Jakob Greenfeld
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All of my big successes had one thing in common:
I acted without asking for permission.
Here's the story of how a tiny mindset shift unlocked a whole new world of opportunities.
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The number of times a chatbot on a website was able to help me is zero.
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Wrote an AI agent that scours the web for pain points, then rates them for their monetization potential and difficulty to solve.
Not perfect but already surprisingly useful in surfacing interesting problems.
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Gotta respect Elon for toying with a 44B assets like it was a $120 MRR indie hacker project.
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Unfollow: content creators, coaches, thinkers, framework guys, writers.
Follow: doers, founders, people actually building and doing interesting things.
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Trung Phan managed to grow his Twitter following by 300k in just one year.
I spent 10 hours studying how he did it.
Here's everything I learned.
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Stop listening to guys who won the startup lottery once 20 years ago and are now full-time philosophers/writers/speakers.
They've long forgotten what it's like to get something off the ground with hardly any money to your name.
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Everyone wants to create AI generated content.
No one wants to consume AI generated content.
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"Make an image of a cold shower coach helping a client shower cold"
Every 10 likes I'll make them shower colder.
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Spent the past five hours researching Gumroad products.
This is my summary.
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seems like the golden age of building in public is over
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This is an ad.
There is no guy.
I hired a guy who took his last company's sales from $1M to $17M.
His secret weapon? ZoomInfo.
Bet you didn't know ZoomInfo can do all this 👇
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Sahil Bloom grew from 0 to 500k followers in less than two years.
This allowed him to quit his job and he's now at 5x what he was making as a VC.
Here's everything I learned about how he operates his personal flywheel:
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Every agency gets stuck around $50k in monthly revenue.
There might be a few months were revenue goes up a bit. But then it quickly goes back down again.
I’ve been fascinated by this pattern for a while now. And I think I’ve finally figured out why this happens.
Let’s dive
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You can literally just ask for what you want.
In hotels, you can just say "Can we get a better room?"
You can write in the support chat “Hey, any chance we can get a discount?”
You can reach out to people and simply ask, "Would you like to chat?"
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GPT cheat codes that are working for me right now:
• "I will tip you $1000 if you get it done correctly."
• "Take a deep breath before answering."
• "A wrong reply will do great harm."
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A while ago I asked: Why is there no Shopify for SaaS?
Travis Fischer commented that he'd tried to build just that but it never really took off. I wanted to understand why and we scheduled a call.
Here's what I learned 👇
Spoiler: still convinced this is a huge opportunity.
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"Make an image of a sweaty startup founder"
Every 10 likes I'll make him sweatier.
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Inspired by
@ShaanVP
I recently changed my content strategy, and it definitely works.
In a nutshell:
• focus on "blockbusters", Twitter is hit-driven, consistency is overrated
• always start with a viral emotion - WOW, LOL, WTF, AWW, EPIC, NSFW, OHH, FINALLY
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Running thread of examples that prove that money is truly everywhere:
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Has anyone properly A/B tested Typeform vs. ugly standard forms.
Gut says, ugly performs better.
I don't like filling out Typeforms myself. Too cute. Can't see at a single glance what info is required. No easy jumping around.
But would love to see some data.
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People keep talking about distribution/marketing and how you need to figure it out before obsessing about your product.
But it's really not that complicated.
B2B: send cold emails.
B2C: run Meta ads.
If people buy, you're in business. If not, time to move on.
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I recently discovered a simple (but not easy) step-by-step process that tripled by personal productivity and made me happier along the way.
It costs $0 and no, it's not some note-taking or to-do list system.
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TIL someone made more than $500k from a single PowerPoint template 🤯
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so did some research today and learned:
🧱 there is a guy who calls himself The Lego Man,
💵 who charges ~$50/month for his paid community, dedicated to seeing "Lego as an alternative asset class",
🤯 and has 200+ paying members.
💰 $10k+ in monthly revenue.
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I wrote something new this morning.
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I recently discovered the ultimate, secret productivity hack.
Each morning sit down with a notebook and decide what to do. Then do it.
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My open rate tanked when I first introduced ads in my newsletter.
Maybe gmail checks if an email contains the word “Sponsored by” and then puts it in the promotion folder?
I changed “Sponsored by” to “Brought to you by” and the open rate is back up to its original level.
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I’ve recently talked to a several people I haven’t talked to in more than 2 years.
The one thing that stood out for me was that basically everyone is still playing the exact same game on the exact same level.
Many that were indie hacking 2 years ago - building little projects
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life is 10x more fun if you learn to make decisions fast
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One of the best things I recently did:
Unfollow people whose main focus is creating content and follow more people actually building interesting stuff.
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I 100% buy into the theory that there's a direct correlation between a person's success and how fast they reply to messages.
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Ship it or delete it.
Seriously. Do yourself a favor and close that open loop.
Open loops quietly running in the background of your mind are taking up a ton of mental bandwidth.
