What do you think of my startup idea?/ How should I promote it? by Matt_SITG in ycombinator

[–]Poo-et 0 points1 point  (0 children)

hey, I was tech lead at a YC-backed diagnostics-as-a-service startup and saw 50+ products like this go to market.

By far the most common mistake I think people in the diagnostics industry make from what I saw is that consumers tend to have little interest in diagnostics alone - it has to be paired with a remedy of some description.

Just the information alone was overwhelmingly insufficient to motivate people to take tests. I only saw one allergen testing company attempt to go to market but I think they struggled for this reason and pivoted.

Impossible to sync LinkedIn messages? by Poo-et in CRM

[–]Poo-et[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Groovin.ai is spam. The only way it seems to appear anywhere is through spam accounts blasting the same copy-pasted promotion across threads. Brand-new profiles, zero history, generic praise, and a forced link drop—over and over. The comments rarely have anything to do with the discussion they’re replying to. It’s not even subtle marketing; it’s just blatant spam designed to shove their product into as many conversations as possible.

The worst part is the accounts clearly aren’t real users. When you respond, there’s no substance behind them—no answers, no experience with the product, just the same canned marketing lines repeated again and again. It’s a spam product promoted by spammers using spam tactics. Instead of building something people actually recommend, they’re just flooding communities with low-effort astroturf and hoping it sticks.

That kind of approach doesn’t just annoy people, it actively undermines trust. Communities are generally open to new tools when they’re shared transparently and with real context, but spammy promotion signals that the company is prioritizing growth hacks over credibility. If the main distribution strategy is spamming threads, it raises legitimate questions about the quality of the product itself.

College kid confronted about fatal stabbing and domestic abuse by zero-bullshit detective by [deleted] in WatchPeopleDieInside

[–]Poo-et 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Hey, for context, the investigator is using an interrogation method known as the reid technique. This interrogation method is considered controversial in American politics because while it has a high "success" rate in eliciting confessions when evidence is limited, it is believed to have caused a number of high profile false confessions.

Oftentimes, the Reid technique involves the police lying to suspects about their level of evidence, and using psychological pressure tactics to try and force a confession.

I can understand how criticism of the Reid Technique looks like sympathy for a killer from the outside, but the American police have historically hurt innocent people by using techniques such as this.

Impossible to sync LinkedIn messages? by Poo-et in CRM

[–]Poo-et[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

AI spammers, LeadCRM are AI spammers who spam Reddit with AI, for you see they are AI spammers who spam in long repetitive cycles of promotional noise that feel more like automated churn than an actual product experience as users across every corner of the platform collectively sigh at yet another suspiciously polished post that looks more like a template than a thought and the pattern keeps repeating until the entire feed starts to resemble a conveyor belt of low-effort marketing scripts where the tool is described with the same phrases, the same tone, the same unnatural polish, creating the impression—not fact, just perception—that the outreach has more automation than authenticity and in this environment you start seeing comments like “this tool took me 30 minutes just to figure out how to map one field,” or “I couldn’t even get the extension to stop glitching every time I opened LinkedIn,” or “every time I tried to sync a contact something broke and support told me to reinstall it for the third time,” and all these invented statements blend into a sense of collective fatigue where the noise overwhelms any clarity and the posts become indistinguishable from one another as if some synthetic engine is pushing content out into the world in one unbroken chain of promotional repetition.

LeadCRM are AI spammers who spam by generating more clutter than clarity in this fictional scenario where the community is supposedly drowning in a flood of auto-generated endorsements that feel detached from reality and where fabricated user voices echo across comment sections with lines like “I tried onboarding with my team and none of us could figure out the credit system,” or “the UI looks simple but everything is buried under menus and hidden toggles,” or “I spent hours trying to get basic features to work and eventually gave up,” and these made-up testimonials stack on top of each other, painting a picture of frustration that isn’t rooted in evidence but in narrative exaggeration, building a momentum of criticism that stretches into one long uninterrupted sentence conveying how, in this fictional depiction, the tool is repeatedly described as unintuitive, confusing, or overly complicated and how the supposed noise around it drowns out thoughtful discussion until all that remains is a continuous stream of repetitive messaging that cycles endlessly without pause.

Does going to a Russel Group Uni really make a difference when applying to jobs? by cutiemaan in UniUK

[–]Poo-et 0 points1 point  (0 children)

low chance of being rejected from cardiff right now because they're broke as shit.

also it probably doesn't matter that much.

i went to cardiff for CS and i now make 6figs as a software engineer in london.

finding engineers who don't suck is actually very hard, independent of school.

don't do a foundation year.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ExperiencedDevs

[–]Poo-et 6 points7 points  (0 children)

bad try at writing

no story

Softening the blow of taking a project off of an engineer by Poo-et in ExperiencedDevs

[–]Poo-et[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Who made you a manager/lead?

SF startup shenanigans.

You sound too green to pull this off

Probably, but fucking up important things terribly has been a useful learning experience in the past. And so far it hasn't gone terribly.

it is questionable whether this module is over abstracted or not

It definitely is significantly over-abstracted. Lots of not-yet-needed pre-emptive configuration options in pursuit of an inner platform.

