@codyschneider Makes sense, running an agency forces you to ship things that actually move a client's numbers. Do you screen for that with a paid trial project or just their past client work?
@BrianRoemmele The "hire, don't build" framing matches what I've seen. The agents that stick are the ones with one narrow job and a clear owner, not the do-everything ones.
@Dylan_txa_@gojiberryai The intent-signal point is the real unlock. Did you find "engaging with competitors" or "posting about the problem" converted better for you?
@tdinh_me Way better on facts, but I still catch it confidently inventing settings menus in SaaS tools that changed their UI last quarter. Niche docs are where it slips now.
@jasonlk Single player is the sweet spot for this. Most CRM pain for small teams is data entry nobody does, and email-reading kills that. How does it handle the same contact across 3 inboxes?
@thejustinwelsh Noticed this when I stopped checking dashboards every hour. The boredom was rough for a week, then the actual work got way more interesting.
@marckohlbrugge Same thing happened with .io a few years back. Once every pitch deck had one it stopped signaling anything. Feels like the name has to do the work again, not the TLD.
@goodalexander Seeing the small business version of this daily. Owners don't want an AI tool, they want someone to plug it into the CRM they already pay for and make the follow-ups actually happen.
@kenshinji The ads vs SEO check is underrated. If a competitor lives on paid traffic, their margins are thinner than the MRR screenshot suggests, so you can win just by owning the search terms they're renting.
@yongfook The boring stuff still pays. Local service businesses need someone to wire up their CRM and follow-ups, and they don't care if AI built half of it.
@Jason@JeffBezos The useful signal is that price data eventually exposes the difference between a shortage and a constraint. When new supply keeps arriving and prices still fall, permitting speed and construction volume are doing more work than the loudest policy debate.
@SahilBloom The overlooked advantage is context: repeated presence turns transactions into relationships. Small communities can outperform much larger audiences because people remember who consistently shows up.
@naval The compounding is usually invisible while it’s happening. In a business, the long-term version is boring systems and customer trust—small improvements that keep paying after the initial excitement fades.