SpaceX is going public.

And like most people, I immediately thought: should I buy in?

[not financial advice!]

But before I pulled the trigger, I wanted to know something nobody seemed to have a clean answer to:

How do IPOs actually perform on day 1, week 1, and month 1?

So I did what I do.

I built something.

Over a few evenings, I pulled historical data on 2,000+ company IPOs from the last decade.

The moment I had the idea I dropped it into Manus.

In less than an hour, it had researched all the data and created a website.

But as I started refiniing it, I realized the cost would be too great.

So I asked it to give me zip files of the code and the database info.

Then I created a new project in Claude Code, starting with those folders, and had CC review the folders so we could start building from there.

In hindsight, it may have been faster to start fresh with the idea in Claude Code rather than trying to massage the data from Manus.

I filtered out penny stocks. Filtered out international exchanges. What I was left with was a few hundred companies you'd recognize — Pinterest, Coinbase, Roku, Rivian, Palantir, Uber, Spotify.

Then I turned that data into a live site backed by a database.

I’m using TidbCloud and Railway to host the database and site.

Here's where it gets interesting.

Four years ago, this idea would've died on a napkin. I would've pitched a dev team, gotten a quote for $10-15k, and passed because I wasn't sure of the market.

Not anymore.

I built v1 in a few evenings. It's rough. It didn’t even have a domain name until a few minutes ago. But it works.

Here's my plan for getting it out into the world:

Lifetime access. Price goes up as I make sales.

If it gets traction, v2 gets interesting fast — map overlays, trend layers, maybe tracking all the way from S-1 filing to day one of trading.

What do you think?

Would you pay for access to this? Reply and let me know — or blast holes in the idea. I can take it.

My YouTube content has slowed.

Part of the reason is that I’m trying to create a workflow that works for me.

I’m all about reducing the friction in processes.

Anything that can shave minutes off and make getting started easier is worth doing.

Example: 2 days ago I sold my large monitor. I sold it because it was like 32” by 12” screen. The aspect ratio is not 16:9 » while it was extremely helpful for work, it was bad when trying to do screen recordings because I had to reshape the recorder to fit my screen at times. So my plan? Replace with a monitor that will work by default.

Reduce the friction! Heck, we even launched an agency brand called Erase Friction — my belief is even in the name 😜😜

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But I did record a vid recently sharing how I automated my YouTube analytics review process.

The program I’m helping build for our state is going really well.

We’ve got 100+ 170+ builders signed up, and we just completed our second call.

The energy from the builders is part of the reason I built the IPO project!

I’ve used AI as a junior assistant for many things in my role.

Our entire sponsorship package was created using Claude (we landed a $7.5k sponsor with it!)

We’re using AimFox to help us automate LinkedIn connections.

I used Manus [here are some free credits if you want to test] as a personal assistant to help me research strategic lists for us to outreach to, make some of our media, etc.

My worklife is augmented and is a solid mix of AI and analog actions.

Other projects I’ll update over time (or provide future updates) include…

Until next time!

Don’t just think outside the box — keep destroying that box 😉