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John Shahawy

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@johnbuilds
John Shahawy
3 months
i’m asking you to do one thing well and see how it changes your life
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@johnbuilds
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1 year
Google just killed google domains. Amazing. It’s so on brand that it’s like they don’t realize the strategic value of building a brand that supports its customers 🤦‍♂️
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the world if useEffect didn't fire twice in dev
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anyone who says "i can build this in a weekend" 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩
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1 year
@anothercohen 1. it was carbon fiber (probably the problem) 2. i doubt they were trapped for long 😢
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@johnbuilds
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2 months
@samuel_colvin @NASA @pydantic @KPMG kpmg is charging nasa by the hour for this. irresponsible for the government to sign off on this kind of approach by them. i guarantee the deliverable is a color coded spreadsheet. smh
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@johnbuilds
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1 year
Just got laid off from Reddit this morning with no notice. I was the person in charge of API monetization. If you know anyone who has APIs or money, please connect me 🙏
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@johnbuilds
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2 years
The next version of GPT3 was just released. I don’t wanna sound dramatic but…it’s gonna take your job soon
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1 year
No offense but your whole product is a weekend project for me. You should do better
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@johnbuilds
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8 months
@venturetwins i saw a fine tuned OS model yesterday that basically responded to everything with “ok i’ll do that in a few minutes” then never did the task 💀 the good news is it’s really easy to curate these out of a data set these days
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@johnbuilds
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2 years
Moonbeam just hit ✨ $8,333 ✨ MRR. Not too bad for an app that started out as a side project 🙈
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@johnbuilds
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2 years
I started building Moonbeam in public in July(!!!) with the goal of getting 100 paying users in 100 days. Moonbeam got 100 paying users in 1 day (today) 🤯🤯
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@johnbuilds
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2 years
@Jason Getting rid of the bots wasn't actually a hard technical problem, just a hard problem for shareholders to swallow (mDAUs were ~50% of what was advertised). No wonder advertising ROI is way up since @elonmusk took over.
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@ylecun i feel like if you put enough of the “safety” people in a room together, it creates an echo chamber. glad you are standing up to this 🗑️ narrative
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2 years
You're sleeping on just how much AI will change the writing world. Moonbeam will have more impact than the typewriter when it comes to sharing the written word.
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6 months
@anothercohen you can remote start it without this thanks to their many cybersecurity oversights
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@johnbuilds
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1 year
@_buf Used to be google. Now it’ll be cloudflare
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2 years
@elonmusk This is why I refuse to invest in Coca Cola. I hate Dasani.
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1 year
@mannupaaji @aleksliving Google will “kill” your app then commit suicide 6 months later
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@johnbuilds
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2 years
just sent an email to thousands of people w/ no link on the button. AMA 🥲
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@johnbuilds
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2 years
Just bought a domain I’ll never use. Ask me anything.
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@johnbuilds
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2 years
This is pretty nuts. 477 active users in Moonbeam so far ... TODAY 👻
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2 years
@DavidSacks Lithuania didn’t completely block transport, right? Just blocked transport of sanctioned materials.
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2 years
Houston, we have MRR.
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9 months
The problem with hiring people from big companies is they are used to working on a feature per year. I’m trying to ship a feature per day 🤣
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@johnbuilds
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1 year
Best way to detect GPT-3 generated text right now: ctrl+f “furthermore” 🤣
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2 years
@paulg Interesting take. Should they list grammarly? What is the line?
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2 years
@elonmusk Are they ESG approved though?
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1 year
Startup rule #20 : Think twice about launching a product with ARPU < $100.
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2 years
Can’t believe @elonmusk is going to auction off inactive handles 🤯 Great move
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@johnbuilds
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2 years
They call me 007. 0 marketing 0 paid users 7 features that I personally use daily 😂
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1 year
one of the biggest mysteries in life is how supabase only costs $25/project
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2 years
@jbrowder1 @donotpay AI Agents talking to AI Agents.
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10 months
@natfalconi ask them to put the ac unit back and you'll give them their security deposit. they upgraded bc it gets hot, your next tenant will thank you 🤣
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1 year
normalize banning users who dispute payments
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@jbrowder1 @donotpay If you didn’t run @donotpay what would make your trust your co enough to do this as a consumer?
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9 months
do i know any killer web/app designers? has to be a US citizen.
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1 year
@JonErlichman this is like 7 figures in 2023 dollars
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1 year
@paulg Harvard and 30u30 are both pay to play, so this checks out
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6 months
@andykreed if you choose black and decker that means you’re a mom.
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1 year
Is elasticsearch still the best way to index and search a lot of data or is there a better way?
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John Shahawy
2 years
is now using the new GPT3 model. Go tell me if I’m being dramatic lol
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2 years
@DavidSacks Lithuania as a sovereign country is completely within its rights to deny transit over rails to Russia.
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1 year
@Retro_Omega_ "it's just a joke"
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@johnbuilds
John Shahawy
2 years
Moonbeam's October update: 📈 6,808 new users. 💰 Switched to a $1 7-day trial from the free plan. 🔥 16,751 pieces of long-form content were created using Moonbeam in the last 30 days.
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@johnbuilds
John Shahawy
11 months
Hot take: if you can’t afford a $5/mo infra bill you should probably just shut down your app
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@johnbuilds
John Shahawy
2 years
My wife looked at moonbeams website for the first time yesterday. Her first thought: “why are people signing up for this? Your site is so bad” 😂
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@johnbuilds
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1 year
Have you considered increasing revenue and decreasing churn?
