Here's my 🔥 hot take on ChatGPT Plugins: It's immediately apparent that this is the best channel for an impressive set of AI applications. Several talented folks I know are dropping everything to focus on this exclusively. 1/↗

There is a big “if” here, but in the category of big if true, given we are attacking services, the starting market size for the AI opportunity is larger than the entire current software market. -@gradypb at Sequoia AI Ascent↗

I re-visit this lesson on writing structure every 3-4 months. Gold:↗

You asked for it, and here it is. "How I built a functioning Chrome Extension in 10 steps and 45 minutes, with no coding experience. Using ChatGPT + Replit." Let's dive in people. 👾↗

My current thesis as to why our company Forte Labs should enter AI education What do you think is the weakest point? Or strongest point?↗

Can confirm. Just yesterday, my teammate wrote a custom JSON parser that would have been a slog for 1-2 days within hours using GPT4. GPT4 is like giving each engineer their own intern who does 70-80% of the job. The remaining 30% is constraints & biz logic. Startups are going t…↗

When I announced that sponsorships for the newsletter were sold out until May, I got questions like: • What network am I using? (I'm not) • How am I doing cold outreach? (I'm not) • How am I selling them? (I'm not?) So here's what I am doing & how I set this up:↗

🤯 GPT-4 can generate GPT-4 prompts 🤯 This is genuinely scary.↗

It's full of sensitive data, but enough people asked so here's how what it looked like. (Obviously redacted) Was easy to make edits via conversational chat, add more notes, etc.↗

This guy acquires companies for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. But never sells them. The coolest software billionaire you've never heard of 🧵↗

🤯 VC’s have poured $385M+ into Generative AI this quarter with billions in the past 2 years Here’s a breakdown of the top VC investors in the space and their investments 👇🏼 @lightspeedvp @sequoia @khoslaventures @a16z @IndexVentures @insightpartners @Accel↗

I can read all the email newsletters in my industry in 5 minutes per day using a workflow I built with @zapier and @OpenAI. Sharing here in case it's helpful to you, too. Here's how it works...↗

I can't help but think we should be making more use of AI inside of Reflect. We are testing semantic search - but are there other things we should be doing?↗

We bootstrapped @cbinsights by first building a totally different business It involved hedge funds, too big too fail banks and $100,000 PDFs For nerds interested in data and information services businesses, you might enjoy this↗

If you could invest in: One seed firm. One series A firm. One growth firm. What would they be? Go. 😉↗

The 12 essential books for Solopreneur Success 💸 In the order you'll need them:↗

Bootstrapping a software company is the best way to build wealth. Jason Cohen has bootstrapped 4 software companies from 0 to $1+ million in revenue. Two are now worth $1+ billion. Here's his exact plan to self-fund startups:↗

The road from 0 to 50,000 subscribers and $685k/year in revenue with @stackedmarketer 👇↗

Generative AI comes to Yardstiq 30-min interviews = long transcripts To make them easier to digest, Yardstiq transcripts now feature: 1) Data on CSAT, intent to renew, implementation time, and more 2) Summaries + key quote (powered by a fully automated AI editorial process)↗

Sharing a milestone! My team and I made $1 million selling @NotionHQ templates in a single year (Jan-Dec 2022). Here's a look at: - Our full income/expenses breakdown - Traffic stats - The apps and tools we use - Marketing strategy - How we'll grow in 2023↗

If you think you're idea is too dumb to work, just remember that Scrub Daddy, a sponge in the shape of a face, does $670m in annual sales↗

PREDICTION: There's a mass extinction event coming for early & mid-stage companies. Late '23 & '24 will make the '08 financial crisis look quaint for startups. Below I explain when, why & how it will start & offer *detailed advice to founders* on surviving the looming die-off. /1↗

I asked my audience: “What's the best online course you’ve ever taken?” Here are 10 of the most popular replies:↗

Here’s exactly how I built a $120k/yr newsletter business with less than 5 hours of work a week:↗

Inspired by this idea, and a comment I can't find... Built a "Dummy API" which can provide dummy data for any front-end with a simple API call. Basically, feed the API: - description of app - keys requested - number of results This provides JSON array of dummy data.↗

How I bought a blog about @WWE for $16,000 and sold it for $240,000 one year later. I was looking for a niche content site that had a good foundation but still had 3-5 easy wins that would increase traffic and increase RPMs. 👇↗

Marc Andreessen has grown a16z from their first fund of $300M in 2009 to over $25B+ in AUM as of 2022. His framework for understanding any business is simple. It comes down to unpacking what he calls "the onion theory of risk." Here's what he means...↗

In 2022, I somehow made $249k doing things I loved When I quit my job in 2017, I only did freelance consulting until I fell in love with writing. I decided to secretly stop trying to make money and just write, living on very little I can't believe it worked. Some reflections👇↗

1/ AI exploded on the scene at the end of 2022, with applications like @OpenAI's ChatGPT taking the world by storm. 2023 is poised to be the most exciting year of AI yet! 🎉 Here's mine and @vivek7ue's look at the lay of the land + what might happen next... 👀🧵↗

Some fun/obvious ideas for where chatGPT will go: - crawls internet, reads news - talk to APIs for booking hotels and restaurants, mapping, rideshare, food delivery, etc - can look at my data/email/etc and ask/answer questions - personalizes answers to my preferences, geo, etc↗