Jason Zook
jasondoesstuff.bsky.social
Jason Zook
@jasondoesstuff.bsky.social
Doer of stuff. Previously weird stuff. These days, calm businesses.

💻 https://waim.co/now
📍 Silver Coast, Portugal
🙋‍♂️ Today...

- Coffee + YouTube
- Breakfast + emails
- Launched Teachery.co Marketplace
- Wrote letter for WAIM.co members
- Ate half a calzone + kale chips for lunch 😂
- Podcast record/publish
- Email + Slack
- Reviewed UI designs
- Beach walk
- Asked GPT for asparagus recipe that doesn't suck

You?
May 1, 2025 at 5:03 PM
I know AI coding tools are far from perfect, but this ENTIRE page's UI came from one prompt:

"When I upload an audio file, I want you to show me the different processes happening in real-time, give me separate loading states, and checkmark things as completed."

The time saved is insane 🤯.
March 5, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Officially calling it quits on the daily 🤖 AI blog experiment ❌.

After 90 days and 73 published blog posts, the writing was on the wall with only about 1 visitor per day 😂.

I had SUPER LOW expectations, so I am not necessarily bummed, just chalking this up to a failed experiment.
March 4, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Why do people over 50 not understand responding to a text message with only "Ok" does NOT sound like they think it sounds? 😆

Whenever they write back "Ok" I have a moment of panic.

Shit... did I offend them? Are they mad? What went wrong? To find out they literally meant, "yeah, that's okay!" 🙄
February 14, 2025 at 4:55 PM
<clicks the Discover tab for the first time>

Welp, that's basically Twitter. 🙅‍♂️🙅‍♂️🙅‍♂️

<clicks back to Following>
February 13, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Here's an hour-by-hour recap of building a tiny business tool with ZERO coding skills this past weekend. ⬇️

Overview:

1. A simple tool that helps rank your next biz idea
2. Nothing pre-designed except for a placeholder logo
3. Just a few notes written in Notion

Doing it all with Lovable(.dev):
February 11, 2025 at 10:52 AM
What got interaction on social over the years:

2010: "I ate a sandwich, what's everyone up to?"
2015: "I learned these 12 tips, you'll be shocked at #9"
2020: "Covid"
2025: "I made $1,000,000 in 9 days with AI, comment 'course' to get my full plan you can copy"
February 6, 2025 at 12:55 PM
‪Day 60 of Al-generated blog 🤖:

⚡️ Recap: Using feather.so + outrank.so (~$130/mo) to create an automated daily blog. Will it attract traffic/customers to my small SaaS?

⏳ I spend 5mins each day swapping out AI-gen images as they're awful 🙈.

🎯 I told myself I'd do this for 100 days.

So far...?
February 3, 2025 at 1:49 PM
What's a web app you use every day for your business, but it's part of a bigger app where you don't need all the extra BS they built?

Example: Intercom's Support Chat/Inbox

Intercom now has 5,395 other features most people don't need, but their support chat + inbox is solid.
January 31, 2025 at 3:03 PM
In just 6 hours I've built an app that:

1. Has user auth
2. Connects Stripe
3. Let's you make a product
4. Let's you set a schedule to update the price
5. The product URL will update the Stripe Checkout price based on your schedule!

All thanks to Lovable.dev; ZERO design or coding on my part! 😱😱
January 30, 2025 at 6:06 PM
I'm convinced working for yourself is:

34% fun and interesting
33% awful awful awful
33% waiting for DNS changes

🤷🙊😅
January 30, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Remember when the hardest question was: Is [insert app] the best thing to help grow my business?

In 2025: Is [insert app] contributing to the agenda of a megalomaniac or is there a lesser evil to support? 😬🥵

Woof. Can we go back to the days of arguing whether it's best to use Squarespace or WP?
January 28, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Running an online business is basically trying to automate everything... until you spend 3 hours setting up the automated task that you could've done in 10 minutes.
January 27, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Trying a new thing for prototyping SaaS features as a non-technical founder.

