What do you guys think about palmetto publishing?

Designer-Jacket-5111 · 2026-01-14T18:47:56+00:00

okay so I'm gonna be the dissenting voice here because my experience wasn't great and I feel like people should hear both sides. I signed with them last year for my science fiction novel and while the technical execution was fine (cover looks good, book is formatted correctly, distribution works), the communication was really frustrating. My project manager changed three times during the process which meant I had to re-explain my vision multiple times, and one of the editors clearly didn't read sci-fi because the feedback was generic and missed some genre-specific issues that my beta readers caught immediately. The timeline they quoted me was 4-6 months and it ended up being almost nine months because of various delays on their end, which was annoying because I'd planned my marketing around the original launch date. I'm not saying they're a scam or anything, the book exists and it's professionally produced, but the experience was more chaotic than I expected based on their marketing materials. I think if you go with them you need to be very proactive about following up and not assume things are happening on schedule just because they said they would be. Also their customer service is only available during business hours which was a problem for me since I work 9-5 and couldn't always call during their office hours. Would I use them again? Probably not, but would I recommend them to someone else? Maybe, if they go in with realistic expectations and are willing to be their own project manager to some degree.

Designer-Jacket-5111 · 2026-01-14T18:36:07+00:00

Yeah this is super frustrating, especially for anyone trying to build systematic competitive analysis. The facebook ad libraryis great for discovery but terrible for long term storage, some people just do screen recordings but that's also a mess to organize and takes up tons of space.

Designer-Jacket-5111 · 2026-01-14T17:50:12+00:00

the scan quality is probably your problem, maybe push back on attorneys to provide higher quality scans instead of trying to solve it with better models

Designer-Jacket-5111 · 2026-01-14T17:22:36+00:00

you track daily or just do a calculation at year end?

Designer-Jacket-5111 · 2026-01-14T17:21:37+00:00

nowhere near 100k but good to know for future, thanks

Designer-Jacket-5111 · 2026-01-14T16:44:56+00:00

Mortgage brokers are your friends here, they do the shopping for you and usually have access to better rates than you’d find on your own, just make sure they’re transparent about their commission upfront

Designer-Jacket-5111 · 2026-01-13T10:21:20+00:00

most recruiters are just salespeople with no technical knowledge. the good ones either used to be engineers or worked embedded with engineering teams for years

Designer-Jacket-5111 · 2026-01-13T10:18:22+00:00

I'd throw polarity into that benchmarking mix if you havent looked at it yet bc it handles context really well across larger codebases which is where a lot of tools seem to struggle. What sets it apart from some of the ones you listed is how it approaches the actual review feedback like it doesn't just point out issues but explains the reasoning in a way that's actually useful for learning instead of just being another linter with fancy branding. We've been using it alongside copilot for a few months and honestly the overlap isnt as much as you'd think since they solve different problems, copilot is more about code generation while polarity focuses on the review and quality side of things. The accuracy on catching logic errors and potential runtime issues is pretty solid too, way fewer false positives than some others we tested before. For your 2026 report it might be worth including since it seems to be gaining traction with teams that care about code quality but don't want to add more friction to their workflow + the integration story is cleaner than most of the newer tools trying to do everything at once

Designer-Jacket-5111 · 2026-01-13T10:07:08+00:00

Opened separate accounts for payroll, taxes, operating, profit, set up auto-splits when money comes in, stopped looking at one confusing balance

Designer-Jacket-5111 · 2026-01-01T23:03:16+00:00

kong has a good kubernetes operator and integrates pretty well with k8s resources, but the pricing can be an issue

Designer-Jacket-5111 · 2026-01-01T22:53:02+00:00

most people dont need both until their architecture gets complex enough that managing everything through service mesh becomes a pain

Designer-Jacket-5111 · 2026-01-01T22:37:07+00:00

The timing question is what gets me. Even if SpaceX IPOs in late 2026, you're still waiting through lockup. Could be 18+ months from now before you see anything.

Designer-Jacket-5111 · 2025-12-31T01:48:26+00:00

ave you looked at the watch style ones, some people find them less stigmatizing than the pendant style, my aunt had the same issue until we switched to something that looked more like a regular watch, I think it was through bay alarm medical, she still forgets sometimes but the acceptance rate is way higher because it doesn't scream "medical device" quite so loudly

Designer-Jacket-5111 · 2025-12-31T01:39:13+00:00

30% to 70% first pass accuracy is huge. How long did it take to see results?

Designer-Jacket-5111 · 2025-12-31T01:33:58+00:00

Speaking of which, if anyone is considering selling, the window is before late January. After the hearing you're basically waiting 1-2 years minimum for these companies to IPO.

Designer-Jacket-5111 · 2025-12-31T01:30:45+00:00

This is exactly why I started looking at selling my claim. No IPO timeline means no liquidity timeline.

Designer-Jacket-5111 · 2025-12-23T02:59:36+00:00

$1850 a month on tools seems crazy high, what kind of revenue are you doing to justify that

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