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22 | quit crypto to build podex with my brother. documenting all of it.

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We've been building something I'm actually scared to show people. I'm addicted to TikTok. You probably are too. Hours of scrolling every day, and I can't remember a single thing I watched. So we asked a simple question: what if the scroll stayed, but the content actually made your life better? It's called the Discovery page. You scroll it exactly like your For You page, with short videos and quick text cards. But everything on it is picked for your goals. Want to make more money, get fitter or be more disciplined? It only shows you that. Same dopamine, except you close the app knowing something you didn't know 10 minutes ago. It's almost done, about 95% there, and launching to the public soon. If you'd swap your FYP for this, reply "Discovery" and I'll get you in first.
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“on a mission” is my background
never fucking quit. life flips fucking fast.
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unpopular opinion: college is the worst investment a 22 year old can make right now. 4 years and $100k+ for skills you can learn free online in 6 months. change my mind.
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We've been building something I'm actually scared to show people. I'm addicted to TikTok. You probably are too. Hours of scrolling every day, and I can't remember a single thing I watched. So we asked a simple question: what if the scroll stayed, but the content actually made your life better? It's called the Discovery page. You scroll it exactly like your For You page, with short videos and quick text cards. But everything on it is picked for your goals. Want to make more money, get fitter or be more disciplined? It only shows you that. Same dopamine, except you close the app knowing something you didn't know 10 minutes ago. It's almost done, about 95% there, and launching to the public soon. If you'd swap your FYP for this, reply "Discovery" and I'll get you in first.
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Zoost retweeted
nobody tells you how hard it is to pivot on X. i built my audience in crypto. memecoins, charts, the whole thing. now i'm building a startup and posting about business. and the algorithm is punishing me for it. my crypto followers don't care about startups. so they don't engage. so X thinks my posts are bad. so it shows them to nobody. i'm basically starting from zero with followers that make it harder, not easier. the algorithm doesn't care how many followers you have anymore. it cares if the people who see your post actually interact with it. wrong audience = dead reach. so here's what i'm doing about it: → posting for the audience i want, not the one i have → replying to founders and business accounts every single day → accepting low numbers for a while instead of going back to crypto content for easy likes it's humbling watching posts i'm proud of flop. but i'd rather grow slow with the right people than fast with the wrong ones. if you're a founder building in public, say hi. i'm trying to find my people on here.
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how to get your first 10 paying customers with $0 and no audience most people build for 6 months then launch to nobody. do this instead: 1. pick one type of person. not "small businesses". "barbers in your city". "realtors on instagram". the narrower the better 2. find 50 of them today. google maps, instagram, linkedin. put names in a google sheet. takes an hour 3. look at what they're doing badly. no booking link, dead website, ignored reviews, posting once a month 4. send a short dm. no pitch. "hey saw you don't have online booking, are you losing clients from that?" thats it 5. the ones who reply, get on a 10 min call. ask what annoys them most about their business. shut up and write it down 6. offer to fix that one thing for cheap or free in exchange for a testimonial. do it fast 7. turn that result into a post and a screenshot. send it to the next 50 50 dms a day for 2 weeks. you'll get 10 customers before most people finish their logo bookmark this and actually do it this time
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most of this i picked up from founders telling their early stories on podcasts. i got tired of listening to 3 hour episodes for 2 minutes of gold so we built podex. pick your goal, get the exact tactics in minutes getpodex.com
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i'm 22 and building a startup. drop what you're building below and i'll follow everyone who's actually serious. let's make this the biggest founder thread on X today.
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nobody tells you how hard it is to pivot on X. i built my audience in crypto. memecoins, charts, the whole thing. now i'm building a startup and posting about business. and the algorithm is punishing me for it. my crypto followers don't care about startups. so they don't engage. so X thinks my posts are bad. so it shows them to nobody. i'm basically starting from zero with followers that make it harder, not easier. the algorithm doesn't care how many followers you have anymore. it cares if the people who see your post actually interact with it. wrong audience = dead reach. so here's what i'm doing about it: → posting for the audience i want, not the one i have → replying to founders and business accounts every single day → accepting low numbers for a while instead of going back to crypto content for easy likes it's humbling watching posts i'm proud of flop. but i'd rather grow slow with the right people than fast with the wrong ones. if you're a founder building in public, say hi. i'm trying to find my people on here.
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Zoost retweeted
most founders only post the wins. Well here's the other part:
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WHOOP used to sell a $500 fitness tracker. If you stopped wearing it after a week, they still had your $500. Then they switched to subscriptions. Now, if you stopped using it, they could lose your money too. That changes how you build a product. Here’s how:
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5/ I’d look at where customers have to start over each time they use my product. Having to upload the same file or explain the same thing again might seem minor in a demo. By the tenth time, I’d probably put it off too. And an email asking me to come back wouldn’t fix why I left.
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Got a podcast saved that you keep putting off? My brother and I are building Podex. It turns long episodes like this one into short lessons and practical steps you can try.
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you're 18-25, broke, and you've had 50 business ideas this year. you started zero of them. it's not because the ideas were bad. you never picked one long enough to find out. here's how to actually earn your first $1,000 online: 1. pick a skill you already have editing, writing, design, sales, fitness, anything. not what you want to learn. something you can do today. 2. pick one type of person who'd pay for it. not "businesses". gyms. dentists. podcasters. coaches. one group. 3. find 50 of them instagram, google maps, linkedin. put them in a spreadsheet tonight 4. do the work for free first edit their clip. rewrite their bio. fix their landing page. then send it to them. 5. ask one question. want me to do this every week? 6. 10 a day for 30 days that's 300 people. if you can't get one yes out of 300, the problem is the offer, so change it and go again. you don't need more ideas. you need one boring idea and 30 days of not quitting. bookmark this. start step 1 before you go to sleep.
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I feel like a lot of us are at this point
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