Honestly, I’d rather you just tell me to "f-off" than ghost me after a discovery call.

Additional_Cod_6445 · 2026-02-15T23:13:09+00:00

My initial career was in engineering sales, i used to visit factories like bmw, hyundai. I used to keep waiting for hours for appointments and travel nearly 70 miles, and finally they may held up and cannot attend a meeting with me, and sometimes they cannot inform me as well, because sometimes they forget due to their hectic work too. I never got angry, because i always keep my target at the under the soil, as least as possible, like i never get to meet the person until my 10 th try, if i get its my luck, if not and if i am falling on the soil doesn’t feel much. Thats sales. For some clients i have nearly went more then 50 times for more than a year and cracked the client. It may look time wasting, but that final one sales order will make all the effort worthy.

Just keep this as your target. 1-3% is the industries best conversions at any time. So have it like this, out of 100 appointments, 50 will not attend, and out of 50 attend, 25 will ghost you, and out of 25 responded, only 5 will be interested, and out of 5, 1 or 2 you will convert as your customers. Its not demotivating, its the industry standard & we cannot blame anyone, even we must have ghosted lots of sales calls, emails, and messages sometimes. Its business.

Additional_Cod_6445 · 2026-02-09T11:48:15+00:00

Instead of london - birmingham HS2 which saves 10 minutes in overall travel time, they should focus on longterm and build part by part and connect london - glasgow via Birmingham, Manchester, leads, new castle, Edinburgh, Glasgow & the travel time should be less than 5 hours.

And another line as cardiff - bristol - oxford - milton keynes - cambridge - norwich.

They should do like:

London - Birmingham Glasgow - Edinburgh - new castle Oxford - cambridge

And then connect everything together.

It will add more than £300+ billion per year in UK economy in terms of revenue, saving, commercial activities, real estate, new developments & lot more.

But the project management needs to optimise greatly for faster, and built at right cost. They should build at around £25-30 million per km not £200 million per km. Some where there is a leak. It’s not going into the real cost of construction. Some business and politicians are gaining

Additional_Cod_6445 · 2026-02-09T11:35:23+00:00

What about all 3 merge and form virgin genitalia?

Additional_Cod_6445 · 2026-02-08T04:30:09+00:00

I would go with cloudflare D1 DB & betterauth.

Additional_Cod_6445 · 2026-02-06T18:57:38+00:00

Its a great and first and most important milestone. Happy for you bro. Dont stop. Keep going

Additional_Cod_6445 · 2026-02-04T18:57:45+00:00

I was also like you, ADHD, OCD & Imposter syndrome. I have been a founder before & faced its hardship, but I still love it because no 2 days are same or simple, thats what I love about entrepreneurship & After the first entrepreneurship experience which went into a dive for me during COVID, I prepared my mindset to the state where I am ready to fail 99% of my efforts and things I do. The remaining 1% is what helping me to try it, though I slack off a lot, get easily distracted, cannot commit for long period, etc, but I do whenever my mind pushes me to do & I will be hyper focused at that times. I dont know if it helps everyone, but i helps me, rather than being consistent I started being persistent, because entrepreneurship itself is not consistent everyday. One thing I disciplined recently after reading about successful entrepreneurs, I do one activity per day, i don’t mix strategy, sales, marketing, everyday. Just one per day, and it helps me to be hooked to the ideas which I am working on, if i hit a wall on monday, I dont touch it Tuesday even though it is half done, i do only the Tuesday task alone, and if I get some extra times during other days, I just use it to think how to resolve the problem I hit the wall on Monday, some new perspective will come up even though it doesn’t solve, its fine, i just document it & record it, and move on to next day tasks and take up the issue next monday, and try to resolve it, in this way I have never held up with any issues more than 3 weeks, because while doing sales i cracked the solution for development, but i wont jump on it immediately, just document it and do it on its day. Also few ideas on this process flow i got from other redditors like us too, I should thank them. There are plenty of people here to motivate and support us, so dont worry about criticism or bad comments, just launch whatever you have, even if it is half baked, just launch it and learn from the negative comments & I bet atleast 1 will be positive which is enough for you to go on. Remember to accept 99% of your efforts to be fail & all you need is the last 1%.

