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A gun is a tool too. Now the problem is of course? guns do not kill people. People who use guns do. The crux of the problem to me it seems is. How we use the tool? i am NOT a believer in tge A.I doomsday ala AYN RAND. I think its just HYPE. A.I is built by humans. Humans have an evolutionary motive. A.I does not. A.I does not have Agency. It would "appear" that way but it does not. "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic," which is known as Clarke's Third Law. I agree A.I is a tool. You just need to practice using it. It can be used for bad or good. I bet criminals are already at it. A model without guardrails. Dark A.I. You can't have the good without the bad.

I am trying but its DAMN hard todo. I make 1% buy fee if a dealer in my network

buys a tesla - https://www.onlyusedtesla.ai/

I made some money. I am going to keep tryin.

Model Y L finally ! 6 seater will kill the model X demand

I do not want to earn a billion dollars. I want to earn a billion minutes to live longer.

I am a one man shop. I am working on this - https://www.onlyev.com/ I have been on my own now for 10 years. I am taking it one day at a time. I learned that time is my important resource as i get older. I am 54 and i just take it day by day. I am only good at sales. Its a simple business. A lotta people are doing it. I live in NYC and its not cheap here.

Nobody buying a Ferrari needs an EV. A Ferrari is a flex, like a $100k Rolex — you’re not buying it to tell time, you’re buying it to signal you got loot. That’s what makes the Luce feel kinda confused.

I am 54 . I have been on my own for the last 12 years. I have learned one hard lesson. Surviving IS SUCCEEDING. Yes yes. The problem for me is i have ADHD + i maybe on the spectrum ( i never got diagnosed)+ dylexia and i can't write for shit. come to think about it im not that smart either. IDK. I have a one man shop online business. I only really have 1 skill . I only know how to sell. I grew up in NYC selling fake rolex watches to german tourist back in the day. I mostly worked in luxury retail on madison ave selling luxury handbags for like $30k a pop. I had a job i could not take direction then i started my own business. I launched in 2018 and then i found out that anyone can copy you at anytime. I had kind of a breakdown in 2024 when everyone started to copy my whole business. I kept going . Kept learning SEO / Google ads / enginerring now with Ai its the best thing that ever happened to me. I learned how to build feaures. I am not rich but i have freedom of time. I LOVE working out during the day. I love waiting for my daughter to get home from school. We have dinner together every single day. We went to mexico and NOTHING changed for me. I was still working making money. for me since i can't work in tech and no tech company will hire me. I only know sales so i think for me i had no choice but to launch a business. I am very happy right now. I hope i don't go out of business. idk if i have any suggestions but if you are not good with sales get good at it. Good luck to all the small players out there. i wish you success. This is a very good article i could never write like OP thank you for sharing. Just adding my 2 cents here.

One man band - https://flyswifttail.com/

Do you fly private ? please refer me. FLIGHT PROFILE - first product

Empty leg alerts - $99/month ( building )

Using claude to provide a FLIGHT PROFILE for your private aviation needs I am having a problem hooking up stripe. The tests in claude keep failing. :-) Thank you .

As soon as i make a sale i will add more features.

I am working on an [ONLY EV AI SALES AGENT]. I have a dealer feed. I am focused on Electric cars. Basically you ask the AI agent about your electric car needs and using our inventory feed from our dealer partner ( pilot) we match user to car. Video demo here. Trying to ship ASAP. I will update my site soon. I do sales and my partner is doing the build.

https://www.onlyev.com/

demo video - https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/bv9vhagugpuz3mhc089mz/ScreenR...

Tesla Price Tracker - You can track a vin get price drop notification.

https://tracker.onlyusedtesla.com/

  $9 bucks a month.

I am working on a Tesla Price tracker. I made $9 this week. ( I am happy i have business validation) I hope to add more subscribers. Tesla is dropping prices on its inventory. Cybertruck is being discounted by $6k now. I charge $9 to track 5 VINs and $20 to track 10 Vins. I set up stripe subscriptions and pull in the inventory from Tesla. Please check it out or if you know anyone shopping for a tesla and wants to get price drop notifications please refer to them - Thank you.

https://tracker.onlyusedtesla.com/

I launched https://sellmycybertruck.com/ I make $1.6k buy fee from dealers / wholesalers. I try to avg 10 sales a month. been going good. Think of it like a KBB clone. But im a one man shop. I am just calling buyers all day long. I source leads from facebook. Forums. I just copied the tesla trade in UI / site. IDk its going good. I just launched it. Nothing fancy, i know but its making loot. I am not looking to be a unicorn BS. no BS AI. its just me. :-)

Yeah, I am not a strong writer. I just write how i think. I have ADHD + dyslexia and I can't follow grammar. :-( Im just trying to get it out of my head as fast as possible. Thank you.

This is not a price DROP. Tesla JACKED up prices on ALL models last year and people forgot about it and now TESLA just went back to the original prices. I been following them since 2016 and they have done this in 2018 with the MODEL S / X P100DL. Exact same shit happened with the first tax credit around 2017 with the release of the MODEL 3. I been scraping their inventory and you can plot the price changes and their used inventory prices are UPSIDE DOWN. Nothing new tesla normal behavior its just that a LOT of news outlets forget this that do not FOLLOW the price volatility. I am now thinking to do a youtube channel to lay it out. -2cents

Google = Ads. You can't find any REAL information on google. Idk maybe it's me. ChatGPT is just the start. ChatCGPT open AI or whoever is next will ALSO need to make money. I will PAY to use it i just do not want any super cookies following me ever where cookies tracking is like cockaroaches they do NOT die only get better at tracking. - 2centman.

