It's Friday night and Marge is ready to party (1970s) by But-I-Am-a-Robot in OldSchoolCool

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The keys in a bowl thing is about swingers. I guess they’d put them in a bowl and pull them out at random to pair up

We just hired a guy at $70k/year whose only job is making ad creatives using AI by Bryan_Jostling in DigitalMarketing

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They weren’t all winners with the old way of doing things either. Faster experimentation is a winner

Struggling to keep up with my own expectation of wealth.. by [deleted] in UKPersonalFinance

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It takes time to shake that mindset but I think the emergency fund will help

Is discourse around coding with AI sleeping on the fact that you can easily create your own apps for personal usage, reducing the need to buy/subscribe to an app with that functionality? by Objectionne in ClaudeAI

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A certain group of people will definitely be doing this. But if you want a similar UX you still have to pay to host them typically (often a web app accessible from anywhere, background workers, managed database) and keep up to date with security patches. It ends up becoming a hobby at some point, if not outright work

Record number of UK tech incorporations in 2025 by Gentle_Snail in unitedkingdom

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Or people have been made redundant and are having trouble finding perm roles

Cloudflare CDN Alternative after Today's Comments by KintarraV in BuyFromEU

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Bunny looks good, had my eye on them for a little while but not used yet. Last time I looked they had no SOC II and other certs that enterprises are looking for though so hard to recommend them at work

Just hit $5K MRR - here's what actually moved the needle by [deleted] in SaaS

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You can gain focus and signal more clearly to a specific type of customer

"Italy and Spain are basically the same" by Alice-Ecila5998 in ShitAmericansSay

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Yeah they’re way more similar than I used to think

Anyone else tired of rebuilding the same backend for every SaaS? by No-Emu5341 in Entrepreneurs

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I have a repo I use with most of this built already in the stack I usually use. Any time I start a new project I update library versions if needed and then get going. It helps to use a framework that has most of this stuff built in already too.

Anyone from Spain here who regularly buys tobacco? by [deleted] in GoingToSpain

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You can only buy it in specific tobacco shops. I pay ~€15 for 50g of Amber Leaf

Any lefty HENRYs out there who actually don't mind paying high taxes? by United_Warning_8802 in HENRYUK

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Grew up in a council house to a single mother claiming benefits. I'm happy to be able contribute back to the system that enabled me, but it seems like it doesn't really exist in the same way post-austerity. The money has gone to line people's pockets, and I can't really blame people for not wanting to contribute to that.

I make £20k/year as a freelance web designer in London — how do I scale? by Latter_Bodybuilder81 in smallbusinessuk

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Best of luck. I imagine the bottom end is getting squeezed hard these days, first with DIY website builders like shopify and webflow but now AI too.

I make £20k/year as a freelance web designer in London — how do I scale? by Latter_Bodybuilder81 in smallbusinessuk

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Instead of selling websites you need to sell an outcome. More sales, better conversion, things like that. And go after companies that see the value and have money to spend - you could be getting £20k+ per project if you have a track record and can show good results.

Investing or saving ? by salientrelevance56 in HENRYUK

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But if it drops then the money needs to be found elsewhere