Ryan Kulp 🇺🇸
@ryanckulp
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musician / tech bro hacking on @usetrmnl and @forkequity . you can Google my laurels or just visit Kulp Estates.
50 acre ranch
Joined November 2009
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there used to be 2 choices -- stay informed (but distracted), or ignore the world (and miss out).
introducing TRMNL: the e-ink antidote to notification chaos, keeping you up to date and focused at the same time.
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영어는 해도 영어 이메일은 못하는 여러분에게 선물 가져왔습니다. 올해 5월 초 책 전부를 공개할게요.
영어 이메일을 잘 쓰고 싶다면 오늘! 여기서! 무료로 다운받고 Sincerely 그만 쓰세요~
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.
@YouTube
thinks they'll get away with mass censorship thanks to "vendor lock-in."
luckily there's a way to migrate all your content in 1 click at .
proud to present this in collaboration w/
@culttture
,
@ali
, and
@bitchute
. enjoy!
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SaaS pricing lifecycle:
1. launch @ $19 (free sucks!)
2. ship 100+ features, raise to $49
3. add "starter" tier (< $49) and "enterprise" tier (> $49)
4. introduce free plan
reads kinda stupid but the strategy is actually savage AF
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tip for startup founders:
early days, YOU are the most excited about the product. nobody else cares. YOUR motiviation keeps you going.
later on, CUSTOMERS are the most excited about the product. you become apathetic. THEIR encouragement keeps you going.
thus...
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my new course, "How to Buy, Grow, and Sell Small Businesses," is now live and 50% off for the first 25 students.
(click 'view curriculum' to activate coupon)
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dear employees,
it's time to become an owner.
introducing Founder/Hacker -- learn to code, stop making excuses.
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it's official. i'm a FREAK
s/o to
@PRINTMYMINT
for the sweet sweet 10th edition
@JungleFreaksNFT
moon LFG
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this is what Kanye West meant when he said slavery is a choice
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everything by
@nntaleb
. each loop = 1% absorbed
Sometimes the best books to read are ones you've already read.
What book do you find yourself wanting to re-read?
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i'm restarting my twitter with a real profile pic and a tighter focus on sharing what i know:
- SaaS
- entrepreneurship
- lifestyle
let the games begin
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holy crap - i bought a few old LIFE magazines (this is July 25, 1969) and…
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offer for my followers... share me a product idea and i'll build an MVP in a few hours on a live stream. will also give you the code, it's your project.
(if this sounds interesting i'll create a submission form)
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considering launching a new course: How to Buy Small Companies
curriculum would include:
* deal flow sources
* template acquisition agreements
* diligence checklist
* negotiation tactics
* email scripts
* financing strategies
what else? is this something you'd pay for?
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i just bought a General Admission ($50) ticket but am in Korea, so i can't go
if Jack's team will allow a transfer, i'm happy to give it away to whoever can definitely make it tonight. otherwise just happy to support
first DC resident to reply here - i'll send your way.
TEN tickets left
That's it
Amanda and I will see you tonight in DC
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some personal + professional news -- we sold Fomo!
🧵
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how to make money on Twitter:
1. create something great that costs $$
2. tweet it ONCE and pin it to your profile
3. live life, sharing jokes / startup ideas
4. profit
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every single project for sale on
@microacquire
has 1 thing in common.
"Growth Opportunity: Hire sales team"
then why didn't you try it bro?
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for real though —
any mediocre dev (see: me) could build 10-20 micro saas that make $200-300 /month each, then do whatever the hell you want for the rest of your life.
each app will take 1-3 days to build and 1/3 will “work,” so your ticket to freedom is 6-12 months tops
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my
#buildsell30
hackathon mission is complete!
in 17 days i built an app, grew the user base, earned revenue, and sold it on
@microacquire
.
below is a detailed recap, enjoy
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we invented something at Fomo called "growth engineering missions," where every few months i assign each developer a mktg campaign that exclusively leverages their coding chops (no copywriting, ads, email, sales, etc).
should i blog about this? we've done ~40 missions since '17.
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why buy a house when i can live at 15 houses in cities and mountains and beaches every 12 months?
why commit to a 30 year mortgage and "settle down" when the key ingredient of progress is movement?
why suffer poor seasons (summer in ATX, winter in NYC) when i can chase Spring?
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years ago while scanning a check as a mobile deposit to my bank, i accidentally typed in a value $1 greater than was written. deposit went through fine.
have since thought many times about the implications.
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exciting news: i'm retiring from Fomo. say hello to our new CEO.
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a month ago i enrolled in an SEO course and watched ~30 lectures while taking notes.
last weekend i built + deployed a niche content SEO project (in Korean) with 5,800 pages. soon will be 20k+ pages.
let the games begin
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one of our Shopify apps, Cross Sell, is just a couple months away from minting its first million
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if the Elites were actually trying to save us instead of control us, disobeying their orders would yield disappointment, not anger
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just bought this container home. arrives in a couple months.