In my own experience I am 50 years old today. I was diagnosed with pre-diabetes / metabolic syndrome with an A1C of 5.7.-(borderline). weight was 189 pounds. 2 years ago. I started IF. Giving up breakfast then slowly giving up lunch and now eating OMAD ( one meal a day). your BODY WILL get used to eating less. IF worked for me. It seems the MAIN problem is NOT total calories, I read a book by Gary Taubes called "the case for keto." I don't know about bio chem but in the book he said it is not the calories you eat but rather the type of food / calorie. MAIN problem is simple carbs / Sugar. ( slow carbs are veggies) . Simple carbohydrates spike insulin and the harmone insulin is the problem it stores fat. Exercise will just make you hungry. I do exercise , i enjoy running in a fasted state 4-5 miles a way and i do bodyweight muscle building training too. I am no longer pre-diabetic and A1C is normal. But i still gotta keep an eye on it. I dropped weight and and getting used to the keto diet + IF. We have a family history of diabetes in my family. ( dad. brothers. ) all have it and they are on meds. Doctor do not tell you about diet they just put them on Metaformin. I am 2 years on IF and keto and it worked for me. I weigh 165 now. All my blood work is back to normal. Main problem are the simple carbs and frequency of eating. Look around you we live in a carb word / sugar ads everywhere. It is VERY VERY hard to stay away from simple / carbs / sugar but you can do it. Eating healthy is NOT CHEAP either. I do tell my family to try IF and or keto but they are addicted to carbs and are all on metaformin or some diabetic meds. - 2 cents

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SEEEKING FREELANCER. USA. NYC. Remote ok. I am seeking a product manager / marketing person with experience to help me with growth / SEO advertising my start up on social media. And be able to use AIRTABLE to help me prototype test new ideas. I would prefer someone based in the USA east coast reachable via phone / txt.

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Tesla also points out that its prices are fixed, and its salespeople are paid primarily on salary, not commission. “Customers will never be rushed into a purchase, haggle over the price of the car, wonder if they could get a better deal across town, or puzzle over confusing add-on products, like GAP insurance or rust-proofing.”

Back in the 1930s, the car companies established this system so that they could worry about making cars, and the franchises could worry about selling and repairing them.

Early on, though, the franchisees lobbied their state governments for protection. They feared, among other things, that the giant car companies could open up their own stores across the street, cut prices, and crush the franchise like a bug.

To prevent that kind of abuse, all 50 states passed “dealer franchise laws.” They protected the dealerships in various ways—including barring any car maker from selling directly to consumers.

Those laws didn’t foresee the modern era. What they meant, of course, is that “no car company that has franchises can sell directly to consumers.”

They weren’t even thinking about companies that don’t have franchises, because there weren’t any at the time.

Over the years, Tesla’s legal team has gone from one state legislature to another, pointing out how that rule has become outdated, and suggesting that it get changed. In some cases, they succeeded.

In others, though, Tesla is running into a tougher obstacle.

SEEKING FREELANCER: NYC or REMOTE is fine but USA / CANADA. AIRTABLE EXPERT or similar. Responsive.

Budget Under $3k.

We can have a call with BUYER to get user story. I need to build a functional prototype in AIRTABLE.

THIS: Cash offer for your EV

I can enter EV information into a form too BUYER - buyer makes a cash offer on an EV SELLER - Seller gets a notification of the offer( nice to have but not needed for MVP) Seller can accept or Pass on the cash offer.

DASHBOARD: I need to see what buyer made an offer to which VIN ( I get a % of the transaction)

contact me. Subject, AIRTABLE EXPERT. adamqureshi(at)gmail Thank you.

THANK YOU!

Always be talking to your customers.

Always be selling.

Surviving is succeeding. Make more money than you spend.

read this : https://basecamp.com/shapeup

Find a LEGIT accountant. Expense everything.

FIND health insurance ( if it means getting a part timer for health insurance)

hire 1099s

there will always be bugs.

Set up an alert to be notified if your site go's down.

Workout daily. Go outside walk. whatever find something MOVE your body.

Good lucky.

Yes.100% with that this guy said. I have a 1 man shop marketplace startup. I been at it since 2016. I have to literally figure shit out on the fly. I can't afford a full time engineering time ( i have a pay for play engineer). I pay for the platform from the sales i make. I have no goals to raise VC. I am under no illusion of raising series ABCDFU. My goal is to make sales and put food on the table for me and my family. For me, as a 1 man shop. Surviving IS Succeeding. I am very happy being a thousandaire. techCrunch will never write about me or my start up. So if you have an idea, build it and start testing. your #1 goal should be making sales / money ASAP. Thats it. Do not fall in to the trap of I have an idea i will raise funding and i will exit making billions. That is NOT reality / real world. What you read on techcrunch is not reality, those unicorns are very rare. Good lucky out there. Make sales. Charge money.

ok but can i use this for my niche site for the EV community? I want to run it on my site / custom domain. Do you have a paid tier ? Thank you

Showtime made a show about uber" Super Pumped" on showtime rigth now. Apple made a movie about We Work ( Adam neuman). HULU made a show about Elizabeth Holms. "Theranos". Nobody made a movie about yellow taxi cab drivers who lost it all when their medallions went to the SH*T house after uBER decimation to the yellow cab medallion industry in NYC.