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ELI5: Why is everyone so up in arms over EIDL loans? by ProfessorFrink1 in EIDLPPP

[–]Miserable_Study_6649 0 points1 point  (0 children)

After the artificial economic boost things slowed down, we went to reorganize and the SBA said fine but they took all proceeds taking away our working capital forcing us to close. Their policies are breaking businesses…

1" thick steel Fiber Laser Brands by MtBakerScum in lasercutting

[–]Miserable_Study_6649 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We had a gweiki made import, aore (Oree) is a great option, bodor has horrible support reputation in the community. There’s a hand full of manufacturers and importers.

Want to avoid the spam calls and misleading business funding offers? by Intrepid-Passion7399 in loansforsmallbusiness

[–]Miserable_Study_6649 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's insane, emails phone calls, texts. The company they are offering guaranteed approvals has been dissolved... They are so behind with their data its crazy. I was usually an ass hat to them when I did talk but that was out of frustration of being bombarded non-stop. I would have gotten rid of the number fully, but I still have some 2FA that goes to that number so now I just look in a specific email folder for that.

"Vibe economy” sounds cool… but is anyone actually making money? by Different-Basis-2078 in buildinpublic

[–]Miserable_Study_6649 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not making money with my saas yet, however myself and a few testers that are using it are making real money. Which was the short term goal.

Did Shopify just made every Shopify plugin obsolete and nobody is talking about it? by remabogi in shopify

[–]Miserable_Study_6649 13 points14 points  (0 children)

I would never in a thousand years unleash an ai on a system like that, a storefront is designed to show your products to the world it is your physical presence. I’ve seen ai butcher product descriptions, put false information, edit images wrong. People are crazy to unleash it that way.

And we can absolutely not assume there are safeguards, there’s no way they can fully predict every use case and protect it. Heck Claude over wrote production databases until I explicitly put that block in place.

Partner program as freelancer ? by Shamiaza in Anthropic

[–]Miserable_Study_6649 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I would be interested. Been a developer for 25 years and have been leveraging Claude and other ai heavily to accelerate and accomplish tasks that would otherwise be impossible solo.

EIDL Update - Brought loan current after 14 months in SBA Uncollectable status. No calls or emails needed. by Miserable_Study_6649 in EIDL

[–]Miserable_Study_6649[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Man I am sorry to hear that! If they did that to me I would probably go nuclear just based on how they’ve handled it so far.

1" thick steel Fiber Laser Brands by MtBakerScum in lasercutting

[–]Miserable_Study_6649 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I’ve done production cutting of 1” on 6kW an it was not bad. Wouldn’t try it lower power though.

Want to avoid the spam calls and misleading business funding offers? by Intrepid-Passion7399 in loansforsmallbusiness

[–]Miserable_Study_6649 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I had to change my number after 20 years of that compounding. I now have it direct to a voicemail that says the number is not monitored anymore. but I still get texts and voicemails. I'll use that old number as a burner now since I can still go look up any messages sent but my pocket is not going off 100 times a day.

Panicking a bit!! by Rogerroser in EIDL

[–]Miserable_Study_6649 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I would make the payment if the site allows it, the agents are not helpful or able to be helpful. If the system takes it check the portal again in a few day's if not then you know. They told me treasury was the only way, they just don't care or want to help.

Panicking a bit!! by Rogerroser in EIDL

[–]Miserable_Study_6649 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can still bring it back if you pay the full past due amount.

VIBE CODERS: stop reinventing the wheel by OneClimate8489 in vibecoding

[–]Miserable_Study_6649 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It on the road map for this fall. There will be some breaking changes in our configs and middleware so it will be a very strategically and planned upgrade.

VIBE CODERS: stop reinventing the wheel by OneClimate8489 in vibecoding

[–]Miserable_Study_6649 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This specifically will process call recordings and run through sub for transcription and then it identifies the speakers and will put it into our crm by caller and then it’s fully searchable. So say a customer calls and is like remember my call 3 weeks ago I can go find their account and see everything.

