I Built This While the Government Was Sleeping (Live Coding)

The government posts 1,500+ contracts every single day across dozens of websites. Most small businesses never see them. I’m building an AI that changes that. 🔗 Try Mindy free: https://getmindy.ai 📱 Follow @getmindyai on Instagram: https://instagram.com/getmindyai Mindy is an AI that scans the entire federal contracting market overnight and delivers a personalized briefing to your inbox by morning. She tracks 24,000+ contracts a night, identifies who has the contract now, when it expires, and whether you qualify. In this stream I’m building Mindy live — real code, real bugs, real decisions. You’ll see the actual codebase, the architecture, and how I’m turning a $750B government market into something a one-person company can navigate. What we’re covering today: • How Mindy ingests data from SAM.gov and federal procurement sites • The matching algorithm that pairs opportunities to your business • Building the daily briefing engine • Why SAM.gov’s UX is so broken and how AI fixes it • Live Q&A — ask me anything about govcon or the tech stack ⏰ TIMESTAMPS (added after stream): 0:00 - Mindy AI platform introduction and live stream format 1:31 - Day in the life of a govcon entrepreneur revealed 3:30 - Engineering background and first software company story 5:50 - Mindy AI product roadmap and PRD walkthrough 8:14 - Rule of two strategy explained for small businesses 9:16 - How 1500 platform users can create set-asides 10:28 - GovCon Giants officially pivots away from training 13:22 - Live SAM.gov dashboard and roofing opportunity review 15:35 - Free versus paid intelligence tier features breakdown 18:28 - GovWin IQ pricing versus Mindy AI cost comparison 20:08 - Industrial base decline and 60000 small business stat 24:01 - Live coding session with Cursor AI begins now 34:37 - Track to pipeline button bug identified and reported 38:51 - SAM.gov dashboard filtering and NAICS preference setup 43:10 - MAC holders strategy and how Eric won largest contract 50:09 - Pl