The startup landscape has changed dramatically in the last 2 years with AI's rise. But there are 5 specific changes that have been absolute head fakes for many people. Here's what I'm seeing: 🧵
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Pewbeam AI Presentation App Launches for Churches Worldwide
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Pewbeam is live 🎉
— dára sobaloju (@darasoba) 20 mars 2026
This was just a dream, a dream I didn’t even know was possible—but I decided to pursue it anyway. Today, that dream is now a reality. We have a desktop app (Windows and macOS—this weekend) that can do all of this and even more. Over the last six months, I’ve… https://t.co/8uaQEVTWAE pic.twitter.com/AyOyyFEou8Pewbeam is live 🎉 This was just a dream, a dream I didn’t even know was possible—but I decided to pursue it anyway. Today, that dream is now a reality. We have a desktop app (Windows and macOS—this weekend) that can do all of this and even more. Over the last six months, I’ve pushed myself and my team hard, and I’ve seen people become hopeful and genuinely blessed by this product. I’ve received strong support from pastors, church members, techies, and several media houses and reporters. It has been a great honor to spend myself on something worthwhile. We’ve built an AI-native presentation app that displays relevant scriptures on screen in under 80 ms, without needing a volunteer. We’re starting with scriptures, but we’re growing into a comprehensive presentation software, with slides launching next month. From testing @pewbeam_ai in churches over the last four weeks, pastors have been able to focus on what matters instead of juggling or micromanaging the media team while preaching. Church members have been able to follow their pastor’s references in real time and take better notes. In the words of a member from one of the test churches: “Pewbeam changed the way I follow sermons in church completely.” This is the kind of impact I see Pewbeam having on people’s faith and on how church and worship are done. Pewbeam’s mission is to ensure the Church is not left behind in the AI era. We’re starting with this application, with many more to come in the next few months. We’ll keep working with stakeholders in the Christian faith, collect feedback, and build tools that better support discipleship. And unlike previous waves of technology, I believe we can be among the first movers in this AI revolution. With all that said, the final build of the app is ready, and we’re launching for public download on February 25, 2026. The app has a generous free tier for small churches and fellowships, and a paid plan (location-based pricing) that unlocks unlimited access to all features. If you’ve been following this journey, I appreciate you, and I assure you it will be worth it. Please download, subscribe, and use in your church. dára sobaloju (@darasoba) I want to build a bible presentation AI agent for church use. Imagine Bible verses coming up on screen as the Pastor preaches just based on what he’s talking about or his paraphrases and quotes. I want to build this completely in public, starting today. Thoughts? — https://nitter.net/darasoba/status/1958442090339221576#m
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Specialist vs Generalist Strategies for AI Startups
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I’ve noticed something lately with Startups and AI Labs on different strategies they use for their business There is: The Specialist Strategy (E.g Lovable) Start with one problem, solve it very well then expand to solve more There is: The Generalist Strategy (E.g Manus) Make many bets, figure out which ones work and scale them Both succeed and fail depending on how you go about them
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Product Marketing Manager Role Prevents Professional Burnout
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What you need is a Product Marketing Manager so you don't get burnt out
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AI Agents Getting Credit Cards: Redesign Your Marketing Now
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You’re not ready for this… But AI agents will have their own credit cards VERY soon. Wake up! This is happening. Tried telling y’all in my “Dawn of Agentic Commerce” talk a few months back. You need to be thinking about and building “Agentic-first” versions of your websites and funnels. Just like we have mobile optimized versions, you’re going to need agent optimized versions. Everything you’ve ever learned about marketing, copywriting, and design is for human eyes. ALL OF THAT IS CHANGING! All of it. You now need to learn how to attract, engage, and convert emotionless robots aka ai agents and web crawlers. Not in 5yrs. NOW! Within months. Don’t make me pull this tweet out in 6mos and say “I told you so.” Be first. Gain the first mover advantage. ✌️🤖
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Grit Over Excuses: Building Success with Focus and Hard Work
