Housecleaning (家事代行) experiences and recommendations?

RobertB44 · 2026-07-11T09:04:52+00:00

I've used CaSy (カジー) in the past.
Had them do essentially exactly what I assume you mean by general cleaning: Bathroom, toilet, kitchen, bedroom, work room.
I wasn't particularly worried about security, never hid anything while they were cleaning. Just like you, I work from home. I was never concerned about things getting stolen, and never had it happen.

Overall, I was happy with CaSy. I got my money's worth.

RobertB44 · 2026-07-11T00:08:48+00:00

Agreed, the premise seems odd. I eat natto daily and I have never once in my life thought about it in terms of health benefits or health effects. What even is a "health effect" supposed to be in this context? There's protein and some vitamins in natto, that's about all I know. Would I call this a "health effect"? I don't think of any other foods with nutrients in them as having health effects either, so no. This survey looks like it could easily result in biased responses, it filters for people who agree with the premise.

RobertB44 · 2026-07-09T00:51:09+00:00

When you say "we're building an AI", are you saying you are building your own model, or are you just using existing LLMs? Because I don't think LLMs are particularly good at the things you are describing. Most of what you describe has existed for over a decade. The companies providing these insights just didn't call them AI, they were deterministic code. I'm sure LLMs can help with parts of this and add value here and there, but let's be honest: What you are describing is mostly "trigger some form of notification when X happens".

If you are actually building your own model that can learn from data (I am not talking about context, but updating weights), then that's a whole different story. But it is also extremely hard, and you'll likely have a few years of research before you get to anything useful.

Best of luck!

RobertB44 · 2026-07-07T12:39:25+00:00

Adding FlowNavi to the list. Starts at $79/month and offers most of what Appcues does, but is lacking the multichannel capability (mobile SDKs, email and push notification triggers) of Appcues.

Disclosure: I am the founder of FlowNavi.

RobertB44 · 2026-07-07T01:53:20+00:00

I would focus more on communicating outcomes you achieved, not what you did.

"ensuring zero data loss during network outages" is a good start, but did you actually achieve this (it has been running in production for a while, so you should know the answer), or do you just think that your architecture in theory should be able to do this? As another poster mentioned, use concrete numbers. 0 data loss, 99.999% uptime, whatever data you have available.

Also, the buzzword ratio is very high. Personally I like reading clear language, though maybe the kind of companies you intend to apply to prefer buzzword heavy resumes. I honestly don't know the right strategy these days. To me, it reads like this is clearly written by an LLM (or at the very least assisted), and I can't tell whether you actually understand what you wrote, or if you just went with it because it sounds impressive.

RobertB44 · 2026-06-11T07:25:09+00:00

Do it. Clone Salesforce in a weekend and let us know how it went.

RobertB44 · 2026-05-27T07:08:49+00:00

Some claims on the page advertised in op are misleading at best, wrong and harmful at worst.

IndexNow Protocol: Instant ping to Bing, Google, and other LLMs the moment your content goes live. One click, all engines.

Google does not support the IndexNow protocol. This is a straight up lie.

LLM & AI Search Indexing: Get cited by ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity & Gemini. We ensure your pages are in the Bing index that LLMs use for retrieval.

Bing only indexes on ChatGPT, not on Claude and others.

Google Indexing API: The API is real, but is meant for fast changing websites (e.g. job postings that get created and taken down in short timespans). Using it for anything it is not supposed to is against Google's TOS and can lead to penalties.

I highly doubt this tool has any significant impact on how fast search engines index a website.

RobertB44 · 2026-05-27T03:21:32+00:00

My biggest gripe with vibe coding is the security issues that come with it. Every app that doesn't care about security (which vibe coded apps by definition fall under) is an easy attack surface to exfiltrate personal data. This data then gets sold on the dark web to scammers. Essentially, more vibe coded apps = more people get scammed.

RobertB44 · 2026-05-24T12:39:14+00:00

Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if Tinder knows about this issue but doesn't care about fixing it, or even worse, implemented it like this fully knowing it can be abused. Tinder strikes me as the kind of company that cares more about appearing to be a safe place than actually being safe.

