Ant
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Ant
@bcf_ant
All things Voice UI (Alexa/Google Assistant/Siri), Conversational UI, AI, Bots, In-Car and FinTech. He/Him. (mast_don.social/@bcf_ant)
London, England Katılım Mart 2013
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@bb_fresh With a stack like that, you're a few years from retirement anyways
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This is a picture of me and my first business.
It was going to fail in six months.
I just didn't know it yet.
See that sales thermometer chart behind me?
Never filled up.
It was 2004 and I was a web developer in London.
Gill and I decided to get married.
I lived in London, she lived in Bath.
I told my boss "I'm leaving to start my own company" and he said "Good luck - it's harder than you think."
I laughed and thought he was full of 💩.
How hard could it be?
I moved to Bath, setup my computer in our top bedroom.
Coded in PHP for weeks and launched FlightDeck - a SaaS product for design agencies to send large files to their clients (in 2004 you couldn't email files > 2MB).
Charged £299/mo.
I put a thermometer sales chart on the wall to motivate me.
And six months later I still had no sales. Not one.
I got depressed and started watching movies in the middle of the day while Gill was at work.
Finally, one night at dinner, I said to Gill "I don't think this is working. I can't seem to get anyone to buy this product."
I was embarrassed, defeated and depressed.
Then it hit me ...
Why not pivot the product from B2B to B2C?
Everyone needs to send a big file to a friend right?
So we rebranded as DropSend, gave everyone 5 free file sends and then charged a small monthly fee.
Each free customer would send 5 files, each with a "Want to send files for free? Try DropSend" ad at the bottom.
✅ Product-Market-Fit 😊
The business rocketed from $0 -> $250k/year and then I sold it.
The lesson I learned:
Change, adapt, duck and dive.
Just don't quit.

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@bcf_ant Oh Ant - I remember when you did this and being really freaked out by it! Football-induced, yeah? Haha - yep, ‘single-handedly skewing’ the Midjourney output 🤣
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This reminds me of a game I built for SAS Airlines many moons ago.
Steve Ruiz@steveruizok
Ok, I think this is ready to test snowcraft.app
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If your spotify wrapped says you're in the top 5% of fans of the podcast - post on here and tag me.
sending out free merch to top fans. my assistant will DM you for your address
Alex Macdonald@alexfmac
My podcast habits this year. This tells you everything you need to know about me: - based - work in tech - love sport what do I get for being too 0.5% @thesamparr & @ShaanVP ? Merch? A retweet?
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Building on the work of Connected Studio and @BBCTaster, @BBCRD has launched Innovation Labs to bring people, ideas, and technology together to continue to transform the BBC...
bbc.co.uk/rd/blog/2023-1…
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Celebrating #HangulDay on Oct 9th with my #HangulProject 🇰🇷 Using #Tensorflow and #WebGL, crafted the visual effects and interactions. From 'rain' falling to 'snow' melting, the sound of waterfalls, and 'blazing' flames, each piece highlights Hangul's uniqueness and creativity.
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@coderkind No to the replay, move on. I can see it, a replay request for the Luis Garcia game.
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