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joshua

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Hero is live on the US App Store! 🎉

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joshua

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9 months

Just got to try out GPT-5. Wow. I don’t think people realize what’s coming. I was able to create a Dyson Sphere and deploy it under a minute.

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West Coast investor: “nice, love it, I’ll wire $50k later today.” East Coast investor: “but you need a detailed financial plan!!! Can I see it? What about a data room? You call yourself a pre-seed! I’d love to speak with your co-founders. ASAP. Sorry I don’t do SAFEs, how about

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joshua

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Today I’m excited to announce Hero! Hero helps you sell stuff faster with AI. You can now identify, price, and list items for sale in seconds. Pretty cool to see how good these AI models have become... Rolling out the beta soon. Sign up for the waitlist below.

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joshua

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@LPNH @bern_identity I got a job working in a warehouse when I was 15. Worked there until I was 17. Helped teach me the value of hard work. Helped me understand what I do and don’t want to do with my life.

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joshua

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2 years

@zebulgar Fuck

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joshua

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3 months

Founders: You don't need to join a hacker house. You don't need to go to conferences. You don't need to go to dinners. You don't need to take coffee convos with VCs. You don't need to live in SF. You just need to keep your team aligned, talk to users, and build.

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joshua

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@historydefined baguette

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joshua

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8 months

@Austen Has he finally changed physics?

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joshua

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4 years

@ImprovementGeek @naval Busy people tend to not think, analyze, and reflect as much—they're going through the motions. He might be using a drastic example to illustrate the importance of creating space to quiet the mind, so that one is more able to think about things and experience the present moment.

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joshua

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4 years

Shopify won't be the only winner in ecommerce -- the story has only just begun. [thread] 👇

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joshua

@joshuavoydik

7 months

Some big news! Stoked to announce our pre-seed for Hero with participation from @andreasklinger , @jornvandijk , @cyantist , @rauchg , @esthercrawford , @benln , @aaronwhite , @LongJourneyVC We're building an AI-first, mobile-first marketplace from the ground up. Sell stuff faster

joshua

@joshuavoydik

10 months

Today I’m excited to announce Hero! Hero helps you sell stuff faster with AI. You can now identify, price, and list items for sale in seconds. Pretty cool to see how good these AI models have become... Rolling out the beta soon. Sign up for the waitlist below.

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joshua

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2 years

@Thinknoodles @Twitter LOL what have you built

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joshua

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4 months

@thesamparr Nah, spend more on your sunglasses and you won't lose them. For years I spent $20 on sunglasses, always lots them... Now I spend $180+ and never lose them, a little counterintuitive

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joshua

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10 months

@ESYudkowsky It’s interesting that whenever you do this for any image, it always ratchets everything up to fractals and the universe

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joshua

@joshuavoydik

4 years

So excited to announce our $3.4M funding!! We've partnered with incredible people to build the future of ecommerce. Thank you everyone 🙏 ❤️

TechCrunch

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Headless commerce startup Swell raises $3.4M by @anthonyha

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joshua

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11 months

Some (re)realizations - No matter your situation, good sleep makes life so much better. This is because you feel invincible when your body is firing on all cylinders. - At the end of the day, we’re all just people. The IRS. The CEO. The person without a home. We’re all just

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joshua

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8 months

Who wants a Sora invite?

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joshua

@joshuavoydik

4 years

🚀 Introducing Swell. I couldn't be more happy and proud of what our team has accomplished. We're excited to build and modernize ecommerce for a new era. Check us out on Product Hunt :)

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joshua

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5 months

Who wants access to gpt-4o voice?

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joshua

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6 months

Let’s accelerate Europe 🇪🇺 @levelsio @andreasklinger

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joshua

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6 months

@NickADobos Doctor once told me that less than 100 cigs a year was "medically insignificant"

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joshua

@joshuavoydik

5 years

@MarwaBalkar @Imamofpeace She’s a terrible person.

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joshua

@joshuavoydik

6 years

Huge news! I've finally launched Mindful Makers on @ProductHunt ! Super grateful to the community (and @Leandro8209 for hunting!). I hope you check it out.