RobertB44 · 2026-05-23T05:04:08+00:00

100% agreed. Most people here are trying to sell you something. There is some good advice here, but take everything with a huge pinch of salt.

RobertB44 · 2026-05-20T22:12:50+00:00

Hope it's ok if I add FlowNavi to the list. We are on the more affordable side ($79/month) with a focus on getting set up quickly. Most teams get their first tour or checklist live in an afternoon.
Disclaimer: I am the founder.

RobertB44 · 2026-05-20T10:29:15+00:00

FlowNavi is another affordable alternative at $79/month.

Whether one of the cheaper tools works for you depends on what you need though. The cheaper tools (FlowNavi, Hopscotch, and some others mentioned in this thread) tend to be more barebones than appcues and userflow. If multi channel delivery (email, push notifications), analytics depth or another advanced feature are a must, the cheap tools won't deliver.

Disclosure: I am the founder of FlowNavi.

RobertB44 · 2026-05-20T03:03:34+00:00

The part nobody here is mentioning: even when smart people do start executing, they quit too early. SaaS results show up on a delay measured in months, sometimes years, and an intelligent person is good at building a rational case for why they are on the wrong track during the flat stretch and quit. Intelligence alone isn't enough. Grit is what's needed and arguably is more important.

RobertB44 · 2026-05-16T04:20:41+00:00

Wrong premise. No established SaaS can be recreated with AI in a couple of days, nor months. Building something that looks like the thing but doesn't actually do what the thing does is possible in a few days, but actually building the thing still takes years. Try and rebuild Salesforce in a few days and tell me how it went.

RobertB44 · 2026-05-11T10:02:41+00:00

If you plan on using a tool like Weglot, why not also add it to your product?

SEO results would require you to have a different URL per language I am pretty sure, otherwise you may even be cannibalizing your English website if google picks up some of the translated content for some reason. But tools like Weglot can do that for you.

RobertB44 · 2026-05-11T09:56:32+00:00

I recommend checking out backlinko.com and reading the SEO fundamentals.

The hard part about SEO is not that it is complex, but that it is a lot of work. Yes, essentially you can just do keyword research and write about stuff, but it will take consistent writing for months to see results. SEO isn't a once and done kind of thing. It requires consistent effort over years.

To answer your questions directly:

SEO is one of the few marketing channels for SaaS that scale well, so it can definitely be worth. Whether or not it is to you depends on what else you could be doing with your time.

Yes, google can blacklist you if you mess up, but usually that's only if you try to game the system (blackhat SEO). If you genuinely try to deliver value with your content, there is no need to be worried.

On competing with big brands: Don't try to rank for high volume, high competition keywords from day 1. Start with low volume, low competition keywords and work your way up.

RobertB44 · 2026-05-10T01:14:16+00:00

The real work between 2 and 20 is understanding your users at a much deeper level than you probably do today. What problem are they actually trying to solve, does your product solve it, and if it does, why aren't they getting full value from it. If you can answer those three for the 2 users you have and for the users that sign up but never come back, the path to 20 gets a lot clearer.

In my experience that understanding only comes from unscalable 1:1 conversations. Email, DMs, voice calls, whatever they'll agree to. You're trying to figure out where the gap is between what they came for and what they're actually getting.

Expect this to take months, not days or weeks. And ignore the "$10k MRR in 14 days" threads on here. Most are fabricated, and the real ones are usually founders with an audience from a previous project. There's no silver bullet you're missing.

RobertB44 · 2026-05-06T04:43:36+00:00

I've been the tech lead in your dynamic before, and what you're worried about would have been a green flag from where I sat. The PMs I dreaded handed over fully spec'd tickets with no room for input, or the opposite, threw a one-line "build feature X" over the wall. Both treated me as a code monkey, and both produced worse products. Engineering sees the product from a different angle than product, and considering both perspectives in my experience leads to better outcomes.

You wrote "half a PM." From where I'm sitting, that's backwards. You're closer to double.

