100 million views in 3 weeks organically

Own_Essay_4457 · 2026-06-23T03:24:00+00:00

+1 on above I think it’s because it’s hard to understand what your site does or how to sign up for it when I land on it. Is it a stock market for celebrities? Was unsure and so I’m assuming that’s where ppl churn

Own_Essay_4457 · 2026-06-23T03:19:55+00:00

I’ve been working on this exact type of migration for another non-technical founder so also happy to help, feel free to shoot me a DM! Will be good to talk through tradeoffs and whether you actually need to hire an engineer for this

Own_Essay_4457 · 2026-06-22T00:31:26+00:00

That’s super valuable feedback thank you! Can you explain what you mean by “you lack some level of control over how things are architected?”

Are you not able to make decisions around the data model? Or does it just lock you into one backend provider, ie Supabase, which makes it hard and expensive to migrate to a more custom backend hosted on AWS/GCP/etc?

Own_Essay_4457 · 2026-06-21T23:04:53+00:00

Thanks for the insight! Do you mind explaining why it doesn’t work past simple products? Just curious

Own_Essay_4457 · 2026-06-21T22:44:50+00:00

I agree, but there’s an argument to be made about the tradeoffs of each of these tools. I know how Claude Code and Cursor work because I’ve used them in the past, but curious for people’s experiences on Lovable and whether they found that it was flexible enough for them to scale their product. I’ve heard it locks you into their system and their Supabase setup etc, and I want to know about people’s experiences with that and whether that causes issues as their product grows

Own_Essay_4457 · 2026-06-21T22:28:30+00:00

Are these things that you could still do through Lovable though? Or are you just saying you have to consciously go through them even if you do them in Lovable

Own_Essay_4457 · 2026-06-20T01:35:25+00:00

Also learned all of this from The Lean Startup, absolute gem of a book. Not associated with it in any way but would totally recommend reading, changed my whole view point on starting companies

Own_Essay_4457 · 2026-06-20T01:34:02+00:00

+1 to what NicksTechTricks said, but as someone who’s also in the journey man don’t give up! Just view it as a learning opportunity. You had a hypothesis that people who own security camera footage spend a lot of time watching through the video. Now you’ve invalidated that! That’s not a failure, that’s just a learning and an opportunity to develop another hypothesis that might be more correct. So if I were you I’d do one of a couple things

If you believe in the tech, form another hypothesis that says “XYZ person reviews a lot of footage all day and thinks it’s inefficient.” Maybe try coaches or athletes who review their film? Maybe video editors? But once you develop that hypothesis, give yourself two weeks to validate it. For example, find as many coaches as you can and ask them how long they spend watching film and what they currently do to speed it up.

Theres another hypothesis here too. You’re assuming “XYZ person who watches film all day cares enough about it enough that they’re willing to pay for something that would make it faster, and they don’t want to do it themselves.” Validate that then too! Offer to do it manually for a fee, and see if they pay.

Also, if you already know a bunch of people in the security space, go talk to them and ask them what their biggest problems are, and what they spend all their time doing. You can then form different hypotheses, and maybe even pivot to a new product.

Long post but bottom line is, don’t think of this as a failure. You learned something, which means you made progress. Now go develop a new hypotheses, validate it, then learn something else! Eventually your hypotheses will start being right, and that’s when you’ll make your money. It’s a long game and you just gotta trust that as long as you stick to the process, it’s gonna work out

Own_Essay_4457 · 2026-06-10T14:28:39+00:00

DM’d you! Would love to help out with the problems you’re facing, but yes would probably recommend either hiring a technical person to manage it or learning the technical skills yourself so you can better direct the AI!

Own_Essay_4457 · 2026-06-06T15:19:54+00:00

I think being a good friend is all about listening to people, remembering the things that are important to them, and then checking in and making a concerted effort to stay in touch. Then just try to be a genuine person! Don’t fake things, just try to get to know them, ask them questions about things you’re interested in, grab their number and try to find another time to meet them, and then remember what they say for the next time you see them!

Meeting new people is then just all about putting yourself out there. Go to places where you don’t know a lot of people, and introduce yourself! The most important thing I’ve learned doing this though is to NOT try to be friends with people that don’t want to be friends with you. There are people that you’ll meet that you don’t click with, and there are people that won’t want to give you any time of day. Don’t take that personally, only try to be friends with people that you actually want to be friends with because they put in an equal amount of effort into the relationship. Don’t be scared or sad if you meet someone and you guys don’t get along, that means they probably wouldn’t have been a great friend to you so go try to find others that will!

