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News
X ends communities
Very bad news for founders. X is cutting communities and replacing them with group of only 350 members. It's a big slap in the face of people who have built communities of thousands of people, especially since the change is happening in 2 weeks time.
Marc Kohlbrugge has announced he's moving his Build in Public community off X: https://buildinpublic.com
It's a reminder to not build on another man's land and have marketing channels you can control (like a newsletter).
$10k MRR for BridgeMind
Congrats to Matthew for hitting $10k MRR with his vibe coding tool.
He does a lot of streams involving vibe coding a SaaS and then doing press ups etc so I'm sure that has helped him gain attention.
Substack beefing
Substack has put out some weird messages about email declining in importance. They seem to want users to be happy with followers on the Substack app rather than email subscibers.
It was good to see the founder of Ghost and Beehiiv push back against this.
Marc Lou meetup in SF
300 founders have signed up to Marc's meetup in San Francisco, which is happening on the 2nd of May
Indie Beers next week
I'm going to try and get down to London next week for the monthly IndieBeers meetup hosted by Charlie Ward. It's always a great way to meet founders. https://www.meetup.com/indiebeers-london/events/314052780/
Funny post of the week
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