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Jason Cohen @asmartbear.com

You’re building a 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘢𝘯𝘺 not a 𝘎𝘪𝘵𝘏𝘶𝘣 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘫𝘦𝘤𝘵. If 90% of your time is in Visual Studio, don’t claim you’re building a company. (Or 𝘥𝘰 say that, but then 𝘥𝘰 it -- find potential customers, interview, sell, find one marketing channel that works, …)

sep 1, 2025, 8:41 am • 22 1

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Craig Reynolds @craigreynolds.bsky.social

I guess I am missing important context for this post. Like: what makes you think you know what I am building? I am very specifically/intentionally building a GitHub project, and NOT a company.

sep 1, 2025, 7:38 pm • 1 0 • view
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Jason Cohen @asmartbear.com

A mystery wrapped in an enigma!

sep 1, 2025, 8:44 pm • 0 0 • view
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Craig Reynolds @craigreynolds.bsky.social

Just an “unaffiliated researcher” doing his noncommercial thing. A quick look at your profile (etc.) indicates you are a serial entrepreneur. Which is fine. But what caught my eye was what sounded to me like an assumption that everyone else was also an entrepreneur.

sep 1, 2025, 9:26 pm • 2 0 • view
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Jason Cohen @asmartbear.com

What would you suggest? That I start every tweet with a header clearly delineating the context under which the post might apply? Or do you think readers already understand that's always true of every post and article ever written?

sep 2, 2025, 3:52 pm • 0 0 • view