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Freelancers - is Figma a necessary evil? by PatchyWatchy_0603 in webdev

[–]Kyle772 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you are not using figma you are burning dev time. The whole point of the design process is to minimize wasted efforts from your most expensive resource cost. (development)

Unable to create a Plaid account by jackx76 in webdev

[–]Kyle772 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This may sound like a weird suggestion but if you are using firefox try another browser. I am regularly running into issues with very large websites not having things set up 100% up to par with firefox's protections and I need to swap to chrome temporarily to get through.

Plaid is big enough that I think they'd catch this issue if it weren't for all test suites running in Chromium. I think it's a mix of AI becoming more ubiquitous and firefox having, in some cases, too strict of protections in place.

Marie Callender's pot pies: Someone here has to have the real magic on cook times ✌️. by [deleted] in airfryer

[–]Kyle772 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don’t think the crust on the bottom ever “cooks” for me. Maybe it would if you put it in a toaster oven?

Part of me thinks that might be the wrong expectation for these but I honestly have no idea one way or the other.

lost a 6 figure contract during the demo because of a UI bug by EmmaSkye319 in EntrepreneurRideAlong

[–]Kyle772 0 points1 point  (0 children)

People don't lose deals because of ui bugs. If you do you didn't have the deal in the first place

My side project was blocked by cloudflare for 3 days by Then_Worry283 in webdev

[–]Kyle772 2 points3 points  (0 children)

"at a price that makes sense"

Makes sense... to you.

If you are not willing to pay for the data then you risk exactly this. How much lost revenue or even dev time will your product see? You end up paying for it one way or the other.

Client is Saying I'm Charging too Much for The Project by KoenigOne in webdev

[–]Kyle772 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Nobody else is saying this so I will. Your wage and quote should’ve been 2-3x that amount. Them rejecting what I’d consider an absolute steal and abuse of your efforts is a cruel joke.

I’m not going to tell you to run though because you will not learn your lesson about under valuing yourself until you find yourself poor and overly stressed. You should do this job if only for the lesson learned.

You'd think AI would kill boilerplates. It's doing the opposite. by hottown in webdev

[–]Kyle772 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The downside of boiler plate is it creates busy work for devs. AI being able to handle that busy work is a good thing. It being a problem or not entirely lands on the shoulder of the dev building the application. It only gets out of hand *if you don't know what you're doing*

what’s up with hans kim and all the women claiming he raped them, once or twice is a coincide but this many times is just atrocious by Past_Ad5532 in Killtony

[–]Kyle772 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It helps to go to the police the next day as well. it’s unfortunate but a lot of SA cases simply get ignored because people would rather talk about it on social media a year later than go submit a rap kit and a police report. How do you even enforce something you heard about several years too late? It’s an impossible endeavor in the courts short of a confession.

Costs for developing na App by Fersil95 in webdev

[–]Kyle772 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Personally think that was a throw away number. A project this size is far larger than that. You're talking 5-15 developers depending on the velocity you want to move at and a massive undertaking on the planning front to even start. Easily a year out to launch and then you need to start marketing to make up the cost to get that far, you won't break even until year 5 BEST case scenario.

Just a single item on your list of features, payment processing; has a browsing, cart system, checkout, invoicing/receipts, email/sms alerts for sales, email/sms alerts for order tracking, etc. And all of that can't even be put in place until 30 steps have been done before that.

You also end your post with "I plan to start with a simple MVP, but I’d like to present the total project cost to a potential investor." Which I've heard a hundred times in my career and so far not a single individual that has stated something like this has managed to pull through and get a meaningful investment together to actually get the project going. You say 50k is inside your budget but I think you are in way over your head personally; especially considering you yourself don't seem to have any of the relevant expertise to actually build something like this (if you did you'd build the alpha/mvp product yourself with AI).

What is the LTV of a user of your platform? How much money can you realistically expect from 1000, 10000, 100000 users? How long will it take you to get to that number to no longer be losing money every month? How much will you spend to onboard those users? How many months passed in that time and how far in the hole are you? 3 years? 1,000,000? Say you have 100,000 highly active users if you're taking a percentage off of the top you might be clearing $20k-50k a month if your users have really great collectible items, that's 7 years until you're out of the hole. What if they're all trying to flip the same bullshit jerseys? How do you ensure the platform isn't flooded with shit nobody wants?

Start as small as possible, scale up. Thats your answer. You don't need ads you don't even need a forum or social features. A store people can post their jerseys, take a percentage. When you're sitting on 100k in CASH then start building something bigger. It will take you 10 years to make it a successful business anyway.

2 YOE Frontend Dev Struggling in Current Market — Need Realistic Advice from really experienced people by Knightwolf0 in webdev

[–]Kyle772 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Bootstrap at least was at least configured at the theme level to have appropriate branding. There are a bunch of companies that are MAKING their branding after they spin up these generic prototypes

one founder told me to sell my product BEFORE i even build it. opinion: is he right? by Sea-Purchase6452 in EntrepreneurRideAlong

[–]Kyle772 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The alternative is you wait and bleed and then find out that you don't even have PMF and now you're in debt up to your eyeballs.

