The full breakdown of all three implementations, plus what AI actually replaces (and what it doesn't):
"Why Every Product I Build Has AI Baked In"
https://t.co/0qqr7qMmrg
Where does AI belong in what you're building, and where does it not?
I don't add AI to my products. I build my products around it.
That isn't a slogan. It's the structural reason one person can ship ten products at all.
AI didn't replace my skills. It replaced the team I couldn't afford.
The full story, all ten products, and the chain that built itself:
"0 to 10: How One App Became Ten Products"
https://t.co/Z1V7lPQp7t
What's the one product you'd build first if execution were free?
If you've been sitting on an idea, the math has changed.
Building used to require a team, funding, and months of runway. Now it requires a clear vision and the right tools.
Whoever sees the most territory wins. Being scattered is the edge.
Every product came from one of three places.
Personal need. Someone I love. Or the collision of two things I already knew.
AI didn't give me the ideas. My life did. AI gave me the ability to act on all of them at once.
Then my wife wanted a community for romantasy readers. So I built SpiceShelf.
SpiceShelf needed family trees for fictional characters. That became KinGrove, a real genealogy app.
Completely different domain. Same builder. Same toolkit.
Then the alpha tester wanted geography. So I built one.
Then my kids wanted stories. So I started a story app.
Then the story app needed characters. So I built an animation engine.
Each product was born from the one before it. I didn't plan any of it.
It started with my son. Autism spectrum, stuck on fractions. School's way didn't fit his brain.
I asked ChatGPT to help me build a simple web app. It worked. He used it. His older brother became my alpha tester.
One app. One kid. That was the whole plan.
Ten products. Six industries. Thirty days. One person.
Education. Genealogy. Health. Romantasy. Lyric video. Crypto trading. AI tooling.
No team. No funding. No plan.
The bottleneck was never ideas. Everyone has ideas.
The bottleneck was execution. And the moment that became fast and cheap, one guy in his basement could ship ten products in thirty days.
That guy was me. I still don't believe it.
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The full story is live: "From Canvas to Code: How a Fine Arts Degree Built a Software Lab."
What's the "useless" degree or detour in your past that you're starting to think might actually be your edge?
https://t.co/bhHMB7CNbO
The full story is live: "From Canvas to Code: How a Fine Arts Degree Built a Software Lab."
What's the "useless" degree or detour in your past that you're starting to think might actually be your edge?
https://t.co/bhHMB7CNbO
Ten products. Six industries. Thirty days. One guy who still can't believe it's real.
If a voice tells you you're not a "real" developer, it's out of date. The gap between imagining a thing and building it is gone.
AI didn't give me taste. It didn't give me vision. It didn't give me twenty years of knowing how things should look and work.
It gave me the one thing I was missing: the ability to execute on all of it.
Here's what twenty "random" years actually were:
Art school taught me taste. Furniture drafting taught me to think in specs. A decade of Linux servers taught me infrastructure. Prep for a job that didn't exist yet.
What came back was an embarrassingly simple web app. I could have designed something more polished in my sleep.
But it worked. My son used it. And it hit me: I didn't just use a tool. I built software.
It started with my son, who's on the autism spectrum, stuck on fractions. The way school taught them didn't fit how his brain works.
I opened ChatGPT and typed seven words: "My son has autism, and I'd like him to learn fractions."
Fine arts degree, 2004. Then: NYC corrections officer. Stay-at-home dad. CAD draftsman for a bespoke furniture company. Florida law enforcement deputy.
Twenty years. Not one of them looked like a tech career.
Everyone keeps asking how a guy with a fine arts degree and zero coding experience built ten products in 30 days.
Here's the part nobody wants to hear: AI didn't make me a developer. It made the twenty years I'd already lived finally matter.