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Last week I posted an open question on X and LinkedIn.

Ask me anything.

I got hundreds of replies.

Some were easy. Some made me sit with them longer than I expected.

Here are my answers to the best 10 👇🏼

The top 10 questions:

1 - "What did you do when your app hit a plateau? Like it stopped growing." — @Orelzman

First, I try to figure out if it's a product problem or a distribution problem.

Then I go all in to solve that bottleneck. SuperX.so stalled for a while.

Then we went back to building, my strategy is simple, try to make sure the product is x10 better than competition. Solved the bottleneck and recently crossed $30k MRR.

Read the full growth story here.

2 - "How did you pick the first product to stick with? And at what point in that business did you feel it was okay to move onto a new idea?" — Jenise A.

It was part of a series of 10 products shipped over 4 months. Tweet Hunter was the first one that stuck because it was the first one where I felt natural traction.

Growth was the signal.

When users came back without prompting, I knew I had something worth pushing.

As for when it was okay to move on: You rarely move on from a growing business. I only moved on after I sold it.

"What things did you do differently at each MRR milestone — 0 to 1k, 1k to 10k, 10k to 50k, 50k to 100k, 100k to 1M?" — @natnaelgirma27

0 to 1k: pure outreach and posting daily. You do everything manually.

1k to 10k: find one channel that works. Kill everything else.

10k to 50k: build systems. Mostly SEO and Ads. The product needs to grow without you being in every conversation.

50k to 100k: affiliates, SEO, partnerships. You need channels that compound.

100k to 1M: I'll tell you when all 5 products get there. Still working on it.

"Starting today from $0 and 0 followers — what would be your system and why?" "How do you validate an idea within a week (or even a month) without having a big following among your target audience?" "How do you find and validate your SaaS ideas? Do you have a specific framework for Pain Mining? And how did you get your first 100 customers for your very first SaaS? — @IAmSandroSaric, Martin Dimmler & Fuat Sezer

I wrote the full playbook on this.

Read the full edition: If I had to start over in 2026…

"How many failures before you found success? What was the one change that flipped the switch from failing to achieving?" — @zeroxtoexit

Spent 4 years on 2 startups, then built 10 dead products before Tweet Hunter. The thing that changed was not the product quality. It was building in public.

Timing played a role too.

Tweet Butler failed in 2021 because GPT-3 wasn't ready. I covered all 7 failures in detail here.

"What's the biggest mistake you made that actually cost you real money — not the 'I learned so much' kind, the 'holy shit that hurt' kind." — @LKBuilds

Not going all in on AI projects earlier.

I predicted it, wrote about it, and still didn't move fast enough. That cost me at least a year of compounding.

"At what point do you usually give up on an idea/project?" — Nitish Alluri

The signal is growth rate.

If a product is growing month over month, it gets active attention.

I give up when I've tried changing the acquisition channel, iterated on the core feature, and still can't find anyone who comes back on their own.

Feather.so stalled, so I handed it to Pranav with more shares. I don't let a flat product eat my best hours.

"How do you still find the grit?" — Jeremy Boissinot

Vietnam answered this better than I could have a month ago.

Grit isn't something you manufacture alone. It's something you find when you're around people pursuing the same thing.

When motivation drops, I change my environment.

"How did you get the money to buy your first SaaS?" — Pierre Levi

I used the acquisition money from Tweet Hunter and Taplio to buy Typeframes (which became Revid). Then, Outrank.so and Revid.ai got profitable. I used that money.

Build something profitable first, then acquire with those profits.

Trying to acquire before you have revenue is a much harder path.

"Do you ever feel unsatisfied with your success?" "If you could go back in time and start your journey again, would you do things differently?" — @aliromman_ & @ElitzaVasileva

Never feel satisfied. The dissatisfaction is the fuel.

If I could go back: build in public way earlier.

The distribution is the asset.

These were the two I sat with longest. Worth asking yourself too.

That's it. Thanks for all the questions from both platforms. Some of these made me think harder than I expected.

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There’s nothing more satisfying than finally doing the work you know you should do.

Until next week,

Keep building

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P.S. The two hardest questions to answer were the grit one and the unsatisfied one. Sit with those yourself, you will find a lot about yourself.

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