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✍️ my journey as entrepreneurial eng 🎯: ⛷ in AM & 👨🏻‍💻 in PM Building👷‍♂️: 10k MRR indie biz Built🙌: workflow system for MNC. Process over 1bn revenue
May 26, 2022 8 tweets 3 min read
As an introverted technical business owner, I stumble upon 5 observations by business owners sharing their thoughts on the internet.

These 5 ideas gave me a lot of clarity and I hope they also do the same for you as well.

Here’s a breakdown of each one: 🧵👇 #1: Business Career

Most people think career = string of jobs

But @CasJam in taught me to apply the same concept but with businesses

Entrepreneurship is a valid career option too.

That approach worked for him. And also in our next business owner.
May 25, 2022 4 tweets 1 min read
Two parties a business can charge: the users directly vs somebody else who subsidize

Most common subsidize is the ads model. We use google/facebook/twitter for free because the advertisers subsidize for it.

One example of users direct is netflix subscription. Two kind of product-pricing model:

Sell luxury - high margins per unit, small volume
Sell commodities - low margins per unit, high volume
Apr 23, 2020 4 tweets 2 min read
@ejames_c I must’ve read this b4 cause I’m a fan. But reading this for the 2nd (or more?) time, I’ve a new mental representation didn’t have b4

Sometimes read other people explicit models, we have a 💡but other times we don’t

My wild suggestion is it’s a bit like magnetizing iron /1 @ejames_c Magnetizing iron requires stroking rod several times to get the internal arrows aligned

When an explicit model takes hold on a person, the person has almost all the internal arrows aligned just b4 reading it. The model was simply the last “stroke” to make it all aligned

/2
Nov 21, 2019 16 tweets 6 min read
@adamwathan I actually have a real need because I use a theme forest theme for a client project

Client project is a B2B Quotation desktop web app that has broadly 3 types of entities

Resources such as Quotation / Orders / Products / Vendors / Customers

/1
@adamwathan Agents such as Vendor Users / Customer Users / internal users / role assignments

Events such as when Quotation changes its status or actions taken by Users

/2
Sep 13, 2019 21 tweets 9 min read
@webology @rixxtr @pystar @wsv3000 @epicserve @carltongibson I use cookiecutter which is better than no out of the box experience

What i would like:

1. have 1 simple way to run in 3 modes: localhost, cloud production, on-premises (I modified cookiecutter to have a production-cloud.conf, a production-onpremises.conf, and a local.conf @webology 2. DRF first class citizen because nowadays API first or decoupled apps are the way to go

3. easy way to use celery (i paid someone to help me setup)

4. easy way to use channels ( about to pay someone to help me)
Oct 5, 2018 13 tweets 8 min read
@fortelabs @NotionHQ 1/ I am paid user of @NotionHQ and a member for @fortelabs , so here it goes

1. Quick capture and editing (Yes. iOS app allows edit. There's a way to have tables. That's slightly less intuitive to use on mobile. But for notes. Yes. Easy.) @fortelabs @NotionHQ 2/

2. Scales to thousands of notes without performance lag
Yes, no lag. Though I think Evernote is faster when it comes to search.

3. Basic formatting options
Better than Evernote. It supports MathJax and code syntax which Evernote does not. The main reason why I left Evernote
Sep 17, 2017 7 tweets 1 min read
Have high standards, low requirements. Too often we do it other way round. /1 Standards are what we deliver and give. Requirements are what we enjoy and take. /2