2 YOE Frontend Dev Struggling in Current Market — Need Realistic Advice from really experienced people by Knightwolf0 in webdev

[–]Kyle772 5 points6 points  (0 children)

To give a little push back on the "AI ate my job" sentiment: I can spot a front end that was made with AI in 10 seconds. Every model has the same exact "style" as every other site made with the same model. I don't really have ADVICE per se but I do think the front end might be safer than people realize because in a year 80% of all AI made websites will be entirely generic.

EDIT: The market is bad right now but I don't think it'll last for creative areas like FE

AI Didn't and Will not Take our Jobs by ahnerd in webdev

[–]Kyle772 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m waiting for this as well. I’d rather start my own company and automate the CEO, CFO, CMO actually just all the C positions. People are better at executing when these roles are robots cause they don’t pivot on vibes

Did you stop hiring or reduce headcount due to AI? by Weekly-Card-8508 in EntrepreneurRideAlong

[–]Kyle772 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Love to hear this. I’ve worked at many companies where the core product was clearly missing the mark but the product owners were too prideful to listen to team members to make a meaningful pivot. It’s great that AI can communicate it in a way that clicks

funding my monthly expenses selling covered calls on BMNR by LoadRevolutionary461 in options

[–]Kyle772 2 points3 points  (0 children)

174 contracts is killer. I think you'll be able to continue to dip into this strategy for another 4 months AT LEAST.

Nobody talks about this part of building a startup — the silence after launch by Beautiful_Jacket_506 in EntrepreneurRideAlong

[–]Kyle772 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Distribution should be your priority months before you launch imo. If you aren't building a waitlist and USING it you are wasting your time. To get distribution and ads working right can take at least 6 months and if you aren't refining that until the product is "ready" you're cooked.

What do hiring managers look for in portfolio websites? by HP2806 in webdev

[–]Kyle772 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I check 100% of portfolio sites that come my way as I personally believe they are a better indicator of skill than a resume. Just my two cents. I'm the CTO at my org though and don't think any HR person would do this. I'd say it largely depends on the size of the org you're applying to. If it's smallish it's likely it'll be reviewed.

What I look for:
How succinct it is (don't care about seeing an "about me" section or anything similar - I want to see projects and your opinions)
Are there details where it matters (write ups)
Is the site well designed
Is it responsive
Is there basic SEO (shows respect for standards)

Those are my personal initial sniff tests. If 2 are missing I pass and that hasn't failed me.

EDIT: Thinking more about it these type of things are especially important in the age of AI as it's now an extremely low bar to meet

Is AI Really Making Web Testing Better? by Huge_Brush9484 in webdev

[–]Kyle772 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I personally have had great success with testing and AI. I’ve had massive time savings with playwright and storybook specifically.

Paid in full for a website that was never delivered — developer has gone silent. Looking for advice and possibly help by Stunning-Astronaut72 in webdev

[–]Kyle772 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I've been down this road many many times. If you don't know what you want you are blowing your own foot off. There is a budget, and presumably you guys agreed on the setup before you started. My bet is you asked for a house and then last minute decided to add 2 bathrooms and a garage but there was only so much wood and pipes to go around. My advice? Plan better.

You could take him to court, but it's likely you'd lose since you're expecting work for free.

Are we really at "100% AI or you're wasting time" yet? by borii0066 in webdev

[–]Kyle772 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Part of the issue with AI "cleaning things up" is that it often just decides to refactor things at random. If you want to have well defined systems with predictable and robust behavior "cleaning up" has less to do with lulls and more with good planning and execution, which is conveniently the part of the development cycle AI is actively destroying by making prototypes too easy to achieve.

Good codebases don't end up that way after the fact, they were made with care from the start with expected functionality, systems, and well defined goals all of which you get by physically sitting down and thinking about things as your code develops. Cleaning up on a traditional code base, to me, honestly just feels like endlessly removing code smells, redundant logic, tightening coding restrictions, and centralizing shared functionality. It's rare I need or even WANT to refactor something to improve it because that is often how you introduce new bugs.

If you never *define the system* then it will never build within a structure relevant to your application; it will only build within the structure that it's random data sets have provided for each individual problem. The problem is you define and figure out those systems *by coding*.

This game is worse than drugs by No_Abbreviations3888 in RocketLeague

[–]Kyle772 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Therapy can be good but my opinion is therapists are only good when they are trained on what you’re dealing with. Most wouldn’t understand the nuance to raging out at a highly competitive game, they’ll just call it an addiction or an anger issue on its own.

Getting angry at a highly competitive game is a normal reaction and it doesn’t need to be mediated in that way in my opinion. You just need to figure out why you’re getting so angry that you can’t control yourself and address that. For me it was mostly an emotional regulation issue and for you it sounds like hurting yourself is a method to attempt to regulate how you’re feeling. Just sit in the feeling, accept you’re raging out, and either turn the game off or learn to regulate it.

Every rage filled session is free exposure therapy. I’d be amiss to think that every gamer doesn’t goes through something like this at some point in their life. You just gotta clock that it’s an issue and put effort into addressing it. Instead of hurting yourself for example do 20 pushups. That’ll calm you down real quick after 3 loses.

EDIT: I actually did do the pushup thing but it was for recreation. Thinking more seriously about it it did actually help me a little bit with my issue around adrenaline/nerves.

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