What you build when no one is watching, defines your SUCCESS

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An entrepreneur's recipe for sweet success

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I had an idea for a hat to make for myself... then I might have gotten carried away on other designs...

Here's the link if any of them float your boat.

SIDE NOTE: I made the design in Canva and then started a Printful store and uploaded the design. SUPER easy! Id be happy to show you how to do it yourself and send you the designs. It'll save you maybe $10 off the price of the hat if you just make them... or for convenience, these are available HERE

Your time is valuable and I don’t want to waste it, so let’s hop right in with something tactical!

You don’t need to be a software engineer to build cool things anymore.

Seriously, if I can do this, you can.

I’ve talked about this a few times, but what the point I’m trying to drill in here is that YOU are your limiting factor now.

The tools are there.

Do something with them!

Here’s the most basic breakdown of starting something like this. Even with a free Claude account.

1) Describe your desired outcome in detail, and in plain English, in the text box of the chat.

2) Ask AI generate the code to accomplish it, and then give you the step-by-step instructions to run the code*
3) Make adjustments and improvements through normal conversation with the AI*

What you want is to focus on the outcome rather than PERFECTION.

Think— validate THEN adjust.
You might not be able to take it to the full 100% completion (yet), but if you can get a beta MVP model out, you can easily have someone help you take it the last 15% home.

Now for some small bites to chew on…

Bite 1 - THIS is when your success is defined

Bite 2 - You have the “right stuff”

Bite 3 - Mysterypreneur Link

Bite 4 - The AI Juice 🧃

BITE 1:

"THIS is when your success is defined"

I might be projecting, so feel free to reply if I’m off base here, but if you are reading this, you’re most likely still trying to figure “it” out. That’s the audience / reader I speak to. If you actually have it all figured out and you’re on the other side of the trench, thank you for joining us, it’s an honor.

For everyone else, here’s the deal— right now is the HARDEST stage you’ve been through yet.

The messy middle
The in between
The unknown

Whatever you want to call it, uncertainty is NOT fun. I get it. But it’s what you create in this very stage that lays the foundation for what’s to come.

I shared this on Twitter the other day as an illustration of what I’m talking about here:

@kevinasrx

Your success isn’t late…

It’s loading.

6:11 PM • Apr 13, 2025 ↗

The work that you’re putting in right now is loading your success. You might not see it or feel it, but it’s happening.

Whatever that work looks like for you, it doesn’t feel like it’s paying off, but I promise you it is.

While the timeline is not entirely clear, or ever will be, I want you to rest assured that if YOU show up, so will the results.

Or at least that’s what I’m telling myself 🤣

BITE 2:

You have the “right stuff”

I just finished reading this book here by the creator of Dilbert, Scott Adams

Incredible book! I shared my too 10 quotes from the book HERE

But there’s one that I just can’t get it out of my head…

The success of affirmations is neither here nor there. What I want to hone in on is the sentence underlined in blue.

“Perhaps only the people who know, deep down, that they have the right stuff to succeed will even bother doing affirmations."

Success might involve the great lengths you go to or the relentless things that you do… but It starts and ends with one thing— a feeling, a belief, a deep rooted assurance that you WILL make it.

BITE 3:

Mysterypreneur Link

Anything in the entrepreneur world! You never know what you’ll get.

BITE 4:

The AI Juice 🧃

Let’s talk vibe coding for a second. I’ve mentioned this before a bit, but I’ll break it down properly here.

What Is “Vibe Coding”?
It basically means using AI to code from plain English prompts.
Instead of getting lost in the details, all you need to do it focus on outcomes. The AI handles the deets.

Think: “I want this to happen…” → AI gives you code + steps.

What Not to Vibe Code (Yet):
Anything involving...

Money
Business
Critical dashboards
Legal contracts
Secure data
Complex app integrations (use Zapier, Make, etc.)

If you want to start SUPER basic and mess around with what it’s like to code a useful function for your everyday headaches. Check THIS out.

Until next time...

Stay in the fight,

My best tweet this week:

@kevinasrx

New business idea: Shiny Object Chaser.

You hire them.

They test the latest money making trend.

They report back—what worked, what flopped, and whether it’s worth your time.

Because let’s be honest… most people don’t need more ideas… 🙋🏻‍♂️

They need someone to chase the

8:31 AM • Apr 13, 2025 ↗

My favorite tweet this week:

@gregisenberg

how to create a profitable physical product startup (with ai, agents, and only $100 in your bank account):

first, i’d generate the idea → open chatgpt-4o/sora and type something like “iphone case that looks like windows 95 meets clippy”

generate 3+ image variants: top, back,

7:3 AM • Apr 12, 2025 ↗