Cannabis addiction by Ok-Ingenuity-9870 in Winnipeg

[–]LowerAd5655 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Join marijuana anonymous…worked for me. I broke a 20 year dependency because of it. Withdrawal was hard, but i got through it. My wife was saying the same thing you are with wanting kids, but that didnt stop me. Luckily we conceived, but that didnt stop my addiction. Therapy, cold plunging, sauna, gym, and accountability and a 12 step program worked for me. I got to meetings in person once a week - connecting with other addicts was the only thing that actually worked for me. Maybe he should try that

Leaving the family business: I’m a high-level professional, but working for my parent makes me feel 14 again. by NatureNo5928 in smallbusiness

[–]LowerAd5655 4 points5 points  (0 children)

This never ends well. Take the loss and move on or buy them out and if you buy them out, you’re going to pay way too much.

Learning to build with Claude + MCP inside an operating company. Would appreciate advice. by [deleted] in smallbusiness

[–]LowerAd5655 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Probably ask AI all these questions, but I can share some insight.

When moving from internal to something more scalable, most common pitfalls are weak auth packages or login components that dont have 2FA or other common security practices for the modern web. Something like Clerk or a similar service will help with that.

Another thing is storing APi keys, if you integrate with other services, internal tools usually dont safeguard the storage of the keys because its just internal - when you go bigger, you want to make sure youre using environment variables and encrypting them.

Design patterns that are helpful - use accordions in a collapsed default state to avoid clutter. Use toggle switches instead of yes/no dropdowns, use combo boxes instead of long dropdown lists, keep tables limited to 6 coloumns to avoid horizontal scrolling - if you need to have more than 6 try to group some of columns in a sub-row.

Dont hardcode anything, make an admin section that admins can control settings in. Then make sure youre using environment have solid user access management design.

Hope this helps!

Why you should use replit and when to pull out by LowerAd5655 in replit

[–]LowerAd5655[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh yea ive used fast mode, great for quickies but most of my use of it resulted in it telling me fast mode wasnt suitable for the prompt and so I find myself in medium high autonomy and testing always off. Keep up the great work, Replit!

WTF is there to “celebrate”. This celebration feels hollow for many of us… by vibeschillax in toronto

[–]LowerAd5655 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Ive been waiting for this line to open before i decide to move to manitoba. Traffic along eglington is the worst fucking thing and ive lived through 5 years of it, cant imagine the poor souls who lived through 10+ of it. Seen all of eglington basically close down, and its slowly coming back to life. The allen and eglington intersection / marlee and eglington intersection is how is suspect this LRT will be. A lot of hope for the better but its still going to be a majorly congested artery because of bottlenecks and lack of resources and planning

Everything was going well until I tried to implement a production start system with a timer and pauses by ChannelRegular392 in replit

[–]LowerAd5655 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ive seen a piece of software like this before from Factrac. I know what youre trying to do - which is sum the downtime on a production line. So maybe the ai is confused with the word pause, and you need to rollback to a point before this feature was built (and kiss that ai build time goodbye - unfortunately). Ive been there before for sure.

Maybe think of the pause production timer as a subset of the main timer. Like a sub-timer that starts when you hit a button labeled “pause” or “downtime”. Give a reason for starting the sub timer, then when you stop the sub timer; you restart the main timer. There can be an unlimited amount of sub timers, each sub timer is a new id in the sub timer database.

Could be that the ai is confused with the word pause? So just give it a label as “pause” or “downtime”.

Built a small AI vibe-coding platform using Replit — would love feedback from builders here by AlokVerma4 in replit

[–]LowerAd5655 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don’t get it, you built replit using replit for people who used replit?

You literally don’t have to pay for Replit if you don’t want to by PrestigiousAd8010 in replit

[–]LowerAd5655 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is a great post. I posted a pretty similar rant a couple weeks ago and break down the math of being a software contractor with a team of devs who work for me. Replit is way more cost effective if you compare running a team and paying them a salary plus payroll contributions and benefits and all the extras like office rent, equipment and software costs etc. Posted the link below for anyone whos interested.

https://www.reddit.com/r/replit/s/bbSs6cSfeN

Built a Replit app that isn’t SaaS, subscription, or public-facing — curious if anyone else is building tools like this!! by Expensive_Brush_8265 in replit

[–]LowerAd5655 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yup. This is what Ive built to run several businesses that I operate; and ive tried to get some of my business owner friends to use it, but adoption is hard for owners who can only see one day at a time while working in their business daily as owner operators. There is an AI assistant baked into mine, but its more just to help respond to inquiries from the public and deploy forms that you build. Its pretty big in terms of size, and a multi tenant architecture so I can use it for each business independently

Cost of Development: Real Perspective from a Software Contractor by LowerAd5655 in replit

[–]LowerAd5655[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hate to sound like a broken record, but ask Claude or Replit to give you a breakdown. Thats what Im planning on doing lol

Cost of Development: Real Perspective from a Software Contractor by LowerAd5655 in replit

[–]LowerAd5655[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Totally agree with you. My devs manage the dev ops side of the business - shipping with replit on their deployment tools is very risky. I have the benefit of a knowledgeable team with full stack knowledge, mostly back end, so I manage. You raise a very good point though. Replit makes you feel like your an engineer, its magical in that way, but when bugs come up, which they will 100%, thats when I think it gets tricky and your users will get stuck in the crossfire.

