Jon C. Phillips

Some projects don't make it. That's just how it goes. I spent six months building a watch directory. A fucking watch directory. I coded the whole thing by hand too (was in the very early days of AI coding) I launched it into nothing. 40-50 visitors a day now, and half are

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Might be a hot take. Your product is a delivery mechanism for your distribution. Not the other way around. I’ve watched incredible products die in silence while mediocre ones with great marketing print money. It’s not fair. It’s also not random. The founders who win figured

You’re not competing with other products. You’re competing with “I’ll check it out later”.

How to “make it” on X: have a fucking opinion.

Broad audiences need convincing. Specific ones just need the thing. Niche down hard.

The more tokens you spend asking AI to refactor, the more I’m convinced you don’t really know what you’re building.

I mean come on! 💪 https://t.co/oE4VgEzhIn

I created this account back in 2007 just to think out loud and somehow that turned into 10,000 of you. Grateful doesn’t quite cover it. 🙏 https://t.co/enB0CRL9Vv

People say newsletters are dead. I have 1m+ reasons to believe otherwise. Boring works. https://t.co/Q5mApGYlMY

In the span of three years we went from coding by hand to living in the future.

21 again? Hell, I would: 1. Start writing online immediately, badly, and consistently 2. Care way less about looking smart and way more about being useful 3. Build things before I felt ready 4. Ship unfinished work publicly 5. Optimize for skills, not titles 6. Learn sales https://t.co/SJ59oojgnN

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Funny how every single thing I’ve shipped that mattered, I almost didn’t. There’s always a reason to wait. It’s not ready. The copy sucks. Someone else did it better. What if nobody cares? The fear never goes away but you get better at ignoring it. The difference between https://t.co/F3KSu9t4CH

Funny how the posts that do best on here are the ones I almost didn’t send.

Why are you not working on distribution, like, right now?

Your idea isn’t special. Sorry. I’ve had probably 500 “great ideas” over the years. Maybe 30 became actual projects. Maybe 6 made real money. The idea was the easy part, every damn time. What matters: - Can you build it? - Can you get it in front of people? - Can you keep going

Nobody wants to hear this but… your product doesn’t matter as much as you think it does. I’ve seen genuinely strong products ship and quietly disappear. And I’ve also seen very average ones do well simply because people actually knew they existed. Funny how this works, right?

Spent the whole weekend building a new product (an AI tool to help photographers create Lightroom/Photoshop ACR presets from natural language) and every time I do this it reminds me how much I love creating and building stuff. It’s just so freakin’ fun. Ideas turning into working

You’re charging too little. I don’t even know what your product is and I’m still confident you’re charging too little. We all do it cause it feels safer. “I’ll raise prices once I have more users.” Bullshit. Low prices attract the wrong customers and train them to expect