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From Silicon Valley to Tulsa: The Story of OpnBx

  • August 12, 2024
OpnBx co-founders
Would you move your startup from Silicon Valley to Tulsa, Oklahoma? George and Dylan from OpnBx did! Learn what happened!
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The story of Photopea
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How Photopea Bootstrapped to $1.5M with One Person Team

  • March 31, 2024
Back in my high school days when we had no social media nor smartphones that took pictures, the only place to share your photos with friends was physical albums. Yes,…
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CONNECT Communications Co-Founders
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Collaborative Entrepreneurship: Story Behind CONNECT Communications

  • February 10, 2024
In the dynamic world of entrepreneurship, a profound shift is underway — the rise of collaborative business ventures. This transformative journey is one that we as co-founders of CONNECT Communications,…
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Co-founders of Hone
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Hone: Making DIY Home Projects Achievable For Everyone

  • November 8, 2023
Hone, the brainchild of Jennifer Huynh and Jacqueline Loganathan, is a promising new startup in the home renovation space. Their focus? DIY home projects that are perfect for beginners. The…
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Coworking Toronto Worksimply
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Worksimply: A Michelin Rated Coworking Space in Toronto

  • November 1, 2023
If you live in Toronto, work remotely, and love delicious food, you gotta check out Worksimply! They’re an amazing new startup that’s shaking things up in downtown Toronto by offering a…
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Truly Financial
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Truly Financial: Global Business Banking, Redefined for Modern SMBs

  • January 27, 2022
The life of a small business (SMB) owner is often like a trip down a long, winding road. Except, at every other bend, the trip screeches to a halt as…
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Rise Market Box
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Rise Market: Helping Health-Conscious Canadian Shoppers Find Affordable Groceries

  • December 21, 2021
Grocery and meal kit delivery services have exploded over the last five years, with more shoppers opting for the ecommerce experience over regular trips to the market. However, this growth…
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Biocosmos
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Biocosmos: A Beautiful, New Life for Wine Waste

  • December 2, 2021
In the southern region of Portugal, not far from Lisbon, vineyards stretch across the rolling hillsides. Where the grapes grow on stretching vines, Portuguese winemakers watch and tend to their…
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Ellect marketplace
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Ellect: Solving the Supply Chain’s Diversity Aversion

  • November 3, 2021
Products ranging from coffee to computer chips require the labor of millions to harvest raw materials and manufacture goods — and some of those materials, like cobalt from the mines…
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Textodog – A Group Text Platform for the Travel & Hospitality Industry

  • June 3, 2021
During the pandemic, my team of developers and I decided to commercialize the most important customer experience system we use in my bus tour company: a group text messaging platform…
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  • Google’s AI Contribution Pilot is now live in Search Console, and it pays select publishers when their content feeds AI Overviews, AI Mode and Gemini answers. Invite only. Dozens of sites so far.  One publisher inside the pilot told Digiday the payout formula is “quite black box.” Google calls it an early-stage learning pilot.  Meanwhile, AI Overviews have cut clicks to top-ranking pages by 58%, according to Ahrefs research across 300,000 keywords. Rankings hold steady. Traffic falls anyway.  So who actually gets paid for AI content? Reddit takes a reported $60M a year from Google and around $70M from OpenAI, because it owns millions of human conversations no model can copy. Your blog gets an invite-only widget.  4 levers founders control without an invitation from Google:  1. Refresh your top 10 pages monthly, not yearly
2. Publish expert-led content no one else can write
3. Own an audience outside of search: a newsletter, a Slack or Discord community, a podcast, a YouTube or LinkedIn following
4. Track your AI citations weekly, like you track rankings  While Google decides who gets paid, you can start getting cited today.  #AIContributionPilot #AISearch #AIOverviews #SEOforFounders #AIvisibility
  • Joel spent $1,000 to make $2.50, then built a studio around the lesson.  Now Joel Diab makes custom games for content creators at no upfront cost, funding each one himself and earning only if it does.  It points to something most creators are sitting on and few have used: games may be the most lucrative channel in the creator economy, and it is still wide open.  Full story on BYVI, link in bio.  #creatoreconomy #gamesforcreators #creatortips #mobilegames #customgames
  • Fares hadn’t touched code in 20 years. Then he turned his wife’s crochet hobby into a real business with AI, and shipped it in 5 months without quitting his day job.  The lesson underneath the yarn is bigger than one app: the wall that used to stand between a good idea and a real product is gone. What’s left is finding a problem worth solving, and caring enough to solve it well.  Full story on BYVI (link in bio)  #vibecoding #agenticbuilders #startupstories #crochetpattern #crochetapp
  • Stripe’s Q2 2026 data: 63% of new startups are solo founders. An all-time high.  Same data, second chart: the median solo founder’s first-six-month revenue is down 23%. The top 10% are up 19%. The gap between them is 61×, up from 34× in 2022.  Here’s 5 things the founders pulling ahead do:  1. Ship before you’re ready
2. Go global on day one
3. Own a niche too small to fight over
4. Build the audience before the product
5. Obsess over retention  Full story on byvi.co - link in bio.  #solofounder #startups #buildinpublic #indiehackers #techfounders
  • Everyone tells early founders to chase the big city and the big round. Tom Pischel did the opposite: he stayed in Erin, Ontario (pop. 11,981) and built @localxp.ca a community map that shows you what’s actually going on in your town right now.  His 4 lessons work in any market you actually live in:  1. Build for problems you inhabit
