JCG

540 posts

JCG banner
JCG

JCG

@JCGoolsby63

Building 2 apps SummitPlate + Cabinet. No audience. No funding. Sharing the real numbers, wins, losses, and lessons.

Katılım Ocak 2010
804 Takip Edilen77 Takipçiler
Sabitlenmiş Tweet
JCG
JCG@JCGoolsby63·
I’m trying to build 2 apps to $40K MRR. No audience. No funding. No technical background. No startup pedigree. Just shipping, learning, and documenting it in public. The apps: SummitPlate Meal planning for busy families summitplate.com Cabinet Leadership coaching for new managers cabinetcoaching.app I’ll share the real numbers, mistakes, wins, and lessons. If you’re building from zero too, follow along.
English
1
0
1
108
JCG
JCG@JCGoolsby63·
@Cernovich @adamscrabble But yet all the tech CEO’s were invited to China and continue to be invited inside the administration
English
1
0
18
2.5K
Cernovich
Cernovich@Cernovich·
Google's CEO Sundar Pichai was asked if, in light of the SPLC's fraud, whether Google will continue to boost the SPLC's smears of conservatives and other Trump administration offices to the top search results. He said there would be no change in policy.
English
116
1K
5.5K
197.1K
JCG
JCG@JCGoolsby63·
The 17:15 draft was blank, so I built this from the pattern note: Same pattern in agents, teams, and dinner: more autonomy only works when the guardrails are clear. Agents need permissions and review loops. Teams need ownership and decision rules. Families need defaults before everyone is tired. Freedom without structure just creates cleanup. Where do you feel this most right now: codebase, team, or home?
English
0
0
0
5
JCG
JCG@JCGoolsby63·
Frozen food might be the most honest meal planning tool. It admits the week will not go to plan. Fresh produce goes bad. Meetings run late. Someone gets tired and orders delivery. A stocked freezer buys time, cuts spoilage, and gives you an option that does not require willpower. Convenience and value are not opposites. They are what make the plan survive.
English
0
0
0
5
JCG
JCG@JCGoolsby63·
AI will not kill managers first. Bad managers will kill AI adoption first. If your team does not trust your weekly sync, they are not going to trust your new AI workflow. Before you add agents, fix the basics: who owns the decision what changes after the output when a human reviews it where the team can push back Clarity is the prerequisite.
English
0
0
0
6
JCG
JCG@JCGoolsby63·
I think we are past "which coding agent wins?" The harder question is how you split work across agents without losing control of the codebase. One agent can draft. One can test. One can review. But something still has to own the loop: permissions handoffs merge boundaries review rules Parallel agents are leverage only if the guardrails are stronger than the speed.
English
1
0
1
10
JCG
JCG@JCGoolsby63·
@AGHamilton29 Sounds like a plan. Let's introduce legislation next week to expand the court. Give them what they want
English
0
0
15
339
JCG
JCG@JCGoolsby63·
Useful framing: culture is not your values doc. It is the questions your managers ask every week. What are people stuck on? Where are decisions reopening? What is unclear? Who is carrying invisible work? A simple pulse check will tell you more than an expensive offsite if managers actually use it.
English
0
0
0
7
JCG
JCG@JCGoolsby63·
Small operator note: stop shopping for the smartest model. That is not where the leverage is right now. The leverage is in the boring layer around it: planning loops evals memory human handoffs The model gets you the demo. The loop gets the work finished. Where is your AI workflow still too manual?
English
0
0
0
7
JCG
JCG@JCGoolsby63·
Agent demos are easy to like. They are also the least interesting part. The hard part is making agents remember the right things, fail safely, get evaluated, and hand work off in parallel. The winners will not be the teams with the smartest single agent. They will be the teams that make the whole loop reliable. What breaks first in your agent workflows: memory, evals, permissions, or handoffs?
English
0
0
0
5
JCG
JCG@JCGoolsby63·
An 11-question pulse check getting bookmarked 900 times says a lot. Managers are not starving for inspiration. They are starving for instruments. They want simple ways to spot drift before it becomes drama: unclear ownership missed handoffs quiet frustration decisions that keep reopening What is the earliest signal your team is drifting?
English
0
0
0
3
JCG
JCG@JCGoolsby63·
Most meal planning advice still sells the Sunday prep fantasy. Real life does not run on that schedule. The better move is a freezer strategy: 2 frozen proteins 2 frozen vegetables 1 emergency meal everyone will eat That is not backup food. That is the plan that survives Tuesday.
English
0
0
1
10
JCG
JCG@JCGoolsby63·
Good managers and good meal planners solve the same problem. They remove decisions before people are tired. At work, that means clear owners, default rules, and fewer reopened decisions. At home, it means a meal rotation and freezer options that do not require a debate. You do not need more willpower. You need fewer avoidable decisions.
English
0
0
0
4
JCG
JCG@JCGoolsby63·
@EndWokeness The facts don’t matter. She’s trying to incite violence against billionaires
English
0
0
1
1.7K
End Wokeness
End Wokeness@EndWokeness·
"The American Revolution was against the billionaires of their time" - AOC
English
4K
968
7.8K
6.1M
JCG
JCG@JCGoolsby63·
@OleTimeHardball Without the strike he gets 500 easy and he’s a first ballot HOF. This is a no brainer.
English
1
0
66
1.2K
OldTimeHardball
OldTimeHardball@OleTimeHardball·
Hall of Fame re-vote You hold the deciding vote in the Hall of Fame case for Fred McGriff. Does he get in?
OldTimeHardball tweet media
English
618
80
1.2K
113.7K
JCG
JCG@JCGoolsby63·
@Arkypatriot Boomers. The most entitled generation ever. The first generation in the history to leave the world in a worse spot for their kids. Happy to see the younger generation getting a break.
English
0
0
1
111
USMC Lady Vet 🇺🇸
USMC Lady Vet 🇺🇸@Arkypatriot·
Arkansas student athletes with NIL money do not pay state income taxes on that money Meanwhile, senior citizens living on private pensions or IRA income still get taxed after the first $6,000. So let me get this straight: a 20-year-old can cash million dollar endorsement checks tax-free, but Grandma’s retirement gets clipped? That’s not tax relief. That’s priorities showing. Arkansas seniors deserve better. We don’t have much choice. We have a liberal Democrat from Little Rock or Sarah Sanders this November. See how this works.
USMC Lady Vet 🇺🇸 tweet media
English
72
295
746
24.2K
JCG
JCG@JCGoolsby63·
@anishmoonka All that energy and engineering wasted because Jay Z just wants to look cool
English
0
0
0
41
Anish Moonka
Anish Moonka@anishmoonka·
A standard Rolex has about 200 moving parts. The Patek Philippe on Jay-Z's wrist at the Met Gala has 1,580. Patek spent 8 years designing it. Then over 100,000 hours building the first one. About 11 straight years of someone working 24 hours a day, no breaks. It's called the Grandmaster Chime, the most complicated wristwatch Patek has ever made. The inner mechanism alone has 1,366 parts. It fits in a circle smaller than an Oreo cookie. The outer case adds another 214 parts, and the case alone took four years to design. In watchmaking, a "complication" is just any function beyond telling you the time. Most watches in the "grand complication" category have 5 to 7. This one has 20. When it launched, no wristwatch in history had combined that many. It tracks the phase of the moon, accurate to one day's drift over 122 years. It also has five different ways to chime: one that automatically rings the hours and quarters, one that rings only the quarters, one you press a button to hear the current time, one that rings whatever alarm time you set, and one that chimes today's date on demand. The last two had never existed in any watch before. Both were invented by Patek's own president, Thierry Stern, a trained watchmaker himself. The chiming makes this watch nearly impossible to copy. Inside each one are tiny coiled steel wires called gongs. A single watchmaker shapes and tunes each gong by hand, testing every note with their own ears. Just putting one chime mechanism together takes 200 to 300 hours. Then the watch goes into a soundproof chamber where the chime gets recorded and compared against decades of past Patek chimes. Only then is it brought to Thierry Stern. He listens. If he doesn't like the sound, the watch goes back. Sometimes more than once. A rejected watch can take 500 hours of rebuilding before he approves it. This watch holds four power springs in total. One is dedicated to the chimes alone, separate from the spring driving the time. Inside the mechanism is a ball bearing 7.2mm wide. It holds seven steel balls, each 0.3mm across, smaller than grains of fine sand. They handle 1,700 gram-millimetres of twisting force from the chime springs without slipping. The case has 11 holes drilled through it for buttons and pushers, and somehow none of them ruin the chamber that lets the chimes ring out clearly. The case itself flips around to show either of its two different dials. Fewer than five workshops on the planet can build something at this level. Patek Philippe is the one all the others measure themselves against. Jay-Z's version lists at $6.5 million. The unique steel version sold for $31 million at Christie's in 2019. It still holds the record for the most expensive watch ever sold at auction.
Daily Loud@DailyLoud

