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  1. machinistguy

    Industrial Businesses Megathread

    IDEA CHAT EXECUTION 
    I think it's a good idea so long as you're careful regarding intellectual property laws. Don't want to get sued.
  2. machinistguy

    Building a Manufacturing Conglomerate Progress Thread

    EXECUTION 
    I was expecting January to be a loss of a couple thousand $, which would be pretty good. It's looking a little worse. The electrical in the shop has decided to mess with everything, so I'm overnighting expensive electrical components. Changing bookkeepers. Marketing performance is doing slightly...
  3. machinistguy

    I... Have nothing to do in the evenings?

    MINDSET 
    Why don't you use this free evening to explore completely random industries and groups of people. That way you have a better idea of the opportunities out there and ways you can apply your AI degree.
  4. machinistguy

    Building a Manufacturing Conglomerate Progress Thread

    EXECUTION 
    December and January are supposed to be our two slowest months. Revenue for Dec was up by 216.08% compared to the previous year and profit up by 507.18%. I feel good about about 2026, we're going to kill it.
  5. machinistguy

    Introduction & Scaling a Service Business

    INTRO 
    Hey Thomas! I own a machine shop and we used to use metal finishers a few years back, so I'm relatively familiar with your type of business. Let me know if you ever want to chat.
  6. machinistguy

    Struggling and being an employee for my own business. High overhead, small to no profit.

    MINDSET 
    I love this reply. Especially about the lack of focus. At our previous location, our neighbor did vehicle wraps ONLY. He had 3 locations, and the only cars he was every working on were corporate or lambos. A couple miles down from our current location is company that does signs. They ONLY...
  7. machinistguy

    Random Chat, Thoughts, Posts, and/or Rants Thread

    HOT! CHAT 
    Funny you bring this up. I did a review of our costs from beginning of the year to earlier this week. They're up by 28%. 28% inflation in just one year... Materials, packaging, shipping... it's insane.
  8. machinistguy

    Scaling an exterior cleaning business

    EXECUTION 
    I know it feels like a lot rn, but you can't let it get to you. Stuff like this will happen everyday and at a bigger scale. 24/7.
  9. machinistguy

    The Artificial Intelligence (AI) Random Chat Thread...

    CHAT - AI - 
    I was considering hiring a part time graphic designer for a need in my business until I realized Google Gemini could do everything I needed in under 5 minutes. And it's free.
  10. machinistguy

    I feel stupid WHILE learning

    MINDSET 
    The bottleneck is often our own mindset. You'll keep failing to learn till you internalize that failing isn't a big deal and you become relaxed.
  11. machinistguy

    Random Chat, Thoughts, Posts, and/or Rants Thread

    HOT! CHAT 
    Leadership. It's why I haven't started yelling at everybody. I'm probably the first person that should be yelled at.
  12. machinistguy

    Random Chat, Thoughts, Posts, and/or Rants Thread

    HOT! CHAT 
    Every time I start being thankful for employees they make sure to do their best to make me do a 180 and start looking for robots and AI to replace them.
  13. machinistguy

    Random Chat, Thoughts, Posts, and/or Rants Thread

    HOT! CHAT 
    We use a brand called foldio. It was a few hundred bucks. Worth it
  14. machinistguy

    Industrial Businesses Megathread

    IDEA CHAT EXECUTION 
    Technical business, high barriers to entry, industry with low innovation (less risk of being leapfrogged), etc... It's been a while.
  15. machinistguy

    Industrial Businesses Megathread

    IDEA CHAT EXECUTION 
    #1 Sounds way too high risk since it doesn't look like you have anything in mind. So whatever you come up with, there's no guarantee people will actually want it. Then there's the customer education. If I want to buy something that does operation X, I need confidence that it will actually work...
  16. machinistguy

    Industrial Businesses Megathread

    IDEA CHAT EXECUTION 
    I'd never even heard of a machine shop before I started one. I just talked to everyone I could looking for a business and customer and someone mentioned trouble he was having with a local machine shop. Did some research at home, it checked all my boxes, so I told him I could make his product for...
  17. machinistguy

    Industrial Businesses Megathread

    IDEA CHAT EXECUTION 
    It says the forearm failed.
  18. machinistguy

    Industrial Businesses Megathread

    IDEA CHAT EXECUTION 
    For you laser cutting folks out there: View: https://youtu.be/mTnv9b0xDV8?si=3bT8g8h9Q5KdHWvR SendCutSend has an interesting business model that combines ecommerce and software with manufacturing, that goes after a market most others hate serving. They're at $50m/yr in revenue I think...
  19. machinistguy

    Industrial Businesses Megathread

    IDEA CHAT EXECUTION 
    An inside look at what a successful job shop machine shop business would look like: View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IutVX92fqRQ
  20. machinistguy

    Random Chat, Thoughts, Posts, and/or Rants Thread

    HOT! CHAT 
    Every time a machinist wants to create their own products/business, it's always knives and/or fidget toys. At least this guy makes more impressive fidget non-sense than the gazillionth "tactical titanium fidget spinner".

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