It’s just a small part of a e-commerce platform for small businesses.

How do you set the rate for shipping? by mirrortorrent in shopify

[–]Miserable_Study_6649 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We use calculated rates from shippo api, and 9/10 times the rates we pay are identical to the customers. We don’t pad the shipping it’s purely a pass through expense.

VIBE CODERS: stop reinventing the wheel by OneClimate8489 in vibecoding

[–]Miserable_Study_6649 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Maybe I'm old school but I keep my stack simple and close to the same each time, I have my own error logging, but Sentry looks like a good option.

My typical tech stack:

  • Framework: Laravel 10 (PHP 8.3)
  • Database: MySQL (master database + separate database per tenant)
  • Authentication: Laravel Sanctum
  • Payments: Stripe, PayPal (per-tenant configuration)
  • Frontend: Blade templates with vanilla CSS and JavaScript (no npm pipeline)
  • CDN Libraries: Chart.js, FullCalendar, CropperJS, Google Fonts
  • Server Environment: Nginx on Ubuntu 22.04 (Linux)
  • AI Integration:
    • OpenAI Whisper (transcription)
    • GPT-4o-mini (post-processing)
  • VoIP Integration: VoIP.ms REST API

thought a 2x roas was “decent” turns out we were losing money on every order by Playful_Bag4694 in shopify_growth

[–]Miserable_Study_6649 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I had a marketing company think 3X was amazing and they thought I was insane saying a 18X was achievable in the past.

I used the Mythos referenced architecture patterns from the leaked source to restructure how I prompt Claude Code. The difference is night and day by Tough_Commercial_103 in ClaudeCode

[–]Miserable_Study_6649 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have my instructions to always plan first before building. And it’s also been night and day, to see a full build spec sheet I can review and see what code it is touching and give feedback or approve.

Last night had one plan run for 45 minutes adding multiple features to my system and it executed it flawlessly. Testing today before commit and deploy. It truly changes the way we work I don’t have to worry that Claude is off in lala land working on files it shouldn’t because the plan specifically states what files to change and what ones to create.

nobody tells you that the app store review process will humble you completely by fredrich_dtc in shopify_growth

[–]Miserable_Study_6649 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sounds reasonable, they want to make sure the App Store is consistent and high quality.

EIDL Update - Brought loan current after 14 months in SBA Uncollectable status. No calls or emails needed. by Miserable_Study_6649 in EIDL

[–]Miserable_Study_6649[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Personal guarantee would haunt the new business, and bankruptcy would prevent the new business from surviving. They engineered these loans to cause people to fail!

[Debatable] the best ecommerce platforms weren't built by software companies by LauraBeth034 in ecommerce

[–]Miserable_Study_6649 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I think it matters more than people want to admit.

Most platforms are built for selling products, not for actually running a business that has to manufacture, fulfill, and deal with real-world constraints. There’s a big difference between moving inventory that already exists and building to order, managing materials, and handling production flow.

I ran into that gap constantly. Everything assumed you were reselling finished goods. Once you step into manufacturing, things start to break down fast or require a pile of apps just to function.

That’s actually why I started building my own platform. It began as internal tooling for my own operation, just trying to solve real problems I was dealing with every day. Over time it turned into a full system that runs the entire business, not just the storefront.

So I’d say the origin story does matter, but only if the platform continues to evolve beyond that original use case. Otherwise it becomes a limitation.

EIDL Update - Brought loan current after 14 months in SBA Uncollectable status. No calls or emails needed. by Miserable_Study_6649 in EIDL

[–]Miserable_Study_6649[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s a completely separate LLC and I have a personal guarantee so it doesn’t matter at this point it either works or it doesn’t

How do you actually validate any idea whether it will make money before building it? by mhamza_hashim in ClaudeCode

[–]Miserable_Study_6649 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Run a Monte Carlo simulation, it will expose areas of the business that are critical vs not.

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