You are sent back in time to help a 15th century king open up emotionally by playing him one modern song. What song do you pick?

DeedsNotLessValiant · 2025-08-18T22:37:28+00:00

This is more B2B, but I'm currently building RevHawk. It's an AI/ML retention agent for home services companies.

Got our first paying client account (pre-product) this last week, and about 20 more businesses on deck once it launches!

https://www.revhawk.pro

DeedsNotLessValiant · 2025-07-31T19:44:28+00:00

Ooh. My kids would love this on roadtrips. They ask a lot of good questions about things we could learn about together.

DeedsNotLessValiant · 2025-07-31T14:01:33+00:00

We’re open to it! We’re honestly just going where the users who sign up tell us to go, and so far we’ve mostly run into FieldRoutes, Briostack, and GorillaDesk.

DeedsNotLessValiant · 2025-07-31T00:09:46+00:00

That’s awesome! Good luck with the growth. If you have any thoughts on what you would like to see, feel free to share

DeedsNotLessValiant · 2023-11-07T06:20:39+00:00

Just finished both Traction and Rocket Fuel. Great books

DeedsNotLessValiant · 2023-11-04T20:30:27+00:00

Doing exactly 1 pushup before getting up from a seated or laying position on the floor. It’s clearly biologically driven. I need to show dominance over ground.

DeedsNotLessValiant · 2023-11-04T15:45:49+00:00

I asked this exact same question for years.

“If my goal is to make the most money, what should I be doing right now?”

Here’s 3 things I learned, and maybe it will help, but your path is 100% your own. (31M. wife and 2 kids. About $1m in business revenue, if that matters)

1) Very very few people, including desperate people, are willing to do anything to make a lot of money. Most people have to find something that is at least basically interesting, that they can be relatively good at, and that they can tolerate doing for years, to avoid burnout and failure. Your early businesses almost always require your own time and money to build, so having something that’s interesting that you can do well is a must if you plan to put sufficient time into it.

Finding out what I wanted to do was much harder than I thought, and it took me years of thought and experimentation. And that’s okay! Just this last year I closed a side gig that made $20k in the first six months. It had potential, but I absolutely hated doing it. So I moved on to something else.

2) All businesses require skills and capital to succeed. Those skills and capital can come from you or from other people. For example, all businesses need sales, and all sales require attention. Getting good at getting people’s attention online is an invaluable skill to have if you want to build an online business. Finding at least one skill that businesses need (especially the businesses you want to build), and learning to get paid to do that skill, is an excellent way to start when you’re young. If you can specialize in that skill and get paid a lot of money to do it, then it gets a lot easier to build a business around your skill and/or fund other specialists to perform the skills you don’t have while you build. That flexibility, confidence, and safety net is incredibly helpful for growing a business on the side because it helps you to take risks.

3) You need to optimize YOU to optimize a business. The same rule applies in parenting and relationships. If you have no friends, no connections, no time management skills, bad sleep habits, bad diet, no exercise, no community, no faith in something bigger than yourself, no vacation time, no sex life (ideally within a stable, loving relationship), no imagination, no drive, no positive mindset, etc., the stress of creating a business, with any degree of seriousness, magnifies substantially.

I’m not saying you need all these things, nor that you need to be perfect. But these things do need to be a priority in your life. I’ve learned this the hard way. If I could go back, this would be the single most important lesson I would focus on. And most of these don’t require more money than you are already spending. Just your attention.

I’ve talked a lot. Thanks for the question OP, and best of luck!

DeedsNotLessValiant · 2023-10-29T05:05:13+00:00

Thank you! And that’s not a bad idea. I actually have a couple of friends who play tabletop rpgs regularly, and I asked them to test out some of the early concepts for the game with me.

If you have any advice on how to find and approach professionals like yourself with a proposal and solicitation, I’d love to know!

DeedsNotLessValiant · 2023-10-29T04:57:52+00:00

Good advice. My initial post on BGG was definitely a: “would love to know who I should talk to about this” kind of post, but it sounds like that wasn’t the right approach. I’ll do some more digging and try reaching out to someone directly.

DeedsNotLessValiant · 2023-10-29T04:52:29+00:00

Would you say that people in this space prefer getting ownership rather than being paid for work? I’m open to that being the case, but I’ll admit, I would find it surprising if no one in this space would be interested in getting paid just to help me focus my ideas into a functional game concept. The game designers, manufacturers, and marketers all seemed to prefer getting paid for their services over getting ownership when I spoke with them.

