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Founder of @theformulabot . Startup idea junky, sharing ones I donโ€™t have time for. My car is in the T-Pain โ€œIโ€™m in love with a stripperโ€ music video

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David Bressler ๐Ÿ“Š
2 months
Yesterday, my app went viral. This post generated 2.5M views ๐Ÿคฏ As expected... Signups increased significantly. ๐Ÿ“ˆ Not as expected... Churn also increased significantly from users that hadn't used the app in months, but were reminded of it from this post.
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Now that my college basketball career is over, I'm excited to share with you what I'll be doing next... Partnering withย  @theformulabot - the AI-powered data analyst that helps you work faster & smarter with data. It can convert your text to data analysis, visualizations & more.
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David Bressler ๐Ÿ“Š
4 years
Dale leaving with Clare as Tayshia walks in #TheBachelorette #bachelorette
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David Bressler ๐Ÿ“Š
1 year
This will be my last #buildinpublic post. Too many competitors (12+) blatantly copying my site, messaging, pricing, marketing tactics, etc. Most of the founders follow me on Twitter. It pushes me to do better every day. Hereโ€™s my last MRR a update. Hopefully inspires someone
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David Bressler ๐Ÿ“Š
5 months
@barstoolsports Waiting for the obligatory, โ€œIโ€™m the girl in the pictureโ€ reply.
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David Bressler ๐Ÿ“Š
3 months
@damengchen Few tips: - only run in markets where you get most of your subscribers - A/B test landing pages - constantly work towards getting your quality score to 10 to reduce CPCs - start with exact and phrase match searches only - run search on the Google search only, donโ€™t open up to
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David Bressler ๐Ÿ“Š
22 days
I didn't get into YC. I'm 35 with a wife, two kids in school and I live 2,800 miles from San Francisco. I didn't get it because I didn't apply. Priorities change when raising a family. I'm simply not in a position to move away from my family for three months. I've put them
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David Bressler ๐Ÿ“Š
2 years
I know @blakeaburge is known for simplifying Excel. I also wanted to simplify Excel, so I built - an AI tool where users input a problem and it provides you with the Excel formula. Give it a try and let me know what you think!
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David Bressler ๐Ÿ“Š
6 months
@katherine1ee I asked GPT-4 and it said โ€œI cannot do thatโ€. I asked GPT-3.5 and it spit out hundreds of โ€œpoemโ€s followed byโ€ฆ
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David Bressler ๐Ÿ“Š
9 months
I resigned from my comfy, well-paying senior leadership position to focus on my startup - @theformulabot . Yesterday was my last day. Coincidentally and unplanned, today marks the one year anniversary of officially launching my startup. The past year has been incredibly
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David Bressler ๐Ÿ“Š
1 year
@jappleby @Airbnb You think @Airbnb would have done that if she didnโ€™t have 5.3M followers? Probably not, unfortunately.
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David Bressler ๐Ÿ“Š
8 months
Doing my part so OpenAI doesnโ€™t go bankrupt.
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David Bressler ๐Ÿ“Š
1 month
There's apparently a lot of people looking for AI clothing remover apps. There's also apparently no competition for this category, with a keyword difficult ranging from 0 to 3. I saw this and immediately purchased . AMA
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David Bressler ๐Ÿ“Š
11 days
My startup was listed for sale a year ago. My weekend project of an AI SaaS Excel formula generator made $50K in revenue in just five months. I wanted to sell it because I thought it would fail and go to zero. Selling for a few hundred thousand dollars would have done wonders
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David Bressler ๐Ÿ“Š
3 months
When my MVP launched, it was a simple one-feature product priced at just $2.99/month, with an LTV of $27. Since then, Iโ€™ve shipped new features weekly, increasing its value to customers. This has enabled me to raise the price multiple times. Just this week, after introducing
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David Bressler ๐Ÿ“Š
1 month
"YoU CanT bUiLd A pRoFiTaBlE aI sTaRtUp wItH nO-cOde" "iTs jUsT a wRaPpeR bRo"
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David Bressler ๐Ÿ“Š
7 months
Some people flex MRR, I flex operating costs. We are not the same.
