One of the most useful questions I have started asking AI has nothing to do with the project itself: “Is there a prompt I should use in the next session?” It sounds almost too simple to matter. But after spending countless hours working with AI on increasingly large projects, I am realizing that knowing how…
Update, July 2026: LaunchPad360 has since been renamed KeepTRiX. The product and its central purpose continue to evolve, but the problem described in this article remains the same. Today I did something that, honestly, I didn’t expect to do for quite a while. I stopped logging into Hive. That probably sounds like an odd milestone…
About six years ago, my granddaughter Valerie was sitting with me while I tried to find one of her shows on the television. I was doing what most adults do when technology doesn’t immediately cooperate. Pressing buttons. Scrolling through menus. Backing out. Trying again. Muttering under my breath. After watching this for a minute, Valerie…
If you spend any amount of time reading productivity advice, you’ll quickly encounter one of the internet’s favorite commandments: “Multitasking is bad.” The advice usually sounds something like this: And for many people, that’s probably excellent advice. But lately, I’ve realized something. I almost never work with fewer than three visible screens. Often four. And…
When I started building LaunchPad360, the goal was simple. I wanted a website builder. Not another WordPress theme. Not another page builder. Not another complicated system that required plugins, updates, security patches, and constant maintenance. I wanted something that could generate a professional website for a local business and then allow that business to make…
Most people think launching a business is about having a good idea. It’s not. The idea is usually the easy part. The hard part is everything that comes after. You need a website. Then you need hosting. Then email. Then a CRM. Then a sales pipeline. Then task management. Then a knowledge base. Then customer…
Lately I’ve seen a lot of discussion about “vibe coding.” The idea is simple. You tell an AI what you want, it generates code, and somehow an application appears. As someone currently building a SaaS platform called LaunchPad360 almost entirely through AI-assisted development, I should probably be the poster child for vibe coding. But the…
For years, businesses have been told that replacing legacy software is too expensive, too risky, and too disruptive. In many cases, that was true. The cost of rebuilding a business application from scratch often outweighed the benefits of modernization. Companies learned to live with outdated systems because maintaining them was cheaper than replacing them. Artificial…
Several years ago, after taking Websketching back over during a difficult period in my life, I wrote a post called “Trying to Find My MVP.” At the time, I felt pulled in too many directions. I had decades of experience in web development, SEO, local search, UX, content strategy, and digital marketing, but I wasn’t…
Four years ago, I wrote an article asking whether AI-generated content might solve a major pain point in web development and digital marketing, and a few months later, I concluded that it did. At the time, I was thinking primarily about blog writing, SEO pages, social media content, email campaigns, and the growing pressure businesses…