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107 contributions to TopOfMind AI Builders
HOW I STARTED
When I first started, I didn't know much. I had questions, made mistakes, and sometimes felt like everyone else was ahead of me. But instead of giving up, I kept learning, improving, and showing up every day. Looking back, I realize that progress wasn't about being perfect—it was about being consistent. The person I am today is the result of small efforts repeated over time. If you're just starting, trust the process. Every expert was once a beginner. What's one lesson you've learned on your journey so far?
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@Charles Kim My rule inperfect results beats perfection. Just get stuff done.
The land of miracles - Netherlands
I’d love to connect with more people from the Netherlands and get to know the country beyond what you see as a visitor. I’m especially interested in meeting Dutch people who enjoy sharing their perspectives on everyday life, culture, work, technology, cities, and the things that make the Netherlands unique. I believe the best connections often start with a simple conversation, without any business agenda behind it. If you’re from the Netherlands and open to meeting someone new, feel free to say hello. I’d be happy to connect, exchange ideas, and learn more about life in the Netherlands.
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Welcome to the skool. Is there anything I can help.you with?
Looking to Connect With Good People
I’m growing a development team and looking to connect with people who are interested in building something together. I’d like to meet: - Agency owners and people working at agencies - Company founders and executives - People thinking about starting their own agency - Developers who are interested in joining a good team - People who can help with sales, marketing, or promotion - Anyone working in tech who shares a similar mindset I’m open to different kinds of collaboration. It could be a development project, a business partnership, joining the team, bringing opportunities, or simply getting to know each other and seeing what comes from it. I’m more interested in long-term relationships than one off projects I’m currently working around software development, AI, automation, and new technology, and I’m always interested in meeting people who are serious about what they’re building. If any of this sounds like you, feel free to DM me. Always happy to have a conversation and see if there’s a way we can work together.
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Like they use to say in the old days. I'll add you to my Rolodex. What type of project you've built?
Question?
how are you structuring your AI coding setup? (sharing mine, want to compare notes) been deep in the weeds optimizing my coding stack lately and want to see how you guys are actually running yours. here's where I'm at: what I pay for - Ollama - ChatGPT / Codex - Claude Code ($100 plan) how I split it - manual coding sessions → Claude Code - my orchestration layer (I call it Hermes) → runs on Codex with an Ollama fallback the issue: I cap out on the $100 Claude plan fast. so lately I've been running fcc-claude (free-claude-code) — it keeps the Claude Code terminal workflow but lets you point it at whatever API you want. feels like working in Opus, but the model underneath is swappable. I rotate the backend between: - DeepSeek - MiniMax M3 - and lately Qwen3:30b fully local right now I'm routing local Qwen through Ollama into fcc-claude, so I'm basically running the Claude Code experience on my own hardware for free. for the workflow layer I lean on Superpowers + a few MCP connections, and that's pretty much it. so what I'm trying to figure out: - how are you structuring sessions — one main agent, or orchestration with subagents? - what's your model routing look like? mixing local + API like this, or all-in on one provider? - what are you running for the "framework" layer — superpowers, custom skills, raw prompts? - and real talk: what am I missing? where am I leaving gains on the table? drop your setup below, even a rough sketch. trying to make sure I'm actually maxing this out and not just stacking tools for the sake of it.
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@Carlos Jimenez Great question. For me, the answer is: it depends on what I’m building and who I’m building it with. I use a mix of tools depending on the workflow: Rocket.new, Claude Code, Hermes, Codex, Replit, Base44, and Perplexity Computer. I don’t really think of them as “one tool to rule them all.” I think of them more like a production stack for different stages of building. For example, I’ve built custom agents and skills that let my non-technical, domain-expert business partner create apps without needing to understand the technical details. Then I set up the engineering side: GitHub workflows, unit tests, integration tests, functional tests, and QA checks so we’re not just generating demos — we’re trying to create something that can actually survive contact with users. A big part of my process comes from working at Amazon Web Services for 7 years. I bring in lessons from that environment around quality bars, production readiness, operational excellence, and customer obsession. So before I treat an AI-built app as “done,” I usually run it through things like: - Production readiness assessment - QA / quality bar review - Unit, integration, and functional testing - UX and UI audit - SEO audit - Security / reliability sanity checks - “Would a real customer trust this?” review The way I look at it: AI tools are great at helping you move fast, but the real advantage comes from pairing them with strong judgment, domain expertise, testing, and a high quality bar. As for as models, I have the $200/mo Claude Code, Codex and I prepaid a yer for perplexity computer. I use Codex via auth for OpenClaw and Hermes. I forgot to mention when I run my production readiness assessments I use codex to assess the other models. I use Claude Code when assessing codex code. I've really interested in OpenRouter fusion api to get Fable level of output. I'm in the process of going live with a sports app using the perplexity method. It's web base for now and I'm kicking off a private beta with 1 high school coach and two professional Canadian Football League customers.
AI Agents: Is Domain Knowledge the Real Bottleneck?
Keith, you mentioned that one of the biggest challenges with AI agents is getting enough domain knowledge to properly ground them. I'm curious how you're approaching that today. Are you mainly solving it by working closely with design partners and extracting workflows directly from business owners, or have you found other methods that work well? Also, you've been experimenting with alternatives to GHL and combining CRM capabilities with agentic workflows through Hermes. How are you thinking about the split between CRM automation and AI agents going forward? Would love to hear your thoughts since I think a lot of builders here are running into the same challenges.
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Wow, you hit on a lot. Lets start with domain knowledge. Yes, I found you can gain domain knowledge from your past experience or select a co-founder with domain knowledge. You can partner with a potential customer that has the domain knowledge. Collaborate with them to build a MVP. You want leverage their domain knowledge to help you design a working MVP thaat solve a problem they have and by extension the niche. Even better find a leader in the niche that has an active following with at least 1k members. Then when you solve their problem interview them and place the interview on your socials and their socials. I'm sure you should be able to get at least 10 customers. I've done both. In my Complete Performance business, my co-founder is an certified professional, created CEUs for other professionals and mentor new certified professional,. We don't get a lot of customers yet, but he got invited to give a talk at an university and we were able to get a mentorship customer and a design partner for an app with are going live next month. My partner met a clinic owner and we were trying to sale him a website but after talking to him. He had an idea for an app for his 19k member instagram channel. We are doing a 50/50 deal on the app. His knowledge and mabual system and I will turn it into an app.
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Keith Motte
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IT Dude. AWS Engineering Manager focusing on helping enterprises utilize AI and Cloud to grow their business, Father and part time AI Agent Wrangler

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