Oliver Bowman

if you run a pressure washing business

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[Oliver Bowman @ol_bowman]

This morning I got a message that changed how I run my SaaS.

After a few weeks of validating I realised that it's not working for my users.

They told me that I can't compete with Meta.
That looks so obvious but I tried to hide that feeling for months. 😅

I had the difficult decision of:

- Do I keep pushing to try and get a bit more visibility?
- Or do I stop the SaaS here and repivot into something I'm more confident in?

Ultimately I've decided to stop building AdClarify and figure out a new SaaS that I can put even more effort into.

This is great for me though.

AdClarify was the first time I tried cold outreach and I learnt so much about how to communicate with people.

If there's one thing I've learnt it's that everything you learn only compounds and I could have spent hundreds on building and marketing only for it to fail even worse. Instead I'm transferring it all into a better and stronger project.

And I actually get to use the phrase "3rd time's the charm" so hopefully I get to prove it right. 😅

No matter what comes out of the next project, I'm only 16, and I have decades to learn and for one thing to work.

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@icanvardar Always making 5x the amount of features than they even need

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@immasiddx I hate these stupid vibe coded apps with no plans just forcing people to rate them 5 stars all the time 😭🙏

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@KaiXCreator Especially if you want to find elements to fix without wasting thousands of tokens

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@shiri_shh Idk man. As soon as an AI market agent comes out, the roles are finished

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@droidbuilds What happens if I start missing my Codex?

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@Star_Knight12 Student beats the Master type post 😭

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@sickdotdev Codex until the day I stop typing bro

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As a 16 year old founder, the biggest question I have in my life is:

How do I balance studying and working on my business?

Safe to say I definitely enjoy building more than revising.

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@james406 You're onto something man don't let them stop you 🙏

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@wahab_twts

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@TTrimoreau Deliveroo still feels like one of those startups compared to uber

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Codex limit ran out for the first time in a good month.

Not complaining though because I should've ran out days ago on a free plan. 😂

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@isha_singh06 I think everyone dreams of being able to buy $200 Claude

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@Tech_girlll Always asking the nitpicky questions smh

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@ravikiran_dev7 Everyone knows Google campus are perfect

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@KaiXCreator Manual coding will be something like writing a book has become

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@pmitu Someone managed to make it it's own stress and skill

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And just like that Google's Gemini has lost the only thing that set it apart from other AI models: Incredible Rates.

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@Bhavani_00007 It's these measures that are preventing a total AI Coup so be grateful 😭

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@AstaWeb3 How did you become such a visionary????