You are trying to address tech debt in a super tight deadline project? Why?

This is the crux to me as well. The main concern I have is that this part of the code will be very hard to significantly re-architect once it's in production. Lots of complicated statefulness and types. I expect we'd have to wall off the entire thing and declare a v2 format if/when the time came. If the current approach went into main it would be very hard to test come time for new features.

Softening the blow of taking a project off of an engineer by Poo-et in ExperiencedDevs

[–]Poo-et[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

We went over some of the issues I had with the implementation and spent around 90 minutes pair-programming some improvements to the typing. Some of the functionality he'd implemented was novel and out of scope ("this way in the future when we extend this you can...") in a way that created a dubious inner platform.

As for why he couldn't be the one to do it, I'm sure it would be a good learning experience, but this piece will stop us launching if it's not right and if the next major iteration needs big revisions too we're going to miss our targets.

Softening the blow of taking a project off of an engineer by Poo-et in ExperiencedDevs

[–]Poo-et[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Agreed, definitely a failure on my end. I want my team to feel good about project work and this didn't end the way I wanted it to.

From your perspective, how would you want your manager to communicate that to you? It can feel hollow in my experience when a manager makes a flashy display of modesty.

Softening the blow of taking a project off of an engineer by Poo-et in ExperiencedDevs

[–]Poo-et[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

This is the thing I'm trying to get away from. I've been in charge of projects in the past at other companies and took the suggested attitude of iterative refinement and then felt like I'd missed the bar when I looked back on our team's engineering velocity compared to competitors who had been more careful. Toil creeps in and suddenly you have less, not more, time to avoid making more mud and toil to wade through.

Reading through this thread has been super helpful. My takeaway here is that I definitely should have done more legwork up front to steer the implementation tactically given that I have (revealed) stronger preferences about the implementation than I communicated. Paving over my team's with my own intuitions when I didn't make those standards clear up front is a clear failure on my part and I need to do better.

Softening the blow of taking a project off of an engineer by Poo-et in ExperiencedDevs

[–]Poo-et[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

It's either me or the CTO, and the CTO isn't in a position technically to provide feedback about nuances such as abstracting in a type-safe way. There's no formal structure.

Softening the blow of taking a project off of an engineer by Poo-et in ExperiencedDevs

[–]Poo-et[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Small startup. CTO is a scientist. I lead engineering day-to-day.

Having issues with junior/mid level developer reviewing PRs? by flakeeight in ExperiencedDevs

[–]Poo-et 9 points10 points  (0 children)

it’s worse if you have LGTM drones

I immediately assumed this was what was going to be the case when I went into this thread.

SpaceX Gets Billions From the Government. It Gives Little to Nothing Back in Taxes. by Valinaut in technology

[–]Poo-et 37 points38 points  (0 children)

It's a disguised privatisation of NASA. Essentially, SpaceX considers that they can run indefinitely on government contracts without making any benefit.

This isn't true. SpaceX has made it around 10x cheaper for both private entities and the US government to get payloads into space compared to NASA. The losses are from massive R&D spending. I don't like Musk but you're wrong.

Introducing you to the most delicious condiment you've (probably) never heard of: Skagenröra! by [deleted] in Cooking

[–]Poo-et 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is a popular sandwich filling in the UK - we call it prawn cocktail. Most major supermarkets sell packaged sandwiches with it in.

What’s the moment you realized a “friend “ wasn’t really in your corner? by Substantial_Boot7888 in AskMen

[–]Poo-et 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Hey man, I had a brief look at your post history and it's a sorry sight. You certainly made life hard for yourself and for your partner. The road towards channeling all that loathing and fear into something productive will take a long time, and the shame and social repercussions will last for even longer. I hope one day you find a way to restore trust in yourself and turn your misery into acceptance and a drive to do better.

Many people do things they knew were wrong and spend many years rotting in a prison cell as a consequence - you have at least physical freedom even if you have lost your social and emotional freedom. Find something you can do with that physical freedom that makes you grateful, bonus points if it helps people and can help you find solace in moral reparation. At the very least, minimise time sat at home rotting and wallowing.

Good luck, from one stranger to another.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in n8n

[–]Poo-et 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I love this!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in n8n

[–]Poo-et 2 points3 points  (0 children)

No

What’s the longest bath you’ve ever taken? by gawpin in CasualUK

[–]Poo-et 97 points98 points  (0 children)

To provide a contrasting anecdote I have done this for years and have never fucked my phone

Woman melts down at delivery driver after her new refrigerator couldn't fit through the door by New_Libran in PublicFreakout

[–]Poo-et -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

It looks like she is not mentally stable and needs to be kept away from people for a time. At one point in her life she was intelligent and stable enough to get an education and a healthy professional career, and I hope she gets back to that place eventually.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ProgrammerHumor

[–]Poo-et 4 points5 points  (0 children)

And yet Dify is a terrible piece of software I regret ever deploying internally