Rapid Dev

1626 CEOs Surveyed in Vistage's CEO Confidence Index. Vistage is a group of 50,000 SMB owners. Every quarter they release a survey. Many of their members are Brick & Mortar SMB's that don't typically embrace tech. But for the last year, there has been massive adoption of automation. For 2 reasons: AI: the hype around AI attracted a lot of owners to take a look at the possibilities. Cost: They realized how low cost it is to adopt. This is driving a huge productivity boom for millions of SMBs! If you haven't taken a look at the possibilities, shoot me a DM.

Are you afraid to push your app live? Sometimes we work with clients who have a functioning MVP after 60 days that is ready to go live. But we fiddle around with it for another 4 months after it is ready to go—doing all sorts of feature enhancements, small tweaks, and reworking old features. We end up building apps with more functionality than their multi-million dollar competitors before pushing them to market. Sometimes I wonder if folks are afraid to go live. Trust me, there is rarely anything to be scared about. Our philosophy is to always get your app live, even if the functionality is very basic. If it's solving a core problem and adding fundamental value, the extra bells and whistles won’t matter. “If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you’ve launched too late,” - Reid Hoffman

Finally hit 500+ clicks/day yesterday! ?? SEO is tough, but like everything else in life, if you keep at it week after week, you can get some amazing results! I am not the best of the best (yet), but I've learned a lot about it over the years. DM me if you ever want to chat SEO and/or growth in general!

Today I turn 35, but let me tell you about this day 5 years ago - the worst day of my life. Oct 9th, 2019: I had to layoff 100+ incredible people at my company. The backstory: - Raised $8M - Growing like crazy - Went too fast and end up way over our skis - Had to tell 100+ amazing people who trusted me: "You don't have a job anymore" It was brutal. But success is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm. So what did I do? - Picked myself up - Learned everything I could from the experience - Used that gut-wrenching feeling as rocket fuel It wasn't instant. Took years. But slowly, the momentum started building again. Fast forward 5 years: - Reinvented myself - Found a new path: helping other founders build their products - And now watching some of them absolutely crush it, avoiding the pitfalls I hit You may encounter many defeats, but you're never defeated. Keep pushing!

BubbleCon2024 is officially over ?? Here are the top 2 highlights: ?AI app creator - get your build started by describing it in plain English. (Truly anyone can be building apps now!) ??The native mobile app builder is a game changer. You finally have a way to take your web app to mobile in a way you never could before. Overall the event was bigger and better than last year - a good sign that the community and platform is continuing to grow at an astonishing rate! If you've been on the fence about building an app, now is the time to get involved!