2. Let user behavior override your favorite feature
3. Target the market incumbents skip
4. Bootstrap for conviction  The moat most startups miss is proximity. 
Read the full story on byvi.co (link in bio).  #founderstory #bootstrapping #localbusinessmap #solofounder #startupstories
  • You can’t teach someone to start a startup. You learn it by doing.  Paul Graham’s new essay makes a quietly radical case: the best prep for founders isn’t an “entrepreneurship” curriculum or a business plan competition. It’s getting genuinely good at building things, and building them out of real interest, not because you’re chasing a startup idea.  #paulgraham #firsttimefounder #ycombinator #entrepreneurship #startupadvice
  • They told them to leave for San Francisco.  They built it in Ottawa instead.  Builders Collective started because a group of students kept watching sharp people get told the same thing: the opportunity is somewhere else. So instead of asking where to move, they asked why they couldn’t just build the community they wanted, right where they already were.  Now it’s students shipping real products. An AI resume builder. A webring linking Ottawa’s builders. A farm robot with $225K in letters of intent.  The advice isn’t wrong. 57% of U.S. venture dollars went to the Bay Area in 2024. Geography matters.  But there’s a difference between “SF might be the best place to scale this” and “you can’t start until you’re in SF.” One is a strategy. The other keeps you in planning for years.  Builders Collective proves that you don’t need an ecosystem’s permission to start. You can just build the ecosystem around you.  Full story on byvi, link in bio  #ottawatech #buildinpublic #studentfounders #startupcanada #builderscollective
  • A 2-month-old startup, with a garage for a factory, just reminded me how a company is actually supposed to start.  Most founders build first and understand their customer later. This team at Tandem Robotics did the opposite.  Take their farm robot away for maintenance, and farmers call asking how fast they can have it back.  But the robot isn’t the story.  It’s how these founders earned the right to build it, before they wrote a single line of code.  There’s so much any early founder can steal here, no matter what you’re building.  I broke it all down.  Swipe to the end, the last slide is the part most founders learn too late.  #robotics #organicfarming #startuplessons #farmrobotics #farmrobots
  • At @shopify Builder Sundays, we watched 8 builders demo what they made.  The biggest takeaway? None of them waited for the perfect moment. They put something into the world before they had the answers. 👏👏👏  If you’re building in Ottawa, Montreal, or Toronto, this is a pretty powerful place to start.  Full story on BYVI. Link in bio.  #BuilderSundays #Shopify #OttawaTech #StartupLife #indiehackers
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Google’s AI Contribution Pilot is now live in Search Console, and it pays select publishers when their content feeds AI Overviews, AI Mode and Gemini answers. Invite only. Dozens of sites so far.  One publisher inside the pilot told Digiday the payout formula is “quite black box.” Google calls it an early-stage learning pilot.  Meanwhile, AI Overviews have cut clicks to top-ranking pages by 58%, according to Ahrefs research across 300,000 keywords. Rankings hold steady. Traffic falls anyway.  So who actually gets paid for AI content? Reddit takes a reported $60M a year from Google and around $70M from OpenAI, because it owns millions of human conversations no model can copy. Your blog gets an invite-only widget.  4 levers founders control without an invitation from Google:  1. Refresh your top 10 pages monthly, not yearly
2. Publish expert-led content no one else can write
3. Own an audience outside of search: a newsletter, a Slack or Discord community, a podcast, a YouTube or LinkedIn following
4. Track your AI citations weekly, like you track rankings  While Google decides who gets paid, you can start getting cited today.  #AIContributionPilot #AISearch #AIOverviews #SEOforFounders #AIvisibility
Google’s AI Contribution Pilot is now live in Search Console, and it pays select publishers when their content feeds AI Overviews, AI Mode and Gemini answers. Invite only. Dozens of sites so far.  One publisher inside the pilot told Digiday the payout formula is “quite black box.” Google calls it an early-stage learning pilot.  Meanwhile, AI Overviews have cut clicks to top-ranking pages by 58%, according to Ahrefs research across 300,000 keywords. Rankings hold steady. Traffic falls anyway.  So who actually gets paid for AI content? Reddit takes a reported $60M a year from Google and around $70M from OpenAI, because it owns millions of human conversations no model can copy. Your blog gets an invite-only widget.  4 levers founders control without an invitation from Google:  1. Refresh your top 10 pages monthly, not yearly
2. Publish expert-led content no one else can write
3. Own an audience outside of search: a newsletter, a Slack or Discord community, a podcast, a YouTube or LinkedIn following
4. Track your AI citations weekly, like you track rankings  While Google decides who gets paid, you can start getting cited today.  #AIContributionPilot #AISearch #AIOverviews #SEOforFounders #AIvisibility
Google’s AI Contribution Pilot is now live in Search Console, and it pays select publishers when their content feeds AI Overviews, AI Mode and Gemini answers. Invite only. Dozens of sites so far.  One publisher inside the pilot told Digiday the payout formula is “quite black box.” Google calls it an early-stage learning pilot.  Meanwhile, AI Overviews have cut clicks to top-ranking pages by 58%, according to Ahrefs research across 300,000 keywords. Rankings hold steady. Traffic falls anyway.  So who actually gets paid for AI content? Reddit takes a reported $60M a year from Google and around $70M from OpenAI, because it owns millions of human conversations no model can copy. Your blog gets an invite-only widget.  4 levers founders control without an invitation from Google:  1. Refresh your top 10 pages monthly, not yearly
2. Publish expert-led content no one else can write
3. Own an audience outside of search: a newsletter, a Slack or Discord community, a podcast, a YouTube or LinkedIn following
4. Track your AI citations weekly, like you track rankings  While Google decides who gets paid, you can start getting cited today.  #AIContributionPilot #AISearch #AIOverviews #SEOforFounders #AIvisibility
Google’s AI Contribution Pilot is now live in Search Console, and it pays select publishers when their content feeds AI Overviews, AI Mode and Gemini answers. Invite only. Dozens of sites so far.  One publisher inside the pilot told Digiday the payout formula is “quite black box.” Google calls it an early-stage learning pilot.  Meanwhile, AI Overviews have cut clicks to top-ranking pages by 58%, according to Ahrefs research across 300,000 keywords. Rankings hold steady. Traffic falls anyway.  So who actually gets paid for AI content? Reddit takes a reported $60M a year from Google and around $70M from OpenAI, because it owns millions of human conversations no model can copy. Your blog gets an invite-only widget.  4 levers founders control without an invitation from Google:  1. Refresh your top 10 pages monthly, not yearly
2. Publish expert-led content no one else can write
3. Own an audience outside of search: a newsletter, a Slack or Discord community, a podcast, a YouTube or LinkedIn following
4. Track your AI citations weekly, like you track rankings  While Google decides who gets paid, you can start getting cited today.  #AIContributionPilot #AISearch #AIOverviews #SEOforFounders #AIvisibility
Google’s AI Contribution Pilot is now live in Search Console, and it pays select publishers when their content feeds AI Overviews, AI Mode and Gemini answers. Invite only. Dozens of sites so far.  One publisher inside the pilot told Digiday the payout formula is “quite black box.” Google calls it an early-stage learning pilot.  Meanwhile, AI Overviews have cut clicks to top-ranking pages by 58%, according to Ahrefs research across 300,000 keywords. Rankings hold steady. Traffic falls anyway.  So who actually gets paid for AI content? Reddit takes a reported $60M a year from Google and around $70M from OpenAI, because it owns millions of human conversations no model can copy. Your blog gets an invite-only widget.  4 levers founders control without an invitation from Google:  1. Refresh your top 10 pages monthly, not yearly
2. Publish expert-led content no one else can write
3. Own an audience outside of search: a newsletter, a Slack or Discord community, a podcast, a YouTube or LinkedIn following
4. Track your AI citations weekly, like you track rankings  While Google decides who gets paid, you can start getting cited today.  #AIContributionPilot #AISearch #AIOverviews #SEOforFounders #AIvisibility
Google’s AI Contribution Pilot is now live in Search Console, and it pays select publishers when their content feeds AI Overviews, AI Mode and Gemini answers. Invite only. Dozens of sites so far.  One publisher inside the pilot told Digiday the payout formula is “quite black box.” Google calls it an early-stage learning pilot.  Meanwhile, AI Overviews have cut clicks to top-ranking pages by 58%, according to Ahrefs research across 300,000 keywords. Rankings hold steady. Traffic falls anyway.  So who actually gets paid for AI content? Reddit takes a reported $60M a year from Google and around $70M from OpenAI, because it owns millions of human conversations no model can copy. Your blog gets an invite-only widget.  4 levers founders control without an invitation from Google:  1. Refresh your top 10 pages monthly, not yearly
2. Publish expert-led content no one else can write
3. Own an audience outside of search: a newsletter, a Slack or Discord community, a podcast, a YouTube or LinkedIn following
4. Track your AI citations weekly, like you track rankings  While Google decides who gets paid, you can start getting cited today.  #AIContributionPilot #AISearch #AIOverviews #SEOforFounders #AIvisibility
