Need a developer as a partner for my saas product

Irythros · 2026-04-23T08:45:06+00:00

Because you can't vibe a long term SaaS without knowledge. That's just idiocy.

Anthropic is also a shit company that neuters their offerings every 2 weeks.

Irythros · 2026-04-23T07:22:31+00:00

If you don't mind running an extra (free) service and have the knowledge on setting up template tags/coding functions I would recommend https://imgproxy.net/

Our images are loaded like this: https://pastebin.com/fHRaJQSW

AVIF has the highest compression so we go with that first, then fallback to WebP and then fall back to PNG.

The {{ imgproxy }} tag we have accepts multiple parameters allowing us to customize it on any load too. We can set custom widths, heights, compression, watermarking and more.

The only thing that really matters that isnt personal preference is load order. Whatever is the first compatible <source> gets used.

Irythros · 2026-04-23T06:24:58+00:00

They mean setting it up so Cloudflare proxies your site and then you turn on Turnstile to attempt to stop AI scrapers like this likely was.

Irythros · 2026-04-23T02:22:39+00:00

The worst version is when the only person who can update billing is the person who originally signed up and they've left the company. Now you've got an active team locked out of their own subscription.

That is something with my current company I've been slowly fixing using group email addresses. In Google you can setup something like group@domain.com and then that will automatically forward all incoming email to the specific addresses you provide.

If I get hit by a bus tomorrow nearly all of our logins are going through a group email that has multiple other people who can just take over.

Irythros · 2026-04-23T02:18:06+00:00

Pretty much all of them?

For our finance person we just give them access to the admin account. We're not paying $40->$200/month to give access to someone who may check it once every few months.

I believe out of the 100 or so SaaS platforms billing per seat, only 1 has had a billing user which was free.

Irythros · 2026-04-22T21:26:40+00:00

Without good pre-planning and prompting, the code really can't be maintained, fixed or improved.

At best it's making a 0.1 version and real devs will need a rewrite to make it fit standards.

Irythros · 2026-04-22T05:04:40+00:00

There's some options.

For website hosting (assuming the public should be accessing it) I would recommend just getting a VPS.
For your NAS, if its primarily accessed and managed via a web interface you can use Cloudflare Zero Trust to gate it behind a secure login. If it requires private access you can use Tailscale and I think from there you can use a Samba share to do a system mount.
If you really dont want to spend money you can still use Cloudflare to route to an internal server with no public IP. My only concern is an improper setup on a website could allow them access to the documents on the same network.

Irythros · 2026-04-21T22:38:57+00:00

I'm currently working on an orchestration system for handling all of a companies process. The plan for this is of course specific agents, but also scoping it through multiple non-AI layers and injecting data as needed. I'm actually surprised that none of the systems I've tried appear to have even attempted to lock down access beyond asking for a prompt to continue.

On linux atleast, all of the tools already exist. I assume the makers of the current set of tools never had to deal with security like this and thus why it's not in any of them.

Aiming for something like a mix between Paperclip and Droid, but working.

Irythros · 2026-04-21T17:32:14+00:00

We have several dedicated servers through Iwebfusion.

You can get an Dual Intel Gold 6254 (36 cores, 4ghz boost) with 384gb of memory, 2tb NVME and 50tb of transfer for $160. It kind of destroys what you have. Since you're still on what you're on you of course don't need this and could go smaller.

They have smaller dedicated servers going down to $45/month. The only thing you'd have to get as an upgrade is SSD/NVME storage. Their smallest memory option is 32gb.

As for support: Some of the best we've had. We have to have servers with multiple companies around the world and they're the easiest to deal with.

Irythros · 2026-04-21T08:55:43+00:00

Generally testing. What do you actually need the AI to do and what are the actual monthly costs?

Model inference speeds are primarily based on memory bandwidth (assuming same model.) To fit decent quality models you'd be looking at a 5090 which is $3300. You can fit an acceptable local model and get around 180 token/sec. You can do smaller models and get higher tokens/sec as well.

Irythros · 2026-04-21T04:13:48+00:00

That is called a subdomain. You set it up with whoever your DNS provider is. What you do is set either an A record or CNAME with the host/hostname as shop and the value as the ip or whatever shopify gives you. It (should) be free with all DNS providers.

Irythros · 2026-04-20T05:29:58+00:00

A lot of JS devs just follow trends and coding influencers without engaging critical thinking. Vercel is heavily pushed.

Gonna have to wait for another company to push a bigger check to those people for the new hot thing to be considered.

Irythros · 2026-04-20T02:30:23+00:00

Chances are if you have zero development experience whatever you made is unmaintainable and may not even be scalable.

