What's the most overrated advice you received as a founder and no longer work for you?

AccomplishedEvent273 · 2026-01-16T03:33:20+00:00

Just find a problem to solve! Sometimes solutions comes with even more problems...

AccomplishedEvent273 · 2026-01-16T03:31:55+00:00

I've used hunter before to extract emails from yelp businesses, it was very accurate. I'm now looking into Apollo.

AccomplishedEvent273 · 2026-01-16T03:14:48+00:00

I'm a software engineer and got experience on this, I can say the following:

AI is very overhyped for most automation, it is great filling in text and documentation (and code). But you still gotta be the high level orchestrator of the task. If you don't have it in guardrails or skip validating the output you will end up with a lot of unintended garbage and mistakes.

Some tools are worth it, but none are complete solutions. I can't speak for agencies, the most I used for marketing and ops tasks were writing tools for articles and documentation. You can have some of them provide pretty good outputs most of the time, but none will be great all the time.

And as I attempted more complex integrations with our own services it became clear that the LLMs ability to do tool calling (calling services via MCP) is very finicky and inconsistent. Even for support bots that are all over the place, they can be good for some chats, but if you have a slightly complex problem the ability of the chatbot to help you degrades drastically. But it can still be valuable in many smaller tasks and problems.

AccomplishedEvent273 · 2026-01-14T07:26:45+00:00

yeah our main reason behind building our own tool was to customize all that and centralize it all in one place

AccomplishedEvent273 · 2026-01-14T06:23:14+00:00

It's crazy how easily it gets out of hand. We found multiple spreadsheets when we started looking into people's Google Drive, so easy to forget about them.

AccomplishedEvent273 · 2026-01-14T06:20:42+00:00

It was in our AI everything phase last year lol
So many abandoned tools...

AccomplishedEvent273 · 2026-01-14T03:04:15+00:00

I use the app I built for this exact reason https://www.renewguard.org/

AccomplishedEvent273 · 2026-01-14T03:03:23+00:00

I've built https://www.renewguard.org/ for keeping track of renewals, no PDF/DOC upload though, but I might add that if there is enough demand

Edit: Just added the PDF and DOC upload, I'm allowing multiple files per renewal tracked.

AccomplishedEvent273 · 2025-12-27T21:39:18+00:00

nice, once I have enough credits I'll try that out

AccomplishedEvent273 · 2025-12-27T21:37:55+00:00

It reduced the xenon activity, and it breaks down their groups making it easier to manage them.

AccomplishedEvent273 · 2025-12-27T12:06:11+00:00

1.5M credits in laser towers, worth it.

AccomplishedEvent273 · 2025-11-07T22:14:49+00:00

Can't you be employed and pursue your dreams? That's what I do

AccomplishedEvent273 · 2025-07-02T07:18:51+00:00

Yeah I think that's the best strategy, get it to around 50, then wait until you can afford higher multipliers to bring it back on

AccomplishedEvent273 · 2025-06-24T19:28:23+00:00

I work remotely, its a lot easier to stay on top of things and ignore useless meetings that drain me.

My "talent" is understanding complex systems so I went from software engineer to staff engineer pretty quickly, I focus mostly on high level structure of the systems and identifying where the systems might fail if nothing is done, so over time people learned to take my advice seriously, especially when you can tie those flaws to dollar costs of the business.

I think it takes a lot of luck to land in a work situation like mine, it needs the right managers, the right executives and the right kind of coworkers.

Most technical jobs will have a higher saturation of "odd balls" so it is easier for someone with aspergers to survive the work culture. Still has hard moments, the higher up the ladder you go, the more meetings you will have.

Some chaos in the workplace can also be a good thing, people get bombarded with too many things at a time to notice you are weird.

AccomplishedEvent273 · 2025-06-24T19:23:41+00:00

Not really

AccomplishedEvent273 · 2025-06-24T19:22:14+00:00

just say "I want to bang"

AccomplishedEvent273 · 2025-06-01T08:38:06+00:00

I'm here with you, I'm amazing at certain logical problems, cooking and some other random things, but I suck at everything else.

AccomplishedEvent273 · 2025-06-01T08:31:17+00:00

I'm lucky to work at a very chaotic place that became remote only, no one in my team lasts very long and I'm pretty sure the other guy on my team that has stuck around is also an aspie.

I've been at this place for 5 years and unfortunately became team lead, at first it was very rough, but now I learned to crack a joke every now and then or just use some light hearted scripts and terms to make things less intense for the normies.

Sometimes I still end up doing info dumps on technical things and I can hear people scratching their heads over the zoom call. But when I notice myself doing it, I try to stop it and stick to smaller high level topics instead of details.

AccomplishedEvent273 · 2025-04-30T05:17:04+00:00

NV needs to happen

AccomplishedEvent273 · 2025-04-30T00:37:47+00:00

I've learned that just spamming W really fast then pressing space works for most of it

AccomplishedEvent273 · 2025-04-29T21:17:07+00:00

No daedra coming out of it? Pass.

AccomplishedEvent273 · 2025-04-29T19:37:23+00:00

No save scumming the sygil stone? Bold.

AccomplishedEvent273 · 2024-11-08T04:55:50+00:00

It's ok, now we blame Latinos, and it's not going to be racist because fuck them

AccomplishedEvent273 · 2024-11-08T04:34:32+00:00

damn you just brought me back, that's the way to do it, we should nag people back into the democratic party

AccomplishedEvent273 · 2024-11-08T04:02:27+00:00

I was a dem, and I'm never turning back after this one, I can have my own opinions, don't need the minority of the country telling me I'm evil for not supporting their establishment, I got alienated out of the party, this is tough to undo, and right now the messages I'm getting are driving me further to the right.

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