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Gabor Cselle

Gabor Cselle
Gabor Cselle
@gabor
Catching up with @jans who is building Roma in the current YC batch.

We talked about how the bottleneck is no longer coding.

It’s having enough time to actually try the things the agents have coded.
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Gabor Cselle
Gabor Cselle
@gabor
I clearly need to post here more because these are the orders that have come in. All just one shirt each
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Gabor Cselle
Gabor Cselle
@gabor
Retention: people start with 2 shirts, then often come back for another 2–4.
Gabor Cselle
Gabor Cselle
@gabor
Next up is scaling. A menswear founder she met through Intro (thanks @Raadmobrem) talked her out of influencers, who charge around $10k a post with no clear payoff. He told her to go after local boutiques instead.

Know anyone who owns or buys for a menswear boutique? DM please.
Gabor Cselle
Gabor Cselle
@gabor
Ads: what works is showing the product up close. No storytelling, no hooks.
Gabor Cselle
Gabor Cselle
@gabor
Sizing: she made too many S and too few XL. It turns out most men in her target market have outgrown size S.
Gabor Cselle
Gabor Cselle
@gabor
Packaging: she had custom boxes made that fit exactly one shirt.

Most orders, even first orders, are 2–3 shirts. Custom boxes take forever to make, so for now she splits orders across several boxes.
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Gabor Cselle
Gabor Cselle
@gabor
You owe it to your idea to at least try to vibecode it.

You will most likely succeed.
Gabor Cselle
Gabor Cselle
@gabor
Incredibly hard as a PM these days to resist the urge to just code it up yourself.
Gabor Cselle
Gabor Cselle
@gabor
New trend: Founders of failed startups reviving their product via vibecoding but no eng team.

Have now chatted with a few ex-founders that are doing this. In some cases it’s tricky for the IP ownership to be clean.