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Last year we needed to have a new fence built. Ours was falling apart and we had

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a new puppy who would easily get out. So we had a few options.

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Do nothing. That's always an option. Even if it's not a good one, hire somebody to

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do it for us at great costs, like $10,000

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or do it ourselves for $2,000 plus one weekend.

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Option three also required skill expertise and the right tools, which I don't have,

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but luckily my father-in-law and brother-in-law do.

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So we opted to build it ourselves.

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Now we faced a similar choice a couple of years prior when we had to replace our

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hvac.

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Except here we couldn't do nothing

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and we didn't have the skills, expertise,

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tools or access to the raw material.

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We had to hire somebody to replace it for us.

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Now I just got back from EEC Cam's creator camp where one of the biggest topics of

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discussion was the very idea

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around

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DIY versus paying for a tool but for software.

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And that's what I want to talk about today. Hey everybody and welcome to another

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episode of the Streamlined Solopreneur. My name's Joe Casabona and today I want to

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talk about

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when to vibe code, your own tool

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and when to actually pay for the software.

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So what is the major question that came up at ecam M's Creator camp and really what's

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been coming up a lot lately,

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it's this

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now that AI can write reliable software for us,

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should we replace our software subscriptions With tools we've vibe coded,

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it's easy to think. The answer is almost always yes.

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The temptation of replacing our tools

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or our monthly subscriptions is really good.

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I would love to not have to pay

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thousands of dollars a year for software.

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And to be honest, I have been vibe coding

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a lot more of my own tools lately.

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Here are a couple of examples.

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I coded a replacement stream deck plugin for Apple Music

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because El Gado removed theirs.

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I even made some improvements to it like adding playlist button support and dial

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support for the stream deck. Plus

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I also deleted El Dodos camera hub app

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and created my own teleprompter app. I am using that right now. It's so much better.

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Elga O'S Camera hub app was supposed to have this thing called voice sync where the

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teleprompter would move based on what you were saying and it did not work even remotely

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reliably.

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And the tool I am using does work reliably. In fact, I am

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ad-libbing off the script right now and

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the app is telling me, are you ad-libbing?

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I coded this with Claude

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in a half hour.

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The biggest projects I've replaced are web-based.

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I replaced Seja with my own testimonials collector

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and I built my own beta reader software.

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I did this because honestly with Seja I wasn't collecting enough testimonials to

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really justify

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the $30 a month

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and nobody was using the Submit a video testimonial.

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I know that some companies like Ecamm use it for customer research and for a lot

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of other things or a lot of people get a lot of video testimonials. And if I were

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in that boat,

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maybe I would keep paying for Senda.

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But $30

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a month is a little much for the one to two text-based testimonials I get

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and the beta reader software, like I don't even know if people are gonna beta read

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my book.

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And so it didn't make a lot of sense for me to

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start paying for this software.

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And it could be the case that once I get users into this Beta Rita software, once

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I start writing my book,

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I might want to pay for the software.

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But I didn't at this moment.

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But like I said, the temptation to replace every subscription with software we need

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to support

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shouldn't blind us to the fact

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that there are some things we shouldn't replace.

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It's really nice to think there's a world where, oh, I will just pay a hundred bucks

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a month for Claude and five bucks a month for lovable

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and I will replace thousands of dollars of software.

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tenable.

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I'm not gonna say it's not possible and I'll talk about why in a minute. But it's

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not tenable. For example,

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I will likely never replace

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Kit which sends my emails.

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I don't want to deal with deliverability.

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I don't want to deal with checking automations or managing payments for subscriptions

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or spam

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Ecamm,

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which is my recording and live streaming software.

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I don't want to have to deal with concurrent streams and massive overlays and managing

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resources and reliably recording files.

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Do I trust myself to vibe code something with AI that will reliably record and save

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isolated versions of all of my files? I don't.

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And the guys at Ecamm

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know this stuff really well. They've been doing it for a long time.

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And finally, my podcast hosts rss.com and transistor,

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I will not replace them because again, I'm serving up audio files or video files.

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I am doing the analytics and trying to account for spam. These are just things that

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three companies that are

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the four companies that I just named have a lot of expertise in this.

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And so now we get to the crux of the matter.

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How do you decide if you should replace software you pay for

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with something you have vibe coded?

