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When I was 18, I taught a Computer Science course called CS50x for Harvard University.
A year before this happened, I couldn't write a single line of code.
This happened due to the power of online communities. Here's how - I share a super valuable tip at the end.
When I met
@nasdaily
in 2016, he seemed like a fun, smart, curious dude who wanted to do something big in life.
6 years and 20 Million followers later, still the same guy, living his best life.
7. Lesson : The best way to get the most out of any online community is to FIRST GIVE without expecting anything in return.
I did not do it with this intention back then but now when I look back, this is what worked out for me.
Give as much as you can. The return will compound
1. 2014 Jan 1st, I signed up for this interesting-looking introductory CS course on edX -
@cs50
. I honestly just wanted to learn how to hack lol.
But the course had other things planned out for me.
Took me exactly 3 hours to make this AI Space-film trailer.
Workflow Breakdown :
Images -
@midjourney
Video -
@runwayml
Narration -
@elevenlabsio
Music -
@suno_ai_
Been doing some experimenting with AI videos and the capabilities are beyond wild! Super fun tho
6. He invited me to join the international CS50x team to host live physical CS50x sessions in my city.
I'm overjoyed and readily accept it.
In 2015, I conducted 2 cohorts of CS50x sessions in Chennai and New Delhi teaching 25+ students and taking them through the course.
2. Few weeks into it, I love the course. The lectures by
@davidjmalan
were just a treat to watch. His lectures were so entertaining that sometimes I'd watch them while having dinner.
The course had assignments called Problem Sets (PSets in short). 10 of them to be specific.
I started a podcast where I talk to start-up founders and core-team members and it has :
1. Insights that rarely get to see the light of the day
2. Secrets that were never revealed
3. Methods that start-ups use to scale from 0 to 1
Easy no-jargon language, 100% raw and real👇👇
Advertising v/s Community
Advertising : 100K people see your ad. 10K click on it and 2K end up converting.
Community : You start with, say 2K members. Each member invites 5 more; scales to 10K members. Repeat the process.
Courtesy :
@VarunMayya
's upcoming Community e-Book
5. I loved CS50x so much that I went back to my high school to deliver a lecture and create awareness of the course.
Slowly but steadily, I became a popular and trusted member of the CS50x online Community.
End of 2014, I get an email from
@davidjmalan
....
3. The PSets ranged from making games like Breakout to using Google Map APIs to create a Virtual Bus Tour around Harvard campus. They were fun to say the least.
The course had a Facebook group community with ~50K+ members (290K+ right now). It was very active!
4. Whenever somebody is stuck, they post on this community for help and in came 'experts' to help em out.
So, whenever I'd finish a PSet, I'd answer questions of everyone who is currently working on a PSet that I've already completed. I did this all the way from PSet 0-9.
Last week, I was building this with a few friends.
This LEGO Ferrari is one of many ideas that's come out of the company's Community-Led Growth efforts. In the earlier 2000s, LEGO almost went bankrupt due to increase in video-game sales.
Read thread to know how they overcame it
I dropped out of college 8 months into my 1st year.
But I believe 95% of you should NOT drop out!
Here's why - (point
#6
gives you a direction to think in)
nobody will remember:
- your salary
- your fancy title
- how ‘busy’ you were
- how stressed you were
- how many hours you worked
people will remember:
- how you treat them and make them feel
I don't usually trust babas but this one was pretty cool.
My crypto losses can finally see some greens in the coming days. Would you take financial advice from Finance Baba?
#Designers
and
#Illustrators
WILL lose their jobs. Period.
@VarunMayya
let me try DALL-E 2 I being a singer-songwriter, wanted to generate an album cover. My illustrator already had smth made (left).
Typed "man sitting on vinyl with moon in middle" and voila! (right). Thoughts?
Curious about Community Building? (especially for brands and businesses)
Retweet this and I'll personally DM you a Community Playbook I've made for brands to build and scale their online community.
P.S Make sure you're following me.
The demands:
* four-day work week
* significant increases in pay
* full coverage of all health care premiums for employees and family members
* guaranteed RSU grants
* non-performance-based annual bonuses
(would cost over $100 million over three years)
* ban on scented
@kunalb11
Not building AI apps - but we’re building an ecosystem that’s building our AI-apps. We train founders, engineers and agency owners in Applied Generative AI product building -
@100xengineers
.
See
#0to100xengineer
to see what our students have built so far :)
@RanaMishka
Unpopular Opinion : You need both kinds. Only smart talks can make things to saturated.
Once in a while, it's good to let loose and talk to a bunch of friends who you can just gossip and chill with.
FYI, I pay illustrators 2-5K for an album cover. DALL-E gave it to me in 10 seconds for FREE! Beat that.
If you had this tool, why would you ever need a designer to make your YT thumbnails, book images, comics, album covers, ANYTHING? This is revolutionary!
This 377-page in-depth guide to building communities was written by community masters who have scaled a Discord server to 50K members and have built an app with 120K users.
Y'know what baffles me?
Incentivization is core to any community. It's important to reward the Top Members; basically, the ones who engage the most. They must be made to feel special.
However, I've rarely seen community platforms with reward systems.
@buildonscenes
does tho :)
Why do most startups fail to completely adopt a Community-Led Growth approach?
Because they don't see immediate results and re-allocate community budgets too soon.
