William
@wimgz 6ย years, 6ย months ago 1756 views

Making a thread of makers & entrepreneurs who inspired me, and what they taught me.
#thread
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Strong marketing game, super hard work, can stream for 24 hours and currently leading a new streamer movement with the #24hrstartup challenge.
Make it bigger than yourself.
๐Ÿ‘‰ @thepatwalls
Made the awesome https://t.co/lBYn9nP3KJ which works perfectly and saved me hours and hours.
Make a simple, helpful product.
๐Ÿ‘‰ @gvrizzo
Making the stylish @threader_app looking for maximum integration with Twitter (it might even become part of Twitter one day...)
Raise the bar for quality, look for seamless integrations.
๐Ÿ‘‰ @marie_dm_ + @yesnoornext
Successfully monetized a tiny social network @wip without screwing his users, focusing on the maker community.
A small engaged community is enough.
๐Ÿ‘‰ @marckohlbrugge
15yr old maker, made a Whatsapp bot that sends you wikipedia summaries, and many other projects.
Age doesn't matter.
๐Ÿ‘‰ @jajoosam
Strong Twitter game. Go study how he's been building, launching and getting feedback in public for years, and why it works.
๐Ÿ‘‰ @levelsio
Bought billboards to get kanye west on the phone.
Do unexpected things. Be bold.
๐Ÿ‘‰ @harrydry
Find a simple problem and solve it elegantly.
Go global, go B2B.
๐Ÿ‘‰ @fgrante and the https://t.co/sWgA11zP8A team
He literally saves lives from online gaming addiction.
Info products are not all get rich quick schemes.
๐Ÿ‘‰ @camerondare
Committed to ship music everyday for 100 days.
Discipline is hard.
๐Ÿ‘‰ @internetVin
Writes awesome, well structured JS tutorials at a crazy pace.
He owns tomorrow's SERP about anything Javascript.
๐Ÿ‘‰ @flaviocopes
Experiencing the compounding effect of SaaS, even in a crowded space.
๐Ÿ‘‰ @sinequanonh from https://t.co/X8EGyrBtkM
https://t.co/zyzZPq4qLU unexpectedly took off in Korea.
You can't control your users.
๐Ÿ‘‰ @ajlkn
made 50+ projects over the last 15 years, some sold, some shut down.
Be there for the long term.
๐Ÿ‘‰ @Shpigford
It's entirely up to you to define what success means.
Richard Branson could want a peaceful life and be miserable because he keeps building companies like an addict.
๐Ÿ‘‰ @sivers
50 side projects and counting.
Just keeps shipping.
๐Ÿ‘‰ @mubashariqbal
Left his job to focus on building his own products for a hardcore year.
Reduced expenses to the minimum, even if it means fighting the Bali wildlife with his bare hands when he walks home at night.
Go all in.
๐Ÿ‘‰ @andreyazimov
From designer to blogger to $1M MRR SaaS.
A story of compound interest.
๐Ÿ‘‰ @nathanbarry from ConvertKit
You can build a successful side project even in a very small niche
๐Ÿ‘‰ @czue from Place Card Me
full thread as a blog post here
๐Ÿ‘‰ https://t.co/iabKpc8uWR

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First update to https://t.co/lDdqjtKTZL since the challenge ended โ€“ Medium links!! Go add your Medium profile now ๐Ÿ‘€๐Ÿ“ (thanks @diannamallen for the suggestion ๐Ÿ˜)


Just added Telegram links to
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Less than 1 hour since I started adding stuff to https://t.co/lDdqjtKTZL again, and profile pages are now responsive!!! ๐Ÿฅณ Check it out -> https://t.co/fVkEL4fu0L


Accounts page is now also responsive!! ๐Ÿ“ฑโœจ


๐Ÿ’ชย I managed to make the whole site responsive in about an hour. On my roadmap I had it down as 4-5 hours!!! ๐Ÿค˜๐Ÿค ๐Ÿค˜
#24hrstartup recap and analysis

What a weekend celebrating makers looks like.

A thread

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Let's start with a crazy view of what @ProductHunt looked like on Sunday

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A top 7 with:
https://t.co/6gBjO6jXtB @Booligoosh
https://t.co/fwfKbQha57 @stephsmithio
https://t.co/LsSRNV9Jrf @anthilemoon
https://t.co/Fts7T8Un5M @J_Tabansi
Spotify Ctrl @shahroozme
https://t.co/37EoJAXEeG @kossnocorp
https://t.co/fMawYGlnro

If you want some top picks, see @deadcoder0904's thread,

We were going to have a go at doing this, but he nailed it.

It also comes with voting links ๐Ÿ–so go do your


Over the following days the 24hr startup crew had more than their fair share of launches

Lots of variety: web, bots, extensions and even native apps

eg. @jordibruin with

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