I'm using Lovable.dev (not on 🦋) to rebuild pages in my app Teachery and then creating UX/UI changes that functionally work -- more than just clickable designs.

Feels like a really crucial unlock to build faster.
January 21, 2025 at 4:43 PM
There are two types of people in the world:

Type #1: People that have never lost an AirPod in their life

Type #2: People that are always asking Type #1 people if they've seen their "other AirPod?"
January 13, 2025 at 5:10 PM
🧠 Reminder...

1. New ideas are exciting & people will cheer you on
2. When the work starts, people will care less
3. When you're in the messy middle people won't care AT ALL
4. When you have success people will celebrate w/ you

If you can do 2+3 over and over w/out needing 1+4 you win long-term. 🙂
January 10, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Day 30 of Al-generated blog 🤖:

⚡️ Recap: Using feather.so + outrank.so (~$130/mo) to create an automated daily blog. Will it attract traffic/customers to my small SaaS?

⏳ I spend 5mins each day swapping out AI-gen images as they're terrible 😂.

🎯 I told myself I'd do this for 100 days.

So far...?
January 6, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Day 13 of Al-generated blog 🤖:

- Mostly dark-mode images 🌚 (not my fave)
- Got a decent notebook/desk image (but wonky 🤭)
- Few posts finished with weird prompt errors 😬

Again, I have ZERO expectations at this point & I spend 10mins/day on it. At the 100-day mark I hope to see *some* traffic? 🙏
December 17, 2024 at 9:10 AM
I'm curious what people's ACTUAL day looks like?

Here's mine today:

- ☕️ Slow morning w/ YouTube
- 👨‍💻 Email, support requests, Slack replies
- 🍞 Bake sourdough + eat breakfast
- 📝 Work on Notion doc for designer
- 🚶 1-hour walk + lunch
- 🎙️ Edit/upload podcast
- 🔄 Email/Slack
- 🍪 Bake cookies

You?
December 13, 2024 at 2:41 PM
I've been making (*somewhat* controversial) tier lists for our membership community.

This one on candy ruffled some feathers -- I'm sorry, butterfinger is a trash candy 😂🙈.

Want to see the other tier lists? 👀 One was on Christmas movies 😶‍🌫️.

(Also, this might be the best content I have to offer 🤷)
December 11, 2024 at 2:27 PM
@lauraroeder.bsky.social since we're going back and forth a bit here, wondering what the highest leverage things you've done to grow Paperbell?

Any big ah-ha moments, discoveries, etc? Whether it's retention, marketing, or whatever stands out?

Feel free to 👉 me to a 🔗 if you've already shared 😇.
December 11, 2024 at 1:23 PM
Biz 👨‍💻 and baking 🍪 are my two hobbies 😂.

👨‍💻 After seeing 📉 MRR churn since 2023, I brought back a Lifetime Deal for Teachery. Since June, this has brought $94,000 in revenue (on top of existing $9k MRR).

🍪 After 20-30 recipes, I created my PERFECT chocolate chip cookie cooked.wiki/saved/5c71ef...
December 9, 2024 at 2:09 PM
Day 5 of Al-generated blog 🧪:

- 📈 16 total visitors (most came from sharing the URL here)
- 🤦 One blog post had to be completed deleted (just terrible)
- 😑 Today's post had the attached AI-gen image (whut?)
- 👍 I'm pleased with the visual aesthetic of the blog*

*I'm choosing Unsplash photos daily.
December 9, 2024 at 9:04 AM
Day 2 of AI-generated blog 🧪:

- Kind of the same article as yesterday 🥴
- Reworked the title to at least be different 🤦
- All images replaced (I'm gonna run out of 💻 photos 😂)
- Had a momentary scare there were 10 H1s in the article 🥵

This project is REALLY gonna to test my perfectionism.
December 6, 2024 at 8:57 AM
Alright folks. I have a new (not as crazy as my other ones) experiment I'm going to share a daily/weekly-ish post about.

The 🧪:

Use a fully AI-generated blog to try to grow Teachery.co's revenue through organic search traffic. Posts will be automatically created and published daily.
December 5, 2024 at 8:01 PM