Father of 3, Software Founder, Soccer Coach, Club President, making architecture decisions while rocking a baby to sleep.
South Carolina, USA
Joined December 2009
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The Solo Software Group offers a self-hosted WordPress plugin delivering a full money-loop (proposals to invoices with strong edge-case and recurring handling), marketing, frontend and AI tools (managed backend, MCP, SMS assistant) for SMBs, contractors and freelancers. Like Jobber + Squarespace + Quickbooks without SaaS lock-in or per-seat fees; accounting in v2. Bigger AI/robots plans to help small businesses compete.
X habits: Active with short replies (yes, congrats, welcome) plus longer insightful takes on AI, WordPress, indie building and strategy. Networks with founders and shares plugin progress.
Leif FrydenlundClark retweeted
🇩🇪 ‼️Why should you become an entrepreneur, innovate, and build your own startup in Germany?
1-You have a brilliant idea?
Great! Start building after your full-time job, using savings from income you've already paid taxes on.
2-You win a €10,000 hackathon prize?
Congratulations! Depending on the circumstances, your prize could be taxable income. If you're already a high earner, part of it could fall into Germany's 42% or 45% marginal tax brackets.
3-You invest in AI to build faster?
Welcome to subscriptions, API bills, cloud hosting, and 19% VAT on many purchases (potentially deductible if eligible).
4-You decide to register a company?
Wonderful! Notary fees, commercial register, accounting, tax declarations, annual financial statements.
Your administrative adventure has officially begun!
5-Your startup generates €0?
No problem! Your subscriptions, hosting bills, and administrative obligations don't magically disappear.
6-Your startup finally makes a profit?
Congratulations! Now let's discuss corporate tax, trade tax, and potentially another tax when you distribute those profits to yourself.
7-You build something with AI?
German ministers are already discussing the possibility of taxing AI-generated revenue.
and here's the great part:
>Everyone wants innovation.
>Everyone wants the next European unicorn.
>Everyone wants more entrepreneurs.
But how motivated must someone be to keep building through all of this?
I'm doing exactly that.
>Working full-time.
>Building my own AI startup.
>Sacrificing evenings and weekends.
>Investing my own money.
>Taking the risk before earning a single euro.
I don't expect a tax-free life. Public services need funding.
But I do wonder:
Are we creating the conditions for the next generation of founders, or testing how badly they want to succeed?
Because I'm still building and I wonder how many talented people never even start.
Leif FrydenlundClark retweeted
I endorse this message 🤠Say goodbye to cookie-cutter apps. Get your app built right!
Build native. Build with NiuNiu.dev All you have to do is describe what you want, and NiuNiu will build a native app experience for you.
We need to assemble a team of humans as the first line of defense against Skynet.
We need to share and document their tells and weaknesses.
Who's with me?
I'll go first. Bots aren't the greatest at determining image authenticity. Pic related.
Leif FrydenlundClark retweeted
Self-hosting beats vendor lock-in every time. The five-minute setup looks less free after a year. Pigsty alike can give you the same Postgres stack on your own machines.
Leif FrydenlundClark retweeted
It's Election Day! 🗳️🇺🇸
Your voice matters, and so does staying informed about the decisions that affect your community.
Whatever your views, take time to understand what's on your ballot and make your voice heard. 💜
This is an opportunity to finally have good software tailored to you, rather than generic stuff written for the largest market.
Searching the app store for a simple habit tracker:
100 results.
Half want a subscription.
Half the rest are full of ads.
The last few do 20 things you don't need.
Or just build your own.
With niuniu.dev, describe what you want and get a native Android app.
Leif FrydenlundClark retweeted
i've seen so many SaaS products with poor layouts, broken designs, no mobile responsiveness, and inconsistent brand colors.
how do you expect users to trust your product if you haven't put thought into the design?
that's one reason we built avaraui.com — a free, open-source shadcn/ui component library where you can find professional design inspiration, ready-to-use website sections, dashboard components, and MCP support to help AI agents build interfaces faster.
good design isn't just decoration. it's part of building a product people want to use.
It seems like so much assistance and services fall into the category of when you qualify for them, you would no longer want them.
X algorithm for example. If someone had the ability to spend all day posting and replying, they wouldn't care about creator rewards. If they were famous enough to reach the metrics required, they wouldn't care too much about about a few hundred dollars.
So many things fall under this category.
Founders! We are back!!
Marc Andreessen revealed how Harvard Business School was built on a broken 1941 theory, and how it's now collapsing...
Andreessen co-founded Netscape in 1994 and a16z in 2009.
He has sat on Meta's board since 2008.
He has spent 30 years backing founders and watching managerial CEOs lose to them.
The pattern traces back to one book: James Burnham's The Machiavellians (1941).
Burnham argued every great company had been founder-run.
Henry Ford ran Ford. Bob Noyce ran Intel.
Today, Elon Musk runs Tesla, SpaceX, and Starlink.
Then, he said, something broke.
Between the 1880s and the 1920s, a new philosophy replaced the founder. It was called managerialism.
The professional manager would now hold a portable skill, usable across any business.
The consequences were:
- Harvard Business School
- Stanford Business School
- Management as a universal skill
- The 1970s conglomerate
"That assumes the managers are going to do a good job," Andreessen says.
For 30 years, they haven't.
Managers can run something static, he says. Soup is soup. A bank is a bank. A car is a car.
But when the industry changes, the manager freezes.
Look at SpaceX.
"Imagine being a professionally trained manager, trained at a top management school, working for a rocket launch company, competing with SpaceX."
Then Elon's rockets started landing on their butt.
"Your management skills ... what good are they at that point?"
Andreessen's conclusion:
"You're much more likely to build something important in the 21st century if you start with the founder and train them on management."
Well, isn't that something. And I've noticed it also has a system where it borrows token usage from the future if it has routines to run in the meantime. 3 days, no bots. I guess Muse ans Claude Duet will get some heavy usage from me now.
How about some shepherd's pie. m
Mirepoix base, peas, sour cream and chive mashed potatoes, green onion, and Parmesan
That joke you say over and over really must have landed the first time you said it and you keep chasing that high
Leif FrydenlundClark retweeted
A custom app now costs about the same as a Starbucks coffee.
Not a template. Not a web page.
niuniu.dev lets you build your own native Android app just by chatting.
Coffee makes your afternoon better.
An app built just for you makes life easier for years. ☕
