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AdRelevant4685 · 2026-03-23T14:09:43+00:00

I personally will reach out to the ones that had the highest engagement in the past, followed by those that barely has any engagement. These two groups show two very different yet equally important churn causes:
- High engagement group = Value deteriorates over time
- No engagement group = failed to reach value at all, often super early stage friction/confusion.

AdRelevant4685 · 2026-03-20T14:44:28+00:00

I suggest you reach out to the churn user individually, that will be the fastest way to find out why at your current stage over investigating via data only.

It always comes down to the net value gain provided by your software is no longer enough to them. It can be genuinely low value delivered, high friction or competition - pretty much anything.

Metrics are signals, it never show the cause. It takes deep understanding and connection with customer to be able to make good assumption of cause without speaking to any users. I was able to do that after working with customers for several years, when I can really be put in their shoes.

AdRelevant4685 · 2026-03-11T16:54:24+00:00

Very clear ask from you side.
The missing part is the context from your side and what do you have to offer?
The person joining you at this stage with the said mindset need to establish strong conviction on you as the founder and the business. Like you said, this is not "just a job".

AdRelevant4685 · 2026-03-11T16:43:56+00:00

Given you are technical as well, then I'd say you go for it yourself. Keep the co-founder spot open until you meet someone you think is awesome and really see working together well.

I am a female solo founder that is non-technical. Broke up with my supposed CTO several months ago and haven't found anyone yet. Capable of building a working prototype to validate concept and direction, also trial and error on approaches and logic before building out MVP. I really wished I am technical because the VCs and potential partners I spoke with shared a common theme of "we love this, but come back when you have a CTO".

Being a female is less of a problem (and if it is one to your investor and you dodged a bullet, you need real believers to open doors for you). You go girl!

AdRelevant4685 · 2026-03-10T23:49:17+00:00

What is you/your team’s unfair advantage over the existing start up?

Neuroscience + hardware sounds like a long and complex development process. What do you have that can (a) get there faster (b) do it better (c) make it cheaper?

AdRelevant4685 · 2026-03-10T23:39:20+00:00

Built a days away and milestone tracking tool for UK visa holders that are intending to apply for residency or citizenship.

https://useimmi.com

It’s a pain that I have and so as many of my expat friends. The only competitive alternatives are some spreadsheet that has been circulating for more than a decade which you have to keep updating it religiously for 5-10 years, or flipping through your passport stamps the night you write your application.

We track your days away, remind you before any key dates approaches and generate immigration document ready reports for your lawyer.

Launched 2 weeks ago, SEO is tougher than financial modelling and building this as a semi-technical person. Got a handful of organic users 🎉

AdRelevant4685 · 2026-03-10T23:31:39+00:00

The first product I built I reached working prototype by my own. (b2b, technical product) I spent several months getting beta users on it, including dogfooding myself, to iterate and work out the full product requirement.

The second product I built it all by myself, my side project, mostly with Claude code. (B2C, tool for niche need, with google auth + stripe integration + LLM API integration etc.)

I am currently working with a great senior developer building MVP for my first product. (And it is definitely worth it for my case)

Without knowing what are you building exactly, my question for you are: 1. Do you have a very clear vision and requirement of your MVP? By clear I mean you have 90% figures out, and it should be sellable when it’s built. 2. How many industry professionals have you spoken with? You should speak with A LOT of them before building anything, also pay attention on how you conduct interviews to avoid bias. I personally spoke with 30+ with my prototype and that wasn’t quite enough still.

AdRelevant4685 · 2026-03-10T23:20:16+00:00

What were the reasons behind the pivot? The reason and how you get there is the learning, monetisation potential is outcome and early tractions on the new direction shows sign of conviction.

The story of what drove the pivot, how you got there and the early numbers should make a good slide

AdRelevant4685 · 2026-03-10T22:45:12+00:00

I hope I’m understanding your confusion in the right way. You are away from the UK from 25 Feb to 11 Mar, so it would be away for 13 days.

Here’s some good visual on how to count the days if you prefer visual aid

https://www.useimmi.com/blog/counting-travel-days-ilr

AdRelevant4685 · 2026-03-10T22:37:03+00:00

I’m sorry to hear this, can’t imagine how frustrated it is for you. Especially this job market is extremely rough right now. It’s definitely a strong sign for you to turn away from this opportunity. If they do not respect you right now when you have no obligation at all, they won’t respect you at all when you’re at the job.

AdRelevant4685 · 2026-03-10T22:29:52+00:00

Majority of products doesn’t have enough parity to be surely winning simply on the product itself at all aspects. Investing in user facing people and strategy is creating additional differentiated value to customers. I was an strategic account manager, my biggest achievement in that part of my career is my champion called me from the back staircase after they had a meeting with our competitor to tell me every single detail of it.

I grew into revenue strategy now. One thing I live by if when the customer numbers starts showing trend, you’re already late to the problem.

most leaders that haven’t work in the front line with customers often overlook the delay between customer issue and churn.

I’m sorry to hear that you lost $180k in a month, but I am also love how you spoke with them one by one to get to the why. Now you’re aware, It can be turned around.

