Aubrey Threadgill

Built a thing. Populate this P&L dashboard with your QuickBooks data in 60 seconds. Best part – it never goes stale. Data is fetched every hour and rolls forward every month!

@theisaacmed learned this the hard way building a QBO to Google Sheets syncing tool 🙈

@aubthread API is expensive. There’s the hint.

"I made $100k in 10 days using OpenClaw." All the people I know running very profitable / high roi ai workflows fit this pattern: 1. Not talking about it. 2. Usually internal tools or automation. 3. Lots of agencies using it on grunt work, reporting etc. 4. Lots of brands using ai to do CRO testing, simple coding changes on website, etc. 5. Not talking about it. Seriously.. if you have a huge unfair advantage why would you tell others about it for engagement? All of it is human enabled. Nobody making a lot of money trusts giving ai unfettered access yet, and the ROI for doing so isn't high yet.

@CTW_SMB I’m seeing real potential to incorporate this into your LinkedIn bio

This came in yesterday I guess I can sell and retire now

the nostalgia of reading old commit messages 😊@tannerlinsley

Raising venture capital is passing high prices on to your customer.

@anuraggoel @Shpigford i love Render

@Shpigford You know we can help

i feel like i'm taking crazy pills. probably 50% of requests on proxyuser.com are taking 10-20 seconds. seems sporadic. hosted on @Railway no clue how to even get to the bottom of this or even know if just me or everyone.

you sweet summer child

LLMs are a von Neumann probe for the mind.

@akirathedon @ScottAdamsSays music+

@ScottAdamsSays Thank you Scott LOVE YOU FOREVER

A Final Message From Scott Adams

@AcquiredFM Congrats Ben and David! Excited for decade 2.

In your podcast players now! Thank you all for an incredible decade. ❤️

@JD_DeYonker I spend all day cycling through them

I might have 50 gmail accounts by the time I die

@JD_DeYonker Fellow shuffle hater here, very disorienting sensation

What’s the sensation called when you’re expecting the first beat of the next song in a playlist but then it’s…a different song?

@foliofed Did you pay fees for the lifetime of the customer?

Affiliate programs are a pain to deal with But overall a big plus for indie SaaS

@NathanSRobinson Heck of a ride right there. What was the health tech product you worked on?

The person I am today came out of a path I never planned to walk. Most people here probably see me as a founder, programmer, or architecture and urbanism enthusiast. Most of that is relatively new. What most of you would likely not guess is how much of a transformation my life today is from what I thought it would look like, and even from what it did look like for many years. This long post is a snapshot of how my career got started. I am skipping many dirty and sweaty jobs and internships, and jumping to the journey leading up to when I became a full time founder. Let's jump in! I studied finance in university, was in student government, and with my background overseas and a few too many Suits episodes, my dream was to get into investment banking or some other type of international business or finance role. Upon graduation, much to my chagrin, I did not have an offer from any investment banking company. I did, however, have two other job options: 1. The international route 2. The finance route For option one, I would relocate to Portland and help a business that exported trees to China with their deals. Option two was Dell. For this role, I would relocate to Austin, Texas, for a three year finance rotation program to train their next finance leaders. Optimizing for learning and future career growth, I excitedly accepted an offer to join Dell's Finance Development Program. Yay me! After I had already accepted the job with Dell, I got another offer. Well, not another job offer, but an internship. It was with IBM Watson as a product management intern. It was a tough decision. Saying no to the certainty of a three year job with Dell for a summer internship with no guaranteed job was a risk. Am I shooting my career in the foot before it has even really started? Despite the risk, I took the leap. AI seemed promising and I had always liked tech. Product felt like a natural intersection of the two. On my first day, I wore a suit. That is what I had worn at all my other jobs and internships, since most of them either required or encouraged it. Out of more than one hundred interns, I was the only one who dressed up. The rest knew the drill. They were mostly CS students from great schools, and IBM was just another tech internship. For me, tech was a new industry, and I had some adapting to do, fast. This job, to me, marks my first career "reinvention". I was studying and training to be a finance & business guy, and while I got some of that still with IBM, I knew that to make it in tech I would need to reinvent myself. That didn't just mean swapping my suits for t-shirts and tennis shoes, but a new mindset. Pictured: on my way to meetings in NYC when I was at IBM working on a deal with Salesforce. Nothing like throwing around a bunch of F500 names and dressing up in NYC to make you feel like you have a big boy job. With some luck & a lot of hard work, I managed to extend my internship until they lifted their hiring freeze and could offer my a full time job. I was ecstatic. I still think back to my time at IBM Watson with fondness, not only for the experience in and of itself, but also for how it set me up for a career in product, specifically focused on building AI-enabled products. This is what I did for my next two jobs as a product manager. First up: Keller Williams, where I PM-ed their AI chatbot (with NLP back then, LLMs didn't exist yet) among other tools for their realtors. I didn't know it then, but this experience would lay the foundation for Plotzy, the startup I'm working on now. Keller Williams taught me a lot. One of the biggest things it taught me was a sense of urgency. This would surprise most people, but during my time there we were transforming their whole company and doing it at a crazy pace. Even for tech. Here I am demoing some new features to a group of superusers prior to general release. Another great learning from KW - talk to users & accelerate adoption & learnings with beta testers & super user groups. We really did work with relentless urgency. Weekly sprint cycles. With in-house and outsourced design & engineering, but with fully in-house product, we could ideate in the morning, write design briefs in the afternoon, and wake up to low-fidelity prototypes to test on users the next morning. It's one of the only times I've seen cross-timezone teamwork being an accelerant, rather than hinderance. My next product role was at a health-tech startup during their hyperscale phase. While I was there they raised about 1 billion dollars, it was madness. But despite the madness, I had a generally great experience. I worked with some of the smartest people I've ever encountered, and worked alongside actual "scientists" for the first time. It was super fun and also really cool to work on a product that touched millions around the world in a positive way. That job over 5 years ago was my last W2, the last steady pay check. More on the leap in the next post. And the end of that job marks the beginning of my 2nd major reinvention in my career, this time, the transition was less about how I portrayed myself, my familiarity with software, or the lingo I used, and a more fundamental & significant one: The shift from being an employee to a founder. I look forward to sitting down and distilling some of the journey in the last 5 years, but alas, it will not be today. There is much to say and little time today to do so. If you've made all the way here, thank you, really! I have genuinely appreciated the support X has been throughout the last few years especially. Y'all keep being awesome <3

@NathanSRobinson Is it going to have a Plotzy integration?

I couldn't sleep last night so I started building a city builder... someone stop me

@CBarrett_CPA 😂😂

May I diligence you?

customer feedback, like the rings of a tree 😅

@andrew__rea true

Finding a customer you love serving is underrated startup advice. I love working for accountants, finance teams, and tax nerds. I can wake up excited to talk to them. I don't dread sales or customer calls. This is an unfair advantage in building your company.

@tailor_hartman if they serve cm at the psych ward, then yes (and I give you permission to check me in)

@aubthread Are you a psychopath?

gm w/ cm