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Spencer Rowley

1 year

When you build a product, you make a set of assumptions about the world and people. When your product fails, it’s not because you didn’t build a great product, it’s because the assumptions you made were wrong.

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Spencer Rowley

@armchairfounder

9 months

@abarrallen @delk @VCBrags

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Spencer Rowley

@armchairfounder

5 years

Hope this is how you feel on this page! #photoshop #manipulation

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Spencer Rowley

@armchairfounder

11 months

Software is never the product, it’s a medium.

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Spencer Rowley

@armchairfounder

7 months

I love @karrisaarinen ’s takes on product building. So refreshing where everything you hear now is just ship fast and repeat, find market need or move on. He reminds you that you can actually CREATE product market fit if the product you build is just that damn good.

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Spencer Rowley

@armchairfounder

5 years

“Time has a different quality in a forest, a different kind of flow. Time moves in circles, and events are linked. Events in a forest occur with precision in the flow of tree time, like the motions of an endless dance.” ― The Wild Trees #redwoods #forrest #photography

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Spencer Rowley

@armchairfounder

1 year

@ArmandDoma Not necessarily a good thing. Don’t see many community notes either

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Spencer Rowley

@armchairfounder

1 year

In life, bite off more than you can chew… and chew it.

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Spencer Rowley

@armchairfounder

8 months

Unpopular opinion: Zoom is awful and google meet is 10x better. I don’t understand why anyone uses zoom.

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Spencer Rowley

@armchairfounder

8 months

is getting exciting. Very soon there won't be a reason to use any other job search. About to pass 500k jobs scraped directly from ATS and company career pages, it is the single best source of truth on who is hiring and what jobs are actually live on the

Joby.ai - Job Search Engine | Direct from Career Pages

Search 500k+ jobs scanned directly from company career pages. No expired roles, find hidden jobs and land your dream job faster. Browse by salary, industry, title, location, years of experience and...

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Spencer Rowley

@armchairfounder

5 years

Neon nights at Flamingo Hotel...🏮 Taking inspiration from @Brandonwoelfel . . #photography #dailyart #expofilm #artshub #theglobewanderer #dailyart #VisualAmbassadors #lensbible #artofvisuals #worldofartists #visualsoflife #agameoftones

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Spencer Rowley

@armchairfounder

2 years

#twitter I need some help from my fellow bookworms. What should I be reading for the remainder of the year? #books #BookRecommendations

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Spencer Rowley

@armchairfounder

5 years

Furry Friend! #nature #fox

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Spencer Rowley

@armchairfounder

11 months

I used GPT to find 147,192 hidden tech jobs The job search process sucks, I hate linkedin, indeed, random crap job boards. Why isn't there one place, ONE PLACE, on the internet that has ALL the jobs. About 8 months ago, I started working on something to solve exactly this

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Spencer Rowley

@armchairfounder

1 year

@lawyer4SMBs My rule is thumb is that if you see people making posts like this on Twitter for >6 months the opportunity is already dead. Goes for anything

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Spencer Rowley

@armchairfounder

1 year

Life before the age of 30 is like trying to find product market fit. Product management before PMF is very different than post PMF. Fail fast. Test your assumptions. Pivot. Don’t optimize.

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Spencer Rowley

@armchairfounder

2 years

One of the best pieces of advice I’ve ever received: Always schedule your important meetings around 1pm. People are in the best mood of the day directly after eating lunch.

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Spencer Rowley

@armchairfounder

8 months

@GeringerAdam Wow. I have never resonated more with a post on this platform.

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Spencer Rowley

@armchairfounder

1 year

@BradMichelson Could not agree more. Algorithm pushed so much polarized like-farming tweets today. So much noise it’s worse than the news

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Spencer Rowley

@armchairfounder

5 years

Waste your time with me in California... #California #photooftheday #paradise #photograghy

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Spencer Rowley

@armchairfounder

1 year

@amirmxt @cerwindcharlie 🙄 bait

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Spencer Rowley

@armchairfounder

2 years

@johnhfio @PirGranoff Thread?

