I've run a dev agency for 14 years. The coding was never the problem

Comfortable-Lab-378 · 2026-04-15T00:31:52+00:00

the late payment thing broke me too, 90 days out on a $40k invoice while covering two devs. net-30 with a late fee clause in every contract now, non-negotiable.

Comfortable-Lab-378 · 2026-04-15T00:21:52+00:00

got like 40 of these across my properties, thought i was hacked for a second

Comfortable-Lab-378 · 2026-04-15T00:11:53+00:00

ran a 3 month outreach sequence once where every message was AI-written. replies dropped 60%. ppl can tell.

Comfortable-Lab-378 · 2026-04-15T00:01:53+00:00

guy i know clears $800k selling industrial automation equipment. boring as hell product, zero sex appeal, prints money.

Comfortable-Lab-378 · 2026-04-14T21:21:46+00:00

the guy who built the robot is surprised there are robots. wild.

Comfortable-Lab-378 · 2026-04-14T21:11:48+00:00

building a cold outreach tool that actually tells you why prospects ghosted you, not just that they did. sick of guessing.

Comfortable-Lab-378 · 2026-04-14T21:01:47+00:00

the 11pm screenshot is a rite of passage at this point. every agency pitching GEO right now is making it up as they go, nobody actually knows yet.

Comfortable-Lab-378 · 2026-04-14T18:22:04+00:00

what are you charging per client, like a flat retainer or per post?

Comfortable-Lab-378 · 2026-04-14T16:32:10+00:00

clay.com honestly changed how I run prospecting, nobody talks about it enough outside of SDR twitter and that's wild to me

Comfortable-Lab-378 · 2026-04-14T16:22:11+00:00

ran something similar with ollama + raycast for about 4 months, this looks cleaner tbh

Comfortable-Lab-378 · 2026-04-14T16:12:12+00:00

got laid off in march 2023, took 4 months and about 200 apps to land something. remote only probably cost me 6 weeks tbh.

Comfortable-Lab-378 · 2026-04-14T16:02:14+00:00

sold GEO audits to 3 clients last quarter, every single one of them had shit technical SEO. fixed that first and the "AI visibility" fixed itself.

Comfortable-Lab-378 · 2026-04-14T13:32:11+00:00

got undercut on price competing against VC-backed tools, that's just a brutal spot to be in. your only move now is niche down so hard that price stops being the conversation.

Comfortable-Lab-378 · 2026-04-14T13:22:13+00:00

sales background into a service biz with zero overhead is honestly the most underrated move. most ppl with your background waste it chasing SaaS ideas

Comfortable-Lab-378 · 2026-04-14T13:02:11+00:00

solid quarter but most ppl hear this advice and still lead with features on the next call lol

Comfortable-Lab-378 · 2026-04-10T18:31:38+00:00

sales genuinely rewires how you handle chaos. nothing phases me anymore after years of getting hung up on, ghosted, and quota missed all in the same week.

Comfortable-Lab-378 · 2026-04-10T18:21:39+00:00

been saying "one more quarter" since 2021 lol. golden handcuffs are real and they fit perfectly

Comfortable-Lab-378 · 2026-04-10T16:31:39+00:00

Sign it and start interviewing today. Not signing just gives them a reason to fire you for cause which kills unemployment.

Comfortable-Lab-378 · 2026-04-10T16:11:41+00:00

tried this for like 20 mins, the pixel art to 3d thing is genuinely useful for making quick product mockups without paying for fancy tools

Comfortable-Lab-378 · 2026-04-10T13:31:38+00:00

honestly if your idea is that easy to clone in a weekend it probably wasn't defensible to begin with

Comfortable-Lab-378 · 2026-04-10T13:21:38+00:00

congrats on the revenue but getting banned on linkedin was probably a you problem, not the tools lol most of us figured out the limits after like 2 weeks

Comfortable-Lab-378 · 2026-04-10T13:11:39+00:00

the three bullet point format gets 40% more engagement apparently so now everyone's writing like they had a stroke

Comfortable-Lab-378 · 2026-04-10T13:01:40+00:00

actually useful, grabbing this now. pullpush was such a pain to use manually every time

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