Had a great chat today w/ @Shivam Jha ! Discussed: - his product nawvel + lessons from building (http://nawvel.com) - escaping competition through authenticity - importance of being connected to other founders/independent thinkers - my new project gemz (https://www.gemzapp.ca) - startup accelerators - unconventional thinking amidst traditional education Look forward to running it back again! cheers ✌🏼

Screenshot 1 ^ Screenshot 2: Users are exploring 330 chapters (collection of links) and visiting 125 links on average everyday --- 🔍 Context We launched Nawvel in May. After working on it for 3 months. By August, I stopped using Nawvel with the same intensity. When this happened with the previous 2 versions we built, I took it as a sign. This signalled that we're not going in the right direction. But instead of scrapping it, we pushed a couple features we wanted. And let it sit. For months. We didn't do any SEO. Stopped promoting it on social. Fast forward to today, 6 months later, We had 1,200 users sign up. In the last week. Ngl, pretty cool to see that the right people are finding nawvel. --- @Andrew Kirby, I added the Sunday Synthesis to the library. @Ashmita Vala, 84 people explored "Games to improve design skills" @Siebren de Vos, 84 people explore "UX writing" @Indranil Roy, 120 people explored "Finance & Wealth" @Manu Suraj, 140 people explored "Getting started w/ stocks"

Yo guys! I've started to build out more of this app idea with a couple coding friends called Gemz (https://www.gemzapp.ca) which is essentially trying to be like a new and innovative (+fun) way of connecting to great thinkers you jam with. The website is very freshly up, but the content is currently lackin' a bit. I'm still working on clarifying lots of the ideas via text, new mental models, and video explanations as well. I'd love some fresh perspectives cause I know lots of you have tons of relevant experience copywriting, launching cool products, and doing other great things! - Any frameworks you may have for stuff like this? - What are the best ways you guys like to market/brand things within your niche in a way that drives hype? - (and if you dove into the website and have specific critiques I'd be extra extra stoked.) btw we hope to drop the app in January, so like a 1 month(ish) build up before launch could be solid timing right?

Hey friends! Recently I asked some of you what 30-day challenge might your creator side really benefit from. Many of you want some form of engagement challenge where you would do a cold outreach to people (potential clients, valuable connections, or the like) to take your game to the next level. 💪 So, I want to open up a 30-day cold outreach challenge starting October 16. You select the number. (Any number above 5 is recommended.) Then every week you hit that many people up on DM or email or whatever you prefer as a mode of communication. Tracking is important. This will help for engagement in the challenge + accountability as well as show you how much progress you made. Just so we get an account of all of you, if this sounds like your cup of [preferred drink] comment “I’m in!” on this post. Excited to get this challenge going and I look forward to hearing your wins 🙌

It’s simple. You want to get followers. For followers, you need engagement. For engagement, you need to be engaging. Engaging daily through posting tweets and leaving comments can sound demanding. But it doesn’t have to be. There are frameworks you can use to swiftly engage on Twitter and in turn get your reward. For starters: - Tweet daily - Thread weekly Here are frameworks for threads on Twitter: - "5 things I learned from…" ... my trip to Asia ... learning how to Latin dance ... starting a failed/successful startup ... my conversation with a 90 year old man ... reading The Beginning of Infinity by David Deutsch - Turn articles you read (or write yourself!) into threads Same with in depth summaries of blog posts, podcasts, documentaries, autobiographies, biographies and any book. - "The best of..." ... Tim Ferris Show ... all business podcasts ... Nassim Taleb's books ... Naval Ravikant ... etc. Here are frameworks for individual tweets to post on Twitter: - Quote others People have said some really cool stuff. Why not use their wonderful quotations as a tweet when you can't come up with your own? - Questions Ask intriguing questions. Examples: - Why does it take catastrophe to start a revolution? - I wonder why... Following frameworks isn't enough. With threads you want the reader to: 1. stop scrolling 2. click to read more 3. read your thread till the end 4. hopefully retweet/share your thread  For this, you want your first tweet to spark curiosity. And make the rest of the body fully captivate their attention. And leave them wanting to share what they read with others. Give people what they want. It boils down to human feelings. Whether it sparks curiosity, makes the reader feel good, motivated, inspired, sad but sad in a happy way -- the content is as good as it can spark those magic human feelings.