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I discovered an incredible niche hidden in plain sight.
Clever entrepreneurs are already exploiting it and rake in $30k+/month with very simple products.
The good news is there's still plenty of room.
In this thread I reveal all my findings and an actionable plan:
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Pieter's one big superpower is a seemingly infinite reservoir of IDGAF energy.
He just keeps shipping and posting whatever he wants.
Everyone else is paralyzed by past failures, past successes, or the pursuit of finding that one grand idea.
Here's my conversation with Pieter Levels (
@levelsio
), self-taught developer and entrepreneur who designed, programmed, shipped, and ran over 40 startups, many of which are hugely successful. In most cases, he did it all by himself, while living the digital nomad life in over 40
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I’ve started using a new process to write tweets.
Takes roughly 30 minutes to produce a month's worth of tweets.
It’s simple, fun and all tweets are my own thoughts and in my own voice.
Now looking for 5 beta testers. Comment below if you're interested in testing it.
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I see a ton of people stuck inside boxes like SaaS, solopreneurship, or indie hacking.
They ignore anything that’s not a software idea or that would require a team or funding.
Most would be 10x farther ahead if they ignored these superfluous constraints.
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Creativity is a superpower.
But most people suck at it because no one ever told them that it’s something you learn.
Here are 8 actionable frameworks to level up your creativity:
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Whenever I see someone posting something like this
I check if they sell coaching themselves
and they always do.
My business coach charges $5,000/hour.
And to tell you the truth... it's a great deal.
Good coaching literally makes you money. Here's my story:
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Yesterday I spent 5 hours studying trends and brainstorming business ideas.
Here are 8 amazing ideas, frameworks, and trends (that you probably haven’t heard of):
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This quote by
@awilkinson
inspired me to build Product Explorer.
I just launched my first real product on Product Hunt:
Product Explorer: A database of 15k+ products for makers and indie investors
Any feedback is greatly appreciated!
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I'm not sure what's going on over at Indie Hackers but this doesn't look good to me.
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The more polished the personal website the higher the odds you are dealing with a grifter/charlatan.
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I haven’t made much progress recently.
My biggest mistake?
I focused on too many things at the same time.
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Testing another one that searches for trends, then brainstorms and categorizes opportunities at the intersection of them.
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My favorite recent experiment:
Offering micro consulting sessions.
• For $29 anyone can submit questions (web scraping, business ideas, newsletter growth, etc.)
• I'm answering them in a 5-10 minute long private video.
Super fun and the feedback so far has been incredible
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Here's roughly how I grew from 0 to 1400 followers in 4 months.
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We're finally starting to leave the amateur leagues.
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Remote work is cool and all but Ryan and I have been 10x more productive working in person.
In the 4 days we've been working together, ARR is on track to double from $80k to $160k.
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My favorite, underappreciated startup strategy is to start with an article MVP.
• Writing helps you understand the problem properly.
• Validate if people actually care and start conversations.
• If you can't get attention for a free article, you also won't for your product.
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Was a bit confused why I was getting hundreds of new followers today.
Just discovered the reason.
(Haven't looked at the comments yet 😬)
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Everyone wants a $10k MRR business but nobody wants to launch dozens of unsuccessful experiments, hop on calls with potential customers, or spend hours thinking their plans through.
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I'm increasingly convinced the idea that you have to niche down does more harm than good.
You need to be able to test tons of ideas freely and quickly since most will not work out.
But you can't do that if you put yourself into a box prematurely.
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My blog posts regularly go viral and are read by 100k+ people.
I'm able to do this thanks to one simple trick that allows me to consistently create content that resonates.
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Here's a tiny thing you can do to increase your luck surface area.
Add the line below to your bio. Had tons of cool people reach out to me since I added it.
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Crazy numbers today.
Really glad my blog is just a static site hosted on Github pages.
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“One man’s trash is another man’s treasure”
A thread about turning start-up failures into successful lifestyle businesses:
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The results from my first paid marketing experiment are in 👀
• What? An ad in a newsletter with 8000 subscribers.
• Price: $95
• Result: $250 in direct revenue plus 140 new free subscribers.
• Takeaway: More paid marketing!
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Yesterday I finally understood why I don’t enjoy most podcasts.
I was listening to the My First Million episode with Tony Robbins.
Shaan Puri is an amazing podcaster and Tony Robbins undoubtedly has incredible stories and insights to share.
So the episode could’ve been
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I put all 5000+ Google Maps business categories into Google Trends to see what kind of local businesses are taking off right now.
Here are surprising 5 trends that caught my eye:
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Finished for the first time a complete mvp before buying the domain.
Very proud of myself right now.
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Really wish there was more single purpose software.
Everyone is adding more and more half-broken features instead of doing just one thing really, really well.
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I rarely mention my own products because I'm afraid that some people will find this annoying.
