Bobby Lyte // DJ, Developer, Music for Focus and Flow

The next step in creating a story brand with Flow State Radio is live today: flowstateradio.com/get-started
- Finished the intro video today
- Polished some of the copy
- Going to experiment w/ ads and content directed to this page.

Who's familiar with StoryBrand? How did I do?

Falling in love with cursor web agent
- it creates a PR
- PR means others can review as I'm building
- can continue to work while my laptop is closed
- reads and resolves any PR comments by GitHub Co-Pilot

wait why would I ever build local again?

BUILD IN PUBLIC:
- Weight training (1.5 hr)
- Urgent bug fixes for two clients (5 hrs)
- Visa app for upcoming travels (1 hr)
- Dog vet appointment (2 hrs)

Lesson:
There's no point in creating leverage through code, if that code breaks and wakes you up at 5 am to fix it.

A.I. is NOT OVERHYPED

Just created ten AD creatives in ~40 mins with Nano Banana.

All consistent and good enough to experiment with.

This would’ve taken hours before AI.

A few of them:

It's so funny how I had to use TrustMRR to finally get a guess of my MRR (not including Patreon MRR).

That was impossible to find on @stripe .

I absolutely love TrustMRR.com way of auth'ing you.

This is how you design well for the specific use case of your app.

While I'm no where near the top 100 startups on TrustMRR.com...

...I'm at least on the page for "Productivity" category 😎: trustmrr.com/category/pr...

Bobby Lyte | Patreon Flow State - designed to help you focus.

I'm on TrustMRR.com now: trustmrr.com/startup/flo...

This doesn't account for my Patreon revenue which you can also see here: www.patreon.com/cw/our_flow...

An exercise in pricing products:

For FlowStateRadio.com 👇

$5/mo tier → ~3.7 months
$15/mo tier → ~1.2 months
Same LTV though 🤯

I got this data w/ Stripe Sigma.

ChatGPT and I think the sweet spot is single tier at $10/mo.

Would you go higher or lower?

ChatGPT just summed up why Notion has been such a pain to manage my projects.

CMD + TAB

is way too close to

CMD + Q

🤦‍♂️

"Figure out what you want, and then go after it as if *your life depends on it*. Because it does."

A recipe for tunnel vision, short term thinking and burnout.

If you need to delete multiple branches w/ similar naming pattern locally:

```
git branch | grep "branch-name-starts-with" | xargs git branch -D
```

Experimentation never dies.

"This has to work" does.

"Just Do It"

Only works if you're doing your thing, not someone else's.

@cursor_ai finally has a plan mode.

It actually created a detailed .md file for me to review with a button to trigger execution. Quite nice and something I was missing when switching away from Claude Code.

"Renting your home is a waste of money"

A big lie that keeps people poor.

"He disrespected me"
"She bullied me"
"They hurt me"

A great way to let them live rent-free in your mind.

For all you Auth nerds, is this auth pattern in @nextjs ok?

– Clients call the API with auth
– API checks user identity (e.g. via @ClerkDev )
– API queries the DB directly (no JWT validation)

So the DB doesn’t know about auth, it just trusts the API to enforce it. Good practice?

Thanks @raycast for enabling "Set Volume to 100%" by default so I can blow out my ears 😑

Reminding myself that *Marketing >>>> Product*

Imagine spending a *few hours* creating a video/blog/etc...
...and getting traffic to your product for months or years.

That's an insane ROI.

I've never been so annoyed about being right...

The struggle is real

I think, "it's the journey not the destination" is wrong

It makes it sound like we're picking between the two.

My current experience tells me:
- when we focus on the journey we get the destination.
- when we focus on destination we lose both.

"I need to stay ahead"

A mindset that will keep you behind.

An incomplete list of extreme sports in your 40s:

- Getting in and out of a hot tub
- Sneezing too hard
- Opening a jar without "warming up"

“I just need my first million then I can relax.”

A mindset that keeps you poor.

I think it's about time I built a real admin dashboard...

but while I'm here I wanted to share with you all what my current "admin dashboard" looks like - just a bunch of saved API calls in @GetInsomnia :

Who else is using Insomnia, or Postman App like this?

Who here can't code without music or coffee.. or both?

Be honest.

At some point software will build itself. What will you do then for work?