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Stuart, a startup guy, a sandwich lover @whoworksthere.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I had a TON of Legos as a kid, and had the foresight to keep them (I wish I had kept all the MASK and micro machines too, but alas) Now I have two kids of my own, 4 and 8, and I've brought all my Legos out of storage and built a custom table for them, about 3'x6', and it's awesome to play with th

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Stuart, a startup guy, a sandwich lover @whoworksthere.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

AI coding is great if you like feeling scatter brained. Regular coding, you'd lock in, get into a flow state, and just hammer away non stop. AI coding, you have all these breaks while the AI thinks, or the prompt runs, so you find yourself juggling multiple AI projects at once, or doing lit

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Stuart, a startup guy, a sandwich lover @whoworksthere.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I'm committed to 3 hours of dev work every day, first thing, for this month, with the goal of having an "unlimited" API available for saasyDB by the end of October. People will say "oh but it's quick to set up an API actually?" Sort of, yes, but I'm also doing a deep dive on all the data, improv

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Stuart, a startup guy, a sandwich lover @whoworksthere.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I see people saying they want to start a startup, they just don't have ideas. How can you not have constant ideas??? I have already had another microSaaS idea today. If you don't have business ideas constantly, you either don't have your eyes open or you're not cut out for this.

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Stuart, a startup guy, a sandwich lover @whoworksthere.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

There are a million ways to organize your day, and as someone with multiple ventures, it gets even trickier. I've been following a 3-2-1 plan: 3 hours of focus work, then 2 hr of a "money block" (anything that can generate revenue, EG sales followups, new outbound flows etc), 1 hr of urgent tasks.

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Stuart, a startup guy, a sandwich lover @whoworksthere.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I love building. It's more fun than marketing. And I have a background in marketing, so it's not like I'm at a loss of ideas or anything. It's too easy to get sucked into building all day. So I'm making a public commitment: For October, I'll do 2 hours of a "money block" every workday. And

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Stuart, a startup guy, a sandwich lover @whoworksthere.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

I've been working on a massive upgrade to my SaaS Classifier flow. Today I worked on the taxonomy for industries since it needed to be overhauled, and it'll have related sub-industries for each industry, to make it easier for users to find the ideal companies to pitch. Fun stuff.

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Stuart, a startup guy, a sandwich lover @whoworksthere.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

the "Industries" filter in saasyDB (my SaaS company leads database) is too open ended, just an open text field that is too unpredictable. I'm working today to narrow Industry down to ~30 standardized options, and adding sub industry filter that relates to the selected industry. Booyah!

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Stuart, a startup guy, a sandwich lover @whoworksthere.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

you gotta tell the AI "take your time and do a great job, I believe in you." at the end of your prompt to show that you care

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Stuart, a startup guy, a sandwich lover @whoworksthere.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

My big goal for today is to tweak the SaaS classifier flow for saasyDB, a major update to my system to make sure companies are SaaS for sure before they get researched / employees get researched. Fails sometimes based on weird website content getting passed to the system? Regex to the rescue!(?)

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Stuart, a startup guy, a sandwich lover @whoworksthere.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Putting on some Angine de Poitrine and focusing on setting up a new cold email campaign using saasyDB data!

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Stuart, a startup guy, a sandwich lover @whoworksthere.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Just canceled Framer, so excited to get rid of that. It's super annoying to work with, technically limiting, and I'm looking forward to not seeing that monthly bill.

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Stuart, a startup guy, a sandwich lover @whoworksthere.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

I launched a new website for saasyDB today, and it has for the first time a "book a demo" link. Someone booked for the next possible time. I don't like sales calls but I like sales, so I need to start doing calls again...

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Stuart, a startup guy, a sandwich lover @whoworksthere.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

One month that I ran cold email for saasyDB, I averaged $0.11 profit on each email sent. That sounds low, but you can easily send 10,000 targeted emails a month. And that when I sold only small lifetime deals, imagine the impact to MRR... If you're interested in trying cold email outreach for you

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Stuart, a startup guy, a sandwich lover @whoworksthere.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

What's keeping you from running cold email campaigns for your SaaS or startup?

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Stuart, a startup guy, a sandwich lover @whoworksthere.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Yes it's very niche, just focused on SaaS companies. AgentIQ happens to be in the company research in my database, but no employees have been researched yet. I have records for some companies, but not all. the employee research process is more intense. Email/linkedin but no phone numbers.

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Stuart, a startup guy, a sandwich lover @whoworksthere.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Yes if it’s a SaaS and I’ve had a chance to research the employees, there would be that info in the database.

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Stuart, a startup guy, a sandwich lover @whoworksthere.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

A few months ago, saasyDB had research on 11,000 SaaS companies in it. As of this morning, it has research on 73,078 SaaS companies. My goal is to have 100,000 SaaS companies in it before the year ends. I think I can do it.