Google’s AI Contribution Pilot is now live in Search Console, and it pays select publishers when their content feeds AI Overviews, AI Mode and Gemini answers. Invite only. Dozens of sites so far.  One publisher inside the pilot told Digiday the payout formula is “quite black box.” Google calls it an early-stage learning pilot.  Meanwhile, AI Overviews have cut clicks to top-ranking pages by 58%, according to Ahrefs research across 300,000 keywords. Rankings hold steady. Traffic falls anyway.  So who actually gets paid for AI content? Reddit takes a reported $60M a year from Google and around $70M from OpenAI, because it owns millions of human conversations no model can copy. Your blog gets an invite-only widget.  4 levers founders control without an invitation from Google:  1. Refresh your top 10 pages monthly, not yearly
2. Publish expert-led content no one else can write
3. Own an audience outside of search: a newsletter, a Slack or Discord community, a podcast, a YouTube or LinkedIn following
4. Track your AI citations weekly, like you track rankings  While Google decides who gets paid, you can start getting cited today.  #AIContributionPilot #AISearch #AIOverviews #SEOforFounders #AIvisibility
Google’s AI Contribution Pilot is now live in Search Console, and it pays select publishers when their content feeds AI Overviews, AI Mode and Gemini answers. Invite only. Dozens of sites so far.  One publisher inside the pilot told Digiday the payout formula is “quite black box.” Google calls it an early-stage learning pilot.  Meanwhile, AI Overviews have cut clicks to top-ranking pages by 58%, according to Ahrefs research across 300,000 keywords. Rankings hold steady. Traffic falls anyway.  So who actually gets paid for AI content? Reddit takes a reported $60M a year from Google and around $70M from OpenAI, because it owns millions of human conversations no model can copy. Your blog gets an invite-only widget.  4 levers founders control without an invitation from Google:  1. Refresh your top 10 pages monthly, not yearly
2. Publish expert-led content no one else can write
3. Own an audience outside of search: a newsletter, a Slack or Discord community, a podcast, a YouTube or LinkedIn following
4. Track your AI citations weekly, like you track rankings  While Google decides who gets paid, you can start getting cited today.  #AIContributionPilot #AISearch #AIOverviews #SEOforFounders #AIvisibility
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Google’s AI Contribution Pilot is now live in Search Console, and it pays select publishers when their content feeds AI Overviews, AI Mode and Gemini answers. Invite only. Dozens of sites so far. One publisher inside the pilot told Digiday the payout formula is “quite black box.” Google calls it an early-stage learning pilot. Meanwhile, AI Overviews have cut clicks to top-ranking pages by 58%, according to Ahrefs research across 300,000 keywords. Rankings hold steady. Traffic falls anyway. So who actually gets paid for AI content? Reddit takes a reported $60M a year from Google and around $70M from OpenAI, because it owns millions of human conversations no model can copy. Your blog gets an invite-only widget. 4 levers founders control without an invitation from Google: 1. Refresh your top 10 pages monthly, not yearly 2. Publish expert-led content no one else can write 3. Own an audience outside of search: a newsletter, a Slack or Discord community, a podcast, a YouTube or LinkedIn following 4. Track your AI citations weekly, like you track rankings While Google decides who gets paid, you can start getting cited today. #AIContributionPilot #AISearch #AIOverviews #SEOforFounders #AIvisibility
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Joel spent $1,000 to make $2.50, then built a studio around the lesson.  Now Joel Diab makes custom games for content creators at no upfront cost, funding each one himself and earning only if it does.  It points to something most creators are sitting on and few have used: games may be the most lucrative channel in the creator economy, and it is still wide open.  Full story on BYVI, link in bio.  #creatoreconomy #gamesforcreators #creatortips #mobilegames #customgames
Joel spent $1,000 to make $2.50, then built a studio around the lesson.  Now Joel Diab makes custom games for content creators at no upfront cost, funding each one himself and earning only if it does.  It points to something most creators are sitting on and few have used: games may be the most lucrative channel in the creator economy, and it is still wide open.  Full story on BYVI, link in bio.  #creatoreconomy #gamesforcreators #creatortips #mobilegames #customgames
Joel spent $1,000 to make $2.50, then built a studio around the lesson.  Now Joel Diab makes custom games for content creators at no upfront cost, funding each one himself and earning only if it does.  It points to something most creators are sitting on and few have used: games may be the most lucrative channel in the creator economy, and it is still wide open.  Full story on BYVI, link in bio.  #creatoreconomy #gamesforcreators #creatortips #mobilegames #customgames
Joel spent $1,000 to make $2.50, then built a studio around the lesson.  Now Joel Diab makes custom games for content creators at no upfront cost, funding each one himself and earning only if it does.  It points to something most creators are sitting on and few have used: games may be the most lucrative channel in the creator economy, and it is still wide open.  Full story on BYVI, link in bio.  #creatoreconomy #gamesforcreators #creatortips #mobilegames #customgames
Joel spent $1,000 to make $2.50, then built a studio around the lesson.  Now Joel Diab makes custom games for content creators at no upfront cost, funding each one himself and earning only if it does.  It points to something most creators are sitting on and few have used: games may be the most lucrative channel in the creator economy, and it is still wide open.  Full story on BYVI, link in bio.  #creatoreconomy #gamesforcreators #creatortips #mobilegames #customgames
Joel spent $1,000 to make $2.50, then built a studio around the lesson.  Now Joel Diab makes custom games for content creators at no upfront cost, funding each one himself and earning only if it does.  It points to something most creators are sitting on and few have used: games may be the most lucrative channel in the creator economy, and it is still wide open.  Full story on BYVI, link in bio.  #creatoreconomy #gamesforcreators #creatortips #mobilegames #customgames
Joel spent $1,000 to make $2.50, then built a studio around the lesson.  Now Joel Diab makes custom games for content creators at no upfront cost, funding each one himself and earning only if it does.  It points to something most creators are sitting on and few have used: games may be the most lucrative channel in the creator economy, and it is still wide open.  Full story on BYVI, link in bio.  #creatoreconomy #gamesforcreators #creatortips #mobilegames #customgames
Joel spent $1,000 to make $2.50, then built a studio around the lesson.  Now Joel Diab makes custom games for content creators at no upfront cost, funding each one himself and earning only if it does.  It points to something most creators are sitting on and few have used: games may be the most lucrative channel in the creator economy, and it is still wide open.  Full story on BYVI, link in bio.  #creatoreconomy #gamesforcreators #creatortips #mobilegames #customgames
Joel spent $1,000 to make $2.50, then built a studio around the lesson.  Now Joel Diab makes custom games for content creators at no upfront cost, funding each one himself and earning only if it does.  It points to something most creators are sitting on and few have used: games may be the most lucrative channel in the creator economy, and it is still wide open.  Full story on BYVI, link in bio.  #creatoreconomy #gamesforcreators #creatortips #mobilegames #customgames
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Joel spent $1,000 to make $2.50, then built a studio around the lesson. Now Joel Diab makes custom games for content creators at no upfront cost, funding each one himself and earning only if it does. It points to something most creators are sitting on and few have used: games may be the most lucrative channel in the creator economy, and it is still wide open. Full story on BYVI, link in bio. #creatoreconomy #gamesforcreators #creatortips #mobilegames #customgames
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Fares hadn’t touched code in 20 years. Then he turned his wife’s crochet hobby into a real business with AI, and shipped it in 5 months without quitting his day job.  The lesson underneath the yarn is bigger than one app: the wall that used to stand between a good idea and a real product is gone. What’s left is finding a problem worth solving, and caring enough to solve it well.  Full story on BYVI (link in bio)  #vibecoding #agenticbuilders #startupstories #crochetpattern #crochetapp
Fares hadn’t touched code in 20 years. Then he turned his wife’s crochet hobby into a real business with AI, and shipped it in 5 months without quitting his day job.  The lesson underneath the yarn is bigger than one app: the wall that used to stand between a good idea and a real product is gone. What’s left is finding a problem worth solving, and caring enough to solve it well.  Full story on BYVI (link in bio)  #vibecoding #agenticbuilders #startupstories #crochetpattern #crochetapp
Fares hadn’t touched code in 20 years. Then he turned his wife’s crochet hobby into a real business with AI, and shipped it in 5 months without quitting his day job.  The lesson underneath the yarn is bigger than one app: the wall that used to stand between a good idea and a real product is gone. What’s left is finding a problem worth solving, and caring enough to solve it well.  Full story on BYVI (link in bio)  #vibecoding #agenticbuilders #startupstories #crochetpattern #crochetapp
