Nick Manning ⌨️

So I'm crafting content for a small book and course over this winter break - heck why not? Topic not yet public! Yesterday was day 0. I’ll be documenting my naive shot at this - because again, why not? Maybe it can cajole others to give a go? At minimum I can get some helpful feedback along the way from others. Here’s what I did yesterday starting from absolute 0: 1. I recorded a brain dump video, talking about who, what, why, how etc about my idea. Somehow video recording myself "put me on the spot" and I was able to focus more on conciseness. 2. I generated a book/course outline from this. I uploaded the video to otter.ai to transcribe it. I refined it into a tentative chapter outline and dumped it into Notion. Side note: I typically like the otter.ai iOS app to quickly record my thoughts so that's why I went with that. And for some reason I'm not a huge fan of writing like this in Markdown (i.e. via Obsidian) so I'm trying Notion. I like the writing experience in Notion especially with the prospect of later collaborating with an editor later. 3. Then I recorded a brain dump video on "topic A”. So this time not a video, just for convenience. I used willowvoice.com's macOS app to just talk away for 30 minutes directly into Notion. Talking for about 30 minutes gave me roughly 2000 words. Calculating how much I need to do this gave me a lot of motivation. For example, I want to craft a book and course where someone can choose to read or consume video. For video, I want to keep it to max 2-3 hours so I'm going for 10k words per hour. Therefore I whittle it down 2000 words with heavy editing. I think that after a few weeks of repeating this process I can achieve this goal, then heavily edit the content down further. Notes for the engineers reading this (warning, needless geeking out here). I may consider just self publishing later later + host the video version on a microsite served by a simple web-app that pulls the content straight from Notion (cached of course when served up). I can later host multiple publications courses using that same web app as it could support multi-tenant (extract domain from HTTP header -> determine tenant to serve up, host on same VPS for dollars a month). @seenickcode" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">substack.com/@seenickcode if anyone wants to keep tabs on my progress and gain some insights. Definitely not an expert on this entire process but I think the conversations will be interesting along the way.

met a woman in marbella making $68,000/month replying to google reviews not writing them not getting them replying to them "thank you for your kind words we appreciate your feedback" 340 times a month 340 property management clients paying her $200/month each to type slightly different versions of "thanks for the review" no ads, website, content or personal brand she sends one cold email: "you have 50 google reviews and havent replied to a single one. every unanswered review costs you roughly 9% of potential tenants. want me to handle all your review responses for $200/month?" thats the pitch thats the whole business one stat that scares property managers turned into $68K/month she hired 2 VAs in the philippines at $600/month each to do the actual replies total overhead: $1,200 net profit: $66,800/month from replying to google reviews heres why nobody competes with her: the task is so boring that nobody thinks its a business no one wakes up and says "i want to build a company that replies to google reviews" but every property manager knows they should reply and never does because its low priority and tedious $200/month is nothing to a company collecting $50-200K in rent but unanswered reviews silently eating their occupancy rate is a real problem she didnt sell a service but the removal of a task they were too busy to do themselves at a price so low that saying no felt dumb and the churn is almost zero because who cancels a $200/month service that runs itself the formula: - find a boring recurring task every business in one niche ignores - prove it costs them money to ignore it - charge so little the decision is automatic - deliver with cheap labour so margins stay above 90% - stack hundreds of clients because nobody cancels same formula that built the $2.4M/year dentist compliance business same formula running the $3.1M portable toilet empire the most profitable businesses are always the ones nobody wants to brag about stop building things that sound cool on twitter start finding the boring task nobody will do for the wealthy customer who will gladly pay to never think about it again

no 👏 more 👏 permission prompts 👏

Caught up with @karpathy for a new @NoPriorsPod: on the phase shift in engineering, AI psychosis, claws, AutoResearch, the opportunity for a SETI-at-Home like movement in AI, the model landscape, and second order effects 02:55 - What Capability Limits Remain? 06:15 - What Mastery of Coding Agents Looks Like 11:16 - Second Order Effects of Coding Agents 15:51 - Why AutoResearch 22:45 - Relevant Skills in the AI Era 28:25 - Model Speciation 32:30 - Collaboration Surfaces for Humans and AI 37:28 - Analysis of Jobs Market Data 48:25 - Open vs. Closed Source Models 53:51 - Autonomous Robotics and Atoms 1:00:59 - MicroGPT and Agentic Education 1:05:40 - End Thoughts

