u/External_Fox_7174

Yesterday I posted about being a 22-year-old founder who just closed 3 clients. You guys showed up the upvotes, the comments, the DMs.

I replied to 100+ comments. Some of you invited me to meet calls, shared your own startup stories. We traded notes.

Same-minded people, real conversations, real problems. It was genuinely one of the better days I have had building this thing.

Then about 12 hours later, one user appeared and called me a liar. Said my writing was AI-generated.
Left a comment full of hate and then deleted it before I could finish typing my reply.

I sat with that for a minute. And I want to be straight with everyone here.

Yes. I use AI to write my posts. I have for the last 2 years.

I've been creating content for 3 years. The last 2, I have used AI tools to shape and polish what I publish on LinkedIn, here, everywhere. 

 I feed in my thoughts, my actual experience, my real story. The tool helps me structure and express it cleanly. I pay for those subscriptions.

I use them because I'm a founder and my time is better spent building than perfecting comma placement.

The clients I closed? Real. The calls we had yesterday? Real. The founder problems we talked about? Every single one was real. Using AI to write a post doesn't make my experience fictional.

If you want to see my English look at my comment replies. Raw, fast, unedited. That's me. I'm not a ghost, I'm not fake, I'm not hiding anything.

People have this idea that a post only counts if a human typed every word themselves. But we use Grammarly, Google Docs spellcheck, editors, ghostwriters nobody calls that fake.

AI is just another tool. The thoughts are mine. The wins are mine. The grind is mine.

To everyone who connected with me yesterday thank you. That energy was real and I'm still grateful for it.

To the person who deleted their comment I hope you find whatever you were looking for.

by the way this is also written by AI so if you have any problem stay away from my post. i make money using these tools not like you keyboard typing master

My friend and I are both 22. We're ambitious to our core the kind of people who'd rather build something from nothing than clock into someone else's dream. Honestly, part of the spark came from an Instagram reel one of those "spend a day with a 21-year-old founder" videos. You've probably seen them. Most people scroll past. We looked at each other and said: why not us?

So we started. No big pitch deck. No investors. Just two guys who are genuinely obsessed with building things.

>"We are just made of building things" that's literally how we describe ourselves.

We offer app development, AI agents, website development, cloud services, and DevOps. In our very first month we closed 3 clients and delivered the product. Not promised delivery. Delivered.

Did we make a ton of money? No. But here's the thing nobody really prepares you for:

When a client looks at something you built from scratch, and they say "this is great, we want to work with you again"  that hits differently than any salary ever could. There's this electric feeling when the work you did with your own hands is now sitting inside someone's business, actually running. It's a kick. A real one.

We come into every project with stupid amounts of energy and stamina. This field is exactly where we want to be. The first month has been tough, scrappy, and a little chaotic but honestly? This is one of the best feelings in the world.

If you're sitting on a business idea and waiting for the "right time" this is me telling you the right time doesn't exist. Just start. The momentum builds itself.

Happy to answer anything. 🤝

My friend and I are both 22. We're ambitious to our core the kind of people who'd rather build something from nothing than clock into someone else's dream. Honestly, part of the spark came from an Instagram reel one of those "spend a day with a 21-year-old founder" videos. You've probably seen them. Most people scroll past. We looked at each other and said: why not us?

So we started. No big pitch deck. No investors. Just two guys who are genuinely obsessed with building things.

>"We are just made of building things" that's literally how we describe ourselves.

We offer app development, AI agents, website development, cloud services, and DevOps. In our very first month we closed 3 clients and delivered the product. Not promised delivery. Delivered.

Did we make a ton of money? No. But here's the thing nobody really prepares you for:

When a client looks at something you built from scratch, and they say "this is great, we want to work with you again"  that hits differently than any salary ever could. There's this electric feeling when the work you did with your own hands is now sitting inside someone's business, actually running. It's a kick. A real one.

We come into every project with stupid amounts of energy and stamina. This field is exactly where we want to be. The first month has been tough, scrappy, and a little chaotic but honestly? This is one of the best feelings in the world.

If you're sitting on a business idea and waiting for the "right time" this is me telling you the right time doesn't exist. Just start. The momentum builds itself.

Happy to answer anything. 🤝

I’m planning to take admission in Arden University for an online/top-up degree, but I’ve heard mixed opinions about Saudi Arabia degree verification/equivalency and some other gulf countries rules.

Some people say the degree is accepted, while others say online degrees can face issues in Saudi Musadaqa/equivalency.

I want to know from real students or professionals:

• Did anyone here verify an Arden degree in Saudi Arabia?
• Was the process successful?
• Does study mode (online/distance learning) create problems?
• Are employers in Saudi accepting it?

Would appreciate honest experiences before I invest time and money into the degree.