Fares hadn’t touched code in 20 years. Then he turned his wife’s crochet hobby into a real business with AI, and shipped it in 5 months without quitting his day job.  The lesson underneath the yarn is bigger than one app: the wall that used to stand between a good idea and a real product is gone. What’s left is finding a problem worth solving, and caring enough to solve it well.  Full story on BYVI (link in bio)  #vibecoding #agenticbuilders #startupstories #crochetpattern #crochetapp
Fares hadn’t touched code in 20 years. Then he turned his wife’s crochet hobby into a real business with AI, and shipped it in 5 months without quitting his day job.  The lesson underneath the yarn is bigger than one app: the wall that used to stand between a good idea and a real product is gone. What’s left is finding a problem worth solving, and caring enough to solve it well.  Full story on BYVI (link in bio)  #vibecoding #agenticbuilders #startupstories #crochetpattern #crochetapp
Fares hadn’t touched code in 20 years. Then he turned his wife’s crochet hobby into a real business with AI, and shipped it in 5 months without quitting his day job.  The lesson underneath the yarn is bigger than one app: the wall that used to stand between a good idea and a real product is gone. What’s left is finding a problem worth solving, and caring enough to solve it well.  Full story on BYVI (link in bio)  #vibecoding #agenticbuilders #startupstories #crochetpattern #crochetapp
Fares hadn’t touched code in 20 years. Then he turned his wife’s crochet hobby into a real business with AI, and shipped it in 5 months without quitting his day job.  The lesson underneath the yarn is bigger than one app: the wall that used to stand between a good idea and a real product is gone. What’s left is finding a problem worth solving, and caring enough to solve it well.  Full story on BYVI (link in bio)  #vibecoding #agenticbuilders #startupstories #crochetpattern #crochetapp
Fares hadn’t touched code in 20 years. Then he turned his wife’s crochet hobby into a real business with AI, and shipped it in 5 months without quitting his day job.  The lesson underneath the yarn is bigger than one app: the wall that used to stand between a good idea and a real product is gone. What’s left is finding a problem worth solving, and caring enough to solve it well.  Full story on BYVI (link in bio)  #vibecoding #agenticbuilders #startupstories #crochetpattern #crochetapp
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Fares hadn’t touched code in 20 years. Then he turned his wife’s crochet hobby into a real business with AI, and shipped it in 5 months without quitting his day job. The lesson underneath the yarn is bigger than one app: the wall that used to stand between a good idea and a real product is gone. What’s left is finding a problem worth solving, and caring enough to solve it well. Full story on BYVI (link in bio) #vibecoding #agenticbuilders #startupstories #crochetpattern #crochetapp
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Stripe’s Q2 2026 data: 63% of new startups are solo founders. An all-time high.  Same data, second chart: the median solo founder’s first-six-month revenue is down 23%. The top 10% are up 19%. The gap between them is 61×, up from 34× in 2022.  Here’s 5 things the founders pulling ahead do:  1. Ship before you’re ready
2. Go global on day one
3. Own a niche too small to fight over
4. Build the audience before the product
5. Obsess over retention  Full story on byvi.co - link in bio.  #solofounder #startups #buildinpublic #indiehackers #techfounders
Stripe’s Q2 2026 data: 63% of new startups are solo founders. An all-time high.  Same data, second chart: the median solo founder’s first-six-month revenue is down 23%. The top 10% are up 19%. The gap between them is 61×, up from 34× in 2022.  Here’s 5 things the founders pulling ahead do:  1. Ship before you’re ready
2. Go global on day one
3. Own a niche too small to fight over
4. Build the audience before the product
5. Obsess over retention  Full story on byvi.co - link in bio.  #solofounder #startups #buildinpublic #indiehackers #techfounders
Stripe’s Q2 2026 data: 63% of new startups are solo founders. An all-time high.  Same data, second chart: the median solo founder’s first-six-month revenue is down 23%. The top 10% are up 19%. The gap between them is 61×, up from 34× in 2022.  Here’s 5 things the founders pulling ahead do:  1. Ship before you’re ready
2. Go global on day one
3. Own a niche too small to fight over
4. Build the audience before the product
5. Obsess over retention  Full story on byvi.co - link in bio.  #solofounder #startups #buildinpublic #indiehackers #techfounders
Stripe’s Q2 2026 data: 63% of new startups are solo founders. An all-time high.  Same data, second chart: the median solo founder’s first-six-month revenue is down 23%. The top 10% are up 19%. The gap between them is 61×, up from 34× in 2022.  Here’s 5 things the founders pulling ahead do:  1. Ship before you’re ready
2. Go global on day one
3. Own a niche too small to fight over
4. Build the audience before the product
5. Obsess over retention  Full story on byvi.co - link in bio.  #solofounder #startups #buildinpublic #indiehackers #techfounders
Stripe’s Q2 2026 data: 63% of new startups are solo founders. An all-time high.  Same data, second chart: the median solo founder’s first-six-month revenue is down 23%. The top 10% are up 19%. The gap between them is 61×, up from 34× in 2022.  Here’s 5 things the founders pulling ahead do:  1. Ship before you’re ready
2. Go global on day one
3. Own a niche too small to fight over
4. Build the audience before the product
5. Obsess over retention  Full story on byvi.co - link in bio.  #solofounder #startups #buildinpublic #indiehackers #techfounders
Stripe’s Q2 2026 data: 63% of new startups are solo founders. An all-time high.  Same data, second chart: the median solo founder’s first-six-month revenue is down 23%. The top 10% are up 19%. The gap between them is 61×, up from 34× in 2022.  Here’s 5 things the founders pulling ahead do:  1. Ship before you’re ready
2. Go global on day one
3. Own a niche too small to fight over
4. Build the audience before the product
5. Obsess over retention  Full story on byvi.co - link in bio.  #solofounder #startups #buildinpublic #indiehackers #techfounders
Stripe’s Q2 2026 data: 63% of new startups are solo founders. An all-time high.  Same data, second chart: the median solo founder’s first-six-month revenue is down 23%. The top 10% are up 19%. The gap between them is 61×, up from 34× in 2022.  Here’s 5 things the founders pulling ahead do:  1. Ship before you’re ready
2. Go global on day one
3. Own a niche too small to fight over
4. Build the audience before the product
5. Obsess over retention  Full story on byvi.co - link in bio.  #solofounder #startups #buildinpublic #indiehackers #techfounders
Stripe’s Q2 2026 data: 63% of new startups are solo founders. An all-time high.  Same data, second chart: the median solo founder’s first-six-month revenue is down 23%. The top 10% are up 19%. The gap between them is 61×, up from 34× in 2022.  Here’s 5 things the founders pulling ahead do:  1. Ship before you’re ready
2. Go global on day one
3. Own a niche too small to fight over
4. Build the audience before the product
5. Obsess over retention  Full story on byvi.co - link in bio.  #solofounder #startups #buildinpublic #indiehackers #techfounders
Stripe’s Q2 2026 data: 63% of new startups are solo founders. An all-time high.  Same data, second chart: the median solo founder’s first-six-month revenue is down 23%. The top 10% are up 19%. The gap between them is 61×, up from 34× in 2022.  Here’s 5 things the founders pulling ahead do:  1. Ship before you’re ready
2. Go global on day one
3. Own a niche too small to fight over
4. Build the audience before the product
5. Obsess over retention  Full story on byvi.co - link in bio.  #solofounder #startups #buildinpublic #indiehackers #techfounders
Stripe’s Q2 2026 data: 63% of new startups are solo founders. An all-time high.  Same data, second chart: the median solo founder’s first-six-month revenue is down 23%. The top 10% are up 19%. The gap between them is 61×, up from 34× in 2022.  Here’s 5 things the founders pulling ahead do:  1. Ship before you’re ready
2. Go global on day one
3. Own a niche too small to fight over
4. Build the audience before the product
5. Obsess over retention  Full story on byvi.co - link in bio.  #solofounder #startups #buildinpublic #indiehackers #techfounders
Stripe’s Q2 2026 data: 63% of new startups are solo founders. An all-time high.  Same data, second chart: the median solo founder’s first-six-month revenue is down 23%. The top 10% are up 19%. The gap between them is 61×, up from 34× in 2022.  Here’s 5 things the founders pulling ahead do:  1. Ship before you’re ready
2. Go global on day one
3. Own a niche too small to fight over
4. Build the audience before the product
5. Obsess over retention  Full story on byvi.co - link in bio.  #solofounder #startups #buildinpublic #indiehackers #techfounders
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Stripe’s Q2 2026 data: 63% of new startups are solo founders. An all-time high. Same data, second chart: the median solo founder’s first-six-month revenue is down 23%. The top 10% are up 19%. The gap between them is 61×, up from 34× in 2022. Here’s 5 things the founders pulling ahead do: 1. Ship before you’re ready 2. Go global on day one 3. Own a niche too small to fight over 4. Build the audience before the product 5. Obsess over retention Full story on byvi.co - link in bio. #solofounder #startups #buildinpublic #indiehackers #techfounders
2 weeks ago
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Everyone tells early founders to chase the big city and the big round. Tom Pischel did the opposite: he stayed in Erin, Ontario (pop. 11,981) and built @localxp.ca a community map that shows you what’s actually going on in your town right now.  His 4 lessons work in any market you actually live in:  1. Build for problems you inhabit
