Fake Mayo is a founder-first blog and newsletter sharing real, no-hype stories of how startups and indie hackers land early traction. Each post breaks down exact, actionable marketing tactics - from niche community outreach to clever social campaigns - that actually work.
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- PublisherJakob Jelling
- Websitehttps://www.fakemayo.com
- Published date2026/05/31
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DatePhotos.AI
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From beach adventures to coffee shop vibes. DatePhotos.AI generates 80-180 dating photos across 40+ carefully curated lifestyle scenes. AI transforms 5-20 selfies into complete dating profile content.
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Startup Playbook
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We spend a lot of time advising startups. Though one-on-one advice will always be crucial, we thought it might help us scale Y Combinator if we could distill the most generalizable parts of this advice into a sort of playbook we could give YC and YC Fellowship companies. Then we thought we should just give it to everyone. This is meant for people new to the world of startups. Most of this will not be new to people who have read a lot of what YC partners have written—the goal is to get it into one place. There may be a part II on how to scale a startup later—this mostly covers how to start one.
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THE WAY OF CODE
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Rick Rubin brings ancient wisdom to the modern age in The Way of Code, a meditation on the art and science of vibe coding. With Claude by Anthropic, the Grammy-award winning producer and author of The Creative Act turns philosophy into practice with artifacts that can be creatively modified with AI.