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How it started... Posted on September 7, 2024. This was after close to two years of working on CurveAtlas, particularly the drawing portion of it.

Does anyone use Lovable still? Why? lovable.dev/invite/GEL9J7W

Did you know? You can collaborate between multiple Codex chats working on the same project by branching from your current conversation and selecting "Fork in this workspace." This creates another chat starting from the exact point you branched from, preserving the conversation history up to that point while keeping both chats in the same project workspace. Then give both chat instances each other's chat titles and instruct them to communicate with each other about what they're working on, which tasks each one is responsible for, and when they're pushing changes. They can actually send messages directly between chats, coordinating their work without you having to manually relay every update. This allows multiple Codex instances to work on the same project simultaneously while reducing duplicated work, overlapping changes, and conflicting instructions.

This genuinely means a lot to me. When you spend years working on something, often completely alone, you start to realize how rare it is to find people who actually take the time to understand what you're trying to accomplish. I can't tell you how much I appreciate people like this. Thank you for taking my work seriously, even before the world has had a chance to understand it.

If you want to know why I'm so committed to CurveAtlas, it's because I've spent the past 3 years of my life working on it almost nonstop. And you know why I started? Because I realized that when companies have no real competition, they get comfortable. I'm talking about 10 YEARS of customers asking for improvements, getting ignored, and continuing to pay because they have nowhere else to go. At first, I thought there had to be something shady going on. Turns out, nobody really has to innovate when nobody else is willing to spend years of their life building something better. So I decided to become that competition. And my goal is simple. By the time these companies finish copying what I've already built, I want to be so far ahead that they're still trying to figure out how I did it. I have a customer that signed up...that I can tell.....they are already trying to copy how my app works. Don't worry about how I Know, just know. Everything related to how my technology actually functions runs on my servers, so their only real option for reverse engineering it is to use their own logic, skills, and trial and error. And that takes YEARS. Yes, years. If you think the greatest applications were one-shotted, you're crazy. You can make something look visually appealing while being 100% wrong in how it actually functions. That's what missing years of trial and error costs you. You can copy what something looks like without understanding the thousands of problems that had to be solved to make it work correctly. And that's exactly where my advantage comes from. By the time I'm finished developing a feature, testing it, breaking it, fixing it, and making sure it actually works instead of just looking like it does, I've already figured out what I'm building next. They would have to replicate years of problem-solving just to catch up to where I was when they started. Meanwhile, I'm still moving forward. But there's something much bigger I'm trying to demonstrate here. One person with enough dedication and the right combination of skills can challenge entire industries. Without a team. Without millions in funding. Without anyone believing they can actually pull it off. Don't get me wrong. Teams are great. I tried getting help. Multiple times. Most people thought what I wanted to build was too difficult. Well, looking at CurveAtlas today, I guess they were right about one thing. It WAS difficult. But difficult doesn't mean impossible. And here's something else I've learned. Be extremely careful who you surround yourself with. Especially people who are intelligent enough to understand what you're trying to accomplish, but spend more time explaining why you can't do it than helping you figure out how. Some of the biggest limitations you'll ever face are the ones other people convince you to accept. Imagine if I had listened to everyone who told me this was too difficult. CurveAtlas wouldn't exist. Who you surround yourself with matters more than you think. Sometimes the difference between achieving something extraordinary and never attempting it comes down to whose opinions you allowed to influence your decisions.

I want to show the world what happens when you level up multiple skills to the point where you can combine them to create things none of those skills could accomplish on their own. Stay tuned, because this journey is like watching a seed grow into a sprout, then a flowering tree. It takes time, but every stage of growth builds upon the one before it. And just like a biological organism, the end result reflects everything that went into its development. Every detail matters. Every component has a purpose. Nothing gets overlooked, and everything is continuously refined from the ground up until the entire system works together as one.