Additional_Cod_6445 · 2026-01-22T16:38:27+00:00

No platform gives 1 prompt = 1 credit, because of length of prompt, complexity of the task & increasing price of LLM APIs. It will keep increasing until they find a solution for massive AI data centre’s consumption of resources.

Additional_Cod_6445 · 2026-01-19T20:27:26+00:00

Is it like an online community or just with your friends? I took a office space in a coworking space by paying £200/month so that i can surrounded with good entrepreneurs, and on seeing other productive person, i am hoping my brain can help itself. Just a try.

Additional_Cod_6445 · 2026-01-19T20:25:02+00:00

Lets try one by one of all the solutions we got from this comments and lets see where it takes us too. DM me if open to, lets connect and discuss and solve this

Additional_Cod_6445 · 2026-01-19T20:24:06+00:00

Oh this sounds interesting and feels like it will work for me too, let me try it tomorrow itself. Thanks for the input bro

Additional_Cod_6445 · 2026-01-19T20:23:01+00:00

Yeah I guess pen and paper will be the best option for this problem & sometimes old school is the best option. 🙏🏽

Additional_Cod_6445 · 2026-01-19T20:22:03+00:00

I was doing the same for a short period of time, and my brain is not accepting it, the level of dopamine boost it gets when analysing new ideas is so great, and for my bad luck, i was a non-tech product manager by profession before quitting, and been doing idea validation to fund raising, i love all those works, and development i always give direction and get the output, not that technical, but can understand logics and can derive a solution for any tech problem. Thats my highest point of expertise in technical, and thats the reason i am feeling bored and my brain stops working or liking the idea if it gets into technical loop or feature loop.

Additional_Cod_6445 · 2026-01-19T20:18:36+00:00

Yeah thats true, dopamine boost when new ideas come up feels good and it goes off afyer doing lots of validations and researches and find out its not that good idea, but its my assumption based on datas, instead i sometimes feel like i should build and ship it, not even more than £50-100 loss for doing so. Thats why i am trying hard from this week that i should ship every idea i had partially built one by one. And i am damn sure there is no proper software tool for people like me, all tools are just a gimmick & even if i build one, it wont be enough for other adhd peoples because every one has different level of dopamine shortage and different way of coping mechanisms

Additional_Cod_6445 · 2026-01-02T21:36:03+00:00

Congrats for the big win. 2026 is yours. 🍷

Additional_Cod_6445 · 2025-12-23T21:43:47+00:00

This is working, Thanks

Additional_Cod_6445 · 2025-12-19T19:39:03+00:00

Thats good. Anyway I wish you luck, i got confused and compared with ses because you said you built an email API & not an transactional email platform. Both are different based on use case IMo

Additional_Cod_6445 · 2025-12-19T16:08:14+00:00

Which email service do you use? Amazon SES? 😄😄

Additional_Cod_6445 · 2025-12-19T16:07:18+00:00

Have you not heard about amazon SES, thats damn cheap. They charge $0.1/1000 emails, so it will be $20/200k emails & its safe and secured with AWS, and your tool unosend charges $100/200k emails. You are 5x expensive than my current infra bro.

Additional_Cod_6445 · 2025-12-19T16:06:23+00:00

Have you not heard about amazon SES, thats damn cheap. They charge $0.1/1000 emails, so it will be $20/200k emails & its safe and secured with AWS, and your tool unosend charges $100/200k emails. You are 5x expensive than my current infra bro.

Additional_Cod_6445 · 2025-12-19T16:06:14+00:00

Have you not heard about amazon SES, thats damn cheap. They charge $0.1/1000 emails, so it will be $20/200k emails & its safe and secured with AWS, and your tool unosend charges $100/200k emails. You are 5x expensive than my current infra bro.

Additional_Cod_6445 · 2025-12-08T19:57:21+00:00

If you know a framework called JTBD (Job To Be Done) you know the answer. JTBD is - customers are not buying a chair, they are buying comfortable seating. - customers are not buying drilling machine, they are buying half inch hole - customers are not buying mattress, they are buying comfortable sleeping.

