He Built the World’s Biggest Free Mentorship Platform | Felix, ADPList
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"They said AI would replace design. Instead it proved how much design matters." That's how Felix puts it.
He'd know. A VC told him at 20 that Singaporeans can't build companies. He had no design degree, and got rejected from the jobs he wanted. So he built the thing that would have let him in — ADPList, now the biggest free mentorship platform in the world, with 40,000+ mentors, over a million users, across 140+ countries. All free.
In this episode:
→ Why the best-looking app doesn't win — and why design is really applied psychology
→ Why AI made the pixels easy and the thinking the whole game
→ Why "originality is dead," and why similar-looking apps can both succeed
→ Why super-app clutter vs. Western minimalism is cultural, not better or worse
→ Scaling free mentorship to a million users — and still messaging mentors personally
→ Splitting with a co-founder the right way
→ What competitive sports taught him about failure
Follow Felix: @felixleezd
𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐌𝐏𝐒
(00:00) Oakland Ice Center Intro
(00:47) From Singapore's National Skating Team
(02:22) AI vs. Human Design
(04:53) Is Originality Dead?
(06:42) Designers vs. Engineers
(08:23) Minimalism and Culture
(10:55) Ethics and AI Trust
(12:57) What ADPList Is
(13:37) Closed Doors and Why He Built It
(17:42) Quitting to Go All In
(20:31) The Founder Outreach Playbook
(26:04) Don Norman Lessons
(28:56) Scaling Free Mentorship to a Million
(31:57) Designing With Claude
(33:59) Fable Workflows
(41:51) Audience vs. Community
(43:16) The PR Crisis
(52:31) What Sports Taught Him About Failure
(54:42) Splitting With a Co-Founder the Right Way
(59:33) Hiring Mistakes
(01:04:21) San Francisco Culture Shock
(01:11:25) Long-Term Games
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