We just released Claude Code channels, which allows you to control your Claude Code session through select MCPs, starting with Telegram and Discord. Use this to message Claude Code directly from your phone.

This is insane!

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Plumbers are not safe

🚨 Do you understand what just happened? A guy in Florida asked ChatGPT to sell his house. Not help him sell it. SELL IT. Pricing, Marketing, Showings, Contract.. Everything. Sold in 5 days. The average real estate agent takes 6% commission. On a $400K house that's $24,000. For what? Putting it on Zillow and sending you emails? This man paid $20 a month for ChatGPT and did the whole thing from his couch. Real estate agents spent 20 years telling you the process is too complicated for normal people. That you need a professional. That the paperwork is too risky without them. It was gatekept. And a chatbot just kicked the gate open.. Lawyers are next, Accountants are next, Financial advisors are next.. Every profession that made you feel stupid so you'd pay them is about to get the same treatment. The middleman economy is dying. And it's not dying because AI is smarter than them.. It's dying because AI proved you were always smart enough to do it yourself. You just weren't allowed to..

A small thank you to everyone using Claude: We’re doubling usage outside our peak hours for the next two weeks.

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We've raised $6.5M to kill vector databases. Every system today retrieves context the same way: vector search that stores everything as flat embeddings and returns whatever "feels" closest. Similar, sure. Relevant? Almost never. Embeddings can’t tell a Q3 renewal clause from a Q1 termination notice if the language is close enough. A friend of mine asked his AI about a contract last week, and it returned a detailed, perfectly crafted answer pulled from a completely different client’s file. Once you’re dealing with 10M+ documents, these mix-ups happen all the time. VectorDB accuracy goes to shit. We built @hydra_db for exactly this. HydraDB builds an ontology-first context graph over your data, maps relationships between entities, understands the 'why' behind documents, and tracks how information evolves over time. So when you ask about 'Apple,' it knows you mean the company you're serving as a customer. Not the fruit. Even when a vector DB's similarity score says 0.94. More below ⬇️

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Released today: /loop /loop is a powerful new way to schedule recurring tasks, for up to 3 days at a time eg. “/loop babysit all my PRs. Auto-fix build issues and when comments come in, use a worktree agent to fix them” eg. “/loop every morning use the Slack MCP to give me a summary of top posts I was tagged in” Let us know what you think!

I asked Claude about an idea that ChatGPT wrote and it bad-mouths ChatGPT 😂. “Alright, the ChatGPT analysis is directionally correct but it's doing that thing where it hypes everything up with emoji and formatting to make you feel great rather than pressure-testing the idea.”

I’ve met hundreds of people with great ideas who never made it. But I’ve never met anyone who launched 20 startups and failed.

photoai.com is a 40,870 line file called index.php $105,000/mo revenue $80,000/mo profit

Google just dropped an official CLI for gmail, drive, calendar sheets and more complete with skills and an MCP server 👌

Do you understand what this means? Are you aware how much the world just changed? You can now run frontier intelligence on a potato Your $600 Mac Mini can now run unlimited super intelligence for free. No authoritarian AI companies can cut you off Do this immediately, no matter what device you’re on: 1. Download LMstudio 2. Find these models in the search 3. Look for the MLX ones if you’re on Mac 4. Download and load them 5. Ask your OpenClaw to use them for most tasks I thought the future was a year away. Nah. It’s today