Adam Jack

Ha, 5 minutes later in your podcast, you speak to this. :-) "AI will understand your components follow the rails paradigms". Still, maybe there is something in there still. Designing your docs to be AI consumable examples, or something.

Random thought, from when you mentioned you needed good documents... Since AI won't have been trained on your docs, could you train a custom GPT on your stuff, and host it for your customers to prompt, until public AI learns about your docs? That might be good modern docs...

Glorious.

Yesterday (ok, very early today) I shipped a release I've been working on for many months. ( My industry in switching reporting protocol for the first time in 50 years, and that is a big change! ) Now, it is time to begin to restore a healthy developer / marketer / entrepreneur balance from All:0:0.

Two things I'd not have two dogs without: (1) a leash splitter (2) a (Bissell) Little Green Machine.

Perhaps strangely, me too (and manually splitting wood.) Allows some exercise and time to think away from a desk, and also, snow is always fun. :-)

No code project I've ever undertaken has felt so hard *after* I've completed it. Now, I just need to get to there sooner. :-)

Get to shoveling! :-)

Overlooking the canyon with my pup.

One of the other benefits of taking a mountain retreat to coding a feature, is that the design meetings lead to expansive & energized thinking. :-)

One of the benefits (and curses, I'm sure) of being a solo founder is you are working on some code, then take a break from it to write a blog article about what its about, then go back and code some more. Is this pure distraction or is it multitasking or ruminating or some combination of them all? 🤷

I've told the same "amusing story" at the same point in hundreds of demo over the years. It isn't hilarious, but it connects with my prospects, and connects us. Telling it, one more time, reminds me that this is all new to them. My work is to stay focused on their journey with the product, not mine.

@tylerking.app 's podcast is so awesome exactly because he doesn't hold back (positives or negatives), nor craft his words, and he ends up freely sharing so many SaaS lessons / insights / perspectives, without even knowing he's doing so.

Thanks folks, it was a great listen. The panel format really shone when one of the four of you would bring a differing perspective. I felt I did more of my own thinking around the ideas, versus inactively nodding along ... and my perspectives are richer for it.

... and extra extra, when what you really need is the results to make health progress. Yeah, these aren't simple appointments, they are impacts on human lives. Good luck.

For me I get 90% through doing a task, and as I go to document or test or deploy it ... I find I've done it before, and failed to check & now have it twice. Ouch! :-/

The only recompense for the time lost is looking to see if I did it better or worse this time. Sometimes I learn something in that.

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I am sure it say something about that that I get enough pleasure getting to "zero characters remaining" that, if I am close, I actually work for it. Typically nobody knows but me, and the browse code/algorithm, but I still smile.

Use the uncool rocks, and save the cool rocks for kids to find. What you are wanting it s the cool cracks the rocks produce. :-)

This year I got 13 days into the year before thinking ... what year range does my website say again? Copyright years, Pages "Do X in year XYZ". Uploading "2025" now. (Could I dynamically code it? Sure, but where is the fun in that?)

I understood some of that. :-) I simply go with "bigger muscles, bigger ache".

Start of year is busy for my SAAS. Existing customers need support to up their game for the new year. End of year customers need customer success. Prospects come out of the woodwork, trying to catch up for not having gotten it done end of year. :-) Busy, very busy, even tiring *BUT* darn good times.

Dumbbell exercise chart for back and lower body.

Leg day (lower body) is shorter than upper body, but the effects last so much longer. Both the positive feelings, and that 'price of human body maintenance' feeling (aka aches if you've not kept up.)

Well said Ben. Some of our firefighters have similar observations: coalcreekcanyonfd.org/2017/10/26/r...

As a solo founder I think of my suite of unit tests as my "partner in the QA department". Years in, I literally remind myself - "my tests passed, I can press release" - each time I release, or I'd never release.

Oh cool, I see @saasmarketinggym.bsky.social is now here amongst us SAAS folks, to be followed.

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I went looking for "The Panel" podcast on Ripple.fm - but no luck, yet. I'll keep checking back. :-)

As a solo founder I need marketing to grow my business, but I tackled marketing like code, and worried about every detail and edge case. I was stalled. The #SaasMarketingGym (from @punchlinecopy.com and @leenyburger.bsky.social) has given me wings, and I now feel free to be myself & make progress.

I think I might try to lean into that "simple is not basic" for my messaging. Thanks for that sharable learning.

I just wrote copy of "Responserack is not some ill-fitting career department castoff software, but a state-of-the-art volunteer department solution." ... which is my equivalent of your "LACRM is not enterprise CRM trimmed down for SMBs, but an SMB-focused CRM".

Hey @tylerking.app I figured I should "know your spiel" by now, but I picked up on some nuance I'd not before. I really liked your "simple does not mean basic", and your overt focus on SMBs.

Starting my day in the gym leaves me feeling good, but also with a long list of (potential) TODOs from the ideas that were created while exercising. :-)