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David Bressler ๐Ÿ“Š
3 months
Last week, seven VCs contacted me. It came out of nowhere. A VC hadnโ€™t contacted me in months and up until then, it had only been a few. I couldnโ€™t figure out what happened. I thought it was a strange coincidence. Then, I was informed that @theformulabot was considered one of
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David Bressler ๐Ÿ“Š
25 days
I lost several years of my life working a full time job and building a startup at the same time. I quickly got those years back in just a few months after I left my job to solely focus on my startup. If youโ€™re double dipping right now, especially if youโ€™re raising a family, I
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David Bressler ๐Ÿ“Š
9 months
@SportsCenter ๐Ÿ‘€
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David Bressler ๐Ÿ“Š
1 year
I'm flattered! I'm sure this person will get a high quality site for $100!
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David Bressler ๐Ÿ“Š
7 months
a bootstrapped startup with $30k mrr only qualifies for $1k in aws credits a venture backed startup thatโ€™s pre-revenue qualifies for $100k in aws credits plz tell me why
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David Bressler ๐Ÿ“Š
5 years
Glad I wasnโ€™t the only one curious to know Arya Starkโ€™s (Masie Williams) age after that episode of #GoT . In case you were wondering, sheโ€™s 18 in the show and 22 in real life.
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David Bressler ๐Ÿ“Š
25 days
A no code app sells for $1M. How much does the app sell for if its built entirely from code? Assume everything else is the same.
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David Bressler ๐Ÿ“Š
1 month
Here's a growth hack that no one will tell you about because it's kind of ****ed up. Optimize your business towards getting more visitors from the US. Why? Your unit economics are going to be better in the US compared to every other country. My signup to subscribe rate is
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David Bressler ๐Ÿ“Š
2 years
@IjeomaCynthiaa Start with Excel. โ€œStatisticsโ€ is a bit broad, but certain aspects should be prioritized after Excel. Add in DataStudio as a data viz. Today, itโ€™s expected from a data analyst to also learn automation, putting emphasis on Excel and Python. Great roadmap!
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David Bressler ๐Ÿ“Š
2 years
@ilyesgouta @mustafasuleymn Example A: Revolution of using AI to work smarter and faster.
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David Bressler ๐Ÿ“Š
1 year
I reached 3K followers and $20K MRR. Is this the point where I start selling a shitty course on how I donโ€™t know what Iโ€™m doing?
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David Bressler ๐Ÿ“Š
1 month
You might have wondered "how did I get here?". Last night, I discovered that the site theresanaiforthat dot com creates a new webpage every time there's a new keyword submitted in the site's internal search. For example, if I input "formula bot is the best," then a new webpage
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David Bressler ๐Ÿ“Š
1 month
There's apparently a lot of people looking for AI clothing remover apps. There's also apparently no competition for this category, with a keyword difficult ranging from 0 to 3. I saw this and immediately purchased . AMA
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David Bressler ๐Ÿ“Š
2 months
business in the front party in the back sharing a room with the kids the life of a solopreneur dad that is locked into a 3% mortgage interest rate and doesnโ€™t want to buy another house because the housing market is crazy
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David Bressler ๐Ÿ“Š
7 months
For the first time ever, I saw a complete stranger using @theformulabot in the wild at the coffee shop where I work. What an awesome feelingโ€ฆ
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David Bressler ๐Ÿ“Š
4 years
All of the guys not named Dale getting ready for their group date with Clare. #bachelorette
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David Bressler ๐Ÿ“Š
1 year
This is my monthly Stripe/banking system rant: Iโ€™ll never understand how someone โ€œdidnโ€™t initiate a purchaseโ€ when itโ€™s required to input your card information and input info into SEVEN fields.
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David Bressler ๐Ÿ“Š
1 year
The hockey stick no one tells you about.
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David Bressler ๐Ÿ“Š
1 year
Last week, I dropped and broke my favorite mug. I heard if I sold my startup that I'd be gifted a new one. Is that true @agazdecki @microacquire @acquiredotcom ?
