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I have been working on using openclaw and Claude managed agents to help me run a one-person startup. As a repeat founder, I know a lot of tasks that are very well suited for agentic systems.

so far it has been an interesting journey and I have had some success but the whole process has led me to write a lot of software around my own process so that I can scale it.

Might turn that into a product itself.

This is going to be a huge problem in every sector. I have been exploring solution in this space for fintech and so far what Resemble AI is doing [1] is probably the best way to defend.

The surface level for us is not just LLM generated text, it is also the combination of AI augmented audio (for incoming calls) and then for our own voice agents being able to protect and identify services cloning our own agent voices with watermarking.

It's not fun, as we are constantly catching up.

[1] https://www.resemble.ai/detect/

I agree. We switched from elevenlabs to chatterbox (hosted on Resemble.ai) and it is much much cheaper and better.

Thank you, I wasn't familiar with EB2. I did exit my last company in 2021 to a Fortune 500 -- if that counts as a "successful"

Hi Peter, I am wondering what's the best way to move from O1 to Green Card? I have my own startup which has sponsored by O-1 visa but need to get a green card to stay in the Bay Area long term. I am a Canadian Citizen if that helps.

Location: Ottawa, Canada Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Extensive experience in building SaaS products. I like to think of myself as language agnostic. Most of my career has been building apps in JavaScript (ReactJS, VueJS), NodeJS (Next.JS, Express), PHP (Laravel) and Ruby (Rails). I have been a founder of various SaaS products and can go from zero to one on an idea. Résumé/CV: n/a Email: obaidott@gmail.com

Thanks, this is interesting.

Thanks for sharing your experience. I think I am just too comfortable in my OSX -- everything (kinda) works -- environment.

oh this gives me ideas to leverage my iPad Pro for dev work.. thanks for sharing the experience. I will look into it as well.

TLDR: your intuition is irrelevant / incorrect.

I ran and exited a startup with a young family. My daughter was 4 yrs old when I sold my company and I started it a year before my daughter was born.

My strategy was to divide my work day as best as possible:

Priorities: 1. Time with wife and kid 2. Customer calls 3. Everything else

I started to wake up early to have an hour to get myself organized. I would then block 6-9am for breakfast with family. 9am-3pm (6 hours) of customer calls/coding etc. 3pm-10pm totally available for family and I would only skip for essential calls (i.e. the hell is about to break lose and I think I had one day every month like that lol). 6pm-7pm was bed time for my daughter that I was responsible for and I am still responsible for it till today. 7pm - 10pm was time with wife, completely available for her for anything she wants. 10pm-2am work on my startup again. This was the most productive time for me as everyone was sleeping and my customers didn't expect me to reply back to them either.

It wasn't easy. Could not have done this without my wife who decided to stay at home with kid to help with everything.

I ended up selling the company about a year ago and we made a decent return back that ensured that we are mortgage free, having enough saved for my daughter and now I am actually getting my proper night sleep.

Itching to start something new though..

Haven’t heard anything yet. Let’s hope they didn’t forget. :)

I should’ve mentioned I am looking for events in Bay Area.

Happy to meet up with locals who are interested in this space.

Honestly, this came to my mind as well. I don't want to lie for many reason but simply I just hate keeping track of lies. Something I regret from my younger years in the college.

Is there a reason why this is a bad long term idea? I mean I am giving them fair 2 week notice, offering to help with knowledge transfer and certainly not trying to negotiate more money or anything from them.

thank you..

Yes, apologies for not clarifying that in the post.

I am not sure what I would use for chat. Jitsi (mentioned below) looks interesting.

Thank you.

Hi Peter, is there a way to apply to O-1 visa while on TN?

Thanks for the input. I will reach out to you in a day or so. :)

Fivestars got acquired..https://techcrunch.com/2021/10/13/european-point-of-sale-pro...

I haven't tried much to be honest. Not sure where to start from. I was searching for some book recommendations but feel like an in person coaching route may be better.

Where are you finding these contracts from? I am a very experienced Full-stack developer and would love to switch to contract work.

oh yeah.. I kinda forgot about that.. :)

I wonder if there is a room for a single viewer to bring all these subscription services into one place. You log into this one portal, connect all your streaming services with it and it creates a singular viewer.

As a user I don't want to jump from app to app to find my fav programs.

Perhaps a wishful thinking or a new YC startup?

Very neat! I was thinking about this the other day and waiting eagerly to get my Dalle access :)

btw, curious about your revenue from amazon ebook. Can you share any details about that?

Ah, that's too much of a promotion for me. ;)

Thanks for sharing your experience. I am most likely going to launch something in a year or so. But I do want to give "career" a try lol. I wonder if going IC route from Distinguished Engineer is an option. I am not even sure what comes after that.

Yes, I ran a startup where I managed/lead a team of 10 people. But that's a different world (at least according to me)

I just became a Distinguished Engineer hence thinking about the next steps in my career