Software

Own the parking lot.

I saw a guy outside the biggest, nicest house in my neighborhood, so I said hi and asked what he does for a living. Turned out to be a good business lesson.

He told me he used to own a bunch of restaurants in Austin. Then he said, almost like it was boring, that he never really made money on the restaurants. He made his money on the parking lots.

What? Excuse me!

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Turns out HubSpot isn't dead. 💀

I gave Claude Code 30 days of AppSumo software costs ($100,000) total.

Asked it to analyze cost, effort, maintenance of replicating all the software we are using.

It found ~$500 / month in costs but many of the "dead" SaaS products it did not recommend changing.

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