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.

I've tried all ( 74 😵‍💫 ) AI Coding Agents & IDEs

[Rork, CodeRabbit, Anima, Zed, Factory, Cursor, Windsurf, Copilot, Lovable, Bolt, v0, Replit, MarsX, Canva, Devin, Github Spark, Vercel, Lindy, Warp, Figma, Cline, Vibe Coder & more]

The most complete list ever made (with demos & notes): 1/ @rork_app

Out of all mobile app builders, this one impressed me the most.
I built an app to track my bio markers and guide me with healthy todos.

See the video (15 minutes in 23 seconds):

I automated most of my job as an entrepreneur (landing pages, lead magnets, ads, websites, coding, operations, accounting, legal, research, seo, marketing, sales, customer support, and more).

These AI Agents & Tools help me run 11 startups & 22 directories simultaneously: 1. I build all my landing pages & web directories using @unicornplatform (I pick a template I visually like, then I explain my project with an AI prompt).

It all usually takes 5min for most of my landing pages.

I started building an AI Agent for SEO in 2022.

The 1st version took a year to build,
then another year to iterate & reach a near-human level.

Today, @seobotai replaces my entire blog SEO team. An average article takes 2 hours, 700 prompts & 125 tasks.

How it works in detail: 1. The user provides a URL of the site to the agent:
- it scrapes the website
- LLM learns all the details about the biz: pricing, audience, solution, problem..
- It creates a full spec and passes it on to the next model

My AI predictions (2025-2035)

- Agents (agentic software will replace saas & humans at most tasks)

- APIs (agents need APIs to interact with each other & legacy systems)

- Most humans will act as tools for agents

- AI UX will shift to Canvas + Chat

I'm building these agents: 1. @seobotai AI Agent for SEO, that can:
- research topics & keywords
- generate articles
- find relevant news and knowledge on internet
- build up backlinks
- come up with pSEO ideas & implement them
-...basically act as your entire SEO department

Robots are going wild tbh,

I build startups & AI Agents every day & night, but I'm so jealous of those who build robots & physical automations.

Sharing my 18 robo bookmarks:

1. Your next girlfriend:

2. This is why those electronics from China are so cheap.

If this is possible, then i guess we can automate almost any factory worker, and it's just a matter of time until humans dont have to be occupied by these super boring jobs

let me save you $5,000 on appmafia course:

( how you can exploit a glitch in the VC money matrix )

(( if money is all you need )) 1. Attention-marketing:

> create a controversy
> get everyone to comment/quote/mention your brand with their "takes on it"
> throw even more wood into the fire so that the entire internet is talking about you (90% hating, 10% loving)
> earn followers & money

I've tried all (61 😵‍💫) AI Coding Agents & IDEs

[Emergent, CodeRabbit, Anything, Zed, Factory, Cursor, Windsurf, Wrapifai, Copilot, Lovable, Bolt, v0, Replit, MarsX, Canva, Devin, Github Spark, Figma Make, Cline & more]

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

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

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"

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

> 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:

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

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.

I've tried all (46 😵‍💫) AI Coding Agents & IDEs

[Factory, Cursor, Heyboss, Windsurf, Emergent, Wrapifai, Copilot, Lovable, Bolt, v0, Replit, MarsX, Canva, Devin, Github Spark, IDX, Stitch & more]

The most complete list ever made (with demos & notes): 1. @FactoryAI

An advanced AI coding tool: generates complex apps, docs, works well with large existing projects, has access to web search, MCPs, can run code on my local machine + UX is 🤌 . best for coders.

I'm building "Inbox agent" using this tool, gonna report back soon

I acquired Unicorn Platform for almost $1M.

Since then, it went from 25k to 551k 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.

This never works:
→ Startup Idea → Plan → Design → Coding → Marketing→ Audience → 😣

This works ( sometimes ): I launched 20+ startups using the following playbook:

Audience → Problem → Idea → Validation → Waitlist → SEO → One Feature MVP → Iterate → Marketing → Success.

See a full breakdown of each step 🧵 :

The Automation Era Has Begun.

We're the first generation to make work & death optional.
I'm contributing to this by building AI agents to replace boring labor.

24 crazy demos (AI Agents, Robots, Coding, Humanoid, Drones, Girlfriends, Sport coaches, Construction robots & more): 1. Tennis robo coach.

I'm looking forward to seeing it play against nr1 tanked human player, similar to the great chess match between Deep Blue and Kasparov.

Most of the sport coaching in the future will be done by robots, that can do 1-1 coaching.

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.

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.

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.