Jack Neel

As someone with a multi-billion dollar company, if you wanted to build an app that could get a million downloads in six months, what are the five major steps you need if you could distill it?

I do want to ask you some ideas you have specifically, but maybe we'll get on that later in the interview.

So step-by-step process.

First one, get a good idea.

Get a good idea.

Before that though, so let's just assume for the sake of your company is Replit, use Replit or tool like Replit.

And then how do you build it?

I think that's super helpful.

I don't think the marketing aspect is as important in this particular discussion, but

Because good products market themselves.

But I would say that's like the first few weeks.

That's really interesting about the communities.

That's also a way to find ideas in general is just scour Reddit, scour TikTok hashtags and see like...

what's a community of people let's say example looks maxing or let's say example uh like a specific sports team or like sports gambling something like that not promoting gambling but uh you would look at the community look at the problems they have and then kind of get ideas for what you could build it's really fascinating that's exactly right i mean the original when i posted replet um on hacker news that's how i got my first users hacker news

It's so fascinating about what you've built because something I discussed with a lot of young entrepreneurs that built these multi-million dollar AI apps or startups was like this concept of making short form content before you even build out your MVP or like your minimum viable product.

And then just seeing if there's interest in it.

But with,

your company and where AI is at.

Just build it instantly and you don't really have to worry about the moat of, oh, this thing does work.

Let's build it really fast before someone steals it.