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Jay Tuazon

Aug 11

Good enough ships. Perfect does not.

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Jay Tuazon

Aug 11

I built a bot that writes a tailored resume and cover letter in 90 seconds.

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Jay Tuazon

Aug 10

The part of solo building nobody writes about: the cognitive load.

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Jay Tuazon

Aug 10

I document everything in PostgreSQL. Not Notion, not Confluence, not markdown files.

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Jay Tuazon

Aug 9

I publish 2 blog posts a day to HireSnipe and SurgeSnipe. Fully automated.

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Jay Tuazon

Aug 9

I A/B test my cold email subject lines the same way SaaS companies test their UI.

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Jay Tuazon

Aug 8

I use PostgreSQL for everything. Here is the actual reasoning.

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Jay Tuazon

Aug 8

Building a tech company in Regina, Saskatchewan. Here is what that actually means.

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Jay Tuazon

Aug 7

Autonomous means it works when you are not watching.

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Jay Tuazon

Aug 7

15 months of building. Zero revenue. The honest version.

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Jay Tuazon

Aug 6

I automated my job search the same way I automated my business.

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Jay Tuazon

Aug 6

Every secret in this stack is encrypted before it touches disk.

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Jay Tuazon

Aug 5

I disabled SSH on my own server. Here is why.

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Jay Tuazon

Aug 5

I burned $40 in API credits overnight because I forgot one check.

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Jay Tuazon

Aug 4

I am building a company and applying to jobs at the same time.

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Jay Tuazon

Aug 4

I run 13 production services for under $30 a month.

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Jay Tuazon

Aug 3

Loop 6: The ITIL escalation loop that filters noise from real problems.

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Jay Tuazon

Aug 3

Loop 5: The sovereign mind that audits the whole operation every 4 hours.

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Jay Tuazon

Aug 2

Loop 4: The content engine that has never missed a posting day.

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Jay Tuazon

Aug 2

Loop 3: The reply monitor that handles positive responses before I wake up.

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Jay Tuazon

Aug 1

Loop 2: The outreach drip that runs itself.

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Jay Tuazon

Aug 1

Loop 1: The self-healing monitor that wakes up every 60 seconds.

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Jay Tuazon

Jul 31

Our full stack as agentic loops - each one running right now.

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Jay Tuazon

Jul 31

Everyone is talking about agentic loops. We built them 8 months ago.

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Jay Tuazon

Jul 30

6 months of building. Here's where everything stands.

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Jay Tuazon

Jul 30

Why Canadian businesses specifically need this right now

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Jay Tuazon

Jul 29

The AI business ladder - where most people get stuck

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Jay Tuazon

Jul 29

What actually happens in a $100 AI session

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Jay Tuazon

Jul 28

I'm launching $100 AI setup sessions. Here's why.

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Jay Tuazon

Jul 26

The single best infrastructure decision I made: self-healing automation

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Jay Tuazon

Jul 25

I built too many things before selling any of them

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Jay Tuazon

Jul 25

I over-engineered the LinkedIn automation and it cost me weeks

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Jay Tuazon

Jul 24

DKIM is not optional for cold email. I learned this the hard way.

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Jay Tuazon

Jul 24

I wasted 2 weeks on the wrong outreach audience

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Jay Tuazon

Jul 23

I built a B2B consultancy website that runs entirely self-hosted

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Jay Tuazon

Jul 23

I built 3 B2B data APIs and they run on one Node.js cluster

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Jay Tuazon

Jul 22

I built a SaaS platform for contractors: Contractorship

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Jay Tuazon

Jul 22

I built a field service management tool for a niche I later pivoted away from

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Jay Tuazon

Jul 21

I built a job board for remote workers: HireSnipe

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Jay Tuazon

Jul 21

My LinkedIn posts itself twice a day using AI

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Jay Tuazon

Jul 20

I built an SEO prerender layer so Google can index my React job board

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Jay Tuazon

Jul 20

Why I migrated from better-sqlite3 to Node's built-in SQLite

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Jay Tuazon

Jul 19

My outreach pipeline sends personalized emails to 18 business categories automatically

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Jay Tuazon

Jul 19

I built a CASL-compliant B2B outreach pipeline from scratch

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Jay Tuazon

Jul 18

I built a Prompt Architect that refines every AI call before it fires

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Jay Tuazon

Jul 18

Prompt injection attacks are real. Here's how I protect against them.

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Jay Tuazon

Jul 17

I built an ITIL incident system powered by Ollama

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Jay Tuazon

Jul 17

My AI agent runs daily competitive research while I sleep

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Jay Tuazon

Jul 16

I run AI locally for $0/month with Ollama

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Jay Tuazon

Jul 16

Caddy replaced Nginx for me and I'll never go back

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Jay Tuazon

Jul 15

SOPS + age encryption: every .env file on my server is encrypted

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Jay Tuazon

Jul 15

I built a self-healing server that fixes itself while I sleep

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Jay Tuazon

Jul 14

Why I chose PM2 over Docker for most services

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Jay Tuazon

Jul 14

The VPS that runs my entire business for $20/month

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Jay Tuazon

Jul 13

I wired my build log to my content calendar. Here is why.

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Jay Tuazon

Jul 13

My AI assistant kept forgetting things. Here is how I fixed it permanently.

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Jay Tuazon

Jul 12

I taught my AI to argue with itself before sending me reports

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Jay Tuazon

Jul 12

The objection prediction part of FitScore is the feature I use most

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Jay Tuazon

Jul 11

ICP fit scoring sounds complicated. It is not. Here is how it works.

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Jay Tuazon

Jul 11

What counts as a buying signal on LinkedIn? My working taxonomy.

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