Tanmay Verma

I now prefer Amazon Prime Video. Smaller library but well curated.

We need an anti YC-style entrepreneurship manual. Hope you're compiling one soon :)

Confidence, clarity and simplicity.

If you don't find these in a piece of text, it's likely AI generated.

"Fail fast, pivot fast" doesn't make sense.

Sometimes the product needs time to mature.

Other times the marketing does.

Neither can happen if you try to be fast for the heck of it.

Totally. It's surprising how ideas can keep failing one after another.

Yet many more emerge relentlessly from the ashes soon after.

And you'll not persist for long! Which sometimes is the only thing missing with a great idea

If failures and rejections are not encouraging you to try harder, or smarter, you might be in the wrong game.

You're better off pursuing something that sparks your "inner flame" regardless of outcomes.

Keep trying new things till you find that.

40%: building an app
60%: figuring out how people will discover the app

If AI is hurting your SEO, ask yourself:

1. Is your content easy to summarize?

2. Do your target users prefer quick answers?

3. Is a human expert angle not essential?

If it’s 3x yes, it’s time to rethink your content strategy!

Happy to have broken into G(enerative)EO

lets brng bck fb-era lzy-typng so v knw whos AI nd whos nt

An ad showed up.
I didn’t buy.

It came back.
I didn't buy.

Again.
I gave in.

Then it came back again.
But I already bought!!

Turns out, ads don't really care about selling, they only care about learning.

Ad infinitum.

#ads

Maximizing expected value means playing to win across all possible worlds.

But you live in just one.

Trust the math — but carry a little faith.

The pace of life will always be slower than you'd want it to be.

Great job! Looks nice,
I'll surely consider this when I scale my email marketing campaigns

Good luck!

Using AI to replace junior devs wouldn't ease the miscommunication headache.

I still struggle to clearly explain what I want to an LLM.

It frequently misinterprets, leading to iterations that take three times longer than writing the original prompt.

That unpromising engineer you didn't hire (who would later go on to destroy your database)...

Those taxes you paid just on time (which would have attracted 3x penalty)...

We only think about profits gained.

Think about losses averted, and life isn't so bad.

Yeah, I use onesec, not 100% but kinda helpful

Social media uses "hooks" as psychological tricks to engage you without you necessarily desiring to.

It's tiring to dive in yet another blog/tweet/reel and come back out with nothing.

We are heading towards emotional fatigue and hook saturation soon...

A good UI doesn't matter.

But a bad one certainly does.

Subliminally, it conveys to a user that you don't care. Then why should they?

We overcomplicate growth.

It's simple:

Generate a useful output. Big or small, but something you are proud of.

Then do it everyday.

If people signed into your waitlist, they want to "check out" your product, not purchase it.

Know the difference.

Stop using ChatGPT and learn to form your own opinions.

Solid! That's a reason I've been hesitant to invest in social media marketing. One, any 'viral' impact is transitory. Two, high-intent audiences there don't cluster well. Three, the algorithm is just unpredictable.

My guess is we tend to confuse entertainment value with business value ~ Halo Effect

I figured there's no right way to make a MVP/SLC.

A small product is just that...a small product.

When I read it, I certainly got the sarcasm, but also saw how it could confuse others who are just starting off or haven't read your other posts.

Nonetheless, it was a good one!

Bravo!
I hope my Google Ads campaigns reach them soon, haha.
Your pieces inspired me to ramp up my marketing efforts nine-fold :)

Reading this made me realize I’ve been too focused on my idea’s weakness (TTS sounding robotic) instead of its strengths: near-zero production costs, better focus on content, and easy audio updates.

Needed this, thanks!

Good stuff!

Please, "fail fast" doesn't mean moving so recklessly fast that you definitely fail...