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I'm 27, a software engineer and bootstrapped founder. I've spent the last year building profitable cross-border businesses and increasingly I've become obsessed with how much of a real company can now be operated by AI agents.
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Can't wait to connect with Taipei's startup community at YC Rejects Taipei this Saturday, November 14!
Love the event's emphasis on bootstrapped entrepreneurship, building real products, and generating revenue rather than chasing funding rounds
Fellow founders, indie hackers, and entrepreneurs building businesses on their own terms - see you there
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He used AI inside LINE to look for an apartment.
Max had it navigate the app on his phone and help with meetings. Speed? Not that fast.
What would you hand to a computer-use agent first?
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A lot of people think it's illegal that I no longer pay federal income tax to the U.S.
It's true, at my income I should be paying something like $25k in federal taxes
But I built my life around a weird loophole where I legally don't have to
Yes I pay other taxes but soon I'll just set up an S-Corp and not even pay self-employment tax
When I'm not saving my own money I'm hunting for people who didn't know these strategies
And amending years of past returns and getting my clients great refunds they didn't know existed
And other cross-border mechanics like opening LLCs, business accounts, infrastructure, etc
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Where you move changes who ends up in the room.
Max moved to Taiwan for Mandarin and a fresh environment. He sees the move as a filter for who he meets.
Which move changed your circle?
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I don't want to wait 30 minutes just to check if the AI got it right.
I need speed alongside intelligence. Max's Chinese-learning app still needs checks on word meanings and translations.
How long will you wait for a model?
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Your personal plans get the first claim on your calendar.
Max protects those hours, then optimizes work inside what's left.
What would go on next week's calendar before the work does?
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Stop trying to build an Iron Man suit to protect yourself from the stress of entrepreneurship. 🛡️
Most founders numb the pain with:
🥃 Alcohol
🌿 Weed
💊 Adderall
etc.
But here’s the secret: You don’t need a suit. You need a perspective shift.
The stress isn’t a bug; it’s the feature.
Someone has to take the risk. The only question is: do you take the risk and control the outcome? Or does someone else take the risk and tell you what to do?
I’d rather have my hand on the button.
Accept the chaos. Build a core philosophy: "I bring good to the world."
Solve problems as they come. Accept you can’t predict everything. That’s all it takes.
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Why I’m successful in sales:
I promise outcomes you can’t.
I handle stress that makes you sick.
I take risks because I know I can fight for results.
If you can’t confidently promise a huge financial outcome in B2B, keep working for someone else.
You don’t need a degree. You don’t need a title.
You just need confidence.
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One task at a time. At a mortgage company, I learned to finish the task and send the email before starting the next. Get the list out of your head, then focus. My new book, The Solo Founder System: chipmoreno.com/solo-founder-…
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Which hobby did you turn into another project?
Max describes tasking everything—even hobbies and seeing people—until life felt heavy.
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People still contact me about registering degrees in Ecuador, because I wrote about a process few others had covered. Your hard-won knowledge could help someone too. My new book, The Solo Founder System: chipmoreno.com/solo-founder-…
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Some of my $1,000/month projects: Next.js, Vercel, about 20 pages, Stripe.
More tools give me more ways to overbuild. Sometimes I only need a hammer.
What's the last thing you overbuilt?
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At 19, I was so broke I tried selling mortgages to toll booth attendants. 😂
I got rejected constantly. Sometimes I worked 6 months before getting paid.
Eventually, my brain rewired:
I stopped associating rejection with failure and started associating it with making money.
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Busy today, empty pipeline tomorrow? Put delivery and prospecting on the calendar. The Solo Founder System helps you build the offer and a routine that keeps the pipeline moving. Free sample and toolkits:
chipmoreno.com/solo-founder-…
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We got faster AI. We still work all day.
Max and I talked about what happens when every gain in capacity becomes another thing to build.
youtu.be/xezRmSbhnEw
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I want an AI agent hooked into my revenue feed to call me out when I am falling behind.
When a week is slow, looking at the numbers is typically the last thing an operator wants to do
So you hide in low-leverage work.
Concept is simple, give an agent read-only API access to your actual revenue stream, feed it your monthly target and goals, set a daily chron job to run at 8:00am every morning
If you are ahead of pace, great
If you are behind pace, it delivers an unvarnished audit of lead gen, etc
Forces you to confront the gap
High-growth organizations run on ridiculously aggressive accountability loops, solopreneuers and small teams should have the same
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