Dad. Combat Engineer. Building AI automations for small businesses

Fredericton, New Brunswick
Joined September 2024
built MemeReply to help find the right meme for any x post then realized getting people to pay for a meme tool might be harder than building it haha so i made a Grok Bot version for now gonna see if people prefer it this way link in reply
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at this point simply managing my ai subscriptions is becoming a project of its own every time i think i've got my setup figured out, another model drops haha
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running is funny like that some days 5k feels like nothing, other days the same distance feels like a personal attack haha anyone else get that?
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AI made building easy but selling is still hard
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apparently claude duet dropped last night and i somehow completely missed it haha anthropic really knows how to release stuff while i'm not looking anyone managed to get access yet?
What are you using right now?
87%Grok Bot
8%Claude Duet
3%Meta Muse
3%OpenAI Dots
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starting to think the hardest part of selling AI automations isn't building them it's identifying the ONE task a business owner actually finds annoying still figuring that part out
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was supposed to be posting on x a few hours ago baby had other plans haha been a chaotic morning with the little guy
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the amount of random stuff i've learned about baby bottles in the last month is ridiculous was not expecting that to become one of my main areas of expertise haha
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anyone else running and lifting at the same time? i swear every time my legs feel fresh enough for a good run, it's time to train legs again haha
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asked chatgpt to put grok, chatgpt and claude together in an x banner now it looks like i've got three tiny coworkers running a startup from my desk haha
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starting to wonder if i've been building for the wrong audience
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how many of us end up building tools for other builders just because that's who we talk to on x all day? starting to wonder how much the timeline shapes what we build
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what's one ai tool you're actually happy to pay for every month? not the one with the coolest demos, the one you'd genuinely miss if it disappeared
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2:30am, monster in hand, replying to people on x atlas decided to sleep all night so i actually got 6 hours of sleep haha not a bad start to the day
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it's funny how the whole day revolves around when the newborn last ate now i'm checking the clock more for bottles than anything else haha
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the weird thing about building with ai is that coding is becoming the easy part figuring out what people actually want and getting them to care is still just as hard haha
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wait cyberpunk edgerunners season 2 dropped TODAY?? well there goes my productivity for the day haha anyone else watching tonight?
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been reading about x giving extra weight to replies between mutuals cool for building real connections, but i wonder if it also keeps small accounts stuck in the same circle anyone noticed that?
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hi @X, looking to connect with more builders and runners i'm Alex combat engineer on leave, dad to a 4-week-old, and building ai tools for small businesses between naps and 2:30am feeds still figuring out distribution, sales and sleep (in that order) come say hi 👋
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starting to think "i make your annoying admin stuff less annoying" explains my automation business better than "ai automations" ever will haha
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