Yesterday I got my first refund request for MonetizedOS™. This guy’s been in the industry for 20+ years and knows his sh*t. He lives in Michigan, about 90 minutes from where I grew up. His exact word: “Unusable.” He was 100% right. So instead of just processing the refund, I asked if he’d jump on a call with me. He said yes. We chatted for 1 hour and 20 minutes! About all kinds of things. We kicked off the call with Michigan weather, of course. He walked me through some of his frustrations,…

I pissed off the AI and SaaS bros yesterday. I repurpose my emails into long-form Threads posts. I did that last night. Logged on this afternoon to a small dumpster fire in my notifications. People went after the MonetizedOS™ page hard. Some of the feedback… This is what happens when you push a product into the world as quickly as possible without thinking about the brand as a whole first. Your website is wordy, and it’s unclear what your product does. If you’d taken the time to think about…

You ever have a day where nothing goes to plan?!? Yea, me, too. It’s 6:51 pm. I’ve yet to shower. I had a convo with my developer last night at 11:00 pm “I’m launching this thing in 13 hours (noon)” I originally planned to launch it at 8 am, however, told him noon as I know we had things to do. I woke up this morning assuming he’d been working on it while I was drooling on my pillow. That was a stupid assumption. “Are you going to hook up Stripe? Why isn’t the domain set up?” I asked him this…

I drove Uber at 2 AM in Las Vegas to keep the lights on. Not metaphorically. Literally. Picking up drunk strangers on a Tuesday night because the online business wasn’t paying all the bills. I missed family dinners. I missed tucking the kids in at night. I put about 80,000 miles on my car before it got totaled. Then I jumped on Threads and answered hundreds of questions, 2 to 4 hours a day, and drove Uber at night. I launched Threads Unleashed on day 32 on the platform. That little 43 page…