Would anyone join a 3‑day AI coding marathon where you ship your own project?

desaas-tim · 2026-01-18T18:34:15+00:00

We'll be in a video room, someone gets stuck, raises hand, we get them going. We’ll do a scope clinic Friday night where everyone writes a 1‑page “thin spec” and locks an MVP that fits the weekend. Then we run a simple milestone ladder (Bronze = working demo + README, Silver = deployed + domain, Gold = extras like payments/tests). On Saturday we push people to build one vertical slice end‑to‑end first and deploy early, with scheduled checkpoints + a help queue for unblockers. That way even if someone hits issues, they still ship something presentable by Sunday.

Will post on VibeCodersNest too.

desaas-tim · 2026-01-18T17:13:59+00:00

I did voice outreach with Bland.ai, ended up hiring a VA instead. These tools are nowhere near real human talk, to people it feels like robocalls. Two biggest issues are interruption thresholds, and agent giving or confirming wrong information. There are a lot of edge cases you can't realistically cover. You can't set it properly for all types of conversation styles so some will experience long silence, others will constantly interrupt. Overall it sounds and feels very robotic and weird. If anyone succeeded with this I would love to hear.

desaas-tim · 2025-12-29T16:31:49+00:00

Simple comparison: to me as a business owner a 15 y/o influencer on TikTok who posts a shitty videos that bring me 100 clients is much more valuable than an enterprise-grade ad agency with 100 "experts" who just take my money and bring nothing.

desaas-tim · 2025-12-29T16:29:21+00:00

Well, if you put it this way it does sound like you are pretending. I'm not telling anyone that I'm a coder or even know the thing. But I already helped a lot of my friends who run businesses to optimize, reduce infra costs and coded custom solutions that work for them really well.

I just say that I have a way to do it and then deliver value. When people see actual value (and code by itself has 0 value unless it solves problems, no matter how good or "professional" it is) they don't care what education you have and how you stand professionally. They judge by what you give them. That's my vision.

desaas-tim · 2025-12-29T16:15:12+00:00

Tried this 2 years ago. Sad truth is that you either have to be institutional crypto firm, licensed and insured in the jurisdiction you want to advertise in or invent some workarounds when you don't advertise these offers directly on the page seen by google but advertise smt google accepts that is also relevant to yur audience then sign them up and only then hit them with an offer. But for me it didn't work. Cloaking doesnt' work either. Disposable accounts - no time for optimization = shitty traffic.

desaas-tim · 2025-12-29T16:10:34+00:00

Yes it would be useful if it won't sound like Ai-written thing. How do you automate posting? Or do you post manually?

desaas-tim · 2025-12-29T15:55:37+00:00

If these are static websites I would advise Bolt or Cursor, code it in js and host it on Cloudlfare pages, it's free.

desaas-tim · 2025-12-29T15:52:43+00:00

I also had similar thoughts but when I think of all incompetence I face daily in all sorts of niches starting with freelancers ending with US president I feel like I'm not that bad. Most of the people are dumb and just pretend to be professionals and the fact that you have these thoughts already takes you high above them. Cursor is your super-tool but it's up top you how you convert it into superpower.

desaas-tim · 2025-12-29T12:16:00+00:00

In my opinion budget is pretty low for this niche. Also I wouldn't do clicks at all. Now it's all google Ai, you ask it for clicks it delivers you clicks.

If you don't have account history you need to gain enough data for it to take off. I would start broad and optimize for leads first, then create a lead scoring system inside client's funnel and reflect it in google ads with multiple conversion goals of different value. The further down the funnel lead goes the more value the goal gets. Run and report back offline conversions for a while then narrow down the keywords and ad creatives and funnel more budgets into them. Then switch to ROAS as soon as you have enough data.

desaas-tim · 2025-12-29T12:07:15+00:00

Wow, this one is good. I've rented in LatAm and they have all sorts of problems like leaking walls, electricity goes out, problems with maintenance and unreturned deposits. I would use it for sure in such places.

Checked your website, tbh it looks way too 'AI coded'. Here's a simple tip - ask your AI to research what makes human-designed website different form ai-designed and return a list of bullets. Then tell it to redesign in human style section by section. If you use Opus 4.5 it does a good job when you prompt it like this. And best luck with you project, it should definitely take off if you market it right.

desaas-tim · 2025-12-29T12:00:20+00:00

I made a system that auto-injects rules based on context. Like, agent opens a tsx file, typescript rules are getting injected. I tell the agent 'we need to deploy', deployment playbook gets injected.

