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CEO & Co-Founder of https://www.shovels.ai

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Comment · 2 months ago

Shovels | Forward-Deployed Engineer (FDE) | Remote | Full-time

Shovels is the intelligence layer for the built world. We're venture-backed, trusted by some of the largest Fortune 100 companies in the world.

We have a lot of customers and a lot of technical needs from those customers. That's why we're hiring a true Forward Deployed Engineer: a real engineer who wants to work shoulder-to-shoulder with customers and turn their hardest questions into working solutions.

You'll embed into our most important enterprise accounts, understand what they're actually trying to do, and build the maps, models, and data products that make Shovels indispensable to them, working alongside AI agents the way the rest of our engineering team does.

This is not a hand-off role: you own the relationship and the build, from the first "what if we could see…" to the moment the customer says "wow."

Check it out: https://www.shovels.ai/careers/forward-deployed-engineer

Comment · 3 years ago

Construction is perhaps the world's second oldest profession, so it's easily overlooked. It doesn't help that the TAM is so large it defies computation.

Small and large VCs are paying more attention.

- https://1984.vc/ - https://www.beatventures.com/ - https://www.metaprop.vc/ - https://www.buildtech.vc/

This conference crosses over into real estate but it's all pretty much the same network of entrepreneurs: https://blueprintvegas.com/

Point is, this is not a vacuum. It's just not getting a lot of attention due to the points above.

I believe (and am biased, see profile) that climate and housing crises combined will bring a lot more attention to contech/proptech/climatetech in the coming months and years.

Comment · 5 years ago

Can you do it on 3rd party apps or do you need raw access to the build files? I ask because we at MightySignal have an API to provide decrypted APK and IPA files that you could use to run Emerge on any app in the stores.

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Comment · 8 years ago

I interviewed Josh for my book, The Parallel Entreprener (on Kindle etc), and can attest that he’s done all this experimentation for the love of the game.

For some of us the glory is not in the exit but rather in the building.

The Parallel Entrepreneur: How to start businesses while keeping your day job parallelentrepreneurship.com

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Comment · 8 years ago

Currently doing ~$20K combined from https://www.toofr.com and https://www.inlistio.com.

Also have these in the hopper - https://www.thinboxapp.com, https://www.enps.co, http://www.glist.io, https://www.voxloca.com

Idea is I'd love to cycle through them, sell whatever's working after a couple years. It takes time to find the right business at the right time so I advocate 'incubating' a project in the background, building SEO, seeing if it catches. It just takes time.

I'm polishing off a book about it now -- http://www.parallelentrepreneurship.com. It incorporates a lot of the wisdom in the comments here. (And I'm taking notes on the stuff I missed.)

Comment · 8 years ago

That Sidekiq is a one-man business which allows me to exist as a one-man business (by simplifying a critical processing function and being free) is beautifully meta.

Thank you kind sir for sharing your wizardry with us mortals.

Comment · 8 years ago

Wholeheartedly agree with this. The hardest thing about being a solo founder is the loneliness. In times of joy, in times of grief, it's just you. Sharing your successes and your failures with a group of supportive entrepreneurs as you plod along is the next best thing (or maybe even better) to having a co-founder.