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.

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

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"

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:

The “distribution is the king” crowd is mostly the founders who built an average product, failed & blame distribution.

Marketing is an amplifier, it isn’t magic.
Ofc, u need initial boost to get eyes on your product.

How to get first 100 users if you’re not a marketing genius: 1. Launch on all launchpads
- @ProductHunt
- @devhunt_
- uneed
- @MicroLaunchHQ
- @FazierHQ
- @Peerlist
- launching today
- @tinylaunch
- @IndieHackers
- ctrlaltCC
- simplelister
- @BetaList
- @AppSumo
- Dailypings

100% autonomous AI Agents: 1. @seobotai - Blog SEO on autopilot.
- it finds the relevant topics
- performs the research
- has access to real time information
- builds up blog articles
- does internal and external linking and more

I'm 36,

At 11, I started my first business.
Over 50 businesses in 25 years, learned a lot.

Here are 21 rules I live by: 1. Enjoy.
It'll consume your entire life.
It'll take a decade on average.
Learn to enjoy the process instead of chasing the outcome.

I did it 🥹

Halfway towards my dream of reaching a million users!

- 4 years for 0 -> 25k
- 2 years for 25k -> 250k
- 6 months for 250k -> 500k users

Everything I did to get here
my marketing failures & successes 🧵: 0. @unicornplatform is a website builder for busy founders & small teams.

Easily create:
- SaaS/startup landing pages
- Web directories: job boards, launchpads, lists

As I'm bootstrapped, I need cost-effective or free growth strategies.
I've tried 21 growth methods:

I'm 100% sure AI & robots will take over almost every job in my lifetime.

I spent quite some time thinking about the future. This prediction is unlike anything anyone else has ever made.

Here's what jobs will survive & what new ones might be created: 1. Ultra-narrow niche expert, aka scientists.

Those who devote their entire life to one thing and get really good at it.

AI is rational; humans aren't. Humans tackle hopeless tasks, hoping for a rare breakthrough that happens by accident. AI is too "smart" to do this.

AI can:
> generate UI, sites, logos, banners, images, photos, movies..
> write books, articles
> generate 90-100% of the code
> hear & speak with emotions
indistinguishable from humans
> control robots/cars

None of this was possible 5y ago.
Feels like a dream tbh. Examples 🧵: 1. Robots went from clunky tele operated devices straight to the terminator and skynet phase.

The world soon will be full of them, just like we have iPhones in every pocket or hand today.

My simple framework for Startup ideas:

(it has worked for me 20 times) 0) Build an AI Agent that can replace entire professions/jobs/tasks.

It's a super difficult tech challenge, but if you make it, the distribution will be easy.

I've done it with seobot, which replaced my SEO department. Never had a product that grew faster than this one.

AI won't replace entire profession, but it's replacing the bottom 20-80% in {translation, design, coding, content, marketing, sales, design, operation, account, law}

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

Real examples of AI: 1. AI replaced junior developers for me.
I used @Replit AI agent to build a real tool I needed. Back 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 link:

seobotai.com/broken-link-ch…

The Time Has Come for Robots.

I build AI Agents to replace office workers, but these demos convince me! All physical labor will be gone to robots, too. (even the world's oldest profession).

Just watch it if you disagree. The biggest robot thread ever (50 demos): 1. Neogamma.

General purpose humanoid robot for home.

Building a “SaaS people wanna pay for” is sooooooooo hard 😩

AI made it easier to build things, but it didn’t really change the game the products people wanna pay for and share with friends.

How I build products people love:
(very different from what you’d expect) 1. I validate the idea first. Sometimes it takes me years to go from ides to star building it, because I wasn’t sure if people actually need this.

I pitch it to people on internet, in DMs, at the dinner table and so on. If I don’t get “wow, yeah, I want that”, I don’t build it