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by Jaryd Hermann

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The new distribution engine Apple is giving you in 2 months

Your next 1,000 users are inside someone else's app

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The emptiest distribution channel with 800M users

How to get in on this rare opportunity

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Steal this data from Anthropic's 1 million user interviews

The AI labs are telling you exactly what to build

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Latest Ideas

The channel that pays you to use it

How to make $50k a month from the thing that drives your company pipeline

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☕ 5 things to know in 5 minutes

How and why does anti-marketing work? What are three things to ask about any market? Is one extra click your next growth lever? Are you just collecting tactics? And with software factories, what's left for you?

Jaryd Hermann

The new distribution engine Apple is giving you in 2 months

Your next 1,000 users are inside someone else's app

Jaryd Hermann

☕ 5 things to know in 5 minutes

What are the algorithms hiding and rewarding? How are GPUs becoming real estate? What do we need to learn from Anthropic's IPO? Is your app safe? And are you ready for non human shoppers?

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The emptiest distribution channel with 800M users

How to get in on this rare opportunity

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☕ 5 things to know in 5 minutes

Is your roadmap making you worse at everything? How are 2-minute soap operas making $1B? What is the music industry doing with AI? Do your users know what you cost them? And who's financing customers instead of equity?

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Adding ambient AI

How to put AI to work where nobody is looking for it

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Why would a food app become an airline? Are lucky people just the ones who look up? Should you buy your customers instead of selling to them? Why is more code not more product? And Apple just stop selling iPhones?

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Steal this data from Anthropic's 1 million user interviews

The AI labs are telling you exactly what to build

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☕ 5 things to know in 5 minutes

What does a cracked 50-year-old math problem mean? Why was Burberry burning $30M+ in clothes? What was Apple actually selling for 99¢? Are you wasting Fable, and how not to? And why does everything you own keep getting worse?

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How to control what AI says about you

Copy this simple move to enable your best salesman

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Did China just outlaw your retention strategy? What happens when hacking becomes free? What's the cost for staying at the frontier? Which rung of the AI ladder are you on? And is your growth problem actually a you problem?

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The Meme Viable Problem

The simplest way to know if a problem is real, and a 3-step playbook to using it

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☕ 5 things to know in 5 minutes

Why is gaming the key to AGI? Why did a bird-speed app just hit 300K users? Does AI actually destroy jobs? How does FIFA profit more when the big teams advance? And is AI your new storefront, or your replacement?

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