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Has anyone in my network made a mini game for TikTok. I really want to make one for Izzi's Gym, but it says you already have to game developer, which I guess I understand but would drastically reduce the number of people who could make gam…
Read the post →I know you're tired of hearing about it. But I need to say it one more time. For 12 years I built software with a team of developers. You'd spot a better way to do something, write it up, get it prioritized, wait for a sprint, review it, s…
Read the post →I am in love with my new eBay MCP. Listing used to be the job nobody wanted. Photograph it. Write a title. Fill in item specifics. Pick the category. Check comps. Set a price. Repeat. 5 to 10 minutes an item. Which is exactly why there was…
Read the post →I just let ChatGPT watch my workflow and explain the bottlenecks through a normal conversation with its new voice agent. No long spec document. No meeting. No technical background needed. I showed it what I do, talked through each step, an…
Read the post →The cheapest inventory in my building is a longbox of comics nobody will ever buy. So we're turning it into an event. Bargain Bin Dungeon. $5. Two hours. Seven seats. You draft four comics off the cover art alone. You have never read them.…
Read the post →It’s hard to believe it’s been a year since I made one of the hardest decisions of my life: stepping away from the company I dedicated 12 years to. At the time, it felt like I was starting over. Looking back, I wasn’t starting over. I was…
Read the post →My brother says I collect stinky paper. Fair. Old books, old watches, anything with somebody's name and a date on it. I don't really care about the object. I care about who had it. This one is a Dickens Story Teller from 1884, a cheap Chic…
Read the post →My brother is in a documentary. His shoes are the main character. He went to WordCamp US. A crew was filming. And the custom pair I made him is probably getting more screen time than his face. A room full of internationally known creatives…
Read the post →My first business died in a puddle of melted chocolate. I was 8 years old. Chris and Nick Candy Company, me and my twin brother. We had product. We had customers. We had a display case. We put the display case in direct sunlight. Every cho…
Read the post →All three OP-17 pre-release events. Sold out. Every seat. Every flight. Full room, all weekend. Watching the One Piece community in Sioux Falls grow like this has been one of the best parts of the year. Now the honest part. We dropped from…
Read the post →My brother told me a number yesterday I can't stop thinking about. In the past few months we've written 4 million lines of code. Two brothers. A card shop in Sioux Falls. I already know the comments. "It's slop." I spent 12 years building…
Read the post →I sold my first Pokémon card 16 months ago. I'd never owned one before that. Last month we did our best month ever. Up 25%. Here's what nobody tells you about starting over in an industry you know nothing about at 40-something years old, a…
Read the post →I was asleep at the wheel on this one. We list thousands of singles online. Card prices move every day. Ours didn't. I priced cards when they hit the shelf and never touched them again. Market drops, we look expensive, the card sits. Marke…
Read the post →10,000+ people showed up to our convention. Admission was $0. IZZISCON cost real money to run and I charged nothing to get in. Not for entry, not for any of kids activities. People in the industry told me I left a pile of money at the door…
Read the post →So excited to be making some amazing swag for a new project my brother is working on. Can't share the details yet, but trust me, it's good. When I left teelaunch a year ago, I was racking my brain about what to do next. Where to focus my e…
Read the post →My dad and I owned restaurants for most of my life. Everything was a fight. The POS. The menu boards. The phones. The website. The marketing. Every tool cost real money, broke constantly, and locked you into some vendor's contract. If you…
Read the post →I keep saying it: agentic programming has changed how I work. Running a card shop means typing the same messages over and over — "sorry, this card sold in-store before we could pull the listing..." — many times a a day. (we have hundreds o…
Read the post →I ran development teams for over 12 years. I loved building products. I hated the waiting. Then agentic programming changed everything for me. I can finally move at the speed of my own thoughts. Idea in the morning, live by the afternoon.…
Read the post →July was another record month for us. Up 25% across the board. Over 5,000 unique customers in the store, 8,000 online. For the first time, online passed in-store. We're on pace for $8M+ this year. Here's the part nobody puts in the announc…
Read the post →When we heard the Washington Pavilion's CineDome was putting on a K-Pop Laser Light Show, we didn't hesitate: we're ALL in. 🎁 Every single person who buys a ticket gets a FREE pack of K-Pop Demon Hunter cards from Izzi's Gym. Our goal? He…
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