Josh Pigford
@Shpigford
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✨ dabbler 🏒 collector 💰 @maybe 💱 @synth_finance *️⃣ @revisedev 🧰 @toolstashapp 🪴 @cedarandsail 🕵️♂️ @withoptic
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Joined January 2007
I sold @Baremetrics! After 7 years of work building this little company, Baremetrics has a new home. See the numbers, how we got here, what's changing (and what's not), what's next and more!.
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i mean seriously. the amount of work previously required to get this data from an image was bonkers. OCR calls, GPT to try to get the OCR data in to something useable, huge computer vision models to identify the object. all replaced by a single call to an openai endpoint.
been ~8 months since i've touched @ToolstashApp and so much has changed w/ computer vision + AI that i'm just going to rebuild it from scratch. openai vision API has replaced thousands of lines of code & an image training data set of 50k+ manually annotated/categorized tools. 🤪.
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and *this* is why i use virtual cards online. i'll contact exactly zero humans and just cancel the card. but also, not cool @semrush.
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After some 18 months of design, development & regulatory rap battling, @maybe has launched!. The team has worked so hard to build the greatest modern financial planning & wealth management platform w/ tools & resources you can't get anywhere else. 🧵👇
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Been working with @GrantRudow to finish out a new office space and I'm kind of giddy about it.
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I’m convinced anti-AI programmers just haven’t tried the right tools. @cursor_ai Pro plan ($20/mo) is worth $2000/mo.
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Back in March I tweeted that I was looking for someone to create these icons for us and paying $5 per icon. Not particularly difficult work but definitely tedious. Got a decent number of inquiries.
Looking to pay someone to format thousands of logos as icons for use in @maybe and @synth_finance. The VAST majority of these will be finding a given company logo mark and formatting it so it looks nice. All done in Figma. Paying $500 per 100 icons. Interested? josh@maybe.co
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. just realized he actually created a page on his portfolio about the work he supposedly did for us and that he got "done ahead of schedule". 🙄
tl;dr We paid a designer ~$70,000 to create some 14,000 stock market icons for us (think AAPL, VTI, SPY, etc). We've only received ~1,500 of them and he's now ghosting us. Buckle up. here's how that played out and where we're at now. .
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absolutely bonkers. 13 years in business, $110m in venture capital. shuts down with zero warning.
The accounting tool @Bench shut down with no warning 3 days before the end of the year. They had raised $110m in venture capital. The app is no longer accessible. There will be a way to export your data, but it's not available yet. File over app is not just for individuals.
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After this insanity on @Google's part, last week I switched to @DuckDuckGo and it's been fantastic. A breath of fresh, non-sleazy air.
“At that sort of scale, small changes in ad click-through rates could end up having a huge effect on Alphabet’s bottom line, even if it means tricking users for cheap clicks”, gotta juice that growth yo!
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@joelrunyon bingo. like, you want to build a dozen completely random things? go for it. but an "everything" app is the perfect way to create a "nothing" app.
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Here's my system for intentional focus I've been putting together recently, using @NotionHQ.
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1/ Fun milestone: @Baremetrics had its first fully-profitable year in 2019!. $151k in profit on $1.38m in revenue.
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February was @Baremetrics best month ever for both revenue and profit!. $135k in revenue & over $30k in profit!. Historically we've tried to operate right at breakeven (putting all profit back in to the business), so having that much profit was nice. Go team!
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1/ We're no longer pursuing building @maybe around part-time/fractional employment. Here's the note I sent to the team last week. While I'm still bullish on the concept, I no longer believe it can work for *new* product/software companies. At least it didn't for us. 🧵👇🏻
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