So yeah, we’re speed-building something interesting.
You might’ve thought of it before.
But you haven’t seen this.
It’s coming. Soon. Hopefully.
Exciting times ahead. 🙂
Alright, this weekend I vibe-coded.
Not just playing around with tools.
Actually building on a cool idea I got pulled into by a genius.
And it hit me:
how much easier it is now to bring ideas to life compared to just a few months ago.
Fairly technical folks can take ideas →
MVPs → profitable products → real impact...
in days, not months.
So what's the takeaway?
Ideas aren’t worth much on their own anymore.
A cool idea is just that - a cool idea.
Everyone has a dozen a day.
What matters now is >>speed.
(And maybe... awareness?)
For the last few years, a construction estimation company out of India has been spamming my inbox asking me if they can assist with projects I am interested in.
I finally said "what the hell" and hired them just to double check my numbers.
As you probably expected, the quality was trash.
Zero useful information I could use in my bidding process and I disregarded them for all future work.
A few months ago I was laying in bed and started asking myself "how do they always know what projects we were going after".
I called them back and asked.
To keep this tweet short(ish), they have a team of 50 people who are collecting data from public and private sources and know what companies are bidding what and where and then spam them to offer their estimating services.
The lightbulb came on. 💡
I told the guy, I am not interested at all in your estimating services but I will pay you 1% of the contract value if you can send me every construction job you find where there are no bidders and i win the job.
They agreed.
In the last 3 months, my company has won a little under a $1,000,000 worth of contracts from his info alone and I have paid them out their 1%.
These are jobs I would normally have no interest in but I am the only one bidding the jobs. They are small, single trade, easy to complete jobs I am winning at a 50%-70% margin.
The lesson I learned and am sharing with you today is to “Seek value in unexpected places, and be open to reframing relationships for mutual benefit.”
@fivegoodfingers @Codie_Sanchez Life = problems no matter what & every solution gives a new problem (noticed you're never out of stuff to deal with anyway?)
So happiness isn't having more/less problems whatever that means. It's picking the lvl of problems we're comfortable with based on desired life standards.
Spot on! Life's short when you focus on the external.
But take a sec to reflect on all you've been through, yet still "alive".
Might have a lot more road ahead. Wise to plan accordingly.
@SpillTheMemes To those who say life is short, I say this.
Life is the longest thing you'll ever do. Plan accordingly.
A short term view on life encourages short term thinking, which in term creates long term problems.
Live for your whole life, not just for today.
Loneliness is a kind of tax you have to pay to atone for a certain complexity of mind.
The weirder you are, the less people are like you, the less people will “get” you. This is fine.
Everyone is complaining about jobs that AI would replace in the future.
But no one sees all these folks losing their jobs because they used AI the wrong way.
Gotta make it a tool 🔧, NOT a toy. 🎲