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our Hacker House is getting air conditioning this week.
still have a handful of tasks before it's livable, but if anybody wants to pre book a visit for $50 /night (70%+ discount), lemme know!
amenities:
- airport shuttle (no car rental necessary)
- stocked groceries
- fire
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a great finance book, reco'd by
@BryanBeshore
(i think?), is The Outsiders.
walks through 8 CEO/CFOs who literally used financial wizardry to massively grow their company.
to be honest i did not respect finance until i read this book.
non-aff link:
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thanks to YOU we broke $10,000 in < 12 hours.
next up:
- web scraping
- MVC
- javascript
- rails
- heroku
- etc
it's time to own.
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hey everyone! excited to share my latest tell-all.
if you don't have time to read, summary is "don't compete with Ryan Kulp"
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ok folks --
narrowed down SEVENTY FOUR of your startup / app / product ideas and ranked all of them by "tech - marketing - pain" from 1 to 10.
ideas w/ the highest total score (30 max) get first priority.
i'll begin building in a few days and post a live stream link here.
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looks like
@kurteichenwald
finally updated his avatar to what he really looks like. thanks
@Cernovich
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my woman isn't feeling great so she's taking a nap.
i asked if i could do anything for her (soup - shut blinds - etc) and she said, "can you answer the last support ticket in my inbox?"
that's when i knew she was the one
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last year i started rethinking everything re wealth building
- why build apps when i can click 2 buttons a week on Robinhood?
- why iterate and fix bugs when i can make an info product in a week that sells forever?
- why buy a house when i can live in Airbnbs and stay agile?
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hey developers!
today i'm thrilled to introduce Git Paywall (), a marketing platform for developers.
easily collect emails or payments for source code, and we'll send repo invites automatically.
learn more here:
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for the first 2 years at fomo .com we had a phone number on the home page that rang my cell directly.
i always answered -- even at 2am - to help soccer moms install us on their wordpress.
now kids talk about "automated marketing," living in Thailand on $350 MRR.
suck it up
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i’ve been saying this about Asia for years. Charlie Munger agrees
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exactly 1 year ago my wife was buried in spreadsheets at her job in private equity.
2 days later, she quit and we got married.
last night she completed her first hackathon, submitting a decentralized app to
@blockstack
's "Can't be Evil" competition.
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it’s official — im live-streaming a new app build from start to finish tmrw (Thurs), starting at 10a ET.
will post the stream as a reply here so “like” to get notified
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this is incredible, thanks everyone.
tomorrow i'll eat a quadruple instead of triple burger (no bun)
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BREAKING: i spoke privately w/
@ColinKeeley
. he apologized and removed the Indie PE course.
in line with my word, all tweets about the situation have been removed.
"holding a grudge is like taking poison and expecting the other person to die."
let's get back to building
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@nateliason
you're talking about the Alpha Men accounts who never post pics of their body right
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hey soon-to-be programmers! i have an exciting announcement:
my coding course, Founder/Hacker, is now 100% free.
how to enroll + why i'm doing this👇
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my new 2020 annual goal is to accomplish all my annual goals by March 1, then chill. (not joking, join me)
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today in Medellín i went on a "Pablo Escobar" tour.
here's what i saw and learned:
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$1.3m valuation on $2k annual profit
650x multiple
seems low
🔥 New Startup Listed 🔥 SaaS | Load and Stress Tests for Website | $59.8k TTM revenue
✅ $59,887 in TTM revenue
✅ $2,000 in TTM profit
✅ $11,000 in revenue last month
✅ Competitors: K6, Blazemeter
Asking Price: $1,300,000
Contact the seller here:
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got married in my backyard + living room for < $10k.
- $3700 chairs / tables / gear rental (incl setup)
- $2000 dress (lol)
- $1500 catered buffet (no servers)
- $1200 bar tab (reception)
- $500 bartenders (pre ceremony, my house)
- $375 photographer
- $150 tuxedo rental
Quick question- how the FUCK do you have a wedding for less than $70k?
1K
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startup idea - google alerts for newsletters
backend subscribes to every substack, beehiv, top 50k wordpress blogs, etc. frontend supports keywords
i'd pay $19-39 /month
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so it was written, it shall be done
if you've ever wanted to learn another language, start today. because in a year or two i'm going to be tweeting in Korean and you're going to wonder WTF you did with all that time
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congrats to a Micro Acquisitions alum who bought his first SaaS app today -- you know who you are!
his playbook:
- seller side financing
- product is mashup of his 2 skillsets
- seller paid more to develop than he paid to acquire
- $$$ generating
- used our legal templates
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i just had one of those "this makes SO MUCH SENSE" ideas, perhaps my first after 10 years in tech. it's also among my top 3 best ideas of all time.
will start building today and remain vague until it's ready. hoooo-leeeee---crap stay tuned
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my Amazon review scraper is now live and open source!
it's simple, has < 100 lines of code, and is fetching thousands of reviews with no issues.
enlightened ones can check out the tutorial, dorks can go straight to the code:
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just listed my very last Shopify app on
@acquiredotcom
we built it ourselves (not an acquisition), it's tiny, but has basically no competition.