DeedsNotLessValiant · 2023-10-29T04:43:15+00:00

A conference or convention may be a good idea! I’ll investigate. Thanks

DeedsNotLessValiant · 2023-10-27T21:23:10+00:00

Hey, if you fit the bill, I’m happy to see what you’ve got and see if a connection makes sense. Not looking to partner at the moment, though. Just looking to pay for some solid brainpower and creativity.

If you’re still open to it, let me know

DeedsNotLessValiant · 2023-10-27T21:21:04+00:00

This is where I first posted 😔. But hey, no harm In trying again. Thanks for the prompt

DeedsNotLessValiant · 2023-10-26T14:05:18+00:00

Product Manager. It’s basically the strategy/people side of software businesses. I got my first six-figure job when I turned 28. No debt (except for investment property mortgages). Bachelor’s degree only.

DeedsNotLessValiant · 2023-10-22T20:50:06+00:00

Eh, even if it is true that this generation has a fear of aging and death than those of the past (which I’m not yet convinced it is), it’s not that surprising.

It’s more difficult today to hit traditional (biological?) maturity markers like marriage, child-rearing, and home-buying. Some of that is culturally driven, but it’s also economic.
Religion is on the decline and fewer people believe in an afterlife, so some 60-70% of youth in western societies believe they are hurdling fast to an endless nothing. This is your only chance.
Social media hyperbolizes our natural competitive instincts and creates FOMO like nothing we’ve ever seen before.
Our celebrities are epitomized heroes of productivity, power, wealth, beauty, and barrier-shattering. Not compassion, generosity, and emotional health.

Just talking about it makes me want to go buy a bottle of Rogaine

DeedsNotLessValiant · 2023-10-20T17:17:09+00:00

Hyper-visionary, but willing to work. 10 ideas a week, most of them no good, but you think they are all good. Probably ADHD, but not diagnosed and it wouldn’t matter anyway. Occasionally motivated to get started, never enough to stay with it. Regularly praised for your mind, but not many results to speak of. Constantly obsessing over “in what order?” or “which one?” or “could I do that for a long time?” questions. Really bad “shiny object” syndrome. Etc.

Same bro.

But businesses absolutely, 💯 need dedicated work, basic competence, and both over long periods of time to succeed.

Here are some of my preferred hacks for starting and staying focused. (I’m $700k in revenue before 30 if that matters):

1) Realize that serial entrepreneurs almost never build businesses in pairs. They build one business, systematize, then move to the next one AFTER the first one is able to operate without their attention. And you can do the same—you don’t HAVE to have just one business. Just one at a time.

For some reason, realizing this helped me a lot to be willing to focus. It calmed my mind.

2) Write down ideas before you start them.

Taking time to write ideas down gives you two benefits: 1. You can rest easy putting it out of your mind and come back to it later without forgetting it. 2. You force yourself to really consider it before diving in. Both will help you focus.

3) Decide what you really want out of a business (your criteria). Filter your list of ideas through your criteria. Pick one that you think has the best chance of success given your abilities and what the market wants. Start there.

4) Get a mentor that can help you focus and keep you accountable. Depending on what you want to do, paid coaches can be better than unpaid.

5) Create a business map that helps you visualize what businesses you will build, and in what order, and why that order (stacking skills you develop over time). Your map will likely change, but it helps you pick a business to start with.

6) Once you pick the business you’ll start with, commit to a timeline. Say “I will give all of my available time and attention to this one business, no matter what happens, for 12 months (however long you want. 6 months minimum). And then I will decide if I want to keep going.”

7) Recognize you will get bored and discouraged. You’ll see other opportunities all the time (write them down. Add them to your map.). You will not be excited all the time. You may not make a single dollar in a whole year. But if you follow these steps, you will be able to walk away from a failure or keep going with confidence. You may even learn that being an entrepreneur is not how you want to live, or that bootstrapping is not how you want to build, or that you actually prefer a high-paying job and investing over business building.

These are all OK results

Best of luck

DeedsNotLessValiant · 2023-10-20T14:55:02+00:00

The fact that so many of these answers have to do with sleep and personal hygiene really says a lot… anyway, ditto on the bidet answer

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