A lot of new faces, welcome ! Hey guys 👋🏻 As the winter is coming closer to the end ( hopefully 🤞🏼) , I am gonna plan getting involved more with the group and start uploading more stuff and will try to keep you all up to date on what's going on, the direction we will take and updates on my personal journey ... As you may or may not know, I am just a starting out entrepreneur , who is trying to get away from working for someone else and do mostly work for myself. It's easier said than done though. I'm sure a lot of us can relate juggling multiple aspects of life and trying to learn new things, all while raising kids ,spending time with loved ones and trying to balance it. Just a little recap from last year that gave me a substantial boost in self confidence and confidence in working in this trade in general. Last year, around May, I gave my notice to my boss, who I was employed with for over 15 years. At the time I had a company already registered, but no work coming in and a local contractor reached out to me and said that he wants to retire. I took it as a sign and said ok, let's work together for a bit and see what we can come up with. Long story longer...I figured that I didn't want to take on responsibility for the work that wasn't done by me and by taking over a company I would automatically be obligated to take care of the customers that had any sort of problems with their garage floors. We had a pretty good influx of work coming in. About 2 garage floors per week was a normal steady pace, being a one crew team we handled it as best as we could while trying to fix older equipment and making it work with whatever other means we had. That's when I got a real good perspective on things, old vs new equipment, 15$ / hour guys vs 25$ an hour labor and not to mention all the call backs from the previous jobs, but that's a different story. I made a lot of mental notes , put the blinders on and kept breathing all that cement dust and after a while I realized that a small service based business like that is only worth as much as a person who is running it , plus maybe the equipment .

After going through introduction a few times I think I’m definitely ready to move to stage 2! Will most likely stay in that section for a bit learning but looking forward to it!

Have any of you tried creating a webpage from scratch? I never used to know how to code even a little bit, but I had the basic knowledge that all we see on the screen online is just a bunch of lines of code. How awesome is that we have ai now and with that we don't need to know how, we just need to know what we want and being able to express the idea to ai, it guides you through every step of the way and I didn't even use a paid version. Initially when I started, I rushed to get a website and just made it with one of the companies that offer ai building platforms, but it is of course subscription based, so because I wasn't really using most of their features, I didn't see the point of paying 20$ each month just to have a web page. Quite frankly I am not convinced that nowadays we even need a web page for a business, social media works pretty well, but anyway... Just spend half of the day creating a simple landing page with the contact form, so I can get messages redirected straight to my work e-mail address. I owned domain for a while and I found a provider who hosts for free, so I don't need to pay dreamhost or any other company. That was a little complicated with all the dns routing and a bunch of other technical detail that chat GPT was walking me through, but I am happy to announce that it is very doable, just need a lot of patience...without patience it's definitely way easier to just make it on wix or squarespace . Oh , that was another thing. When I was purchasing domain originally, it was on google domains and since then squarespace took over all their stuff and I totally forgot all the credentials for accessing that domain, so I had to go through my bank statements to find a proof of purchase, that it was my domain 😬 But long story short, chat GPT can spit out a text file in 5 seconds, that is saved as .html and hosted in couple clicks. I feel like a geek now 😁 I just made a simple model that I will be working on, but it's functional and that's all it matters for today !

Alright, alright , alright ... Thanks for stopping by, this is an official introduction post, where we get to know who you are and you get to see who's all here. Please, take a minute to Read 📚 this and introduce yourself in this post 👇 Whatever you want to share, where you're from or what you do, attach a picture of your cat 🐱​ or your favorite .gif There's no right or wrong here. Just for occasion of meeting new members, it's absolutely acceptable to share links to any of your projects or social media pages that you are working on, after that, we try to keep self promotion to a minimum, but we also do have a separate post, where you can just share your social media and follow other people's accounts if you like. In one way or the other you are interested in epoxy and that's awesome ,because that's what this community is all about.There's so many applications for it besides floors. Where are you at in this journey and how did you get in ? Or if you just trying to see what's it all about, all good , let's hear about it 😉 Anytime feel free to reach out to any members here and ask for help, you can click the 🔔 icon in the top right corner to get notifications of any new members saying hi. After you are done, I recommend checking ​the Classroom for our Onboarding, which will take you through the process of what's going on here.