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And it comes down to those things I mentioned earlier, skill,

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expertise and the right tools

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as well as your dependency

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on the software.

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So with defense,

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and not at all with the hvac but with the fence, we had the skill

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being able to build anything, use tools properly like, like

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carpentry tools.

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We had the expertise knowing how to build a reliable fence. This was something my

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brother-in-law apparently has a lot of experience in.

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And we had the tools, namely in Auger, which allowed us to sink the posts without

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having to manually dig three foot holes.

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But in this case, we could also do nothing.

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That is, we didn't have complete dependency on the fence.

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We could take the dog out and put him on a leash.

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When it comes to our hvac, like I said, we didn't have the skills, the expertise

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or the tools,

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but we also have dependency

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on our hvac,

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especially

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in the bitterly cold winters we have here in the Northeast.

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So doing nothing was not an option for us.

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We didn't have any of the skills, expertise, or tools to replace the HVAC ourself.

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decided, well, we didn't.

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It was decided for us, right? We had to pay somebody to replace our hvac.

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But let's move away from the home examples.

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What does this look like in software?

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Let's break it down one by one. Number one skill.

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Do you have this skill

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to do this? You don't need to write code anymore.

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This is true, but you still need to understand software security and maintenance.

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You can't just launch a tool into the ether, possibly one that,

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has usernames and passwords or your own data

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and just trust it's going to work.

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You still need to at least ask the right questions or know the audits

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to do the security. And you need to know what to do if things break,

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right? If you make an iOS app or an iPad app

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and then the next version of iOS comes out and your app breaks,

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you need to be confident

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that you can fix it

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or the AI can fix it

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or that you can just stop using it. So that's the skill part.

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Number two is expertise. You need to know enough about the problem and how to solve

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it to build a solution for it.

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I think we've seen time and time again, right?

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Vague prompts

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lead to

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incomplete or inaccurate responses.

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The first thing I do when I create new software

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is create the spec.

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And I use that using one of the quote unquote smarter models.

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And then I will feed that to Claude Code after reviewing everything and going through

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and make sure it touches

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everything I needed to touch.

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But if you're just like, Hey, I need a way to send emails,

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right? I wanna replace Kit, I want a way to send emails.

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There's gonna be a lot of stuff that the large language model will not be able to

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help you with. In fact, when I replaced Seja,

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it's straight up said,

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Hey, do you want the video part? 'cause that's gonna be super hard.

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So you need the expertise. And I had the expertise to know

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I'm not gonna want the videos.

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All right, number three tools.

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The tools to actually deploy the software are much easier to use now,

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but do you know how to use those tools? Do you know how to use Netlify or Versal

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CloudFlare, there's a lot of free options now. And knowing which one to use is important

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for example, I just replaced my personal website, casabona.org. It was a WordPress

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site, now it's a flat file site.

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which means that every time I write a blog post I have to deploy and it uses 15 credits.

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If I was writing multiple blog posts a day,

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I would've made an incredible mistake

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for my WordPress host or move to a different thing like Ghost if I was sick of WordPress.

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So that's something you need to understand.

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And then number four, perhaps the most important question, right?

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Because the first three, like maybe they're not insurmountable. Maybe AI can help

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you quote unquote, or maybe you have friends who have expertise in this area, but

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dependency.

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If the software stopped working and you didn't know how to fix it,

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how would that impact your business?

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back in March and I really wanted this feature and I thought it would be neat.

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that version of Open AI's Codex

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couldn't get it right.

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it's fixed. It wasn't fixed, it's fixed. It wasn't fixed.

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with Swift. I had never written an iOS app before

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and luckily I had the skill and expertise

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to make feature branches

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if something went awry, it didn't kill the whole app,

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but it also wasn't a required feature.

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So that's the dependency thing. So let's look at my examples again.

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First, let's do the stream deck plugin and the teleprompter app.

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I have the skill

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expertise and tools

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and I have zero dependency on these.

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If they disappeared tomorrow, I'd be mildly inconvenienced.

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So I was very comfortable vibe coding them,

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if my

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stream deck plugin stopped working, I could go pay $8 for one.

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It maybe wouldn't do everything I wanted to do.

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control Apple music. Same thing with the teleprompter. There's a lot of teleprompter

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apps. I vibe coded this one 'cause there are some very specific features I wanted

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and I have them now and it's working great, like unbelievably great,

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but I have zero dependency.

