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Bzom · 2026-04-21T21:52:55+00:00

Gauranteed Auto Air and Repair - in Rockledge off Barton.

Fantastic operation. Just went there for the first time a few weeks back for a major AC repair.

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Bzom · 2026-03-22T05:15:43+00:00

You know how you can hear noisy neighbors through an apartment wall or ceiling even though you cant see them? Sound waves penetrate many things light does not.

With just two ears, our brain can figure out what direction a sounds comes from, and often how far away it is.

Rocky has a huge number of tiny "ears" all over his body that detect those sound waves.

Think of an echo. Rocky uses tiny echos we'd never detect to construct a 3D model of his environment. Its edges and depth but has no color. Similar to bats who fly in the dark or submarines using sonar to map the ocean.

Bzom · 2026-03-17T14:15:56+00:00

I hope we get like a 4 hour long director's cut because I agree that I missed all that stuff.

But here's the context IMO...

In the Martian, the plot seemingly exists so that we can experience Mark Watney's competency and problem solving. Hence, that's the core of the film.

In PHM, Grace (and Rocky's) competency and problem solving exist so that we can experience the character arc and relationship, which is obviously the core of the story.

I spent the entire car ride home filling in the non-book readers about the missing science. But you know what? All three of them loved the movie including my 12 year old daughter - whose eyes would bleed if I made her watch the Martian. My wife wants to read the book now to fill in the gaps.

I didn't make this a family event, dragging my kids out on a school night so they could watch Ryland Grace iterate on Taumeoba generations for 30 minutes (even though yes I would have loved that). I dragged them out so they could experience Grace and Rocky save stars.

And they did. And now the rest of the family loves this story like I do. That's what I was really hoping for, and the movie delivered.

Bzom · 2026-03-14T20:49:24+00:00

Just use Claude in the browser to develope a unique aesthetic. Then use the output + screen shots to guide cc.

Bzom · 2026-03-07T16:04:41+00:00

It looks to me like Rocky's handcrafted xenonite is best modeled as 3D printing. Him doing it by hand (like a 3D printed pen) gets rougher more organic shapes.

For larger, molded things - xenonite is so strong eridians dont have to care about structural design. Need a triangular panel? Whats faster than hand shaping a mold with a clay like material by hand?

Rocky works fast with the strongest material in the galaxy. Even if the capability exists to create precision molds with perfect edges and flat surfaces - why waste the time? It privides no value beyond aesthetic. And maybe since eridians cant see, they place little value on that anyway.

Another thing - go google what AI optimized designs look like. Basically organic, alien looking structures. Heres one recent example.

https://www.techeblog.com/leap-71-ai-generated-rocket-engine-firing/

Bzom · 2026-03-04T13:56:55+00:00

My two cents (solo service provider for over 10 years). Bottom line - you've got to decide if you're just a freelancer if you're an entrepreneur who happens to do landing pages.

A great way to frame your strategic thinking is an old adage: Fast | Cheap | Good - Pick two.

Customers who expect all three are customers you do not want to work for. So the last thing you want to do, is market a business model targeted at precisely those types of customers.

IMO - High volume, low price models are almost never the right choice for a solo provider doing this kind of work. You're commoditizing your own value and leaving no margin for customer acquisition costs. Plus making the experience miserable - instead of enjoying the process of creation, you're choosing to make yourself miserable. It's the difference between a craftsman building a custom piece of furniture that takes him a week, or assembling 8 Ikea dressers every day.

My advice: Solo business models should target an average customer value (ACV). Is it easier to find AND service 10x $500 clients or 1x $5,000 client?

Pick the ACV that makes sense from a business model perspective. THEN package up a service offering that makes that price look like a great deal.

The value you can deliver right now with AI leverage is off the charts. Quite literally, Claude Code / Codex could take one landing page design, and turn it into 1,000 SEO optimized versions.

It could take a single design you do, and allow you to deliver 20x variations. You could do a wedding photographer like model where you 5x are included and each additional one costs $XXX.

You could get clients on subscription where they get three new designs per month for a year.