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Spencer Rowley

@armchairfounder

1 year

It sucks to be young in this country. It sucks to be old in this country. It sucks to be poor in this country. It sucks to eat healthy in this country. Who is this country for? I love the U.S. but I really wonder if it’s the place I want to build a life.

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Spencer Rowley

@armchairfounder

7 months

The next business I build will be a physical one. Choosing to compete on the internet with zero moat against the worlds smartest people is just about the dumbest thing you can do if your goal is to make money. #2 , I hate sitting behind a computer all day.

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Spencer Rowley

@armchairfounder

6 months

Love this definition since its the only one I've seen that describes PMF as a range with a threshold - being "efficient enough" to scale business processes like marketing. This ties product market "fit" and market "need" together. If your CAC is more than your profit, the

Spencer Rowley

@armchairfounder

7 months

"Product/Market Fit is sufficient demand in a defined marketplace to allow the efficient expenditure of capital (human or financial) to scale company processes such as marketing." - Tristan Kromer

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Spencer Rowley

@armchairfounder

2 years

Change my mind: B2C is harder than B2B

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Spencer Rowley

@armchairfounder

5 years

Hello Twitter! #myfirstTweet

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Spencer Rowley

@armchairfounder

7 months

Getting likes on a Linkedin post feels like getting likes on your new facebook profile picture in high school

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Spencer Rowley

@armchairfounder

2 years

Google glass failed. Zuck’s metaverse failed. What will be next?

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Spencer Rowley

@armchairfounder

2 years

Just purchased a new domain... here we go 👀

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Spencer Rowley

@armchairfounder

2 years

Call me crazy, but without innovation in hardware, innovation in software plateaus and becomes saturated. There hasn’t been a serious consumer hardware innovation in the last 8 years (the last was the Apple Watch).

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Spencer Rowley

@armchairfounder

2 years

Ideas are not enough. What matters is the execution. Founders, stop worrying that someone will steal your idea — it's happening in your head, not in reality.

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Spencer Rowley

@armchairfounder

10 months

Recognize this SF billboard? Investors are shaking up the venture capital market by raising money to buy out startups that have been shunned by VC firms, taking advantage of market headwinds to buy promising startups for cheap. Interesting read, article below.

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Spencer Rowley

@armchairfounder

6 months

So effing bearish on this thing

Bethany Bongiorno

@bella_bongiorno

6 months

the team at @Humane has been blowing me away with their work on photo and video capture on ai pin. for fun, i wanted to share some progress comparisons 📷📹 to show off just a little glimpse of what they are up to because it's just so incredible🧵

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Spencer Rowley

@armchairfounder

7 months

Business idea #5 : Compile a list of college, grad school essays that landed kids in Ivy leagues, Stanford. Sell a subscription to an LLM that is trained on those essays and writes essays in that tone. User's are basically getting essays written for them that have already gotten

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Spencer Rowley

@armchairfounder

2 years

Generative AI is trending, but we need more models that find signal in noise, not create more. AI that finds the needle in the haystack will be 100x more valuable in the workplace.

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Spencer Rowley

@armchairfounder

2 years

A brutally true statement someone made to me last week: "Software engineers are the construction workers of the modern era." In a few years, it will be cheaper to build an app than fix a leak in your roof.

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Spencer Rowley

@armchairfounder

5 years

Hey guys, just posted a video on my youtube channel. Check it out!

MY YEAR - DJI Mavic Air Film Reel

This is a collection of footage from the past year. Much of the footage was taken from my previous videos, however, there is some new stuff in there too. The...

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Spencer Rowley

@armchairfounder

6 months

Blaming a reviewer for a failing company is like blaming the weatherman for a hurricane

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Spencer Rowley

@armchairfounder

2 years

It’s easier to start a company than get a tech job in SF right now

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Spencer Rowley

@armchairfounder

7 months

For SEO noobs (myself included): You don't work on a single keyword, you first dominate all the low traffic keywords and accumulate traffic big enough to target mid level keywords and then after repeating the same process you target high level keywords. SEO is all math. Instead

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Spencer Rowley

@armchairfounder

1 year

being the head of UX design at Wells Fargo is like being the chief environmentalist at British Petroleum

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Spencer Rowley

@armchairfounder

7 months

Hey #indiehackers ! What is your favorite no frills/great out of the box analytics tool to maximize conversions? I am tired of google analytics and posthog and want to try something new 👀

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Spencer Rowley

@armchairfounder

1 year

Do people work too hard in this country? What about working well.