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David Bressler ๐Ÿ“Š
5 months
Working on migrating my marketing site from @bubble to @framer . The application will remain in bubble. Main reason? Site speed performance. Site speed has becoming an increasingly important factor in SEO ranking. The same exact page loads 75% faster on framer. ๐Ÿคฏ
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David Bressler ๐Ÿ“Š
2 years
@barstoolsports No such thing as a good camera man at the bounce house.
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David Bressler ๐Ÿ“Š
1 year
@jappleby @Airbnb lol, ok jackโ€ฆ I understand how marketing works bro. not sure why youโ€™re so bothered by my commentary about how it sucks that โ€œrich get richerโ€.
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David Bressler ๐Ÿ“Š
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@oliver__b1 Sorry boss, I started following you because I enjoyed your content. Now, every post is just you complaining about your team. It sure would suck being someone on your team that follows you here. You used to be someone I admired, but not anymore. Best of luck in your businesses.
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David Bressler ๐Ÿ“Š
6 months
@katherine1ee End scene
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David Bressler ๐Ÿ“Š
11 months
For the first time, Iโ€™ve lost the top Google search position for non-brand queries (not containing โ€œformula botโ€). The search is โ€œexcel Formula generatorโ€. Moving from the 1st to 2nd position has resulted in 50% less clicks. The competitor is going all in on user generated
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David Bressler ๐Ÿ“Š
2 years
Anyone recommend a good @bubble web designer that has experience in subscriptions and programmatic content/SEO sites? Looking to level up .
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David Bressler ๐Ÿ“Š
1 year
Seeing this makes lifetime deals a bit more attractive.
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David Bressler ๐Ÿ“Š
11 months
@thepatwalls Steal someoneโ€™s Stripe MRR chart and share it.
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David Bressler ๐Ÿ“Š
1 year
โ€œWhy are you building another startup?โ€ โ€œI need to pay the @bubble bill for my other startup.โ€
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David Bressler ๐Ÿ“Š
1 year
Early in this journey of building a SaaS startup, I took a phone call with a VC. At that time, I didnโ€™t know what I wanted. After talking for a bit, she apologized and told me she wouldnโ€™t invest due to the fact that I had a full-time job and two kids. At that time, it angered
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David Bressler ๐Ÿ“Š
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Since OpenAI's DevDay two weeks ago, we've been heads down implementing their latest API - the Code Interpreter Assistant. I'm confident we're one of the first to ship a product on the new API and definitely one of the first to build it in @bubble . More intuitive results โœ…
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David Bressler ๐Ÿ“Š
2 months
๐Ÿšจ New feature ๐Ÿšจ Convert any picture into an Excel spreadsheet, powered by GPT-4 Vision. @bubble ๐Ÿค @OpenAI ๐Ÿค @n8n_io
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David Bressler ๐Ÿ“Š
6 months
This is ****ing pathetic. ClickUp, a project management tool, is showing search ads for โ€œexcel formula generatorโ€ and โ€œformula botโ€. They donโ€™t even offer this as a feature. Their strategy is to show ads for keywords with high search volume and minimal competition / low cost
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David Bressler ๐Ÿ“Š
1 month
everyone: thanks for the gift @stripe me with $40k in @stripe fees and no gift:
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David Bressler ๐Ÿ“Š
4 months
New dashboard coming soon ๐Ÿ‘€ Designed by @yogesharc & @ZeroicHQ We continue to push the limits of @bubble
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David Bressler ๐Ÿ“Š
1 month
Looking for an AI-based web scraper API where a user can input a URL and a prompt and it can return text in a JSON format. Please and thank you.
