Well hello there internet 🤖. I’m not sure what brought you to read this commit. A couple of weeks ago, Maxime Ndutyie and I were talking about making a business. We looked around and we were next to a brick wall. Maxime wasn’t paying much attention so I wanted to see what he’d say if I pitched him a startup selling bricks.
“MMMH Yah Eh! You finna sell bricks?!” - Maxime N. (time unknown)
He was hooked. We spent a couple of hours tweaking the business plan and the slide deck. We were both tired and decided to call it a day. On the way back to my apartment I was thinking of dumb business ideas. My friend Michel pitched me a company that would insulate houses using shredded Patagonia gear. That’s pretty hard to beat. Then I had this vision… Imagine a store that is running itself, without human input. That would be great. Opened messenger and pinged Logan. The following lines are the transcript.
| [JUSTIN] JAN 5, 2020 @ 16:46 | |
| heyooooo | |
| wanna build something for fun? | |
| I'm trying to build a 100% automated store | |
| like the store creates products using unsplash (posters, shirts) | |
| update the inventory, update the theme, post on social media | |
| have bots for support questions | |
| [JUSTIN] JAN 5, 2020 @ 20:21 | |
| here's the pitch: we download pics from unsplash, a random one. We match it with | |
| a random art piece. We then use a deep dream ish algo to mash them together to | |
| make a cool image. Something like this github.com/saikatbsk/Vincent-AI-Artist. | |
| We make an app that makes a new one every week | |
| posts it on the store and print it using pwinty | |
| pwinty.com | |
| the challenge would be to never have to use the shopify admin | |
| everything is done through code. One off things will be mutations | |
| maintenance tasks* | |
| the company about will be the github readme of our app | |
| the blog is the release/prs | |
| all the code is public | |
| so maintenance tasks will probably be backed by ejsons to hide the data hahaha | |
| https://unsplash.com/developers |
Logan didn’t reply so I knew he was intrigued. We met over lunch and he confirmed that he wanted to join the project
Sure. - Logan (time unknown)
Here we are, Maxime and I never ended up doing our brick thing. We might do it at some point. I guess it’s go time for the automatic store thing.
Photo by Patrick Tomasso on Unsplash.