It's been 2 months since I graduated from Waterloo.
Since then I built 3 startups -- 2 stealth B2B companies and 1 public good company (CoachLily). Combined we're already above $100 MRR within 1 week.
It's a challenging journey but EXCITED for what's ahead! 🚀
I've been taught to do all development on localhost by
@spacemandev
.
Just setup the
@metaplex
DAS API with a custom validator and LightDAS. Do we want the docs?
Releasing an AI mind for making smart applications.
Store data based on meaning, and retrieve data based on context! All setup within minutes!
@_buildspace
&
@_nightsweekends
tymm!
10 days ago I released my first ever payment plan at $5/month.
Today I am at $60 MRR and growing! 🚀
Should I share my key lessons? Drop it in the comments
cc:
@_buildspace
Got access to a cool new community ✨
It's for people hacking on the nights and weekends building cool shit in the world.
- $100,000 in the treasury.
- Top-notch founders, investors
Drop a 👋 if you want an invite!
cc:
@_buildspace
Alright first day of school at UWaterloo. Today we shipped a faster version for shoulder detection in Python.
Tomorrow's goal is to put it on a Pi 4 and optimize for performance. Expected cycle time is 600ms.
Building a SaaS takes time:
- seo: months
- affiliates: years
- backlinks: years
- reviews: years
If you're at 1K MRR after a year (or two), you're doing a great job.
I was not able to attend the
@_buildspace
IRL this season.
So I did it remotely - launching a new
@exper_ai
, the hub of AI experts!
Today I am happy to announce I've broken my $100MRR bar!!!
It's always been my dream!
Here are my key lessons: 🧵
@_buildspace
There will always be inspirational stories coming out of buildspace. This is what we've built.
A community of ambitious friends who took a leap of faith against all odds. The story continues...
Enable smart search in 4 lines of code!
Today I'm launching a JavaScript SDK for . Now you only need 4 lines of code to store and query embeddings.
Semantic search at its finest. boring af
Introducing ExperAI, a platform to easily manage and share your workflows!
It provides a social interface for interacting with data including personal notes, manuals, etc 🪄
cc:
@_buildspace
@_nightsweekends
Introducing the ability to track embeddings for every upload.
Each upload is tagged so you can delete all related embeddings at once! Lifesaver for updating mixed data from multiple sources.
Beta access at
cc:
@_buildspace
Great talk with founder of Product Hunt
@rrhoover
yesterday
@_buildspace
!
Sadly I wasn't able to ask any questions to Ryan 😔
I summoned him on ExperAI instead 🪄:
is SO BACK!
Late update for week 4 of nights and weekends!
200+ daily actives and my first sale within the first week of launch!!
cc:
@_buildspace
@_nightsweekends
I had the most intense experience today. For the past 8 months, the senior engineers hustled to innovate. We demoed in front of 100s today. The symposium was full of brilliant people.
My team showed a robot to auto administer vaccines. It uses a gantry system and local ML
3 apps I've built so far:
1. ExperAI - The root holding all experts
2. Mindplug - The minds of all experts
3. FunFriends - The symphony of the emotions
Each of these will feed one another. Maybe one day, have a coherence.
Exciting times ahead!
@_buildspace
I'm launching boring products every 2 weeks.
This week I built the world's easiest no-code solution to embeddings using
@pinecone
and
@OpenAI
!
You can embed text, pdfs, webpages and audio in seconds
Super excited to be working on my first ever podcast
@_blockbuilds
!
First episode features
@harkl_
, a visionary builder who built
@boom_army_
, the first ever social platform on
@solana
.
This is going to be🔥🔥
I just stumbled upon the best public workspace EVER!
They got:
✅ A laser cutter
✅ 2 Ultimakers
✅ A 3D scanner
✅ An embroidery machine
✅ Cricut & heat press
AND A STUDIO ROOM! All for free 🤯
Just ended my last
@UWaterloo
internship with a bang!
Winning the table tennis tourny in-office ✅️
Receiving high praise from the head of hiring ✅️
Good laughs with the team ✅️
To the journeys ahead and my final year in college!! 🎒🚀
Mixtral 8x-7B AI model is CRAZY good! I can't really tell the difference between GPT3.5 and Mixtral. AND it costs 4 times less.
Here's how I made the switch in under 5 minutes:
It's scary to go through a complete pivot.
Releasing the new version of
@exper_ai
today, and the path forward is so uncertain.
Get yourself guts like
@FarzaTV
cc:
@_buildspace
It's time to accelerate. Let's have some fun in 2024!
2023 was the year of highest growth, with lots of travels, making friends from around the world and getting my first profitable SAAS!
I've had to take recent time off to reflect on my journeys. We're all here to have fun!🚀
I made an app demo using Figma, did 30+ user interviews and decided it aient it in about a week.
Fastest iteration on a product using the
@_buildspace
mindset.
Now I need to read, learn and expand my knowledge so I can do it better. LES GO!