Rich Steinmetz

AI right now feels like it's for engineers and tech founders. It's not. The biggest opportunities are for the people closest to real business problems — consultants, marketers, service providers, solopreneurs. They just need the right on-ramp.

@PassiveSphere @itsolelehmann Thanks for sharing, Denis! So yeah, it might be more beneficial if you are setting up a corporate structure and less when you are a freelancer or similar.

@RichStoneIO @itsolelehmann No dividend tax, no capital gains tax. For example, Lithuania is still not bad compared to other EU countries: 17% corporate tax (first 2 years no corporate tax up to 300k yearly revenue) 15% dividend tax 15-20% capital gains tax but Cyprus has way lower taxes

i've lived in cyprus for the last 5 years here's my (more nuanced) view of pros and cons: the pros: 1. people are insanely friendly. people genuinely talk to you in cafes and everyone is SUPER sweet to our baby 2. tax status is the best option in europe, both in terms of tax rate and flexibility (you only need to be there 60days/year) 3. weather is elite from april - june and september - december 4. there are few distractions, it's a great place to lock in, work out and work (but more in the cons section..) 5. living costs are decent (though been rising A LOT). 6. growing expat community (mainly germans in paphos, more russians in limassol) 7. slowly growing availability of organic food sources (still in its infancy tohugh) 8. pro business mindset (compared to other european countries, not to US lol) 9. I love the sea in cyprus (great colour and very clear!) , and they also have mountains too hike in troodos mountains 10. easy and fast to get any doctors appointment (and cheap!) 11. very safe, I would always leave my backpack with my car keys out in the open while swimming etc. low crime rate is awesome. 12. everyone speaks english! and very well. now let's get to the cons: 1. it's very hard to maintain friendships with the expats because MANY of them will be traveling outside of cyprus for 70% of the year. I personally want a place where most peopel stay permanently, not only a couple of months. It's ok if your 24 and nomading (which im not). 2. the sun is extreme in juli, august. especially with a small child thats kinda fucked and hard to navigate (UV index 12...) 3. it often still feels like 2018. in a good AND a bad way. there's not much to do compared to other places where I lived before. 4. you need a car (despite what people been telling you on X). sidewalks are often times fucked up, especially if you are pushing a stroller around 5. culture, music, art scene is extremely small. I love these things so it does matter to me. 6. there is no real big city in cyprus. something i'm genuinely missing 7. there's close to 0 significant companies here, no good events, tech ecosystem is very very small (despite what people try to tell you on here). on a world scale, cyprus doesn't matter at all 8. a lot of "entrepreneurs" coming here are coaches or actually employed to someone. I have met 10x more interesting entrepreneurs in big european cities in a days vs in 6 months in cyprus. there are some but it's far from a "tech hub". might be skill issue on my end lol 9. there's a lot of dodgy shit going on with casinos, russian money in cyprus. but I guess that happens in many countries 10. its an island, so everything needs to get imported. many shops don't ship to cyprus. there is no amazon (only if you order from a different country + pay the shipping 11. cyprus is very far away from the pulse of culture, it mostly feels like every trend is happening 5 years later here 12. lots of mold in almost EVERY house. cheap build quality and a lot of cookie cutter ugly investment properties 13. very close to the wars in the middle east 14. there no great architecture in any city my tldr: we're looking at other options in europe right now, but we might stay here and just move to limassol but a kind of house I want is probably 6-9k/month so it's expensive af there (over 2x-3x from paphos) personally, I mainly miss the vibe and drive of a more metropolitan city but that's just me! the main factor I don't like is how so many people only stay a couple of months in cyprus, making it hard to compound and friendships but people like @marclou moving here def make me want to stay more :D

@itsolelehmann I don't understand the tax argument everyone talks about. 🤔 It's slightly lower corporate tax (15%?) and 35% income tax. And a bunch of tax programs that aren't super easy to see through. Compared to EU states like Spain or Schland it's a plus, but not a reason for moving?

