John Rush @johnrush.me · 22/08/2025unless u plan to work for a boss, drop school now, it's a pure waste of time. "but what about networking...???" do this instead: startup incubators, tech twitter, build in public, hackatons. my friends and i did it, and years later, zero regrets 100
John Rush @johnrush.me · 09/07/2025I was a young kid when I first read this, but it changed my life forever ! Ever since people around find me annoying because I always pitch ideas on how to improve, change and build new things. I literally can’t think of anything else. Im addicted to it 010
John Rush @johnrush.me · 27/06/2025The Growth Stack for Busy Founders & Marketers: AI Agents (100% autopilot): > tinyadz.com for b2b ads > seobotai.com for blog SEO > listingbott.com for directory listings & domain rating > indexrusher.com for seo indexing(google, bing, chatgpt) My other agents in making: 100
John Rush @johnrush.me · 26/06/2025My bootstrapped founder report for 2023-2025 - no VCs / Offices / Employees - near a million users & $3m arr - 7 SaaS, 3 AI Agents, 20 Directories, 8 comakers - 200k followers & 0.3 billion views - 52 podcasts & interviews & 4 wins on PH Plans for 2025-2030: 100
John Rush @johnrush.me · 15/06/2025btw, I vibe coded this tiny app with one shot in 69sec, using @lovable idea-gen-johnrushx.lovable.app/ 000
John Rush @johnrush.me · 05/06/2025I Ended Up With Just 0.15% of My Own Startup Beginning It was the year 2013, I was working as a part-time CTO in several software startups in a startup incubator. 🧵 110
John Rush @johnrush.me · 03/06/2025What would I learn to be prepared for 2025-2050 > prompting (some people are 1000x better than others at it) > content creation & storytelling (text, video, visual, audio) > coding (knowing how to code helps to think in problem/solution space) > 🧵 110
John Rush @johnrush.me · 01/06/2025My Starter Story recording is live 🥹 - my story - from a VC-backed founder to a bootstrapper - how I ideate, build, iterate, promote - the comaker model - a must-know tip for bootstrapped founders 220
John Rush @johnrush.me · 30/05/202518. @seobotai we did some progress, but very small, there are so many users that most times goes into support and bug fixes. Been working on programmatic SEO. Gonna launch this after the hackaton and it'll be a banger. Who wants to try this first? 100
John Rush @johnrush.me · 30/05/202516. @marsxdev - AI Coding tools for SaaS and AI Agents - spend this week working with my co-maker who flew in from Seattle - while all vibe coding tools produce landing pages and half-baked apps, our tool produced full blown SaaS and AI Agents (all my products are build on it) 100
John Rush @johnrush.me · 30/05/202512. I updated my directory guide - added 33 case studies about successful directories, how they built it and all the details I found - now I'm working on a little tool that can take all Q&A from discord and push it to my guide automatically johnrush.me/directory-g... 100
John Rush @johnrush.me · 30/05/20259. Did all the research I needed to start building a house with my own hands. The goal is to do it during the summer. I'll record a vid and share then, with all my findings. 100
John Rush @johnrush.me · 30/05/20258. Recorded a video with Pat for a starter story and many other cool podcasts. Having another few next week . I can take 3 more pods, so if you have a cool pod where I can be relevant, let me know, lets record it. 100
John Rush @johnrush.me · 30/05/20257. My maker week in Istanbul has started (3 weeks of non stop work) - all my comakers gonna be here - we will get cool things done while having fun - I'll most likely invite everyone for an open bbq, but I'm not 100% sure it'll happen this time. Cuz we got so much work to hack 100
John Rush @johnrush.me · 30/05/20256. SocialBot is being tested internally. - it'll change the social media game for busy founders - it's not yet another fking AI generator that create garbage replies - it's not even an "AI social media generator", It's your personal PR Agent. Everyone gonna love it, I promise. 100
John Rush @johnrush.me · 30/05/20252. @unicornplatform (website and directory builder). - shipped native analytics inside, available for free for everyone - display seobot posts in the builder - built one-click monetization button via tinyadz - progressed on embedding seobot, indexrusher & listingbott 100
John Rush @johnrush.me · 30/05/20251. TinyAdz.com (b2b ad network for tech) - 1062 websites - over a million views and 72 clicks. - been overpaying for some sites and underpaying for others. Tomorrow I'll recalculate all the sums, deduct estimated payouts, and add refund credits to advertisers for the next month. 100
John Rush @johnrush.me · 29/05/202547. That's it. Let me know if you know more. Here are some of my own startups: ↳ unicornplatform.com website and directory builder ↳ listingbott.com finds all relevant web directories & lists you there ↳ seobotai.com AI Blog generator for SEO ↳ tinyadz.com b2b ad network for tech 000
John Rush @johnrush.me · 26/05/202522. That's it. Give it a try to build a saas landing page, waitlist, web directory, jobboard, launchpad, personal page... -> unicornplatform.com My other 20+ projects -> johnrush.me 000
John Rush @johnrush.me · 26/05/202519. Listings on other directories. Another passive channel that keeps bringing traffic on autopilot. I keep listing on new directories every day I even built a tool that does it for me: @listingbott 100
John Rush @johnrush.me · 26/05/20253. SEO (one of two best channels). I didn't touch it until April 2023; it was my biggest mistake. Today, I do a mix of AI-generated blogs (using @seobotai ), mini tools with @wrapifai. I manually improve winning tools and articles. 100
John Rush @johnrush.me · 26/05/2025I acquired Unicorn Platform for almost $1M. I've literally tried every growth method I've heard of. It all failed until I found what worked & went from 25k to 551k users. All my marketing failures & successes: 120
John Rush @johnrush.me · 25/05/2025I built 30 startups in 20 years. VC-backed, Bootstrapped, Apps, SaaS, B2B, B2C, AI Agents. 99 mistakes I regret making: 1. Doing consumer apps. The Failure rate here is 100x of b2b rates, nearly a lottery. 2. Raising VC money too early. 100
John Rush @johnrush.me · 24/05/202548 days ago, I launched TinyAdz.com I see a huge gap in the "tech B2B ads" it can solve. > millions of small sites/newsletters/blogs/social-accounts lack monetization; > ads are too costly & complex for solopreneurs & small teams Imagine the AI Agent: - creates your ads 🧵 120
John Rush @johnrush.me · 20/05/2025If you wanna be part of my journey, give me advice, help or need an advice/feedback/help, just ask in the comments, I’ve replied every single question I ever received on social media. Lfg 000
John Rush @johnrush.me · 20/05/2025My Startup log from 2005 to 2025, TLDR; > exit > invested > failed > failed > failed > lost investments > failed > scammed by cofounders > failed > failed > investors diluted my 15% to 0.15% > failed > c0vid kllled my tourism startup > failed > failed 120
John Rush @johnrush.me · 15/05/2025If you’re a corporate employee, Cancel your hobbies, Netflix & entertainment. Free up 30h a week to build a $10k+ MRR indie project in the next 3 years. Take it as an existential challenge. You may fail to achieve it, but not trying is the ultimate failure. How to start: 100
John Rush @johnrush.me · 25/11/2024I need help The app and the web don’t show me my posts and every action I make throws “server error”. Been trying for 2 weeks now. Cleaned cache, switch vpn, change the device…nothing helped 020
John Rush @johnrush.me · 20/11/2024I co-founded a startup as CTO, had Lego, McKinsey, and Macy as customers, entered the best b2b accel in the world, moved to SF... But one event turned my 15% stake into 0.15% 🥴: 171
