The drama around MKBHD is fair.

Today, 18 yo can burn millions $$ of brand value with a 500-second video.

But is he really at fault here or people can't accept the power shift that has taken place?

Let's dig 🧵 Today Marques "MKBHD" Brownlee:

- Has over 18.6M subscribers
- 4.2B total views on YT
- Makes $5M+/year

Safe to say he is one of the best tech reviewer on the internet.

But how did he reach here?

This guy makes $2M per year and keeps all the money.

He refuses to get on client meetings and works 100% async.

Here's the EXACT playbook he used to scale his businesses as a solopreneur.

Test his strategies RIGHT NOW 🧵 @BrettFromDJ founded DesignJoy as a side project.

Since then the product:

- Achieved $130K MRR
- Done monthly visits of over 130K
- Used by over 30K designers

Here's how Brett Davis did it all 👇

https://x.com/BrettFromDJ/status/1679501620550434816?s=20

I've sold a $10M business through Twitter.

And built an audience of 113K people while having fun.

Starting being active here is probably the BEST biz decision I took in the last 5 years

So here's my cheat sheet to grow to 100K 🧵

(Bookmark this thread for the future) Stage 1: 0-5K followers

Growing here is the biggest challenge.

To get followers, your tweets need to reach more people.

But for your tweets to reach more people, you need to have followers in the first place.

The biggest conundrum.

After scaling 2 products to $1M+ (and 7 failures), I realized ONE thing

Picking the right problem to solve is as important as executing it.

How you can find your next million-dollar startup idea 🧵 The best ideas come down to one thing: serving someone with money who has a problem and actively looking for a solution.

The idea determines:

• Customers (and their purchasing powers) 📈
• The market you serve

Here's what you should know about finding great ideas 👇

I've grown 2 SaaS products from 0 - $1M+ ARR.

There are so many ways to grow your SaaS revenue,

Read to learn growth tactics 6 SaaS companies used to grow at an insane rate in 2023👇 1. Shipfa(dot)st

Founded by @marc_louvion in August of 2023, is a NextJS boilerplate that helps indie hackers launch their own SaaS, AI, and other web apps much faster.

And made $63K in Revenue in 60 Days!

Here are some growth tactics he used 👇

The future of influencer marketing is AI.

This IG model doesn't even exist but she is set to make $10M this year.

Brands like Prada & Samsung have already collaborated with her.

Here's my 5-part theory on why more businesses will use AI influencers in the future 🧵 The girl in the picture above does not exist.

She is Miquela, a global AI pop star and influencer with 2.7M IG followers.

And look at what she has already achieved:

In 2012, this guy quit everything to start his own company.

In 2022, his company was acquired for $200M.

He captured an entire market by giving away software for FREE while making profits & 100% bootstrapped.

The unknown story of Patrick Campbell & Profitwell 🧵 Patrick grew up milking cows. Today he has the largest subscription financial database in the world.

His product ProfitWell:

- Used by 30,000 companies
- Did a revenue of $22M in 2022
- Turned 13 employees into millionaires when it was acquired.

2023 was only the tip of the iceberg in the world of AI.

2024 will be a deep dive. And you will need your sources of oxygen if you want to survive.

Here are 11 accounts doing God's Work by sharing the best AI updates (go follow them right now) Who: Mckay Wrigley

Tweets about: His opinions about the recent developments in AI which gives you as a reader a whole new perspective

Business: @TakeoffAI - an AI assistant for your computer.

https://x.com/mckaywrigley/status/1707101465922453701?s=20

Twitter (𝕏) has ~530M monthly active users.

But 50% of you have less than 100 followers.

This is the best time to grow on X with the creator monetization features and freedom of speech.

Here's your step-by-step cheat sheet to grow to 100K in 2024 👇🏻 Firstly, if you post regularly, pat yourself on the back.

90% of people are passive readers, so kudos!

But if you want to grow, you have to do more than just post.

I'll break down your growth into 3 stages

- 0 to 1K followers
- 1K to 10K
- 10K to 100K+

I had to face 2 shutdowns, 1 bankruptcy, and 7 winding years of hustle to finally have my first win - a $10M acquisition.

This is the first time I'm sharing the full story here.

A thread on the reality of startup success 👇🏻 Over the last 7 years, I've gone from:

Raising money from VCs & working on a product for years → Shipping within weeks.