154 customers, $1200 MRR, stable, Rails + VueJS, couple hours /week support person running it (who comes with the sale)
$50k firm
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offer: i'll build your new product's MVP. will quote $6-10k and get it done in 7-10 days.
currently accepting up to 2 projects, then will hack + reinstate the experiment in a month if it was fun
DMs open for ~12 hours
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FIRE is a coping mechanism for salaried employee types who want the same rewards as entrepreneurs without the same risks
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over the next couple months im reverting to Ryan: 2017 Mode and shipping 3-5 new projects, mix of paid SaaS and open source. all it took was a long sabbatical in Korea to realize what im best at
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quick tip on in-app event tracking:
track events you want users to NOT do; if you see a high volume of them DOING it, build something that REDUCES the behavior.
... just one of many ways to build better products via negativa
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in exactly 30 days i went from “never thinking about crypto” to 5 mining rigs, 20 graphics cards, and now looking for a dedicated office to convert into a data center.
yes there will be a brand new youtube channel documenting
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just joined a coworking space in Medellin. $41 USD for 7 days. 24/7 access, great air conditioning, free coffee/water, etc.
oh and the whole process took < 90 seconds:
1. i want to join
2. credit card
3. here's the wifi password, there's the door
WeWork never stood a chance
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in the last 2 weeks
@forkequity
exited 3 projects via
@acquiredotcom
:
1. Micro Acquisitions, now Acquire Academy
2. Merge Freeze
3. Picture It
received offers for each project within 72 hours, money was all in the bank by yesterday.
will provide context on these deals soon!
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what SaaS app should i live stream next?
i can go 8-14 hours straight, doesn't matter. we'll buy a domain, write a spec, wireframe, deploy, integrate payments, 3rd party APIs, admin panel, etc.
so far i've done "new" ideas... would you prefer to see a clone of a popular app?
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every marketer when they try to find a technical co-founder at an industry event
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why the F* is everyone optimizing how to get a job, what job to have, how to negotiate a raise ?
optimize to *not* have a job. period
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the reason most agencies are full of S*** is because if they are "so good" at doing X they would do it themselves and shut down the agency
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80 million people saw Fomo notifications last month.
marketing budget:
- $350 /month on Google Ads (branded terms)
- $100 retargeting
- bare hands
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one of my life philosophies -- every day i do things that make me Stronger, Smarter, and Richer.
examples of each:
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not bad for a guy who taught himself to code. i'm the
#122
top
@ProductHunt
maker of all time.
#shipping
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one of the best pieces i've read all year.
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really getting sick of the "maker" community. how about this: make MONEY. nobody needs your shitty apps
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projects i'm actively working on:
1. studying Korean
2. running a film studio
3. launching an NFT
4. recording an album
5. youtube content
6. k-pop newsletter
7. weekly radio segment
8. tv show co-star
9. korean board game
10. six-pack abs
11. crypto mining course
#retired
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introducing 24 Hour MVP, arguably my best course for soon-to-be SaaS founders.
enjoy
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have rich friends and never ever ever ask them for money. this is the path
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a lot of developers are wimps in real life because they’ve never had to eat what they kill.
programmers have the unique privilege of hating on people who sell, while at the same time collecting a paycheck from people who sell.
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there's a special place in hell for founders whose apps only allow login via "magic email links." nothing magical about switching tabs and getting distracted.
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.
@RyanHoliday
on
@noahkagan
's podcast just now:
"i got offered to be CMO of a big social network....
but i don't want to go to meetings, i don't want to sit in some guy's office who's 20 years older than me, telling me what to do...
so i said no"
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some Christian kids just came over to evangelize. i’m already a believer so we practiced Korean instead
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"Do you know what a foreign accent is? It’s a sign of bravery."
—Amy Chua
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want backlinks to your company? email all the SaaS products you subscribe to that their tool is great and you'd like to do a case study on their blog.
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영어는 해도 영어 이메일은 못하는 여러분에게 선물 가져왔습니다.
영어 이메일을 잘 쓰고 싶다면 여기! 이 링크를 통해 구매하세요.
(그리고 이제 Sincerely 그만 쓰세요~)
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building a successful startup is the process of **transferring your enthusiasm and vision to thousands of people as quickly as possible.**
(let "quickly" be 3-10 years)
you must operate under the assumption that you are a prophet. someday soon people will say "AhHh so smart!"
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drinks at this pool are $30. it doesn’t matter how lucky i’ve been in tech, paying that much is for Suckers.
introducing the Poor Man’s Sangria
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one benefit of putting my entire reputation on the line for my new company — which btw every founder should be willing to do — is that i can officially quit X if it doesn’t work out
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introducing 24 Hour MVP,
everything i've wanted to teach you since i learned to code and subsequently changed my life forever.
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built our first
@dishonestmktg
tool today...
Chrome extension that highlights marketing hyperbole on any website you browse, detects fake countdown timers, etc.
want it?
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my latest: an analysis of every "leaving San Francisco" post i could find. enjoy
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we’re kicking ass on Hacker News and top comment is a JS script to capitalize my sentences 😂
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woke up at 6:30a yesterday and coded until around 11p with only a short break for dinner.
app is done, just making a landing page and shipping next week
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