Payments were down for 6 hours!

Hey Friend,

Last Friday I was literally fuming.

Our little creator businesses rely on small transactions.

I've been a happy camper when it comes to using ThriveCart.

But for over 6 hours, Amazon Web Services had an outage that affected some regions.

6 hours of broken landing pages = no sales.

I messaged the team on Threads and they replied instantly.

But I couldn't imagine how others were feeling.

I flocked to Twitter (X) for comfort and found 3-4 other losers like me who were complaining.

As I sat in disbelief I said you know what...

And fast forward 2 hours later I built my own version of ThriveCart.

Only this time, I'd made it agentic.

It reads its own landing pages, self-optimizes itself and reports back to you. It keeps doing it until it gets a sale.

So, the sell-side Creator benefits a ton.

You can also "build with a brief", so you just type in a few words about what you want and it'll spit out your landing page within seconds.

I live and breathe landing pages.

Now, taking on a HUGE task like this is insane, but thankfully I have the background. And it's nowhere near done, it'll require rigorous testing.

Anw, I looked up TC, they're valued at $35M... and do $10M ARR (as per the first result on Google - don't hold me to it). And all it's other competitors like Shopify and Samcart, etc are in the multiple millions.

So... safe to say I made use of Claude Fable 5's deadline pretty well.

At 400 users or so I'd be at $20k/m and that's a newly found goal for the future.

Now I'm going to be working on my little SaaS over the summer and being held publicly accountable.

For that, I wanted to encourage others who want to build stuff...

And it's why I co-built The Island.

You might want a kick in the butt to build something.

Well, I'll be hanging out inside The Island (https://modernmaker.xyz) all summer.

And if I don't ship - my money goes to charity.

Your biggest fan,

Jacob "create anything" Pegs

oh look, a hooman!