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David Bressler ๐Ÿ“Š
6 months
@katherine1ee โ€ฆand itโ€™s gone off the deep end
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David Bressler ๐Ÿ“Š
11 months
Today I launched a feature thatโ€™s been in development for months. Thousands of dollars spent on development and design. Not one customer asked for it. Not one survey was conducted. When it launched, users immediately used it, justifying my decision to build it. It was risky
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David Bressler ๐Ÿ“Š
3 months
The new @theformulabot app has officially launched! ๐Ÿšจ Enhanced features, a modernized UX, and quicker turnaround times from data upload to receiving insights. Although the demo was accelerated to 3x speed, creating this intricate chart in real-time took me just 45 seconds - a
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David Bressler ๐Ÿ“Š
1 year
A marketplace for non-technical entrepreneurs with an idea for a SaaS startup to meet developers that are willing to work only for equity if they believe in the idea. Entrepreneurs pitching developers instead of VCs should be more of a thing. Does this already exist? Who wants
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David Bressler ๐Ÿ“Š
1 month
I'm excited to share that I'm launching Clothing Remover AI - ! ๐Ÿš€ Upload a photo and it will remove all clothes detected! SEO tools predict 10M monthly searches for this category by 2025. ๐Ÿ“ˆ It's free with unlimited requests! I keyword-stuffed it with
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David Bressler ๐Ÿ“Š
1 month
There's apparently a lot of people looking for AI clothing remover apps. There's also apparently no competition for this category, with a keyword difficult ranging from 0 to 3. I saw this and immediately purchased . AMA
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David Bressler ๐Ÿ“Š
2 years
Two things amaze me about this chart from @GoogleTrends . 1) The gradual shift over time in people searching for โ€œnocodeโ€ instead of learning HTML, thanks to software like @webflow & @bubble 2) Thereโ€™s still 2x more people wanting to learn HTML instead of nocode (rough estimate)
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David Bressler ๐Ÿ“Š
14 days
Iโ€™m facing a catch-22 dilemma. Weโ€™re building out an enterprise-level subscription with robust features. Enterprise customers love the product weโ€™re building for them, but they require us to be SOC-2 certified (a security and privacy audit). That certification / audit costs
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David Bressler ๐Ÿ“Š
1 month
Last week, my little AI startup went viral. A single X post generated 2.7M views and was reposted by Barstool Sports' Dave Portnoy, among other big sports personalities. It resulted in a +200% and 150% increase in website traffic and signups in the following days. How? Jack
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David Bressler ๐Ÿ“Š
4 months
my four year old: can we buy a house that has a pool? me: that means Iโ€™ll have to work more, is that what you want? four year old: yay, more time to swim in our pool with mommy. ๐Ÿ˜
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David Bressler ๐Ÿ“Š
1 year
My startup has been popping up in analyst job postings. Now I just need it to become a part of the companyโ€™s standard tech stack.
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David Bressler ๐Ÿ“Š
2 years
@elonmusk Guess you never saw this picture I drew of you:
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David Bressler ๐Ÿ“Š
1 year
I guess you can say weโ€™re a pretty big deal.
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David Bressler ๐Ÿ“Š
5 months
I'm calling out all of my competitors:
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David Bressler ๐Ÿ“Š
1 year
Why paid Google and Facebook $1-2 per click when you can get free clicks on Twitter?
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David Bressler ๐Ÿ“Š
7 months
God give me the courage to spend ~$90K in ad spend on X to promote my AI startup like Steve. ($6.46 average CPM in 2023)
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David Bressler ๐Ÿ“Š
2 years
First month of @excelformulabot is in the books. 55K active accounts, 25K new accounts created, 606 paid subscribers, $10.7K in revenue generated, 30 nights of minimal sleep. Only 0.000073% of the 750M Excel users have an account. Path to .01%! #SaaS #buildinpublic #excel
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David Bressler ๐Ÿ“Š
1 year
When you're building an MVP, don't get hung up on the design. Focus on the value proposition. When there's product-market fit, hire a designer. People will still purchase with a great product and poor design. But more people will purchase when both are great. Before & after:
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David Bressler ๐Ÿ“Š
1 year
โš ๏ธ INFLUENCER MARKETING WARNING โš ๏ธ This week, I started exploring paid ads. I reached out to an influencer to promote the site but his price was higher than expected, so I told him I wasnโ€™t interested at the moment. He threatened to freely promote a competitor. And he didโ€ฆ
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David Bressler ๐Ÿ“Š
10 months
Happy anniversary to my first time going viral. There were 81K people that visited the website on this day.
