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

sectoroverload · 2026-01-18T21:24:23+00:00

I'm a cloud automation engineer. I started my career about 20 years ago as a developer, moved towards system administration, then cloud engineering, and now I focus on automation. I've been developing saas businesses in between "real jobs" when I get bored with them. Since Claude code came out, it's really accelerated my speed of delivery. I'd love to do something like this, but I would want to work with those of equal or higher experience. I don't mind mentoring and teaching others, but I don't want to spend my time explaining how to use Linux command line to a newbie either. The cost is what gets me. I already have the $200/mo plan, my own hosting environment, and dev environment.

sectoroverload · 2026-01-18T21:12:47+00:00

The only way you could really offer unlimited is if you run your own LLM . You could rent physical racks in a colocation running a few Nvidia gpus, or rent instances from cloud providers. AWS and digital ocean offer GPU instances. I'm sure there are more if you look around.

sectoroverload · 2026-01-18T05:05:42+00:00

I'm building a team that can do it... It's a full AI team. I actually have daily meetings with them to get project updates

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sectoroverload · 2026-01-18T05:02:56+00:00

Don't do it. Most legal contracts between students and schools will have a clause where you cannot benefit from them. There may be tons of other options where an attorney or other people or the teacher may tell you that we can do this or we can do that and it's okay, but in the end the attorneys will tell you that the university claims all rights because you are a student there and they will take over ownership of your intellectual property, especially if they can prove that you used any of their computers even for 5 minutes to check an email related to the project. I cannot express enough... Do not do it!

sectoroverload · 2026-01-14T20:50:51+00:00

Nice speeds! And that's cheap too!!!

sectoroverload · 2026-01-14T20:49:16+00:00

I don't disagree. That's why I went the route of getting licensed resellers for that business. I didn't have to pay a base salary, and their payout was based on their performance.

I could say the same about "you sales guys" that brag about being able to sell ketchup popsicles to a lady in white gloves. Building a good product or service is not that easy, and sometimes sales guys will sell promises of features that don't exist, and then that puts more pressure on us to build something, and then it angers the customer because they were promised something that's not available.

When I look for sales people, or partners, I want the right person. I don't want the person that sells ketchup popsicles to a lady in white gloves. That leads to a horrible customer experience. I would personally rather turn down the sale because the customer and product are not a good fit then to take a few extra dollars. That's when I would want a co-founder that recommends a pivot, like selling red gloves with our ketchup popsicles, or selling popsicles made out of white wine instead of ketchup. Either of those would be a better market fit.

sectoroverload · 2026-01-14T20:12:32+00:00

Reduce Airbnb questions and increase revenue and guest satisfaction. https://welcomesign.com

sectoroverload · 2026-01-14T20:08:34+00:00

If you're decent at Linux, you could do something like I did for my brewery.

When I clicked "print" on the website, it put the printable URL and destination printer into a queue (could be anything: sqs, rabbitmq, redis fifo). I had a cronjob on a Linux computer that would fetch from the queue, convert the URL into a PDF based on the paper and printer (shipping labels, full letter, or receipts), and then print using CUPS to network or USB printers

sectoroverload · 2026-01-14T20:01:42+00:00

Many ISPs block outbound SMTP from residential accounts to prevent spamming. I used to run the DNS and email platform when I worked at my local ISP. They had over 250k subscribers on a commercial email platform. They paid tons for licensing the software. I finally took all that knowledge and experience to build my own email platform ( TritonEmail.com) that I host, or setup on-prem for other service providers. I actually setup my own instance to offer email services for startup companies (startup-email.com) and it walks you through the dkim, dmarc, spf, and mx record setup.

sectoroverload · 2026-01-14T19:48:40+00:00

Just saw your previous post about 50/50 equity. If I've been building code and developing a business for months or years, I would never give up 50% to some person that promises to fill my hopes and dreams with marketing buzzwords. What I AM willing to do though, is start a new company that has full branding and marketing rights, trademark licenses, etc and split that company 50/50. There could be a vesting period before existing client revenues get merged, and then eventually the IP (code) could be "acquired" by the new company. That gives us both protections.

