Reply to a viral 'I wish this existed' tweet saying you're building it

Julian Alvarez… and we had been doing like a lot of pivots previously, but when AI came into the picture, we're like, "Wow, this is like a huge opportunity to reimagine what uh learning and education could look like." And we were looking for an idea because we'd pivoted like 4 or 5 times, nothing was working, we had like 3 months of runway, and we needed something that would work right now, basically. And we saw this tweet someone put out that went viral

Julian Alvarezwhere they basically said, "My dream AI product would be to take anything I'm learning and to generate flashcards with it using AI." That tweet blew up, and I commented saying we were building like something similar, which we were building something tangentially similar, but not the exact same thing. But basically, I got like over 200 downloads, over 50 to 100 DMs, and basically just like a lot of interest in this, and it felt like the perfect opportunity for us to take advantage of in a space that we really cared about. And

Julian Alvarezwe basically got our first 100 users by DMing everyone that engaged with that tweet, so much to the point that my Twitter account got banned, which was really sad. From there on, like we had content creators pick it up and start create videos about it, and then we posted our thing on AI tool directories, kind of like Futurepedia, for example. And then, finally, getting to 10,000+ ended up coming from influencer marketing, and we did influencer …