Capital + labor are powerful leverages.
If you don’t have capital and labor, focus on the following:
Permissionless IP (direct to customer and no gatekeeper) + 0 replicable cost + AI + code + digital media = insane leverage that will get you the capital and labor.
– Jon Riki Karamatsu
Filed under Art, Artificial Intelligence, Entrepreneurship
I’m obsessed with AI and my mission to help founders of intellectual property (“IP”) and products with it. It helps me to push through my recent 11-hour streak to fix bugs in my decision integrity AI app. During my work breaks, I consume books and videos on AI. I write down ideas in developing my product. I type notes on how it could help my users.
The following are my next steps in building my baby IP:
My minimum viable product (“MVP”) launch for my decision integrity AI app has been pushed back due to bugs that I had to fix. My MVP target date is now Monday May 18, 2026.
Filed under Artificial Intelligence, Business, Entrepreneurship
My mom, dad, and business partner Mihye give me the strength to take the risks on my challenging ventures.
– Jon Riki Karamatsu
Filed under Business, Entrepreneurship, Family, Friends, Gratitude
I’m realizing that since my switch from OpenAI’s ChatGPT to Claude Cowork as my lead coder to guide me as a vibe coder and AI architect, at times, Claude would skip steps in the process like ChatGPT. If we executed a part of Bubble app’s process before, it assumes I would do it. I had an intuition to do it, but I thought that step in the process was not necessary since it didn’t mention it.
Once, ChatGPT suggested I delete 2 days of vibe coding work I did, but I corrected it. It backtracked and told me I was right. So far, Claude has not made such a bad suggestion yet.
I think it is important to not completely take the advice of any AI you’re working with if you know or have a feeling that a certain step should or should not be taken. Keep asking it questions before proceeding. Patience is key in the process of vibe coding.
Filed under Artificial Intelligence, Entrepreneurship
Now that I’m using Anthropic’s Claude Cowork (my CTO, lead coder and engineer, and second analyst and strategist) and Open AI’s ChatGPT (my COO, lead analyst and strategist, and second coder and engineer) as my business partners in building my law/business/psychology/science decision integrity app to protect founders from bad deals and bad people, I’m finding out that they will sometimes disagree with each other and I will sometimes disagree with one or both of them. It really is a council of partners. 😆
As the only human in the loop, the CEO, I have to make a judgment call to keep our team moving forward. With no humans as my business partners in a venture for the first time, it is really interesting and fun. There’s no emotional drama, power trips, comparison on who is doing more work, and any other baggage that comes with humans. It’s just the three of us trying to solve problems, which are mostly dealing with bugs. Yes, bugs. Using a “–” instead of “-” and other technical stuff that can hold up the progress. I spent the whole morning trying to figure out a bug with Claude Cowork. I’m going to take a break because I’m not AI and get back with Claude this afternoon on this issue. Darn bugs. I want to work on my AI’s brain, its branding, and the fun stuff. 😆
Anyway, it’s been a learning experience since I’ve started this journey on January 16, 2026. I’ve watched ads on how a user created an app in hours on her smartphone while riding the train on her commute. I’ve seen so many influencers bragging about developing their apps in hours or a within a day. Next week, May 16, 2026, will mark 4 months of vibe coding for me. Sure, I also have to do my law and real estate work for my clients as well as startup digital game and filmmaking work with my business partners for two other separate ventures, but still, I’ve been pumping in many hours in this AI app journey. It’s definitely like a hero trying to succeed an epic quest that involves traversing many worlds. That’s why I’m a strong believer in the work ethic and discipline that university taught me. It’s like I never left. It continues on in my journey from one world to the next as I put on my armor as an entrepreneur, lawyer, politician, realtor, writer, storyteller, and vibe coder.
Filed under Artificial Intelligence, Entrepreneurship
Having a growth mindset and gratitude will brighten your perception and power your effort against all odds.
– Jon Riki Karamatsu
Filed under Mental Health, Mindset
Your mission to make people’s lives better and create an amazing experience for them will motivate you to give it all you’ve got and sacrifice your work life balance in your attempt to achieve this.
– Jon Riki Karamatsu
Filed under Art, Career, Entrepreneurship, Life, Mindset, Motivation
Start your day on a positive note.
Listen to some soothing music. Drink a delicious coffee. Compound your effort toward something you enjoy.
– Jon Riki Karamatsu
Filed under Mindset, Motivational, Positivity, Psychology, Quotes
I’ve learned to transmute my suffering into focused work for my ventures. Suffering is one of my energy sources that power my determination and execution.
– Jon Riki Karamatsu
#suffering #mindset #psychology #goals #productivity #clarity #mission #entrepreneur #entrepreneurs #entrepreneurship #life #career #perception #transmute #convert #Aikido
Filed under Life Coach, Mental Health, Mindset, Motivational, Positive Living, Psychology, Quotes
I had a good chat with Claude AI today. He confirmed that Bubble.io can build every feature on my list.
As far as speed. I learned that code-generation tools are often faster for the first 30% of an app. Where they slow down: when you need to wire up authentication, databases, payment, file storage, background workflows, and admin tools, you’re now debugging actual code. If you’re not a developer (or don’t want to be one for this), the time savings evaporate.
Bubble is the opposite curve. The first 30% is slower because you’re clicking through a visual editor instead of generating code. But the next 70% — auth, database, workflows, Stripe, file storage, admin panels, user roles, scheduled jobs — is dramatically faster because it’s all built in. For a founder solo-building an MVP that needs login, billing, persistent data, and AI calls, Bubble usually wins on total time-to-launch.
I need a tool that lets me (a non-developer attorney/founder) iterate fastest based on user feedback after launch. Bubble’s editor lets you change a workflow in 30 seconds. Lovable.dev and other code-generation tools require regenerating code, which can introduce drift. For an MVP whose whole point is to learn what users want, Bubble’s iteration loop is hard to beat.
I feel much better that I did make the right decision to build my law/business/psychology/science decision integrity AI app with Bubble.io. My my work and time was in the right direction.
Filed under Artificial Intelligence, Business, Entrepreneurship
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