Mindful Humans - Product Information, Latest Updates, and Reviews 2024 | Product Hunt

Mindful Humans is a community of makers, creators, and founders who track mental and physical health, encourage each other to improve habits, and share ideas to live happier and healthier lives.

www.producthunt.com

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joshua

@joshuavoydik

4 months

@vin_acct More like, if you’re under 25, why are you here?

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joshua

@joshuavoydik

7 years

Wow! 200 million active users on @telegram as of today. @levelsio showed me its power last October. Since then, I started a group of my own. We have a bot to help log meditations, journal entries, sleep, anxiety and happiness. 200+ people. Join us!

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joshua

@joshuavoydik

6 years

I didn't think it would work but it is... 😬 Almost at $250/month rev 🧘‍♀️ Logged 16,000+ meditation mins as a group ⚡️ Now logging daily meditation streaks 💪 Tracking exercise, happiness, anxiety and sleep 📬 Weekly newsletter for convo recaps 👉

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joshua

@joshuavoydik

6 years

I had the most Dutch day with @levelsio and @harianus yesterday: ☕️ Lots of coffee 🛶 Canal tour with beers and techno on a little boat 🥖 Dutch croquettes 🍻 Super small Dutch bar 🌧 Rain 🍻 More beers 😍 Dutch food: Frikandel speciaal 🇳🇱🇳🇱🇳🇱

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joshua

@joshuavoydik

3 months

@goodside claude got it

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joshua

@joshuavoydik

5 years

@jmj Mindfulness Philosophy Big History

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joshua

@joshuavoydik

7 years

At $9 / month, I now have paying subscribers to Mindful Makers—pretty cool. Members are: -Working to get happier and reducing anxiety -Having deep convos that will change your outlook -Learning from others to be more successful in life Consider joining -

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joshua

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1 year

@edleonklinger Yes it’s only a matter of time before the contact lens and then full brain implant to compete with neuralink and then we’ll be fighting with Google and Amazon about which servers to upload consciousness into

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joshua

@joshuavoydik

3 years

@johnplumstead If you’re a black dude and have never been to a white barber shop, you’re really missing nothing.

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joshua

@joshuavoydik

3 years

So excited to announce our $20M Series A led by VMG and Headline! 🎉 This is dream of ours and can't believe we're here. 💸 5x rev since Jan 2021 📈 1000+ customers 🏠 45 team size One step closer to building future-proof infrastructure for ecommerce.

Swell takes in $20M to develop more adaptable headless commerce infrastructure | TechCrunch

Starting an e-commerce business is large marketplaces can be an easy process, but what the team at Swell began to notice was that the model could only take a business so far.

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joshua

@joshuavoydik

2 years

@abelian_groupie And that was “I worked at SpaceX” by the award-winning group “Free Frozen Yogurt” featured on debut album “Elon Fires People in Line”

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joshua

@joshuavoydik

7 months

@GoracleOfDelphi Massive tire

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joshua

@joshuavoydik

6 years

- Go remote - Have a home base - Establish bases on each continent - Cultivate in-person communities in those places - Develop your bases for years to come - Continue to travel to new places

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joshua

@joshuavoydik

2 years

@theaknobel

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2 years

"growth" to me is just when boys do marketing lol

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joshua

@joshuavoydik

5 months

@karasmarsh Stop doing shit that you don’t want to do. Start doing shit that you like. You won’t burn out.

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joshua

@joshuavoydik

2 years

@BillyM2k the afterlife is cringe too

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joshua

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3 months

@ilyamiskov Benjamin Button

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joshua

@joshuavoydik

6 years

My gf hates her company. She's underpaid, mgmt is toxic, and overworked. Anyone wanting to hire an awesome lady (remotely or in Portland)? She: Has Masters Analyst Works in green tech Has amazing work ethic Super positive Wonderful listener RTs/help would be appreciated! ❤️

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joshua

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1 year

Life update

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joshua

@joshuavoydik

6 years

@KateBour We must not be embarrassed about our quick, dirty, kinda crappy MVPs. They are essential to building the right thing.

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joshua

@joshuavoydik

6 years

😀 I just launched a new @Medium publication called "No Office Required" — it explores tips, trends, and the future of remote work! 👉 I have a monthly sponsor. If you're interested in becoming a writer or sponsor, let me know. 💙 I hope you like it.

