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In 2008, Wade Wallace found himself living in Australia and laid off from the company that moved him there in the first place.
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Weekly transcriptions of founder interviews and business deep dives from YouTube, shared for personal study.
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Presh has built 3 niche health tracking apps. This video breaks down his philosophy of building for problems you personally experience and why health and wellness niches create sustainable app busine…- Published on
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Gil is a developer who left the VC-backed world to bootstrap his own app. He has a simple playbook for building apps: pre-sell first and THEN build.- Published on
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There was a time 20 years ago where if you filmed a horror movie on a tight enough budget, you could plausibly turn a profit from the DVD sales alone.- Published on
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Xinran is a top AI instructor who has taught 100s of product teams how to design and prototype with AI.- Published on
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Loïc Berthelot has co-founded 3 success SaaS apps using the same playbook. This video breaks down what that playbook is and how he used to to grow his apps to over $35K MRR each.- Published on
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Gemini 3 and Replit Design Mode is the best AI designer that I’ve ever seen.- Published on
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When Tomiwa Aladekomo took over Big Cabal Media eight years ago, the company was little more than two promising publications that were read mostly within Nigeria.- Published on
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Anton built a note-taking app that is designed to be simple and easy to use. This video breaks down his simple product philosophy and how focusing on design and UX created a product users love.- Published on
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Tanay is the CEO and co-founder of Wispr Flow, my favorite app to dictate to AI 10x faster than typing.- Published on
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In this video, Rob Walling breaks down 6 real reasons your MVP flopped from solving the wrong problem to over-promising what your product can’t yet deliver, and shows you exactly how to fix each one.- Published on
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These days, every audio podcast has an accompanying video podcast, but Jefferson Graham was hosting video podcasts before the term even existed.- Published on
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Jack and Nick are two brothers who turned their obsession with breathwork into a niche mobile app. But here's what they did different: they validated their idea with content before writing a single l…- Published on
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If you attend any media industry conference, you’ll hear lots of discussions from publishers about how they’re trying to diversify their revenue streams, but Todd Scott took the opposite approach.- Published on
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Eyal and Yahli Hazan built an app that was stuck at $2K MRR for months. The problem? Their app simply wasn't good enough...- Published on
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As the head of design at Cursor, Ryo is at the cutting edge of designers who ship code instead of mocks.- Published on
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Pontus Abrahamsson had a crazy idea on his flight to France.- Published on
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Francesca Donner has had a somewhat unusual journalism career in that she never aspired to be a reporter or have her own bylines; instead, she started out her career as an editor and rose through the…- Published on
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Julian Gargicevich discovered a fitness app that was crushing it, but when he tried it, he thought: " Maybe I can build something better." He built his MVP in 2 months, posted it on Reddit, and his a…- Published on
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I tested OpenAI Atlas, Perplexity Comet, and Dia for 6 practical use cases including researching topics, synthesizing info across tabs, managing emails, and more.