Tom Morrison

From Guam to everywhere 🇬🇺

Building with AI, exploring business ideas, and traveling the world.

Self-taught coder sharing the process.

Business•AI•Travel

[Tom Morrison @morrimoz]

What to do before you open Lovable

Everyone's vibe-coding apps with no brand, no
positioning, no idea who the customer is

The tool ships
The business doesn't

https://t.co/GePgXFo1yV takes you from idea to a live business

[Tom Morrison @morrimoz]

Left New Zealand 7 years ago chasing location independence

Spent years watching people I know plan businesses that never launched

The problem was never the idea

It was always the execution

Built https://t.co/GePgXFo1yV to close that gap

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webmoz Mar '25 build:

Page speed was shit

Every script - GSAP, SplitType, scripts - loading at the same time

Built a lazy loader to defer all the non-critical stuff

Chatbot loaded first, everything else after

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webmoz Mar '25 build:

Got the full chatbot flow working at bar in Shinjuku, Tokyo

WebSocket > LangGraph > Gemini > filtered response > frontend

Bug: the SYSTEM_PROMPT was leaking to the frontend

The AI was thinking out loud where users could see it, not the goods

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When Claude's in her head too much and doesn't wanna talk about it

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@orca_build @adahstwt Was thinking of making myself something like this, I like it

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1B tokens building https://t.co/GePgXFo1yV last month

doesn't include Codex & Claude Code

$60 cursor. $20 codex. $20 claude

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@Bhavani_00007

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@hthieblot Co-founder - https://t.co/GePgXFo1yV

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Designed the onboarding UX for webmoz

I'd say most peoples attention isn't enough to walk through the steps

Shows you how to navigate webmoz

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webmoz Feb '25 build:

Needed web search for the AI agent

Three options: Tavily, Brave, Google Custom Search

Tavily is the LangGraph default

Brave has AI-optimized snippets

Google fits the existing stack

Picked Brave

(grndng w google search wasn't avail)

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@gippp69 Where do you find the 3D elements to throw in? Blender, Spline, DIY?

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webmoz Feb '25 build:

WebSocket was randomly dropping connections

Error: 1006 - abnormal closure

No clear cause in the logs

Added a ping/pong heartbeat

Increased Cloud Run timeout to 60 mins

Still dropping...

Turns out it was just my wifi.

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webmoz Feb '25 build:

Asked o3-mini to plan file upload and web search

GCS to store the file

Cloud Functions to process it

LangChain to parse it into text

LangGraph node for the web search

Used AI to design how my AI would work

Weird feeling - I'll take it

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Feb' 25 webmoz:

Backend's fixed - so I revamped the home page

Then started thinking about what actually happens when someone signs up

Welcome video, survey, walkthrough, dashboard intro

The idea: no friction

Most products don't think about this until users stop showing up

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Built a points & rewards system into webmoz this week

Streaks, flow sessions, daily sprints

Each one earns points toward your next AI run

Most AI tools charge you more for every run

This one rewards you for showing up

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Feb '25 webmoz notes:

Built the chatbot, got it working, deployed it

After a few exchanges it started going weird

Too formal, losing the tone, breaking character

Had to rewrite the whole system prompt AI products need a character guide - not just instructions

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People are shipping vibe-coded apps with no positioning, no customer, no why

The problem isn't the code It's that nobody did the thinking first

webmoz is the upstream layer - guided Q&A, AI research, structured output

Before you build anything

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@Akasheth_ https://t.co/GePgXFo1yV - AI builds your business

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You can build your entire business on webmoz in under an hour

But then what

We built an engine that gets it out on all the socials to show up consistently

Every week it scans the trends, generates all the content, schedules n posts, gets smarter each week

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How https://t.co/GePgXFo1yV builds your business:

- You click Run
- The agent works
- You answer a few questions
- You approve it
- Next task

That’s the entire process - from an idea to a live business in under an hour