Apoorva Govind
@Appyg99
Founder @BesteverAI. Ex @Ubereats. Previously @Apple. Technology Syster. Substack https://apoorvagovind.substack.com/
We did it! We finally launched video ad generation with @BesteverAI. It's live on Product Hunt today ✨ Managed to get this ad for our friends at Ashley Madison We are a serious company 😅 Really.
What a load of BS. This is the same as saying you're one viral tweet away from becoming an influencer. Successful Ecomm cos work hard on building an organic userbase & consistently experiment w/ tons of ads over & over. A good ad can make $$$, but not build a life-changing biz
Ecomm is wild. Met with a bunch of founders and literally you're one good ad away from a totally different life.
OMG! Coyote spotted in Dogpatch. He looked lost and scared. Poor guy.
We are going to relaunch our site, so I was working on our new brand colors. I was using the usual AI image apps & it was taking forever. In frustration, I started using @BesteverAI even though this wasn't an ad. Gave it full context & generated some mocks. It was FCKING magical
LinkedIn Connection: Hey, let's stay connected. We have so much in common! LinkedIn Connection (1 day later): Hey, wanna buy my managerial coaching? Will level up your leadership. Don't believe me? Ask this account manager from Wells Fargo last month. She loved it!
I was today years old finding out Linear had no way to archive manually, and that they force inactivity to archive something. For a project management tool, not letting people archive for visual cleanliness is such a MISS! Wtf.
I wish all apps offered a "clean up" or "auto archive" feature Gmail: you haven't opened these emails recently, unsubscribe? Linear: no updates on issue for 6 months, it's canceled Could use it for Notion, Superhuman, even X follows Will add in Loops in the future
Sometimes as a founder, you have to sacrifice your family, sanity. You have to suffer humiliation, kiss some frogs until your product turns into a charming prince. Just look at the CEO of Astronomer!
The romanticization of being a startup founder is kind of insane to me: – You’re statistically unlikely to succeed – You’ll have no life and be totally consumed - Incredible lows – You’re locking yourself in for 10+ years This is insanely hard and NOT for everyone.
Who’s building a new Slack? Something clean, minimal and NOT clunky.
The new @SlackHQ API rate limits are absolutely insane: For accessing messages, you can now only make 1 request per minute, with a maximum of 15 messages 🤯 And yes this applies to ALL apps, not just public ones. We can't build internal tools on our OWN data. @Benioff this is…
It's time to use their strength — hoist them by their own petard
How it feels to launch on @ProductHunt on the same day as @OpenAI