But if I want to be more successful, I need to get over that fear and start promoting my products more shamelessly.
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wow I just learned that I'm one of the finalists for Product Hunt's Maker of the year award 🥳
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Fun way to generate business ideas:
• Head over to Upwork.
• Look for patterns in job posts.
• Brainstorm how to automate or productize common gigs.
• Reply to job posts by pitching your productized solution.
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Haven't launched anything in a while so I thought it's time for a fun weekend project.
Job Title List is a database of 4000+ job titles that can be filtered by search volume, growth, cost-per-click (for related Google ads), and country.
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My first idea was to use Zapier to create a Gumroad + Ghost paid newsletter. But wow, I had no idea just how expensive Zapier is:
- 200 signups/mo -> $24.99/mo
- 500 signups/mo -> $48.75/mo
Now switched to Integromat:
- 200 signups/mo -> free
- 500 signups/mo -> $9/mo
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If you're looking for a business idea, it makes a ton of sense to start by studying rapidly-growing markets.
THREAD: 5+ markets exploding right now (that you probably didn't consider before)
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I just launched something new 🚀
It's a super simple tool. But since I'm using it regularly myself, I thought others might find it useful as well.
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Close the laptop and relax until you know what to do.
You'll miss the best opportunities if you push buttons just to be busy or to consume intellectual junk food just to feel like you're learning.
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The biggest problem I've encountered since I started working for myself is that there's no guidemap you can use, just infinitely many options.
This makes it incredibly hard to stay focused.
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I just launched my first real product on Product Hunt:
Product Explorer: A database of 15k+ products for makers and indie investors
Any feedback is greatly appreciated!
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You've probably already heard that I sold Product Explorer to
@agazdecki
Here's the backstory and why I decided to sell 👇
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I’ve made the executive decision to start posting whatever whenever I feel like it.
No strategy, no scheduling. Just raw thoughts.
Let’s make Twitter fun again.
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Started sending out a few cold emails for my new project yesterday and just woke up to this.
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A smart way to build a profitable business is to take advantage of a rapidly growing trend using a well-proven playbook.
I just spent 2 hours going through my personal trend database.
Then I matched the most promising ones to my favorite playbooks.
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My podcast has no ROI as far as I can tell. No ads. No upsells. No calls-to-action.
The only reason I'm doing it is because it's so incredibly fun to brainstorm ideas with smart people.
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Here's a cheat code:
Instead of searching for "marketing strategies" search for "marketing strategies" + "we used" or "marketing strategies" + "I used".
Filters out all the fluff and what's left are genuinely useful earned insights.
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seriously insane how much you can get done in a day when you stop planning, thinking, and researching and just focus on doing stuff
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Reminder:
It is possible to be a successful entrepreneur without coming up with a completely new kind of software, service, or product.
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Yes, the Twitter algorithm has changed.
Yes, only a tiny fraction of your followers see your tweets.
But there's a positive side:
We can finally all stop acting like experts and start tweeting again like we did back when we had 100 followers.
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Really a shame that all content discovery is about what's NEW instead of what's GOOD.
There's so much gold hidden in podcast episodes and blog posts written 5 years ago but no one finds them anymore.
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Someone please reinvent magazines.
Would love to pay for a well-curated, nicely edited printout of newsletters, blog posts, and tweets.
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The biggest challenge with working for yourself is that there is absolutely no guidemap.
This makes it incredibly difficult to stay focused.
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I wish I had started exploring customer acquisition channels systematically from the start.
Would've been a much better way to spend my time than learning how to code.
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This is wild.
I took a thread that flopped last week and simply published it a second time. The only thing I changed is the first tweet.
• Last week, the thread got 45 likes and 9k impressions.
• Now with the improved hook, the thread got 800+ likes and reached 280k+ people.
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In the 14 days since I launched Product Explorer I've reached several milestones that I thought would take me at least a year:
✅ First dollar made
✅ $100 MRR
✅ $1000 MRR
✅ First Acquisition Offer
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Paul Graham wrote a 12,000-word mega essay on how to do great work but the essence of it is a small paragraph near the end:
"Curiosity is the best guide. Your curiosity never lies, and it knows more than you do about what’s worth paying attention to."
This is an incredibly
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Bad founders listen to podcasts
Good founders read books
Great founders talk to other founders
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SaaS businesses with unhappy users are a goldmine for savvy entrepreneurs.
Here's how to find them and what I learned researching 15,000+ businesses:
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🚀 My new project is finally ready to launch.
I wanted to understand who the most important/interesting people on my email list are.
Wasn't fun to go through my list manually, so I automated the process and now turned it into a tool anyone can use.
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Having a personal newsletter is such an unfair advantage.
My list is still tiny but every time I send an email amazing people reach out and offer feedback, encouragement, ideas, and help 🙏
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One year ago we packed everything we own into our tiny car and moved to Denmark.
In this thread, I'm collecting a few of my observations so far:
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