But a few indicators can tell you if you're headed in the right direction for the first few months. See thread.
2/6 These were the problems I had in college:
- Teachers had very little real-world experience
- Their main goal was to complete syllabuses, not ignite curiosity
- Some classes never happened
- Most of my peers were least interested in learning
Motion Capture without fancy MoCap suits, tracking points etc. GameDev efficiency >>>
This is done using an iPhone and the
@MoveAI_
app -> transferred to UE5. Done by Liam Bailey. I've tried it as well, pretty sick results.
@VarunMayya
Interestingly, pink is the only colour that's not in the light spectrum - you see green cos pink is white without green. Makes sense to call pink as minus green as well.
According to the Lindy Effect, if humans still do something we did 200K years ago, it's probably going to continue for a long time
We have progressed only by doing things together. Communities are here to stay and is the way forward.
Communities are the future of the internet!
Been using the Meta Rayban AI glasses for 3 weeks now. Honest opinion :
1. I use it everyday to listen to music whole cycling to office. Great speakers but I sometimes wish they were slightly louder. Transition lenses are nice to have outdoors.
2. It’s absolutely awesome to
we’re hosting the coolest tech party in bangalore this saturday 🥂🎸🪩🥳
it’s an invite only thingy (limiting it to 42 folks only) 🫶🏻
reply with 👋🏽 & i’ll send you the next steps
p.s: we’re starting a new club called ‘the circle’ for the most driven & ambitious folks in bluru
3/6 How I tried fixing them :
- Learning the subject via Youtube videos
- Having a chat with the HOD regarding the problem (it backfired lol)
- Filling my "free time"(supposed to be lectures) with side-projects
- Trying to get my peers involved in interesting things
4/4
Building their products alongside their community and engaging with them constantly enabled LEGO to become the world's leading toy company, surpassing Mattel.
4/6 I really tried everything I could before I took the final call before dropping out.
It was never my first choice and it seemed even scarier cos I had no idea what I'd do after leaving college.
I got to a point where my side-projects consumed more of my time than college.
5/6 And I was truly enjoying them and felt like I was learning, upskilling and getting somewhere.
I was already doing quite a lot like taking multiple online courses, making music, etc
It became crystal clear that I could do even more if college got out of the way.
Step 1 :
Get a new phone number and create a new email ID in the name of a fake person who will act as my 'Artist Manager'.
For the lack of a better name, I called him Rohan Mehta.
Rohan "manages multiple artists" out of which I was one of them.
Couldn't agree more. Adding on :
It's critical to instill a sense of purpose in the initial members right from the start. Have a strong narrative and motive and encourage member participation as much as you can.
Successful communities build trust from the start.
Set expectations, follow through on habits, show up, talk to members, ask for feedback and communicate changes before they happen.
Every single second of this video is HIGH VALUE for anyone looking to guage where the world is headed in the next few years.
With
@waitin4agi_
Feat.
@EMostaque
3/4
Here, enthusiasts could share ideas of what megasets they wanted LEGO to manufacture. Fans can upvote ideas they like and after the product team vets it, it goes into production. The idea-giver also gets 1% royalties from sales.
6/6 The question you should ask is "Why should I NOT drop out?".
Try fixing the problem - only when you've tried everything in the book, should you truly even CONSIDER dropping out.
College does have perks - evaluate those.
Dropping out should be your LAST RESORT.
Thoughts?
"cityscape with a bowl of ramen in comic style" - was the text input. Click "Generate".
Generated in 5 seconds by
@OpenAI
powered DALL-E.
Static visual creators will become obsolete in a few years. No more illustrators, graphic designers, comic book sketchers, 3d illustrators.
Excited to share a success story from our entrepreneurship track
@100xengineers
.
@muzicorn
has just launched Sally, an AI SDR.
It is one of the most effective AI agents I’ve used for SDRs.
Upvote Sally on the product hunt and get a free one-month trial!
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One of my serious hobbies has been music. I write songs and play them at cafes, pubs and music festivals.
In 2019, I wanted to go all-in on music and play as many shows as possible in one year.
So I made a plan!
We are excited to introduce Stable Fast 3D, Stability AI’s latest breakthrough in 3D asset generation technology. This innovative model transforms a single input image into a detailed 3D asset in just 0.5 seconds, setting a new standard for speed and quality in the field of 3D
Attention all Community Managers
We've launched the ultimate community building playbook - Community Masters. If you're looking to take your community from 0-1 and scale it, this is your guide.
Tag someone who needs this.
Authors :
@el28n
&
@VarunMayya
1/4
LEGO realised that they had a thriving audience who loved building their painstakingly intricate sets. It took hours to build but it gave people great satisfaction.
Step 2 :
Make a 'pitch deck' and call em them one by one to pitch myself as an artist.
My calls went smth like, "Hi, I'm Sid - a singer-songwriter. I was wondering if you could take a look at my music profile and give me a slot at your venue."
25 calls in - ZERO conversions.
The Managers didn't seem to take me seriously enough. I knew something was wrong.
So I changed the narrative to command more 'authority' and look 'more professional.
I decided to fabricate a story! Here's the new plan.
Last week, me and 300 people in Bengaluru had the best party ever.
We met, ate, drank, and danced.
Why? Just for the heck of it!
This is the power of bringing people together.