Week 24 - Rome wasn't built in a day 🏗

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Yurii Lazaruk
August 03, 2025

After being surprised by Manus last week and building an almost fully working website, of course, I decided to make it fully working 🤓🤩

So yes, I’ve installed git, Node.js, npm, created an account on GitHub (for some reason I’ve already had Visual Code Editor on my laptop 😲), and connected all of that with Netlify, which means that to make any changes on the website I need to do these things:

  • ask ChatGPT a question

  • change code in App.jsx on my laptop

  • deploy updates to Github, by writing next commands in the Command Prompt (cmd):

    • git add .

    • git commit -m "name of the update"

    • git push origin master

  • enjoy changes on the website 🥳

Pretty easy, huh? 😏

And it’s easy when I’m putting it that way (remember I’m not a developer even though I have some coding experience), still I had to ask Manus and ChatGPT for help, and one more insight I’ve learned that Manus is really good for solving a complex task (like creating a website from scratch), and ChatGPT is so much better for smaller tasks (such as copy-pasting the full code of my App.jsx file and asking why the website is a blank white page 😲😅).

TL;DR After spending a week on small tweaks, meet my fully working personal website 🤩😎🥳

Of course, there is always room for growth. I want to improve texts, make an “About me” page, add a blog, and still, I’ll be doing it slowly since Rome wasn’t built in a day 😏

Also, this week I tried something I wanted to do for a long time - short-form motivational videos for people to help overcome their mindset barriers 🤓

Yes, it went pretty well, with 181 views and 16 likes in 5 days, and 6 new subscribers to my channel 😲🤩

So I’ve done analyses of drops (like where exactly people stopped watching), transcribed 9 YT videos about how to make good videos, put it all together into ChatGPT, and kinda created my own YT Lab that I’ll be using to create better videos in the future, and the next one will be out next week about the power of small steps 💪

Also, I’m playing with an ideas of gathering curious people who learns daily into a community with the code name “IDKFA” - the cheat code from doom that grants the player full health, ammo, weapons, armor, and all keys, and also an abbreviation that stands for “I Don’t Know Fucking Anything” with the idea that the more we know, the more we realize we know nothing, and just continue moving forward 🚀

And yeah, this week I had a pretty long list of great thoughts, so definitely check them out 😉👇

Thoughts of the week:

  • “A product that stands out a little bit is chosen more than every other.” - via the Nudge podcast

  • “A database of marketing ideas that helps you boost your marketing.” - via the Nudge podcast ->💡 idea to create the list of community ideas that helps boost your community and business

  • “If you give someone a reason “why” it increases conversions for up to 41% and so does increase of number of choices between 3 and 5” - via the Nudge podcast

  • 💡 idea to make and ad on a podcast for 30 seconds and clearly mark it with the sounds - via the Nudge podcast

  • "You like more something you helped to create” - via the Nudge podcast ->💡 idea to ask people “If you learned something new, please let me know. And tell what you want to see in the future”

  • “The less a customer pays, the more problems they cause” - by Alex Hormozi

  • “Science is great, but don’t believe theories” - via DOAC podcast

  • “The simpler you can explain something the more effective it will work” - via the Nudge podcast

  • ”Share 1 thing 100 times than 100 things 1 time” - via the Nudge podcast

  • “There is no such thing as a common wisdom to a kid, they always ask why” - via DOAC podcast

  • “Genes load a gun, environment pulls a trigger.” - via DOAC podcast 

  • “Sell the tickets first, then use that money to purchase the business assets you need to deliver your service.” - via Indie Hackers newsletter

  • “Instead of aggressive marketing, he simply showed up in communities where agency owners hung out and answered questions. His username always included "usequeue․com" but he never explicitly pitched his product. - via Indie Hackers newsletter → 💡 use my website as a username in communities

  • “I share content so real it feels like reading messages from a friend rather than a professional connection” - via Creators Spotlight newsletter

  • “My best business decisions come from actual conversations with my audience. They share their struggles; I create solutions.” - by Folasade Daini via Creators Spotlight newsletter

Song of the week:

It’s a song from a russian group that left russia after the war started because they are fully against it (they are even called “foreign agents” in russia), and it’s very emotional to me because it’s chorus goes like:

“Let the city sleep peacefully
These are not bombs, but just summer thunder”

Book and quotes of the week:

“Achieving one goal can open up another. Efforts to change may reveal a more pressing or underlying concern that requires attention.”

“Before introducing new information, explore what people already know but perhaps have not integrated into their choices”

“We tend to compare our own behavior with that of people who are close to us, so if you hang out with people who are outliers, extreme seems normal”

Daily actions:

  • invite 5 people to give feedback on “Yurii’s website”

  • tell 5 freelancers about the Freelance Foundation course

  • participate in a secret LI support group

  • train my idea muscle - come up with 5 ideas about smth

  • read a self-development book/listen to a professional podcast for 15 minutes

  • make a valuable post/comment on LinkedIn

  • work 30 minutes solely on my business 😎

Weekly actions:

  • transcribe one new episode of the Creator Spotlight podcast and learn something from it

  • transcribe one new DOAC video and learn one thing from it

If you have any thoughts, ideas, or questions, please 👇

And if you’d like to walk The Road To $1M+ Freelance Business with me 👇

See you next week! 👋