Ryan

Buying small businesses. Building dealwright to make the search less painful. CEO @staysojora.

[Ryan @ryanleviseur]

New account. Starting fresh.

I'm Ryan. I run a short-term rental company, I'm building a SaaS product called Dealwright, and I'm actively searching for a small business to buy in the $250K-$1M range.

I'll be posting about buying businesses, building products with AI, and the messy reality of doing both at the same time.

[Ryan @ryanleviseur]

People: "Man, GDPR notices really enshittified the internet"

Passkeys: "Hold my beer..."

[Ryan @ryanleviseur]

Never liked the way attachments like photos and pdfs were handled in Obsidian.

So I just built a plugin to intercept the paste into a note, add the attachment to my DEVONthink database, and insert the DT item link into the note.

[Ryan @ryanleviseur]

@om_patel5 And just like that, the wave of users abandoning OpenAI to Anthropic just whiplashed back to OpenAI.

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**Hot Take:** Blaming or deriding "AI slop" is just the modern version of "they use curse words because they're too ignorant to have anything intelligent to say"

[Ryan @ryanleviseur]

Decided I'd just completely redo the DNS in my home network today...

Why? No clue. Guess I'm just a masochist.

Claude was a huge help cutting down the time to code a script that periodically syncs client info from my UDM DHCP to the new Technitium DNS for PTR records.

Things are working nicely!

[Ryan @ryanleviseur]

@jessegenet Thanks for following up with answers! The video response was so much easier than trying to find your responses buried in the original comment thread.

[Ryan @ryanleviseur]

@eligaultney @jessegenet @openclaw @NousResearch @useTRMNL Neat! Love that it's open source, but it's too small for what I'm looking for.

[Ryan @ryanleviseur]

About a week ago. Announced his HIM project.

I don't disagree with your original post, just answering your question here.

Also, most people need to switch their heartbeats over to something stupid cheap like Gemini Flash Lite. They're burning tons of tokens to do basically nothing on a frontier model.

[Ryan @ryanleviseur]

Only true if you're actually running local models. Most people using "open source" tools are still hitting Claude, GPT, or Gemini APIs - which means all their data is still sitting on someone else's servers. Open source harness, closed source brain.

Local-first is the real privacy play, and it's harder than it sounds. Running 70B+ models with usable speed requires real hardware investment (multi-GPU rigs, Mac Studios, etc.), and the quality gap vs. frontier models is still real for complex tasks.

Worth noting: Claude Code itself can be configured to run against local models via proxies. So the open/closed distinction isn't really about the tool - it's about what you point it at. The question worth asking isn't "is my tool open source" but "where is my data actually going."

[Ryan @ryanleviseur]

I think the next wave of great small businesses will be built by people who can combine two things:

- Domain expertise in a boring industry
- AI tools that let one person do the work of five

You don't need a dev team. You don't need funding. You need a real problem and the discipline to ship.

[Ryan @ryanleviseur]

Completely agree. PAI is the closest thing I've found to this actually being built intentionally - the identity, memory, and context architecture is exactly the foundation a real Digital Assistant needs. And the memory works far better than OpenClaw's

Been using it and it's genuinely changed how I think about personal AI. Really looking forward to 5.0.

[Ryan @ryanleviseur]

Remember when AGI was going to democratize everything?

Now companies are literally saying their models are too powerful for regular people to use.

We went from "AI for everyone" to "AI for the chosen few" before we even got to AGI.

That was fast.

[Ryan @ryanleviseur]

Hot take: We hate AI slop but love human slop apparently.

Every AI model learned from billions of mediocre blog posts, redundant Stack Overflow answers, and corporate jargon.

The AI isn't the problem. It's just holding up a mirror.

What does yours show?

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@KaiXCreator Quality? Absolutely not.

Quantity? Absolutely.

You'll certainly get more done, just with slightly reduced quality. Although, we'll see how those usage limits hold up now that Codex has its own $100/mo plan also.

[Ryan @ryanleviseur]

@jessegenet @openclaw @Instacart This is awesome! And quite possibly the greatest actual use of AI - contributing real value to someone's life.

As a father of three, I completely understand. The struggle is real.

[Ryan @ryanleviseur]

@NoahKingJr Plumber, HVAC, Construction, Ag, etc.

[Ryan @ryanleviseur]

Curious what you're basing "dead" on? Active development is shipping weekly, the community is growing, and the use case for local-first agents (privacy, no vendor lock-in, no API costs at scale) hasn't gone anywhere.

A few high-profile users moving on isn't a trend dying - it's just churn. Same thing happens with every tool.

What evidence are you seeing that I'm not?

[Ryan @ryanleviseur]

Been using it for hours today on a project — usually I live in the CLI, but the new design genuinely won me over. Parallelizing tasks across multiple sessions is a different experience when it's not buried in terminal tabs.

The fact that I'm willingly leaving the CLI says a lot.
Great work to the team.

[Ryan @ryanleviseur]

@kzitouni1 That's awesome man! And rather inspiring as I also start my fresh new account.