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joshua

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8 months

I guess e/acc is racist

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joshua

@joshuavoydik

2 years

@tomascorreaOK @TerribleMaps I forgot a good ass was bad taste

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joshua

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6 years

@ArthurAllen202 @TheAtlantic @JeffreyGoldberg @edyong209 Hagfishbusters.

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joshua

@joshuavoydik

5 years

Tagging a ton of people in a tweet for “exposure” is a shitty thing to do.

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joshua

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3 years

@burningplanetbp @chesaboudin @DavidSacks [Joined September 2021] 👀

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joshua

@joshuavoydik

6 years

⚡ M2 updates: 💰 We have paying subscribers > $100! Thanks to @levelsio and many others 🏃‍♀️ We’ve added an /exercise command to log your workouts 📬 The Mindful Newsletter #001 went out today which recaps conversations we’re been having 🐒 Join us:

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joshua

@joshuavoydik

2 years

YouTube Premium is still the best $15 that I spend per month

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joshua

@joshuavoydik

4 years

Ecommerce is just getting started

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The web is just getting started

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joshua

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6 years

It's done.

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joshua

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6 years

✅ Achievement unlocked: $250/month with . ❤️ I'm so proud and grateful for the community of humans who have decided to join. We couldn't have got here without makers like @levelsio and many others. ⛩️ New stuff: Website. Newsletter. Podcast.

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joshua

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joshua

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5 months

@tomchapin @bayeslord I mean, you’re unironically, not wrong though

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joshua

@joshuavoydik

4 years

The essence of beauty in a photograph

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joshua

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6 years

⛩️ Mindful Makers update: 🚀 $350 revenue w/ first yearly subscriber 📬 On #005 of the newsletter — loads of wonderful content 🧘‍♂️Tracking meditation streaks — keeping people accountable for daily practice 💻 Website coming soon 💬 Quality conversations 💙 I love you all

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joshua

@joshuavoydik

2 years

@TheManMikeTan My view here in Austin

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joshua

@joshuavoydik

4 years

Enter "headless ecommerce" 👀 It's an API-first approach to building more creative things. It allows brands to be more resilient with better: - Design - Flexibility - Functionality - Sophistication - Collaboration 6/9

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joshua

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6 months

@PalmerLuckey that pipe is obscenely cool

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joshua

@joshuavoydik

4 years

I’m hiring for @swellcommerce 🚀 - Partnerships Manager, Platform - Product Manager, Integrations We need your help building our platform ecosystem! If you’re interested, check out the listings here: . RTs and fwds are appreciated 🙏

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joshua

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7 years

I like flying at night because it feels like you’re in space.

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joshua

@joshuavoydik

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@growing_daniel

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joshua

@joshuavoydik

4 years

@jessesingal This book is not helping the problem, it’s fueling it—casting everything in a racial light.

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joshua

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5 months

@BullandBaird Shopify founder pulls it off

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joshua

@joshuavoydik

5 years

@NaithanJones @jemelehill @TheAtlantic Welcome to Twitter.

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joshua

@joshuavoydik

4 years

The time is ripe for the ecommerce to evolve. Just listen to customer pains, the market signals, and data. It's time to rebuild and modernize the ecommerce stack for the next generation of companies, startups, and brands. Thanks for reading. ✌️ /end

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joshua

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4 years

Self care is deleting the Slack app from your phone

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joshua

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Unpopular opinion: Playing podcasts & audio faster than 1x is psychotic. 😈

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joshua

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2 years

wtf is this

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joshua

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3 years

@mahaniok There’s so much “advice” in this thread from people who have probably never raised a round. Choose your own path and do what’s right for you.

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joshua

@joshuavoydik

10 months

Hero – Sell stuff faster with AI

Use AI to scan, price, and list your stuff in seconds.

www.herostuff.com

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joshua

@joshuavoydik

3 years

Today we launch Swell Subscriptions 🎉 Our goal is to help people worldwide launch a subscription business in mere seconds 🌎 Check us out on the @ProductHunt link below and would love any support or feedback 🙏

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joshua

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4 months

@hey_itsAdia the new KAYTRANADA is so good

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joshua

@joshuavoydik

9 months

@amasad All for the sake of appearing… morally virtuous?

