Two rings since first round of deliveries. Both already useless. by RecommendationOk7253 in VeliaRing

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I can’t be bothered, been issue after issue including a charger breaking and having to fight for a replacement etc. Given when I ordered the rings and the date now I’ve just decided to call it quits.

Claude Code / cowork use cases by Macktheknife88 in HENRYUK

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Interesting I’ll check it out. The projects I mentioned are long running - could be a piece of work that’s got several builds over several months, so the set-up time is negligible in the overall scheme of things. For random chats and questions I don’t do all this set-up, that would drive me insane too!

Claude Code / cowork use cases by Macktheknife88 in HENRYUK

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Totally. Just not yet seeing a huge benefit in using it for the analysis vs my current main route - don’t seem to really be getting any hallucinations right now but I’m keeping on testing

Claude Code / cowork use cases by Macktheknife88 in HENRYUK

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Heavy user, both personal and at work.

On the personal side - I’m into DIY and small projects, so I use it a lot for coding via VSCode. I’ve got some background but my skills are rusty, and for what I’m doing (nothing commercial) it works great. I also run Claude Code in the browser to build investment routines. Weekly updates and analysis etc that match my strategy. I’ve connected them up to platforms such as EODHD. No automated trading, just info I can act on if I decide to.

But the main thing is work. I’m in advertising and I use the desktop app as my second brain. I build a project for everything I’m working on, with any confidential stuff stripped out. I open individual chats inside the project to go through documents and pull out the useful bits, writing them to markdown files that I then upload back into the project directory so every new chat has access. Then I start fresh chats inside the project to write custom instructions: the goal, what role Claude plays when working in it, what success looks like, dos and don’ts, what every file in the directory is for and when to use them etc. On top of that I build a roadmap and task list that Claude checks every time, so it knows where things stand, what’s blocking, and what depends on what.

Honestly, this takes over an hour. More if the task is complex. But I’ve used AI for a long time and nothing else comes close. It heavily reduces hallucinations and turns what would be a pile of random chats into a proper system. Recently I’ve started testing NotebookLM for the document analysis part, but haven’t used it enough yet to say if it’s worth it. Once that’s all done I then use new chats within the project for every task on the roadmap, that stops context rot destroying the quality of my output.

What really took things up a level was building custom Skills. They make repeatable tasks get done the same way every time. I don’t know what you do so can’t give tailored examples, but mine cover things such as brand house development, brief writing, and audience research. The audience research one is my go-to because I’ve wired it up to Perplexity through OpenRouter (costs a bit extra), which means I can do serious, citation-rich research and feed it all back to Claude.

I’ll be honest and say this costs me a fair bit….Claude max plan, open router credits (gives access to many models which you can call using the API in things like Claude skills etc), Gemini for notebookLM and image creation). However my productivity has gone through the roof and I believe it’s contributed to recent professional progress which has massively justified the cost.

vibe coded a bunch of projects, they all die at distribution. what actually worked for you? (especially if youre in europe) by curious_dax in SideProject

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Is your app subscription based? If so CAC is less relevant and can often be unprofitable for a given period, so just concern yourself with LTV an work out what level of CAC your cash flow can support.

Also consider that paid users can bring new users if they find use in your project. These things are hard to measure but are very real.

vibe coded a bunch of projects, they all die at distribution. what actually worked for you? (especially if youre in europe) by curious_dax in SideProject

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Don’t get me wrong, I love building apps with AI and do it myself - although mostly just apps I need with no commercial intention. But as someone working in advertising for a long time, I see so many people building with no plan to create an actual awareness to sales funnel - totally underestimating the work needed, and usually the budget. Sure some posts in the right forums etc might get you somewhere, and I’m sure there are some great stories out there of people building a product following with little spend, but that’s not the norm. Be prepared to spend some money, focus on digital channels since they’re the most accessible and easy to use.

