Day 16 of building @Kadu_AI in public 🧵:

Going to be focusing experimenting with marketing on 3 niche audiences for now, seeing which one performs the best, and focusing on that one.

They are ⬇️:

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@Kadu_AI has launched, now on to the "next step": Figuring out distribution and marketing.

Planning on targeting a niche audience to start off and grow Kadu. Will be sharing my findings and progress as always, so stay tuned 👊

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Day 15 of building @Kadu_AI in public:

Today's the day. Finally releasing Kadu to the public! It's been exactly 30 days since I started, longer than I had hoped, but setbacks are inevitable. Cheers to everyone who's been along for the journey 🎉

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Day 14 of building @Kadu_AI in public:

More product updates today, plus changing my AI prompts to improve 🎯and make sure Kadu generates emails that include a sign off.

Take a look at the updated UI 🔽

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Day 13 of building @Kadu_AI in public:

A lot of smaller miscellaneous product updates today. Plus, updated the landing page to better describe the product and problem we're solving.

Take a look 🔽

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Day 12 of building @Kadu_AI in public:

Finished the save email feature! Users can now save emails, edit them as needed, and come back to them at any time. Next up: connecting Mailchimp with Firebase Auth to automate welcoming new users 🤔

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Day 11 of building @Kadu_AI in public:

Working on a highly requested new feature today: the ability to save your favorite emails generated by Kadu, and come back to them at any time 😎. We love hearing your feedback, so keep them coming!

Take a look 🔽

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Day 9 of building kaduapp .com in public 🧵:

Have a couple product updates to share today, focused on making the experience for first time users as smooth as possible. New sign-ups who churn before ever using your product are scary 😬

Take a look 🔽

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In the early stages of a startup, your job is to move as fast as possible. That means picking tools that will get you from idea to MVP as soon as possible. Don't worry about scaling before you have your first customers.

Here's what we're using for @Kadu_AI 🔽

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Day 7 of building kaduapp .com in public 🧵:

Can't believe it's been a week already. Talked to three early users today, and watched two of them use Kadu live for the first time!

Here are my learnings 🔽

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Day 6 of building kaduapp .com in public:

Kadu is officially live 🥂! We're onboarding the first users to our closed beta today. All the support has been incredible. We'll have more about the journey thus far coming very soon, so stay tuned 👀

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Woke up to this nice little message from Google Cloud 😬. Turns out the default MySQL instance had wayyy too much storage and memory. Accrued over $50 in cost in less than a week.

Remember to read the fine print 😳

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Day 4 of building kaduapp .com in public 🧵:

Spent the day working on the last couple product updates for Kadu, and getting prepared to start onboarding our first users to beta in the coming days 👋! Excited to show what we've been working on and get feedback.

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Day 3 of building kaduapp .com in public 🧵:

Focused on preventing unsafe/offensive output today. AI learns from the past, and as such it has the possibility to perpetuate social biases. As such, it's important to make sure AI isn't being used in malicious ways.

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Day 2 of building kaduapp .com in public 🧵:

There's gonna be days where you feel like you spent way too long on a simple task, and today was one of these days 👇.

The takeaway? It's easy to lose get lost chasing perfection. Focus on releasing and iterating.

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Here is my recap from day 1 of building kaduapp .com in public while working full-time 🧵. It includes a couple product updates and a customer interview.

Let me know if I should switch up this format, and any other advice/feedback. Excited to share this journey.

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I've decided to start building @Kadu_AI in public.

Starting today, I'll be posting daily/bi-daily product and company updates here on twitter.

If you're excited for this, make sure to stay tuned. Here are the three reasons why I've decided to #buildinpublic 🔽