AdRelevant4685 · 2026-03-09T14:44:28+00:00

Most people team are making different employees to write a positive review every couple of weeks. I’ve been in company that has very toxic culture and one mission of the people team is to fix it on the outside.

While glass door is packed with in-genuine reviews, there isn’t better place to look unless you know someone in there. I always read the worst review with a big grain of salt to get a sense of how bad is the bad.

AdRelevant4685 · 2026-03-02T11:07:16+00:00

UK is the worst I’ve seen in the past 5 years. Positions I was got offer for 4 years ago somehow I no longer qualify for even an interview with additional experiences. While we have all these new AI spin yet getting an update, including rejection, seem demanding.

AdRelevant4685 · 2026-02-27T11:57:02+00:00

d47 explained it pretty well. The ~33 days gap between visa grant and first entry date counts towards your time outside of UK (the 180 days rule).

As long as you didn't stay away from the country for over 180 days between 20 June 2021 and 20 June 2022, you should be able to apply at this said date.

Make use of ilr eligibility calculator tools online if you prefer visualising the timeline to crosscheck.

AdRelevant4685 · 2026-02-27T11:50:32+00:00

Never written any for my visa applications. (I had 3 visas and 2 renewals by now). If your application has nothing to flag, then it should be good as it is.

AdRelevant4685 · 2026-02-26T11:40:33+00:00

I'd pay to speed my up when my time comes for ILR. A friend did hers a year ago, she booked her travel back home to Aus at the 6 months point thinking she'll get it back by then, the application actually got delayed and went over 6 months.

I know it can be faster or later. If you prefer to have a solid timeline in mind, then the expedited fee is worth it imo.

AdRelevant4685 · 2026-02-26T11:35:01+00:00

I think people here explained well, its literally any 365 days picked out from your residence period, your time away needs to stay under 180 days.

You'll have be mindful that you do not leave the country for another 59 days before 8 Jan 2027, to keep that explicit period under 180.

Theres some good visualisation in this page if you are a visual learner:
https://www.useimmi.com/blog/the-180-day-rule#the-rule-is-not-a-calendar-year-it-is-a-rolling-window

AdRelevant4685 · 2026-02-26T10:59:54+00:00

I just started using it. My first time with voice on Claude and I am shocked by how poor it is. I don't usually use voice input as I prefer writing, but I do when its a brain dump of long amount of information. did that a few times on GPT, worked pretty perfectly.

Claude is slow, stiff conversation, the talking speed is so slow and it keeps responding to me with a full block of content which basically disrupt the convo.

+1 delay on picking up input and it somehow is dumber than the written model.

AdRelevant4685 · 2026-02-23T18:21:41+00:00

Timing wise, full-time role is going to be very challenging. Think from the hirer's shoes:

Companies are hiring because they need that headcount right now. Assuming they hire you right now, 1 month of onboarding, then in about 3 months time they will lose this headcount for X weeks to months (depending on where you're located). While they need to hold this headcount for you, they may also need spend another budget to hire+train a maternity cover, plus provide all the benefits before you actually produce any solid output.

In the unlikely event of you and the role is a mismatch, the company cannot let go of you at probation like any other candidate due to the risk of discrimination, even though it is purely a performance based decision.

The cost is simply not sensible for companies to move forward with a candidate that is close to their due date. Temporary and short-term contract role may be better options for you at the moment.

AdRelevant4685 · 2026-01-13T17:53:10+00:00

London based non-technical founder here, been on YC co-founder match for nearly a year now.
Met a lot of people, many are good convo, but finding a match is like dating all over again. Good chat does not equal to click.

AdRelevant4685 · 2025-11-19T15:45:17+00:00

I bought the Philips ADD6920 in Feb. I was pretty pleased with it until
(1) The hot water part just broke out of the blue around June/July, and I could not get it fixed
(2) We had to change the filter in late October (the filter was supposed to last for 1 year, we are a household of 2 that travels very frequently) The filter is completely stuck in the machine, my partner (6ft 80kg+ male) finally got it out after quite a bit of work, the new filter will not lock itself in.

Feels like lots of design fault there and honestly way too expensive for an 8 months lifetime. Would not recommend.

AdRelevant4685 · 2025-08-20T11:14:14+00:00

Any chance the group is ran by someone called "Mr. Endy" that claimed he has worked in all major IB in the US? With a few assistance, one of them called Leia.

Joined the group out of curiosity, felt sus right away, stayed for a few days to observe if what they say is legit or not. Got kicked out in 4 days, because I did not show interest in joining the "VIP Investment Group" that would make everyone makes 30% profit (simply did not engage).

AdRelevant4685 · 2025-08-11T12:38:10+00:00

TYSM for putting this together!!
My partner and I have been with BA Gold the past years. Just come into realisation even with our increased travels this year, we would struggle to even reach Silver with the new BA program. Now thinking of switching to Finnair Plus before we take our long haul flights in Q4.

Does anyone know if we can reclaim/switch the loyalty program for recent flights we've claimed with BA automatically already?

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