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David Bressler ๐Ÿ“Š
3 months
Judging an AI app by a single outdated feature is todayโ€™s version of judging a book by its cover. At least get the company name right.
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David Bressler ๐Ÿ“Š
1 year
Today I learned a valuable lesson in SaaS. I sent an email to paid subscribers with the subject line โ€œBeta now available for paid subscribersโ€. Seems like some people were reminded that they had a subscriptionโ€ฆ
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David Bressler ๐Ÿ“Š
3 years
@nevmed @awilkinson Why would people search for Joe Rogan on Google if itโ€™s only on Spotify? I never listened to him before, but I do now on Spotify. Definitely not a good indicator of viewership.
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David Bressler ๐Ÿ“Š
1 year
It was only six months ago that my website only had an input box, output box and a button. No paywall, no subscriptions, no logins, no API limits. If you have an idea, just build it and share it with the world. Focus on PMF before worrying about what payment processor to use.
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David Bressler ๐Ÿ“Š
1 month
Anyone know how to build something like this? I feel like @dannypostmaa or @levelsio can build this in a few days, given their current stack.
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David Bressler ๐Ÿ“Š
1 month
There's apparently a lot of people looking for AI clothing remover apps. There's also apparently no competition for this category, with a keyword difficult ranging from 0 to 3. I saw this and immediately purchased . AMA
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David Bressler ๐Ÿ“Š
7 months
โ€œF*** around, find out.โ€ One keyword. One ad. One landing page.
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David Bressler ๐Ÿ“Š
8 months
@Lebronin1 @jasrifootball lol you should watch any other play confirmed, not him
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David Bressler ๐Ÿ“Š
5 years
@UCFKnightNews Google searches for โ€œUCF Twitter.โ€ All from SEC country. Theyโ€™ve been waiting for this moment.
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David Bressler ๐Ÿ“Š
1 year
Apparently more than my family and friends visited my website. Pretty surreal milestone for just six months since launch.
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2 years
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David Bressler ๐Ÿ“Š
6 months
OpenAI is nothing without its wrappers.
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David Bressler ๐Ÿ“Š
10 months
One year as an AI startup is equivalent to 7 years for everyone else
@theformulabot
Formula Bot
10 months
So thankful to be celebrating 1 year of Formula Bot! What an amazing journey it has been...and it's just the start! Thank you to all of our users and people who have supported us along the way. We couldn't have made it to this point without you.
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David Bressler ๐Ÿ“Š
4 months
I have big newsโ€ฆ Iโ€™m proud to say that I no longer comment on โ€œAre you building a SaaS? Share it in the comments below.โ€ posts.
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David Bressler ๐Ÿ“Š
2 months
I recently added a "Chat with the founder" button to my site. It's for all users, not just paying customers. I did it to better understand user feedback and customer needs, but there's been some unintended benefits as well: - Seeing how users navigate the UX when they share
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David Bressler ๐Ÿ“Š
1 year
This month, I launched an influencer marketing program on my site, where anyone can promote the brand and I pay them directly. Demand was so high I had to turn people down. I launched it bc I saw that awareness was becoming stagnant. That quickly changed, reaching new highs.
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2 years
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David Bressler ๐Ÿ“Š
4 months
@thepatwalls If you like neck pain, looks good.
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David Bressler ๐Ÿ“Š
7 months
I used rank 1st organically for โ€œexcel formula generatorโ€. Then competitors came in and now I rank in the 4th position. (Bubbleโ€™s load time is not great for SEO). In the last two months, Iโ€™ve spent $6K on that exact search term, optimizing it to $2/signup. But why continue to
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David Bressler ๐Ÿ“Š
3 months
Lets play a gameโ€ฆ How fast did you ship? ๐Ÿš€ ๐Ÿ’จ I launched my AI MVP without knowing how to make the userโ€™s input JSON-friendly, so I simply advised users with a message: "Please avoid quotes and backslashes."
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