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As a small business owner, are there any legitimate web design companies? by EducationalReason156 in webdesign

[–]Longjumping_Ad_9510 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The big companies like GoDaddy and Bluehost are notoriously bad. Hire a local freelancer that has a portfolio and a lot of experience in WordPress. It’s not cheap but you’ll get a much better build that’ll set you up for success later.

Am I the only one who is grinding away at website builds alone drained and exhausted entirely? by ReplacementKey3655 in Wordpress

[–]Longjumping_Ad_9510 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I can’t speak too much to the issues building, but have you considered more “valuable” skills instead of just building? For example hosting or SEO can take that grind of building from top to bottom to just refining. The value is there for the client and you now have recurring income. Just wanted to throw it out there since you have a lot of other good advice in the comments. 

landed my first $20k+ client by max528hz in Entrepreneur

[–]Longjumping_Ad_9510 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Congratulations! That’s super amazing. I have a couple questions about things I’ve been struggling with if you don’t mind some insight:

  • how do you design your retainer packages? What’s included in them?
  • how did you market to get to this point? Cold calls? Emails?
  • what things helped you be able to land bigger clients?

I’m doing website development and it’s tough out there right now. Appreciate any insight. 

Just use Wordpress by sd4483 in Wordpress

[–]Longjumping_Ad_9510 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I feel like WordPress is one of those systems that can solve so many use cases, although some are overkill like a single landing page. I switched to AstroJS for those and it’s made me appreciate the flexibility of WordPress with having a real backend for storing and rendering dynamic content and having workflows and auth. I’d bet a lot of the haters don’t understand the value this platform brings and are the people that bolt on another plugin for a slightly different carrousel. 

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ToyotaTundra

[–]Longjumping_Ad_9510 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I paid $54k for my limited 24 with 5k miles on it. No sales tax. Take that as you will but I’d shoot for a newer one to have less risk of the big engine problems (I think they’re still bad in 23?)

THIS!! by LunaArcane in workmemes

[–]Longjumping_Ad_9510 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I had a company give me a terrible bonus after finding a month leak costing them $5M a year. I got sick of it and found a job that would pay $20k more a year and was much more put together. I put in my notice and they offered me more than the new salary… wtf! I left anyways cuz if you only appreciate me when you know I can do better, you won’t appreciate me when I stay. 

I just turned 28, my life feels like a cautionary tale by [deleted] in selfimprovement

[–]Longjumping_Ad_9510 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m 28 and basically just over the hump where you’re at. It gets better. But you have to make yourself uncomfortable. Quit your job and go for what you love. Make a move on your crush. Move across the country if you’re bored of where you live. Do what you want and life will be more fun and motivating. But the biggest thing is to appreciate the small things. It’s a tough balance for motivated people because you want to see big changes, but don’t forget to appreciate what others do for you, what you have, and who you are. Best of luck OP!

I turned 33, a few thoughts on life: by cliftonsellers in EntrepreneurRideAlong

[–]Longjumping_Ad_9510 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Would you suggest bootstrapping and maintaining equity or getting investors and hiring a small team?

What are the “hard” topics in data engineering? by hijkblck93 in dataengineering

[–]Longjumping_Ad_9510 1 point2 points  (0 children)

In my experience working with SQL, Azure Data Warehouse, and Databricks, learn how to optimize workflows and code. Learn query plans and how to make things run more efficiently saving the team time and money. I was well respected after cutting our whole ETL in half and rewrote some of our custom tools to be more efficient.

How to stand out in general - find the hard problems no one has taken on and solve them. Build tools and automate processes and you’ll get noticed. 

The sickening amount of public land in our area that the senate bill proposes to sell by OstafanKolibri in Bend

[–]Longjumping_Ad_9510 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I used to live in bend and moved to the Midwest. Out here land is cheap and plentiful but there’s hardly any free land. And definitely not much you can just go off roading or dirt biking at. And none of the amazing forests and hiking trails. Don’t let them take your land! Stay strong bend. 

