Henry Earle-A'Hern

Just for building my ‘data warehouse’. Creating a bunch of charts to track how different landing pages and traffic channels are performing over time. What would have taken (me) hours previously takes a couple minutes. IMO it’s what most/all SaaS will look like soon, instead of a bunch of static pages for different functions, it’s just a chat (maybe voice soon) interface for everything. “hey posthog, create a 4 stage chart to monitor conversion rate of xyz landing page: 1. Visit page 2. Add to cart 3. Checkout initiated 4. Purchase I want it to only track first time visits from Bing Ads” Nothing massively complex I suppose, but has made the product less intimidating and boosted my efficiency massively.

@Henryearleahern @james406 What kind of things do you use it for?

Posthog's implementation of AI is one of the few genuinely good ones in SaaS. For me, it's drastically increased the value and use of the product.

Every month or two, a new AI CMO pops up claiming to be the first. This one wasn’t even slightly good. At least ICON had a good few months of a go at it.

@getnachonacho 😂

@Henryearleahern Expecting failure but staying committed to iterating is key to success. The journey isn’t always easy, but the learning and forward momentum are what lead to real wins.

I think founders should approach almost everything with the expectation that’s it’s guaranteed to fail. If you can do that but also with the understanding that it’s still worth it… because you’re iterating forwards… that’s what creates winners. I’ve had a lot of friends that believe their own hype. They get overexcited and think success is inevitable. And so when the reality hits, they give up entirely or submit to shiny object syndrome.

Scrap the co-working spaces, and just create private office pod dungeons: - 👨‍💻 3x3 meter private office pods - 🎧 Soundproof - ⚡️ Fast wifi - 🪑 Office chairs - 🖥️ 27+ inch 6k monitors - 🧍‍♂️ Adjustable height desks - 📷 QR scan to order either dark roast coffee or steak to the room. No human interaction required. I want to work. I do not want to talk about your meditation retreat... Nor do I care to hear you phone your wife's boyfriend every 5 minutes... The more anti-social the better. Lock in.

@levelsio I recall being in a Bali co-working space (Tropical Nomad or something) upstairs in the 'silent room' and buddy in the corner was on a call for 30 minutes loudly planning a surf trip... 🫠

Tiny things like these make everyone in a coworking space less productive And it's always some girl at the front desk playing her favorite songs (or break up songs if she just had a break up) A coworking space should be dead silent (white noise at best) and climate controlled @ 22C/72F with people choosing their own music or sound on their headphones People who do calls should be put in fully soundproofed call booths and never allowed to call outside of it Most coworking spaces suck: they're too loud, too hot (AC is set wrong or non-existent or shuts off at 5pm), chairs are wrong, tables are wrong height etc. You should be extremely autistic about this stuff when you're designing a space for deep work because it literally affects everyone's productivity and the point of a coworking space is great work Or you're just building a community hang out, not a coWORKing space

Has anyone found the solution to longer term stay in Malaysia? Exploring the digital nomad visa here or MM2H Sarawak but hoping there's a better way.

@blasgoro The world doesn’t need more AI slop my friend

Revenue generating activity usually comes with it's fair share of friction as a part of it's implementation. I've found that addressing this with Claude Cowork / Code can help a lot: 1. Outline the context and your JTBD 2. Outline the friction that's delaying it's implementation 3. Ask Claude to create a plan with solutions where possible 4. Ask Claude to transform that into an 'EPIC' with lots of granular sub-issues inside your Linear (via MCP)

I think everyone founder should take stock of how far they’ve come on a regular basis. Perhaps a quarterly dive through old X posts, emails, financials obviously too. Easy to forget where you are now compared to just a few years ago. I did this today and reminded myself I used to dream of just $10k MRR and simply being able to live in Bali doing my own thing.

@Hunter_Weiss Would love to know what happened. It wasn’t a great product but for it to fail so spectacularly there must have been some seriously wreck less decision making. Aside from just the domain purchase.

1 year ago... people can't hate on building/trying but spending $12M on a domain with investors' money before product market fit seems insane

@oliverbrocato @Wise batch payments my friend.

Sent payroll manually myself because our COO was away. One by one: > Logging names > Copy-pasting $$$ amounts from a master spreadsheet > Double-checking every digit so I don’t send $20k to a VA by accident Took 3 whole hours 😓 But honestly? It was a great audit. Forced me to look at every salary and ask: > Are we overpaying for underperformance? > Are we underpaying our killers? > Should I restructure bonuses to reward high agency? Every problem = a hidden opportunity

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How does one draw any other conclusion than that the people of the United Kingdom are now completely and utterly retarded? I fear there is no hope.

So what are we supposed to do whilst Claude code is whirring away then?

The highest-leverage hire for any serious marketer right now isn't another media buyer. It's a CTO who actually understands AI. Not so they can keep up with the models for you. So you can show them where your business bleeds time and money, and they can tell you which of those problems are now solvable. That's the unlock. The bottlenecks you've accepted as "just how it works"? The manual processes you've been hiring bodies to manage? Half of that is probably automatable now. But you wouldn't know, because knowing requires tracking a landscape that changes every few weeks. New models. New capabilities. New context windows. What was impossible in October is trivial in February. You don't need to track all that. You need someone who does. Someone constantly scanning what's possible, so when you walk them through your ops, they can point at the expensive problems and say "that one's solved now." Your job is driving revenue. Their job is knowing where the leverage is hiding. Show them the bottlenecks. Let them map the opportunities. Then get out of the way.

I think I have a real problem... I quite literally cannot stop giving Manus my money.

@tommyswriting 💯

Too many people on the internet like to shit on alcohol I get it Lizard man Bryan Johnson, it’s not “good for you.” But, I dare you to find a beverage that relaxes you and tunes you into God and the divine cosmos like a good Argentine Malbec Pair a glass with some smooth Jazz or Mozart and you’re floating on a cloud of creativity and peace It’s like humans have been drinking this for thousands of years for a reason From Homer to Biblical Israel to Renaissance Italy this beverage has birthed more high minded than perhaps any thing else

My media buyer hadn’t heard of @ManusAI .. am I cooked?