Amintore Confalonieri

founder >> indie hacker
founder >> indie hacker
founder >> indie hacker
founder >> indie hacker
founder >> indie hacker

secret sauce for founders:

#1 get your sh!t done
#2 discipline
#3 repeat

one more: "underperformance"

heavily agree

hahaha

Twitter and Meta product manager Esther Crawford praised the “high energy” of getting to hear 93 startups pitch in-person

Avni Patel Thompson, CEO of Milo, described it as “a dress rehearsal for the founders but also a beautiful pay-it-forward for alums to come back and support the current batch.”

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boom💰

Does AI startup Extropic actually … do anything? Extropic is a startup in San Francisco that claims to be working on a supercomputing processor for AI training that is “many orders of magnitude faster” than any digital processor today. The compan…

Does AI startup Extropic actually … do anything?

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yes! I cofounded a project with a security token

secret sauce for founders:

learn & execute at the same time

if your cofounder is mediocre,
kick him in the ass

dismissed!

the hardest thing is not to develop a product

the hardest thing is not gaining traction

the hardest thing is not to reach PMF

the hardest thing is choosing the right cofounder

when you are a founder, the pressure to perform, meet deadlines, and secure funding are overwhelming

a true story about founders:🧵

6 entrepreneurship and life lessons that I have learned from my successes and failures: 🧵

#4 self discipline🪖
→ you will suffer from 1 or 2 pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret

#5 don't be a perfectionist🎨
→ perfectionism is a desease, just like procrastination. action is the medicine

#6 daily routine📅
→ you change your life when you change something you do daily

#1 do it now✅
→ only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone

#2 hard things first😓
→ hard things don't get easier if you do them later, quite the opposite

#3 surround yourself with the right people🫂
→ you are the average of the 5 persons you spend the most time with

6 entrepreneurship and life lessons that I have learned from my successes and failures: 🧵

to show their friends what they were doing in X place

Kevin and Mike decide to pivot

and focus on geolocated photos

this new version was called Instagram

today Instagram has 1.3 billion monthly active users

Kevin and his Co-Founder Mike begin to iterate

they decide to eliminate as many features as they can

they analyzed the behavior of their users

they realized that their users were just sharing photos

in 2010, Kevin founded his startup🚀

a check-in app to share photos

after 3 months he only had 100 users

its APP was complicated and with many features

a true story about founders:🧵

a man with a beard is holding a cup of coffee in his hand ALT: a man with a beard is holding a cup of coffee in his hand

good morning founders!

who is already drinking espresso?

as a founder, I know very well how necessary & important marketing is for a startup at an early stage, but my question is:

how many startups are able to invest $5k/month in marketing to justify the payment of an agency?

what do you think Rhiannon?

when you are a founder, the pressure to perform, meet deadlines, and secure funding are overwhelming

the hardest thing is not to develop a product

the hardest thing is not gaining traction

the hardest thing is not to reach PMF

the hardest thing is choosing the right cofounder

Ok, made my own starter pack with indie designers, developers, marketers and founders.
go.bsky.app/4cDYAsN

it's a great movie, and very accurate on what family constellations are

An example of startups eating their own are AI SDRs flooding all of our inboxes anecdotally resulting in Google enforcing a higher domain authority bar for email inboxes.

TLDR, genuinely written emails from newer startup domains are ending-up in spam :/