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Explore episode Mar 9, 2026

I'm just noticing in the SaaS world that it's also just incredibly more competitive. Even this year alone, when it comes to quality of landing pages, the amount of blogs that our competitors are releasing — where am I spending most of my time? A lot of the things around outreach still feels like AI is just not great at outreach.

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Is AI Actually Making You More Productive? Honest Answers from the Trenches

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Business

AI Productivity Is Real — But It Made Everything More Competitive, Not Easier

Anthropic Missed a $200M Pentagon Deal by 15 Minutes | The … · Mar 9, 2026 Business

AI genuinely makes individuals more productive. But it has also turbo-charged every competitor. Landing pages are better, content is cheaper, and growth channels are flooded. The net result in SaaS: more capability, more competition, similar difficulty. The humans are still winning on outreach and relationship-building.

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Plan Your AI System Before You Build It — Or You'll Rebuild From Scratch

Anthropic Missed a $200M Pentagon Deal by 15 Minutes | The … · Mar 9, 2026 Technology

The most common AI workflow mistake is skipping the architecture phase. Rick rebuilt his first vibe-coded project from scratch in 48 hours after two weeks of messy iteration because he hadn't planned the full system. Map every step, every agent connection, and every tool integration before writing a single prompt.

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I don't mean the whole Twitter build in public where you document the process of you building your SaaS. I genuinely think that's a whole bunch of rubbish, but that's my personal opinion on it. I think that you should build your product with your users.

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Most people see that, and what they'll do still is go in the server and be like, 'Hi, I've got this tool, please use it.' But you just look like spam. You look like an annoying person. And I think the main thing you have to do first is build maybe a bit of rapport in the community.

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Just crazy to think like there's these tiny places of pockets on the internet. It's pretty cool. A million different places to go find people. You just got to like understand a certain niche really well to know where to go look.

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My funnel is super simple. You just write content every single day and push that audience or traffic to your waitlist landing page and you collect those emails because from those emails you will get your first 100 customers.

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