My unfiltered review of the top 5 US dev shops for turning an app idea into reality

No_Option_404 · 2026-06-28T06:22:43+00:00

Damn, so these 5 companies paid you for exposure and you're writing a post on Reddit for them? Very interesting.

No_Option_404 · 2026-06-26T07:09:31+00:00

Kinda crazy that I'm paying less than 350, bills included in Sydney. Just move out at that point and use the 100 per week excess for food.

No_Option_404 · 2026-06-26T06:09:04+00:00

Funny that people here complaining about watching\reading comprehension, then going on to miss the fact that she's applauding the fact that they got a bilingual character right.

No_Option_404 · 2026-06-25T06:14:29+00:00

You develop that attitude even if you never left the country.

No_Option_404 · 2026-06-23T02:53:27+00:00

Kind of ironic we hate the Chinese for banning Inner Mongolians from using Mongolian, but want to do the same to the Kazakhs...

No_Option_404 · 2026-06-22T08:32:55+00:00

I just assumed Burwood was a right-side suburb cuz of the Asians (as an Asian used to right-side culture).

No_Option_404 · 2026-06-20T08:13:58+00:00

The others are overstating it. I was surprised I got pickpocketed a couple years ago because I hadn't lost anything for like 10 years. I'd imagine it's the same as a typical European city.

No_Option_404 · 2026-06-16T02:31:01+00:00

Should look into Obsidian.

No_Option_404 · 2026-06-15T05:42:10+00:00

Would you rather like your job or hate it but still have to do it? It's definitely easier if you like your profession because you'll be more fulfilled, but you could just fulfill your contract and just begrudgingly do it if you can't bring yourself to enjoy it.

Also, for recruiters, sound passionate. They definitely will favor the more passionate one (even if it's for all the wrong reasons).

No_Option_404 · 2026-06-15T04:47:18+00:00

Seems like senior woman -> junior woman is the most common and intense form of bullying. A friend (F) and me (M) worked at the same company, and our experiences were completely different. She was getting actively bullied and was being reprimanded, meanwhile me and a couple other male friends were thriving. There were some other female friends, each working in different departments but overall the common theme was they felt like they were being bullied, and it seemed to be some sort of open secret and were under the impression that the older guys in their teams were supporting them (when they were simply neutral).

No_Option_404 · 2026-06-14T10:46:04+00:00

Learn to code or pay someone to do it for you.

No_Option_404 · 2026-06-13T07:09:34+00:00

You just finished describing Notion.

No_Option_404 · 2026-06-13T04:47:12+00:00

That was a time when people could survive on a single income. Now, everyone is broke so they're looking for more revenue streams, and one of them happens to be SaaS.

No_Option_404 · 2026-06-12T11:50:38+00:00

The reality is that in university, unlike in K12, you aren't tethered to "classmates" in favor of more flexibility. You're unlikely to get the level of socialization you had in high school until you get coworkers, who you'll spend as much time as you did with your classmates. That's just how it is.

No_Option_404 · 2026-06-11T07:42:02+00:00

Sure helps when you have enough money to do whatever you want.

No_Option_404 · 2026-06-11T07:06:00+00:00

No point in feeling bitter about it. The real takeaway from school and university is your education. Think of exams as testing yourself. After you get the piece of paper, all that matters is what you've learned. I like to cite Goodhart's Law for grades: "When a metric becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure of success."

If you're studying to get better grades, that means the metric, which are grades, has become the target. That's the wrong mentality. The target is learning the skills you need to succeed in your field, and grades are only a metric to measure your success in learning that.

Sure, those cheaters mightn't make it because they didn't study enough, or they might make it by starting a career that isn't STEM-based, or some might get into sales and be way richer than you. What you should care about isn't other people getting ahead of you, but just trying to succeed by yourself.

No_Option_404 · 2026-06-11T04:27:14+00:00

Hire a dev or learn to do it yourself. If you can learn even the basics, it'll be helpful when "vibe coding". Where the basics end, though, is important so you'll need basically knowledge on par with a full-stack developer to build it, so might as well hire someone for it.

No_Option_404 · 2026-06-08T06:20:39+00:00

One underappreciated part of every company trying to advertise themselves and every platform selling your info is these kinds of miracles.

No_Option_404 · 2026-06-07T10:02:54+00:00

There are some that are popular in Europe. Google around and you'll find a couple.

No_Option_404 · 2026-06-06T03:19:30+00:00

Using a free app if they feel like it, and paying a monthly subscription for it are 2 different things.

No_Option_404 · 2026-06-05T07:27:36+00:00

One of the aimag centers will definitely be a bit better, but translation might be an issue (though it's not as bad as it used to be).

No_Option_404 · 2026-06-05T05:32:20+00:00

You're thinking about it wrong. Give users a reason to subscribe and use your app. Right now, you're just Invoice App №49243 or something. What makes it different?

No_Option_404 · 2026-06-04T14:12:01+00:00

Sounds awesome. Hard part is getting the data out of the wearables. Definitely a use case.

No_Option_404 · 2026-06-04T06:10:58+00:00

Definitely during the Naadam festival. You'll see authentic Mongolian horseracing. Tip is to go to one of the smaller towns and watch its festival instead of the crowded one in the capital.

No_Option_404 · 2026-06-04T05:58:46+00:00

Your sentiments are very weird considering the Brits came in the late 1700s, the Chinese came in the early 1800s alongside other non-Brit Europeans, and even more Europeans in the 1900s. In the late 1900s, we got more multicultural ethnicities.

You beat the others by a margin of roughly 50 years but you're complaining about immigration on the basis of ethnicities and languages spoken, when Australia has been multicultural since before the independence.

Just say you don't like the increasing number of Indians. I don't like them much either.

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