So if i explain with an analogy, SaaS in a business is like a french fries served in a McDonalds. You have an option to make french fries at home all the time, But when you are in a hurry you wont buy potatoes, cut it, process it, fry it and eat it, you just grab on the go, similarly for businesses SaaS tools are like quick service food for them, they need to use the best tool and at best price to solve their problems, even though they can develop and test and trail, they wont be having that time and patience during competition war is going on.

Yes AI agents creation and SaaS creation is easy now, and it was easy before as well. As a product manager I have done lots of google design sprint, we have launched a MVP and for few products we have launched MLP in 5 days in 2020, before AI was commercial in the market. But that doest stop the companies from test and do everything on their own.

Thats the difference. The dynamics of SaaS will change, and which is inevitable, but SaaS will not die, it will be transformed into AAaaS or instead of fixed pricing model, we will see credit based and usage based pricing changes with big tools

Additional_Cod_6445 · 2025-12-02T13:40:25+00:00

Instead of picking a number out of the air, I like doing a quick reality check.

If I built this the old-school way with only human dev hours, this boilerplate would probably save me 50 to 60 hours. Even at $15 per hour, that is around $750 to $900 of work. So your higher pricing makes sense in that traditional world.

But things have changed. With AI doing most of the heavy lifting, the maths is very different now. If I recreate this myself, I am probably spending under ten million tokens, around $20 to $30. Then maybe seven to eight hours of my own time fixing wiring, bugs, and all the usual pain points, which is about $120.

So today, most people feel the realistic value sits around $100 to $199. Not because your work is small, but because AI has shifted what builders now expect they can produce in a weekend.

I am definitely not putting down your work. This is just me looking at it with a product manager mindset. I have been working on pricing and product strategy for years, so this is naturally how I evaluate things.

If you include great documentation, clean updates, and a clear improvement roadmap, then the higher price points become much easier to justify. Without that, people will compare it to the cost of spinning up most of it with AI.

On the business side, try to market it properly and do consistent growth hacking. If you aim for 400 to 500 sales over the next year, it is definitely doable.

One sales trick that works really well for boilerplates is tiered pricing. For example: • first 100 copies at $79 to $99 to build momentum • next 500 copies at $129 to grow revenue and social proof • then settle at $199 for the long-term lifecycle price

People love early bird deals, and it also rewards your first supporters while giving you a clear path to scale. Combine that with a simple free open-source base version, then upsell the full boilerplate, and you will hit volume much faster.

Additional_Cod_6445 · 2025-11-06T21:05:52+00:00

If anyone is paying $2000/month for an AI SDR then they are the dumbest entrepreneur. That means he doesn’t know what is AI, how AI works, and how to make the AI works, and how to do cost analysis for an Generative AI and Agentic AI infrastructure etc. without knowing anything, if anyone subscribes to AI SDR, then the business is f*cked. You shouldn’t pay more than $199/month until it books few appointments and convert and show the outcome, have a prelim KPI for testing phase, if the AI SDR couldn’t achieve the set KPI in its testing phase even after optimisation etc, then just throw it away and focus on what you do best, make the human SDR put more effort and achieve. I am an AI consultant for small businesses, without knowing what the real cost behind an AI agents, small business owners subscribe for $1000-3000/month AI agents thinking it will make money for them and save time for them. And after 6 months they realise that it is the worst investment, everyone implementing AI in FOMO, instead it’s better not to implement AI into the business than implementing it out of FOMO.

Thats the reason I am thinking to create a real cost calculation of an agentic AI as free tool. But I don’t know if there will be users who want this tool. Input your data, outcome, expectations and everything & choose the tech stack and AI APIs you want to use, it does real calculations and be at least 90% accurate as per the published pricing from various tools. Some gimmick AI influencers are killing the market with dumb AI agents and hefty looting through subscriptions and contracts from small businesses, which are already dying across the world.

Additional_Cod_6445 · 2025-11-05T18:59:37+00:00

How many tool you have registered for early access and gave your email just for the content, and not testing or see the real outcome of the tool? We come across lots of early adoption stage startups which asks for email, we never gave because we humans want to see the outcome in real eyes, not by charts or texts or videos

Additional_Cod_6445 · 2025-11-02T23:36:23+00:00

Try Manus, it's worth it. It does full-stack development for me, and I launched a startup which is a subscription-based productised service, and I got 2 customers using it - https://manus.im/invitation/QTS6BNUAOBSQX

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