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  1. MRiabov

    Retrospective on 4 years in a pursuit of entrepreneurship. 13 lessons and a life story from a self-taught software engineer and a window cleaner.

    STORY 
    Hello, Some of you may remember me, some not, I've been out of TFLF for a year now. I've learned much more from execution and working 100-120 hours a week for all the 4 years than from any thread from this forum, and I had to learn on my own mistakes and advise from the few around me. I wish...
  2. MRiabov

    I've built a website generation system for contractors that makes quality websites in 90 seconds

    STORY 
    Sup, There are two parts to this post: 1. A non-technical cofounder has proposed me an idea which I worked on for 2-3 weeks, later blacklisted me and ran away with my code. 2. There is a useful project on delivering websites and marketing for companies in need of it. I have professional...
  3. MRiabov

    Coding overnight: a successful entrepreneur told me how he ships software

    - AI - 
    I've recently found that you can write software much faster and fairly reliably if: 1. You spec out PRD and detailed agile-like user stories for what you want built - see BMAD method for the spec-driven development 2. You put codex on a literal loop overnight. This was after one seasoned...
  4. MRiabov

    Replicating software of others - should I do it?

    - AI - 
    Hello, Recently a semi-successful business owner (young guy like me, has two employees; had up to 30k revenue in one mo, 30% profit; runs an ad business for construction contractors) reached out to me with an ask: He is non-technical, and he wanted a technology he had in mind (or in his words...
  5. MRiabov

    Google Stitch makes absolutely beautiful designs.

    - AI - 
    Sup. Web designers, marketers and other business owners of the forum: Stitch makes absolutely beautiful designs. I needed a website where users would be able to accept or reject a quote as sent by a business. Take a look at this: https://stitch.withgoogle.com/projects/3911253618020785080 Effing...
  6. MRiabov

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

    MINDSET 
    Sup, I was up to building at least 8 businesses in the last 4 years, which were software and hardware products, fairly diverse. At the moment, I'm running a window cleaning business/hustle to pay rent and finance further prototypes. I declared all previous projects failures. My last three were...
  7. MRiabov

    Life decisions: am I doing the right things?

    MINDSET 
    Sup, I've been making what seems like a lot of mistakes recently. Nothing is going quite well. I may be doing the wrong things. Could somebody audit my decisions? Starting point: 1.5 years ago I've quit a likely winning product for a new one and after struggling for 1 year, I realized I won't...
  8. MRiabov

    Experiment: hiring students as salespeople for d2d home services?

    MARKETING 
    Sup, Facebook ads start to work for me, however here's the problem: I've logged 50km today on an electric bike delivering them, while on my average day selling d2d, I would drive to one spot and "clear" the region out (as in window cleaning, of course) And something I noticed about Irish...
  9. MRiabov

    Running my numbers for a window cleaning business... Looks sound?

    SIDE HUSTLE 
    Hello, I've invested over 1k EUR for the last month into equipment for window cleaning equipment, and hired one technician. It's pretty competitive and I just started running google ads, but the numbers seem pretty bad? Here's a breakdown... An average job priced 40€ takes 20-25 minutes for a...
  10. MRiabov

    Scaling an exterior cleaning business

    EXECUTION 
    Sup. So I've been in the forum for two years and seen quite a few people become successful doing trade jobs. I want to build this business into a company that prints cash while I sleep, as in the best tradition. At the moment we have this: 1. I've been doing window cleaning myself for two months...
  11. MRiabov

    Are ads worth it in a small window cleaning company? (contract deal average 40-50eur?)

    MARKETING 
    Hello folks, So recently, after tweaking a few things with my sales process, and going specifically to richest neighborhoods (and not just any) I: a) got so much customers in window cleaning I had to hire an employee (we see how that goes, but the first day he did an excellent job, and he had...
  12. MRiabov

    Contracts with B2C clients

    SIDE HUSTLE TAXES | REGS 
    Sup FL, I've recently restarted window cleaning, as a way to pay bills. So good so far, making double of minimum wage. Just need to not work on rainy days. Now, I'm going door-to-door in two regions, spending ~30 minutes looking for a client and ~25 minutes in job. You can see the pattern -...
  13. MRiabov

    idea feedback - leadgen for home service companies using UAVs and computer vision?

    - AI - 
    Hello Fastlane, Posting in part because this is an idea somebody may execute on, in part because lots of people on FL forum are doing home services. I was washing windows to pay for rent the other day, and I've seen another salesman selling electricity subscriptions to houses. He was rejected...
  14. MRiabov

    AI entrepoorneur's resume for hospitality jobs

    - AI - 
    Sup Fastlane, haven't been here in a while, What a year it has been! I've followed the act-assess-adjust framework for learning machine learning and relentlessly acting, and after 6 months of trying to build that which I had no knowledge to build (because you can learn along the way, of...
  15. MRiabov

    The job description that hurts people the most

    MINDSET 
    I've been thinking for the past few days: Think about it: there is not a single job description in the world that would hurt more people as much as a mediaperson does. Every job - programmers, accountants, doctors, everyone from shop floor person to executive delivers some positive in the...
  16. MRiabov

    Evil billionaires laughing at startups

    PEOPLE 
    Sup Forum, I'm developing my AI, and meanwhile I thought it was cooler to take some advice from inventor billionaires and not traditional businesses like many on this forum (you've helped a lot, but building technical stuff is more difficult than to start a window cleaning biz). So, I've looked...
  17. MRiabov

    First seat into Slowlane

    SLOWLANE 
    Tale from the slowlane: My grandparents is basically the tip of the spear of the Slowlane. My grandfather, an inventor. Long story short his inventions made hundreds of millions for the USSR government if we account for inflation. Later, he became a chief technical officer in a factory which had...
  18. MRiabov

    MRiabov's AI short execution thread

    EXECUTION 
    Damn, just gotten a message on MJ's email list that inactive accounts may have their grandfathered status revoked.. Ah, I have to distract myself from actually executing to retain the status. So let's make a little execution thread right here, something I planned to expand on about 1-5 months...
  19. MRiabov

    University /IS/ dogma...

    SLOWLANE 
    Dude, just gotten into the engineering degree, cos someone said it is worthy (and because I was guaranteed free tuition and 900$/mo stipend, that's the real reason.) The things that are taught are so pointless. They teach us, for example, how to find currents given a complex voltage example, a...
  20. MRiabov

    How is most advice successful entrepreneurs (online) give so a$$?

    RANT 
    Sup, I understand that this is basically the topic of MJ's Unscripted, but... How do most entrepeneurs (even highly successful ones) who give advice give it so poorly? Complication here, for example: View: https://youtu.be/IUIG4YG0T-Q 2:13 "you gotta be profitable. Not just something that...

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