Benjamin Waller

@sama So my guess the name change was either strategic or fortuitous or both and paid off in the end.

Peter Steinberger is joining OpenAI to drive the next generation of personal agents. He is a genius with a lot of amazing ideas about the future of very smart agents interacting with each other to do very useful things for people. We expect this will quickly become core to our product offerings. OpenClaw will live in a foundation as an open source project that OpenAI will continue to support. The future is going to be extremely multi-agent and it's important to us to support open source as part of that.

@snorklTV AUD $29.99

My SVG Animation with GSAP course is now available on Udemy. Small Favor 😘 Please let me know what country you are from and what price you see. (they dynamically set the price) It's $19.99 in US 🇺🇸 Which is a crazy steal. udemy.com/course/svg-ani…

Join us online this Tues (8/5) to hear from @Decap_CMS maintainer, Martin Jagodic, on How to Solve Content Management for Developers. #Jamstack #CMS meetup.com/buildtime/even…

@alexfinn Good on you Alex. Rejection builds character and make you stronger and more determined.

I’m happy to announce I’ve been rejected by: • 2 jobs that fired me • 1 ex-girlfriend that had no idea I’d become a professional vibe coder • A bunch of jealous neck beards who hate that I recommend people reply more • 3 college professors that gave me an F • OpenAI for rejecting my job application (Grok is better) • Every girl in college who who didn’t like a skinny guy who played World of Warcraft instead of partying I appreciate your rejection. I’m not here without any of you You can’t get to where you need to be without a whole lot of rejection

@MonfangOCE I want some of that thick too - it must taste nice 😅

@jamestagal Thank you Ben! I’m really in the thick of it now

🚀 March Focus: 📊 Improve project management (ClickUp) 🤝 Delegate faster (no micromanaging) - this is hard 📈 Streamline onboarding for clients & contractors 💰 Increase lead volume without adding workload Biggest lesson from February? Work smarter, not harder. What’s your top goal for March? 👇

@MonfangOCE Awesome start to the year Stacey. Only the best outcomes for an outstanding dev.. well done 🙂

January kicked off with some pretty great wins! I hit $3282.81 in sales. → 4 customers 🇦🇺 → 3 agencies 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇦🇺 → 5 custom websites built out → got added to an agencies ticket system to do adhoc client edits → signed a new agency, this time from Canada 🇨🇦 → bought ads, funnel & marketing course → started cold email efforts (in the warmup phase rn) 2025 is the year I step out of my comfort zone. Thank you to everyone who’s supported me so far. From liking my daily posts with my wins for the morning, to hitting me up in the DMs and having a fat chat.

@MonfangOCE Why not...I think they could certainly provide some interesting topics of discussions 😃

Day 42 - breakfast - voost Bit of a late one, it’s a public holiday so taking the day to relax I get asked questions daily in my discord DMs. From freelance advice to web dev questions. Should I start turning these into tweets?

@MonfangOCE Here's a quick demo..

@MonfangOCE No...quite the opposite...reducing them! By adding fixed visible and accessible key links so users don't have to click multiple times to open and close the nav menu on mobile..to get to core pages 😊

This is what I want to focus on this year for my clients: - Showing up in the map pack - Make contacting super easy, with limited scrolls and clicks to do so - Loads super fast on phones - Actually generate quality leads No sliders. No popups. No Bloat. What’s the most unnecessary feature you have seen on a service based business website?

@MonfangOCE Got me thinking and I'm working on some to help.. I'll share soon

How do you explain technical decisions to non-technical clients? It is easy to show before/after PageSpeed scores but looking for other ways to show the value of clean code without the WordPress bloat. What's working for you?

@MonfangOCE Also remember this information I'm collating that can be useful. plentify.au/sales/

I'm considering pushing the 'WordPress to hand-coded' migration service. I have 5 agencies I am working with right now and they all prefer the hand-coded approach. Anyone else focusing on these migrations?

@MonfangOCE That's a great marketing angle..the WordPress market is huge and showing clients the benefits of hand-coded well structured html and SEO content and external database bloat is very compelling

@MonfangOCE I am... It impacts many aspects particularly user experience, SEO - ranking factor, conversion rate and mobile performance etc. Anything 90+ overall is a good goal.

How important is PageSpeed? Hand-coded sites with CodeStitch load 3x faster, if not more, then WordPress sites. Is anyone focusing on this?

@MonfangOCE Excellent! exciting stuff...all the best for the new year 🎊

It’s 7pm on NYE Here are my goals for 2025. Very keen. Very locked in. Gonzcat Digital launches to the public tomorrow on fb and insta.

@MonfangOCE @florinpop17 Awesome achievements here.. I'm into cycling and in 2025 I vow to get back on the saddle and peddle out some serious kms 😊

Quiet achiever over here doing a cheeky 1000km in 2024 Might not be @florinpop17 and his 3000km ran but I’m pretty chuffed at 1000km of intentional walking / running. Goal for 2025 is to get back into running and run a 5k! #theconquerorchallenges

@MonfangOCE @PsyduckSteph Got up late at 8, took the dog for a walk and coffee so far 😁

Day 14 It’s Sunday and we rolling over here - out of bed by 630ish - walk - Starbucks for a Strawberry refresher (if you haven’t had one you haven’t lived) - took down washing - set up my desk space to work @PsyduckSteph thought it was Monday lol How’d you start your day?

@MonfangOCE Yes... but fortunately crafting beautiful and functional websites is your calling....so all in good time...☺️

@jamestagal Thanks so much Ben. I still have to build out the website. No pressure lol

Gonzcat is relaunching come January 1. This has been a long time coming, but it is something I am honestly so happy about. Gonzcat Digital is now a registered company in Australia. No more sole traded business for me. We've got a new logo and a brand new website on a new domain. Gonzcat Digital fuses the best parts of Studio Gonzcat and Async Odyssey together. Both in colours, branding, and what I offer. Under one umbrella now I can focus building up my brand without being split in what I push. Gonzcat Digital - small business web dev + white label agency I have plans to branch into branding, automations, and marketing but for now full focus is local small business web dev and continuing to build my success in offering my services as white label.