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Zack Gilbert

Zack Gilbert

@zackgilbert

Work from home dad. Fractional CTO by day. Building custom @bullettrainco and Rails tools for small operator-owned businesses. Prev: @abledotcom @foursquare
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Joined February 2024
Welp. Applied to tinyseed.com with #cpaconnect. Also spent a good chunk of the weekend migrating database and hosting providers as I get ready to fully onboard the flagship customer.
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Just enabled jemalloc and yjit for #cpaconnect. Nothing broke yet and seems to be running well.
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Just a friendly reminder to actually talk with your customers. Was spinning my tires on an update to #cpaconnect for like a week. Finally hopped on a call and got it sorted in no time.
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Just fixed a bunch of issues with the sitemap on #railsmarket thanks to Josh Pigford's new project SchemaKit.ai.
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Amazingly insightful customer walkthru today for #cpaconnect to help them streamline their project flows.
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Have a call next week with a potential co-founder for #epchecklist. Still love the project and know it has so much potential but know I can't do it on my own.
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Figured out the private repo deployment issues. Not pumped on the solution, but it works. Can figure out how to clean it up next.
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Battling private repo authentication issues and upgrade bugs.
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Customer signed = +$300 MRR for #cpaconnect, with a path for doubling ($600/month) and tripling ($1000/month) in the next couple of months as they onboard more team members.
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Just sent a stripe payment link for a $300/month subscription for #cpaconnect after a successful check-in call. Starting on the lowest tier to get skin in the game and start the migration process. Will ramp up to the next tier by migrating other partners/teams in the firm over in a month or two.
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Doing a bunch of backlink work and content adding to #railsmarket Finally added one of the inspirations for creating the site: rails.market/projects/powerpa…
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Minor bug fixes shipped after a potential client ran through things. Replied with a pretty hefty list of feedback and requests. #cpaconnect
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Added a new requested feature to #cpaconnect. Potential client is reviewing tomorrow and I'm hoping I can drop the potential.
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Every Monday I send a weekly update for #epchecklist about the process I'm making. Just sent this week's.
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Minor fixes to rails.market relating to open graph and twitter/x cards #railsmarket
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Super fascinated by SQLite lately, so starting to dig into SQLite for Rails - rails.market/projects/sqlite-…
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First time talking about this publicly, but built a new thing. #epchecklist Its goal is to help you organize your estate planning prep. No clue if this will help anyone else in its current form, but I'm putting it out into the world so I can learn more about where I should go with it next. theEstatePlanningChecklist.com
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Made some additional updates to #railsmarket. Includes a few bug fixes and some new books and courses. Also reversed the chronological sorting of projects to help showcase the newer projects that get added. Probably need to implement a better "ranking" system soon.
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Started adding books to rails.market. Added two so far: Patterns of Application Development Using AI and the Kamal Handbook.
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Started doing custom interviews for a potential new product/business. Love seeing enthusiastic responses from people so far. Still a lot more to do though.
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