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People are asking me how to start… Like, if you don't have clients and can't afford to run your own ads, then how are you supposed to "get results" and prove you can do this? This is going to be a hard talk. Fragile souls won't like this, but the real ones will dig in… I got my start with just $60 dollars that I only had because I paid half my electric bill that month. So, your sad stories won't work on me. It was a pathetic $2/day campaign, but I kept working on it until it started converting. But… "You had @russellbrunson as your mentor." Yea, and I FLEW TO IDAHO ON MY OWN DIME, RENTED A ROOM, and WORKED FOR FREE FOR 30 DAYS IN HIS OFFICE. If you want to be successful, you gotta fight homie. The world don't want to share with you. The world wants to take from you. Yea but I got a job… so did I. Yea but I'm tired after work… so was I. Yea but I have kids… so did I. Yea but I'm not a techy… neither was I. I didn't have AI. I didn't even have YOUTUBE! I had to code my websites, not drag-n-drop! I canceled my cellphone bill for awhile and cut out all but 1hr of TV. I didn't play video games for years. I started waking up at 5am. It's going to suck. A LOT. But also, abundance is so real. Right now, any hour of the day, money is changing hands. Cash registers are ringing and credit cards are swiping somewhere in the world at all hours of the day. All you have to do is know WHAT THEY ALREADY WANT TO BUY AND STEP IN LINE. The money is already going to be spent. People already have things waiting in their checkout carts, and grocery lists, and wish lists. They are going to refill their protein shake supply. They are going to buy more make up. They are going to need another haircut. Pay attention to lifecycles. Patterns. Habits. You don't need books, you need to open your eyes and pay attention. Go to the mall and watch people. Watch how they shop. Watch how they pick out items. You want to be a real one, ask them after they bought something "hey that "thing" looks awesome, what made you pick that one out?" Ballsy… ✅ Genius… ✅✅ As for AI, it's pretty simple. They are machines and they work based on prompts. Good prompt, good output. Bad prompt, bad output. Better prompt, better output. Just become amazing at prompting and watch how fast you accelerate. Stop researching all the weird fringe tools, just pick 2-3 top tier tools and go all in. People are asking me about the "DoEverything" tool or the "Poe" tool or the "Galaxy" tool. FOCUS!!! Claude, Manus, Replit, and MindStudio will do just about everything you can think of. Landing page, copywriting, images, videos, automations, mobile apps, anything. Need a simpler stack… Claude + Replit. Full powered thinker and full powered builder. Exchange Claude for Manus if you need more images and videos. For under $100/mo you can have access to the worlds most powerful AI tools. Use them. Go build websites for your favorite restaurant and ask for nothing in return. Build a sales page for your cousins photography business and ask for nothing in return. Find ads from brands you like in Facebook and make them 5 new ones, without asking anything in return. Get the reps in. Build the social equity and portfolio. Do this for a year (not 2 weeks) and watch YOUR WHOLE ENTIRE LIFE CHANGE! It's really not that complicated. It's just hard and no one wants to do hard things anymore. I don't win because I'm smart. I win because I'm willing to eat the punches you're too scared to get hit by. I win because I just keep putting one foot in front of the other. The hate, it fuels me. The critics, they drive me. I WILL WIN. I WILL ENFORCE MY WILL UPON THIS ROCK AND IT WILL MOVE OR I WILL DIE TRYING. If you don't have that. Just move along. P.S. I'm not saying "work all the hours." Busyness is not a flex. Making money while you sleep is a flex. Your business running while you are on vacation is a flex. I'm saying you need grit. You need focus. You'd be surprised what 90 minutes of pure grit and focus every day with consistency can do. 90mins is 6x15min tasks a day. That's 42 tasks a week or 168 tasks a month. Your problem is you keep starting over and complicating the plan with new projects. Learn what focus actually means because it doesn't mean discipline and will power. Focus = narrowing. Justin Brooke ❤️🔥 (@IMJustinBrooke) I've got clients asking for AI-native media buyers. Here's what they're looking for: ❌ Normal Meta & Google advertisers ✅ Knows how to create 50 ads a day ✅ Knows how to use JSON prompting ✅ Has their ad accounts connected to Claude or Manus via MCP If you or someone you know fits this please comment below or tag them. I have people waiting to hire you. — https://nitter.net/IMJustinBrooke/status/2031135915360608347#m
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Claude Code’s Addictive Effect: Working Late into the Night
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Using Claude Code has a weird side effect: You don't just get more productive, you actually want to work more. There's something addictive about watching a product being born in real time in front of your eyes. "One last feature" after "one last feature" and it's already past 3am.
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Claude Skills Simply Means Writing Clear Instructions in Text
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“Learn Claude skills” My brother in Christ, it’s just a text file where you have to explain what you want done
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Tech Layoffs: CEO Overexpansion, Not AI Blame
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Funny thing that layoff has nothing to do with AI. Man over hired during COVID. Tried to build several companies and split employees there and is now trying to streamline. CEO's have been doing this lately and trust the media to fly with it instead of holding them accountable.
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Export your data and transfer to another LLM
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But you can. Check settings – Data – Export Data. You can also export said data as a zip file and upload to the memory of another LLM