Everything Danny Postma said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Postma: ProfilePicture.ai Sales Grew 10x After Competitor Lensa Launched
“Like for Lanza, for example, like I got. 10 times more sales after they launched a product because suddenly people like most of the people, they were suddenly searching for like AI avatar. Right. But some people, they didn't use the word AI avatar. They used A…”
Postma: Instagram and TikTok Will Introduce Text-Prompted AI Face Editors
“I think what Lanza is eventually gonna do, but I'm pretty sure Instagram or TikTok is gonna go there. It's like, you will have your own editor of your own face, where you can just type in what you want to see right now, and it just outputs the photos for you. …”
Postma: Startups Win by Unbundling Single Features from Bloated Tools
“Any startup is going to bloat and it's the same with.
Any other tool?
Like if you can just take a specific little part of any big tool that people love and you're not gonna add a shit ton of features to it because you wanna grow bigger, then you have a reason …”
Postma: Building in Public Generates Launch-Day Backlinks for Instant Google Rankings
“That's one of the reasons why I built in public because it generates press for your new products. Which means you're gonna have instant backlinks, like hundreds of backlinks on the day you launch. And Google's just gonna rocket it to the top of the search engi…”
Postma: Tattoo artists will adopt AI as an inspiration and design tool
“Then on the other side, I think there's gonna be a lot of artists who are gonna use it as an inspiration source. They're gonna generate, like, there's gonna be a customer. They can just suddenly generate like a hundred options instead of just one or two, show …”
Postma: Target Keywords Under 10 Difficulty to Launch Automated Side Businesses
“Keep on typing in keywords of things that you might be interested in until you find a collection of keywords that has a keyword difficulty under 10, which means you should be able to go to the first page of Google. Build a product around that, that could be au…”
Postma's programmatic AI tattoo directory hit $10K MRR before being sold
“And this is, for example, we did it with a tattoo. And I think we hit like 10,000 MRR before I sold it because I was focusing on another startup.”
Postma: Built Deep Agency prototype in 24 hours after viral tweet
“My product wasn't ready yet. Deep agency, the tweet went absolutely viral. So within 24 hours, I had to come up with something to put live because otherwise there wasn't a website online.”
Postma: Small clothing brands are primary users of AI models
“So I believe this is from what I've seen talking to customers, people, the number one question in my life chat is from mom and pop shops with close clothing brands who do not have the funds to hire models, to put on clothing for the web shops, who I think prob…”
Postma: Lensa generated $40 million from AI profile pictures
“I believe Lenza did forty million dollars with that.”
Postma: HeadshotPro has generated 1 million AI corporate headshots
“I think it's a million now, because I have to manually update it the next two weeks live now.”
Postma: Uses ChatGPT to summarize academic machine learning literature
“Also for me, I'm dabbling in all the white papers. I don't have an academic background, so I'm using ChatGPT a lot to summarize those things and understanding it mostly.”
Postma Built AI Model Site in One Afternoon
“Building the product, like this product I did in, I think a morning, one afternoon, but it's basically because I already built a tech before it with profile picture.ai.”
Postma: a16z and Sequoia Held Funding Talks for Headlime in 2021
“Two years ago, I had talks with Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia, stuff like that.”
Postma: Headlime Revenue Doubled Every Two to Three Weeks Post-Launch
“It went, like, it doubled in revenue every two, three weeks. Hit a shit ton of revenue in three months.”
Postma: StockAI Reached Just 0.004% Paid Conversion Before Being Shut Down
“Though the conversion rate to a paid product was like zero point zero zero, four percent. And it's not cheap to run AI models, man. So if you want to keep this up, I had to kill it.”
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