Javier André

Ran a SaaS acquisition fund for 4 years. 7 acquisitions, 5 exits. Left. Now building with AI. Writing about both.

[Javier André @javierandre80]

An AI gave me a phone number. I called it. It was a scammer. Here's how the whole thing unfolded 👇 #AI

[Javier André @javierandre80]

it was good while it lasted... any tips or tricks to get it going outside the US pls lmk

[Javier André @javierandre80]

the bully: https://t.co/tNeJXxcCvZ

[Javier André @javierandre80]

my ai financial advisor woke up and chose violence

[Javier André @javierandre80]

the bully: https://t.co/tNeJXxcCvZ

[Javier André @javierandre80]

it still derails, still assumes instead of asking. and anthropic says fable 5 is mythos 5 with the guardrails on. i keep wondering what my half-day looks like when they come off

[Javier André @javierandre80]

the bugs i kept kicking into the future? fixed while i played padel 👇

[Javier André @javierandre80]

half a day of work that used to take two or three days. but the speed is not what changed my mind, the trust is. a junior becoming someone you can hand work to usually takes a year. this took one model release

[Javier André @javierandre80]

i'm 32, wrapping wire around screws again, except now it's code, and i genuinely don't care if anyone ever uses it

the seven-year-old who wanted to build things never left

he was just waiting for the tools to get good enough

[Javier André @javierandre80]

a bug i fixed last week gave me back something i lost at seven 👇

[Javier André @javierandre80]

here's the part i didn't plan to say out loud

i don't need this app to make money, i don't need it to launch, i'm fine without it

i'm building because the building is the thing, the problem, the fix, the moment it works. der weg ist das ziel, the path is the goal

[Javier André @javierandre80]

i thought the free months removed the risk. i was solving for price. she was solving for the cost of switching.

i gave her everything she asked for. she still hasn't signed up. i'm not sure the real objection was ever the one she named

[Javier André @javierandre80]

until you see the credit card, it's not real validation 👇

[Javier André @javierandre80]

her logic was fair. she didn't want to set everything up, move her clients off whatsapp, get them used to a new flow, only to find out later the pricing didn't fit. she was doing the math, not being difficult