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Stuart, a startup guy, a sandwich lover @whoworksthere.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

If you want SaaS company data and leads that most marketers don't have access to, check out www.saasydb.com Cyber Monday deals end tonight

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Stuart, a startup guy, a sandwich lover @whoworksthere.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

We visit family, but I go to whatever local coffee shop I can find to work, to get ready. I feel like a jerk trying to do some sales/support from my phone while we're hanging out with family. But it's such a good potential sales week, I don't feel like I can ignore it. BFCM FOMO. Anyone else?

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Stuart, a startup guy, a sandwich lover @whoworksthere.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

As an entrepreneur, I've grown to sort of hate Black Friday / Cyber Monday. It's a week where I feel pressure to promote and make sales, but my kids are off from school, and everyone else is mostly off from work. So it's harder to work. contd ...

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Stuart, a startup guy, a sandwich lover @whoworksthere.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

hot startup take, if you don't have ideas constantly, then being a founder isn't right for you. People who say "I just need an idea to get started", need to go work for someone with ideas. The ideas and opportunities should be obvious from your day to day work and conversations.

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Stuart, a startup guy, a sandwich lover @whoworksthere.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Are you planning on doing a Black Friday / Cyber Monday deal for your Startup? Where will you promote it?

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Stuart, a startup guy, a sandwich lover @whoworksthere.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Oh really, a dating related startup? I have a long article about why it was terrible I can dig up for you

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Stuart, a startup guy, a sandwich lover @whoworksthere.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Every day this week, I'm trying to take a break during work to go on a walk, with a weighted back pack, no headphones or anything, just a boring break Also doing "OMAD" 3x a week, so just a couple protein shakes in the afternoon, then dinner What do you do to keep from getting fat and insane??

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Stuart, a startup guy, a sandwich lover @whoworksthere.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

My "most interesting" startup was one that brokered feedback on dating profiles, like you could get 5 women to tell you which pictures were best/worst, how to improve the copy on your profile, etc. It was the worst business model, super hard to build, and very hard to market. RIP.

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Stuart, a startup guy, a sandwich lover @whoworksthere.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

I spent three hours figuring out how to do a more advanced filter in saasyDB, I'm excited to deploy it tomorrow. Right after I figured it out, I got a call that my three year old threw up at school and I had to leave work for a bit. Building a startup while trying to be a present dad is hard

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Stuart, a startup guy, a sandwich lover @whoworksthere.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

I've got a goal every week of adding 5000+ SaaS companies to the saasyDB database. Today I pushed 5,263 US SaaS companies live. If you're researching SaaS companies, check out saasyDB.

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Stuart, a startup guy, a sandwich lover @whoworksthere.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Today's goals for saasyDB are to 1) publish information on 5,000 SaaS companies in the US 2) finish and deploy comma separated search terms in the job title filter (trickier than you might imagine!) 3) launch a new cold email campaign What about you? What are your goals for the day? #buildin

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Goodness, gracious. This piece is among the best I’ve read in awhile. Great work @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com.

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Stuart, a startup guy, a sandwich lover @whoworksthere.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

this is from 2015? I googled and tried to find an article, and it was back then.

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Stuart, a startup guy, a sandwich lover @whoworksthere.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Working on a batch of SaaS companies now, the first big chunk of research to go into the system when the "company data only" offer is live, about 20k companies GetLatka has about 40k SaaS companies, and my goal is to have more than them by the end of this quarter 😎

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Stuart, a startup guy, a sandwich lover @whoworksthere.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

I'm hiring a VA to speed up the most boring, monotonous aspects of my research on SaaS companies Goal is to launch an offer for just SaaS company data within saasyDB, for people who just want good clean lists of SaaS companies, and they can get the leads elsewhere Exciting times

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Stuart, a startup guy, a sandwich lover @whoworksthere.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

"No one does SaaS better than saasyDB" says one of my users I'm trying to build the best SaaS database possible What is wild is that it's totally possible for me to do so.

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Stuart, a startup guy, a sandwich lover @whoworksthere.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

What's your favorite cold email related tool? I'm trying to make an exhaustive list of the best tools for my cold email course

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Stuart, a startup guy, a sandwich lover @whoworksthere.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

I asked chatgpt to generate a “crazy 8bit graphic” for coldemail.vip and I got this haha

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Stuart, a startup guy, a sandwich lover @whoworksthere.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

was "Name your 3 favorite jazz albums?" I thought that was so odd at the time. But my friend rattled off his top 3 jazz albums and what he liked about them. Culture fit. He worked there for years.

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Stuart, a startup guy, a sandwich lover @whoworksthere.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

nearly 25 years ago now, I worked part time at a bike shop, doing a little work on 3speeds, but mostly odd jobs around the shop. A friend of mine was a professional bike mechanic, and I brought him to meet the owner, to apply for a full time position. The owner's first question to my friend...

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Jason Cohen @asmartbear.com · 21/06/2025

Better tools are always worth it.

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