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$400k/month teaching introverts how to order coffee without mumbling and you're still waiting for the "perfect" business idea

@StefanGeorgi 🤣

For me, if I call customer support it's because I've exhausted every other resource. And then, when the company has failed to make it clear how to do whatever it is I need done, my reward is getting to be on the phone with some robot operator who constantly tells me how I can do the most basic shit on their website/app... While doing everything in their clanker-power to keep me from talking to a human. "Did you know you can mange your account from the app/website? I can text you a link to make it easier!!!" Like yeah, that's why I'm calling you robowhore...because I don't know how to use the internet/website/my phone to do stuff. And then, equally soul-destroying, is hearing the robo-operator say: "Okay, you want to speak a representative. But I need a little more information first to help you"... And this, of course, is followed by them giving me a list of menu options, of which exactly zero are remotely related to the problem I'm dealing with. And then, when I finally wear down the system following a game of high stakes attrition and get routed to an actual human... It simply means this journey through my own personal hell has entered the next level... As I now get to sit on hold listening to elevator music for the next 15-20 minutes... And the worst part of this stage is the fact that I can't even zone out to the elevator music... Because every 60-90 seconds the music pauses and some part of my brain naively thinks "finally, I'm going to talk to a human"... But nope, it's just the robot lady again - in the most fake-happy corporate voice anyone could have possibly dreamed up - letting me know that all the humans are still busy with other customers... As if hearing the hold music wasn't an obvious 'tell' that this was the case... And almost like those 60/90 second pattern interrupts are designed to break you to the point of hanging up in frustration. But no, I am steadfast and resolved. I do not break. Instead, I descend further down into the burning inferno... Until eventually - assuming the call hasn't gotten randomly disconnected along the way (which happens 50% of the time), I reach the penultimate boss: The level one customer service representative. Maybe they're in the U.S. or maybe they are in India, but it doesn't really matter because we both know that 80% of the time they're not going to be able to help me. During our time together though, I get to spend a multitude of the precious minutes I have left on this beautiful planet giving them the most basic information about my account - that should already be in their CRM - waiting for a 6 digit SMS to hit my phone... All to just prove it's really me who is trying to give them more money or just have the service I'm paying for work. This stage of the customer service inferno invariably includes multiple additional holds where I'm reacquainted with the hellishly enthusiastic robot lady telling me that - as if it weren't obvious - I am indeed on hold... And I do all of this so that, if I am extremely lucky and the gods have chosen to shine their favor upon me on this day, I can get escalated to a manager who may actually be competent enough to help solve my problem.

@mckaywrigley always in

looking for a handful of people to test something new... i've been using it for a few months and am prepping to share. if you're a fan of claude cowork, openclaw, manus, perplexity computer, etc then you're a perfect fit. this will self destruct in 4hrs - please dm or reply.

@paolo_scales for your linkedin arc @RyanClogg

this article will change the way you write content forever

thanks claude

@RobertFreundLaw i trust you more than grok, does this apply to cards bought out of state/companies not based in CA? is this legal?

arbitrage opportunity

@DipanshuKu55175 AI

NanoBanana 2 just made your static ad agency obsolete. And I just open sourced the entire tool. Drop your product page URL. It pulls your logos, product images, fonts, colors, and brand voice automatically. Builds a full brand guide for you. Then generates ad creatives at scale using nearly 4,000 high-performing ad templates across 8 niches. It dynamically matches the best templates to your brand and brief. Here's what makes it different: → Instant resizing Get any ad in 1x1, 4x5, 9x16 with one click. No regeneration. No broken text. → Highlight-to-edit See an issue? Highlight the area and tell it what to fix. → Multiple brand profiles Run different brands or segments from one tool. → Auto persona building from real customer reviews → Multiple QC loops on briefs and final assets Catches AI-isms before you do. → Upload your own templates or use ours Runs locally. Just needs your Claude and Google API keys. This is the lite version of what we use internally. You get the full finished tool AND the open source code to make it your own. Creatives still design the system, this handles iteration and scale. Want a copy to download? 1. Like this post 2. Comment "AI" Will DM you the tool along with a tutorial shortly after.

