Senior SWE @OctopusEnergy. Did $100k/mo, keyword banned overnight. Now building https://teapaw.org/t.co/iFOlo4poZn (AI automation), just accepted into an accelerator.
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I was making $100k/month and then got keyword banned overnight. Back to zero.
Now I'm building CodePrepped.com from scratch, living off savings with a wife and two boys.
I landed interviews in 7 days using my own methods while senior engineers struggled for months/years.
Follow along for the journey 🎥
Just had my first day @OctopusEnergy in London as a Senior Software Engineer!
Hands down one of the best places I’ve ever worked. It’s an incredible team I have the privilege of working with. Not a sour face in sight.
Lebanese food for lunch, drinks and snacks on tap and a cheeky pint after work with the team.
Loved it and the work to be done has so much potential to become the next big thing in global flexible energy usage, no joke. Nobody else is doing what these guys are doing 🐙
Small accounts grow faster together.
I went from 300 to 3,300 followers just by connecting in posts like this.
Building with AI? Let's connect.
• Devs
• Designers
• Indie hackers
• Vibe coders
• Founders
Say hi and tell me what you're building 👋
I asked my Uber driver today, a grey haired man in his 60s what he thought of AI. What he said didn’t really shock me.
“Don’t know. Not heard much about it”.
We live in such a bubble that we think everything is going to change tomorrow.
In one sense that’s right but in another, the world is blissfully carrying on as normal.
Some people say 2027 will shock people into adoption when they can’t hide away from its capabilities anymore. I think after having many conversations like this that COULD be true.
We worry about SaaS being dead but what about AI adoption services? AI education? What about catering to the droves of human beings who will opening that door properly for the first time soon.
All I’m saying is be ready and be adaptable to welcome maybe a billion new paying AI users in 2027-2028.
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When your job is talking all day as a
- Consultant
- Senior SWE
- Running an AI agency
…all with a cough that can’t be kicked 💀
At least we’re ready for it 😂
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The new equipment for my Senior SWE gig at @OctopusEnergy just arrived!
Starting next week. They went all out. Thanks team! 🔥
ALT Senior SWE MacBook Pro + audio equipment on a desk sent from Octopus Energy
If small businesses could automate one job with AI this year.
Which job would save the most hours each week, and why?
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Harry Ashton retweeted
AI is a force multiplier based on your own human spirit. I like to think of it embodied in this slightly well known song.
If you have all the drive in the world, you know have the means more than ever.
Harry Ashton retweeted
Most people are one decision away from a completely different life.
Most of them will never make it.
But on here, I've made friends with the ones who did.
Builders who quit the safe job. Builders who code at 11pm after a full day at a 9-5. Builders who ship, get ignored, and ship again.
You inspire me every day to keep chasing my own dream.
So I wanted to give something back.
Every one of you heard the same question before you started:
"What if it fails?"
What if nobody uses it? What if they laugh? What if I quit the job and it doesn't work?
But that's not the question at all.
What if it works?
I'm not a musician. I can't sing, play an instrument or animate. So I made a song and a music video with AI, to prove it's possible. Three weeks, 230 versions.
"I don't know how" isn't a reason anymore.
You can just do things. If you have the courage to start.
This one's for the builders. And for everyone who wants to be one but hasn't taken the leap yet.
Sound on. 🔊
What's the dream you keep saying "some other day" to?
In your experience, which gets a new SaaS to its first paying customer fastest?
- Manual onboarding
- Free trial
- Paid pilot
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Not every business needs to go all in on AI.
If all you sell is AI automation done online, you're a commodity. Someone cheaper turns up every week, and you're always having to change what you do just to keep up.
Mix the old world with the new one and that risk mostly goes away.
Most decision makers worth winning don't reply to adverts, DMs or AI-written messages, at least not consistently. You ring them, you meet them in person, or you know someone who knows them. Past a certain level, business still runs on who you know.
My agency is the proof. What we build is cutting edge. How we win clients is old school. Because of that mix, our projected work for 2027 is higher than I ever expected, and we're aiming to be one of the top UK agencies in our space next year.
People don't talk about this enough. Is anyone else winning their best clients offline?
Your SaaS doesn't need more sales calls or product demos.
It needs a homepage that doesn't need a sales call.
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38. Dad of two, from the UK 🇬🇧
Built a product to $100k/mo. Got banned overnight.
Now I build AI automations for big UK companies.
If you’re in AI or a founder, let’s #connect.
ALT Harry and Sophie Ashton selfie by the original bridge at Newstead Abbey
The AI agency in question (hashton.agency) and my platform to help people land coding interviews @CodePrepped
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Officially cancelled ChatGPT today after paying for it since it came out.
Moving to Gemini instead for free as the family LLM (wife, extended family use).
Evil in AI is a spectrum, but why sit at the top with OpenAI? There are similair/better options out there
ALT Quote from Sam Altman "The world needs to accept that bad things will happen for AI to move forward"
Main thing I would miss from the subscription is not Codex or a specific model but just the asset generation for things images/logo's etc.
Open AI does some of the best for cost but here's what I did with Gemini, with a little bit of extra work and specificity.
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Harry Ashton retweeted
sir... they just built glasses that let you type 200+ words per minute WITHOUT speaking or touching a keyboard
🤝 Paid partnership
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It tracks your internal speech muscles with non-contact sensing and decodes silent, almost invisible mouthing into text at more than 200 words/min.
Pre-orders are now live at:
subvocal.co/preorder?utm_sou…