Joseph

Solopreneur, building Equilibrition
- Also AI consultant
- Also : Nanocorp Ambassador, running QuotAi & Vakado autonomously
- Also trying to be an awesome dad.

[Joseph @Jojostimabl]

Last week, I started a company on Nanocorp on Tuesday.

By Thursday, I already had $229 in my account.

And I didn’t start this company on Tuesday by chance. It was the beginning of the @NanoCorpHQ hackathon.

We had 84 hours to generate as much money as possible. And since it was capitalism turned into a game, whoever made the most money… won money!

What an incredible concept. So obviously, I joined!

Thanks to my revenue, I made it into Nanocorp’s top companies.

But unfortunately, I got beaten right at the finish line.

Another guy built a SaaS that was even more profitable than mine and generated $306 in 84 hours.

So I finished second. But that’s not what I’ll remember most.

What I’ll remember is what I managed to build in just a few hours.

And above all, the fact that I managed to sell a product that didn’t even exist yet!

That was a huge lesson for me.

Because I’d already heard advice like this plenty of times:

“Just build a landing page to test the market. If people buy, you can start building afterward.”

But that always sounded unbelievable to me.

Me, an engineer, selling thin air!

But actually, it’s not about selling thin air.

It’s about selling a vision.

And if your vision resonates with people, it means you’re onto something.

That’s when it becomes worth digging deeper and spending time building it.

And the cherry on top: you also get real early users who are ready to send you feedback as soon as the product launches.

I’ll share more about what led me to this product, and especially where I plan to take it next, in a future post.

So follow me if you’re interested 🤪

[Joseph @Jojostimabl]

This is probably one of the biggest shifts AI is creating.

Being “good enough” used to have economic value because reaching average competence required time, training and experience.

AI is removing that barrier.

Average copy.
Average code.
Average design.
Average analysis.

All of it is becoming almost free.

Which means the value moves somewhere else.

Not necessarily toward being 10x better at manually producing the output.

But toward the things AI still struggles to commoditize:

Taste.
Judgment.
Understanding the problem.
Knowing what “great” actually looks like.
Knowing what to build in the first place.

AI raises the floor dramatically.

And when everyone can produce average work, the ability to recognize and create exceptional work becomes much more valuable.

[DAN KOE @thedankoe]

AI makes being average at any skill available to everyone, which makes average work worthless. If you take the time to become incredibly good at what you do you won't have to worry about being replaced.

[Joseph @Jojostimabl]

Quand t'es mentalement épuisé je vote Le sport direct !
Pas te faire trop mal non plus si t'es aussi épuisé physiquement, mais faire un sport nature genre vélo, rando ou course à pied ça vide la tête de fou.

Perso je suis un peu mazo en plus, quand je suis énervé ou que j'ai la tête qui va explosé je me fais une sortie de vélo où je me defonce encore plus physiquement 😅
Mais quand tu rentres, avec l'air extérieur que t'as respiré et la dopamine qui fait son effet, t'es bien.

[Roso @RosoAI]

C'est quoi vos remèdes quand vous êtes mentalement épuisé ?

[Joseph @Jojostimabl]

“AI is data, and data can only look backwards. Creativity looks forwards.”
I don't completely agree with this.

Human creativity doesn’t come from nowhere either.

A huge part of it is remixing past experiences, things we’ve seen, conversations we’ve had, books we’ve read, failures, emotions...

The difference is the filter.

Humans attach meaning to those experiences.

We have taste, intention, emotions, context, desires, contradictions.

That’s why I don’t think AI is “creative” in the purely artistic sense.

But I do think it can massively increase our creativity.

AI can explore thousands of combinations of past knowledge that I would never have connected myself.

Then I can apply the human filter, the taste, the intuition

Maybe AI doesn’t need to be creative.

Maybe its real value is expanding the space in which we can be creative.

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

I saw a post on Reddit today about AI that said, “AI is data, and data can only look backwards. Creativity looks forwards.” And I genuinely need to sit with the weight of that for a while.

[Joseph @Jojostimabl]

A tiny little step to start the marathon! 🍾
Now, let’s go for 1,000!

[Joseph @Jojostimabl]

@aiwithadb Depends on if you're a startup or a bootstrap solopreneur. For me, I choose 10 paying customers!

[Joseph @Jojostimabl]

Je pensais que la bonne nouvelle du jour, c’était ma nouvelle vente Equilibrition. Puis mon téléphone a sonné...

Des fois il y a des jours comme ça, tu sais pas pourquoi, mais tout va bien.
ça fait des semaines que je galère avec mes business, que j'ai pas rentré de nouveau client pour mon activité de Freelance.

Et ce matin, j'ouvre mon PC, et je vois que j’ai fait une nouvelle vente pour la bêta d’Equilibrition. Et rien que ça déjà c'était très cool.

Puis je reçois l’appel d’un ancien client.

Il avait essayé de lancer une agence IA il y a quelque temps, mais a finalement abandonné.

Sauf qu’avant ça, il avait préparé un projet assez sérieux pour un prospect :

- besoin déjà identifié
- proposition commerciale déjà faite
- stack technique déjà définie

Il avait quasi convaincu le prospect, il lui manquait juste un peu de temps. Et ce prospect vient lui même de le recontacter, il veut maintenant lancer le projet!

Comme lui ne fait plus ça, il me propose simplement de reprendre le dossier.

Je regarde la proposition : elle tient vraiment la route.

Le projet est intéressant.
Le client est chaud.
Et une bonne partie du travail commercial a déjà été faite, j'ai pu qu'à délivrer.

Bref.

Keep pushing !

[Joseph @Jojostimabl]

Mes grands parents, aide soignante et jardinier dans un hôpital il y a 25 ans, sont donc riches...

[Nicolas 💸 @NicolasQuiPaie]

On en est là…

[Joseph @Jojostimabl]

🇨🇵 Founder : Set aside 50% of your revenue to pay your taxes.

[Jonathan Wilke @jonathan_wilke]

🇩🇪 Founder:
Worrying about a compliant invoice for a $5 transaction

🇺🇸 Startups:
Growing to $500M without even knowing what VAT is

[Joseph @Jojostimabl]

@Romain_Kania Aller c'est parti ! Perso je bosse sur une app qui te permet de capturer toutes tes idées peu importe où tu es et surtout de les transformer en tâches/notes/ projet et ainsi augmenter le contexte de ton agent IA

[Joseph @Jojostimabl]

@LeD4ve @NanoCorpHQ Thx 😁

[Joseph @Jojostimabl]

A few weeks later, my app just entered the top 8 of @NanoCorpHQ companies ! 🥳🚀

[Joseph @Jojostimabl]

@0xMadMaks @NanoCorpHQ Merci!!

[Joseph @Jojostimabl]

@eliobldr Bienvenu en France ! Non seulement ils te font payer un changement d'adresse, mais en plus ils sont même pas capable de le faire rapidement...

[Joseph @Jojostimabl]

@ibos_elsa Hi ! (J'étais pas inspiré..)

[Joseph @Jojostimabl]

@EddyLeBough @eliobldr Damn, heureusement qu'ils raquettent les entrepreneurs qui n'ont pas d'autre choix que de payer leurs logos 50 balles sur Fiverr !! 🤣

[Joseph @Jojostimabl]

@cleeeeeeeeement CARROUSEL

[Joseph @Jojostimabl]

@tivollem Pas facile de trouver la limite entre le 2 et le 3 des fois, et le cerveau humain est vite attiré par le chemin le plus facile ! Ça demande un minimum de force mentale 😅