Jaco

#shipordie on the internet.
📝 -free jotform alternative
🎨 -asci generator

[Jaco @jacomakes]

https://t.co/ReqZzYZlBV now hit 173 upvotes and 6.5K views on reddit r/ascii

[Jaco @jacomakes]

Day 9/30 - 3D posing web app
✅ Added body control posing
✅ Experimenting with pre-defined poses
🚧 I need to clean up the Landing page, and get the value proposition clearly shown (+ add a demo video)
🚧 I need to actually implement google auth (now just placeholder)

[Jaco @jacomakes]

Day 8/30 - 3D posing web app
✅ Added hand pose control (kind of messy, need to fix later)
✅ Improved design

[Jaco @jacomakes]

@dmytrovirych Lets go!!

[Jaco @jacomakes]

Day 7/30 - 3D posing web app
✅ Today worked on infra stuff (hosting models, animations etc.)
✅ Gated app behind login/signup, and implementing Google
✅ Adding / fixing features like playback/pausing animations

[Jaco @jacomakes]

#shipordie Day 6/30 - Artist Sketching App

I worked a lot on animations today for the 3D models It is coming together!!

I also stumbled upon different other products in adjacent niche that I would be interested in as well.

Here is a little example of a dance!

[Jaco @jacomakes]

#shipordie Day 5 - Artist sketching app

Lots of progress was made today:

Improved environment settings
Found better models
Start working with animations to make my model move
Infra work (bought domain, wire it up with render etc.)

[Jaco @jacomakes]

Winning long term depends on your ability to stubbornly retain childlike traits like foolish optimism, playfulness, relentless risk-taking and refusal to become jaded or “realistic” in a defeatist sense.

[Joe Lampton @joelampton_]

One of the rarest and most lethal skills a person can master is REFUSING TO DIE

As you grow in age you’ll see how everyone dies around you

The “gangster” you knew in high school dies and becomes a barber

The trust fund kid dies, unable to 10x his dads networth, lapped by random people he never knew existed back in the day

The tall pretty boy that girls were naturally drawn to dies and becomes mortal, cucked by some bitch

The guy who was cool, a threat when he was 20 dies and becomes some worm at 30 - couldn’t sustain the same energy for decades

Most people “die” as they age and face real problems. The key is to remain retarded forever and to refuse to die - no matter what happens.

Winning long term depends on your ability to stubbornly retain childlike traits like foolish optimism, playfulness, relentless risk-taking and refusal to become jaded or “realistic” in a defeatist sense.

Namaste.

[Jaco @jacomakes]

@dannyskelley holy! great art man just checked it out

[Jaco @jacomakes]

Day 4 - #shipordie check-in - Artist sketching web app

Today I worked super hard, both on laptop and on the phone when I was outside through claude remote control.

Any waiting time (cashier, in queue, etc.) is an opportunity to ship.

I already have the MVP for my posing tool and it is live on render.

Not ready to share yet but I am very confident that I will be able to ship this thing on time.

When you do what you actually want to do, it is so easy to work hard.

Lets go!

[Jaco @jacomakes]

@heyfuturejesse Thank you, lets go!!

[Jaco @jacomakes]

@lilfrogdev Will share it with you!

[Jaco @jacomakes]

#shipordie
Day 3: Spent two days going in circles on what idea to work on, what could make money, what is already validated in the market, what the smart bet is (like a reddit monitoring tool, or linkedin growth tool or AI video creator etc.), and just stalled.

Today I decided it throw it all out and follow my heart. I've been an artist hobbyist my whole life, and often tried 3D poser web apps when sketching.

So I decided to build a better one. I don't know the TAM or whatever, but I know I want to do this.

So now I am set for at least the next 27 days, I will just focus on that, regardless of the monetary outcome.

[Jaco @jacomakes]

@YInsured opportunity cost

[Jaco @jacomakes]

#shipordie day 2
I decided to forget about ios apps. Instead I am going to focus purely on web-apps. I need to find an idea I have 28 days left

[Jaco @jacomakes]

#shipordie day 1
I am almost done making my app that helps people build a morning reading habit.

I can feel the reward mechanic is not really addictive, there are no reward system yet, just a basic habit streak. I feel I need to improve it.

Since this is my first iOS app, the process of submitting to Apple store is a bit difficult, I have not sent for review yet, no screenshots taken either..

I am building 2 other apps in parallel (1 web app and 1 iOS app) ... so 3 claude code instances at the same time.

Lets go

[Jaco @jacomakes]

@marclou Lets gooo

[Jaco @jacomakes]

Let's go CREW!! We're in this together!!
We SHIP or DIE @jackfriks @marclou

[Jaco @jacomakes]

the manual work is the learning, and I would add is the barrier to entry because it is DIFFICULT!

[Garry Tan @garrytan]

Everyone thinks "do things that don't scale" is about building relationships with early users.

Yes AND it's about generating mistakes at maximum density.

When you're doing everything manually (onboarding, support, delivery) you hit errors every hour. Each error teaches you something the dashboard never will.

The manual work IS the learning. Automate too early and you freeze your ignorance in code (and now markdown).

[Garry Tan @garrytan]

The companies I love working with in office hours are the ones where the founder has a specific, weird, earned insight that nobody else has. Not "AI for X." A genuine edge that came from living inside a problem.

The ones that are dying almost always have the same pattern: technically competent founders building something nobody asked for, moving metrics that don't matter, avoiding the conversation with the one user who'd tell them the truth.

The lucky thing is that 2nd type of founder can become the 1st kind if they don't stand still, they are willing to talk to people, try things, and always seek high rate of learning.

[Jaco @jacomakes]

curiosity is the best way to become successful, and incidentally the best way to live

[Vivek @itsreallyvivek]

> be me
> realize the syllabus won’t build the life i want
> start exploring, experimenting, and breaking things online
> bug hunt my way into a starbucks cybersecurity internship
> make a few thousand in bounties
> get selected for summer of bitcoin, then leave it
> get selected for yc startup school sf
> get selected for the anthropic ai safety fellowship in london
> help detect stomach cancer 7% earlier at mayo clinic
> realize curiosity compounds harder than credentials