Andrew Warner

Follow me to find out about profitable AI builders.

I'm also on YouTube: my past interviews on Mixergy

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@IMJustinBrooke Fun

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@Sonofpeace0001 @coreyganim @pewdiepie Yeah. Wish Slackbot and Siri weren't so bad

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@MrWilliamY @coreyganim @pewdiepie Sadly, no. Only for research.

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@TheAIShrink @coreyganim @pewdiepie I want to see how many people do this.

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@SMBForge @coreyganim @pewdiepie Can codex build that?

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@TheKryptoWiz @coreyganim @pewdiepie But I might replace the word page with the word site.

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@JimothySchrude @coreyganim @pewdiepie Getting a site beats getting a proposal.

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@cooperx86 You understand these repos so much better than I ever could. I love learning from you and figuring out how I can use them.

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@joelgascoigne @ericries How the hell did you almost lose control of the company? I thought you had majority equity.

I remember @hnshah telling you, if you want to do all the shit that you guys love, you have to own control of the business. And you are saying that was what you were going to do.

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@Aboundlessworld @IMJustinBrooke Ha. I think he'll get it right. And so will others.

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This guy + his agent hit a $10MM run rate...

...and everyone on X is dumping on him.

So I took all X's harshest criticisms and asked him straight up:

Q: Are customers cancelling? Is your churn high?

First month is ~50%. But many people are just signing up to look around and see what this whole ai company builder is about. That's not egregious.

Q: Your revenue isn't recurring.

Some is (like the base subscription) and some isn't (like domain name purchases).

Q: Are the sites your customers get just AI slop? I created one and it looked like a few other sites I saw.

The first version is designed to give you a taste for how this works. At the start, I intentionally trade customization for smooth onboarding. The AI will improve it with you.

Even the first version of a Squarespace site feels generic, but you're meant to improve those too.

And we're working on improving Polsia to create even better site.

Q: Is your name, "Polsia," just "AI Slop" spelled backwards?

Yes. I'm trying to build the opposite of ai slop.

Q: Polsia builds companies. Seems few of them are making big money.

Less than 10% of Shopify stores are profitable.

I'm a seasoned entrepreneur who spent 2025 building companies and 3 of them made zero dollars.

Polsia is helping new founders get started. We just launched a few months ago. Give it time.

My take:
- Make as much fun of him as you want. He told me X critics are growing his company.

- But at least spend some time hearing his vision and his responses to the criticism.

- I heard him out. I think he's sincerely working on building the future of entrepreneurship. I want to keep interviewing him as he builds his vision.

Hear the whole thing on yt:
https://t.co/JhHvpElMt9

(PS of course these Q&As are my edited notes, not verbatim quotes.)

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@rasmus1610 @ericries great people there

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This Anthropic developer uses @ericries's approach to coding with AI

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been asking others at Anthropic how they stay in the loop with Claude and fully understand the work being done

this is one of my favorites from Suzanne:

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@_xFiJa_ about the same

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@nickventuri ha. he said in the interview what he's working on lowering that price.

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@Farooq_AI month 2 is similar.

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@rajvara good point. but shopify is an established company with a long track record and still turning a profit is hard.

maybe we shouldn't expect agent-build sites do take off right away?

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@IMJustinBrooke @Aboundlessworld Like I said, I think he's well intentioned.

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I edited that clip from my YouTube interview:

https://t.co/LjbXm4qnMx

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@allenwalton @Aboundlessworld Man, i had no idea you were going through that.

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@jasondoesstuff What did you give it to build that?