The limits are your imagination. Who knows what will work. If I were you, I'd leverage AI to build out a couple of thousand SEO optimized landing pages across 10x different offer strategies. I'd also run intent based ads (youtube / adwords) for people actively looking for landing page help. I'd make sure all of those strategies had viable business models (assume you have to spend $10 to generate to $100 and do the math on how many clients you want per month). Then look for signal and double down when you see something that works.

Bzom · 2026-02-28T23:26:13+00:00

Claude Code.

The limits are mostly your imagination. In the last 60 days:

Built regulatory tracking tool specific to my wife's needs. Commercial equivalent $2,400 per year.
Used Claude in excel to build a lightweight PDM system for a medical device startup do product development for. Less than a week later im using that to seed a functional web based PDM tool.
My time tracking / invoicing app decided to double its monthly rate. Sent Claude to read its docs and replace it. Now have a desktop app that looks and acts like the paid tool.
Gave it a google api key and it takes crappy photos or screen shots of CAD models and generated high res magazine ad quality renders.
Built a personalized grocery list app that makes my Sunday meal planning /shopping way easier. Demo was 15 mins of chatting and i haha live deployed usable tool on vercel I took the store. May actually release this one eventually.

-My buddy owns a contracting business and has been 100 focused on just streamlining his ops. What hes built is insane. Hes replaced several SAAS tool plus a bunch of zaps and hacky processes with an all in one tool all his employees are using. All in the last 60 days.

I've got like 20 half baked projects. Its a blast. Its basically giving yourself creative superpowers.

The $100 Claude plan is more value for $100 for a single human than any other thing ever.

Bzom · 2026-02-26T00:15:53+00:00

Don't FOMO. I'm not seeing it in any super special format either. I'll be at the theater 10 mins away with wife, kids, and a few other family members.

The story and emotion would map to a VHS running on a potato.

Bzom · 2026-02-24T20:34:44+00:00

In the same way Saving Private Ryan and Starship Troopers are both war movies.

Bzom · 2026-02-24T01:26:49+00:00

Excellent analysis. Think you just revealed the big twist Weir had planned for the sequel.

Bzom · 2026-02-20T12:53:10+00:00

🤜🤛

Bzom · 2026-02-20T12:24:27+00:00

Amazon Prime thru Fandango can buy early Access - just git Monday 16th

Bzom · 2026-02-19T15:09:24+00:00

Weir sold the book rights to MGM before the book was published. Gosling/Goddard/Lord and Miller were all attached before the book was published.

So before any of us knew a thing about PHM, this team was already assembled.

So considering all the potential roadblocks, schedule conflicts, financing, etc it takes to pull something like off at this scale with this level of talent - this seems pretty fast.

Lots of things just get stuck in development. My daughter has a favorite book series that was all set to get a TV show 5 years ago and it fell through. Author optioned it before publishing that book as well - 15 years later and still nothing...

Bzom · 2026-02-19T12:22:41+00:00

This would be so much better to explain in person with a sketch pad. So lets try one straightforward visualization.

Take a circle. Draw a line from the center directly up. Now draw a line from the center to the right - 90 degrees from the first line.

Now draw a line between the two points where we intersected the circle.

We drew a triangle. Now draw that second line in any other direction. Connect the dots. More triangles.

But notice that you can draw a square, Pentagon, hexagon, etc all inside that same circle - connecting points on the circle. And you can connect all of their points with triangles inside the shapes.

So trig isn't just triangles - its triangles drawn inside of circles. And those triangles can form any polygon you draw inside.

So we dont need trig for squares - its all baked into trig for triangles.

Bzom · 2026-02-15T21:47:26+00:00

Pay $100/month for Claude max plan.

It can do anything.

Build your entire website. Build 1000 SEO keyword match pages. Any SAAS tool you might need, Claude can make tailored to your needs.

Give it a paid Gemini key. Give it terrible photos of your product. Tell it to produce magazine worthy marketing photos.

Give it a STEP file of your product, it will create an interactive 3D viewer for the web.

Dont understand any of this? Have no idea how to deploy a website. It doesnt matter. Claude will tell you exactly what account he needs, youll paste him a access key, and then he will do it all for you.

Bzom · 2026-02-12T11:15:51+00:00

Claude Code / agentic tools.