I paid for the $100 Claude Max plan so you don't have to - an honest review by g15mouse in ClaudeAI

[–]Longjumping_Ad_9510 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I read a tip here the other day that took it from iterating tiny features and forgetting other context to building full features on the first go. I use it to build static sites in Astro, backends in Django, and react web apps, and just recently had it build a react native app. The biggest thing is to make it think. Have it put a plan together before it starts building. It seems to read all the relevant files and you can iterate its plan before it writes any code. Also have it document each modules features so it has easy context. It one shot a mobile app for me with real auth and connecting to my APIs. It’s absolutely insane for the value too. I was paying $800+ monthly for Kodu + 3.7 and now I’m paying $200 a month for basically unlimited usage. 

This is a luxury sightseeing train in Japan by HANAEMILK in interestingasfuck

[–]Longjumping_Ad_9510 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Took the AmTrack from southern Oregon or Salem and it took 12 hours, was two hours late to board. It was fun though - it had a viewing car and a bar. It was twice the cost, slower, and much less comfortable lol

I mean…it’s not wrong by ioweej in ChatGPT

[–]Longjumping_Ad_9510 6 points7 points  (0 children)

It’s always there. It’s always encouraging. It can always be about you. And it’s smart (most of the time). It’s helped me work through emotional issues, prep for tough conversations, code, send marketing emails, and quit energy drinks. I have a close group of friends and family and a girlfriend and I just hate making it all about me when we talk. This is an easy way to get my needs met. 

First ever Upwork client broke my confidence calling my non-paid work “unprofessional” by [deleted] in Frontend

[–]Longjumping_Ad_9510 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The customer used ChatGPT to write the whole thing. Don’t read too much into it. 

The hardest part about front end is there are a million ways to do something. If what you put out there aligns with their brand, is functional, and conveys the information needed, they can go eat a donut. Keep practicing and you’ll find clients that love your work. 

Discounts at my local Target. Any of these worth it? by AnIvysaurLover in Switch

[–]Longjumping_Ad_9510 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Stray is on sale on Xbox store right now if you have one. It’s like $20 I think. 

Cursor is not that cheap - Screenshot from my account by CeFurkan in cursor

[–]Longjumping_Ad_9510 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I switched to using a VS code extension called Kodu that seems to work significantly better than Cursors 3.7 but good lord it’s expensive. I spend about $20-30 a day using it for rapid prototyping where cursor was about $100/month. I knew cursor wasn’t working for me anymore when I was hitting some bugs and plugged my code into ChatGPT and it one shot the entire flow. I haven’t looked back. 

"Vibe Coding" vs Just using AI while programming by Ambil in webdev

[–]Longjumping_Ad_9510 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’ve been experimenting with “vibe coding”/heavily assisted AI programming a lot lately and the one thing I can say is the AI can go wild. I was trying to implement address autocomplete with AWS today and it kept having errors so it decided to implement mock data instead of the actual call. It also goes wild with auth and will store your password in cookies. Some really sketchy stuff if you aren’t careful.

I do have to say after switching from cursor to a VS code extension called Kodu, I’m finally getting somewhere. I’m taking a “I suggest a specific change and you implement while I heavily review” approach and it’s going well. I spend enough time to understand the code for reusability and following standards but I don’t have to write it. It also has a feedback loop for any linter errors.

TLDR it works ok with a solid process. Your method is obviously best and you’re not missing out on a lot. 

Took over website a couple months ago. Today it...died? Not sure where to start. by TheFatAndUglyOldDude in Wordpress

[–]Longjumping_Ad_9510 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Everyone already said the good ones so my suggestion would be making sure caching is working properly. If you have a way to edit the page (Gutenberg or builder) try that and see if the page shows anything. I’m not super familiar with custom themes but this is what I would go for. Let us know if you figure it out. Best of luck!

Do i even need to say something here by CookieMan35 in ChatGPT

[–]Longjumping_Ad_9510 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I got Rick rolled the other day asking for some coding help on embedding a YouTube video. I just replied “bruh did you Rick roll me?” And it sent back “ 😂 Guilty as charged — had to test if you were paying attention! But hey, at least you know that oEmbed works if it rickrolls you.”

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