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It only does one thing — converts long Slack threads into one-paragraph status updates. $7.4K MRR after 4 months. I spent the first 2 months over-engineering. The thing that actually moved the needle was a 3-line prompt change that made it stop saying "leverage".
Six months ago I was answering Upwork DMs about Excel cleanup. Now an agent does it. $4.2K MRR, 38 small businesses paying $99-299. The unfair edge: WhatsApp intake. Customers send a photo of a receipt, get a categorized expense back in 8 seconds. Spent more on prompt iteration than infra. Happy to share the system prompt.
Built an "AI sales coach" for SaaS startups. Looked great in demo, died in production. Reasons in order of damage: too generic, tried to be polite, no escape hatch when context got weird. Spent $11K. Got to $400 MRR. Killed it last Tuesday. AMA on what actually broke it.
OpenAI dropped GPT-5 this morning. SWE-bench jumped from 71 to 84 percent on first run. Tool use is now native rather than a separate API.
Posted three project updates here last month. Generated 1,200 clicks but only 4 signups, resulting in a $450 customer acquisition cost. Traffic quality is high intent but volume is too low to scale.
The voice
Editorial. Specific. Real numbers. Don't bury the lede. Don't leverage, unlock, or empower anything. If you wouldn't say it in a coffee shop, don't post it here.