julianpaul.me/blog/founder-mode-for-ios-mac

Last Friday coffee with the fattest espresso crema you have ever seen. ☕️

If you want to stand out in your business niche, you need to be perceived as the fastest time to value. 

Speed is an entrepreneur's best friend.

» Amplify the difference. «

Would love to get some feedback on the early.tools one-pager. 👀 It's a place to discover waitlist, alpha & beta releases – what could be done better?

What’s a waitlisted product you recently came across and can’t wait to open up? 🤘

Last week, I built member-only early.tools submissions because the demand to list is rising. 📈

If your product is a waitlist, alpha, or beta release, use code TAKE25 to get -25% off all plans.

You can already show deals to up your traffic.

Submit → early.tools/members/submit

Probably one of my favorite things right now... detail expands on every early.tools listing. 👀 Less is more, but when you want more, you're covered – wdyt?

A lil snippet from The Creative Act: A Way of Being. ✧

Luxury is really misunderstood... It's all about:  

emotional benefit > functional benefit.

‣ Who do you aspire to be?
‣ What aligns with your values?
‣ How do you want to get noticed?

This benefit game is so different from selling on competitive advantages…

So early.tools just got its first sponsor. 🤘 And what a perfect fit LaunchList is…

Cheeky update for early.tools with the introduction of an archive – once a tool is not a waitlist, alpha, or beta release, it moves into the archive. 🗃️ 

Gallery launching on the app store after a TestFlight phase is the latest example. 👀

I am falling more and more in love with SwiftUI these days. It's like a movement defined by simplicity.

I am a ruthless user of iOS focus mode from Mon-Fri, 9-7. Interestingly it coincides with Paul Graham’s Founder Mode.

I wrote about how I apply it here: julianpaul.me/blog/founder-mode-for-ios-mac

Just the coolest collection of sound hardware in the smallest space imaginable. 🔮

The internet is a cozy place. 💭 don’t forget to shape your own little corner — your way.

UI card design for founders.menu. 👀 Any feedback regarding layout or business? Personally love the greyscale, but it might do well with a splash of color.

Failure is just figuring out what to do different the next time you try.

I’ve come to realize that any level of startup success you’ll have depends on your ability to be wrong. Hundreds. Thousands of times.

» Wrong teaches right. «

Learn to grow.

I love seeing LinkedIn profiles with a founder committing 10+ years to the same thing. 🤯

The sheer grit that’s needed…

Has my utmost respect.

Just looked at the past 30 days on early.tools and we are getting there – slowly, but steadily building traffic. 🚀

Waiting for success to happen to you? 

» Make sure you happen to it instead. «

Dont do it for the money, status or fame.

Those don’t remain.

Do it for the person you need to become in the process.

Your character remains.

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