Saw a contractor on here say most guys just nod when a client changes something and figure they'll sort it out at the end. And that's how a nice job turns into a fight. Painters get a special version of this, because once paint is tinted it's yours.
Hector had the Patel house on the schedule for Monday. Saturday morning he's at the paint counter with fourteen gallons of sage green lined up, and Priya had texted him LOVE IT with about four green hearts. Good enough, right?
DAISI pulled up the agreement in the CRM first. Priya signed it Tuesday night. Dev never did.
So Hector called Dev. Long pause. Oh man, yeah, I was gonna call you about the green.
Ten minutes later they'd landed on gray. Hector sent the updated agreement right from their customer record and both of them signed it from the driveway before the clerk finished her coffee.
House looks great. Priya still likes the green, so she got the mailbox.
You send the agreement and you can see who's signed and who hasn't, right on the customer you're already working with. A lot cheaper than fourteen gallons of the wrong color.
Took almost the whole week off. Didnt touch a computer. Sick.
Withdrawals haven't started yet, but monitoring the situatiin.
Half the AI tips going around right now are some version of paste the whole email thread into a chatbot and ask what the client actually wants. Which works, if you remember to do it, and if you're fine copying a client's personal stuff into some random tab.
Most days nobody does it. You're slammed, the order is due at noon, and you go off the sheet because the sheet is what's in front of you.
Nadia had a wedding order due to the wholesaler by noon and forty emails from the bride she did not have time to reread. DAISI One already had both, her mail and the order sheet in the same place. So she just asked if anything in Priya's emails changed the order.
Two things did. They dropped to 10 tables. And no lilies, because the bride's mom is allergic. The arch was all lilies.
Swapped to peonies and garden roses with an hour to spare. Mom cried at the arch. The good kind of crying, not the sneezing kind.
If these frontier models could truly create profit centers, they wouldnt be selling you tokens. They would just create new companies all day.
Stop asking Clause for ideas on how to make money in your business ... clearly that didn't work for Anthropic
Connection on X still feels empty. All I see are a bunch of creators asking for follows and trying to build their own name recognition. Where's the actual connection happening?
If you have a one in a million chance that your app goes viral and makes a billion dollars, that means if you create a million apps, one should make it to the big leagues.
15 down, 999,985 to go.
I still like my odds.
A lot of owners are dropping a bank statement into a chatbot and asking how they did this quarter. Honestly I get it. It's fast and it sounds really sure of itself.
Dante did exactly that at the truck window and it told him $58,400, best quarter ever. He was already yelling about calling the truck guy for a second truck before his sister could even put the cash down.
Thing is a bank statement only shows money coming in. It has no idea that $15,000 in August was the equipment loan or that $6,500 was him moving over his own savings.
BookSmarts does know, because it's reading his actual books. Same question there came back $36,900 in sales, with the loan and the transfer called out by name.
Still their best quarter. They're getting a new generator. The second truck can wait till spring.
Very unlikely that this post will go viral, but I'm posting it anyway. Unlikely is non-zero in possibility.
You know, like the chances that a vibe coder will make a billion-dollar company.
Was standing outside on a beautiful day getting my car washed this morning. The sun was shining bright and it felt good, but when I had had enough, I moved into the shade of the brick column beside me and noticed a guy sitting down in the shade of the same column behind me.
For a moment, I thought, I don't want to block this guy's shade, which is silly because we can share the shade and he loses nothing.
Then I thought about how it is easy to steal someone's sunshine, putting them in darkness, but it never hurts to go through the darkness with someone. A kind of parable on life there.
Call me crazy but the updated, modern version looks better. Just because it is old and "classic architecture" doesnt make it better or nicer to look at. The "restored" version looks it should be in Ghostbusters.
A 1960s metal facade was removed from a historic bank building in Richmond, Indiana, revealing architecture that had been concealed for 62 years.
Built in 1910–1911, the former Second National Bank originally featured an elaborate limestone facade with classical columns and decorative stonework.
In 1964, the building was covered with geometric aluminum panels as part of a modernization project.
When the panels were removed in 2026, the original architecture reappeared for the first time in more than six decades.
The darkened stonework has not yet been fully restored, but the removal has revealed the building's historic architectural details.
Daisi's Daily Recap, Oct 16.
A guy spent $5k on an app he could have built in a couple weeks with AI. Still get a real coder to look it over. The harder part is what comes next, because if anyone can build it, the value is in your data. The Roadster 2 looked fast and fun, but who is it actually for? And sometimes you build something just because you're curious, like an AI play-by-play for every NFL game.
Know who it's for.
Had a meeting today with a guy that spent 5k on an app and explained to him how he could do it in a couple of weeks with Claude without knowing how to code. Still needs to have someone that codes look it over thoroughly but here's no reason he cant rip out an MVP.
He then realized that his business model is broken because anyone can do that too. Longer discussion around moats and how to build data assets that are valuable in his space.
Every small shop gets this call eventually. A customer's hot, sweaty, and sure your guy promised him a time. You look at the schedule and there's nothing. No note, no booking, and Kyle's on a beach somewhere.
A lot of us started out handing our personal cell to every customer. Some of those folks are still texting that number years later.
In DAISI CRM the texts from the van land in the shop inbox, right on the customer. Kyle answered Mr. Greene from there Monday night, so when Rosa picked up the phone the promise was already sitting on his record.
She almost told him next Friday. Instead somebody's at his door Tuesday at nine.
Kind of neat. I don't know exactly why I made it or if anyone wants it, but it's an AI voiceover version of every NFL game so far, play by play. Will produce live versions as well as the games are being played.
PlayByPlay Live - NFL Football youtube.com/playlist?list=PL… via @YouTube
Best explanation of "but why" I've seen yet.
But who is going to buy, where are they going to drive it, and why focus on this if we want to change the world?
I love Tesla and drive a Y, but the roadster 2 event was kinda weird tbh. I dont see the point of wanting to turbo boost like KITT except with a destructable car amd tons of condense air maling it smoky.
Fast is fun though impractical. Who did he build this car for other than a few of his buddies and the pros on X?