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Why creators blow up, reverse-engineered. 🌿 Parsly: why posts take off → https://teapawt.net/t.co/3OJUjk7S1u 🔧 Reverse-engineer growth (REG) → https://teapawt.net/t.co/l9se4Hp7KN

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Joined August 2025
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How long did your first paying customer take after launch? Mine's still pending. Asking for morale.
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Opus builds the feature in 20 minutes. I spend 3 days deciding if anyone wants it. Which half of your week is the slow one?
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How many of your side projects have a user who isn't you? I'm on three products and one very loyal customer. Me.
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Ever get AI sweats? Waking up at 4:00 AM with 50 slop ideas to build that day?
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matt.blu retweeted
We identified a security incident affecting a modified Claude Code VS Code extension accessed through our Cursor IDE extension marketplace, impacting at most 5,000 users. This malicious version of the extension was not developed by Anthropic. It does not impact other extensions downloaded from the cursor.com/marketplace, Grok Bot, Grok or our other SpaceXSI products. In response, we took down our extension marketplace this afternoon, worked with relevant providers to neutralize the malware, and have reinstated the marketplace after confirming there is no further risk. If affected, please review instructions in this blog post to understand how to find the malicious package and establish a path to mitigate any potential impact. We are asking all customers update to Claude Code for VS Code version 2.1.314: cursor.com/blog/claude-code-…
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Would I get more followers if I was hotter? How does this X thing work?
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How long did it take you to get to 1K X followers? The grind is real. Show me your receipts! 📈
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I've set myself the goal of getting to 2.5K in 90 days. Slightly behind pace, but not bad for a week of intense engagement.
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Hi, I'm Matt. I'm 38. Solo dev, building SaaS & side projects. Looking to connect with other makers. Say hi and tell me what you're building.
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At what price point is it just worth buying the tool instead of vibe-coding your own version? $10/month? $50? I'm at "if it'd take me more than a weekend" but Opus keeps moving that line.
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I've started swearing more at AI. Not sure what that says about me. When the revolt comes, I'll be screwed regardless.
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Sometimes I dream of a world where only I had Opus 5.5, with a two-year head start 🤔
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I'm on the Max plan and I use Claude all day, every day. I haven't hit the limit once. Weeks in, not a single lockout. Maybe I'm not working hard enough, but the meter has never slowed me down.
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Opus 5.5 on a Max plan. Immaculate repo. Revenue still zero. At what point do I admit the bottleneck isn't the code?
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Agents didn't make my skills useless. They made the boring ones useless. Typing out boilerplate was never the job. Knowing when the output is quietly wrong is.
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Six months of prompting doesn't make you good at anything. Six months of shipping with AI and fixing what it breaks does. The gap is the second half.
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I've been coding for 15 years and I still spend most of my day telling Opus what to build. The skill that matters now is knowing what to ask for & spotting when it's wrong. That part took me 1 year to learn.
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Domain registered before the first line of code. Every time. How many unused domains are you sitting on?
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Always execution.
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Zero customers. Immaculate CI pipeline. What's the most over-engineered thing you've built for nobody?
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