Build In Public Fellowship

I’m so so stoked for this ⚡️ No excuse now to not have a bot army working for you 24x7 Ask them to do ambitious things to improve your life. 5 example things people can actually do with the Grok Bot marketplace: 1. Skip the blank page. Install a sales / recruiting / ops template in one click, connect your accounts, and start from a working teammate instead of writing instructions from scratch. 2. Clone Haggle Bot energy for your own stack. Same pattern: a bot that reads vendor spend, finds unused seats, and preps negotiation notes. Point it at your Stripe / Notion / inbox. 3. Ship your own bot as a product. Tuned a workflow for weeks? Publish the template. Other people install a copy into their account. Your playbook becomes distribution. 4. Staff a tiny team overnight. Grab an outbound bot, a codebase auditor, and a Notion project bot. They run in parallel on their own computers while you sleep. You only approve the risky steps. 5. Steal a specialist for one job. Need a podcast coach, an X scout, or a changelog-to-posts writer this week? Install that template, run the job, delete it when you’re done. No permanent headcount.

Just hunted GPT-6 Astra on @ProductHunt today 🚀 Check it out: it’s on the home page producthunt.com/products/gpt…

5 ad campaigns became 60. $2.5M in spend. Zero new hires. That's KULINA, a kitchen and dining brand selling in 29 countries. Same team, same payroll, 12x the output. Teams don't 12x their output on the same headcount. Except this one did. Here's what actually changed: 👇

What if it was possible to do your email marketing in Codex itself?!!! @gthartley (founder of @nitrosendx) spent a decade building email companies and still hated doing email marketing. A ton of founders and marketers feel this way. He came back for round 3 and decided to rebuild email around Codex instead of dashboards. Here’s how this is possible ⬇️

The most important piece in this writing is: “A couple days later I was talking to the founder of a startup I'd funded. I began by asking, as I usually do when I meet a founder, what her growth rate was. 93% last month, she said. I pointed out that this meant her net worth was also growing at 93% a month. She was getting richer at a stupendously rapid rate. And yet she hadn't been doing anything bad. The reason her startup was growing so fast was simply that users loved what she'd built. So she could feel from her own experience how wrong that politician was. She wasn't exploiting anyone. Exactly the opposite in fact. The reason her startup was growing so fast was that she and her cofounder had been working their asses off to make their users happy, and as a result the users had been telling their friends. And that gets you exponential growth. Later that day I was talking about her case online, and someone replied that having a few million and growing at 93% a month was radically different from being a billionaire. I suspect many people would agree with this statement. But it turns out not merely to be false, but false in a very illuminating way. So I would like you all to do me a favor please. I would like you to take out your phones and calculate a number. I know this may seem contrived, but I promise it will be useful for you. I'm going to have you do the most common kind of calculation I do as an investor, and the experience will bring home to you what startups are all about. If we interpret his statement in the most conservative way and assume that a few means 2, her company has to grow 500x for her to become a billionaire. So we are going to calculate how many months of 93% growth it takes for something to grow 500x. To do this we want to calculate the log base 1.93 of 500. The easiest way to do that is to go to Google search, which lets you do calculations right in the search box. So go to Google search and type log(500, 1.93). If you typed that right, the answer you get is about 9.45. That is how many months of 93% growth it takes to become a billionaire, starting from 2 million. A couple million and 93% growth are not, in fact, radically different from a billion. They're nine and a half months apart. Now you see why, when I meet a founder, the first thing I ask about is their growth rate. But I don't want anyone to accuse me of using unrealistic numbers, so let's take a more conservative growth rate. Let's see what happens at 15% a month. That's not rare at all. I constantly encounter startups growing at 15% a month. If your revenues grow at 15% a month, how much more will you be making 5 years from now? To calculate that, we need to find 1.15 to the 60th power (since 5 years is 60 months). So go to Google again and this time type 1.15^60. The answer should be about 4384. Meaning in 5 years your startup will be making 4384 times as much. If you're currently making ten thousand a month, in five years you'll be making about 44 million a month, or 526 million a year. And at that point, if you own as much of the company as founders typically do, you will be a billionaire.”

ANNOUNCING: Stoked to share my first AI short film 📺 made on my iPhone Using Gemini Omni that was launched earlier this week Check out: “New Kid” It was my childhood dream to be a storyteller and now thx to AI .. anyone can create What stood out to me w/ Omni: > very easy for beginners like me to go from 0 to 1 > respects reference images > character consistency was epic > the story was mine, refined by chatting with Gemini > built this in 5 scenes each of 10 seconds long and yet didn’t spend much money (overall $49 Google AI Pro) Honorary mention: The edit was done on @capcutapp @GeminiApp @FlowbyGoogle Looking forward to more late night and weekend experiments ❤️

As @PaddleHQ alum and a vibe coder, this is amazing to see Now you can go from idea to app to payments all without breaking your flow Congrats on the launch @Lovable 🔥

We document everything with photos and videos… yet the real family treasure is the voices and stories that usually disappear from one generation to the next. While some worry about Black Mirror futures, Pantio is aiming for thoughtful healing … preserving love and wisdom so it never fades. Incredible work!

🚨 New Hunt Alert 🚨 Excited to be hunting @Netlify. new on @ProductHunt today and proud to be part of the team that built it! The wall between “here’s your code” and “here’s your live app” has always been the hard part. Hosting. Auth. Build configuration. Deployment. That’s where momentum dies. Netlify. new is the prompt-first path that actually ships. → Describe what you want and pick your AI agent from our dropdown (Claude, Gemini, or Codex) → Get a working app on a live production URL in minutes → Iterate in place, no migrating later → Real Netlify infrastructure with forms and serverless functions from day one The builders shipping fastest aren’t setting up more tooling. They’re starting with a prompt. Would love your support and feedback on the PH page 👇​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ producthunt.com/products/net…

On Christmas eve, I got a surprise email from Waela (my EA) who said I had a special gift attached 🎁 It was a video compilation of all of the wonderfully heart-felt messages shared by the founders in the @BIPF_ community It was the best Christmas gift of 2023, perhaps of all time. I almost had tears towards the end and it made me reaffirm my mindset to be an even bigger giver and teacher where ever I go in my next career move Here it is: ⤵️

And that's a WRAP 🎉 Just hosted a final @BIPF_ farewell event to thank and celebrate fellows who supported me on this journey Their kind words filled my heart Founding and running this program and community will always be a highlight of my career 🚀

🚨 Career Update 🚨 Two huge announcements today 👀 1/ I'm winding down @BIPF_ operations by end of Dec 2023 2/ After my founder journey, I'm entering the job market for a full-time position Full scoop below ⤵️

🚨 Announcement 🚨 Introducing a brand new offering from @BIPF_ "Build In Public Crash Course" A fast-paced 5-day actionable program to transform you from being a LURKER to becoming PROLIFIC at building in public 🚀 But wait ⤵️