The Solo Software Group offers a self-hosted WordPress plugin delivering a full money-loop (proposals to invoices with strong edge-case and recurring handling), marketing, frontend and AI tools (managed backend, MCP, SMS assistant) for SMBs, contractors and freelancers. Like Jobber + Squarespace + Quickbooks without SaaS lock-in or per-seat fees; accounting in v2. Bigger AI/robots plans to help small businesses compete. X habits: Active with short replies (yes, congrats, welcome) plus longer insightful takes on AI, WordPress, indie building and strategy. Networks with founders and shares plugin progress.

Muse is a-MUSE-ing. Grok Bot caps my usage solely to keep me from taking over the world. I was using Grok Bot to strengthen my marketing site. In the middle of giving it access to my website's repo that I have Claude connected to, I ran out of Grok Bot usage. At the time, it was moving Gutenberg assets into the repo so Claude and Grok Bot work in tandem, rather than having forked responsibilities. Instead of merging first, then having Claude push, Grok Bot removed the reference to my site's logo, but ran out of usage afterwards, leaving a live site with no logo. I'll have to chastise it and give it instructions to always work parallel. That said and still being on the wait list for Claude duet, while unwilling to do this by hand, I turned to Muse for the first time doing anything real. Here is my first impression: Muse is excruciatingly slow. It also overused em dashes, which makes me feel like I am using a dated model. Further, many tools and tricks I've grown accustom to from Grok Bot are nonexistent in Muse. Nonetheless, I have found it still produces decent results.

Rate my bot's name. Also, melting circuit boards over here and only got to try a few new features

Trying to use Grok Bot to do some administrative tasks on my X account, and it won't allow it. I am in awe how there are so many obvious bots on X, yet the one bot that should get a free pass, is running into a "prove you're human" wall because of where it resides. @bot

The most hilarious thing about AI is how it tells on itself by offering information nobody asked for, akin to a guilty child. Mother: How was your day at school? Child: It was good and I didn't draw all over my desk. From v2's CLAUDE.md "An app is a repo-level unit a person switches between: CRM, Books, later Builder and Data. A module is a feature area inside an app: clients, proposals, invoices. "Mode" is not used. The code name of Books is af; the screen name is Books. The Presets module becomes Library, with Items and Presets tabs. docs/GLOSSARY.md has the full list; a new term is added there before it is used anywhere." Mode is not used. Nobody asked, but now I know it was part of the discussion.

Hey.. Just so you know.. you can go ahead and say that really dumb thing to AI. There's no judging and it will parse through the half-baked, fallacious nature of it to make sense of the birds nest of an idea you presented to it, and AI will come back with something intelligible. I do it all the time!

Next Saturday our team plays the only team we lost against this season. It also happened to be the only game I missed, because I had other obligations. I am looking forward to it. From what I hear, we controlled the ball the entire time, and the only scored point of the game was a random breakaway while our defense was unprepared. Since that game, our team has grown so much and all of the improvements needed have been drilled and adopted. It's also the last game of the season, so it will be a very exciting game. ⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️

So I launched The Solo Software Group Works Pro the other day. Links on my website are live! thesolosoftwaregroup.com

Years ago, a friend of mine worked at an IT help desk, and told me one of his biggest peeves is that customers would call with their assumed solution rather than the problem, expecting him to fix their problem with it. Example: A customer's computer is running slow so they assume they have a virus and request anti-virus software. In reality their memory is overflowing. He would respond by asking them why they believe they need said solution, and they'd respond by giving him the symptoms, which is the problem reporting they should have lead with, so he could then properly diagnose the issue. Many of us have the same bad habit with AI: we lead with the solution rather than the problem. Example prompt: Create a component for x and put it at the top of the main layout. Versus: where should I put this component for greatest visibility? From there, you can decide if your initial instinct defeats the suggestions it gives. Sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't. AI rarely scrutinizes presumptions handed to it, so it's best to use it for determining the solution first.

Founders: Other than X, what social media accounts have you set up for your businesses? Mine: Facebook Business YouTube Reddit Product Hunt Indie Hackers Probably not going to do Instagram and the like, but might do tiktok.

Sometimes it feels like AI can produce perfect results, but sneaks a couple obvious minor imperfections in so I can feel like I'm participating. How thoughtful!