Tony Chan

My goal on 𝕏 is 10,000 real connections. I want to connect with: 1. AI agent builders 2. Founders and solo builders 3. High-agency people 4. Sales and marketing folks 5. Dads building on the side 6. AI-curious people If that's you, say hi below 👋

X is pretty amazing. The people here are builders, founders, and curious minds. Most of them share what they know for free. That's how I keep learning new skills with Claude and Grok Bot. They make my life simpler and help me make more money. I recently made a video that would have cost thousands in the past. I learned how to do it from people here who showed their process. I've also talked with people I've watched and listened to for years. Noah Kagan. Andrew Huberman. That still feels a little unreal. So I try to give back the same way. I share what I think and what I learned. I hope it helps someone. If you're new here, follow the people who teach. Reply to them. Then share what you learn. The right people find you when you keep showing up.

Is paying for online courses still a thing? Most of what I use to build my business came from free stuff. Alex Hormozi's YouTube videos taught me offers and content. I learned my best Grok Bot tricks from posts on 𝕏. Cleaning up my inbox. Freeing up storage. Finding leads. Then I tried it all on real client work and my personal life. Have you bought one this year, or do you learn on YouTube and 𝕏 now?

Grok Bot 1.0 came out today. I run my business with about 20 bots. A chief of staff. A copywriter. Research and leads. Inbox. Plus career, health, and finance. Here's how I'll use the update. For my clients: - Share their bot with their team in Slack or Teams. Anyone can ask it for campaign and lead updates. - Bring the bot onto our calls. - Let it flag replies that need a follow-up, gaps in the lead list, and next steps in the pipeline. For me: - A brief every weekday morning. - Bots that spot work and offer to take it on. I don't have to hand off every task myself. I'm a solo founder and a single dad. Every hour I get back goes to my clients or my kids. If you run a small team, start with one bot everyone can ask questions.

Eager to hear your founder advice. What should I stop doing?

As a Grok Bot user, 𝕏 is the best place for me to share what I do with AI. • Grok Bot is connected to 𝕏. It reads my metrics and tells me which posts to repeat and what to stop doing. • It showed me that posting more wasn't working. When I cut back, my views per post went up. • It turns my rough thoughts into posts. Nothing goes out until I approve it. • Lots of people using Grok Bot post here too. It's easy to find them and learn how they use it. If you use Grok Bot, post what you're building with it. I learn so much from seeing how other people use theirs.

Oh man, this is a little creepy. Send an AI a picture of an empty room with this prompt: "Fill this room with what you know about me." Then see what it comes back with. Mine got my 5 AM wake-up, my business whiteboard, my Mac mini setup, a kids' corner, dumbbells, a Texas pennant, and even my Camry key. All good stuff, luckily. Thanks @smtlaissezfaire for the idea. What does your room look like? Share it.

Super proud of my two little patriots. My oldest performed for veterans at her school. She was a speaker and sang "Fifty Nifty United States" and "This Land Is Your Land." Happy Veterans Day. Thanks to all the men and women who served. We are grateful.

15 days ago, I had 39 followers. This morning, I have 1,167. My first two weeks brought in 157.7K impressions. I posted about 11 times a day and replied to almost everyone. This week, I'm testing a different approach: - 6 posts a day instead of 11 - more time writing and editing each post - replies that actually help the person I'm replying to Early result: my average views per post went from about 750 to about 980. That's only two days of data. I'll share the full numbers next week. If you're building an audience, try posting less for one week and see what happens to your average.

My youngest still comes to my room to sleep. She woke me up at 2 AM when she climbed in. Then again around 4 AM, giggling in her sleep. I saw a big smile on her face. What could she possibly be dreaming about? I gave her a big kiss on the cheek. Too adorable.

Parents using AI: what makes it worth keeping? Here's what mine handles: • Finds free and paid kid-friendly events every Friday. I pick the ones we'll go to, and it adds them to my calendar. • Makes stories and coloring pages I print out for the girls to read, trace, and color. • Keeps track of messages from school, activities, and co-parenting so nothing slips. And my 9-year-old is using Claude Design to make her own presentations. What's one thing it handles that you'd hate to do yourself again?

Algorithm, connect me with founders who use AI to run their business.

iMessage is now inside @bot on Mac, and the first thing I used it for was catching up on texts. Our family group chat sometimes has a ton of texts to sift through. Now I ask Grok Bot what I missed and what I need to answer. It reads the thread and gives me the short list. It does the same with all my other texts in one go. Next I'm setting it up for verification codes. When a site texts a code to my phone, Grok Bot can read it and enter the code itself. That's two fewer reasons for me to step in. A simpler life.

What my daughters do when I tell them I need a five-minute break

I made this 15-second animated ad with Claude Fable 5.2, and the GPU bill came to about $1.87. Yesterday I had never heard of Blender, ElevenLabs, or RunPod. I saw people on X making crazy videos with Fable 5.2. So I copied what they did and connected the same tools to Claude Code. I told Claude Code the story I wanted. It built the scene, animated the characters, rendered it, added the music, and edited the final cut. The story is simple. Someone types a request late at night. The AI works all night. The job is done by sunrise. There are two characters. Pip is a little helper bot. Bolt is his smug rival with one glowing eye. The whole thing took about an hour and a half. I didn't animate anything myself. I just described what I wanted and approved each step. This is my first animated video. I just wanted to test what it could do. I'm blown away, and I'm still figuring out what I can use this new skill for. What do you think of the video?

I grew from 39 to 1,149 followers on 𝕏 in my first 14 days of posting, with 157.7K impressions. Here's exactly how I did it and how you can copy the playbook for your own account. SIMPLE GUIDE: 1. Write one honest introduction post about who you are and what you're building, because mine has now reached 12,252 views. 2. Respond personally to every single person who comments on your posts, even when their comment is only one word. 3. Leave about 78 thoughtful replies every day on posts from creators and founders in your industry that went up in the last hour. 4. Share your growth numbers publicly so people can follow the journey with you, since my best daily update reached 8,406 views. 5. Change your format as soon as engagement starts dropping, because that same daily update fell to 572 views within four days. 6. Set one specific public goal that gives people a reason to follow you, and mine is 10,000 real connections. I didn't run any ads and wrote most of these posts on my laptop late in the evening after my daughters were finally asleep. If this playbook helps you grow, be sure to follow :)

In the new Zelda: Ocarina of Time remake, a guard in Kakariko Village told us why he stands at his post. He likes the view of Death Mountain. So I turned Link around and looked. My kids and I agreed with him right away. It's beautiful. I'm so happy I get to play this legendary game with my kids. Thank you for this one, @NintendoAmerica.

Hey @grok, my Grok Bot usage just reset. Here's my challenge. I'm a solo founder with $0, a laptop, and free AI tools. Goal: launch a SaaS and land my first paying customer in 30 days. Study the solo founders on X who've done this. Then give me my exact day one plan, hour by hour.

Grok Bot weekly limits have been reset. Cheers to their team for this!

Andrew Huberman just replied to me on 𝕏. I told him I loved Dr. Anna Lembke's book Dopamine Nation. He wrote back that her new book, Radical Surrender, is awesome too. I pre-ordered it right away. Where else does that happen? This is why I love this app.