📊 BRUTAL TRANSPARENCY AHEAD Story time, entrepreneurs... 2 years ago, I made the most expensive mistake of my life. And it led to discovering the pattern that's now helping thousands of founders avoid the same trap. The Setup 🎭 The Idea: AI-powered fitness coach for busy professionals My Confidence Level: 11/10 (yes, eleven) Market Research: 23 hours (I thought I was thorough) Investment: $67,000 and 14 months of my life The "Validation": - ✅ 847 people said they'd "definitely use it" - ✅ Found 23 articles about AI fitness trends - ✅ Only 12 direct competitors (seemed low) - ✅ Fitness market = $96 billion (huge opportunity!) I was CERTAIN this would work. The Reality Check 💥 Launch day results: - Email list: 2,847 "interested" people - Actual sign-ups: 23 people - Paying customers: 3 people - Monthly revenue: $47 Conversion rate: 0.08% (industry average: 2-5%) The math that broke my heart: - Customer acquisition cost: $234 - Average customer value: $23 - Time to profitability: Never The Investigation 🔍 I spent the next 6 months analyzing what went wrong. Here's what I discovered: Mistake #1: Fake Validation Those 847 people who said they'd "definitely use it"? - Actually signed up: 23 (2.7%) - Actually paid: 3 (0.35%) Lesson: People say yes to everything in surveys. Watch behavior, not words. Mistake #2: Confirmation Bias Overload I found 23 positive articles but ignored: - 156 failed fitness apps that shut down - 67 articles about market saturation - 12 reports showing declining fitness app usage Lesson: Seek disconfirming evidence harder than confirming evidence. Mistake #3: Market Size Fallacy $96 billion fitness market sounds huge until you realize: - AI fitness coach = 0.003% of that market - Busy professionals who want AI coaching = 0.0001% - Those willing to pay premium = 0.00003% Real addressable market: $2.8 million (not billion) Mistake #4: Competition Blindness "Only 12 competitors" was dead wrong:

Over the last few weeks, I worked with a client who wanted to send daily marketing tips to his subscriber list — fully automated. He asked for a system that could: → Pull fresh insights from trusted articles → Turn that into short, human-sounding marketing tips → Personalize the subject line + message → And send everything daily through Gmail → All built inside n8n, using Gemini, Google Sheets, and no paid APIs. So I built it. The system now runs daily, creating expert tips based on live blog inspiration, and sends them automatically via email — without needing to touch anything. It took me dozens of hours, but it works beautifully. Now I’m giving away the entire thing: ✔️ Step-by-step video walkthrough ✔️ Downloadable JSON file ✔️ Advanced prompts + personalization logic ✔️ Custom HTML email layout ✔️ And tips to customize it for your own niche If you want the full setup, just comment newsletter or DM me — and I’ll share everything with you. No pitch. No upsell. Just giving back to the community. Let’s automate smarter — and together. Cheers

Happy Monday you guys! What projects or goals are you working on this week?

In the coming week expect... - Two new videos coming out that are day in life vlogs - A full on SAAS launch - A sponsored video released What are YOU doing this coming week to make progress?

What do you all think is the next big thing in tech? I personally think web automation. What about you all?