David de Jesus

When an estimate is locked … agreed with insurance company … the price of a door skin could go up and we eat the price movement.

Software isn’t updating prices fast enough. Lag.

Insurance estimates somewhat demand the software to be used.

We quote a lot of jobs so work orders get stale.

Hidden Fee Structure - no ala carte
Parts Pricing Inaccuracies - price movement
Insurance gold standard
Not a good browser experience - slow
I hate the desktop app / slow
Many use cases for ai + automation - slow
We need to stay on jobs and quote a lot of jobs

I propose someone take on the auto repair shop estimating software by CCC Information Solutions.

We pay $1300/month for very outdated software.

160,000 repair shops in the nation.

Thats a very attractive market.

Introduction - Model Context Protocol Get started with the Model Context Protocol (MCP)

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Whats a better smb accounting / book keeping software that accountants love?

YouTube video by 20VC with Harry Stebbings Marc Benioff, Salesforce Founder: Why Salesforce Isn't Hiring Software Engineers | E1236

How does this ripple in the tech sector?

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First week of owning the newly acquired auto body & collision business.

Pretty cool.

Fun owning a brick & mortar business near family while still building digital tools.

Advantage: learning the clear gaps of the business to build winning digital solution.

Its a test bed for opportunities.

Christmas parties hit a little different this year.

Bitcoin reached a new ATH last night, and not just any milestone: it broke past the $100k mark 📈

This is a historic and deeply symbolic moment. 🚀

The question now is, where will it go from here? 👀

#bitcoin #crypto #ath #web3 #btc

Wondering.

Do people want tips on what its like building a revenue+ youtube channel?

I have a strong desire to delete my LinkedIn.

100%.

Comes down to values and context.

The loudest voices aren’t necessarily the most successful. Kind of the opposite as it seems to be proving out.

Some of the most successful people I look up to prefer anonymity. They have no social media. This is a value trait

Internet money does require you to use all the magic internet distribution as much as possible i.e. social media.

But the true success is doing it quietly as it comes with freedom.

I enjoy not being sold something on bsky. But I use social media for different things.

Every social media platform has ads or someone selling you something.

Wealth, greed, sexual frustration.

Let’s enjoy this while it lasts.

MCP is blowing my mind.

A couple people asked:

I’m 42 and at 28 I realized I’m an entrepreneur through and through. Corporate life paid me well, but thats the only thing it offered. I leveraged a high salary to then buy my freedom and started businesses to sustain me. Even with the ups and down I would never trade it.

Interesting take.

Never met a VC I would ever take a road trip with.

I’ve met and am connected to many. I think each founder has their own experiences.

Also we are vc backed.

AI Agent Marketplace:

Directory of Use Cases / Trust Ratings / Pay Per Use Model

Free Startup Ideas:

- Social Media Deactivation Upon Death as a service
- Professional Permit/Licensing/Certification as a service
- Family Investment Banking AI Assistant
- Family Financial Planning AI Assistant
- Children's Crypto Text Book / Workbooks / App
- Same for Seniors

YouTube video by Learn With Jason What can you build in 4 hours with Google Gemini? — Web Dev Challenge S1E8

Its getting entertaining.

youtu.be/pn5Jju4FNG4?...

Getting stuck on workflow optimization.

YouTube video by Elias Dabbas OpenAI API - concurrent requests template

youtu.be/hRPwdm_iokE?...

The next big problem to solve in AI agent programming:

Multiple agents working concurrently and caching knowledge about each’s progress and deeper retention.

Right everything works in serial.

To me Cofounder did this well, I’m looking forward to progress in concurrent agent programming.

For the indies out there, how many of your social connections convert to revenue?

Ran qwen2.5-coder:32b local on my iMac

3.3 GHz 6-Core Intel Core i5
AMD Radeon Pro 5300 4 GB

CPU was 67%
GPU was 30%

A flaw in my general outlook is that I assume everyone is technical. Even when they say they are not.

GitHub - QwenLM/Qwen2.5-Coder: Qwen2.5-Coder is the code version of Qwen2.5, the large language model series developed by Qwen team, Alibaba Cloud. Qwen2.5-Coder is the code version of Qwen2.5, the large language model series developed by Qwen team, Alibaba Cloud. - QwenLM/Qwen2.5-Coder

Local LLM powers enabled: github.com/QwenLM/Qwen2...

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He's not on bsky yet.

GitHub - simonw/llm: Access large language models from the command-line Access large language models from the command-line - simonw/llm

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I have my bsky open when I'm consuming/building.

This may receive fragmented streams of thoughts as per what I'm doing as I'm doing them.

Disclaimer: No advice or absolute statements here. It may or may not be valuable.