2. Let user behavior override your favorite feature
3. Target the market incumbents skip
4. Bootstrap for conviction  The moat most startups miss is proximity. 
Read the full story on byvi.co (link in bio).  #founderstory #bootstrapping #localbusinessmap #solofounder #startupstories
Everyone tells early founders to chase the big city and the big round. Tom Pischel did the opposite: he stayed in Erin, Ontario (pop. 11,981) and built @localxp.ca a community map that shows you what’s actually going on in your town right now.  His 4 lessons work in any market you actually live in:  1. Build for problems you inhabit
2. Let user behavior override your favorite feature
3. Target the market incumbents skip
4. Bootstrap for conviction  The moat most startups miss is proximity. 
Read the full story on byvi.co (link in bio).  #founderstory #bootstrapping #localbusinessmap #solofounder #startupstories
Everyone tells early founders to chase the big city and the big round. Tom Pischel did the opposite: he stayed in Erin, Ontario (pop. 11,981) and built @localxp.ca a community map that shows you what’s actually going on in your town right now.  His 4 lessons work in any market you actually live in:  1. Build for problems you inhabit
2. Let user behavior override your favorite feature
3. Target the market incumbents skip
4. Bootstrap for conviction  The moat most startups miss is proximity. 
Read the full story on byvi.co (link in bio).  #founderstory #bootstrapping #localbusinessmap #solofounder #startupstories
Everyone tells early founders to chase the big city and the big round. Tom Pischel did the opposite: he stayed in Erin, Ontario (pop. 11,981) and built @localxp.ca a community map that shows you what’s actually going on in your town right now.  His 4 lessons work in any market you actually live in:  1. Build for problems you inhabit
2. Let user behavior override your favorite feature
3. Target the market incumbents skip
4. Bootstrap for conviction  The moat most startups miss is proximity. 
Read the full story on byvi.co (link in bio).  #founderstory #bootstrapping #localbusinessmap #solofounder #startupstories
Everyone tells early founders to chase the big city and the big round. Tom Pischel did the opposite: he stayed in Erin, Ontario (pop. 11,981) and built @localxp.ca a community map that shows you what’s actually going on in your town right now.  His 4 lessons work in any market you actually live in:  1. Build for problems you inhabit
2. Let user behavior override your favorite feature
3. Target the market incumbents skip
4. Bootstrap for conviction  The moat most startups miss is proximity. 
Read the full story on byvi.co (link in bio).  #founderstory #bootstrapping #localbusinessmap #solofounder #startupstories
Everyone tells early founders to chase the big city and the big round. Tom Pischel did the opposite: he stayed in Erin, Ontario (pop. 11,981) and built @localxp.ca a community map that shows you what’s actually going on in your town right now.  His 4 lessons work in any market you actually live in:  1. Build for problems you inhabit
2. Let user behavior override your favorite feature
3. Target the market incumbents skip
4. Bootstrap for conviction  The moat most startups miss is proximity. 
Read the full story on byvi.co (link in bio).  #founderstory #bootstrapping #localbusinessmap #solofounder #startupstories
Everyone tells early founders to chase the big city and the big round. Tom Pischel did the opposite: he stayed in Erin, Ontario (pop. 11,981) and built @localxp.ca a community map that shows you what’s actually going on in your town right now.  His 4 lessons work in any market you actually live in:  1. Build for problems you inhabit
2. Let user behavior override your favorite feature
3. Target the market incumbents skip
4. Bootstrap for conviction  The moat most startups miss is proximity. 
Read the full story on byvi.co (link in bio).  #founderstory #bootstrapping #localbusinessmap #solofounder #startupstories
Everyone tells early founders to chase the big city and the big round. Tom Pischel did the opposite: he stayed in Erin, Ontario (pop. 11,981) and built @localxp.ca a community map that shows you what’s actually going on in your town right now.  His 4 lessons work in any market you actually live in:  1. Build for problems you inhabit
2. Let user behavior override your favorite feature
3. Target the market incumbents skip
4. Bootstrap for conviction  The moat most startups miss is proximity. 
Read the full story on byvi.co (link in bio).  #founderstory #bootstrapping #localbusinessmap #solofounder #startupstories
Everyone tells early founders to chase the big city and the big round. Tom Pischel did the opposite: he stayed in Erin, Ontario (pop. 11,981) and built @localxp.ca a community map that shows you what’s actually going on in your town right now.  His 4 lessons work in any market you actually live in:  1. Build for problems you inhabit
2. Let user behavior override your favorite feature
3. Target the market incumbents skip
4. Bootstrap for conviction  The moat most startups miss is proximity. 
Read the full story on byvi.co (link in bio).  #founderstory #bootstrapping #localbusinessmap #solofounder #startupstories
Everyone tells early founders to chase the big city and the big round. Tom Pischel did the opposite: he stayed in Erin, Ontario (pop. 11,981) and built @localxp.ca a community map that shows you what’s actually going on in your town right now.  His 4 lessons work in any market you actually live in:  1. Build for problems you inhabit