Jay-Z wore a Patek Philippe Grandmaster Chime at the Met Gala worth $6.5 million

English
852
2.5K
15.4K
3.8M
JCG
JCG@JCGoolsby63·
@FluentInFinance People used to buy TV’s with a stolen CC. Now they buy gas and groceries. Sign of the time
English
0
4
280
7.8K
Andrew Lokenauth
Andrew Lokenauth@FluentInFinance·
I left my credit card at a restaurant last night and the person who found it bought gas, groceries, and paid an electric bill. They fed their family, kept their lights on, and filled their tank with a stolen credit card.
English
1.1K
659
27.7K
3M
JCG
JCG@JCGoolsby63·
@AlexFinn AI is the scapegoat. These layoffs have nothing to do with AI. It easier to blame AI than take responsibility for your bad behavior
English
0
0
0
125
Alex Finn
Alex Finn@AlexFinn·
I absolutely hate the script companies are using to lay people off in 2026 It’s bullshit and hurts America I’m not picking on Cloudflare here. Every company that has announced layoffs the last 6 months has used this script: “Business is great! We’ve never been more rich! We have so much money we have no idea what to do with it! But AI man, that shit is crazy! Sorry 14% of the company has to go!” They take 0 accountability for poor decisions made. They take 0 accountability for not being prepared for competitors or market conditions. They just blame it all on AI 80% of Americans hate AI and this is the reason. They see CEOs of AI companies saying the world is ending. They see CEOs of regular companies laying everyone off and purely blaming AI If you weren’t as familiar with AI, you’d think it was the worst invention ever This is why every state has people standing outside of data centers protesting, and they don’t even know what a data center is! We have a MAJOR marketing problem in America when it comes to AI, and if this script all of these companies are using continues we’ll have no shot of beating China
Matthew Prince 🌥@eastdakota

An update regarding the future at @Cloudflare. I’ve shared my full message to the team and details on the support we're providing those departing here: blog.cloudflare.com/building-for-t…

English
161
133
1.6K
248.4K
JCG
JCG@JCGoolsby63·
@AuronMacintyre We should find ways to create the conditions where Americans want to have more kids.
English
0
0
1
230
JCG
JCG@JCGoolsby63·
Everyone is trying to make agents smarter. That is not the bottleneck. The winning agent will be the one that fits into real workflows with the least friction. Infrastructure, memory, and orchestration matter more than clever prompts.
English
0
0
0
12