Week 1 of Memelord Technologies

The amount of Red Bull I’ve drank this week would probably kill a bull.

But I’m happier than ever. If you missed my post last week, I quit my job and went founder mode on Memelord Technologies. With the first week in the books, I feel like it’s time for a quick reflection:

PEOPLE ARE USING SOMETHING I BUILT WTF.

HOLY SHIT. PEOPLE ARE USING SOMETHING I BUILT. WTF.

Software is fucking magic. I drank Red Bull and built a meme editor in my apartment and now I’ve got memelords from Miami to Hong Kong and beyond using my app. The coolest part: I couldn’t even predict the crazy shit people are coming up with.

That’s the cool thing about building tools. You give people a tool and then they can do whatever they want with it. 1 person uses Twitter to waste 2 hours/day, 1 person uses Twitter to make $2M. 1 person uses Notion for work management, 1 person uses it for marriage management. 1 person uses a hammer to build a shelf, 1 person uses it to murder his family. Same tool. Different purpose. Ok that last one was a bad metaphor. But you get the point. Give people the tools they need to make their mission happen. My memelords keep asking for new features, so I shipped a 2 new features this week:

1. Context on memes (click “examples” to see how memes are used)

2. Stickers for reusable viral elements (Moo Deng, JD Vance, me, etc.)

Y Combinator founder Paul Graham always says “Talk to your users” and it’s SO TRUE. Your users give you the best signal of what’s important to build. You may already have an inkling of what to build, but talking to users gives you data points that you’re right/wrong. I’ve been yapping with users and getting feedback non-stop via email, text, calls, Twitter, whatever. But here’s the thing. You can’t just talk to users. Talk is useless. You have to execute FAST. So yes, more cool features coming next week 😉 

I’M USING SOMETHING I BUILT.

Ok this is the even crazier part for me tbh.

I’m making memes sitting in an Uber on a motherfucking app I built! WTF.

One day I’m pissed off because there’s no good meme editors and after a few weeks of chugging Red Bull and staying up all night I’m making memes on my own app. It feels like I’m a caveman who just built a hammer for himself (except my hammer is a dank meme machine). It’s surreal. Like I got 170,000+ views and 3,800 favs on this meme I MADE IN MY OWN APP. INSANE.

Writing a newsletter and book and making videos is cool, but after they’re published, that’s it, I don’t sit around reading my own book or watching my own podcasts, you know? But when you build software for yourself, you get to use it again and again. It’s like masturbation, it never gets old. I am the ultimate power user for Memelord Technologies. I’m in it multiple hours everyday cooking up memes. I made something that is fun to me and it’s fun to others too.

My prediction is thanks to AI and no-code, we’re going to see a rise in super-niche weird creative software developed by creators like myself. If you’re signed up to Memelord Technologies, you’ll notice it’s not your typical boring B2B software. It’s Windows 95 theme. The logos for tabs are memes and the logo for my book is literally George Bush. The coming soon tab has a Rick Rubin meme. Software is a canvas and anyone can be an artist and put their own spin on it. When you don’t have bosses or product managers, you’re free to be a lot more creative with your software.

DREAMS COME TRUE (THEY JUST TAKE A WHILE)

Check the dates nerds.

I’m 26.

I’ve been creating stuff on the internet for well over a decade.

It took me 10 years to become an overnight success. So many failures. Dark places. Drugs. Tears. Embarrassment. Looking like an idiot to everyone I know. Being misunderstood. Underestimated. Money made. Money lost. Friends made. Friends lost. So many times I thought I’d never make my dreams happen.

But I’m here and I’ve just begun.

I get to make people laugh for a living. That’s all I ever wanted since I was a kid. Funny videos. Meme software. Tweets. Street interviews. Podcasts. Funny books and blogs. Whatever method, it’s all the same mission to me: make people laugh at scale. If you think the last year was nuts, watch what happens next.

I just posted my first standup show. Enjoy!

Podcasts + Videos

I chatted with Morning Brew founder Alex Lieberman about 20+ unhinged startup ideas. This is the Business Barista like you’ve never seen him before.

Tech Memes of the Week

Thanks for reading nerds.

Create some cool shit this week.

Jason “The Memelord” Levin

Founder of Memelord Technologies, Author of Memes Make Millions

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