ツ John @_johnjohnnn

mediocre swe | 1x dad | juggling 9-5 + ai marketing stealth startup | documenting going from $0 → exit Las Vegas, NV Joined May 2023

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Been away for a bit. Life's been crazy. Working my 9-5 and building our AI marketing startup nights and weekends. Finally have all the assets we needed to satisfy investors we've been talking to. The market is pretty hot so we'll be opening up more cold outreach too.

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ツ John @_johnjohnnn

a month ago

hi @MetaforDevs, we're having issues with our ad account continuously being banned during app development. we've been approved for all app scopes/permissions. support has been unhelpful. would greatly appreciate if there was someone i could talk to about this. thank you.

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2 months ago

being a founder hits different when you’ve got a family at home. not enough people talk this. both paths have tradeoffs having a startup while raising a family has its pros. it gives you intense motivation, there’s no room for slacking when people are counting on you. you…

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2 months ago

a decent product with great distribution will always beat out an amazing product with poor distribution remember this next time you’re up late building a feature nobody asked for instead of marketing

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2 months ago

people keep asking me why we’re raising VC funds instead of bootstrapping we could bootstrap, but i work full time as a developer and it would take much longer to get our platform where we need it to be also with ai, competitors are shipping extremely fast going the VC route…

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2 months ago

finally received full approval from meta to utilize advanced access of their marketing api huge weight off our shoulders for some context, tons of devs have issues getting approval. there’s a bunch of anecdotes out there of it taking teams months to get approved

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2 months ago

it’s crazy how our team came together i worked for a guy who sold his company, so i also left did my own thing for a few years. looked up my old boss to see what he was up to couple months later he reaches out with this idea. co-founder is apart of the industry we’re…

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2 months ago

our initial plans for using our seed round funding were going to be marketing + hiring but our ai workflows have gotten so good that we’ll probably just use most for marketing the only hiring we’ll need to do is for sales, maybe design maybe 1 additional dev

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2 months ago

took a break from promoting claude code so i could eat some cold soba noodles

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2 months ago

quit my financial analyst job to pursue tech full time. gave myself a year. did it in 7 months. worked out ok

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2 months ago

quit my financial analyst job to pursue tech full time. gave myself a year. did it in 7 months. worked out ok

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2 months ago

co-founder is in new york drumming up VC interest. getting intro calls + demos scheduled as soon as we close our seed round i’m quitting my 9-5 can’t wait to go all in on this platform we’re building