@Peter_Quadrel AI

NanoBanana 2 just made your static ad agency obsolete. And I just open sourced the entire tool. Drop your product page URL. It pulls your logos, product images, fonts, colors, and brand voice automatically. Builds a full brand guide for you. Then generates ad creatives at scale using nearly 4,000 high-performing ad templates across 8 niches. It dynamically matches the best templates to your brand and brief. Here's what makes it different: → Instant resizing Get any ad in 1x1, 4x5, 9x16 with one click. No regeneration. No broken text. → Highlight-to-edit See an issue? Highlight the area and tell it what to fix. → Multiple brand profiles Run different brands or segments from one tool. → Auto persona building from real customer reviews → Multiple QC loops on briefs and final assets Catches AI-isms before you do. → Upload your own templates or use ours Runs locally. Just needs your Claude and Google API keys. This is the lite version of what we use internally. You get the full finished tool AND the open source code to make it your own. Creatives still design the system, this handles iteration and scale. Want a copy to download? 1. Like this post 2. Comment "AI" Will DM you the tool along with a tutorial shortly after.

@realdtthomas banger

fucked around last night and built an interal tool that swipes any imgae ad i want, deconstructs it, and applied client brand profile to it to generate creatives on demand can literally rip 50-100 new images and angles per day and jsut have my VA dropping new swipes in daily... The game is changed.

@quinnslcm bro

Some Quinn lore, my parents were both some of Tony Robbins’ earliest employees and spoke at his events for 20+ years. My mom created what people now know as ‘the crew’ who are the heartbeat behind the organizational side of the events Here’s a photo of Tony holding me as a newborn baby:

@StefanGeorgi The Three Body Problem

Looking for a good SciFi/Fantasy book serious to binge. Leaning towards SciFi and thinking about the Red Rising series. Anyone read those books? Or have additional recommendations?

@smaxor can vouch this is the way

How do you create an agent?  Much like an LLM but to support your team, customers or family. So I've been building my lead routing platform, and ultimately where I want to take it is that it will have its own agent that can talk to you. You can just give it some posting specs, and it can figure everything for you.  So what's really fun is once you move past the getting all the APIs working and the user interface working period, then you can start to think of new approaches on how to solve problems.  Spending 1,200 to 1,300 hours with Claude Code, I don't actually want to use platforms the old-fashioned way anymore. I want to just talk to an agent and have the agent do the most of the work.  So the question is  How do you have that experience inside of a software platform?  I've used some software platforms before that have put AI into them, but to me it was just kind of a question and answer help desk. It wasn't actually tooling to help you do your job.  Now I'm sure there's some out there that are. I just haven't run into them yet.  So a lot of what I'm thinking about is how do you get the agent to interview you and then show you as it sets things up in the system for you. That would be to go from page to page or modal and highlight the field that it's filling in for you, so you could watch it set it up if you wanted to learn how it did it.  Might say, "Do you want to watch me set this up for you so you can learn, or would you just like me to do it as fast as possible where it accesses the API because you're already comfortable with it?" But then it gives you some validation afterwards, and it shows you maybe a few screens and says, "I believe I got everything right. Please double check for me."  Obviously, the first step of this is to get the agent to do it in a text box with the talking to you.  But I'm hoping in the next couple of days I can implement voice recognition as well as having it talk back to you so you can have a conversation with it, much like you would with somebody else on the team.  Ultimately, you won't have to have any idea how the software works or how to control it. You can just talk with this agent, and it is going to set everything up for you. This will remove a lot of the complexity.  The old way of doing things would have been decision trees with state machines, but that's classic and quite brittle.  The second one listed here is a goal-oriented approach. The challenge is if you have a 20, 30, or even 40-step process within the system that needs to be adhered to fairly closely, you do not want to just give it free rein. It's going to hallucinate and miss steps.  That introduces something called a manifest with the agent SDK I'm anthropic.  That gives it a very loose outline that it can follow, so that it has some guardrails to follow along, but not so tight that it's controlled like a deterministic process.  I have to say, this is pretty cool stuff.

