I started this account 15 years ago, when I thought "convalytics" would be a good name for a company doing conversion analytics. (click-through rate, etc...)
Turns out, I'm better at automation. So 6 years ago, we pivoted.
#MyXAnniversary
With the amount of public data available, it's a shame that we haven't automated the home buying process to be as simple as Amazon checkout, or at least as easy as buying a tesla.
Doing some napkin math today and was shocked at how fast you can hit ROI break even if you automate a single process with Convalytics.
If you have a 5-minute task that you do 30 times a day (2.5hrs), you'll break even in as little as 30 days.
Even if you only do that task 10 times a day and pay on the lower end, ROI is under 90 days.
Common tasks that we automate:
- Order Entry
- Status updates / notes in and out of your systems.
- Order Completion / Final Upload
- Vendor Maintenance
@yacineMTB I had an intern many years ago who asked about becoming a data scientist.
He had minimal computer skills, zero coding skills, and no interest in the actual job.
But "data scientist" was the sexy high paying job. 100% in it for the money.
This took me like 2 minutes of thought, 5 minutes waiting for the videos to render, and 5 minutes to figure out how to splice the videos together using shotcut.
My first attempt at a "commercial" using Google Veo 3.
Splice together a few 8-second clips and anyone can produce commercials for their small business.
EVERYONE SHOULD START A BUSINESS
1. because AI agents make it possible to move like a team of ten
2. because you can start one while you still have a job (and probably should)
3. because it rewires your brain
4. because $100 and an audience gets you further today than $1M did in 2010.
5. because AI just created the biggest entrpreneurial opportunity window of human history
6. because it forces you to get good at storytelling
7. because it gives you an absurd amount of leverage in the job market
8. because you get to help people
9. because you can test demand before writing a single line of code.
10. because you can automate the boring parts and focus on the fun
11. because you can test ideas in 48 hours, not 48 weeks
12. because your ideas deserve more than a Google Doc
13. because making money in your sleep never gets old
14. because you get to stand on the shoulders of giants building on their tech (openai, shopify, cloudflare etc)
15. because it's 2025 and you can even get free startup ideas backed by trends @ideabrowser
16. because it's a rollercoaster of emotions and you'll learn a ton about yourself
17. because maybe you can't stop thinking about an idea and it's driving you mad
18. Because life is short and it's fun
@karpathy I've often thought about treating words on a page like pixels in an image.
Maybe not the same thing, but a different paradigm than pure left to right text.
With AI, unit testing will become even more important.
Devs are changing huge chunks of code while trusting that the AI made no mistakes.
We should be running unit tests every time we accept a change made by AI.
@RampCapitalLLC The crazy thing to me is the people who bought at like $6, sold at $1,200 and never touched it again.
Like, you didn't hang onto a few just in case? Or ever buy some more on a dip?