Shon Bayer

CEO of @milkandhoney. Board member of @austinmonitor. Husband, father, lover of music and science fiction. Views here are my own.

[Shon Bayer @shonbayer]

@DavidAFrench @joshstifter What’s better? The waterworld stunt show at universal.

[Shon Bayer @shonbayer]

@verdeslocos @TheFalseNineTX They are resell tickets most likely. You can set your own price.

[Taylor Twellman @TaylorTwellman]

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[Shon Bayer @shonbayer]

@FavianRenkel Come to Austin. Best atmosphere in MLS.

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Thoughts @ezraklein and @DKThomp

[Shon Bayer @shonbayer]

@CameronSorsby @AlphaSchoolATX My son is a freshmen at @AlphaSchoolATX - he told me "Alpha school is going to give back $0 in tuition on this bet."

[Jason Walls @walls_jason1]

Yesterday Mark Cuban reposted my work, DM'd me, and told me to keep telling my story.

So here it is.

I'm a Master Electrician. IBEW Local 369. 15 years pulling wire in Kentucky. Zero coding background. I didn't go to Stanford. I went to trade school.

Every week I'd show up to a home where someone just bought a Tesla or a Rivian. And every time, someone had already told them they needed a $3,000-$5,000 panel upgrade to install a charger.

70% of the time? They didn't need it.

The math is in the NEC — Section 220.82. Load calculations. But nobody was doing them for homeowners. Electricians upsell. Dealers don't know. And the homeowner just pays.

I got angry enough to build something about it.

I found @claudeai. No coding experience. I just started talking to it like I'd explain a job to an apprentice. "Here's how load calcs work. Here's the NEC code. Now help me build a tool that does this."

6 months later — @ChargeRight is live. Real software. Stripe payments. PDF reports. NEC 220.82 calculations automated. $12.99 instead of a $500 truck roll.

I'm still pulling wire. I still take service calls. I wake up at 5:05 AM for work.

But something shifted.

Yesterday @vivilinsv published my story as Claude Builder Spotlight #1. Mark Cuban saw it. The Claude community showed up. And for the first time, I felt like this thing I built in my kitchen might actually matter.

I'm not a tech founder. I'm a dad who wants to coach little league and be home for dinner. I just happened to build something that helps people.

If you're in the trades and thinking about using AI — do it. The barrier isn't technical skill. It's believing you're allowed to try.

https://t.co/cDVdY5mcLv

[Shon Bayer @shonbayer]

@tferriss More audio

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@TheFalseNineTX @Goodman This. It locks in his sell value.

[Shon Bayer @shonbayer]

@maycotte Perfect for dot matrix printers

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Polls show that this bill is political suicide for the Republican Party

[Shon Bayer @shonbayer]

@MLS @LAGalaxy Best part is was not the backheel, but Reus' mic drop.

[Bill Gurley @bgurley]

I mentioned this on @BG2Pod. Enterprise customers need to declare if they support “open data” or “closed data.” And customers should move away from “closed data” vendors as fast as possible.

[Shon Bayer @shonbayer]

@JoshuaBaer @EugeneAustin @BrandonTucker And Elon's politics are pissing off the half of the country that buys 2/3 of his vehicles. (Worse in Europe). Perhaps optimus to the rescue? Space X has a much deeper moat.

[Shon Bayer @shonbayer]

@JoshuaBaer @EugeneAustin @BrandonTucker While I wouldn't bet against Elon, I think that Tesla is in deep trouble. I suspect that they will go to 0 in China (they are clearly being out innovated there). In the US, they have squandered much of their lead in vehicles and are behind in Robotaxis.

[Suhail @Suhail]

If AI tends to lack original ideas and commoditizes the execution of them, ideas are going to matter a lot more than before.

[Shon Bayer @shonbayer]

@AlexiLalas It’s accrual world.

[Shon Bayer @shonbayer]

@IanJaeger29 Won’t happen. Tariffs drive up the cost of sugar vs rest of the world to protect a handful of sugar producers and the corn farmers have too much of a vested stake in selling corn syrup (and ethanol FWIW). The swamp isn’t just government, but special corporate interests.

[J.B. Sauceda @jaybsauceda]

The Theory of Old Austin Relativity:

The best era of Austin is whatever era happened during your 20’s.

The best Austin is simultaneously the 60’s, 70’s, 80’s, 90’s, 00’s, 10’s, and 20’s.

You could call it Schrödinger's Austin.

[Lloyd Doggett @RepLloydDoggett]

Most consumers can't afford up to $1,400 a month for weight-loss drugs.

@SenWarren and I led a call for the Biden Administration to authorize generic manufacturing competition to lower prices for all Americans.