Gary Shenk

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Over my career, I’ve been a “Serial CEO” who has founded and scaled several well-known global companies (with multiple exits) at the convergence of media, consumer experiences, IP and frontier technology. Now, I partner with ambitious private equity and venture investors -- as a fractional CEO, NED or Operating Partner and frequent co-investor -- to drive hyper-growth, digital transformation and aggressive value creation (leading to exits) in their portfolio companies.

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BetterClaw - AI agent to schedule and run tasks for $0 (Credits refill every month)

Hi PH team,
We have launched BetterClaw today,

Most "free" AI tools mean free for 14 days, or free until you hit a wall you can't see coming.

Ours works differently because of one architectural choice: you bring your own model key. Your prompts go straight from you to your LLM provider. We never touch your inference bill because we're not in that path at all.

Pair it with a free model tier (Gemini, Groq, OpenRouter) and your total cost is genuinely $0. Not $0 plus a server you have to maintain. Zero.

🎨 Do solo makers need a UI/UX designer?

For solo makers, wearing every hat is almost unavoidable - developer, marketer, support, product and often designer too.

AI makes this even easier now. You can generate UI pretty quickly, but a lot of products end up relying on consistent, polished AI-generated solutions rather than something truly unique or thoughtfully designed for their specific product.

So I m curious:

Do you design the UI/UX yourself when building solo?

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