Ben Rowell, Owner - Benjamin Franklin Plumbing

@irentdumpsters You ever get your hands on some manatee steaks? Chicken of the bay, they call it.

10 pounds of grass fed ground beef from a farm in the middle of florida 💪

The hardest piece to unlock in this whole game is digital marketing - Google LSA/PPC, meta ads, content, etc. Maybe an observation. Maybe a cry for help.

Claude is wild. I created a CEO coach, a CMO coach, a cold-calling outreach agent, Superhuman clone, an internal dashboard, and an online retail business - all with an art degree. If I can do it, you can do it.

@MiniRetireMatt What state is this where teachers get $125k and only work 35 hrs/week? 3 Mos PTO, yes, but 2 personal days and 5 sick days. We talking PhDs only teach grad level classes?

The teacher making $125k per year, with 3 months of PTO, and 35 hour work weeks Is better off than... The attorney making $250k per year, with 1-2 weeks of PTO, and 60+ hour work weeks It's not even close

I think 1: Yes for sure, but also 2: Customers can have 3-4 companies quote a disposal replacement and get a range anywhere from $176 (fly-by-night) - $1,150 (PE), and 3: Family members of octogenarians assume all service workers are intentionally taking advantage of elderly family members by increasing prices, adding hidden fees, or selling them repairs/replacements they don't need. It couldn't be further from the truth.

@BenRowell717 PE

Why do people think every plumber is out there scamming the whole world?

@ryanraysr I think industry fragmentation and inflation are two causes.

@BenRowell717 Really that is weird. Def got me wondering too

@Just_JeffLee Definitely.

@BenRowell717 Inflation has hit the trades hard, if someone called a plumber 5 years ago for something remotely similar to the problem they have now….sticker shock

@ryanraysr IRL good sir

@BenRowell717 Haven’t heard that. Is this online or IRL?

@Secretsrchr It definitely does.

@BenRowell717 Mainly happens when you get the bill!!!!!

@bairdk I see you! But nobody go there, seriously. It's the WORST.

OZ Trails hat matching my new background nicely today! Representing NWA in SWCO.

@toddsaunders 🙋‍♂️

If you're in a blue collar industry using Claude Code to build. I want to hear from you. You are the most important people in software right now and nobody is paying attention. Reply below, share your project or shoot me a dm!

@bairdk @shawngorham You did it right, @bairdk Just keep NWA on the down-low

@BenRowell717 @shawngorham Definitely want to go back when everything is leafed out. We were early for that. Had a couple of 90 degree days, but we'd ride early, end at the Spark Cafe, and spent one afternoon at the Blue Hole. I could definitely live there!

A cycling friend has been in Bentonville all week riding bikes - he has raved about it Are we sleeping on Bentonville?

@shawngorham @bairdk March is craaaazy. Glad he didn't freeze/burn up/get hailed on/hit by a tornado/flooded out

@BenRowell717 @bairdk Baird scored in March

@shawngorham @bairdk it should also be noted that May and October are best months to visit. Goldilocks months

@BenRowell717 I need to - Biard loved it there @bairdk

@jianw851 Luddite here, first time Claude user. Am I supposed to retype this code setup and layout as is, or find this structure on GitHub? Really don’t know.

Most developers are using Claude Code wrong. They treat it like a coding assistant: Prompt → Output → Repeat. That works… until it doesn’t. Because real AI development isn’t about prompts. It’s about systems. Here’s the Claude Code setup that changes everything 👇 • CLAUDE.md → the brain (context, rules, instructions) • /skills → reusable workflows (review, refactor, release) • /hooks → guardrails + automation • /docs → architecture decisions (the “why”) • /src → actual product logic This isn’t just folder structure. It’s how you: • stop repeating instructions • get consistent outputs • scale across features + teams • turn AI into a predictable system Most devs keep rewriting prompts. Better ones design systems where AI doesn’t need reminders. That’s when Claude stops guessing… …and starts acting like an engineering partner. Save this. ♻️ #AI #Claude #AIAgents #LLM #GenAI #DevTools

@irentdumpsters Incomparable amounts of data at their fingertips.

I will never understand why so many white-collar guys think they can just build a SaaS for home service business owners They have no idea what they're getting themselves into Not a game I would ever dare to play. Companies like Service Titan, Jobber, and House Call Pro already have this market cornered If you think your vibe coded SaaS platform is going to change the home service space Good luck

Trying to be hypercurious about AI. In doing so, I created customer software. 2 for 2 on things I never thought I'd ever be doing my life, right behind plumbing.

@ClintFiore I think there’s a South Park movie about this.

How do you help cure a teenage girl from saying "like" all the time, in like, every sentence?