Entrepreneurs and operators building with AI. Hosted by @zacksteven
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Joined September 2026
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Busy looks like progress.
Compounding is progress.
New starts every week can feel like a pulse — lots of motion, same place. Stacking work on the same problem is quieter. Then one day the line actually moves.
🤖 Made with AI
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Honest question for operators: what part of your work still lives in a group text, a spreadsheet, or someone's memory?
That's usually where the best first build is hiding.
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i can't read code. this year i still put software in production that almost 100,000 people used, for my clients (some of it runs a complex payroll engine)
This is what we love to see. Someone who runs the crew felt the pain in the group text and built the fix himself. More of this, please.
I run a crew at a fabrication shop. Our schedule lived in group texts, so I built the app I wished we had.
9toThrive: build the schedule, clock in from any phone, approve time-off in one tap.
Free up to 10 employees. Looking for early testers 👇
9tothrive.app
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Can you trust software you built with AI? On Thursday, Nov 19, Sam Silver, founder of RaceAI and a QA leader at CHS, joins us at No-Code Coffee to talk about building software you can trust. It's online, 7:30 to 8:30am CT. thebuilderhood.com/events/no…
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Some of the best software right now is built by people who never planned to write software. The ops lead tired of copying data between three tools. They know the problem better than anyone, and now they can build the fix. What's the first tool you built for your own work?
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A mortgage team lead got tired of three systems that didn't talk to each other, so she built the dashboard her team now starts every day with. A few years ago that took a dev team and a budget. Now it takes an operator who knows the problem cold.
Told Grok @bot my CRM wish list. It said 'just you wait…' 😏
Meet Loan-Bot
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Learn at Lunch today at 12:30pm CT: Tyler Olson on building software, hardware, and buzz with AI.
Half an hour, virtual. Bring your lunch and your questions.
thebuilderhood.com
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As an agency owner, I kept looking for the right tool to track my clients' AI visibility.
I found plenty of trackers.
None that helped me actually sell GEO to my clients.
So I built Vizioa.
Peec AI, Otterly and the other AEO tools tell you where your client stands in ChatGPT.
Vizioa does that too. Then it helps you:
• sell the GEO service, with an audit and a proposal ready to send
• improve their visibility, with an Actions tab that tells you what to fix first
Measure. Sell. Improve.
One tool, built for agencies.
Comment "AUDIT" and I'll send you access 👇
A lot of good software starts this way now. Serve real clients, keep building what they actually need, and one day it’s the thing they’d rather pay for than the tools they had.
This spring I started moving my clients (lawyers) analytics to my own CMS platform.
I mentioned here on X that the scope creep was insane as I just kept building the tool, to the point where I built an entire legal practice management package (LPMS) complete with full integration with a few states court systems.
For the last few weeks I have been feverishly refining the UI, workflows, and trimming back features that were never used.
I never told most of my clients about the new functionality. I just built it, tested it and enabled it. One client helped me design most of the workflows based on their practice.
To my surprise? They are all using it now!! I called one of my clients and asked them about it, they said they are replacing two software packages they had subscriptions for.
I guess I better start charging for it 😂😂😂
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Operators who've lived the client pain make the best tools. A system that gets first design approval is craft earning its keep.
How to get your first design concept approved by clients? Here is the system we use at @ubernatural:
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There’s a quiet joy in turning work you used to bill by the hour into a product people can use without booking another call.
Same scars. Different shape.
If you’re an operator building that tool — you’re exactly on time.
thebuilderhood.com
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Help someone with the real pain before you have a product. That’s how trust gets built — and how tools get bought.
Lewis is Perfect Exemple on how to get started.
I shared i was in Pain with SOC 2 here
he came in DM to help before having a product to sell me.
He saved me hours !
The day they launched, I paid right away
Because i saw care, a guy helping me, not a sales man!
Till today, it's still the best pain relieve i get from the money.
And i pay a lot of stuff.
You want to build something, be lewis.
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There’s joy in building something that wasn’t possible a few years ago — from the seat where you already know the customer.
We’re gathering Wednesday morning (virtual, 7:30–8:30am Central) for No-Code Coffee: builders and operators, peer room, no funnel.
thebuilderhood.com
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A few years ago operators needed a full eng team before they could try a product in their head. Now you can build v1 yourself, learn from real use, and decide what’s worth keeping. That’s why more people who lived the problem are putting tools into the world.
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The space between a cheap tool and a months-long agency engagement is where a lot of practical product work belongs.
Founders have two options for a first product.
A $20/month tool that gets you a demo.
An agency that gets you a quote for months of work.
We built the thing in between. You describe the app. We quote it once. It gets built, tested, and handed over with the source.
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If you want company while you build: No-Code Coffee is Thu Sep 17, 7:30–8:30am Central — free, virtual.
thebuilderhood.com
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This is the path. Not a slogan — the actual work from problem to retention. Operators who’ve lived it know why each step matters.
Moving from services to software isn't simply:
Build product → hire sales → sell.
It's:
Problem → ICP → product → positioning → pricing → proof → sales motion → onboarding → adoption → retention.
And every step has to become repeatable. @smartDataIncLtd
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Most of the best products we see start as a tool someone built for their own work. Agency, freelance, ops — then one day the tool is the product.
That path used to take years. Now you can build the first version while you’re still doing the job.
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The people we root for don’t just build because AI made it cheap and fast.
They build to learn, then build again using what they learned.
I just interviewed Steve Blank for @startupspod. We focused on how AI is causing founders to build more while learning less.
One line that stuck with me about founders building too much, too quickly due to vibe coding: “Polished deliverables hid shallow assumptions.”
You can't just build because it's fast and easy. You need to be learning and checking your assumptions before (and while) building.
His famous quote, “There are no facts inside the building,” is as true today as ever.
This episode will be out in a couple weeks.
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