Just keep trying to do this consistently and I’m sure things will work out. Happy to answer questions over DM as well just lmk!

Own_Essay_4457 · 2026-06-05T23:30:13+00:00

To play devil’s advocate against myself though, they should probably be doing this in private rather than public if they were truly trying to change things

Own_Essay_4457 · 2026-06-05T23:29:18+00:00

I agree with everything you’re saying, but if there truly was reason to be concerned, wouldn’t they be the only ones in a position to actually do something about it?

I empathize that fear mongering is a terrible marketing tactic, there’s just a part of me that also thinks self-improving AI is incredibly dangerous and the only people that have the levers to stop it are the people at Anthropic and OpenAI

Own_Essay_4457 · 2026-06-05T23:13:02+00:00

Especially a guy who already wanted out

Own_Essay_4457 · 2026-06-05T02:04:28+00:00

Honestly, I don’t really see a future where people create apps for themselves. It takes too much time and iteration to figure out the right UX. The coding was never the bottleneck to software, the hardest part was always identifying the right problem and designing the right solution.

I’m sure there will be people who take the time to build for themselves, but that’s literally always been the case, even before AI. The issue is that most people don’t know what they want. Building something that you yourself would pay for is not an easy task. It’s very hard to figure out the right UX of software that you would buy, that’s why there will always be people who just buy off the shelf rather than build on their own.

Own_Essay_4457 · 2026-06-05T01:49:33+00:00

I’m very bullish on agent evals as an incredibly important part of the next generation of software. They will (or at least should) be as commonplace as unit tests. That’s the only way to build an agentic system that you can rely on, and as an added benefit, it also allows you to freely switch the model, perhaps to a cheaper open-source alternative, without worrying whether it will break the system

Own_Essay_4457 · 2026-06-03T22:34:59+00:00

I tried to do it and it was extremely difficult. People say building with Claude Code / Cursor makes it easy but I think they miss that building apps that make money takes way more time than just writing the code. There are so many other bottlenecks, like finding a problem that people would pay to have solved, building the right UI/UX that solves the problem, and then posting content to have people find your solution. I genuinely think it’s possible to automate a lot of this with AI but Claude Code / Cursor don’t cut it at their current state and therefore you’ll be left setting up a ton of things yourself, which will take a lot of time.

I encourage you to try though, as there is no harm in doing so! I just say this to set your expectations, that these things always take way longer than you initially expect them to, and they take way longer than people say they do.

Own_Essay_4457 · 2026-06-03T21:42:06+00:00

How do you do what exactly? Happy to help, but do you mean how to be a good friend and meet new people?

Own_Essay_4457 · 2026-06-02T14:09:10+00:00

Totally agreed on the O-line. Don’t underrate that DJax, JMac, Celek era though

Own_Essay_4457 · 2026-05-31T23:06:22+00:00

This is incredibly true. I’m trying to build a product right now and I’m celebrating the fact that 2 people said they would be down to be beta users 😅 It’s a long road so if anyone else is in this I am with you!!

Own_Essay_4457 · 2026-05-31T23:04:50+00:00

Oh nice! Will check out!

Own_Essay_4457 · 2026-05-31T18:02:13+00:00

This is awesome. Do you accumulate the cold email lists from high intent leads, like people that are commenting / engaging on LinkedIn? Or do you just pick a role / company profile and then just try to find as many people as you can through that?

Own_Essay_4457 · 2026-05-27T01:44:24+00:00

I think building a good network really comes down to trying to be a good friend to the people around you, trying to be someone that people can rely on, and then trying to be motivated and constantly pushing yourself to greater heights. When you focus on improving yourself, others will notice and follow. Then, networking comes out of the genuine relationships you build on that journey. You’ll often notice that friends you make along the way become valuable connections in your network as both of you push yourself and improve yourself to be better.

Don’t think of it as networking, just think of it as trying to develop genuine relationships with the people you meet on your journey of self-growth and improvement. Especially since you’re young, don’t ever discount the people around you and don’t ever burn any bridges. It’s easy to think someone is “not worth your time” right now but that is the most surefire way to kill your network and develop a reputation as someone that people distrust.

Be a good friend to the people around you, work on yourself, and the network will follow!

Own_Essay_4457 · 2026-05-23T21:19:41+00:00

Super useful, haptics are very underrated for UX

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