Scott Sans
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Scott Sans
@SansScott
Founder - Hudson Valley Forestry, Deploygoats. Former IATSE-600
Poughkeepsie, NY เข้าร่วม Ocak 2009
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I found the GOAT of blue collar builders.
@SansScott built goat tracking software with Claude Code and his story is incredible.
Scott owns a land clearing company called Hudson Valley Forestry.
One of their services is targeted grazing. Some slopes are too steep for machines, and some have high pressure gas lines underneath. So to clear the land, they bring in 60 goats and the goats clear the whole thing.
But to scale, he needed a way to track the goats. And his current software said no to his goat module feature request.
So he built the GOAT software himself... with no previous experience coding.
You need to hear the full story from him.
But one of the best parts of the conversation was when I asked him what the biggest impact has been since he started building his own software.
"The more I build, the more I can be at home with my kids. And that's better for me."
No software company would have built any of this for him.
But Scott doesn't need a dev team anymore.
He just needs the domain expertise.
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Truly inspiring. Finally, we are seeing these two trends evolving:
1/ The custom software not built for revenue or efficiency, but for having more a better personal life.
2/ Domain expertise is now worth more than anything else.
@SansScott knows which slopes are too steep for machines and which ones have high pressure gas lines underneath. And he used AI smartly with that context.
And we have also seen this with Matthew Gallagher (trending 1Bn$ solopreneur)
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@bprintco My two cents having owned 5 mulchers… Service in house, even if it’s under warranty it’s usually not worth the transport and wait time unless it’s major.
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Our Bobcat service saga continues.
We took the machine in for a new hydraulic pump, it was returned to us leaking coolant and missing the throttle knob.
Like… what? How does that even happen? How does a service tech even yank off the throttle knob and not put it back on?
How do they get in it to pull it out of the shop, see the knob is missing, and say ah fuck it, throw it on the trailer.
You literally throttle it up when you start it.
Or is it worse than that? Did they break it and see it leaking coolant when throttled up and just yanked off the knob to cover it up?
This is the third time that the machine has come back from service and came back with an issue it didn’t have when it went in.
First one was they blew the starter by over cranking it and billed us for a new one.
Second time they blew up the drive belt because they bent the guard on the pulley when working on the fuel system and didn’t fix it. It almost caught the machine on fire.
I’m speechless at this point.

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@disclosetv Must be doing this to confuse old people watching Fux News
Not one visa scam program has been shut down and he’s flooding the US with cheap labor
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@ElofsonJess I use an induction heater now, especially great when you can’t use the torch around electronics or hydraulics, highly recommend
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@ADbeforeBC My clients are super happy with the simplicity. The old design hurt their eyes.
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That's an honest to God crime. Unless you ripped out the shit job on the right and replaced it with the excellent craftsmanship of the floor on the left.
Are you really bragging about destroying that beautiful custom pattern with modern slop?
I'm in awe with your lack of taste and appreciation for true skill and history.
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BREAKING: Chuck Norris has been hospitalized after a medical emergency in Hawaii, according to TMZ.
The hospitalization comes after Norris celebrated his 86th birthday earlier this month.
“Sources with direct knowledge tell us some medical emergency occurred in the last 24 hours on the island of Kauai that landed Chuck in the hospital,” TMZ reported.
”Whatever happened must have occurred quickly, because we're told on Wednesday he was training on the island ... a friend of Chuck's was on the phone with him, and we're told Chuck was in good spirits and cracking jokes.”
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Can confirm. I run a forestry and land management operation and started using Claude Code to build tools for my business — automated lead intake that writes quotes and pushes them to our CRM, job site safety apps that turn photos and voice notes into pre-job briefings, even monitoring dashboards for our equipment. No CS degree, just 20 years in the field and knowing exactly what the problems are. That's the part Silicon Valley can't replicate.
hudsonvalleyforestry.com
sycamore-api.com
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I know Silicon Valley startups don't want to hear this.....
But the combination of someone in the trades with deep domain expertise and Claude Code will run circles around your generic software.
I talked to Cory LaChance this morning, a mechanical engineer in industrial piping construction in Houston. He normally works with chemical plants and refineries, but now he also works with the terminal
He reached out in a DM a few days ago and I was so fired up by his story, I asked him if we could record the conversation and share it.
He built a full application that industrial contractors are using every day. It reads piping isometric drawings and automatically extracts every weld count, every material spec, every commodity code.
Work that took 10 minutes per drawing now takes 60 seconds. It can do 100 drawings in five minutes, saving days of time.
His co-workers are all mind blown, and when he talks to them, it's like they are speaking different languages.
His fabrication shop uses it daily, and he built the entire thing in 8 weeks. During those 8 weeks he also had to learn everything about Claude Code, the terminal, VS Code, everything.
My favorite quote from him was when he said, "I literally did this with zero outside help other than the AI. My favorite tools are screenshots, step by step instructions and asking Claude to explain things like I'm five."
Every trades worker with deep expertise and a willingness to sit down with Claude Code for a few weekends is now a potential software founder.
I can't wait to meet more people like Cory.
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@supertrucker Can we now get paid for saying this?
Do we get $7000? 🤷♂️
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@Marc_O_Lobo @JOKAQARMY1 It’s a wireless router / radio mesh network
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@JOKAQARMY1 The green thingy on the right shoulder is a jammer radio/drone
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