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Okay, number two, send your replacement. And the beta reader software,

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beta reader software man,

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that really does a number on my accent. I try to keep my New York accent on a low

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burn, but beta reader software really kills me.

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Okay? I have the skill, I have some expertise

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and I have most of the tools.

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So I felt very comfortable doing this. And again, virtually no dependency on these.

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my Senda replacement went away? Yes, I'd have to update

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a bunch of embeds across my websites

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and that would be annoying,

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but I would spin up a Google form

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to keep collecting testimonials

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and the beta reader software. Forget about it. Like

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I'm not even using that right now.

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Okay, so those are the things

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I've coded. Now let's look at Kit

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EAM and podcast hosting.

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I do not have this skill for these types of software,

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nor do I have the expertise.

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file storage, spam management,

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server management.

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There's a lot of things that can go wrong with all of these, which is why I trust

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ecamm rss.com and transistor.

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I have some of the tools.

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I know how software works

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and so I know enough to know that I don't have all of the skills and tools and expertise.

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But that leads me to number four. I have deep

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dependency on all of these things. I am using Ecamm right now to record. I sent an

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email with Kit this morning. Both of my podcasts go out later this week and I know

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they will reliably do so.

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If they went away tomorrow,

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I'd be screwed.

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Yes, I could find a kit replacement.

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Yes, I could find a podcast host replacement. I honestly don't believe I would find

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a good enough Ecamm replacement. Like yes, OBS exists, but

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I would be really left in the lurch,

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which is why I happily pay for all of those things.

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I guess disclosure, here I am,

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a content creator and evangelist for rss.com. And so I do get that account for free,

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but I host actual podcasts over there.

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suspect

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I'm at a slight advantage here

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because I have software development expertise,

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I have a master's degree in software engineering.

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Maybe some would say because of that I have the burden of knowledge

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and maybe just go out there and try stuff and see what happens.

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These decisions are going to be different for you.

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Maybe you don't have the dependency I have on kit until you could try creating your

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own ESP, though I really wouldn't recommend that.

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It's up to you to evaluate if you want to spend time

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coding something, testing it, deploying it, and most importantly

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supporting it.

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the big one.

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Because yeah, you might launch something and it works great today,

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but what happens

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a month from now, two months from now, six months from now

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where something goes wrong and you don't know how to fix it.

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Again, I know the temptation is great,

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having the discernment to know when you should

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code a replacement

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or keep paying for something

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that is well supported and reliable

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is important.

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if you need help with this or if you've been wondering

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how you should approach using AI to write or replace software for you,

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I am cooking up something special. It's a cohort and course where I will walk you

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through how to figure out what to replace and how to use AI to replace it

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and

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how to make sure it turns into a long-term solution for you.

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We'll have an example project to walk through before you start building your own.

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And that's really my goal For the end of this cohort. You will have a tool that you

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have fully replaced with your own version. Thanks to Vibe Coding with ai, this is

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something I have saved literally thousands of dollars on. I've replaced websites

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where I was paying a ton for hosting. I've replaced tools with high monthly subscriptions

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what I've done for myself is to replace the tools

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that

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I know I won't need in six months if they go away, or the tools that I don't have

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heavy dependency on. 'cause I don't want you to switch

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and

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then end up having to switch back. So I will be with you every step of the way to

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help you.

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If you're interested, you can head over to streamlined fm slash waitlist, scan the

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QR code to join the wait list

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and you'll be the first to be notified when presale opens. There will be a special

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presale price. Again, that is streamlined

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fm slash waitlist.

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So that's it for this episode of the streamlined solopreneur. In it, we went over

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the basically four criteria to figure out

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if you should look into vibe, coding, a replacement, or just pay for the tool. I

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am a big proponent of paying for software that's worth paying for. I pay for convenience

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all the time

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and I pay for expertise.

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if there's a tool that you can reliably replace to save yourself some extra money

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or simplify your tech stack,

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I think that's really worth looking into.

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So let me know over@streamlinedfeedback.com. Have you vibe coded your own tool? Are

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you worried about it? You can send me a voice note. I'll play it on the show. But

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But that's it for this episode of the Streamlined solopreneur. Thanks so much for

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listening and until next time, I hope you find some space in your week.