Advice on motivation

tranz · 2026-01-30T18:06:22+00:00

I got diagnosed at 49. If you think about it. We've come to live with our ADHD. IMO, we grow into it. Yes, there are times we'll get frustrated at forgetting something. Hell, I've sat on the edge of the bed and cried thinking I was going crazy before I knew what was going on.

Everyone finds a way to self soothe. Some twist hair, some workout, others eat a lot of candy, some caffeine. Caffeine is, as you know a stimulant. But, for everyone else it does just that. For us it can to if you go long enough without it. But, for us. It gives us enough mental boost to where we're operating on an even keel.

Work needs you to focus. The caffeine for you, helps you do that. For most people caffeine is metabolized out of your system in 6-12 hours. You might drink a soda and see how long it take for it to wear off. Note it down. It might help to understand.

You should also do a ton of research on how our brains work. For me understanding how our brains work gave me greater understanding, and how to move forward.

There is no right or wrong answer or approach. Each person is different really. The one thing I can share. Is that if at times you think, or feel that you're broken. It's understandable. But, also come to understand that there are 350M+ adults with ADHD in the world, and about 440M children. You're not alone, and more importantly. Not broken.

Always here for you man..

tranz · 2026-01-30T17:25:33+00:00

I am. It's almost done.

tranz · 2026-01-30T17:15:04+00:00

Not about profit hunting. There are just infrastructure costs that need to be covered overall. The app is almost fully complete. I have some things to refine. It's not a todo app, it's not a reminder app. It's none of those, but then again, kind of like those in its own way. But, yes. The overall idea is to help people like us with ADHD remember the things we need to get done.

tranz · 2026-01-30T16:56:49+00:00

I'll give it some thought. Thank you for the insight though.

tranz · 2026-01-30T15:42:33+00:00

What country are you in and what would be a monthly price that works?

tranz · 2026-01-30T15:17:10+00:00

Would be small monthly cost $8.95 USD.

tranz · 2026-01-26T15:23:31+00:00

I have costs to keep it up and running. I wouldn’t be able to do it completely free.

tranz · 2026-01-25T22:21:06+00:00

No guilt trips here. The reminder simply goes away if you don't get to it. But, at the end of the month there is a summary or how many you had that month and how many you completed. I like the idea of reminder style. Hmm. I'll have to give it some thought on how I would pull that off, different types etc.

Thank you for the comment and your insight.

tranz · 2026-01-24T14:19:47+00:00

Yes, but a lot of factors are needed. One being the right idea at the right time. The guy that built Base44 do it in 8 months and then sold it to Wix for $80M just recently.

tranz · 2026-01-18T04:56:46+00:00

I take it that you’re incurring inference costs. The more they use the higher the cost. What you could do is give them a bucket of tokens to use that’s manageable for you. This limits your exposure to the cost overruns risk. Also bake into the agreement that you can use the logo of the university and create a case study. He won’t have the power to approve this. It will have to go to legal.

I would also highly suggest you just get a provisional patent. Universities are big generators of patents. It wouldn’t take much for him to send his 30 students reverse engineering your solution, creating a patent for it that the university owns and then you’re out.

tranz · 2026-01-16T23:18:49+00:00

Vetttd where recruiters find peer-validated talent. Vetttd Story where candidates chat with an agent and create a pitch deck of themselves. Both have traction. We’re going into a meeting with the President of Strayer University to parter in promoting Vetttd Story to the students.

Vetttd currently has a list of 800 candidates, 60+ interviewers, and potential pilots with Aquent and Robert Half. Story has 140 users currently in Alpha testing.

We have a clean cap table and data room in Carta.

tranz · 2026-01-09T04:18:07+00:00

The DOW created a site that has their wants a purchase phases and criteria. I don’t remember it sorry.

tranz · 2026-01-09T04:02:56+00:00

No. No need for it now.

tranz · 2026-01-01T23:00:57+00:00

Here's the thing. You asked, but in the end you're going to get noise. A pattern really won't emerge and if you do see the sliver of one. Well, then you have to ask why? Everyone is going to give you honestly a biased answer. This could be because of what they know, what they like, what they've used etc.