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Spencer Rowley

@armchairfounder

2 years

@proetrie Use me as a dislike button

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Spencer Rowley

@armchairfounder

8 months

Cathie Wood ( @CathieDWood ) has the most brutal wikipedia about summary I've ever seen. Usually wikipedia just sticks to plain old facts, but here they start going after her in the 2nd sentence 😂

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Spencer Rowley

@armchairfounder

9 months

Those who have a Why to live can bear with almost any How.

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Spencer Rowley

@armchairfounder

5 months

@bindra_dhruv @nikitabier Dhruv message me I used this strategy successfully for an app I built in college 2 years ago. It works great

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Spencer Rowley

@armchairfounder

7 months

Hot take: Posthog analytics sucks, its super confusing, technical and I am constantly fighting with it/wasting time. Shopify made the best analytics software ever created. Has anyone made a decent AI analytics tool yet where you can say "Show me the flow of all users on

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Spencer Rowley

@armchairfounder

2 years

When you're building something, you're also building yourself.

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Spencer Rowley

@armchairfounder

2 years

Considering that most people are by default only on the “for you” page, anyone who does not pay a subscription will see their viewership crater. Terrible idea.

Elon Musk

@elonmusk

2 years

Starting April 15th, only verified accounts will be eligible to be in For You recommendations. The is the only realistic way to address advanced AI bot swarms taking over. It is otherwise a hopeless losing battle. Voting in polls will require verification for same reason.

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Spencer Rowley

@armchairfounder

2 years

Me (embarrassingly recently): I know of @sequoia and Andreessen Horowitz but what is this @a16z firm I keep seeing everywhere?? Also me: Counts the number of letters in between the “A” and “z” 😑

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Spencer Rowley

@armchairfounder

2 years

Hot take: I’ve built both physical product and software businesses - physical ones are easier. Almost everyone has access to the tools necessary to build digital products (code), but only a few have access to machines and processes that build physical ones.

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Spencer Rowley

@armchairfounder

1 year

Not sure what to charge your customers? One of my favorite methods is the “Van Westendorp,” a technique introduced by Dutch economist Peter van Westerndorp in 1976. Ask customers what a reasonable or bargain price would be for your product, as well as an expensive and

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Spencer Rowley

@armchairfounder

7 months

Billion dollar idea: Build a Stripe app that automatically links to your google analytics and tracks conversions. Holy shit why has no one built this.

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Spencer Rowley

@armchairfounder

1 year

Another thing the smartest people who try to build for consumers never understand: The user never operates with their highest conscious self, but with their lowest form “lizard brain”. If you think people will do something because they should, you are in for a rude awakening.

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Spencer Rowley

@armchairfounder

7 months

Now that users are constantly pounded with ads, my recommendation is to develop something tangentially related to your core product to serve as a growth funnel. If your building a SaaS, this also works great for SEO. Create a free tool that is related to your main product (that

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Spencer Rowley

@armchairfounder

9 months

As much as your job gives you pride, don’t forget: 1. Management consultants don’t do anything. 2. VC backed startups are just playing business pretend. 3. Mine workers and onlyfans models are almost certainly making more money than you. Strange times.

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Spencer Rowley

@armchairfounder

9 months

App idea: Dating app game where people meet in person first. Kinda like Pokémon go and HQ. Play short mini games together, work together, learn more about each other and then swipe at the end.

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Spencer Rowley

@armchairfounder

8 months

Bernard Arnault once made Steve Jobs laugh by telling him: "In 20 years I don't know if people will still use your phone, I'm sure they'll still drink Dom Pérignon."