2. Let user behavior override your favorite feature
3. Target the market incumbents skip
4. Bootstrap for conviction  The moat most startups miss is proximity. 
Read the full story on byvi.co (link in bio).  #founderstory #bootstrapping #localbusinessmap #solofounder #startupstories
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Everyone tells early founders to chase the big city and the big round. Tom Pischel did the opposite: he stayed in Erin, Ontario (pop. 11,981) and built @localxp.ca a community map that shows you what’s actually going on in your town right now. His 4 lessons work in any market you actually live in: 1. Build for problems you inhabit 2. Let user behavior override your favorite feature 3. Target the market incumbents skip 4. Bootstrap for conviction The moat most startups miss is proximity. Read the full story on byvi.co (link in bio). #founderstory #bootstrapping #localbusinessmap #solofounder #startupstories
3 weeks ago
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5/9
You can’t teach someone to start a startup. You learn it by doing.  Paul Graham’s new essay makes a quietly radical case: the best prep for founders isn’t an “entrepreneurship” curriculum or a business plan competition. It’s getting genuinely good at building things, and building them out of real interest, not because you’re chasing a startup idea.  #paulgraham #firsttimefounder #ycombinator #entrepreneurship #startupadvice
You can’t teach someone to start a startup. You learn it by doing.  Paul Graham’s new essay makes a quietly radical case: the best prep for founders isn’t an “entrepreneurship” curriculum or a business plan competition. It’s getting genuinely good at building things, and building them out of real interest, not because you’re chasing a startup idea.  #paulgraham #firsttimefounder #ycombinator #entrepreneurship #startupadvice
You can’t teach someone to start a startup. You learn it by doing.  Paul Graham’s new essay makes a quietly radical case: the best prep for founders isn’t an “entrepreneurship” curriculum or a business plan competition. It’s getting genuinely good at building things, and building them out of real interest, not because you’re chasing a startup idea.  #paulgraham #firsttimefounder #ycombinator #entrepreneurship #startupadvice
You can’t teach someone to start a startup. You learn it by doing.  Paul Graham’s new essay makes a quietly radical case: the best prep for founders isn’t an “entrepreneurship” curriculum or a business plan competition. It’s getting genuinely good at building things, and building them out of real interest, not because you’re chasing a startup idea.  #paulgraham #firsttimefounder #ycombinator #entrepreneurship #startupadvice
You can’t teach someone to start a startup. You learn it by doing.  Paul Graham’s new essay makes a quietly radical case: the best prep for founders isn’t an “entrepreneurship” curriculum or a business plan competition. It’s getting genuinely good at building things, and building them out of real interest, not because you’re chasing a startup idea.  #paulgraham #firsttimefounder #ycombinator #entrepreneurship #startupadvice
You can’t teach someone to start a startup. You learn it by doing.  Paul Graham’s new essay makes a quietly radical case: the best prep for founders isn’t an “entrepreneurship” curriculum or a business plan competition. It’s getting genuinely good at building things, and building them out of real interest, not because you’re chasing a startup idea.  #paulgraham #firsttimefounder #ycombinator #entrepreneurship #startupadvice
You can’t teach someone to start a startup. You learn it by doing.  Paul Graham’s new essay makes a quietly radical case: the best prep for founders isn’t an “entrepreneurship” curriculum or a business plan competition. It’s getting genuinely good at building things, and building them out of real interest, not because you’re chasing a startup idea.  #paulgraham #firsttimefounder #ycombinator #entrepreneurship #startupadvice
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You can’t teach someone to start a startup. You learn it by doing. Paul Graham’s new essay makes a quietly radical case: the best prep for founders isn’t an “entrepreneurship” curriculum or a business plan competition. It’s getting genuinely good at building things, and building them out of real interest, not because you’re chasing a startup idea. #paulgraham #firsttimefounder #ycombinator #entrepreneurship #startupadvice
4 weeks ago
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They told them to leave for San Francisco.  They built it in Ottawa instead.  Builders Collective started because a group of students kept watching sharp people get told the same thing: the opportunity is somewhere else. So instead of asking where to move, they asked why they couldn’t just build the community they wanted, right where they already were.  Now it’s students shipping real products. An AI resume builder. A webring linking Ottawa’s builders. A farm robot with $225K in letters of intent.  The advice isn’t wrong. 57% of U.S. venture dollars went to the Bay Area in 2024. Geography matters.  But there’s a difference between “SF might be the best place to scale this” and “you can’t start until you’re in SF.” One is a strategy. The other keeps you in planning for years.  Builders Collective proves that you don’t need an ecosystem’s permission to start. You can just build the ecosystem around you.  Full story on byvi, link in bio  #ottawatech #buildinpublic #studentfounders #startupcanada #builderscollective
They told them to leave for San Francisco.  They built it in Ottawa instead.  Builders Collective started because a group of students kept watching sharp people get told the same thing: the opportunity is somewhere else. So instead of asking where to move, they asked why they couldn’t just build the community they wanted, right where they already were.  Now it’s students shipping real products. An AI resume builder. A webring linking Ottawa’s builders. A farm robot with $225K in letters of intent.  The advice isn’t wrong. 57% of U.S. venture dollars went to the Bay Area in 2024. Geography matters.  But there’s a difference between “SF might be the best place to scale this” and “you can’t start until you’re in SF.” One is a strategy. The other keeps you in planning for years.  Builders Collective proves that you don’t need an ecosystem’s permission to start. You can just build the ecosystem around you.  Full story on byvi, link in bio  #ottawatech #buildinpublic #studentfounders #startupcanada #builderscollective
They told them to leave for San Francisco.  They built it in Ottawa instead.  Builders Collective started because a group of students kept watching sharp people get told the same thing: the opportunity is somewhere else. So instead of asking where to move, they asked why they couldn’t just build the community they wanted, right where they already were.  Now it’s students shipping real products. An AI resume builder. A webring linking Ottawa’s builders. A farm robot with $225K in letters of intent.  The advice isn’t wrong. 57% of U.S. venture dollars went to the Bay Area in 2024. Geography matters.  But there’s a difference between “SF might be the best place to scale this” and “you can’t start until you’re in SF.” One is a strategy. The other keeps you in planning for years.  Builders Collective proves that you don’t need an ecosystem’s permission to start. You can just build the ecosystem around you.  Full story on byvi, link in bio  #ottawatech #buildinpublic #studentfounders #startupcanada #builderscollective
They told them to leave for San Francisco.  They built it in Ottawa instead.  Builders Collective started because a group of students kept watching sharp people get told the same thing: the opportunity is somewhere else. So instead of asking where to move, they asked why they couldn’t just build the community they wanted, right where they already were.  Now it’s students shipping real products. An AI resume builder. A webring linking Ottawa’s builders. A farm robot with $225K in letters of intent.  The advice isn’t wrong. 57% of U.S. venture dollars went to the Bay Area in 2024. Geography matters.  But there’s a difference between “SF might be the best place to scale this” and “you can’t start until you’re in SF.” One is a strategy. The other keeps you in planning for years.  Builders Collective proves that you don’t need an ecosystem’s permission to start. You can just build the ecosystem around you.  Full story on byvi, link in bio  #ottawatech #buildinpublic #studentfounders #startupcanada #builderscollective
They told them to leave for San Francisco.  They built it in Ottawa instead.  Builders Collective started because a group of students kept watching sharp people get told the same thing: the opportunity is somewhere else. So instead of asking where to move, they asked why they couldn’t just build the community they wanted, right where they already were.  Now it’s students shipping real products. An AI resume builder. A webring linking Ottawa’s builders. A farm robot with $225K in letters of intent.  The advice isn’t wrong. 57% of U.S. venture dollars went to the Bay Area in 2024. Geography matters.  But there’s a difference between “SF might be the best place to scale this” and “you can’t start until you’re in SF.” One is a strategy. The other keeps you in planning for years.  Builders Collective proves that you don’t need an ecosystem’s permission to start. You can just build the ecosystem around you.  Full story on byvi, link in bio  #ottawatech #buildinpublic #studentfounders #startupcanada #builderscollective
