the Lovable/Replit bubble is about to pop
so... what to do about it?
From $42K to $200K
Back in 2014, I was making $42K a year. Basically broke. I was in that "let me pick the cheapest thing off the menu" mode at dinners…
I had just finished a coding bootcamp because I realized my business degree was... well, kinda useless.
(yes, I spent $60K on college just to pay another $10K to actually learn something useful)
But here's the thing:
I didn't become some coding wizard. I was moderately technical at best. But that was enough. I landed a tech-meets-customers role at a startup…
And I could understand the basics, call a few APIs, write some scripts…
It was cool because people acted like I was performing magic tricks.
Within a few years? I went from $42K to nearly $200K. Same pattern when I helped scale an 8-figure marketing company.
I could leverage basic APIs, string together some Zapier workflows, mess around with Make automations…
And suddenly I was the "gets stuff done guy" everyone needed.
The Skills Commodity Problem
But here's what nobody talks about:
Those skills that took me from broke to $200K? They're becoming point-and-click commodities.
Right now, anyone with half a desire & ¾ of a brain can plug in an MCP server and do what used to take me days or weeks.
In like... 20 minutes. So where does that leave people like us? Wayne Gretzky once said the key to his success was skating where the puck was going, not where it is.
And right now? The puck's got rocket boosters. Here's what I learned after watching this pattern play out three times in my career:
As tools expand in capability, you need to expand into what the new "hard-to-use" tools are. Spend your time THERE, and you'll always be future-proofed.
The people who stayed comfortable with Zapier when n8n got big? Left behind.
The people who "mastered" Lovable but ignored actually building with code?
About to be left behind. So wouldn't it be great if you had a framework to think about this stuff so that it didn't really matter what tool was cool and popular?
That's exactly what I break down in my latest YouTube video.
If you want to stay ahead of the curve instead of becoming obsolete…
Then you'll want to watch this breakdown of where technical leverage is actually shifting.
No fluff (only 11 minutes). Just the pattern I've seen play out over and over.
Watch it here: youtube.com/watch?v=eJnKWfvwJA0
Talk soon, Sean