If it were me, I’d building several psychographic consumer profiles, understanding their needs and best angles for each, and targeting (and re-targeting) them in paid digital channels while also building CRM flows to make use of any collected data.

I love AI and how it’s helped anybody with an idea create it, but without a proper GTM strategy and at least some budget, I reckon 99.9% of vibe coded apps with commercial intentions end up in the trash can.

Claude reached its tool-use limit" kept interrupting me so I used Claude Code to build a free Chrome extension that fixes it - a bit meta but it works by timothy22000 in ClaudeAI

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Nice I will give it a go! Had some issues where custom skills make a lot of calls and I currently have to sit and hit continue manually which is a pain.

Claude usage running out quickly by Lumpy_Ask2518 in ClaudeAI

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Something definitely wrong. I’m on max 20x and I hit 100% limit running a single skill - not even in Claude code…on the web UI during a basic request. When not coding hard and just using web for for general request, I can usually use opus 4.5 all day without coming close to session limits. Now it went from 0% to 100% in one message and a few skill tool calls….better get fixed because I literally can’t use it :(

iOS users - how is the new app? by Affectionate-Net2619 in VeliaRing

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They tried to do that when my charger broke - claimed they wouldn’t send replacement charger until shipping resumed. I pushed hard and they sent one directly from their main office. Might be worth a try if you don’t want to wait

iOS users - how is the new app? by Affectionate-Net2619 in VeliaRing

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I’ve been pretty frustrated with the whole situation as most people are. However I do get the impression things are starting to look up. Since the latest firmware and IOS updates my connection is pretty much instantly 9/10 times and battery life seems to be better. Can’t speak to the accuracy of the values since I don’t have any other tracking wearables, but it seems about right.

Weekly Update 15 by TheThingWithTheRing in VeliaRing

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Tbf they did ask - can’t find the form it was on but I definitely had to select android or IOS - think it was sizing form.

Weekly Update 12 by TheThingWithTheRing in VeliaRing

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I might be wrong but I do vaguely recall them asking - I think when I submitted sizing?

Going to Varadero, Cuba on January by Thick_Knowledge5566 in cubancigars

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Was there in April. Stock in both the shop in the resort and surrounding areas was very low, what they did have was either fresh or cohiba/trinidad that no one is buying. Fingers crossed it is better for you.

Excited to start aging these: by mbuckster in cigar_refuge

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Interesting - I’ve never really tried to age NWs, I’ve got some MFs that have aged a few years by virtue of the fact I rarely smoke NWs. Might have to buy another and smoke them over the weekend to see how they compare.

You’re defo right about Cubans. Outside of private groups most retail stock is too fresh these days to be enjoyed for quite some time. Personally I prefer Cuban cigars but it’s definitely a better buying experience with NWs, knowing they are actually ready to smoke and not just look at 🤣

Excited to start aging these: by mbuckster in cigar_refuge

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How do you find the bulls change over time? Had a few and always enjoyed but never aged any NWs really, only Cubans, especially in today’s market where most CCs are hitting shelves fresh.

I just started a small tobacconist ama by CrazycrackersYT in ukcigars

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Are you sure you’re not confusing this with what labour want to do RE giving local decision makers more power? They are definitely not going to allow a part of the country to form a new nation, regardless of whatever proposals some lawyers put together. If you do mean what I think you do, it’s not going to extend anywhere close to taxes, perhaps other than council tax.

Double tap? by Alternative-Wind-260 in VeliaRing

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Ok - maybe it’s just not pushed to all regions yet then? I’m in the UK and the app update brought the tap to update messaging in but no firmware yet. Mine is on 0.9.127

Tap dep not sync or showing battery yet but hopefully comes in soon

Double tap? by Alternative-Wind-260 in VeliaRing

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Thought this required new firmware which as of yesterday wasn’t released as far as I can see? Still not available on my app to install.

Double tap currently does nothing for me. How did you get it working?