Julian Alvarez

what a wild journey it’s been and it’s just getting started 🚀🔥

being on The Pitch Show is one of the best experiences of my life! it's as fun as it is nerve wrecking, and i got some investments from it too! both the team and the investors from The Pitch are amazing ppl, highly recommend applying if you're a founder 🚀

Life’s great if you ignore the people telling you it’s not

throughout my 8+ years as a startup founder, i've tried 15+ ideas and Jungle is the only one that has had good traction so far. the journey is hard as hell but in the moments i struggled the most, i always reminded myself that as long as i... 1) keep learning from every mistake…

Waymo spent 15 years getting from 90% to mostly autonomous. Companies are about to learn the same lesson..

dropped some new screenshots for the Jungle app 🌴 let's see what difference this makes on conversion

it might be cringe to say but it's crazy how much "abundance mindset" really does help you live a happier and wealthier life

crazy how with a single prompt i can take our art style and make super cute birthday cards for the team! 🙈 interesting to think about how AI can be used for building a better culture

Good design is a signal that you care. People prefer products built by people who care. Markets reward good design. The end

The #1 thing you should look for in an investor is conviction.

steve jobs: "you can't plan to meet the people who will change your life"

we launched a feature on Jungle where you can share what you're grateful for before you start a learning session 🙏🏼 BUT... gratitude has nothing to do with our learning app so why did we do this? we believe that building a consumer app isn't just about "solving a problem".…

now is always the time to show tf up

the new footer for the Jungle landing page is looking cute af 🥹 loving this vibe of cute animals learning together part of the idea here is to make learning feel fun, cute, and highlighting the social element of sharing the love of learning with each other

are you team sloth 🦥 or team monkey 🙈

"what do i want?" is one of the simplest yet most powerful questions you can ask yourself. but most people never take the time to think about what they want. this leads them to be reactive to the wants of others rather than being intentional & proactive about the things that…

startups are a wild rollercoaster of ups and downs 🎢 hitting a major milestone is exhilarating... but the uphill ride never lasts forever. you can feel like a genius when you hit a breakthrough but it's often the case that the things that helped you unlock the current level…

simple but powerful insight from flow science: goals massively amplify our flow 🌊 why? our brains are constantly filtering millions of bits of information. what gets through that filter? 🔎 stuff that scares us and stuff we want: our fears & our goals. we don’t live in pure…

firebase authentication is down, along with AWS, Google Cloud, & more. and this is what our support inbox is looking like 😭 and there's nothing i can do about it... at least this is how you know your users care about you!

here's a snapshot of me trying to figure out how to convince investors to give me all their money 😂

for most of the 1.5 billion students in the world, studying sucks and is boring 🥱 but today, learning on Jungle just became infinitely more fun 🙈 we released 5 new trees 🌴, 3 new characters 🐒🦥, and a whole new game design system 🕹️