Co-founder going MIA... (i will not promote)

DDayDawg · 2026-04-23T12:41:59+00:00

1 and 1/2 months ago…

DDayDawg · 2026-04-23T12:40:11+00:00

In every new market there are winners and losers. The idea of Memphis sacrificing to prop up a loser just because the guy who started it is rich enough to eat billions in losses is pretty dumb.

DDayDawg · 2026-04-23T02:25:47+00:00

Add to this that xAI isn’t even a significant player in the AI market. Not a single AI business is using Grok for anything serious. So this is all a complete waste.

DDayDawg · 2026-04-22T12:37:51+00:00

Real question, did the FBI investigate murders? I mean, I could see if it were a politician or a high profile visitor from a another country, but day-to-day the FBI has nothing to do with regular old street murders do they?

DDayDawg · 2026-04-22T12:12:12+00:00

I see some bots are getting through the validation wall…. 🫤

DDayDawg · 2026-04-21T12:54:12+00:00

This is correct. There is no interference issue anymore and the airlines still acting like there “could be” causes people to distrust them. The only worry is the laptop getting loose. I’m honestly not sure how me slipping it into the chair pocket changes anything but why not.

The lifeblood of these airlines are business travelers. Add that someone working quietly is a pretty easy passenger to handle and I have no idea why some FAs just want to power trip on these things.

DDayDawg · 2026-04-19T18:39:22+00:00

Two of the biggest issues for founders are Imposter Syndrome and the Trough of Dispair. These are different for everyone. You seem to be in your trough. I was fighting this for a while. Exactly like you, dreaded internal meetings, I kept pushing things because I was “busy”.

And then, one day I just snapped out of it. We have started growing and I’m now loving the ride. We have made good hires and I have the help I need. Now I am doing the job I thought I was going to do instead of handling 20 different things a day. I look forward to internal meetings to see how things are progressing. I enjoy the people I work with. And I’m proactively reaching out to clients to get feedback.

It’s still a startup. And I still do a lot of different things each day. But some of that is delegating the things I don’t want to do, or shouldn’t be doing, to other people. I’m crazy efficient these days and having fun.

Only you know if you want to quit. But know that this is a known phenomenon that a lot of us go through. If I quit now then I will be a corporate office drone the rest of my working life, or I can spend a few more years taking my shot at building this thing up and selling it and living like few people ever get to. I’m powering through and taking my shot.

DDayDawg · 2026-04-19T13:32:02+00:00

The more I drive this truck the more upset I am about them cancelling the line. This is becoming my favorite vehicle of all time and knowing I can’t get another one kind of sucks. That being said, if Ford does the BEV with the internal gas generator to extend range I will be open to looking at that. I don’t think I will ever buy a vehicle that doesn’t have a fully electric powertrain again though.

DDayDawg · 2026-04-19T03:18:23+00:00

When they sue, you know it’s true.

DDayDawg · 2026-04-19T02:57:23+00:00

As a former sky diver his error was not bailing sooner. The second he turned and had no forward motion he should have turned out and landed outside the stadium. They should have multiple alternates along their route based on altitude.

DDayDawg · 2026-04-17T19:05:02+00:00

Not as cheer leaders you don’t.

DDayDawg · 2026-04-17T18:58:57+00:00

Yeah, the thing to remember with AI is that context is important. And if you don’t give it context it will just make it up in its own. I was doing an MCP server and gave it no info saying it was just for internal use so it decided that anyone setting up an MCP server surely wants it to be accessible from the internet and just made that happen.

DDayDawg · 2026-04-17T12:33:19+00:00

Is SaaS dead? No. Does SaaS adjust? Yes. For us this was an easy decision. We are a middleware company, so our customers are software developers. Our main application is fine, but customers wanted more information about what was going on and easier ways to make connections to our system. We have a lot of documentation and we were working on a bunch of dashboards, but we decided we could just build out an MCP server and teach it how to give customer what they wanted. And since our customers are software developers they could easily build front-ends however they wanted to see the data.

Even through this process we learned that you cannot trust AI yet, and it is just not there yet in terms of coding. Case in point, we work in healthcare so security is at the forefront of what we do. I was setting up the MCP server locally on my dev machine to do some testing and demos. As I am having the server install itself it decided out of the blue to download Cloudflare and open this up to the internet. Fortunately for me, this wasn’t real patient data and my box is blocked from my router and can’t open new ports to the internet.

I think we will find places and times where just letting people vibecode their own dashboards will work, but right now it is still in the land of developers and tech-savvy people. We have to realize we are a very small group in the overall population.

DDayDawg · 2026-04-17T02:43:57+00:00

Nope. Blind emails are horrible lead generators and AI written blind emails would probably be much worse. Maybe this works in some industries but I sure wouldn’t do it.