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joshua

@joshuavoydik

1 year

This thing is rad

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joshua

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3 months

@levelsio

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joshua

@joshuavoydik

4 years

By 2023 global ecommerce is more than doubling to $7 trillion dollars. COVID has doubled ecommerce penetration in the last three months. That's 10 years of growth! 🚀 2/9

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joshua

@joshuavoydik

6 years

@Kasparov63 I don’t think I’m going to persuade anyone over a couple hours of eating. Would rather share memories, and maybe inspire curiosity.

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joshua

@joshuavoydik

6 years

@bwrutland @Timcast Continuing to think in terms of teams and us-VS-them will only further perpetuate the problem. We need to view people as individuals holding a spectrum of views, and engage them accordingly. I know the isn’t as fun, and doesn’t feel good, but it’s the only way.

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joshua

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7 years

👋 Hey friends! 🚀 I am thrilled to launch my first book Movement: Practical Fitness for Travelers! 🌏 I wrote this to help people stay in shape while they travel. 😺 Would mean so much if you could check it out on @ProductHunt ! Thank you! 👉

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joshua

@joshuavoydik

6 years

🎉 (M2) has been mentioned in the Wall Street Journal! 👉🏽 There are things the article got right and got wrong (thread). Here it is: .

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joshua

@joshuavoydik

6 months

The user experience in LinkedIn is just a constant barrage of pitches from people I don’t want to talk to, smug posts from people I don’t like, and connection requests from people I don’t know.

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joshua

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6 years

@EoinHiggins_ @outline I think I liked nearly every comment in this thread.

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joshua

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5 years

From @ramit : “There’s a group of people — mostly young, disaffected people — who have decided it’s easier to be cynical than to improve themselves.”

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joshua

@joshuavoydik

6 years

Don't trust people who never say "I don't know."

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joshua

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6 years

🎉🎉🎉 Here’s my Indie Hackers interview where I talk about building Mindful Makers!

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joshua

@joshuavoydik

6 years

Some thoughts swirling around my brain today: Travel more Eat well Learn new things Explore deeper Be open Slow down Seek beauty Show compassion Love harder

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joshua

@joshuavoydik

2 years

Using @vercel is magic

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joshua

@joshuavoydik

6 years

Growth hacks are bullshit. They are unsustainable. Real growth comes from providing real value, creating meaningful connections with people, and being authentic. It’s also hard work.

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joshua

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3 years

@DsMatie $1M ARR baby Lfg!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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joshua

@joshuavoydik

5 years

@hnshah Build a product people want.

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joshua

@joshuavoydik

6 years

I summited South Sister mountain this weekend. It was intense! 10,358 feet.

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joshua

@joshuavoydik

7 months

we're hiring another senior ml/backend engineer for full-time, remote, $6k-$12k/month, must overlap ~4 hours with us west coast USA, must ship, we move fast - ability to work with ipython notebooks and productionize them into backend distributed systems

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joshua

@joshuavoydik

4 years

What are the signals? 📡 - Bigcommerce filing to go public with emphasis on headless ecommerce - Increased investments in the headless space (CMS and ecommerce) - Lots of new tools making it easier to build like Gatsby, Nuxt, Vercel, etc. 7/9

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joshua

@joshuavoydik

5 years

Sous Vide steak.

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joshua

@joshuavoydik

6 years

I've been chatting with @levelsio and @Leandro8209 about how I think Africa will be rapidly developed in the 2020s and 2030s — it will be the new hotspot for travelers, nomads, makers, founders, investors, adventurers, and many more. (vid cred: Leandro)

How is AFRICA escaping POVERTY? - VisualPolitik EN

A change is reaching the most unprotected region in the world, sub-Saharan Africa. We already talked about the African lions, and paid special attention to c...

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joshua

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5 months

Our ops stack at Hero: @AngelList (cap table) @joinwarp (payroll) @mercury (banking)

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joshua

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3 years

@JoshuaOgundu Gotta day-drink coupled with plenty of water, then dinner, then more water in the evening

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