@PassiveSphere @itsolelehmann I don't understand the tax argument everyone talks about. 🤔 It's slightly lower corporate tax (15%?) and 35% income tax. And a bunch of tax programs that aren't super easy to see through. Compared to EU states like Spain this might be great, but not a reason for moving?

This review is definitely closer to reality For some reason, people on X compare Cyprus to Bali, but it's not Bali at all It's a completely different country with a completely different vibe, and it has its pros and cons A huge benefit is definitely the taxes, and it's close to mainland Europe But it's super boring and feels outdated; many things are expensive because it's an island I gave Cyprus a chance twice, but decided I'm not ready to spend even 2 months a year there just to save on taxes Although I've been to Bali 6 times and will be coming there more and more. It's paradise (with its cons!) That's just my experience, and I completely accept that Asia is not for everyone Don't blindly move to Cyprus because of the tax haven. Go and spend some time there first, especially if you have kids

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@tessak22 @CasJam Yep, it's not really usable yet imo.

@CasJam Plus like a million other things. One being that it actually works properly. It’s so slow that I get annoyed and do it myself.

Claude Cowork feature request: Set a default working folder.

@Lukealexxander Not saying you should recommend us, for that I know too little about your setup. Sorry you had a bad experience with the team! I just was curious what your team considers the state of the art of AI agency tooling since I am navigating that space myself right now. 🏊

@RichStoneIO I will literally never recommend you again and your leadership + product team is terrible. Prove me wrong with you the best but Cf has had years to improve and hasn’t

@Lukealexxander any tools you recommend to run AI agencies? You mentioned a lot can be vibe-coded, but you probably wouldn‘t want to do so further down the line and have to maintain a bunch of stuff. Are HubSpot or GHL still the way? Anyone in your group using ClickFunnels?

@Lukealexxander CF recently launched an agency model & is powering up on AI capabilities daily, you might be recommending us soon!😅 In your coaching do you sometimes recommend HubSpot or GHL etc.? I the video you mention Claude Cowork, OpenAI & Nano Banana but no other concrete platforms/tools

@RichStoneIO CF sucks ass and can be replaced by Claude alone + your CRM

When you became an engineer, you signed up for lifelong learning. If you find it as hard as ever to know what to learn next, future engineering work will evolve from "build this thing" to "build systems that fix & improve themselves". Plenty of space to learn & practice. 🛠️

Follow if you need to see how next-gen software and business building are done.

@SichDotDev Mine? The Dream for the dream100.funnelsonrails.com app is indeed to have "agents" to help you manage your collab partners (and later customer convos) network. Download the list or let our agents manage it on CF. Or is yours a manager of AI networks? 🤣 In any case, let's goooo! :D

@RichStoneIO AI network manager? I’ll have more to share and a better story for it soon

IDEs are dead 🪦 This weekend I built an app just by talking to Telegram. I literally talked with OpenClaw over CarPlay while getting groceries. Never had to open VSCode The future isn't opening an IDE, it's having a conversation.

@SichDotDev You? ::))

@RichStoneIO That's awesome, 👀 what are you building with it?

@SichDotDev A Dream 100 (Traffic Secret #2) list generator and manager. dream100.funnelsonrails.com

🎧 You can listen to it here: podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id1876…

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If you don’t have a Mac Mini (yet), but still want to fix some bugs or shoot some features on your walk to the office, this setup goes insanely quick w/ Omnara, vanilla Rails (+inertia), Kamal, GH Actions & Hetzner.

Nearly every ambitious person I know who has dived into AI is working harder than ever, and longer hours than ever. Fascinating dynamic tbh. I have NEVER worked this hard, nor had this much fun with work.

@BorjaGVO @brunotorious maybe this is interesting for you, too.

I started a small film project and the worst part wasn’t editing—it was renaming footage. Camera dumps with cryptic filenames, trying to add dates, locations, scenes… painfully manual. I built a tiny tool to rename clips automatically so I can focus on the story instead of file names. Screen demo below 👇 #YouTuber #Filmmaking