Sam Lytle Podcast- Adventures in Business, Design and Life: Recent Episodes
Sam Lytle
In the Sam Lytle Podcast, Sam discusses his adventures in business, design and life including building and selling businesses, next level branding, utilizing cutting edge software and more.
In this episode, I share the journey of developing Civil Engine—a groundbreaking software set to launch in Spring 2025 with a bold mission: to democratize 3D visualization for transportation and other civil projects.
Join me as I pull back the curtain on how we're working to make high-quality visualization accessible to every civil engineer, designer, and planner—empowering professionals to bring their visions to life without relying on specialists. I'll dive into the challenges we've faced, the milestones we've achieved, and why I believe this could be the most important work of my life.
If you're passionate about the future of infrastructure design or curious about how technology is reshaping industries, this is an episode you don’t want to miss. 🌟
🎧 Tune in to explore how Civil Engine could change the way we visualize and build the world around us!
https://beyondcad.com/civilengine
It took a while, but Beyondware finally found a path to profitability by playing the slow game and improving in all areas, specifically licensing, pricing, hires and focusing on just Beyond Typicals. Here the whole story here.
I'm excited to announce that Beyondware has been accepted into the startup accelerator TinySeed. Read the full announcement here:
https://beyondware.com/tinyseed-announcement/
I've been in conversations with investors for the first time in my journey as a business owner. I can't spill all the details yet, but wanted to give a heads up that big things are coming.
Learn more about my business at https://www.beyondware.com
I thought I would have 50 paid subscriptions within the first day of launch. It took... a lot longer than that.
www.beyondware.com
For nearly a decade I've been building teams and outsourcing and have recently appreciated how the skill of outsourcing, managing and communicating with skilled individuals is perhaps the most important skill any entrepreneur can learn.
Spend less than you make?
Earn more than you spend?
Earn way more than you spend?
How about, net worth?
We hear stories of incredible successes but they often have a lot of luck baked in. In this episode I talk about how we have 3 options when going from launch to profitable and which ones I plan on using for Beyond CAD.
Register for the 'What's New, What's Next for Beyond CAD' livestream next week:
https://www.linkedin.com/events/what-snew-what-snextwithbeyondc6851546241340469248/
In this episode I talk about how the space between 1 and 1000 subscribers to Beyond CAD Vision is separated between many problems that I don't even know exist.
It's all good, I'm here (hopefully) to solve them as they come along.
Learn more about Vision at www.beyondcadvision.com
In this episode I talk about the feelings I'm having about a week before the launch of Beyond CAD Vision which we've been working on for two years.
Learn more at
www.beyondcadvision.com
Connect with me on LinkedIn:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/samlytle/
Check out the Simulator for Active Distracted Driving:
www.saddvr.com
Check out Beyond CAD Vision:
www.beyondcad.com/vision
In this episode I talk about how my experience has led me to believe that the odds of someone stealing your idea from sharing too much are much lower than no one caring about what you are creating.
Connect with me at LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/samlytle/
After dabbling in cryptocurrencies over the years I've become interested in dipping my toes in similar speculation investments. When I found NBA Top Shot recently I started to wonder if it might be on a similar trajectory to Bitcoin and other short term bubbles.
This is the story of how I created 3 different courses on Udemy that led to thousands of $$ in revenue and I actually regret the whole thing.
In this episode I talk about the time we were hired to create 3D renderings for a legal case related to the Nevada Testing Range and even went on site to take photos for our project. Listen more at www.samlytle.com
In this episode I talk about how/why my life changed nearly 10 years ago and how that led to doing work I love on a regular basis and living adventures every day. Moving forward this will be the Sam Lytle Podcast | Adventures in Business, Design and Life.
In this episode of Beyond CAD, Eric DeLeon talks with me about how he got into the world of AEC, his preference between AutoDesk and Bentley and many other topics. Make sure to check out Eric's podcast!
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-cad-manager-confessions-podcast/id1482553737
In this episode of Beyond CAD, Eric DeLeon talks with me about how he got into the world of AEC, his preference between AutoDesk and Bentley and many other topics. Make sure to check out Eric's podcast!
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-cad-manager-confessions-podcast/id1482553737
In this episode I make a pitch to work with me as a virtual assistant to help with content creation and production as well as social media management. If you are interested email info@civilfx.com
In this episode of Beyond CAD (also available on YouTube https://youtu.be/v77e6U2Lv50 ) I discuss the new podcast (www.lookgoodpodcast.com) and interactive tours on YouTube as well as the development progress of Civil FX Vision. I discuss how learning design tools and being more involved has vastly improved the development progress of Vision. Learn more at www.civilfx.com/vision2020
In this episode I announce the new podcast from Civil FX called We Make Civil Engineering Look Good and also share an episode from the podcast where I interview Wayne Sullivan, Civil FX Project Manager who joined up with us 3 years ago and runs the office and client services.