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Spencer Rowley

@armchairfounder

8 months

How To Fail: → Idea → Design → Coding → Audience How To Succeed: → Problem → Audience → Idea → Growth Loop → Code → Design

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Spencer Rowley

@armchairfounder

8 months

I love how Quora shows you the question you are looking for, but then doesn't show you the answer but other questions for which you have no interest. In order to see your answer have you have to switch a tiny button at the top while you are bombarded with sponsored posts and

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Spencer Rowley

@armchairfounder

7 months

Firing up the SEO engines 🚀

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Spencer Rowley

@armchairfounder

10 months

Social media mostly works today by prioritizing shallow engagement bait by creators who already have large followings. The rich get richer, and the audience gets more stupid.

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Spencer Rowley

@armchairfounder

7 months

Hypothesis: Crypto bull run right now is completely driven by the Chinese government's limits on Yuan currency conversions. As the economy gets worse, the entire Chinese middle and upper-middle class are converting Yuan to crypto to get around the limit thus massively propping up

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Spencer Rowley

@armchairfounder

2 years

Anecdotally, many startups that raised at fat valuations during 2021 have a long way to prove out their true value. Turning $1 into 90𝇍 isn't business.

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Spencer Rowley

@armchairfounder

8 months

Why is it harder for young people to build valuable businesses? Because their problems are less valuable. Let me explain. Coming up with company ideas, any idea for that matter - is a direct result of your life and how you spend your time. Many businesses are created to

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Spencer Rowley

@armchairfounder

2 years

@Kellyrei007 Open to anything!

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Spencer Rowley

@armchairfounder

7 months

The price of Bitcoin only goes up to check if you’re still stupid enough to buy it

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Spencer Rowley

@armchairfounder

9 months

@robkhenderson Or if they aboutta kiss

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Spencer Rowley

@armchairfounder

8 months

First stripe payment notification came into today🥳. Probably a scam but the dopamine hit still hits the same #buildinpublic

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Spencer Rowley

@armchairfounder

2 years

Adult friendships are fickle beasts in metros of millions, where casual friends are cheap currency.

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Spencer Rowley

@armchairfounder

6 months

@nealkhosla I agree, design carries Notion. it’s so damn beautiful but really unintuitive and feels like your constantly fighting with it

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Spencer Rowley

@armchairfounder

7 months

@Suhail This is fucking fire. When’s the full thing dropping?

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Spencer Rowley

@armchairfounder

6 months

Almost like I totally called it 😅 @nikitabier

Spencer Rowley

@armchairfounder

1 year

Flip social shopping is made by some real pros. Love this share screen, tons of social proof and hooks everywhere. Reminds me of gas. Very bullish.

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Spencer Rowley

@armchairfounder

10 months

A great sign that you’ve found your calling is when you stop envying others.

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Spencer Rowley

@armchairfounder

6 months

A while ago it was often said that apps competed with boredom - waiting in line, sitting on the toilet, and all the other lame bits of time we’d rather be doing something else. Now a new app has to compete with the most engaging experiences ever built — an infinite stream of

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Spencer Rowley

@armchairfounder

1 year

If someone overestimates how much good UI matters in terms of the success of your product, just show them Midjourney.

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Spencer Rowley

@armchairfounder

1 year

@m2jr @Jason As a recent grad, the complete answer is a perfect storm of some of what you mentioned, but these 2 are 80% IMO. 1. For majority of college grads, the entry level job market in the U.S. (Business, Tech) is unbelievably tough right now (for last 2 ish years). Typical to compete

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Spencer Rowley

@armchairfounder

7 months

@bentossell you should check out (daily news podcast generated entirely by a team of AI agents). Seems like something that should be on ben's bites. No humans involved (but built by a friend).

Simply News

AI-Powered Conversations on Current Events, Sports, and Beyond!

www.simplynews.ai

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Spencer Rowley

@armchairfounder

1 year

How many times have you had a disappointing experience with a product/brand, swore you were done, and then found yourself continuing to use the product? Now how many times have you said you “loved” a product and found yourself no longer using it a year later? And this is the

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Spencer Rowley

@armchairfounder

9 months

@gokulr Why Macao?

