John E

Data systems, SaaS and AI automations for agencies and service businesses

[John E @JohnFreelancing]

Building a dashboard connecting 3+ different data sources is super simple now with AI

And these days we use AI to write most of the code too…

So why do 7-8 figure brands and agencies still pay us $5k, $8k and more for it?

Beyond simply saving time and headache vs having to build it themselves, there’s a few things:

Strategy and Context

Data Modeling

Performance

Testing and Validation

Maintenance

Security

None of these are rocket science tbh

But what we bring is the clarity and experience to bake 90% of this in from the beginning

And a team who’s actually focused on it to take care of the remaining 10%

That’s why clients are happy to pay us a premium

(btw similar stuff applies to almost any niche/service)

[John E @JohnFreelancing]

Your "I'm too busy to ship" excuse died on March 17.

That's the day Anthropic shipped Dispatch

A free executive assistant sitting on every founder's laptop

Nobody is using it right

Founders are still:

- Manually triaging inboxes at 7am
- Prepping their own meeting notes
- Copy-pasting research into docs
- Writing the same follow-ups every week

Dispatch can easily do all of this for you on auto pilot

I wrote the playbook: exact prompts, the 5 tasks to automate first, the 3 you should never hand off, and the morning autopilot setup

Like + Comment "DISPATCH" (must be following) and I'll send it

[John E @JohnFreelancing]

@ZedNilm1 Loop

[Zed @ZedNilm1]

$10k/day brands don’t use ai as a random prompt machine anymore

they connect it to the full creative loop

meta shows what competitors are actually running

gethookd makes it easier to find the patterns and winning angles

claude turns that market signal into new scripts, hooks, statics, and offers

then the next batch goes back into meta for testing

that’s the system

not guessing
not copying one ad
not asking ai for “10 creative ideas”

real market data goes in

better creative output comes out

the brands scaling fastest are not always smarter

they just have tighter feedback loops

ads → data → patterns → new angles → more tests

rt + comment “loop” and i’ll send the full setup
(follow for dm)

[John E @JohnFreelancing]

@timbidefi If you send a first email with a link in the body like that, it will land in spam

Also I've tried all of this and none of it works lol

[John E @JohnFreelancing]

AMF is $49 for 1k, yeah it it’s cheaper but as you go up in plans they get closer in price

Also this is not considering quality which I haven’t tested for these

The point of the post was if running at high scale it starts becoming worthwhile to build your own

If at the lower plans it’s better to just find a good provider and run with it

[John E @JohnFreelancing]

I was tired of paying FindyMail and Any Mail Finder exorbitant prices

just to find a prospect's email...

So I built a tool myself that does it 10X cheaper

pretty simple build and works great

and I only use those platforms to fill in the gaps

great example of a small use case where building your own makes sense

(Dm me if you want to try the email finder I built btw)

[John E @JohnFreelancing]

@straw1choco Yeah it’s fine but not much cheaper than any mail finder

[John E @JohnFreelancing]

Been leaning on this stack recently, honestly been in such a good groove with it and can build so fast:

- TypeScript all day
- Next.js + Tailwind + shadcn/ui
- Railway deployments (frontend, backend, cron)
- Neon (serverless Postgres, so good)
- Claude Code (obviously)

So versatile too, works for data pipelines/dashboards, web apps, pretty much anything

I’m particularly interested in upping my game in the frontend and design space, that’s my weak point rn

Any recs?

[John E @JohnFreelancing]

@jn_jackk List

[John E @JohnFreelancing]

@nicktheriot_ Million

[Stijn Feijen @spwfeijen]

Claude = 550 videos/day

Fully realistic UGC ads — cinematic lighting, natural human motion, clean pacing — powered by AI agents.

- UGC cost: $0
- Production time: minutes
- Scale: instant

One AI engine that creates, tests, and scales short-form ads automatically — nonstop.

Comment + RT “V2” and I’ll DM you the full workflow.
(Must be following)

[John E @JohnFreelancing]

@spwfeijen V2

[John E @JohnFreelancing]

@seanb2b Yeah only works with strong deliverability and most importantly a no brainer offer

[John E @JohnFreelancing]

@mikefutia Meta

[John E @JohnFreelancing]

@danielfazio Your ICP is “people who can do 5th grade math”?

[John E @JohnFreelancing]

@coldemailchris @gtminsiders Insiders

[John E @JohnFreelancing]

@KEmmra @hasantoxr Haha yeah basically all sounds good and looks good on the surface but once you dig in there’s nothing of substance

Basically summarizes 99% of the “B2B” content on X, LinkedIn and Reddit these days lol

[John E @JohnFreelancing]

@scaling_shields gift

[John E @JohnFreelancing]

@coldemailchris You forgot “all emails land in spam” and “stop wasting time and start running ads instead”

[John E @JohnFreelancing]

@aminupsell @yegormethod Nah I’m good bro