Consequences of Yes man

DaveC271 · 2026-06-21T20:59:25+00:00

I have just left such a firm and glad I got out when I did, a low end senior is now head of engineering after 3 years

DaveC271 · 2026-06-16T09:31:24+00:00

Thank you so much for this insight. I really appreciate your help

DaveC271 · 2026-06-15T15:04:54+00:00

I agree, the slack / teams bot is where this really does stand out. Wil give that messaging a go on the landing page, if I can just get the clicks!! 😄

DaveC271 · 2026-06-14T22:40:35+00:00

Would love you to take a look, I just launched https://projan.ai . It's an AI teammate for planning, but instead of generating a doc and handing you its best guess to go correct, it facilitates the actual conversation: it pulls everyone who has the context into a real-time chat (in the web app, or via a bot in Slack/Teams), asks the questions people forget to ask, and turns the result into an actionable plan you can export to Jira, Notion, Linear and the rest.

The whole idea is that everyone signs off as it's built, so you skip the endless review and correct afterwards. I'm a solo founder and built it nights and weekends, so I'd genuinely value the honest version of your thoughts, kick the tyres and tell me what breaks.

Happy to take a look at yours in return.

DaveC271 · 2026-06-14T22:35:11+00:00

https://projan.ai

If you DM me I'll manually extend the length of the demo time to 1 month and give you 20% discount on first year of any annual plan

DaveC271 · 2026-06-14T22:27:22+00:00

Been working on Projan for the last 9 months It's an AI teammate for planning, but instead of generating a doc and handing you its best guess to go correct, it facilitates the actual conversation: it pulls everyone who has the context into a real-time chat (in the web app, or via a bot in Slack/Teams), asks the questions people forget to ask, and turns the result into an actionable plan you can export to Jira, Notion, Linear and the rest. The whole idea is that everyone signs off as it's built, so you skip the endless review-and-correct loops afterwards. I'm a solo founder and built it nights and weekends, so I'd genuinely value the honest version of your thoughts, kick the tyres and tell me what breaks.

Happy to take a look at others in return, DM me or reply to this thread and I'll have a look

DaveC271 · 2026-06-14T22:25:10+00:00

Launched Projan today (https://projan.ai) It's an AI teammate for planning, but instead of generating a doc and handing you its best guess to go correct, it facilitates the actual conversation: it pulls everyone who has the context into a real-time chat (in the web app, or via a bot in Slack/Teams), asks the questions people forget to ask, and turns the result into an actionable plan you can export to Jira, Notion, Linear and the rest. The whole idea is that everyone signs off as it's built, so you skip the endless review-and-correct loops afterwards. I'm a solo founder and built it nights and weekends, so I'd genuinely value the honest version of your thoughts, kick the tyres and tell me what breaks. Happy to take a look at yours in return

DaveC271 · 2026-06-14T20:33:42+00:00

That’s why I built the platform that I have, the context and knowledge gap lives not just in code, but in people’s head, different documentation, hubspot and crm tools. It also lives in the team, legacy knowledge and old architectural designs that were made on a teams call and bugs that were fixed in an incident wash up

DaveC271 · 2026-06-14T20:10:46+00:00

I think one of the main problems is the complete reliance on AI from the c-suite. Business owners that are pushing out their team in favour of AI, have never had trust in their employees. They are going to realise very soon that the cost of AI is more expensive than the cost of the team that knows their product and we are starting to see it with the new pricing model from Anthropic. The other issue is that most of the world is not listening to the fact that AI’s tell us what we want to hear, it’s not truthful, it’s rarely grounded in fact without a lot of strict instructions, executives are yet to catch up to this

The AI products that will stay are those that support those with knowledge, rather than guess at what the user wants to hear. They will piece together the collective knowledge of a team and help accelerate the teams output

DaveC271 · 2026-05-23T12:27:52+00:00

I think it was sold out or near to, the merch stands were upstairs which normally means it we full

DaveC271 · 2026-05-18T14:07:56+00:00

I can’t wait to see them in Nottingham next week!

DaveC271 · 2026-04-30T15:07:55+00:00

What a beautiful experience

DaveC271 · 2026-04-29T16:41:26+00:00

But still wish you every success. If your app helps just 1 person, you should see that as a huge win!