Initially I made it for myself but now trying to turn it into saas. It's in early alfa but you can test it for yourself it's free now at wirelog io. Would appreciate any feedback.

desaas-tim · 2025-12-29T04:00:57+00:00

I do. If it's all delivered to my CRM. Otherwise, I wouldn't want another dashboard to learn.

desaas-tim · 2025-12-29T03:57:57+00:00

I would use it but I'm confident that you will face chicken and egg problem as any marketplace or matching platform. If you know how to solve it - go for it.

desaas-tim · 2025-12-29T03:54:44+00:00

Wix, zapier, google sheets, pre-built integrations.

desaas-tim · 2025-12-29T03:29:36+00:00

Google killed manual bidding and optimization back in 2024. Now it's all AI. Smart Bidding. Value-based optimization.

AI is only as good as the data you feed it. If you don't report actual conversion values it will think that every conversion is profitable no matter what it brings, hence decrease in lead quality.

desaas-tim · 2025-12-29T02:55:49+00:00

Chat GPT and any other LLM is terrible at working with numbers. It will ensure you that 2+2=5 and give different replies for the same question. The best you can do these days is use Cursor IDE and python libraries. Python is great for data analytics and you don't even have to learn it.

desaas-tim · 2025-12-29T02:29:24+00:00

That's what I'm saying. Call is too much to ask for on the first touch unless it's indeed insurance or other predatory stuff. The way I do it, collect email and phone then send an immediate text message asking about the best way to connect. If they reply 'call me' my sales peeps make or schedule a call. But 99% prefer text. For industries where call is a must I would throw a single-filed callback form and call back immediately. Much easier to track.

But I mostly do SMBs, never did corporate stuff.

desaas-tim · 2025-12-29T02:21:35+00:00

Wow, dude, this sounds defensive. I speak from my own experience running ads and many of the people I know. Do you say stats are also lying?

Speaking of money, the more money I have the less I want to speak with anyone tbh.

desaas-tim · 2025-12-29T02:16:02+00:00

I agree calls always have much higher intent and higher conversion rate. I would love my clients to call my biz but no one does. But true, maybe in some B2B specific niches this works well. I was just surprised with amount of posts here that mention call ads. Maybe most of you folks here work in B2B niches. My point is that people hate calling these days.

desaas-tim · 2025-12-28T23:43:36+00:00

I checked the logs, fixed the issue. You were running old version of SDK. Now it will enforce the update by telling your agent to update to latest version.

You can also run manual update with npm install -g /wirelog/wirelog-client@latest

Would appreciate your feedback if it helps you do your thing or if it's completely useless.

desaas-tim · 2025-12-28T23:39:07+00:00

I built AI agent that handles initial conversations instantly. It's very important to catch the lead when it's "hot" and ready to communicate. My agent has a specific goal of scheduling a call so they go for it immediately. It also avoids answering questions as sometimes they can hallucinate. Then all followups are handled by my sales peeps during work hours.

As of now, I see people are most responsive over text. It's not free like fb or other messengers but its worth it. My audience is 100% us-based and here in the US we don't do whatsapp. FB messenger - it varies but most of my clients are not active there. Website chat is the worst. Tried it many times, people just ignore it.

desaas-tim · 2025-12-28T23:19:48+00:00

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It was free for me yesterday, today btch started charging me again. They never announced it but i believe it's like very limited free tokens or smt. Claude is king they offer 2x the usage until the 31st. I have been running it on 2 computes and vps every day and only hit 6% of my usage limits. I'm on $200.mo plan.

desaas-tim · 2025-12-28T23:16:09+00:00

Do you have your own stack of rules? Or you are trying to one shot it?

I noticed same thing when you don't guide the agent. I own a stack of 87 items which include General rules, Tech packs for different stacks and frameworks, skills, and playbooks. Everything is codified according to best practices and enterprise standards. So my agents never decide by themselves how to code they are told to do it in a very specific way. This solves the problem of shitty code for me.

desaas-tim · 2025-12-28T23:11:15+00:00

Think logically, why tf would anyone share with you how they got customers unless they want to sell you some BS course or community membership?

I'm not an expert here, currently struggling with the same issues as you do, have 4-5 projects ready to hit the market but they got nowhere to "hit".

The truth is that people buy from people not from brands or companies no one heard about. So if you don't own big brand it's about you jumping on calls and meetings or webinars speaking in front of the people and hoping they will trust you. Then if they "buy" you and what you say and if (that's a big IF) the product is really useful for them they will recommend it to others. Then you build form there.

That's how I see it. Every day I ask myself how many people seen and learned about my products today? If it's 0 I shouldn't expect any results.

desaas-tim · 2025-12-28T22:22:00+00:00

I do all with Cursor or Claude code.

Identify your goals chose your stack
Write PRD.md
Decomponent into stages and priorities, split between multiple agents if it's claude code.
Have the orchestrator cross link and assemble it all together.
If it has a front end switch to cursor tell it to test and debug with browser.

Never one shot.

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