So, I set up a laptop for my wife with Linux — Aurora Linux, by the way. I wrote about why I landed on it in another post. I set her up with Aurora on her laptop because I had already installed a Hermes agent on her Windows computer and I didn't really like how it worked there. I think it's bett...

All right, let's get started. I've been putting off this blog for a couple of months because I never feel like I have the perfect thing to write about.

Last week, I did all the research I needed to redo the waitlist for the app I'm planning to build with my college friend. I even made the template I posted about. I had everything mapped out—each section, the domain, the hosting, and a template for the actual site. And yet… I didn’t do it. Yeah,...

Okay, I think I meant the Dunning-Kruger effect. Maybe I’m just hungry and losing track of what I’m doing. Anyway, I recently posted about trying to come up with a better waitlist page for the app I’m working on with my college friend. I started using ChatGPT for that, and wow, I was blown away....

I recently posted here about what I’ve been learning regarding waitlists and idea validation. Turns out, I didn’t really have a good waitlist setup for the app I’m building with my college friend. The current version was just a plain paragraph, an email input, and a button—not very descriptive o...

A few weeks ago, I watched a podcast featuring Marc Randolph, one of the co-founders of Netflix. He talked about the early days of Netflix and how the idea came to be. I highly recommend checking out the whole interview, but the part that really stuck with me was when he mentioned that when you ha...

Alright, so now that I have a clear goal in mind—how much I want to make and my target timeline—the next question is: how do I get there? Lately, ChatGPT has been one of my go-to resources, so I figured I’d ask it directly, along with using Perplexity to double-check my sources. (Side note: I r...

Do I really have time for this? I don't know. I keep overbooking myself, and I guess I'm starting to realize that maybe I'm part of the problem, especially with how I handle things with my first business partner. A few months before I came up with the "Five in Five" idea, I reconnected with an old...

Life’s been pretty good lately—not super exciting, but not bad either. I’m not rich yet, and I don’t travel much or have grand adventures. It’s mostly just work. I don’t go out much, and neither does my family. We’re not really outdoorsy people, but overall, life’s been good, especially in the las...

Some Background At the time I’m starting this project, I’m about 40 years old, and I’m a software engineer. I’ve always liked computers, and that’s pretty much the only thing I know how to do. Right now, I have a job that lets me live comfortably enough. I’ve got about $70,000 in debt, and I’m p...