Josh Dance

You can just make stuff. Currently building @mintchecklist for dentists.

Goal: 13% body fat in 2026 (currently 24%)

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@jackfriks What’s the percentage decrease for either?

If it’s easier to add one percent MRR do that if it’s easier to cut half your infrastructure cost do that?

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@CostaKapo also leverage.

A factory can make millions of TVs.

A teach can teach in a normal way 150 kids max.

Streaming and video expand this. But leverage is critical to understanding why teachers are underpaid.

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@fahdananta Add comments on random homes. People are making Zillow videos with millions of views talking about random houses.

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Finding the kernel of value in an idea is a skill you can build.

What are some of your projects?

Did you ship anything? Because if you didn’t building more features might just be a way of avoiding the scary thing aka shipping.

You can ship something in a week if you pick a pain, solve it, and just launch the thing.

You got this.

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@levelsio We stayed a really nice / luxuary hotel in Utah for a special occasion and they gave us sparkling fruit juice instead. It was great, but that is a Utah specific thing

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@packyM Bad instructions. Not clear.

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@lawyer4SMBs Electric lawn tools are the best. Quieter more dependable much less maintenance.

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Yeah I could see segment-UI pairings.

And obviously a huge number of generated tools and solutions.

Once a tool or flow has been generated I could see it getting added to a library or catalog that the human or AI could use to give solutions.

‘Oh yes we have feature 143 that does this. You can add it to you quick menu here’

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Medium hot take - software is not going to be ‘UI generated on the fly’

People want their tools to be stable.

The Apple touch bar was dynamic UI. People hated it. You never knew what set of buttons you would get.

Yes, some tasks and workflows will be dynamic or just happen.

But the idea that you will just Ironman ‘hey Jarvis’ everything from scratch everytime is taking a logical idea to the silly extreme.

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@kumxem mom
and myself. I realized you can just do things, so started following recipes and learning the techniques.

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I could see something like that.

But then the support and sharing costs go thru the roof. :)

"Do you have the red button? No yours is blue? K well lets prompt it to create a red button for you."

or

'Hey this app is awesome!'
'Really? it didn't do that for me?'
'Hmmm yeah your app is different'

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@TravisseHansen For certain tasks yes ad hoc generated probably will work.

But for a lot of tasks knowing what your cool can do is more important.

But I guess that assumes that AI won’t be better at everything all the time.

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@BM5k Wrong like they should have liked it?

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@ChillsforReal What do they not allow? Things in window sills? Noise over certain limits? (Totally rookie here I know very little about building codes)

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i both ways.

First time around quit and lived off savings. I tried a bunch of different things and eventually took a super interesting job that came up because of what I had learned.

Second time around I worked on the app on the side for 2 years and got it to a decent chunk of revenue before I quit to focus on it.

Both can work. I think side gig until replace is the smarter way.

Quitting to live on savings can also create a false sense of scarcity. There is so much money changing hands out in the world.
When you have a finite runway it can make you feel like there is not enough to go around.

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(Me hyping my ai agents up)

We will be perfect, in every aspect of the game.

You miss an implementation plan step, you run a mile.

You use a deprecated API… you run a mile.

You ship. A. Production bug. And I will cancel your subscription immediately… and then, you will run a mile.

Perfection! Let’s go to work.

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I’ve had the exact same thought. I’ve given Twitter X more detailed personal content than any other social network.

But the ads are the worst. I think it might be that when you scroll Twitter they don’t know which tweet caught you eye. It could be one of 3 or 4. So it muddies the signal. But that is just one theory I have.

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@GoAwayCaroline @briggityboppity Nice! Makes sense. We don’t stay in any hotels. We have 3 kids so need two rooms and a kitchen. :)

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I think the confusion is that we’re discussing two different layers of abstraction. :)

You’re absolutely right that there are multiple kinds of HVAC systems and heat exchange methods. But my point was specifically about the vast majority of ACs and heat pumps.

Those systems are fundamentally the same vapor-compression machine:

* compressor
* refrigerant loop
* evaporator
* condenser

A heat pump mainly adds a reversing valve so the refrigerant flow can run in either direction.

And ground-source/geothermal heat pumps still generally use compressors too. The difference is just the heat source/sink:

* air-source systems exchange heat with outside air
* ground-source systems exchange heat with the ground through buried loops

Do you think it is accurate to say most consumer “heat pumps” are essentially reversible AC systems?

I think the branding confuses people into thinking they only produce heat hence why I’m focusing on this :)

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We are currently in England. Lovely country.

It is super hot. No one has air conditioners.

Every single household just needs to get a heat pump (hot in the winter, cold in the summer) and a balcony solar panel to power it.

This kind of heat wave isn’t going away. Just get the heat pump.