They told them to leave for San Francisco.  They built it in Ottawa instead.  Builders Collective started because a group of students kept watching sharp people get told the same thing: the opportunity is somewhere else. So instead of asking where to move, they asked why they couldn’t just build the community they wanted, right where they already were.  Now it’s students shipping real products. An AI resume builder. A webring linking Ottawa’s builders. A farm robot with $225K in letters of intent.  The advice isn’t wrong. 57% of U.S. venture dollars went to the Bay Area in 2024. Geography matters.  But there’s a difference between “SF might be the best place to scale this” and “you can’t start until you’re in SF.” One is a strategy. The other keeps you in planning for years.  Builders Collective proves that you don’t need an ecosystem’s permission to start. You can just build the ecosystem around you.  Full story on byvi, link in bio  #ottawatech #buildinpublic #studentfounders #startupcanada #builderscollective
They told them to leave for San Francisco.  They built it in Ottawa instead.  Builders Collective started because a group of students kept watching sharp people get told the same thing: the opportunity is somewhere else. So instead of asking where to move, they asked why they couldn’t just build the community they wanted, right where they already were.  Now it’s students shipping real products. An AI resume builder. A webring linking Ottawa’s builders. A farm robot with $225K in letters of intent.  The advice isn’t wrong. 57% of U.S. venture dollars went to the Bay Area in 2024. Geography matters.  But there’s a difference between “SF might be the best place to scale this” and “you can’t start until you’re in SF.” One is a strategy. The other keeps you in planning for years.  Builders Collective proves that you don’t need an ecosystem’s permission to start. You can just build the ecosystem around you.  Full story on byvi, link in bio  #ottawatech #buildinpublic #studentfounders #startupcanada #builderscollective
They told them to leave for San Francisco.  They built it in Ottawa instead.  Builders Collective started because a group of students kept watching sharp people get told the same thing: the opportunity is somewhere else. So instead of asking where to move, they asked why they couldn’t just build the community they wanted, right where they already were.  Now it’s students shipping real products. An AI resume builder. A webring linking Ottawa’s builders. A farm robot with $225K in letters of intent.  The advice isn’t wrong. 57% of U.S. venture dollars went to the Bay Area in 2024. Geography matters.  But there’s a difference between “SF might be the best place to scale this” and “you can’t start until you’re in SF.” One is a strategy. The other keeps you in planning for years.  Builders Collective proves that you don’t need an ecosystem’s permission to start. You can just build the ecosystem around you.  Full story on byvi, link in bio  #ottawatech #buildinpublic #studentfounders #startupcanada #builderscollective
They told them to leave for San Francisco.  They built it in Ottawa instead.  Builders Collective started because a group of students kept watching sharp people get told the same thing: the opportunity is somewhere else. So instead of asking where to move, they asked why they couldn’t just build the community they wanted, right where they already were.  Now it’s students shipping real products. An AI resume builder. A webring linking Ottawa’s builders. A farm robot with $225K in letters of intent.  The advice isn’t wrong. 57% of U.S. venture dollars went to the Bay Area in 2024. Geography matters.  But there’s a difference between “SF might be the best place to scale this” and “you can’t start until you’re in SF.” One is a strategy. The other keeps you in planning for years.  Builders Collective proves that you don’t need an ecosystem’s permission to start. You can just build the ecosystem around you.  Full story on byvi, link in bio  #ottawatech #buildinpublic #studentfounders #startupcanada #builderscollective
They told them to leave for San Francisco.  They built it in Ottawa instead.  Builders Collective started because a group of students kept watching sharp people get told the same thing: the opportunity is somewhere else. So instead of asking where to move, they asked why they couldn’t just build the community they wanted, right where they already were.  Now it’s students shipping real products. An AI resume builder. A webring linking Ottawa’s builders. A farm robot with $225K in letters of intent.  The advice isn’t wrong. 57% of U.S. venture dollars went to the Bay Area in 2024. Geography matters.  But there’s a difference between “SF might be the best place to scale this” and “you can’t start until you’re in SF.” One is a strategy. The other keeps you in planning for years.  Builders Collective proves that you don’t need an ecosystem’s permission to start. You can just build the ecosystem around you.  Full story on byvi, link in bio  #ottawatech #buildinpublic #studentfounders #startupcanada #builderscollective
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They told them to leave for San Francisco. They built it in Ottawa instead. Builders Collective started because a group of students kept watching sharp people get told the same thing: the opportunity is somewhere else. So instead of asking where to move, they asked why they couldn’t just build the community they wanted, right where they already were. Now it’s students shipping real products. An AI resume builder. A webring linking Ottawa’s builders. A farm robot with $225K in letters of intent. The advice isn’t wrong. 57% of U.S. venture dollars went to the Bay Area in 2024. Geography matters. But there’s a difference between “SF might be the best place to scale this” and “you can’t start until you’re in SF.” One is a strategy. The other keeps you in planning for years. Builders Collective proves that you don’t need an ecosystem’s permission to start. You can just build the ecosystem around you. Full story on byvi, link in bio #ottawatech #buildinpublic #studentfounders #startupcanada #builderscollective
4 weeks ago
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7/9
A 2-month-old startup, with a garage for a factory, just reminded me how a company is actually supposed to start.  Most founders build first and understand their customer later. This team at Tandem Robotics did the opposite.  Take their farm robot away for maintenance, and farmers call asking how fast they can have it back.  But the robot isn’t the story.  It’s how these founders earned the right to build it, before they wrote a single line of code.  There’s so much any early founder can steal here, no matter what you’re building.  I broke it all down.  Swipe to the end, the last slide is the part most founders learn too late.  #robotics #organicfarming #startuplessons #farmrobotics #farmrobots
A 2-month-old startup, with a garage for a factory, just reminded me how a company is actually supposed to start.  Most founders build first and understand their customer later. This team at Tandem Robotics did the opposite.  Take their farm robot away for maintenance, and farmers call asking how fast they can have it back.  But the robot isn’t the story.  It’s how these founders earned the right to build it, before they wrote a single line of code.  There’s so much any early founder can steal here, no matter what you’re building.  I broke it all down.  Swipe to the end, the last slide is the part most founders learn too late.  #robotics #organicfarming #startuplessons #farmrobotics #farmrobots
A 2-month-old startup, with a garage for a factory, just reminded me how a company is actually supposed to start.  Most founders build first and understand their customer later. This team at Tandem Robotics did the opposite.  Take their farm robot away for maintenance, and farmers call asking how fast they can have it back.  But the robot isn’t the story.  It’s how these founders earned the right to build it, before they wrote a single line of code.  There’s so much any early founder can steal here, no matter what you’re building.  I broke it all down.  Swipe to the end, the last slide is the part most founders learn too late.  #robotics #organicfarming #startuplessons #farmrobotics #farmrobots
A 2-month-old startup, with a garage for a factory, just reminded me how a company is actually supposed to start.  Most founders build first and understand their customer later. This team at Tandem Robotics did the opposite.  Take their farm robot away for maintenance, and farmers call asking how fast they can have it back.  But the robot isn’t the story.  It’s how these founders earned the right to build it, before they wrote a single line of code.  There’s so much any early founder can steal here, no matter what you’re building.  I broke it all down.  Swipe to the end, the last slide is the part most founders learn too late.  #robotics #organicfarming #startuplessons #farmrobotics #farmrobots
A 2-month-old startup, with a garage for a factory, just reminded me how a company is actually supposed to start.  Most founders build first and understand their customer later. This team at Tandem Robotics did the opposite.  Take their farm robot away for maintenance, and farmers call asking how fast they can have it back.  But the robot isn’t the story.  It’s how these founders earned the right to build it, before they wrote a single line of code.  There’s so much any early founder can steal here, no matter what you’re building.  I broke it all down.  Swipe to the end, the last slide is the part most founders learn too late.  #robotics #organicfarming #startuplessons #farmrobotics #farmrobots
