AI Founder Weekly

Pigford: nearly $400K ARR in 10 days, no website

Josh Pigford says his AI SEO service is at nearly $400,000 ARR ten days after he posted about it, with no site built and every sale done in DMs. He is raising the price again this week.

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Pigford says his SEO service hit nearly $400K ARR in 10 days

Josh Pigford says the done-for-you SEO service he offered on Twitter is at nearly $400,000 ARR ten days in, and he is doing a last round of early access at $1,500 a month before the price goes to $2,000 at full launch.

Josh Pigford
@Shpigford
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24 hours later. still no website. i should probably work on that.
Oct 5, 2026 · View on X

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Stolen playbooks

Tibo did one customer interview to undo a week of X envy

Tibo says watching everyone else ship on X was draining him, so he ran a customer interview and showed a new feature. He says the customer was blown away while the same work got a shrug on X, and that it refueled his energy.

Tibo
@tibo_maker
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X is a bubble, remember to get out from time to time
Oct 6, 2026 · View on X

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What changed under us

dax: custom agent workflows fix problems that no longer exist

dax says the models are now improving faster than the people tinkering with them, so elaborate custom agent setups are solving problems that have already been fixed upstream. His claim is that someone naively using vanilla Codex is more likely to be on the state of the art than someone running a hand-built stack.

dax
@thdxr
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the person naively using vanilla codex is more likely to be experiencing state of the art
Oct 6, 2026 · View on X

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