Day 5: - 4 signups today. But the emails look like gibberish😅 - got another idea, will work on a new landing page and run ads in parallel

Day 6: My ad campaign has stopped running today. Turns out my Google Ads campaign has a missing piece. The conversion post request was not setup right. Fixed it, have to wait 3 hours for it to refresh.

Day 7: - More issues are fixed for Google ads campaign. - Switched to a search campaign

Stay disciplined. I’m not building anything until I validate my idea. It’s painful but I think this is the way.

Day 8: Created new search campaign, the ad is getting traffic again. I was getting impressions but no conversion. Eventually the campaign just stopped getting traffic at all. The problem was that I was using a gtag from a Google analytics account and a gtag from the ad

Day 9: Do nothing as ChatGPT suggested. Got a total of 5 signups since the new campaign started. Guess I just need to be patient.

Random thought: What’s the breakeven point of buying all the Powerball combos? The break even point of the Powerball is about $584.4M to buy all the Powerball combos. The lump sum after tax of the jackpot is ≈$30% of the advertised jackpot If the jackpot is $2B and you’re the

Day 12: Idea’s validated (sort of) Now I learned that there’s demand for my product. And I know how to target my potential customers. I’m ready to build the actual business and automation pipeline. The problem is, the acquisition cost is quite high compared to my target selling

A lot of messes is still waiting for me to clean up. But, there is no perfect moment to build. I must keep going and do the clean up on the way.

Day 14: Spent a lot of time on the design of the overall flow. Especially trying to figure out how to integrate Shopify with my Firebase functions. My design process includes describing my overall business requirements to AI. Then refine the details for each step. Finally ask

Day 15: Setup Firebase scaffold function to validate Shopify HMAC. If valid, process request body. Feeling good!

Secret reviewed: I’m not currently building a SaaS business. 🤫

Shopify just changed how you can query the backend admin data from Jan 1st 2026. Great! This is which vibe coding sucks because you have to actually read the documentation to know why the old way doesn’t work. Took me 3 hours to realize.

TIL: a call with Google ads account manager is free🤯

I think I did a great job communicating.

Creating a game is not as easy as I thought. It’s not just technical, but also an art of how to make it fun to play.

The modern laptop designers mind cannot comprehend this much I/O

If I bet on Kalshi that they won’t pay me $10M tomorrow, would I win?

Brain dump all your thoughts on a piece of paper. Clear your mind.

What’s the most important thing to make your business survive at the beginning?