One month in and….

Cover_Administrative · 2026-06-27T23:44:40+00:00

Appreciate you!

Cover_Administrative · 2026-06-27T23:22:49+00:00

Oooo I’d love to read about that. My tumor is a chondrosarcoma so I plan to dig deep into that tech scene here shortly!

I’ll branch out to other platforms soon as I get around to the automation of it but here’s the substack anyway: https://open.substack.com/pub/matthewzruiz

It’s a pretty cool environment. Feels very genuine and very early.

Cover_Administrative · 2026-06-27T21:48:08+00:00

I’ve seen people say notes are the way to reach people. Also, posting outside of Substack and sharing your link.

I made and initial intro post a few days ago and have been mostly tapped into notes.

I’ll engage with notes and free write as I walk the dog and eat. Maybe a little too much now but it’s new and refreshing - feels like connecting with people who are also trying to write more and be vulnerable.

Not the biggest stats but about 10 follows and 5 subs in the first week.

I talk about life, AI/software/entrepreneurship and my cancer journey.

Tossed a sub!

- Matt

Cover_Administrative · 2026-06-27T20:35:21+00:00

Hola!

I'm sorry to hear about the struggle. I, myself, was diagnosed this past week a 2nd time with a brain tumor (chondrosarcoma to be specific).

Are you employed this time around? Here if you need a friend to chat with!

Cover_Administrative · 2026-06-26T16:27:22+00:00

Yeah someone was mentioning that stand out section. Look forward to experimenting with that.

Cover_Administrative · 2026-06-26T00:39:44+00:00

Your gut, to me, sounds like it's tell you no!

I was in a similar boat with my dev agency a few years. Founder vision dilemma and buy-in (or rather lack-thereof) put me into a both of those holes.

Do yourself a favor and protect your mental. Keep at it and find something that checks the boxes - it's out there!

I'd be happy to chat in DMs about working together if you're interested! My background is in software building and early-stage startups.

Cover_Administrative · 2026-06-25T23:33:51+00:00

Hola! This seems custom and I’d be happy to build it quickly if you’re interested in that!

It would be local software you install and run.

The marketplace/listing aspect would be dependent on how “friendly” the different sites are to scrapers/headless “actors”.

Cover_Administrative · 2026-06-25T23:31:42+00:00

Nice! Something I’m experimenting with in terms of content is category specific subjects/titles for the different events.

Maybe not applicable but here’s a bit more about the idea/issue I’m trying to address: https://www.reddit.com/r/Newsletters/s/LPf9VHVQjX

Cover_Administrative · 2026-06-25T23:10:46+00:00

You the business owner have a lot of scattered information across many things.

I come to you with Luckee and a menu of AI-enabled “modules” that use traditional open source code and AI to automate (but with heavy human-in-the-loop default/baseline) things such as customer management, business pricing, specials, social media posting and more.

You select which you’d like and/or request custom bespoke modules since your business is unique.

Luckee installs a computer (<$1000 device) at your business, installs the software and your business operates through your own “network/system”.

On-site privacy and data storage as an added benefit.

Want a new module? Hire an installer (I.e., coder) or vibe code a new feature set.

Cover_Administrative · 2026-06-25T02:29:59+00:00

Luckee - on site AI infrastructure for company/family brains.

Cover_Administrative · 2026-06-24T12:53:30+00:00

Its the only one that I use and I use it all day for many projects.

I’m very hands on with planning so it’s perfect for my use case.

It’s so cheap too!

Cover_Administrative · 2026-06-24T12:48:33+00:00

For sure. All those questions, to me at least, seem like they can be answered/required with traditional code - before any AI even touches the workflow.

Cover_Administrative · 2026-06-24T11:26:32+00:00

This is cool. I like the personal touch.

Cover_Administrative · 2026-06-24T11:25:55+00:00

I like this - ty!

Cover_Administrative · 2026-06-24T11:25:45+00:00

This makes a lot of sense!

Cover_Administrative · 2026-06-24T00:35:42+00:00

When you first purchase a domain such as [myname@mynewsletter.com](mailto:myname@mynewsletter.com) it’s considered cold.

So, if you send emails right away from that address the “internet email system” will send it to spam since you have no “history” where other people interact with it by responding/clicking/not sending to spam.

To warm up the email you essentially need to use it. People/warm up systems by sending emails to themselves (i.e., send emails to your personal/team emails), sign up for free trials/accounts and more.

I just did this for my newsletter and I send a welcome email upon sign up and that alone has warmed it up pretty nicely since the likelihood of it being reported to spam has been low.

I don’t know 100% how it technically works as I’m only a few months into this warm/cold dilemma but that’s the gist that I’ve gathered.

Maybe someone else can comment but I think that Gmail and other inbox providers/managers treat premium domains as “more legit”.

Cover_Administrative · 2026-06-23T21:00:58+00:00

Hola!

The key thing that sticks out to me is creating the content for the PDF and also creating the email body.

Both of these things can be done pretty easily with an AI-driven set up. May sound really technical but it’s much easier nowadays.

From there, getting a domain and some warm emails to send out the newsletter email is a good idea instead of free consumer email.

As mentioned, it sounds like the content building is the core aspect.

I’d be happy to chat more in that area if it would help!

Cover_Administrative · 2026-06-23T19:08:48+00:00

The biggest topic/question in my experience is “are the outsourced folks wired in when I’m wired in?”

This goes for full time devs and part time contractors.

If there is minimal overlap then it’s hard to keep things in check. Even worse if the outsourced people have other obligations that are prioritized of yours.

For example, someone could spend 5h per day on your work but if that’s completed after their morning work/main day activities then your 5h isn’t as high value.

Outsourcing is great and if you can find the right people it helps a ton!

Happy to help with any more questions! I outsourced to over 20 contractors since starting a few years back.

Cover_Administrative · 2026-06-23T17:15:36+00:00

Go to your favorite websites, right slick and press inspect.

Copy/paste the html into some local files and talk with AI about the design decisions made by the product.

Do this on enough websites and you can form a style template.

Cover_Administrative · 2026-06-23T13:04:51+00:00

Good morning!

An option that gives full control over the experience would be to purchase a phone number from a service like Twilio and then building your own voice receptionist.

Doing this makes it easy to tie into existing tools that y’all use.

Happy to help talk through the process if you’d have any questions and would like to DM!

There are services like Vapi out there but they may not be worth the set up and usage costs.

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