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News

Here's the best in founder news from the past few days:

Make a web app in 60 seconds

It's pretty nuts how fast things are moving now.

I found this tool Marblism which spuns up a NextJS app with everything named for you based on a prompt.

So if you want to make something like "a marketplace for tradespeople in London", this tool will make that and write the database table names and give you the code.

Ulric Musset @ulricmusset Generate a web app in 60s from a single prompt 🤖 What are you going to build? 8:37 PM • Jan 25, 2024 2 Retweets 16 Likes Read 2 replies

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Ahrefs guide to getting backlinks

Ahrefs CMO gave a great article and thread on how to get good backlinks.

He covers the best way (make great content people want to link to) to the worst way (begging for guest post link)

Very interesting for boosting your SEO

(I'd add that you can be interviewed by blogs like High Signal!)

Tim Soulo 🇺🇦 @timsoulo How to build backlinks? 🤔 ^ Whenever we do a live Q&A at Ahrefs HQ a good half of questions are about that. Which is not surprising... Adding some relevant keywords to a page (esp. when suggested by a tool) is easy. But getting quality backlinks to it... So here's the… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1750806978140701133 9:4 AM • Jan 26, 2024 3 Retweets 30 Likes Read 6 replies

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French copycats

It's pretty nuts seeing how badly this French tech YouTuber is getting copied.

Every thumbnail is just a blatant rip-off.

Manu.js @Neolectron @tech_foutraque @VoidMai99193888 T'as encore rien vu tech foutraque @tech_foutraque @VoidMai99193888 @Neolectron J'ai grillé un article sur linkedin ça m'a suffit 4:25 PM • Jan 24, 2024 17 Retweets 77 Likes Read 28 replies

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TikTok influencers database

Really impressed at this TikTok Army idea - 70,000 TikTok influencers you can pitch to talk about your product!

TikTok can drive a lot of eyeballs to your page and not all of us are comfortable making videos

Lots of brands are now getting influencers to do their marketing for them e.g. Tabs Chocolate get millions of views every month with their affiliate deals

​Check out TikTok Army (affiliate 😀 )

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Mentorcruise hits $4m GMV

Mentorcruise, a marketplace for finding and offering mentor services, has now generated over $4m in transactions (not revenue)

Dominic was actually the first person I interviewed on High Signal ​

Dominic Monn @dqmonn MentorCruise has made north of $4M for its mentors (we only got onto Stripe about a year in) 9:0 AM • Jan 24, 2024 0 Retweets 24 Likes Read 12 replies

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Funny Tweet of the Week

There are some tools for Twitter and LinkedIn which let you automate replies based on engagement.

I've never used these but one clear drawback is that people can say really crazy things and your bot will still reply to them!

Charlie Light @charliewrich People are figuring out that those auto DM/reply tools have a loophole 3:10 AM • Jan 26, 2024 0 Retweets 39 Likes Read 5 replies

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I hope you enjoyed this newsletter! As always, let me know any thoughts you have.

Cheers,

Pete

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