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FAANG engineer by day, entrepreneur by night. Looking for "the one".

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Day 375 of building Agent37. I reread a 2018 diary entry where I wrote that my startup life felt like "random mad dogs going from one smell to another." Somehow it still feels familiar. The difference now is not that I became some perfectly disciplined founder. It's that I

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I watched this long ago and it stuck with me.. It was one of my favorites from Shark Tank. And this is how I feel about pricing for AI agents now. I've been adamant about keeping agent37.com pricing at $3.99/mo (against the advise of many startup advisors..)

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Ship the thing nobody around you understands yet. Ship it even when your old colleagues think you've lost it. Ship it because you see something they don't - yet. Ship it knowing the discomfort is the gap between where you are and where this goes. Most builders are waiting for

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HEARBEATS.md in Openclaw was a bad design choice. 90% of the people never use it. And cron jobs are more than enough for most things.

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Day 391. I keep seeing founders brag about running ten AI coding sessions at once and juggling massive parallel workflows. Maybe I am just not that smart, but I realized this week that context switching is actually killing my productivity. When I am tackling a truly hard

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I am incredibly camera shy. My last personal social media post was over seven years ago. When Agent37 started getting traction, I was invited onto a major podcast. I almost panicked. I actually asked the producers if I could keep my camera off and stay anonymous. I turned the

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"Just keep building" is terrible advice when your product has no users. Kill your attachment to the idea. Honest self-assessment is a skill too. Double down on what's actually working instead.

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The difference between a decent product and a great one is usually one more iteration. The builder who ships a v2 nobody asked for looks more talented, but really just cared enough to revisit. Take the extra pass. Revise it one more time.

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Paraphrasing the best advice I got building: "Ask yourself if this product is the thing you'd work on even if it failed twice. That answer changes how you handle the slow weeks - less panic, more patience, because you know you're not leaving."