My Adopting Bitcoin talk is live and available on Rumble.
https://rumble.com/v71t7em-building-sovereign-ai-in-el-salvador.html
Basically, I'd like to transition my business from builder mode to value-creation mode. I need either clients, partnerships, or (a lot of) customers within a month or two.
38 minutes is a lot of time to ask of you and I don't expect a ton of folks to watch it all, so here's the tl;dr.
I am an independent, solo founder building software that competes against Big Tech with technical jujitsu. I identify where Big Tech's strengths (blind spots) are and craft "sly, roundabout ways" that can turn their biggest revenue generators into their largest liabilities, quickly. I'm unable to discuss this strategy publicly at this time, but I am happy to go into more detail on a private, unrecorded call with trusted folks of integrity.
To get more concrete, I've spent the last year and a fair amount of my own cash creating an interoperative API network with artificial intelligence that is capable of creating beautiful apps and foundational changes to the way content is created, consumed, marketed, accessed, stored, and more. I've tweeted about it a lot, and the last ≈7 minutes of the video is a demo of my corporate site and Hash.pink which is the best working example of a site that is driven by several of my proprietary AI tools as well as a showcase of my proprietary collaborative API tooling.
That being said, I don't want to paint it as anything more than an alpha release at this stage. I haven't tested security and privacy in "hardcore" mode yet, although it follows the best practices other sites/apps use. So, I wouldn't trust anything I've made with your medical history or private information just yet. I'd treat it like a younger Drive/Evernote/etc, where you store information you need to access quickly, but you trust your local storage or other options for more sensitive information.
Apart from those light technical details, I'm one of the only developers who is openly and eagerly biased toward traditional family values, forgotten folks in America, homeschoolers, anti-vaxxers, 2nd amendment enthusiasts, J6 prisoners and activists, and others who'd self-identify as MAGA, libertarian, rightwing, as a sovereign individual, or as something else on the "dissident" spectrum that causes you to mistrust the "experts" and mainstream sources.
Since I fit in with several (ok, probably all) of those groups and have faced de-banking and censorship for my political and personal beliefs, I feel the pain acutely. During COVID, the prevailing wisdom from the Left was, "Learn to code, build your own platform." I took their advice and that's what I've done and want to keep doing.
My goal isn't just to FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT, I want to create genuinely useful products that are delightful to use, more performant than competitors, at a lower price whenever possible. I want to encourage the kind of dialog that Charlie Kirk died for to repair the way humans interact with each other, as opposed to the way current sources of information/media get us to fight with each other because otherwise, we'd be fighting them. Of course, they just can't have that!
It's not just "I want" or "I will," I've actually built out several functioning products that you can try out today. Right now. All of them are heavily reliant upon my ecosystem. It rocks, and building without it is like going from listening to audio at 2.5x speed to 0.25 speed.
It is that good to use it. And moving at my unassisted faster-than-average pace without it is agonizing and slow.
So, I'm asking for help now, because we don't have a lot of time if we want to have a fighting chance to combat the dominance that OpenAI, Gemini, etc already enjoy. I need these tools to work because they're impactful to my life as an entrepreneur, designer, developer, and human. If you use them, they'll be similarly impactful for you, and since I'm trying my best to stay small, reachable, and boutique... I'm literally a call or a DM away. I want to stay that way because I am building for YOU and I want to know how I can improve your future.
If I run into a situation where money gets tight in the coming months/year and I have to choose between working a corporate job and taking care of my family or allowing my family to starve, I'm going to sacrifice the mission for my family. That's what men do. But it'll hurt, because I genuinely believe that if I do not do this work, I am not only forsaking the path God has set out for me, but I'd hold myself personally responsible for the more dystopian future that we'll almost certainly wind up in.
I don't (necessarily) want your money, this isn't a GiveSendGo.
Instead, I'm exploring different paths to creating value for my community. I can build apps for businesses or families, or I can get a bunch of users for my current apps, I can raise an investment round, or... lots of options. I'm just not sure which path is best for me, so I am open to advice, suggestions, and introductions to help me decide.
If this Bitcoin price action hadn't unexpectedly eroded 25% of my treasury's purchasing power in the last month, I wouldn't be writing this. But it did, in just the last few days, and after speaking at Adopting and hearing from others who validated the need for my solutions, I feel like now is the time to switch into growth mode. If for nothing else, because we need a little optimism after so many hardships since 2020.
If you value who I'm building for and/or what I'm creating, reach out. My DMs are open, and if you don't have a way to DM, email me: cubby@colonhyphenbracket.pink.
I'm just switching into this mode and feeling pumped, so I am eager to hear ideas, do podcasts, meet with individuals, families, groups, businesses, churches. All of 'em.
Let's change the future together!
