actually looks like

They work for me 24/7: writing code, doing sales, ads, SEO, legal documents, accounting, slides, docs, research, scraping, design, and so on.

23 examples:
1. Coding
- web apps & saas: @Replit
- landings & website @Lovable
- mobile apps @rork_app
- chrome extenssions & desktop apps @cursor_ai
- ai agents @marsxdev
- mini tools @wrapifai

99% of my code is generated by AI and 1% of it is edited by me

2. SEO

- @seobotai for blog, programmatic SEO, mini tools & more
- @indexrusher for indexing
- @listingbott for backlinks & directory listings

Read 24 tweets
Jan 5
I've tested all ( 82 😵‍💫 ) Vibe Coding Agents & IDEs

(Cladue Code, Emergent, Anima, Zed, Factory, Cursor, Windsurf, Copilot, Lovable, Bolt, v0, Replit, MarsX, Canva, Devin, Github Spark, Vercel, Rork, Warp, Figma, Cline, Vibe Coder & more)

Video demos & my notes for each:
1/ @EmergentLabsHQ
- purely vibe coding tool (you need zero code skills)
- works best for building micro SaaS for the web
- has its own AI api keys (no need to figure things out)
- I'd say: go for it if you are non-technical with an idea

I'm vibe coding InboxBott:
2/ Claude Code is the best coding agent in the world now.

People build SaaS, mobile apps, and more. It suits coders, non-coders, and both existing or new projects. Elon Musk said, "we entered singularity." for this.

Tinder for movies in 2 prompts:

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Dec 4, 2025
If only someone told me this before my 1st startup:

1. Validate.
I wasted at least 5 years building stuff nobody needed.

2. Kill your EGO.
Make your users happy, not yourself.

3. Don’t chase investors; chase users, and then investors will chase you.

4...
4. Never hire managers. Only hire doers until PMF.

5. Landing page isn't important.
Go for an average template and edit texts, and that’s it.
The sale happens outside of the website anyway (in the early stages).
6. Hire only full-stack devs.
There is nothing less productive in this world than a team of developers.
One full stack dev building the whole product. That’s it.
Read 18 tweets
Nov 21, 2025
The best analyses of the AI technology ever done,

TLDR 🧵 : Image
1/ AI is whatever machines can't do yet (Larry Tesler, 1970)
2/ AI might seem just like the next platform shift, but one may argue it's a new paradigm shift, like the invention of electricity or the discovery of fire. Image
Read 16 tweets
Nov 16, 2025
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
Oct 22, 2025
I acquired Unicorn Platform for $0.8M and grew it from 25k to 631,000 users.

I've literally tried every growth method I've heard of.

All my marketing failures & successes:

1. Partnerships with incubators.

I contacted all famous startup incubators and signed deals with most to place unicorn as a "perk" there.

I thought it'd become a passive stream of users, but I don't think I got even one paying user out of this. I canceled all these deals.
2. Paid ads.

I wasted lots of cash on google/meta/x/tt/reddit ads. No results at all for my 2-3 fig/mo budgets. Mostly clicks from bots & non relevant countries.

Now i run my ads on using my own . It works well, I plan to spend 5% of my profit on ads from now on.TinyAdz.comImage
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