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Spencer Rowley

@armchairfounder

8 months

Another banger from Adam. Honestly, the real reason I started building is so I could find all the jobs on the internet so I could get out of tech 😂 - from a young laptop american

Joby.ai - Job Search Engine | Direct from Career Pages

Search 500k+ jobs scanned directly from company career pages. No expired roles, find hidden jobs and land your dream job faster. Browse by salary, industry, title, location, years of experience and...

www.joby.ai

Adam Geringer

@GeringerAdam

8 months

I want to clarify why I think the labor dynamics in tech are beyond fucked Everyone wants to hire a an amazing engineer or salesman, but they've been out of production since March 2020. Most of these layoffs and "firings for performance" people are young laptop americans. It

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Spencer Rowley

@armchairfounder

2 years

@lathamht @michaelsklar This screams @steven_kotler his book is great

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Spencer Rowley

@armchairfounder

1 year

Distribution matters even more than your idea or your execution

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Spencer Rowley

@armchairfounder

2 years

It occurred to me a couple days ago when my computer broke: Without my computer, I have almost no skills useful to society. Strange.

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Spencer Rowley

@armchairfounder

1 year

@jaltma Even sometimes if they are experienced tbh

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Spencer Rowley

@armchairfounder

7 months

I love how @levelsio tweets with an accent

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Spencer Rowley

@armchairfounder

6 months

@dsiroker @marissamayer She raised 20 mil, had a top SV engineering team, and took a yr+ to release what a single indiehacker could do in 3 weeks with chat gpt (and the app was still terrible). The icing on the cake was that the design was also bad. If you’re someone with those

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Spencer Rowley

@armchairfounder

1 year

I wonder how many car accidents have happened because of the Spotify’s buggy app

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Spencer Rowley

@armchairfounder

2 years

It's quite funny that so many launch products on @producthunt where no actual customers/users are likely to come from. Founders just love to virtue signal to other founders

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Spencer Rowley

@armchairfounder

2 years

Sometimes over-optimization is sub optimal

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Spencer Rowley

@armchairfounder

9 months

There are 3 kinds of men. The ones who learn by reading, the few who learn by observation, and the rest who have to pee on the electric fence themselves.

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Spencer Rowley

@armchairfounder

8 months

I cannot wait till Google’s market share gets eaten by perplexity and the arc browser. Google has too much power

Mike (Niche Twins) 🏴‍☠️

@NicheDown

8 months

Niche Site Lady and I both got the same exact manual penalty from Google for "unnatural links to some pages". I got mine in March last year on a site I ended up selling and NSL got hers a few days ago. Both of us were very public with site stats and success on this

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Spencer Rowley

@armchairfounder

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@AdamSinger More like the job market becoming terrible

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Spencer Rowley

@armchairfounder

1 year

Went looking for the bathroom at a blue bottle coffee in sf and stumbled upon the both the offices of @generalcatalyst and @lightspeedvp 😂 Coincidence? I think not

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Spencer Rowley

@armchairfounder

1 year

If you have price resistance when trying to sell your offer, the problem is not that your customers don’t have money, it’s that you haven’t increased the value to a point where what you are selling becomes inexpensive.

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Spencer Rowley

@armchairfounder

1 year

Hi Twitter (or X)! I need your help 🙏 Does anyone who follows me work on website migrations, website development, large e-commerce store, works for a digital marketing agency or does QA for websites (essentially involving a large CMS like Drupal)? We've built a tool that

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Spencer Rowley

@armchairfounder

1 year

Sam Altman is insanely overrated .

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Spencer Rowley

@armchairfounder

8 months

Could not disagree more. I want to live in the world Apple envisions, and I want to die when I am faced with Meta’s.

Dylan Field

@zoink

8 months

For the short to medium term, I am much more bullish on the Meta Quest. Still lots to do, but Meta has done such a nice job with the price point, usability, input and ergonomics of the Quest. It's a device that is ready for mass market *today*

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