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Props to you if you manage to follow this and squeeze it into 15 minutes. I‘ve genuinely never had a daily last less than 60 mins.

The issue is that it‘ll absolutely _suck_. If I tell Claude Code to scaffold a web app from 0 outside of React it‘s terrible.

So no, imho people with no app dev skills cannot just build something over a weekend, at least something that won‘t break when the first user logs in.

It‘s easier, since you don‘t have to stare at your monitor for 4 hours straight. But still, people expect availability since you‘re paid for 8 hours.

That‘s corporate jobs for you. It‘s about appearance, not results. That‘s why you make a big deal out of everything you work on.

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Just remember to go through your commit history if you ever plan on making that repo public.

With the new API for GPT-4o image gen releasing soon, we'll probably see a wave of hype products (ie "generate your own Studio Ghibli-style photo album"). I expect these will die down rather quick, but first mover advantage should still net you some profit here.

Which country is your company based in? And which countries are you selling your services to?

Legal/tax things are always different in every country. B2C also makes things a lot more complicated. Overall, lots of sharp edges to look out for.

Would you recommend moving from Google Workspace to Proton? Including emails and so on.

What's a good alternative to Proton? Still haven't migrated my business away from Google Workspace, and I was thinking Proton would be a good alternative, but apparently not if they don't even support IMAP/SMTP.

This happened to plenty of people with Stripe as well.

Doesn't mean Paddle isn't a good place to start - but as you get bigger, you should probably look at other solutions as well, to de-risk your payments infra. It's just that at the start it's too expensive, even in B2B, to think about multiple payment providers to spread risk.

Considering the PCLOB has lost some of its members, it's questionable whether the DPF can continue to exist in its current form. If it does go out the window, then Trump won't need to tell AWS/GCP to stop doing business with the EU, since European companies wouldn't legally be allowed to transfer data to US companies anyway.

I expect the EU commission will take a _very_ long time to actually act on this tho. Maybe we'll see Schrems III first.

That doesn't really work as long as you have legislation like the CLOUD Act, which means EU-based businesses have to think twice about using any US providers, especially if they handle sensitive customer data and also since the DPF is on the way out.

Surely one of the 10000 todo list apps we get every year out of coding bootcamps will be good by now. /s

Late to the party, but there's a "canvas mode" in Obsidian where you can sort of group notes together and drag them around. Other than that, it's also got a graph view, so provided you tag and link notes properly, it will show you related notes in the graph.

As far as I can tell this is without the planned C++ rewrite though, and the documentation at https://beancount.github.io/ still says to use v2.

Is there a point in migrating already?

SvelteKit + Netlify. The editing workflow for my blog is slightly cumbersome, because I write locally in Obsidian (just in case I ever redesign my website again, nothing is lost) and then copy/paste into VSCode, then publish.

Once it's published, Brevo automatically picks up the RSS Feed to send out my daily newsletter, since I switched from long-form sporadic blog posts to a shorter-form daily newsletter.

I've used Hugo/Jekyll in the past and liked it, but I'm used to SvelteKit now so I just stick with it, plus I could always hook up a Headless CMS still if necessary.

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>While the giants are trapped in their own complexity, nimble teams can build and launch AI-native solutions that directly challenge established players. Target a bloated SaaS vertical, rebuild it from the ground up with AI at its core, and position it as the next-generation alternative.

Is there _anyone_ that would jump ship to yet another SaaS just because it's "AI enabled"? Obviously it's all the rage for VCs right now, but I can't imagine switching to some other product simply because it has AI and mine doesn't.

You forgot that you need to listen to some podcasts along the way.

It's important to find the problem _first_. To me, it sounds like you're already building a solution (which can be a fun project, no doubt!), but in search of a problem.

Most books / talks will advocate finding your customers first, which means listening for problems that they have. It doesn't mean there can't be a solution on the market already, because competition in itself is validation that there's a need, but it means you need to be better than your competition in executing 1-2 particular features your customers want.

A common example is a large enterprise product having so many features that certain customers are turned off from the bloat; you could step in here, execute 1-2 features well, and sell that (provided customers want that).

Can't a creative lawyer almost always find a loophole in any contract? I don't think anyone's going to sue you if you sell a 60€/mo SaaS, esp. if you just hand the customer back their money. Obviously, if you're selling million-dollar medical hardware, your risk profile might be different.

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Try https://vokabeln.io/ instead.

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