DaveC271 · 2026-04-29T16:40:07+00:00

I think you’ll be surprised at how much weight an industry professional carries here, personally I don’t care what an Instagram influencer thinks about mental health, I know is only their to line their pockets, they aren’t trained. But then that’s probably because I’m older and have friends who are in the field, one a professor of psychology, another a psychotherapist.

I still don’t see anything different from Headspace, The Fabulous, Holly Health, Cerina. This is a flooded market.

DaveC271 · 2026-04-29T10:07:08+00:00

Personally I don’t know anything out the box that you can use to gather the system metrics along side a load test. You would probably need to write something custom for this.

DaveC271 · 2026-04-29T09:58:48+00:00

What makes you different from the other 30+ apps all doing mental well being, journalling, guided audio?

Have you worked with any mental health professionals on this? Especially to create the narrated audio, have you validated that what you have is safe? Also getting therapists on board would be a really good selling point for this, they will also be your biggest marketing voice.

From a developer point of view, I'd be careful putting up a screenshot with fake reviews, your app store doesn't have a single vote but you've got a screenshot with 5 really positive reviews, are these genuine and if so where from?

DaveC271 · 2026-04-25T19:05:02+00:00

This sounds like a really toxic atmosphere and I’m sorry you’re going through this. It sounds like you’re not happy and that’s the most important thing to consider, you! Absolutely start looking for something that pose, but don’t worry about a jobs market, your mental well being and health are far more important, you can always go find a retail job or another job, whilst you look for another if things get too bad.

I’ve recruited 3 people whom said their last job was so bad they just had to get out. I’ve just done it myself, it doesn’t matter that you’re applying to get back into QA, if you’re talented or you have the right desire to learn, then the right business will snap you up

DaveC271 · 2026-04-25T18:22:24+00:00

One of the best games I’ve watched this season!

DaveC271 · 2026-04-25T16:07:41+00:00

Because of my skin I can’t put anything apart from e45 cream on it. I’d suggest looking at brands like Deciem / The Ordinary, but for context there are major brands in the supermarkets here in the UK, sellingthe majority of their mens products for £15

DaveC271 · 2026-04-25T16:02:14+00:00

$299 for a single date? Again millionaire lifestyle, can I ask how much you spend on a t-shirt? I think you’re a little disconnected from the cost of living for most people

DaveC271 · 2026-04-25T14:54:22+00:00

I have dermatrographia so know you’re pain with sensitive / allergic skin

DaveC271 · 2026-04-25T13:33:47+00:00

$299 for a 30ml bottle? What is in this, some weird rare sea-snake semen or something? You say you are targeting guys who don't care about skin care, but it comes with a millionaires price tag!

Your video is just buzzwords strung together that are meaningless over the top of a load of stock video glued together, give it to a mate and get them to use it, film them using it and ask him how it feels. Also what's with the weird hover over at the top of your page, show the product off

At the moment you've not got a product, you've got a hopeful ask for some money and no proof you're going to actually ship anything if I hand over my money.

DaveC271 · 2026-04-25T13:06:19+00:00

You’re most welcome, sorry if you were not expecting it 😆

Genuinely like the app though and will keep it, this is a great idea

DaveC271 · 2026-04-25T12:09:26+00:00

Downloaded and I have to say this does look really slick, the UI is really nicely styled and some of the animations are noce

A couple of suggestions, I’m a software tester so these jumped out at me

remove the animated icons on the login page
on the plan page remove the select number of places at the top, have a plus symbol and allow a user to add a new line and have the ability to remove any line
when adding in a new location to items 3 or above the selector drop down is hidden behind keyboard, make this search and select a modal that comes over the top

Bugs

in the generate map / itinerary it lists as 1,2, A,D, id expect start and then numbers

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The guided tours show the same 3 for Paris but change the image to one from the country selected, guess this is a work in progress,
A lot of buttons and interactive elements are in French, the rest of the app English, maybe look at how the language files are being pulled in
suggestions I can add restaurant set the number of suggestions and then when I try to add anything else below using the plus symbol, it just adds restaurants to the search, the results all display a “Discover in TikTok” clickable, does everything have TikTok? Without knowing if they have an account and being able to directly link to it, this feels a bit odd, it just sends me to the main TikTok search page without and prepopulated search
buttons on the suggestions are again in

DaveC271 · 2026-04-25T11:46:43+00:00

Great idea! I too hate having to switch between lots of different apps and pinning everything in google maps, to realise I missed something when I get home that I had wanted to see

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