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Steven Jacobs

  • Austin, Texas
  • Family Man
  • Music Industry
  • Investor
  • Real Estate

I live in Austin, Texas with my family. I work in the music industry, invest, and buy real estate.

I'm part of the team behind Rave Jesus, opening Another Nine indoor golf in Pflugerville, and running Beached Inn in Port Aransas.

Lately I'm building Rave Jesus

Every so often I write about business, investing and family. Subscribe to get new posts by email.

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My businesses have been featured in

  • The New Yorker
  • Forbes
  • Business Insider
  • TIME
  • The Atlantic
  • VICE
  • Variety
  • BuzzFeed
  • Rolling Stone
  • The Hollywood Reporter
  • Billboard
  • Complex
  • Pitchfork
  • GRAMMY
  • NME
  • Stereogum
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About

Professional idea starter

I'm a family man in Austin, Texas who can't stop starting things.

I'm a little obsessed with AI. I use it every single day to build, write, design and ship. Ideas that used to take months now go live in a weekend.

  • Claude
  • Replit
  • Grok
  • Gemini
  • ChatGPT
  • + whatever's new this week
  • Started over 100 businesses. Most of them have been failures, and every one taught me something.
  • Currently running about 13 of them.
  • My businesses have been featured in The New Yorker, Forbes, Business Insider, Time, Rolling Stone, Billboard and more.
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Marketing / SEO
Chad✓@ChadAppDev

🚨 Apple just gave app developers a new way to stop subscription cancellations

The new Retention Messaging API lets you show users custom offers when they try to cancel

You can:

- Offer a cheaper subscription
- Give them an exclusive discount
- Remind them what they’ll lose Show more

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Entrepreneurship
Jah Mills✓@itsjahmills

i just found a $2,000,000/mo app idea🤯

Duolingo for Survival

with how politics are moving right now
everyone is buying this

Image from @itsjahmills: i just found a $2,000,000/mo app idea🤯 Duolingo for Survival with how politics are moving
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Appkittie✓@Appkittie

20 app niches printing money in 2026:

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Marketing / SEO
Bahattin Duran✓@bdurangg

app store rejection checker diye bir repo buldum, app'lerimi bununla taradım

bir sürü info.plist sorunu ve inceleme sırasında potansiyel red sebebi çıkardı. belirli kriterleri kod ve metadata seviyesinde tarıyor, üst[üne düzeltme de öneriyor

yayına çıkmadan önce app'leri Show more

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borja✓@borjafat

SEO Internal Link MAXXING with Claude

64 tactics behind 142k AI mentions in 3 months for distribb.io (ranked)

S tier

Link articles to pages that sell (a.k.a. money-pages)

1. Choose the product each topic supports to give its links a clear destination.

2. Link a Show more

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Entrepreneurship
TubeGen AI@tubegenai

War + history niche is printing right now

Very simple and repeatable thumbnail formats

Tons of demand

Likely a high RPM

Image from @tubegenai: War + history niche is printing right now Very simple and repeatable thumbnail formats Ton