Thinking about doing a 3 Day Mastermind in Lake Como, Italy in September. Asked my CA Pro Members yesterday if they were into it, and response was a very enthusiastic “yes." Will be two days of content/masterminding + a more laid back day out on the lake. We’ll focus on Agentic Marketing, Acquisition, Retention Marketing, and more. The best eCom and DTC operators in the world sharing exactly what's working for them in a private, breathtaking setting. Of those CA Pro Members who have already said they're in, we've got: DTC eCom Brand Doing $15MM Per Month (Health and Wellness Devices) DTC eCom Brand Doing $7MM Per Month With Quiz Funnels (Beauty) And 15+ other DTC brands all doing $1MM - $10MM a month in a range of categories spanning eCom, info, challenge funnels, etc. My buddy (and another CA Pro Member) Peter said he's in too, which pretty much automatically increases the fun level of this mastermind by 300%. I’ll have my agentic marketing team in attendance as well, breaking down how we're building StefanBrain and other agentic marketing processes. And here’s why I’m sharing: This mastermind will be free for my CA Pro Members, but it won’t be free for me lol. I want to do make it very high-end which means I’ll probably end up dropping $250k-$400k on this event easily if I do it. And as a result, I’m thinking about making 20 or so seats available to other DTC Business Owners who want to attend. It won’t be cheap, probably $15k per business (you + partner), but it will be extremely high level in an incredible location. Plus if you end up joining CA Pro as a result, I’ll just apply your ticket to your first year of membership. Anyways, if you’re interested let me know. It’s not 100% yet, but I’m currently exploring feasibility.

@quinnslcm @andrewmichaelio apple keychain

@andrewmichaelio I noticed that my chrome passwords kept getting randomly lost / signed out of things. I always do like to lean towards just using native stuff when possible

What’s your favorite browser Safari (if so, are you okay?) Perplexity Comet Dia/Arc Chrome Other?

@realworlddanny goat shit

A few months ago I started a small stream in the warehouse to get rid of old product Today we’ve done $1M+ in sales & run 7+ daily streams. I now operate out of 2 warehouses and do consistent $20-$40k days all on Whatnot & TikTok Live. Next target: $100k/day.

@kathyyliao any plan to allow fetching images from the crawl? 🧐

tired of writing crawl scripts? then don't! our new /crawl endpoint handles it all for you (discovery, rendering, extraction) - just give us the url w/ optional parameters so you can customize

@Motion_Viz workflow

one AI-generated image. one click. four product shots. under $1. my pipeline takes a single base image and generates an entire product demo — different angles, product interaction, macro detail, lifestyle context. no photographer. no model agency. no product stylist. no studio rental. brands pay $10K–$30K for shoots like this. this took 2 minute. the pipeline: Flora (base) → Texture Match → Technique Outputs → product placement in one click comment WORKFLOW and i'll DM you the template (free). (must be following so i can DM you) full system: motionwiki.com try Flora: refer.flora.ai/motionviz

@TechWith_Nova BANANA

@petersuhm @juaninicolai @reinink any more room in that batch?

@juaninicolai @reinink I'll include you in the next batch :) (we've invited maybe 20 people out of 10k signups)

We've been super busy building ui.sh over the last couple of months, and it's really starting to come together — here's a before-and-after of a simple team page I asked it to generate. Exact same prompt… one with our skills, one without.

@dasilvashadow @GeorgeNewtonn

@GeorgeNewtonn AdRecon.io

Affiliates who figure out how to dance around compliance with their copy tend to hit 100k+ in a few days... "without the pen" is a great example... They launched a bunch of campaigns today & some really good angles I never thought of (plus the offer they are pushing).