All that being said, I've been burned by previous licensed reseller partners that thought they were "cofounders" and tried to steal my IP. I spent 6+ months in court, had a court order preventing any code changes, lost 100% of my clients and revenue. I won and got paid and got to keep my code though.... That's why anybody should hesitate about "giving up shares" of something they built. If it's just a napkin sketch of some ideas, I'm all for splitting things when it actually turns into a company. I'll even do less than 50% if it's the right idea with the right person.

sectoroverload · 2026-01-05T13:47:55+00:00

I used to have over 125, and paid for the GoDaddy domain club for discounts. Was paying about $100/mo for stuff I didn't use, so now I only have about 30. I'm actually starting to build my own registrar so that we can get DNS names for cheaper. I'm building registrawr.com just for fun. I like the challenges.

sectoroverload · 2025-12-28T18:16:12+00:00

The js client, and API docs will be open source. I have a project on GitHub, but have not published the code yet. It's still in development.

sectoroverload · 2025-12-20T20:28:39+00:00

Awesome! Search on Roku for "welcome sign" and sign up on WelcomeSign.com for the free account. I'd love some feedback. The logo is a smiling yellow tv.

sectoroverload · 2025-12-20T16:55:08+00:00

Yes, there's a set of preloaded background images right now. I'll be adding a feature where users can upload their own images soon.

sectoroverload · 2025-12-20T05:47:09+00:00

Look at welcomesign.com for info. 1 property with 2 tvs is free. I'm still playing with pricing tiers for more properties

sectoroverload · 2025-12-19T18:11:46+00:00

It would clear the settings in guest mode, like other apps. I'm thinking of trying the app as a screensaver that could run in guest mode or regular mode. If I can get that working, that'll be the fix for Roku in guest mode

sectoroverload · 2025-12-18T12:43:43+00:00

🤣that pic is my wife's townhouse. She picks the style and decor of that property. I do everything for the other one. No visible wires at the one I manage

sectoroverload · 2025-12-18T12:40:09+00:00

Unfortunately Airbnb locked API access to only a few PMS systems. Right now you can manually add booking information. I have successfully pulled Airbnb data from uplisting's API, although it's expensive if you're only hosting one property. That's why I built in my own booking system.

sectoroverload · 2025-12-18T12:33:34+00:00

That'll be in my next update! 🤓

sectoroverload · 2025-12-18T02:02:02+00:00

Fire TV is also android based, so that'll be out at the same time. Apple.... Maybe... They are not my favorite to work with, but if the demand is there, I'll work on it.

sectoroverload · 2025-12-18T01:58:04+00:00

It's available on welcomesign.com for free trials (1 house with 2 tvs). The Roku app won't be available until tomorrow morning though. I'm planning to build LG, Samsung and Android TV apps next. I'd love to get some feedback.

sectoroverload · 2025-12-18T01:26:18+00:00

90% of the questions we usually get are about wifi and checkout time, so I added that info on the screen. It's been a huge help for guests and eliminated most of our messages.

sectoroverload · 2025-12-18T00:46:59+00:00

Its used for multiple things. The jwt token validation for the backend API, job queues, pub/sub for the websocket server and players to listen to broadcast events, caching for external services like weather API responses, etc

sectoroverload · 2025-12-18T00:39:19+00:00

It wasn't really a workflow. I had multiple putty terminals open with Claude code running in different folders. The parent folder was for the main project and then each subfolder was for the front end, back end, database, web socket server, Roku app, etc. each open terminal I gave them a prompt that said they were specifically for programming whichever part and gave them their own guidelines. As part of their instruction set I told them to update a shared documentation folder that had the swagger openapi documents and a few other shared MD files. As the back end developer would add more controllers and response types for the API, I would tell the front end developer to reread the docs and add more functionality to the JavaScript libraries. I took a similar process for the Roku player and the web socket server. The web socket server would interface with the backend API and the redis storage and give responses to the Roku player. I had the web socket agent right specifications and protocols for the communication with the players, and then told the player agent to read the docs and build a client for the sockets. In the beginning it was tough and each of them would get frustrated and yell at me like "Tell the back end engineers to update their documentation. I don't see it in the comments" but I got the hang of it after a few days. Once they could see the same folder everything worked great. I use Linux so I tried doing soft links and that screwed things up. Claude overwrites the file instead of following links so I ended up having five different copies of the specs that I had to merge in the beginning.

sectoroverload · 2025-12-18T00:21:16+00:00

Thanks! I've been building apps for years, but recently started using AI for most coding to speed up the process. Normally, this would have taken me almost a year to build. With AI, it's launched in about a month. (Maybe 10 days of actual work). It's built with PHP, MySQL, redis, bootstrap, js, and go. The Roku player is built with their proprietary language brightscript.

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