If you have the opportunity, I highly recommend you spend the night at the zoo.
I had a chance to do that this past weekend with my son’s cub scout pack. So we got to go in Saturday evening after the zoo closed, and then explored the park that night and again the next morning before everyone else got to come in.
It was a really cool experience.
But around that experience, I worked on launching something new: BuildInPublic.coach.
It’s an AI chatbot that can act as your building in public coach, based on the work I’m doing with a couple of people. I really believe that more people should be building in public, even if they aren’t building a product.
Looks like Farza and the Buildspace/Nights and Weekends team agrees. I love this change they are making. I’m planning on working on BuildInPublic.coach as part of the next season of Nights and Weekends
I focused one of my YouTube videos on my approach to the very beginning of the project last week too, so if that’s something you’re interested in, here you go:
And then over the weekend, I was able to get it deployed to app.buildinpublic.coach. Feel free to sign up and play with it. Still have quite a few small things I need to tweak with it, but it works and does a pretty decent job.
I think there’s a chance that this could also become pretty customizable in the future, so that more people could offer their thinking in more of a coaching style. But v1 is all about just seeing if people use it and what benefit they get from it.
Should be fun to watch it evolve!
Content Corner
I’ve listened to a couple of really great podcasts this week. First up, what happens when you sell your company for $200M? How does that change you? This was an incredible conversation between Danny Miranda and Patrick Campbell. Really went deep into all sorts of topics that I wasn’t expecting.
I also thought Danny’s interview with Dakota Meyer touched on some really interesting points. I’ll be honest too, the title almost made me avoid it. I think there’s a tendency to really go into toxic territory with things like this, but I trusted in Danny because I love his approach, and I listened past my hesitation. And I’m really glad I did.
What comes after SaaS? That’s a topic that was explored in this essay by Dan Shipper.
I think it’s pretty on-point, honestly. It’s pretty close to what I’ve been thinking we’ll be heading toward. Ultimate customizability is the dream.
Finally, I’m trying something new. I posted a thread yesterday on Twitter with a recap of my last week on YouTube.
Let me know if that’s helpful/useful/interesting at all!
Thanks for reading!