The change in mindset helped me secure a $10M acquisition.

But two of my businesses failed and I learned my lessons the hard way.

Let's dive in👇🏻

An anonymous tech guy scaled his side project to a $1M+ with $0 marketing budget (and just 2 employees)

His product is so good even Kim Kardashian promoted it (without knowing)

The story of how AJ scaled Carrd to millions 🧵 Carrd. io was one of AJ's side projects. He was testing ideas to see which ones worked.

Today it has scaled to:

- $1.2M revenue per year
- 2.6M users in total
- 4M websites

Building a business just got 10x easier in the last 7 days.

I used GPT3 to scale my SaaS business

Now custom GPTs have rigged the whole game!

Here are 15 golden GPTs to accelerate your next startup 🧵 1. SEOMaster GPTs, learn how to rank your websites super quick with SEO.

By @aleyda

https://twitter.com/aleyda/status/1723678044101943573?s=20

Look at this man.

He built the first-ever bootstrapped SaaS to cross 100M+ users.

The business made $1B in revenue in 2023, and he operates it from his village in India.

This is his story 👇🏻 His company Zoho:

- Crossed $1B in revenue recently.
- Teaches students for free and later hires them.
- Employs 12K+ people across various continents.

The story of how he built it is insane 👇

I have scaled two SaaS companies from 0 to $1M+.

Along the journey, I picked invaluable lessons on how to come up with business ideas.

I'm sharing 8 of those gems with you 1. An underrated idea source is solving your own BURNING problem.

I once built a startup for parents! But it failed.

Why? Because I wasn't a dad yet.

I didn't understand the pain points and was operating on assumptions.

This guy makes $1M+ per year with 0 employees.

He started a side project which now has 500K+ users.

He spends only $700/year for maintenance & keeps ALL the profit for himself.

Ivan Kutskir, the world's most underrated indie-hacker 🧵 Ivan is the genius behind Photopea, a FREE Photoshop-like image editor.

His project gets

- 13M monthly visits
- 1.5M monthly user hours
- $100K monthly ad revenue

He's solo handled 500K daily users and scaled to $1M+ revenue

Now that GPT4 can see, hear, and speak, building a business will never be the same.

I built 2 SaaS businesses to $1M+ using GPT3 when it came out.

Here are 12 game-changing use cases to fuel your next startup: 1/

Turn your pen-paper sketches and Figma designs into functional web pages in minutes.

https://twitter.com/mattshumer_/status/1707814443785060729

How 𝕏 decides which posts to push in the "For You" feed?

I spent long hours digging through the "For You" code to understand what gets 𝗯𝗼𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗱.

The major factors that matter & how YOU can use these to your advantage 🧵 I'll mainly focus on how "For You" pushes out-of-network (OON) content

This is content from people you've never seen in your feed before.

OON makes up for ~50% of the content shown in your feed.

The rest ~50% is in network content (from accounts you follow.)

This is the most surprising thread you'll read today.

Show this to your friends and they will finally get how AI is changing the world.

16 mindblowing AI updates you missed out on 🧵 1. @joshua_xu_ created 100% AI-generated short clips

The tool only needed 2 minutes of training data

Look at how realistic this video is 👇

https://twitter.com/joshua_xu_/status/1689019874667024384?s=20

Can you launch your startup in 1 week?

Absolutely!

Actually, you should.

I've built 14+ products and scaled TWO to $1,000,000+ ARR

Let me teach you how to build one in a week: Why going that fast in the first place?

Because 95% of products end nowhere.

Build more to drastically increase your chances one will skyrocket.

And here is how to do so:

From a global town hall to an EVERYTHING APP, Elon Musk is set to make his 24-year-old dream come true.

It might just kill Amazon, ApplePay, Youtube and 20 other unicorns.

A lot of people think this is a mistake, but they couldn't be more wrong.

1/X 🧵 So his plan includes making X a global financial system.

But why is Elon trying to do that?

Let me tell you (continue reading)

Recently 𝕏 made MASSIVE changes to their algorithm.

I spent 20 hours going through 13,160 lines of altered code so you don't have to.

Here are the golden nuggets I found so you can grow fast as a creator on 𝕏 🧵 1. X doesn't want to show duplicate conversations on the feed.

So when you reply AND retweet, your reply will be given priority to be shown in other's feeds.

Replies > Retweet