Harshil Tomar

Harshil TomarAug 22, 2026

I found a site with live feed of 400+ validated startup ideas - see hundreds of pre-launch AI products - watch product-market fit happen in real time - skip the "will anyone pay for this" phase entirely pick a direction that is working, find your interesting take and take over the founder market fit - screenshot every screen of the competitors flow and drop it into claude, ask it to map the exact user journey screen by screen, not just a summary - paste that journey into claude code and let it scaffold the next.js app, generate the supabase tables, and wire the api routes in one shot - use shadcn + ui[.]sh for the ui so it doesn't look like a template, swap out the 2-3 components that give away the boilerplate - have a clear articulation on copywriting of the pain point and CTA funnel going through with a hard paywall for users - start cold outbounding the people replying under the original post, they already raised their hand via superx or tools like swan start winning !

Harshil TomarAug 19, 2026

I got my $30,000 US remote job offer through a tweet when I had ONLY 417 followers. I'd been posting casually, sharing what I was learning, answering questions in my space, nothing strategic, just stuff I found genuinely interesting. Someone asked a technical question about Stripe integrations and I knew the answer so I replied, helped them out and kept scrolling. Three hours later a message came in. Someone had seen the reply, checked my profile and wanted to talk about a role. That conversation turned into a US remote job offer worth $30,000, the job my entire college batch was trying to land through applications, referrals and interview prep courses. I got it through a tweet at 417 followers because I was being useful in public before I had any reason to expect it would matter. Personal branding isn't about the follower count. It's about being findable by the right person at the right moment. That can happen at 400 followers or 40,000. The only way to guarantee it doesn't happen is to wait until you feel ready to start.

Harshil TomarAug 21, 2026

Getting rejected by IIT twice, was the best thing that happened to me! In an Indian household that number follows you into every room. Every relative, every family gathering, every "so what are you doing now" conversation has a version of that comparison built into it somewhere. At 18 I genuinely thought I had already fallen behind in a race I hadn't started properly. What I didn't know then was that failing IIT meant I couldn't take the safe, obvious, already-mapped-out road. I had to figure out my own path from scratch, which meant trying things, failing at them, learning from them and building an actual set of instincts that no textbook could have given me. At 23 I run DreamLaunch, an AI-native product studio that's shipped 50+ products, worked with clients backed by Sequoia and Accel, crossed $120K in revenue in year one and been featured in national news. I'm not saying IIT doesn't matter. I'm saying the people who don't get the pre-approved path are sometimes forced into building something more real because there's no other option. The failure wasn't the problem. It was the beginning of actually figuring out what I was good at and loved building :)