Ironed out the kinks and got the Product Photo Generator to run flawlessly. What it does: you upload (1) a photo of a human model and (2) a product image. The engine combines the two images for you, producing a new, high-quality marketing asset.
Works a treat for retail stores and marketing agencies. I could extend the workflow to auto-post to all your social media platforms, thereby creating a truly "hands-free" automated process. A real time- and money-saver.
Input on the left, output on the right. 10 minutes flat. Neat, huh?
In other news, I've had 29 new signups to Vue Developers since I last checked! This makes it a total of 177 active profiles. I'm very close to launching the revamped website. Any day now.
Love the new logo, which I got my mate BL to design. Don't love the hero subtitle, so I'm going to work on it.
A peep of the new landing page.
Done today:
✓ 30-minute morning walk Aerilon ✓ tested marketing image generator end-to-end ✓ started building a web scraper with Firecrawl Vue Developers ✓ installed Honeybadger (error monitoring) ✓ submitted for Postmark approval (transactional email)
What does 10,000 hours of pure curiosity look like — and can it pay $10,000 a month?
That's the experiment.
I sold a 13-year restaurant business in 2019, taught myself to code, and have been chasing every "what if" since. Real hours, real dollars, updated daily.
I've been self-employed for 20 years. My goal is to keep it that way for the next 20.
