#074: Growing from 2k to 105k Users in 15 Days, Vibe Coding Video Games, Becoming Eloquent

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This week, we will take a look at how one app recently grew their user base from 2k to 105k in 15 days, the ultimate guides for learning independent video game development, how to become more eloquent, and more.

Let's dive in:

100 Talking Points from Visa

As mentioned in one of our previous editions, writer Visakan Veerasamy is one of the best thinkers and explainers regarding the nature of humans. If you haven't heard of him before, a thread containing 100 of his talking points recently resurfaced and it contains absolute gems of hidden truths. I highly suggest reading the whole thread, but here are a few of my favorites:

How to Be Funny

"If you've never gotten off a good joke in your life, start here." This is the preface to the Substack article, 'How to be Funny' by Hero Thousandfaces. I was intrigued by the article when I saw what looked like a joke in itself. Hero wrote a tweet saying "10 like and I post an essay." Needless to say, the post received 60 likes and the essay was dropped.

Hero quickly validates themself:

Hero doesn't necessarily have a 'huge' account by traditional social media standards, and this essay doesn't have the traditional 'love' in the form of externally validating metrics, but the content of this essay is excellent - and its one of the best I've read in a long time.

Hero outlines all the important aspects of comedy, mainly focusing on rhythm, energy, and intelligence. It's the best and most comprehensive guide to learning the why behind comedy.

Where it gets very interesting is how they end the essay:

Growing App from 2k to 105k Users in 15 Days

I'm always curious to learn how new mobile apps are driving downloads, and one of the more interesting recent case studies was an insight shared by S-laurent for their app Focus Tree. Laurent shared three of the following tweets:

1. ​Growing from 2k to 105k users in 15 days - In this tweet, Laurent goes over the three essential components to early distribution 1) hiring their first creator and going viral for the first time 2) scaling from 1 to 6 creators 3) making a content factory
2. ​Playbook on going viral after hitting 70m total views - Here is where Laurent goes over their exact TikTok strategy, which comes down to 1) knowing your niche well 2) optimizing for watch time 3) maximizing for engagement.
3. ​How to find winning creators - Winning on social comes down to finding the best creators to promote your product. Here is where Laurent breaks down the exact process of finding the creators, and goes into detail about how to maximize responses and deal agreements.

The Ultimate Guide to Vibe Coding Games

​Pieter Levels recently made headlines after his latest side project hit $87k in monthly recurring revenue. What exactly was the project? A video game entirely made with AI, built just over a week ago. Pieter has a huge audience he's able to leverage for initial distribution, but this also indicates the possibility of something exciting: solo indie game devs.

​Andrew Chen recently asked, "Has anyone seen/created a vibe coding for game dev tutorial? I need to try...". The most liked response came from Nicolas Zullo, who made his own game, fly.zullo.fun, which is a WW2 dogfight simulator and very impressive for a game that required no personal coding. He then proceeded to share an even more in-depth guide on his Github detailing how to make your own game.

For those interested in trying out some game development themselves, we highly recommend checking out Nicolas' posts along with this excellent video, Vibe Coding a FULL Game, from Matthew Berman.

Becoming Eloquent

A short hack on how to sound more eloquent, from Dylan O'Sullivan:

Dylan O'Sullivan @DylanoA4 I once heard someone asked how they were so eloquent, how did they speak in prose, in full sentences and paragraphs. They said that it was simple: 90% of what they were saying they'd previously written down 12:29 PM • Mar 4, 2025 318 Retweets 4118 Likes Read 35 replies

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