Founder mode at @RSVPify + @ChangeTower | Product builder, grower, serial entrepreneur, bootstrapper and dad

Chicago, IL
Joined February 2019
I keep seeing people say Gemini 3.0 cannot replace designers. That might be true for big companies with large teams and complex design systems. But if your goal is to ship an MVP in the next few days, Gemini 3.0 is more than enough. I was able to one shot the entire UI of a mobile app with it. Here is the exact process I used ↓
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Pentesting firms don't want you to see this. An open-source AI agent just replicated their $50k service. A "normal" pentest today looks like this: - $20k-$50k per engagement - 4-6 weeks of scoping, NDAs, kickoff calls - A big PDF that's outdated the moment you ship a new feature Meanwhile, AI agents are quietly starting to perform on-par with human pentester on the stuff that actually matters day-to-day: ↳ Enumerating attack surface ↳ Fuzzing endpoints ↳ Chaining simple vulns into real impact ↳ Producing PoCs and remediation steps developers can actually use And they do it in hours instead of weeks and at a fraction of the cost. This approach is actually implemented in Strix, a recently-trending open-source framework (14k+ stars) for AI pentesting agent. The framework spins up a team of AI "attackers" that probe your web apps, APIs, and code. It then returns validated findings with exploit evidence, remediation steps, and a full PDF report that looks exactly like what you'd get from a traditional firm, but without a $50k invoice and a month-long wait time. You can see the full implementation on GitHub and try it yourself. Just run: `strix --target https: //your-app .com` and you are good to go. Human red teams aren't disappearing but the routine pentest (pre-launch, post-refactor, quarterly checks) is clearly shifting to AI. Strix is one of the first tools that makes that shift feel real instead of hypothetical. I've shared the GitHub repo in the replies.
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“Someday when I’m 80 sitting in my rocking chair drinking a Coors Light I’ll reflect back on this, but we have to much ahead of us right now” Hoosiers head coach Curt Cignetti with another classic comment on IU’s success this season
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We're thrilled to announce our team-up with @RSVPify to offer their users seamless and professional on-site badge printing for their in-person events 🤝 buff.ly/TyUj9pu #EventTech #BadgePrinting #OnsiteCheckIn #EventPlanning #EventPros #EventProfs #RSVPify #ExpoPass
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You’re telling me my deleted chatgpt chats are actually not deleted and is being saved to be investigated by a judge?
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This is insane to me.
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Used Veo 3 to imagine if Jurassic Park was real. This entire thing is AI! Things are gonna get weird #Veo3 #ai #JurassicPark #JurassicWorld
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Less than 24 hours since Google dropped Veo3 and people are already creating wild stuff! 13 insane examples 🧵👇 1. A giraffe riding a bike in NYC
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At what size company do you think you stop getting these spam messages? Like do you think Tim Cook, Satya Nadella, Jensen Huang, Mark Zuckerberg still get them?
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From managing tight budgets to handling post-event data, the right AI tools can help streamline the entire process. Here are our 10 favorite AI tools to make event management easier, more efficient, and more strategic. #ai #eventtech #eventplanning #eventsoftware #eventprofs
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MCP + Zapier is a pretty wild unlock
Zapier just gave your AI the keys their new MCP lets agents trigger 30,000+ actions across 8,000 apps with real access, not hacks.
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Google won't be doing away with its third-party cookies in Chrome after all of that... seroundtable.com/google-thir…
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Rare picture of two founders vibe coding their product
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Book scanning robot preparing food for his LLM brethren
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laugh now, cry later.
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theres probably a business model where you just create small scoped saas apps with vibe coding and grow them to $10,000 mrr and sell them for like $400,000 - $500,000 build 1 a quarter or 1 a month layer on same growth tactics each time build out an internal marketing agency that treats each product like a client offshore team does initial build hire offshore talent to smash bugs and do CX
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Reminder: Your idea is not unique. Your execution is.
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this is what's keeping me up at night these days... 1. google has become unusable. once you get used to "deep research" (thanks grok, perplexity etc), google feels like bringing a typewriter to a macbook meeting. 2. MCP will do for ai agents what REST did for web services - this standard protocol means an ai agent built for healthcare can instantly talk to billing systems, patient records, and insurance databases without custom code, unlocking thousands of new startup opportunities. it's really exciting! 3. we're seeing the entire cost structure of building businesses collapse - you can now build profitable companies serving tiny, weird niches that were impossible to reach when you needed a full team. what used to need 1000 customers to break even now needs 10. 4. it's not too late to be a creator or build a media business. creators are evolving into the new holding companies, consolidating influence, revenue streams, and audiences in ways that mirror corporate giants. somehow it's still early 5. really big arbitrage opportunity to buy businesses without taste and add taste. "taste private equity" has a nice ring to it. 6. figuring out LLM seo. billions of dollars will flow to new players who figure out how to get "cited" by LLMs. finally. 7. most ai apps are designed for websites not mobile. ai-first consumer mobile is really interesting. we saw with cal ai and the looksmaxing apps, that this is just the beginning. 8. every product launch needs video now - i'm watching great features die on landing pages while quick screen recordings go viral and drive thousands of signups. the social feeds have spoken. 9. what used to require millions in vc funding now needs an api key, some prompts and a tweet. this fires me up!! 10. faster than ever to launch something of quality. faster than ever to pivot. knowing when to pivot is an art. 11. i dont understand anyone who sitting in business school right now. literally everything is being rewritten. 12. who is building the app store for ai agents? companies will browse and hire pre-trained, specialized agents like we download apps 13. the way to stop a big player to compete with you in this new world is to own distribution. 14. you can spend a lot of time thinking about politics or checking emails or on social in the name of research, but not really moving forward anywhere. 15. we're about to see software companies capture value that used to belong to agencies, consulting firms, and entire departments. 16. we're about to go from "there's an app for that" to "there's your app for that. 17. minimum viable audience is more important than minimum viable product 18. I don't know how long this window stays open, but we're in a moment where all the rules of building businesses are being rewritten. and for the people who are playing with this new tools, putting stuff out there, creating audiences/communities, you've got an unfair advantage. i hope you get some sleep.
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🦃 Happy #Thanksgiving everyone!!! In the spirit of #givingthanks, from CEO @AriDriessen to all of our wonderful RSVPify users.
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This is F***ING crazy... Now your AI avatar can take Zoom calls in real-time, and you don’t even have to sit in front of the camera. Imagine giving an online interview now. What is real anymore?? xitter.cf/getpickleai/status/185…
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