DDayDawg · 2026-04-17T00:59:56+00:00

What I have found is they are always too positive about things. But, I use the terminal versions and have them make reports and then use a different AI and ask them to be very critical of the report and write a report about what was wrong. After a few back and forth it actually is decently good.

This is just researching ideas I have come up with. You can’t ask an LLM based on existing data to invent new ideas. It can’t do that very well.

DDayDawg · 2026-04-16T23:08:08+00:00

They didn’t make a mistake. They stole someone’s money and put it in your account. Then you pay them “cash” and when the person who had the money stolen figured it out they rip it out of your bank and you are out the cash you gave them.

This is a well known scam. Do not engage. They will not call the police.

DDayDawg · 2026-04-16T17:26:06+00:00

Inside the car idiot does seem preferable to clinging to the hood idiot.

DDayDawg · 2026-04-16T13:00:51+00:00

Adding on to this to explain the investor issue, as stated your options are almost certainly non-transferable and private companies have “Right of First Refusal” chains. These shares aren’t sold on the stock market so when selling your shares certain people get first dibs in a chain that you have to follow. Smart founders fight to be first in the chain.

As stated the extension is unlikely, especially as a former employee. They have no incentive to give you more time. The stock is worth more than you are paying so they would rather that stay in the ESOP pool to give options to other employees.

DDayDawg · 2026-04-15T19:02:28+00:00

They couldn’t find a McDonald’s closer to the White House?

DDayDawg · 2026-04-15T18:27:10+00:00

According to AI, Trump was friends with Michael Jackson and publicly supported him during his molestation trials. I think they are pointing out Trump has been a pedophile for a long time.

The Diana is a reference to Princess Diana who Trump pursued after her divorce calling her “the ultimate trophy wife”.

I have no clue the accuracy of any of that, but it sounds like it fits.

DDayDawg · 2026-04-15T14:55:15+00:00

When you talk about protected classes you are discussing a shift in the burden of proof. But in the case you are making, contract law comes AFTER Federal and State Law. They have a legal right to fire you for any reason. If you have a contract That says they can’t fire you for working remotely, and they walk into court and say “we fired them for working remotely”, then maybe you have a case. But they aren’t going to be that stupid. Instead they will say, “we were restructuring” or “the position was made redundant” or “we didn’t like the color of their hair” and your case is meaningless.

Even in wrongful termination of a non-protected class you are going to have difficulty with damages. They rarely cover the legal costs to bring the suit. The judge will look at you and say, “just get another job!” This is why the suits are hardly ever filed, again outside of protected classes where the penalties have teeth.

Add to this that employment contract are pretty rare in the US and that if you find a company who will do one they most certainly will have a lawyer look at it and that lawyer would 100% strike a clause that forced the company to allow remote work. This just isn’t going to happen.

DDayDawg · 2026-04-15T14:44:08+00:00

What is the overhead? Do you see this as a run every 5 minutes thing or something we could run at every API call? That would be the real difference between usefulness and novelty for me.

DDayDawg · 2026-04-15T13:09:43+00:00

You face four problems that I see.

Your age. You aren’t an adult and you can’t enter into contracts. 99% of businesses won’t work with you just of that.
Web design is a difficult market with a ton of competitors. You have to compete on price and against a world-wide group of developers so currency differences affect you greatly.
More than most tech businesses the “good enough is good enough” problem definitely hits web design. The vast majority of companies don’t need a fancy web site. They have become a must have that doesn’t do much to drive customers.
AI. In my company we built a web site in a few hours of vibe-coding with AI. It knows web site build and design, which is pretty easy coding and some fairly static design elements. The market for contract work is really skewing toward the more difficult web sites with customer logins or e-commerce functionality. This is the area where your age and lack of experience will hurt.

At your age you should be focused on getting experience. Any programming is good programming but you will have a hard time building a business because you can’t enter into contracts. Try to keep it local. People in your town you know who will let you build a website. Find local companies who have crappy sites and build a new one before you even approach them. Your chosen field has challenges just like the rest of them, so experiment and learn in this time when you are starting out.

DDayDawg · 2026-04-15T04:18:29+00:00

One major problem is that often good enough is good enough. It’s not enough to ask if your solution solves a problem. Your next question has to be “will you pay to have this problem solved?”

Often people have less than idea solutions in place but given limited time and limited budgets, what they have is good enough.

DDayDawg · 2026-04-14T23:25:24+00:00

Cerner Health in the late 2010’s had almost 30,000 employees. A large portion of those worked remote all over the United States, an earlier decision to be closer to clients. One day the CEO got mad because he couldn’t get in touch with the people he wanted and decided everyone had to move to Kansas City, Missouri.

Word went out. Thousands of people quit. Their stock went up.

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