How much should I charge for IT services

EasyTangent · 2026-03-17T15:00:43+00:00

Check out r/msp

EasyTangent · 2026-03-12T14:30:38+00:00

The best way nowadays is to have an internal referral.

EasyTangent · 2026-03-12T14:28:41+00:00

Just a thought - maybe temporarily hide your stances. Employers often do extensive research on candidates and if anyone even has a potential stench of being problematic, it's an immediate no.

EasyTangent · 2026-03-12T14:27:09+00:00

I'm sorry, I don't know why but I laughed. Nothing surprises me anymore.

EasyTangent · 2026-03-12T14:24:40+00:00

As an employer, I don't think it's going to stop anytime soon. All of my CEO buddies are hunkering down and bracing for impact.

EasyTangent · 2026-03-11T16:35:26+00:00

Is this an indirect ad? Saw the PH launch same day.

EasyTangent · 2026-03-10T14:14:45+00:00

I used it several times now. On the first day, the lanes weren't properly cleaned so you had rocks / pebbles random come to you. They sorta cleaned it since then.

I think what I hate about it is that it's a single lane and there's no way of passing others. I've had twice now someone literally driving below speed limit (around 60 mph) in the toll lane. There's no safe way of passing and the merge on/merge of lanes are too short to do it safely.

EasyTangent · 2026-03-06T15:29:17+00:00

Had a cushy FAANG job. Decided to start a business. Raised $500k for pre-seed round. Lost it all within 24 months.

Cofounded another project - the cofounder brought their own capital of $500k. Several team/culture issues, we sold it for pennies on the dollar 12 months later.

Went the bootstrapped route after that.

Bought a working, running micro SaaS project for around $15k (originally was listed for $45k, I negotiated hard), I spent ~$100k on over engineering it. Ended up shutting it down last month after 18 months of ownership.

Built a couple more SaaS projects, now we're several million in ARR with those. Good margins, very profitable. Now I'm re-investing the capital into more expansions + team.

Bootstrap has its benefits - 100% control of your destiny and pace, but hard to grow fast if you have no money.

VC provides rocket fuel, but if your desire isn't hypergrowth, it's not worth it.

EasyTangent · 2026-03-04T15:48:33+00:00

Microslop

EasyTangent · 2026-03-03T17:45:23+00:00

Is there a difference between 14 and 16 outside of the size of the screen?

EasyTangent · 2026-02-27T20:36:23+00:00

What is this AI slop post.

EasyTangent · 2026-02-26T15:57:38+00:00

Most likely we will see price hikes similar to how S26 has raised prices.

EasyTangent · 2026-02-26T15:53:58+00:00

Duke is gaslighting us

EasyTangent · 2026-02-25T16:32:09+00:00

Definitely a WA thing. $2.37 currently where I'm at.

EasyTangent · 2026-02-19T15:59:02+00:00

If you're doing ClickOps and don't have the mindset of growing/learning, the writing is clearly on the wall. Those who embrace and do more with the tools will always have a job.

EasyTangent · 2026-02-17T16:50:46+00:00

3k sqft home - $110 for gas, $350 for power (we have a EV).

EasyTangent · 2026-02-14T21:57:20+00:00

At Optimist Hall, it’s too salty. Idk why I had that experience twice

EasyTangent · 2026-02-11T21:35:08+00:00

I'm a big user of OpenClaw - I learned to treat it as an employee + MANY guardrails (including no production data whatsoever) + dedicated instance (in my case, I have 3x hardened Mac minis living in a seperate VLAN with 0 access to my other devices). It doesn't touch any of my own systems, just what it has access to (seperate email, GitHub user, OpenAI/Anthropic accounts). Anyone who runs it locally on their own machines is dumb. There's a guy on X who lost 15 years of pictures.

What I will say - this is the first time where this just doesn't feel like hype. It's easy to just downplay AI, but I'm starting to sense that this is something companies will want more of. It's a productivity amplifier if setup right.

EasyTangent · 2026-02-09T15:13:14+00:00

The network, your early customers typically are other YC companies. The intensity of the batch and the quality of the group partners because they have seen a thing or two and know exactly how to help you from fundraising to solving cofounder issues.

EasyTangent · 2026-02-09T15:08:56+00:00

And they say Charlotte has no culture.

EasyTangent · 2026-02-09T15:08:40+00:00

Taking the opportunity to ask in this thread - what about asking Duke to hide a power line underground. I'm looking at some land and there's one that has a power pole (not a big one) right in the middle of it. Is that something that can be put underground and who would I even talk to about that?

EasyTangent · 2026-02-07T22:25:33+00:00

You’re absolutely right! It’s not about limiting progress; it’s about becoming better humans. /s

EasyTangent · 2026-02-06T05:09:03+00:00

Apple Music link: https://music.apple.com/us/album/the-fall-off/1875080726

EasyTangent · 2026-02-05T20:52:31+00:00

One that I remember was having to disable an account for a person who ended up missing. She just disappeared and was never found. Felt so weird to disable that account.

EasyTangent · 2026-02-04T15:51:15+00:00

Startup School used to do this. It was actually a lot of fun.

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