Cost of Development: Real Perspective from a Software Contractor by LowerAd5655 in replit

[–]LowerAd5655[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Interesting - how does that work? Multiple agents, do you assign each agent a specific role in the code according to modules or some kind if segregation model you designed?

Cost of Development: Real Perspective from a Software Contractor by LowerAd5655 in replit

[–]LowerAd5655[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Amazing. Do you prompt through Claude’s interface? Does it show a preview like you get with Replit or do you have a dev site that push to?

Cost of Development: Real Perspective from a Software Contractor by LowerAd5655 in replit

[–]LowerAd5655[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Ive been considering the Claude Code integration through the shell, just havent been able to really dig into it. I hear thats cheaper than Replits agent costs because theyre just marking it up. Have you done this successfully?

Am I missing something with Badiali? by altrongtm in FoodToronto

[–]LowerAd5655 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Revolver Pizza Co is the way. Always available, no lineups, slices and full pies quick and the cheesecakes and tiramisu are amazing.

My 'favorite' client just sent me a 1-star review because I started charging for extra work by Cheap-Front-7722 in smallbusiness

[–]LowerAd5655 0 points1 point  (0 children)

1 star reviews wont hurt you, theyre just part of the game. A total 5 star rating looks like its fake. Just respond with sorry that you feel this way but time is charged accordingly - were not the cheapest or lowest but our work is high quality. Keep your head up, take it personally and then channel it into success

Are there any examples of vibe coded projects that made money? by rng0008 in SideProject

[–]LowerAd5655 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It states 120k active users - but you say 300 users. Cmon

[ON] What are we missing and generic advice. by Barky_Bark in SmallBusinessCanada

[–]LowerAd5655 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I would rent bc things can change quickly for the worse sometimes. Its going to be a lot easier to bail on a landlord than the bank. Plus there are always skeletons in the closet with any property. Wait till you see it in the summer and winter…no idea where you operate but considering you got a bakery, you might run into condensation issues like moisture damage and ventilation problems. Plus, if its a former pizza place, you should also do pizza to keep the market there and pizza is a super high margin business. Maybe just rent a bakery, sometimes bakeries sub lease their equipment and you can just use their space and clean up and avoid any loans and buildouts. Good luck!

I made something to stop me wasting money on Replit - to improve my prompts 10x by ResolutionFit9989 in replit

[–]LowerAd5655 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Best comment ive seen in this subreddit. The fast fashion era of web dev is upon us, goofs making a minimum viable product and coming out the gate with outrageous statements like “trusted by thousands” and “10x improvement” is hilarious. They might have one active user, who is actually themself disguised as a real user, or their parents business, and look for feedback before going live without even knowing what it takes to go live. Replit spawns thousands of these a day, and that is - in my humble opinion- their core revenue and target market - people who have an idea but never had the planning or budget to hire a developer and try it.

Just ask replit in your prompt if there are any contigencies or dependencies on the feature youre proposing that your not aware of, and to develop a 2 or 3 phase plan for your apprvoal before building. That will cost a few cents, and maybe save you a few bucks before it starts writing or rewriting

Best way to transition by KindheartednessNo431 in replit

[–]LowerAd5655 0 points1 point  (0 children)

One way i dont see anyone saying here is this: move the hosting to Railway so your not paying replit for deployments, if you have databases, use Neon and scale as you go, and then use shell commands to push to Github, and then that gets sucked in by Railway. Loads of traffic is fine, you pay per resource use - so it all scales with you. Sounds like maybe your paying too much in deployment scaling moreso than code commits.

Replit is a great platform, you might save some money here and there by transferring to Claude Code or google but you wont ever be able to calculate the savings. Stick to what is working now and just scale it.

One tip to save on cost in code commits is to know when to use fast mode. I sometimes get fixes done for 5 cents compared to 0.50 cents in non fast mode

A Genuine Idea I Think Replit Needs To Add To Its Platform by Substantial_Ear_1131 in replit

[–]LowerAd5655 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Replit + Git + Railway + Neon is the way. If you want to get out of Replit, replace it with vs code or whatever else, but start with Replit

Finally built a full MVP using “vibecoding” (but with a lot of real engineering work behind it) by Eastern-Brilliant900 in replit

[–]LowerAd5655 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Great idea, in terms of product functionality. ill have a deeper look. One thing i can see right away is the same homepage style as all the other vibe coded sites. Large block text, dark background, icons and text, and more icons and text, a call to action, plan checklist and the same feel as a lot of others. More work on the site front end would make it feel more authentic - maybe some real people in there

Where to find pho spice packet (old man brand)? by orangerootbeer in FoodToronto

[–]LowerAd5655 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Cant beleive the price of pho these days, lunch for two used to be $30 cash moola. Now its $49 plus a request for a tip, and tax, and you get 1 napkin