Show Notes
In the last episode I told you I'd hit a wall building an AI product in 100 days. This is what happened after I asked for help.
So many of you replied, and a handful of those replies changed how I build. One pointed me to Matt Pocock's skills on GitHub, which exposed an embarrassing habit: session after session I'd been telling Claude "ship it" and assuming the change went live. It didn't.
Others told me I was trying to boil the ocean. So the PLG analyzer now finds one opportunity worth your week instead of three, and a judge agent decides what matters most rather than a formula weighing everything the same. My own rating went from a 4 out of 10 to a 6.
Next up is cost and speed. A free assessment still costs 40 to 60 cents and takes about two minutes, and I want it under 60 seconds.
I close on something that has little to do with the build: using AI to write without ending up sounding 80% like yourself.
IN THIS EPISODE
00:00 Day 39, and why updates are now every two weeks
00:47 Stuck, and what happened when I asked for help
02:01 Matt Pocock's skills, and the 11 I use all the time
02:37 I said ship it, and nothing shipped
03:41 Stop trying to boil the ocean
04:16 Why a formula misses the biggest problem on your site
04:57 From three opportunities to one worth your week
05:46 Why an LLM product needs a judge agent
06:58 Eric's idea: a playbook behind every recommendation
08:14 The next two weeks: cost and speed
09:20 From a 4 out of 10 to a 6
10:08 What I learned
10:42 Sound like yourself when AI writes for you
MENTIONED
Run the free assessment: https://productled.com
Matt Pocock's skills: https://github.com/mattpocock/skills
Wes Bush on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wesbush/
What's one skill or tool someone recommended that changed how you build?
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