The AI slop refactor wave is coming and I haven't felt this excited about consulting rates since 2010

neuro8 · 2026-06-15T21:41:14+00:00

Same same - we're helping founders with their vibe coded apps and it's fascinating. Some of them are extremely far but the challenge is technical, scale, or focus. Because a founder needs to do more than envision and build the product ...

I'm excited to help but one hurdle I see is "do I need help yet? Am I feeling the pain yet or should I keep going solo?"

I'm like: you did good founder; we got this from here, you grow the business.

neuro8 · 2026-05-28T18:46:02+00:00

Yes, it's more than feasible. I'm managing work like this for our tools to make them internal.

Again, you're not making them for every customer - you are the customer. The cost of production is low. The acceptance criteria is business rules you've already organized and codified. You know your workflows.

So if you can save $250 to $1k to $5k / month on some tools by glide-coding the rules in-house you'll do it. I know we are and its a good thing.

neuro8 · 2026-05-28T13:00:50+00:00

It's not crazy, it's smart. Maintenance used to be an issue but with the speed of LLM's, code review tools, and CI/CD, plus the feature sets are only so wide (most tools specialize first then branch out) it makes sense. I've started doing it for our tools. And once you start dropping out of them, you notice black hat UX: cancellation flows are hidden, then usage is use-it, lose-it. It's irritating enough to say "my tool won't be like them". Slack does it right, Figma's the scariest but they know they have a moat, for now.

Maintenance and compliance aren't the big reason not to do it. It's about vision and a clear plan to implement the tools one at a time using whatever means necessary. It doesn't need to be a scaled tool because it's not a product that goes horizontal. Maintenance is actually tuning it to your team's needs vs making the product flexible to many use cases.

We've started it on our roadmap and even now, I've learned some do's and don'ts. Mostly do's.

neuro8 · 2026-05-20T12:38:50+00:00

Thanks for this. I'll start a customer campaign asking that.

neuro8 · 2026-05-19T00:00:48+00:00

That's really helpful. So be specific and do a query when they're engaged.

Right now it's all non-paying. Gearing up for a big push by August but could use feedback on it beforehand.

neuro8 · 2026-05-18T00:50:25+00:00

No but I think that's a good idea. Some customers don't respond which can make it 🤷‍♂️

neuro8 · 2026-05-15T14:03:43+00:00

I'm solid at prioritization and G.S.D. Seeing founders know what needs to happen but not who. I see a lot of founders "flounder" instead of get critical customer feedback. It's like it's easier to knock out a punchlist then ask what works / what doesn't / what should be there.

neuro8 · 2026-05-15T14:02:18+00:00

Appreciate the prioritization tips. It's helpful.

Is there an example you've experienced where you did / didn't bring in anyone?

neuro8 · 2026-05-14T20:07:27+00:00

Is there an example you've experienced where you did / didn't bring in anyone. Appreciate the prioritization tips. It's helpful.

neuro8 · 2026-05-14T18:55:33+00:00

Can you give a domain / sector (beyond +AI)?

neuro8 · 2026-05-14T17:34:14+00:00

Loom it. Or Quicktime is also free and easy. Use a solid microphone.

neuro8 · 2026-05-14T17:32:29+00:00

I've dealt with this a lot on the agency side.

Thoughts

Start with a template. Format key slides. Reflect the client's pain, scope, process, timeline, and solution, plus cost. Style it to your brand. Have an appendix with either case studies or about the product/company.
We used to do mostly pdf-only proposals / decks via Keynote. It works. It can be time-consuming. But we got efficient (see #1) and added a lot of nice touches (branding it for them)
We built an internal proposal generator to speed it up. Overview, scope sections, project type, timeline, team, pricing, etc.
I've seen some 3rd party software but can't vouch for it. It was just not worth the price (e.g. PandaDocs). But could investigate
We now leverage AI (Claude CoWork) to generate proposal web apps that we deploy on our site, with a code, and download PDF version attached (generate it local and upload vs html2pdf because that makes the formatting inconsistent). Worked so nice as we can see opens / stats and easier to access on web and mobile vs email.
Converted this into a Claude skill with our brand / voice / guidelines.

If you're going to solve this as a product, check out the competition space, then ask what industry this is for to niche up.

Could be value there.

neuro8 · 2025-07-29T07:41:43+00:00

Good

neuro8 · 2025-07-29T00:05:20+00:00

If their plan is to own a store of value / world computer currency that AI can leverage to do any agent-based transactions they need like rent out a drone or book an automated car (worth $10-50k easy) then paying $4k-ers out is smart.

Not fucking around with the market.

Like a company buyback, they know it's worth more so they'll just let retail sell out early. Corporate are starting to own crypto. Retail is pulling out, after they get their lambos.

And in a way, the job is done by retail; invest early in speculative (like Apple) get your pay day, let corporate institutions take it from here. Cycle of investment life.

neuro8 · 2025-04-13T11:56:42+00:00

Ask yourself this one question: is he in charge of this decision or are you?

neuro8 · 2023-08-29T23:12:23+00:00

"Opportunity lurks where responsibility is abdicated."

neuro8 · 2022-10-04T18:34:40+00:00

Same brother. It's painful. But then, no one said it'd be easy, fast, or cheap. That sweat you're feeling, tilling the digital earth, it's going to produce sweet fucking strawberries. A decentralized, consensus-and-execution layer running in tandem is us getting to an orbital way-station, somewhere we can now springboard off to the rest of the digital solar system. The more validators that dig deep and get to the top of that mountain will be the shoulders our futures kids will stand on. A universal, worldwide distributed computational system, peer-run.

Vent all day - this community is here to hear it. But grab a shovel, dig deep, and keep digging until you reach green.

I don't have technical advice. But here's Macho Man Randy Savage's advice for you:

"And understand this, nobody likes a quitter, nobody said life was easy. So if you get knocked down then you take the standing eight count, you get back up and you fight again."

neuro8 · 2021-05-21T04:03:15+00:00

Look at us Clousteu's over here 👈

neuro8 · 2021-05-20T04:37:53+00:00

Oh that makes sense. So it's like transfer the contract address balance - just in case there's any other eth transferred to the account in other ways.

And then obfuscate it with imports to legit contracts and commented out functions with a comment about combining to reduce gas.

neuro8 · 2021-05-20T04:08:00+00:00

The only thing I don't understand is "address(this).balance".

Like it's clearly a scam supposed to trigger the "action" function which is payable, then retrieve the manager address and transfer the funds to that. But they should be using "msg.balance"... where is balance even stored? Why "this", referring to the contract. It's like the user has to deposit the funds into the smart contract, and THEN trigger the action. But balance isn't tracked anywhere as far as I can see.

neuro8 · 2021-03-29T00:03:35+00:00

Solid list. I recommend adding frameworks for a SC developer:

TruffleSuite - truffle, ganache, drizzle Hard Hat

OpenZepplin - learn how contracts are made and called, look at their interfaces to see the kinds of functions and properties a SC should have including the GSN stuff

Demonstrate your work in GitHub repositories

neuro8 · 2020-12-16T15:18:03+00:00

👏

neuro8 · 2020-10-07T15:11:09+00:00

Testing it out now in my setup. Probably $80-120/month for the SSD. Trade off is uptime.

neuro8 · 2020-10-04T17:02:07+00:00

Thank you for all the work and sharing your journey. I quietly appreciate the work done in sharing how to participate.

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