Founder @ InkBook. building InkBook for tattoo studios

Joined October 2015
I started with a small printing business. Over time, I invested more, worked harder, and eventually built it into something stable. I’m grateful for that, because it gave me a foundation. But at the same time, I always had another goal for my life. Not just more money. I wanted freedom. Financial freedom, yes. But also freedom from constant pressure, mental stress, and the feeling that my whole life is tied to one thing. So while running the printing business, I kept exploring. I tried different things. Spent time learning. Looked at different opportunities. Some things felt good for a while, then I found something that felt better. And that kept happening. Each step showed me a slightly better direction. Now I feel like I’ve finally found the track that fits me best. It matches the kind of life I want to build, the kind of work I want to do, and the kind of freedom I’ve been looking for. So this is the track I want to commit to now. I don’t think I would have found it if I had stopped exploring too early. Keep moving, but never lose the desire to find something better for yourself. Sometimes the right path only becomes clear after you’ve walked a few others.
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Day 16 of building my own AI agent: gave it eyes. It now screenshots the screen after every action and judges PASS/FAIL against what should be visible. First real test failed "Notepad isn't open." Almost dismissed it as a false alarm. It wasn't wrong. Notepad was opening just hiding behind my browser, invisible the whole time. Fixed.
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My AI agent is finally getting to a point where I can actually use it. What it does now: - Opens any app by voice, no hardcoded list. - Controls desktop apps, browses, researches in the background. - Remembers every task, survives crashes. - Auto-restarts if killed, survives reboots (pm2). - Handles multiple commands without stepping on itself. There’s a lot more I want to add, and I already have plenty planned. Just need a little more time to build it all. Let’s see how far I can take this.
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Something interesting is happening to SaaS. We’ve spent years building software for humans to use. Now AI agents are starting to use the software for us. That changes a lot: → how products are designed → how they’re priced → what the interface even looks like I think the next big SaaS shift won’t just be adding AI. It’ll be building software where the user might not be human anymore.
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The AGI debate is interesting, but I’m watching something more practical: These models are becoming useful for real work incredibly fast. That shift will reshape SaaS much faster than most people expect.
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A large business can make far more money than a solo SaaS company. But revenue is only one side of the equation. The bigger the business gets, the more complexity usually comes with it: → more people → more payroll → more operations → more things that can break → more responsibility that follows you home A successful solo founder making $10K–$30K a month may earn less, but can still have something incredibly valuable: → control over time → fewer dependencies → location freedom → lower operational pressure → more room to actually enjoy life That’s why I don’t think the best business is always the one with the highest revenue. For me, the better question is: How much freedom does the business give you for the amount of money it makes?
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If every person starts working with multiple agents, Software could end up serving far more agents than humans. That sounds more like SaaS expansion than SaaS death.
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AI is moving into a phase we barely understand yet. Chatbots were easier to study because the interaction was simple. Agents are different. They can keep working, use tools, make choices, and continue for long stretches. For me, the interesting question now is not just how capable they are. It’s how much useful work they can finish before a human needs to step back in.
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9 cool GPT 6 Astra prompts worth trying: 1. The bill renegotiator. "Go through my internet, phone, and software bills, jump into each provider's chat support, and negotiate them down or cancel what I'm not using." 2. Turn an agency into software. “Pick one service business in [niche] and reverse-engineer the exact workflow they sell to clients. Break it into steps, tools used, inputs, outputs, human judgment points, and places where the work gets slow or expensive. Then design the simplest AI product that could replace the first version of that service and charge $500-$5,000/month.” 3. Garage sale flipper. "Watch Facebook Marketplace and Craigslist in my city for [cameras / furniture / bikes] listed way under market, and text me the second one's mispriced with the link." 4. Create my 1 person company dashboard. “Look at my docs, notes, Stripe exports, analytics, customer calls, and project list, then build a weekly operator dashboard. I want to know what is making money, what is wasting time, what customers are asking for, what I should stop doing, and the three highest-leverage actions for next week. Be blunt and show your work.” 5. Audit my company for agent opportunities. “Look at how this business works and find the tasks we should give to agents before hiring another person. For each task, estimate the current human time, the cost of mistakes, the tools involved, the difficulty of automating it, and the first safe version we could deploy. Prioritize things that save money or create revenue within 30 days.” 6. Be my browser operator. “Use the browser to complete this workflow: [workflow]. As you go, click through the actual sites, collect the data, fill the forms where appropriate, and keep notes on what broke or slowed you down. When you’re done, give me the output, the repeatable SOP, and the automation plan so this can become an agent.” 7. The whole QA team. "Every night, open my app on a real phone, go through signup, checkout, and the main flows, and screenshot anything that's broken or confusing." 8. The competitor spy. "Sign up for my top 3 competitors, sit inside their product and their emails, and send me a monthly report on every new feature, price change, and thing they do better than us." 9. Make a game people would actually play for 5 minutes as a lead magnet “Build a browser game around this mechanic: [mechanic]. Don’t just make a cute demo; add progression, tension, scoring, failure, polish, and one reason someone would send it to a friend. Then add lead capture (email/sms), it needs to tie into my core product which sells XYZ.”
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You need to build and own your own intelligence: your own agent, your own models, your own memory Join us for the YC Own Your Intelligence Hackathon September 27 in San Francisco events.ycombinator.com/gstac…
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This is GPT-6 Astra. Anything you can do on a computer, Astra can do for you. Fast.
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bro seriously, keep going. I’m really happy seeing the progress. you’re doing really well bro.
24 hours since we launched Squad.so • 1M+ impressions on the announcement overall • 10k+ visitors to squad.so • $3300 in new MRR • lot of new people joined our partner program for a bootstrapped team going against xAI, this was a pretty successful launch 🔥 thank you for every like, repost, reply, DM and email we read everything ❤️ xitter.cf/tibo_maker/status/2095…
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everyone is looking at the Astra scores. i’m just wondering one thing. can I give it something real to do go work on something else come back an hour later and it actually finished?
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copied @tibo_maker on this one 😅 profile looks way cleaner now
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Google should stop with all these Flash versions.just drop the big update already.
🚨 Gemini 3.8 Flash Is Bench Maxxed And Is A Regression on 3.7 Flash 🫢 - 3.8 is worse on our benchmark than 3.7 - This version appears to be overfit to public benchmarks It does worse on our hidden questions and regresses on data analysis Google should stop with all these Flash releases and drop Gemini 4.0
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Been building InkBook for a while and I’m still changing things now. got close to the end and realized some parts just were not how I wanted them. Could have just shipped it and moved on, but shipping something I already know I don’t like doesn’t feel right.
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building something I’ve wanted for a while an agent that goes through tattoo studios, looks at how they work, and finds the ones that might actually need InkBook.also starting to show me stuff about the market I wasn’t really seeing before
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Spent most of today tightening InkBook instead of adding random features. Locked the AI consultation flow, mapped the Owner / Artist / Client experience, moved the dev loop from Claude Code to Codex, and started rebuilding the website around the actual product story. The direction is getting clearer: AI prepares. Artists decide. InkBook runs the workflow.
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hard to keep up at this point 😅
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Looking to connect with people who are into: # SaaS # Indie Hacking # AI tools # Automation # Building in public If you’re building something, let’s connect and grow together 🤝
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