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  1. alee12

    How to Fail Miserably in Your Daily Routine as a WFH solopreneur

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    I agree with your points 100%. Action-faking, bad excuses, spending time efficiently etc. I do face my own demons every single day and get those going, but not things were massively disorganized in my head. A significant portion of my work requires some creativity, so it was really hurting my...
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    How to Fail Miserably in Your Daily Routine as a WFH solopreneur

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    CONTEXT I've been trying to build a fastlane business as a side hustle until recently when our family decide to relocate new country which allowed me to go full time. Even though I had this more time on my hand with less financial pressure, my productivity and ability to think and discern...
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    Weekly Progress: What will you get done this week?

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    I am back! What I've been up to: Just completed the move to South Korea. Relocating in another country with 3 little kids was no joke, but this move enable me and wife to focus on fastlane opportunities. 1. Our living expense was cut in half (compared to the life in Boston). 2. Better childcare...
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    Weekly Progress: What will you get done this week?

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    in the middle of May????
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    Weekly Progress: What will you get done this week?

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    I've been MIA for a while, but I've been busy! What I've been doing 1. I completely rebuilt my web platform, which made updating / adding features a lot more efficiently and added new features which have been well received by my users which grew to around 1000 now, most of whom are coming from...
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    Weekly Progress: What will you get done this week?

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    Last week - I crossed 600 users on my site. - Based on my interview with AI (@Andy Black ), I decided to ask all new users if they would willing to pay for premium features. - Good news: Surprisingly, they all said yes! and told me what they would want to see. - Bad news: The level of...
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    Are you using AI yet? (Poll + Steps to get started & up to speed?)

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    @Andy Black I was surprised to see this. This is still a great time to get into AI I guess. For me, the biggest benefit with AI has been speed. Doing research, learning new tech, and creating MVPs became so much easier. What used to take a week for me last year only takes one evening. However...
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    Advice on Building an "AI Startup" from the founder of WP Engine

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    At X's townhall, Elon mentioned that he predicts coding will be done by the end of 2025 because AI will bypass coding and compile binaries directly. He always exaggerates, but maybe it's not a far fetched as we think. At that point, it's not about hard skills anymore. It's about being able...
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    Are you using AI yet? (Poll + Steps to get started & up to speed?)

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    I've been using Claude very regularly. - I've integrated Haiku for my website to automate most of onboarding steps for the users. 0.2 cents per customer to provide great experience (thanks to VC subsidizing) - Using Claude was life changing for learning to code. I'm pretty new to web...
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    Weekly Progress: What will you get done this week?

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    I got grilled by Claude. So many sharp questions that hurt my feelings but this was really helpful. At the end, it gave me summary and a core problem of my strategy and a few monetization validation experiment options to try. Wow, I'm genuinely humbled and impressed. Thank you @andy!
  11. alee12

    Weekly Progress: What will you get done this week?

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    @Andy Black , thank your for sharing this. I'm gonna try this as well.
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    Weekly Progress: What will you get done this week?

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    Wow, what you describe here feels like a movie scene to me (and I'm a millennial). Thank you for sharing your stories as always. Even though I haven't personally gone through this, I know another major shift in how we work is already here. And The end result will be again less need for...
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    Weekly Progress: What will you get done this week?

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    I am curious to see what you would discover! Like you said, It works like a well-oiled machine. So, any suggestion without having all the context will mess up the workflow or doesn't make any sense. At the same time, it's been working well for you, so there could be areas of wastes and...
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    Weekly Progress: What will you get done this week?

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    This week - User signups are picking up pace. Added 56 users this week. I am noticing pockets of signups around the same time. This week's spike came from UC-San Diego area. It is great to see more user acquisition from word of mouth. - Worked on making a major update to the site based on the...
  15. alee12

    Weekly Progress: What will you get done this week?

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    Hello everyone, I've been away for a month to re-coup and re-energize before continuing. Happy to be back and to read about everyone's progress. Thank you all for always inspiring me to keep trying. What I've been doing 1. I've reading a lot. "the Artist's way" was an interesting book. It...
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    Weekly Progress: What will you get done this week?

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    Last week - Steady (but slower than I hoped growth. Reaching 300. Now, the traffic from google searches and referrals are significantly higher than from my free resources. However, the potential for earning revenue with this traffic / slow job market still seems pretty low. - I’ve automated...
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    Weekly Progress: What will you get done this week?

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    My Website Added almost 50 users this week. My user base is growing at 30% on average just based on organic traffic. I made it easier for my users to report issues / add suggestions. I love getting thank you emails from enthusiastic users. They are becoming more frequent I started asking more...
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    Weekly Progress: What will you get done this week?

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    It's been a few weeks since my last update! Last few weeks - The number of users for my portfolio building site for engineers has reached over 200 coming from all over the world (growing organically through words of mouth and free resources). In September, it was barely at 10. - I am currently...
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    Weekly Progress: What will you get done this week?

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    Last week Another week of steady growth in # of users and lots of positive feedbacks I didnt get much done. it was emotionally rough week. My brother in law and his wife visited and accused us of not taking interest in their lives, which made no sense. He made so many negative comments about...
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    Weekly Progress: What will you get done this week?

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    Last week - # of signups are steadily increasing. Almost at 80 signups now. it was just at 20 in the beginning of the months after two months of trying. - Had meaningful dialogues with 3 customers this week. Many positive feedbacks and also great suggestions on how my site can improve This...

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