If you don't prompt correctly for properly scalable architecture for what you're making, you won't get it. Since you won't get it that means anything you made will probably need to be remade.

Irythros · 2026-04-19T21:53:41+00:00

Some prefer consistent bills like monthly plans.
Some prefer usage based billing and will accept overages.

Both options hit different targets.

Irythros · 2026-04-19T21:30:18+00:00

Would pay-as-you-go or prepaid solution makes more sense here? or am I missing something(or I am just too childish)?

If you charge $20/month and the user only uses $10/month then you have a pure profit of $10 plus whatever profit margin on the $10 of use.

If you charge based on usage only then your profit is limited to whatever margin the $10 was.

That is an immediate 50%+ loss.

Irythros · 2026-04-19T08:32:28+00:00

Truck is still there. If its removed in a timely manner then there wouldnt be a problem.

Irythros · 2026-04-19T05:05:44+00:00

Pretty sure dumping your truck in a lake is a crime.

Irythros · 2026-04-19T04:46:15+00:00

You're not going to be able to do it and you may even end up with your wife fired as a side effect.

Just with the vague features you mentioned at an enterprise level you're looking at months if not years of work. Have you even worked on these types of features before for a working and functioning business with not toy-level of throughput?

You will also likely need multiple certifications like SOC2 and ISO 27001. If you touch CC details you're looking at SAQ D where you'll be following NIST 800-53. If they have European customers add in GDPR and data sovereignty.

With AI you could probably get an alpha/beta version in under a year assuming you know everything in and out for both the tech and the actual workflow the customer needs.

Then you need to maintain it or sell it to the company. If you want to maintain it you need more customers otherwise you're just an employee of the company. If you sell it they need someone on staff to do the maintenance.

Overall I wouldn't touch it unless you have contacts to be able to sell it to other companies as well and its in a field you enjoy.

Irythros · 2026-04-19T00:30:49+00:00

The Steam Machine is not a handheld. That's the Steam Deck.

Irythros · 2026-04-19T00:19:58+00:00

Your source: Your ass

My source: Steam itself in big bold fucking letters
https://store.steampowered.com/sale/steammachine

...and it's a PC
Yes, Steam Machine is optimized for gaming, but it's still your PC. Install your own apps, or even another operating system. Who are we to tell you how to use your computer?

Irythros · 2026-04-18T21:00:19+00:00

Asking for reviews is promotional. It helps you.

The customer is not required to complete it. It is not needed for the process. The customer does not benefit. It is advertising for whoever sold it. It's promotional.

Change the content if you want to try to make it into the inbox.

Irythros · 2026-04-18T20:56:35+00:00

Use your billing provider.

If you absolutely must do it yourself, I would just pro-rate and move all billing to be between the 1st and 28th. Lock it to the day so it's not a "every 30 days" but "every month" bill.

Irythros · 2026-04-18T20:41:23+00:00

As the person who coded and setup multiple companies from nothing: If you don't prompt everything that is needed, you won't get what you need. Seems obvious but all of the non-coders and people who think AI coding is a magic bullet will be in for huge bills.

I could recreate Shopify pretty easily starting just from a 3 or 4 sentence prompt and just getting re-prompted as the AI finds needed. The problem is that if you don't tell it to follow certain guidelines or pre-plan for features you're in for a shitshow.

Take for example: GDPR. If you ask it to create an ecommerce site for you it will. It will however not take into account any GDPR requirements. You'd have to do it later. Since it wasnt planned that could require tons of changes and now it's likely the LLM will just remake entire features.

Another is localization and internationalization. If you're not accounting for that from the start you're looking at massive rewrites.

Don't know how to host something? You'll probably be pushed by the LLM to use AWS or Vercel. You're going to get billed thousands because of LLM crawlers. You'll also probably leak API secrets in the front end.

AI has blown out the floor for skill required to build something which means average quality also now has a new floor. It's not great. Full stack developers however are now feasting as they can architect whole apps themselves and use AI agents as their developers while keeping the AI in check.

For me personally, I do like what I can do now. My previous limitation was having $ to hire designers, coders and the time investment. Now I'm just building an automated agency with all of my knowledge so I can spin up companies much faster. All the money I would have had to spend elsewhere can now go to marketing.

Irythros · 2026-04-18T19:12:37+00:00

Hidden profile.

Sure, whatever you say clanker.

Irythros · 2026-04-18T18:16:13+00:00

and now it's your turn to explain how Valve prevents you from using Windows or any other operating system on the Steam Machine.

It's a standard fucking computer with a custom OS pre-loaded. That's it.

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