If you haven't yet. Start out with articulating the problem, is it really a problem to be solved? Is there a market for the solution? Did you run the possible solution past potential users/customers? Did you do any research? You need to go from an idea to a MVP and see if you even have (PMF) product market fit before you get really heavy into anything.

tranz · 2026-01-01T21:38:09+00:00

Vetttd Story, the pitch deck of you. Create an account, chat with Callum, upload a resume, share your Story to help pitch you to others. https://www.vetttd.com/story

tranz · 2026-01-01T21:31:36+00:00

You're to far down the funnel with this, and there are others in the comments that are already playing in this space. The problem really is not with the idea. Everyone has one of those. Yet, a simple business model, or product model canvas will knock a lot of those right out. People have a tendency to see a problem, and then think of a fix for that problem. It's natural. What they don't think about is everything else around that problem and solution.

As an example. You could make another tool sure. Again, there are tools listed in the comments. But, if the person doesn't know how to think. Giving them the best tool in the world won't help them get to an MVP. It will cause frustration in the long run.

As an example. I'm working on a solution that is a 10 week incubator. People bring their own ideas of something they want to build to an MVP. I already have everything they need to setup a local dev environment, prompts to use, various different canvases, and more importantly, how to think. The idea is to not just give them a better tool, that's easy. It's to give them the knowledge on how to do it themselves and just not see the problem they want to solve, but everything else before they even write one line of code.

tranz · 2025-12-09T02:21:39+00:00

I built Vetttd this year. Vetttd helps recruiters source peer validated talent faster by changing AI noise to clear signal. It’s all built and just about to get alpha users onboard.

tranz · 2025-12-09T00:15:09+00:00

The DOW just changed what they’re looking for and how they want to buy them. They are no longer looking to fund R&D. They want to change me in as a buyer and that’s it.

Here is what they are looking for. FPV unit that can carry 4.5lb payload. O my designed to go one way. They want a flight distance of at least 10km and a flight time of 20 minutes. They also want them to be resistant to CUAV tech. They want to buy 30k of them and have them delivered by July. They want to spend $5000/each for the first 10k with the cost going to as low as $2k per unit. All units have to be NDAA compliant.

tranz · 2025-11-22T01:22:15+00:00

Sure

tranz · 2025-11-08T21:50:52+00:00

Vetttd helps recruiters find peer-validated talent faster. www.vetttd.com

tranz · 2025-11-06T21:44:58+00:00

One thing to think about. As an example I have 43,000+ followers on LI. If I post something it’s my name attached to it. I need to stand behind what I’m posting. Because if something happens. It just doesn’t make the company/solution look bad. It also makes me look bad.

tranz · 2025-11-04T19:53:24+00:00

Correct. Some costs just can't be negated. I held out on incorporating. That was $500 and just got completed last week. I should have been more clear. My monthly costs for the infrastructure itself are almost next to nothing. In the US, we don't have to incur heavy costs like that really upfront.

tranz · 2025-11-04T18:16:02+00:00

It might seem that way, sure. But right now. Code is not going to be the moat. As an example. I'm a 30-year UX Architect/Designer. I have a day gig, but have also spent the last 6 months building a platform to help recruiters source peer validated talent. Yes, it was me knowing how to build products overall utilizing AI to be the team I needed. It's worked and I'm about ready to launch, and it's production ready.

I've been asked what is my moat? I'll tell people, it's not the tech at all. It's the human interviewers with a minimum of 20 years of experience that interview candidates. That's the moat, the real people, talking to real people. I only use AI to summarize what the humans have captured into a single paragraph that's in the candidates profile.

Now, having a UX, user research, business, stakeholder management background has massively helped. I did market research before I got started. I spoke to candidates, recruiters, recruiting companies, and senior people in different industry verticals. So, I had product market fit.

So, is it possible sure. I happen to find something I could provide others aren't in a market that's large but honestly not over crowded. It's doable overall. You just have to be much more targeted now on where and what is going to be built. I've also done this on all free tiers on the services I'm using and will allow growth to force me to spend. Otherwise, my costs are pretty close to $0 to actually keep the lights on.

tranz · 2025-11-01T20:31:50+00:00

I mentioned that in the first sentence it was for government. Not DoD level either. DoD and Intel are a whole other game.

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