Mike Cardona

Helping busy solo entrepreneurs save 30+ hours per month | Automate the tasks you hate, so you can spend more time doing what you love | Automation Alchemist 🧪

Are you working around the clock to keep your business afloat? From marketing to writing, accounting to customer service, you're juggling it all. It's exhausting.

You're not alone. This is a common struggle for solo-entrepreneurs and digital creators. The demands of your business often sideline the need for strategic focus and direction, leading to a vicious cycle of low-value tasks.

Don't blame yourself. When you're in the thick of running a business, finding time for growth planning can feel like a luxury. But what if it didn't have to be?

Imagine having:

• Simple but powerful automations.
• Streamlined workflows and systems.
• Time dedicated to strategic growth planning.

This is the promise of Hidden Levers. As a fellow solopreneur, I've walked in your shoes. Nine years ago, I was where you are now.

Today, I'm on a mission to help creative solopreneurs like you:

• Grow a profitable business without burning out.
• Do the work you love and enjoy.
• Achieve time-freedom.

Every Tuesday, I share actionable frameworks, resources, and tips that leverage AI/Tech tools so you can reclaim your time and do the work you enjoy—all in five minutes or less.

Ready to redefine your solopreneur journey? Click here: https://bit.ly/3PhJ8Vi

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Operations | Automation Alchemist | Writer

Empowering creative solopreneurs to save time and money by optimizing and streamlining their operations for maximum efficiency.

I am a senior software engineer with 8+ years of experience in backend development. I have industry experience in high load, big data, refactoring complex monolithic applications into microservices, and building microservices from an early stage. I love to work in teams that care about the product they're making.

Languages/Frameworks: Java (JUnit, Spring Boot), Go, JavaScript (Node.js).
Databases and tools: MySQL, MongoDB, ElasticSearch, Redis, Apache Kafka, ELK, Grafana, Prometheus, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS. 
Other: Data structures and algorithms, OOP, design patterns, structural programming, functional programming, SOLID, KISS, DRY, distributed programming, microservices, CQRS, Event Sourcing, TDD, DDD, REST and RPC API design, SQL and NoSQL.

Dmytro Krasun

I understand now why people want to quit everything and buy a farm.

Went a bit off the road and got stuck in the mud.

Family and friends had fun because of the "adventure" and I had a ton of physical work without news and social media.

What a wonderful day it was.

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Talked with Klaas Foppen, CTO/co-founder of Promptwatch, about how they use ScreenshotOne and why they decided to buy instead of build.

I don't know how long that equation will last. Maybe, at some point building with AI will be a no-brainer versus buying, but once again our conversation reminded me that to win you need to focus on your customers and your core competitive advantage; everything else can be bought/outsourced.

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I feel it 100%, and if you don't feel it, I have really bad news for you :) You probably don't notice it.

Both social media and high usage of LLMs atrophy my reasoning skills.

Reading hard books, doing math, or solving coding puzzles might become a gym for the mind.

I don’t know how long I will continue the experiment, but I haven’t opened social media for the past ~5 days (posting from Typefully). Now I know that I am 100% addicted, by the way. 

I am unaware of the latest AI news, and I hope you are all doing great.

Probably haven’t been happier than I am now in the past few months. And more optimistic about the world! I suspect hiking and sleeping in the desert without the Internet helped a lot. 

I will keep building and shipping and see if I can continue without socials for longer. But it is hard. 

You try to quit too for a few days and see what happens 🫶

I noticed that people who are most excited about the future impact of AI often have paid off their mortgage or have at least some level of financial security.

People in 9-to-5 jobs deserve understanding. It is a normal reaction to get defensive against AI when facing potential layoffs due to it.

I bet that curiosity and optimism feel very different depending on your bank account.

The number of open software software jobs has started to rise again! 

Pay attention at the middle of 2025 till February 2026. And ironically, it coincides with Claude Code and Codex getting more attention and entering mainstream.

I wouldn't hurry and attribute all these changes to AI. 

You can't disregard the major role of interest rates. You can see similar trends in most industries, not related to software at all, which proves that there are more profound factors at play than AI alone.

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