A 2-month-old startup, with a garage for a factory, just reminded me how a company is actually supposed to start.  Most founders build first and understand their customer later. This team at Tandem Robotics did the opposite.  Take their farm robot away for maintenance, and farmers call asking how fast they can have it back.  But the robot isn’t the story.  It’s how these founders earned the right to build it, before they wrote a single line of code.  There’s so much any early founder can steal here, no matter what you’re building.  I broke it all down.  Swipe to the end, the last slide is the part most founders learn too late.  #robotics #organicfarming #startuplessons #farmrobotics #farmrobots
A 2-month-old startup, with a garage for a factory, just reminded me how a company is actually supposed to start.  Most founders build first and understand their customer later. This team at Tandem Robotics did the opposite.  Take their farm robot away for maintenance, and farmers call asking how fast they can have it back.  But the robot isn’t the story.  It’s how these founders earned the right to build it, before they wrote a single line of code.  There’s so much any early founder can steal here, no matter what you’re building.  I broke it all down.  Swipe to the end, the last slide is the part most founders learn too late.  #robotics #organicfarming #startuplessons #farmrobotics #farmrobots
A 2-month-old startup, with a garage for a factory, just reminded me how a company is actually supposed to start.  Most founders build first and understand their customer later. This team at Tandem Robotics did the opposite.  Take their farm robot away for maintenance, and farmers call asking how fast they can have it back.  But the robot isn’t the story.  It’s how these founders earned the right to build it, before they wrote a single line of code.  There’s so much any early founder can steal here, no matter what you’re building.  I broke it all down.  Swipe to the end, the last slide is the part most founders learn too late.  #robotics #organicfarming #startuplessons #farmrobotics #farmrobots
A 2-month-old startup, with a garage for a factory, just reminded me how a company is actually supposed to start.  Most founders build first and understand their customer later. This team at Tandem Robotics did the opposite.  Take their farm robot away for maintenance, and farmers call asking how fast they can have it back.  But the robot isn’t the story.  It’s how these founders earned the right to build it, before they wrote a single line of code.  There’s so much any early founder can steal here, no matter what you’re building.  I broke it all down.  Swipe to the end, the last slide is the part most founders learn too late.  #robotics #organicfarming #startuplessons #farmrobotics #farmrobots
A 2-month-old startup, with a garage for a factory, just reminded me how a company is actually supposed to start.  Most founders build first and understand their customer later. This team at Tandem Robotics did the opposite.  Take their farm robot away for maintenance, and farmers call asking how fast they can have it back.  But the robot isn’t the story.  It’s how these founders earned the right to build it, before they wrote a single line of code.  There’s so much any early founder can steal here, no matter what you’re building.  I broke it all down.  Swipe to the end, the last slide is the part most founders learn too late.  #robotics #organicfarming #startuplessons #farmrobotics #farmrobots
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A 2-month-old startup, with a garage for a factory, just reminded me how a company is actually supposed to start. Most founders build first and understand their customer later. This team at Tandem Robotics did the opposite. Take their farm robot away for maintenance, and farmers call asking how fast they can have it back. But the robot isn’t the story. It’s how these founders earned the right to build it, before they wrote a single line of code. There’s so much any early founder can steal here, no matter what you’re building. I broke it all down. Swipe to the end, the last slide is the part most founders learn too late. #robotics #organicfarming #startuplessons #farmrobotics #farmrobots
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At @shopify Builder Sundays, we watched 8 builders demo what they made.  The biggest takeaway? None of them waited for the perfect moment. They put something into the world before they had the answers. 👏👏👏  If you’re building in Ottawa, Montreal, or Toronto, this is a pretty powerful place to start.  Full story on BYVI. Link in bio.  #BuilderSundays #Shopify #OttawaTech #StartupLife #indiehackers
At @shopify Builder Sundays, we watched 8 builders demo what they made.  The biggest takeaway? None of them waited for the perfect moment. They put something into the world before they had the answers. 👏👏👏  If you’re building in Ottawa, Montreal, or Toronto, this is a pretty powerful place to start.  Full story on BYVI. Link in bio.  #BuilderSundays #Shopify #OttawaTech #StartupLife #indiehackers
At @shopify Builder Sundays, we watched 8 builders demo what they made.  The biggest takeaway? None of them waited for the perfect moment. They put something into the world before they had the answers. 👏👏👏  If you’re building in Ottawa, Montreal, or Toronto, this is a pretty powerful place to start.  Full story on BYVI. Link in bio.  #BuilderSundays #Shopify #OttawaTech #StartupLife #indiehackers
At @shopify Builder Sundays, we watched 8 builders demo what they made.  The biggest takeaway? None of them waited for the perfect moment. They put something into the world before they had the answers. 👏👏👏  If you’re building in Ottawa, Montreal, or Toronto, this is a pretty powerful place to start.  Full story on BYVI. Link in bio.  #BuilderSundays #Shopify #OttawaTech #StartupLife #indiehackers
At @shopify Builder Sundays, we watched 8 builders demo what they made.  The biggest takeaway? None of them waited for the perfect moment. They put something into the world before they had the answers. 👏👏👏  If you’re building in Ottawa, Montreal, or Toronto, this is a pretty powerful place to start.  Full story on BYVI. Link in bio.  #BuilderSundays #Shopify #OttawaTech #StartupLife #indiehackers
At @shopify Builder Sundays, we watched 8 builders demo what they made.  The biggest takeaway? None of them waited for the perfect moment. They put something into the world before they had the answers. 👏👏👏  If you’re building in Ottawa, Montreal, or Toronto, this is a pretty powerful place to start.  Full story on BYVI. Link in bio.  #BuilderSundays #Shopify #OttawaTech #StartupLife #indiehackers
At @shopify Builder Sundays, we watched 8 builders demo what they made.  The biggest takeaway? None of them waited for the perfect moment. They put something into the world before they had the answers. 👏👏👏  If you’re building in Ottawa, Montreal, or Toronto, this is a pretty powerful place to start.  Full story on BYVI. Link in bio.  #BuilderSundays #Shopify #OttawaTech #StartupLife #indiehackers
At @shopify Builder Sundays, we watched 8 builders demo what they made.  The biggest takeaway? None of them waited for the perfect moment. They put something into the world before they had the answers. 👏👏👏  If you’re building in Ottawa, Montreal, or Toronto, this is a pretty powerful place to start.  Full story on BYVI. Link in bio.  #BuilderSundays #Shopify #OttawaTech #StartupLife #indiehackers
At @shopify Builder Sundays, we watched 8 builders demo what they made.  The biggest takeaway? None of them waited for the perfect moment. They put something into the world before they had the answers. 👏👏👏  If you’re building in Ottawa, Montreal, or Toronto, this is a pretty powerful place to start.  Full story on BYVI. Link in bio.  #BuilderSundays #Shopify #OttawaTech #StartupLife #indiehackers
At @shopify Builder Sundays, we watched 8 builders demo what they made.  The biggest takeaway? None of them waited for the perfect moment. They put something into the world before they had the answers. 👏👏👏  If you’re building in Ottawa, Montreal, or Toronto, this is a pretty powerful place to start.  Full story on BYVI. Link in bio.  #BuilderSundays #Shopify #OttawaTech #StartupLife #indiehackers
At @shopify Builder Sundays, we watched 8 builders demo what they made.  The biggest takeaway? None of them waited for the perfect moment. They put something into the world before they had the answers. 👏👏👏  If you’re building in Ottawa, Montreal, or Toronto, this is a pretty powerful place to start.  Full story on BYVI. Link in bio.  #BuilderSundays #Shopify #OttawaTech #StartupLife #indiehackers
At @shopify Builder Sundays, we watched 8 builders demo what they made.  The biggest takeaway? None of them waited for the perfect moment. They put something into the world before they had the answers. 👏👏👏  If you’re building in Ottawa, Montreal, or Toronto, this is a pretty powerful place to start.  Full story on BYVI. Link in bio.  #BuilderSundays #Shopify #OttawaTech #StartupLife #indiehackers
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At @shopify Builder Sundays, we watched 8 builders demo what they made. The biggest takeaway? None of them waited for the perfect moment. They put something into the world before they had the answers. 👏👏👏 If you’re building in Ottawa, Montreal, or Toronto, this is a pretty powerful place to start. Full story on BYVI. Link in bio. #BuilderSundays #Shopify #OttawaTech #StartupLife #indiehackers
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