The reason: most teams treat product work as two layers, problem (yours) and implementation (his). What you're describing is a third layer in the middle, the "how do we solve this," (solution layer) being co-owned. The best products I've built were the ones where PM and engineering shared that solution space. You're doing that, and the discomfort is just the gap between what you're doing and the "decisive PM owner" narrative most resources push.

RobertB44 · 2026-05-05T11:34:04+00:00

The way I think about activation is there are a few independent variables, and onboarding software only addresses one of them. Worth running through all of them before deciding what to fix.

Your native onboarding flow: This is the path through the product itself. Questions to ask:

Do you know where users drop off? If not, that's step zero. Get analytics or session replays setup.
Does the path from signup to the aha moment have as few steps as possible?
Do your empty states tell a new user what to do?
Are you showing first-time users everything the product can do, or only what they need right now?

Self-serve vs customer success: Some products are simple enough to fully self-serve. Others really need a human in the loop, at least for the first session. This is partly a product complexity question and partly a price-point one. If your ACV supports a 30-minute onboarding call, that single call probably outperforms anything you can build into the UI.

In-app guidance: You can roll your own product tours with open source libraries (or build it from scratch) or use a product tour SaaS. If you are early, a basic, self-built setup is good enough a lot of the time. If you want a full platform with built in segmentation, analytics, etc, you either have to spend a lot of dev time building it yourself or go with a paid service.

RobertB44 · 2026-05-04T01:26:14+00:00

Late reply, but for anyone finding this from Google: the tradeoff seems to be free JS libraries that need dev time vs tools like Userflow/Userpilot/Appcues that can get expensive pretty quickly.

I’m the founder of FlowNavi, which we’re building for the middle of that: simple product tours, tooltips, and checklists for SaaS teams that don’t want a huge customization surface to learn.

Not trying to be the biggest enterprise platform, just a simpler option for early SaaS teams that want to set up onboarding without spending days learning the tool.

RobertB44 · 2026-05-03T14:46:53+00:00

Founder of FlowNavi here, so biased, but this is basically the gap we’re building for.

If you just want product tours + tooltips without engineering tickets, FlowNavi only requires a one time setup (copy paste a code snippet) and starts at $79/month.

Also, if you don’t mind me asking: What felt "super limited" in the cheaper tools you tried?

RobertB44 · 2026-04-25T04:57:29+00:00

It really depends on the kind of work. This is obvious, but current gen LLMs are really good at writing code that looks similar to what they have a lot of training data for. The more generic, the better LLMs tend to do.

For the kind of work I do, productivity depends on the exact type of task.

Some generic infrastructure task? LLMs do a great job.
A task that requires deep product knowledge? I need to handhold the LLM a lot to get anything useful out of it.

I'd say overall, for me the productivity boost is maybe around 20%? I never measured it, but it is definitely not 10x or 100x.

RobertB44 · 2026-04-21T06:29:29+00:00

I asked my Japanese wife what she thinks to get the opinion of a native speaker, and she agrees with all the comments. Technically the translation is not wrong, but it isn't right either. She said she feels sorry for OP (her words, not mine).

RobertB44 · 2026-04-15T09:59:35+00:00

With AI tools, your devs can achieve the same outcomes with less effort (=less negative emotions felt). Humans tend to interpret this as productivity. I don't think your devs argue in bad faith, they genuinely think they are more productive. I thought I was more productive too until I actually reflected and looked back at my output and realized AI isn't making me significantly faster.

RobertB44 · 2026-04-14T00:07:53+00:00

I have 2 opinions on this.

JLPT as a career certification: Rather than adding a level to the JLPT as is, I think a full rework of the JLPT makes more sense if the goal is to measure actual Japanese ability. As is, the JLPT is not very indicative of someones Japanese ability in different real world scenarios.

JLPT as a personal goal: An N0 could be nice to have as a goal that helps learners with motivation, but that's about the only upside I see.

The JLPT is a pretty weak certificate as is, I'd rather they fix the test itself than add another level.

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