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@johnbuilds
John Shahawy
2 years
🥳🥳🥳 just hit 1000 users for Moonbeam!!!!! Had the idea on July 7. Launched July 15. Built like crazy the whole time. What a crazy three months it's been.
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1 year
I launched @gomoonbeam after one week of prototyping. I don't know if I could’ve started as fast as I did without @stripe . I’m so excited about the future of AI—this is just the beginning.
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@johnbuilds
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2 years
Introducing... ASK LUNA. 's competitor to google search. Ask Luna anything you're curious about (or tell her to write you something) and get personalized results right away.
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@johnbuilds
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@PalmerLuckey Real communism has never been tried
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1 year
@olliethedev I don’t mean it in a bad way. I just see this advice all the time and I don’t think most ppl who are giving it have ever done it, just repeating what they see. It should be inspirational. You’re right in spirit, talk to users and build what they want 💪
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@Sourlemon33 @natfalconi They left a hole in the wall, leaving the unit is a good compromise imo 😂
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1 year
@olliethedev then why are you giving advice on how to build products? do it yourself first
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1 year
@GuyDealership grand wagoneer is objectively ugly
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2 months
@annaarthoe thank you —- it’s actually because i don’t know how to punctuate properly
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1 year
@brianbreslin Same. Super annoying. Idk why I thought it wouldn’t happen
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1 year
@AndrewJDavison @zapier OpenAI's ability to consume OpenAPI documents to create an integration makes buying Zapier unnecessary in the long run imo
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1 year
Is ai overrated?
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1 year
You right-click save. I right-click summarize. We are not the same.
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1 year
I just hired a fractional CMO for $20/mo ask me anything
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@johnbuilds
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2 years
@bentossell moonbeam for writing just about anything I care about other people reading :)
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@johnbuilds
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2 years
My guilty pleasure is shipping features the same day a customer asks for them.
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2 years
@shehackspurple Where you password protect your resume when you submit a job application 🔐
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1 year
@SwissDevJobs componentdidmount was a better api
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@johnbuilds
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11 months
I’m a simple guy. I see someone building hard tech and I follow. 🇺🇸
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1 year
@PhyzikWarbell It’s true
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2 years
@TrungTPhan $39m for 5 months + 7 years of work. Still not a bad payday
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10 months
@VicVijayakumar The best PMs have a strong engineering background 💪
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John Shahawy
1 year
someone needs to make an LLM for this
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10 months
@DeanPreston Have you considered enforcing the law?
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2 years
ChatGPT and GPT have a very distinct and wordy style that is very recognizable if you talk to them enough. A lot of my time is spent training this out of @gomoonbeam ’s AI
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1 year
how to get rich step 1: build something ppl are desperate for step 2: charge them for access
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1 year
Moonbeam's MRR is growing 10%/week. Probably nothing 😉
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1 year
@soundboy Instantly the highest concentration of spies and saboteurs in the world per capita
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1 year
hard pills to swallow 💊: having 20k people signed up for your "waitlist" is NOT the same validation as having 10 paying users.
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1 year
Gpt in apps > gpt as apps
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We’re building a new feature for Stripe Radar. 📡 You’ll soon be able to use natural language to create complex fraud prevention rules.
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2 years
Moonbeam's chrome extension got a BIG update. You can ask any website questions now, and the AI will answer them :) This is the first not-crappy version 😂 👀 the extension telling me what a C++ island is instead of an island in the Caribbean 🤌
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@frantzfries did slack hire the whatsapp designer? 🤣
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@TiagoSilvaHQ Smart lol idk why I thought this would be different 🤦‍♂️
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2 months
@danshipper thank god
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3 months
going on a hunger strike until gpt5 (llama 405b) is released
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1 year
@rileyhennigh is this a webflow ad? 🤣
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@dvassallo if you're just doing i/o that's fine. any kind of computation, and you wont see anywhere close to this #
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2 years
Sheeeit 🔥
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If there are breaks on this train I haven't found them 🤷‍♂️
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@olliethedev do you make enough sales to live off of the links in your bio?
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@VicVijayakumar lol we may or may not do this with govt "partners"
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@thomkrupa gatsby was never good, because graphql was never good i'm glad graphql is dead now
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2 years
@RandallKanna Leetcode is such a waste of time. I just wish everyone studying for those type interviews would use that time to build something instead. When I got started w/ software dev, I worked for free/pennies until I got good enough to actually charge for my work.
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2 years
@levelsio If you have 20+ pics on the internet (or a video) this can happen already tbh
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@johnbuilds
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2 years
Introducing... ASK LUNA. 's competitor to google search. Ask Luna anything you're curious about (or tell her to write you something) and get personalized results right away.
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@eshear @lyft amazingly this is pretty easy to detect and put an end to 😂 surprising it still happens in 2023
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7 months
@KennethCassel eu is worried about eu things bc amazon and irobot both do biz in the eu. ignoring them would mean they have to exit the EU. annoying when this happens
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@johnbuilds
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1 year
Do I know any UI developers looking for a cool (paid) project to work on? 👀 *have to be a US citizen
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1 year
Notice how apple didn’t talk about AI at all when they announced the vision pro? Even though it’s spiced all thru the product? That’s the future, your customer is not going to care. They just expect a good experience.
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2 years
Update on @gomoonbeam 's usage. 14.8% of users activated up from less than 3 percent a month ago. 🔥🔥
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