In this episode I talk about how and why Civil FX was awarded a Megagrant from Epic and how our project - The Simulator for Active Distracted Driving, or SADD - will hopefully save lives.
I also discuss a new podcast Civil FX is working on called We Make Civil Engineering Look Good and what it means for Beyond CAD moving forward.
In this episode I talk about how good Beyond CAD could be if I invested more time and effort into it.
In this episode I talk about why we have a 3D printer even though it may never lead to revenue for the company.
In this episode I talk about where VR is at this point in December 2019 including all of the latest headsets as well as a discussion about the application of technology.
In this episode I share a presentation given by myself and Nick Johnson from NDOT at the TRB Symposium on Visualization in early November 2019. I discuss the future of visualization and Nick discusses NDOT's success with using interactive visualization as part of public outreach.
In this episode I discuss thoughts from the Transportation Research Board Symposium on Transportation Visualization I attended last week in Washington D.C.
In this episode I talk about how we ended up getting a Mavic Pro 2 even though I've mentioned in the past that it probably wasn't worth it. I discuss 4 reasons why we could use drones as part of our 3D visualization services.
In this episode discuss answers to the questions we are receiving about Civil FX Vision, a better visualization tool we are building and launching in 2020.
In this episode I talk about why whenever possible we use 4k... and you probably should be too.
In this episode I talk about how sometimes we need to make sacrifices in the short term for the better good of our long term goals.
In this episode of Beyond CAD I talk about how Beyond CAD and building Civil FX Vision will be a team effort.
In this episode I talk about how moving Beyond CAD helped me in my career and could help you as well.
In this episode I talk about why architectural visualization has been approaching realism for decades while civil visualization is still competing with Playstation 2 graphics.
In this episode of Beyond CAD I talk about one of my greatest fears of Civil FX Vision- users trying to use sub-par data and ending up with poor results.
In this episode I talk about what BIM is, how it might work for civil engineering and how we might incorporate BIM features into Civil FX Vision.
In this episode I talk about how I originally got into civil engineering and how that path ultimately led me to 3D visualization, starting a business and the Beyond CAD podcast.
In this episode I talk about why Civil FX is the team to build Vision and the timeline to roll out this new visualization tool for civil engineering.
In this episode I talk about the potential market opportunity for Civil FX Vision and how this software will work and be different from what is already out there.
In this episode I talk about how potential hard times ahead woke me up to the idea of building a visualization tool that will hopefully scratch our itch and potentially change the direction of the company.
We've been talking internally about switching from Unity 3D to Unreal Engine (UE4). Here is my breakdown of the pros and cons of switching to UE4.
Cons
- Unity has larger userbase
- Possibly less optimized for mobile
- Possibly less optimized for 2D apps
- Years of development on Unity could take years to replace with Unreal
Pros
- Quality/ visual fidelity
- Possible performance improvements
- C++ is our developers native coding language
- More responsive product team
- More affordable
- Visual system for blueprint/shaders
A presentation given by Sam at the local APWA conference in Laughlin, NV April 2019. Sam talks about the future of 3D visualization and how his team has successfully brought Vissim data into interactive design visualization.
In this episode (also on YouTube!), Sam talks about the ongoing discussions he has with project teams that question if they can afford 3D visualization.
In this episode I talk about why anyone would want to visualize simulated traffic and why we decided to build a better way.
In this episode I share a presentation I gave at a local APWA luncheon where I discuss the future of 3D visualization and how Civil FX has been pushing the boundaries into the future.
In this episode, Sam talks about 5 new features the Civil FX team has developed as part of interactive visualization over the past few months.
Learn more at www.civilfx.com
In this episode, Sam talks about 2018 and how it ended with quite the bang and how he hopes to continue the momentum into 2019.
We are two months into the new office and new hires and all of these changes has me thinking about a few things...
In this episode I talk about how, after over a year of preparation, we finally opened our new office in Las Vegas including 4 new hires leading to a new stage for Civil FX.
In this episode I talk about the division within Civil FX between asset artists and infrastructure artists and why it matters.
In this episode I talk about why I avoid using proprietary workflows such as Civil View, Lumen RT and InfraWorks.
In this episode I talk about the software programs, packages and services we use for visualization, modeling and running a business.
In this episode I talk about the hardware we use in the Civil FX office and why now is the best time in history for hardware in our industry.
We talk about everything to do with drones and reasons why CivilFX will not be adding drones to it's services.