After a decade in the countertop industry, I got tired of asking the leading software company for changes that never came. So I started building them myself. I already knew how to code. I knew what was possible. And every day I used the software, I kept seeing things that could be easier, faster, and more useful to the people actually doing the work. That’s where Curve Atlas came from. The unnecessary clicks. Having estimating and shop management split between products. Chasing someone down to find out whether material was ordered, whether a slab was delayed, or whether the crew knew something had changed. Those are the things I wanted to fix. With Curve Atlas, sales can request materials directly against a job. Purchasing gets the context and the needed-by date. Teams have their own chat rooms, and job alerts reach the people affected. The conversation stays connected to the work. Watch the schedule in this video. You grab a card, slide it into place, and the others move aside. Job names, crews, and exact times stay visible, even in the 200-job example week. Click a compact card when you need the details. Drawing, estimating, scheduling, purchasing, customers, and team communication. One app. One sign-in. And that’s before we even get to AutoFit, AutoSeam, and the slab-packing technology. You can try the demo yourself, then use Easy Switch to bring over customer and job records from a CSV and review them before importing. Our early founding customers get 50% off: $100/month for the main account and $50/month for each additional account. >>>DISCOUNT CODE: DEVELOP50 (After confirming your email, sign in and enter the code on the billing page before completing your payment.) If you’re joining us early, I want you to help shape where Curve Atlas goes next. You’re the ones quoting jobs, ordering slabs, moving schedules around, and keeping crews informed every day. You know where your software helps and where it gets in your way. I know what it feels like to ask for changes and feel unheard. That’s how this started. I want to hear what would make a difference in your day. Watch the video. Try it yourself. Tell me what you’ve been wishing your software could do and whether you’ve finally found it here. curveatlas.com

So far, after creating what I believe is the #1 product in the countertop industry, at roughly a third of the competition's price, advertising has been nothing but a waste of money. And I've realized something about why. Advertising overwhelmingly favors companies that are already successful. Advertising works largely through repetition. That's why jingles exist. The more often people see or hear something, the more familiar it becomes, and familiarity influences purchasing decisions. New companies can't afford that level of repetition. Worse, unfamiliar products naturally trigger skepticism. Nobody wants to be the first to spend thousands on technology they aren't sure they can trust. So new businesses face a ridiculous problem: They need customers to build credibility, but they need credibility to attract customers. Meanwhile, advertising platforms charge for exposure regardless of whether that exposure reaches people who actually need your product. Even with targeted advertising, you're often paying to reach thousands of people hoping a handful become customers. Privacy restrictions and imperfect targeting only make this harder. If advertising consistently generated more revenue than it cost, every new business would happily invest in it. So what actually works for a new company? Two approaches make far more sense: Industry-specific communities. Facebook groups with thousands of people who actually work in your industry. Your potential customers are already there, discussing the exact problems your product solves. Direct business outreach. Contact companies that could benefit from your technology and hope they don't get annoyed that you interrupted their day. Both approaches require more effort, but at least you're reaching people with a genuine reason to care. It's genuinely sad that the companies most in need of exposure are often the ones least able to afford the repetition that makes traditional advertising effective. And innovative products can remain invisible simply because their creators don't have the marketing budgets of the companies they're trying to compete against.

Accounts like this one that I am responding to on X constantly misrepresent research studies and somehow they get more engagement than accounts like mine that actually produce original research studies conducted by me personally. I find that absolutely disingenuous

I think I might've accidentally started a pricing war with the software I've been using for years. 💀 Moraware charges $100/user/month for CounterGo and $120/user/month for Systemize. Three users running both? $660/month. My software, CurveAtlas? $400/month. With my early pioneer discount? $200/month. THAT'S $200 vs $660.......(For a product that does WAY less (No AUTOFIT/ No AUTOSEAM and more and needs two separate programs to run...) And here's where it gets ridiculous. I built AutoFit using optimization algorithms for the packing problem. Automated seam placement, curved countertops, inward and outward radius adjustments, T-shaped islands, corner notching, and edge profiles you can literally show customers while drawing their kitchen. All without constantly right-clicking through menus. I'm building the software I wished I had when I was managing thousands of countertop projects. And the funniest part? I'm giving the earliest users 50% off because they're helping me build something even better. DEVELOP50 My biggest competitor right now is yesterday's version of my own software. curveatlas.com/

Completely out of Grokbot and Codex credits... so now I'm sitting here like, I guess we're doing things the old-fashioned way. Still using an LLM, obviously, which makes calling it "the old-fashioned way" pretty funny. But seriously, the exact same task that Grokbot or Codex could've handled in about 30 minutes just took me FOUR HOURS to complete successfully... and I'm STILL dealing with bugs. That's the difference. Once you get used to having AI agents handle the heavy lifting, going back to manually guiding an LLM through every little step feels like going back to the Stone Age. And the funniest part? The "Stone Age" I'm talking about is literally still using AI. That's how fast things are moving.