Jack An

Raising a kid + vibe-hacking to $10K MRR

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[Jack An @jackanships]

I started 2024 as a VC associate leading 9-figure rounds in AI and crypto across the world. It was a 24/7, high-pay, high-stress role.

I ended 2024 as a dad… and out of a job.

I realized that to give my little human the best shot at life, I needed to build something of my own, not manage someone else’s capital and politics.

It’s going to be hard, but this is the start of my build in public journey. I’ll share everything along the way.

If you’re a builder starting out, raising a kid, or both, let’s connect. Drop a comment or DM anytime; I reply to almost everyone and love swapping notes.

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@lucaspatiri_ UGC

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@levelsio I couldn't either, even though I think we've had some meaningful exchanges in the past few months

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@thepatwalls Can’t wait! Take good care of yourself in the meantime. Well deserved pit stop rest

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@nikitabier Actually quite a simple product design logic in retrospect. Smth wasn’t designed with 10x the headcount 🤦🏻‍♂️

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@vitddnv MRR

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@thepatwalls @HubSpot Congrats Pat. That’s massive

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Real builder alpha

[@levelsio @levelsio]

✨ A dream I had finally came true: I can now chat directly with my sites to build any feature or fix any bug just via Telegram

I've been playing with OpenClaw for 3 weeks now and it's great but I was always too scared to run it on any production server

And I was right a bit as @marckohlbrugge was able to hack it by social engineering and acting as if it was me, and with enough tries it believed him, and was able to modify the server, change SSH keys etc. of course I had it isolated properly on its own VPS and it didn't touch anything sensitive (as it should!)

Marc then reported that bug to @steipete who patched it fast

But I wanted to try something more basic and simple, and I think maybe more secure: to just connect Claude Code on my server to Telegram which would be hard locked to only messages from me

So I installed claude-code-telegram by @RichardAtCT on the server and run it as a system daemon and it works really well

The cool thing is that I was already using Telegram for server errors like this:

> Photo AI - ❌ Random credits giveaway failed (Attempt 30/30) with an exception: SQLSTATE[HY000]: General error: 5 database is locked

So now I can just reply, "Ok fix this", and Claude Code on the server in production will try (and probably succeed) in fixing it

In the video below I asked it to make show [🌳 Parks ] on the map by default on load, it did that, then I reloaded the page and it instantly worked

One thing it still needs is sending actual messages while it's doing stuff which OpenClaw does really well, it's annoying to just wait while it says "Working..." but that's probably next

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@pleureman @awpthorp @steipete @openclaw Ya

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@steipete @awpthorp @openclaw Many thanks, Peter. And congrats again. Excited to see what you’d build at OpenAI!

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@awpthorp @steipete @openclaw Not you sending it, the agent sending images back?

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@awpthorp @steipete @openclaw I thought the problem is more so that TG doesn’t allow image send, not a problem with the model ?

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@Austen Been using kimi2.5 yeah it can do basically everything good enough

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@jackfriks Kimi2.5 is quite decent > Gemini flash can be hit or miss

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@nikitabier We’d be lucky to get one per lifetime. Although now with lifespan expanding, we might! Fingers crossed

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@steipete They should also improve chrome RAM use

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@himanshustwts I mean everyone where got life changing amount of money after the merger too? Elon remains is also because he’s mission driven

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@levelsio @VitalikButerin is it finally time for Farcaster?

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@levelsio Yeah at this point, the web3 prediction is rapidly coming true. We need to increase the actual $ cost to posting to prevent full on spam and unusable internet.

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Quite literally “building smth people want”

[Marc Lou @marclou]

OPenClaW iS jUsT hYpE

0 > $1K MRR overnight

Building on hyped products before they become mainstream is a skill that will make you rich