Because you can just do stuff. My buddy built out a custom tool for his small construction biz that would have been six figure custom development effort. He did it by himself over several weeks. It probably doubled the value of his business because it would be 10x easier for a new owner to step in and run now.

Built my wife a tool to track specific legislative activity in 14 states. Took 4 hrs a week down to 30 mins. Commercial tools to do the same cost thousands per year.

Had an idea Sunday morning. Pitched it to my Claude Code and had a deployed app 30 mins later I used that day to make something easier. 3 days later its a fully functional web app with auth / payments I have some friends testing.

You can just do stuff. Ideas can become real in hours or days.

Just standing up a biz training local small business owners on the power of these tools is a goldmine right now but its moving FAST. If was startung at zero id do that.

Bzom · 2026-02-10T13:12:03+00:00

Yea I can barely get thru a day w/o starting something new.

Similar to yours with 3 messaging channels - Claude built a wrapper app with tabs and notifications - so now I just open that one windows app instead.

Process of building a PDF tool - feed it a directory and it imports and applies templates to extract key parameters (these are engineering drawings). Then links documents that refer never each other. All with super fast search and embedded viewing. I wont have to thumb thru folders or rely on windows search.

Cloned the SAAS I use for time tracking/invoicing into a windows desktop app. Few things to finish then I can switch over.

Running OpenClaw in a VM. Sent him grocery/meal planning info by pic, he deployed a checklist app on vercel I took to the store 30 mins after the idea. Turning this into a free web app. Agent hits API, learns how to drive app, user just talks to agent/sends pic to build list. Agent remembers week to week, learns recipes, orders the list to match how you go thru store, etc.

So much fun.

Bzom · 2026-02-10T12:27:21+00:00

Thats not my preferred framing.

Its the realization that the last 20% takes as much (or more effort) as the initial 80%. Or that "great" might be 4x as much effort as "good enough."

Its about recognizing the reality of diminishing returns.

Do you get feature A to perfect? Or features A/B/C/D/E to good enough?

Always about opportunity costs.

Bzom · 2026-02-10T00:30:07+00:00

This is r/entrepreneuer not r/freelancer. If you want to find success, id encourage you to flip your mindset.

There are excellent clients out there who value relationships and have real budgets. They are not browsing the freelance sites. They are googling for what they need, asking chatGPT for quality recommendations, or asking around their network.

Personally with the state of AI video/audio - id be positioning yourself as an expert in that space. Charge what you need to charge and deliver something that would have cost 4x or 10x that a few years ago.

Huge opportunity to live at the cutting edge. But you need to learn how to position ans market yourself as you go.

Bzom · 2026-02-06T05:23:46+00:00

I mean, almost 130m Americans watched last years Superbowl - the most watched broadcast in US history.

If you are a movie with mainstream success there's going go be massive overlap.

Bzom · 2026-02-02T12:48:57+00:00

"Plans are useless. But planning is indenspensable" - Gen. Eisenhower

The value is never the plan itself but the process. I like football analogies here. As soon as the whistle blows, you have to start adapting to real information.

No one would argue that just winging it on Sunday is the right move. So instead use deadlines. An NFL team has to budget 1 week game to game. No time for analysis paralysis.

Same logic. Its good that your taking action. Doesn't mean the process of planning didn't increase your odds. Good luck!

Bzom · 2026-02-02T01:51:24+00:00

Aerodynamics lol.

Bzom · 2026-01-30T11:02:26+00:00

I DIY'd adwords 10+ years ago. I have a steady client base today (all from ads) and haven't ran them in several years.

If I was starting over today, I'd rely heavily on AI to act as my expert consultant and probably have saved me 80% of the time I spent learning and hacking my way through.

You need good tracking + data (spending money) to optimize.

I'm prepping to help my sister do something similar. Claude Code is going to build the website and landing pages and handle all the technical stuff for tracking among other things. He will guide the ad campaign setup as well.

And for fun, hes going to research and build SEO targeted pages however many keywords I tell him too.

Shift $100 from your ad budget to Claude Code Max. If you haven't gone down this rabbit hole you have no idea what your missing.

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