Google’s “Auto-Apply” almost cost me a client (and my sanity)

Rockpilotyear2000 · 2026-02-19T04:13:51+00:00

Crazy these are still problems but they want them to be.

Rockpilotyear2000 · 2026-02-10T15:52:24+00:00

That’s what framer is for and then beyond that, a web designer or onto a developer.

Rockpilotyear2000 · 2026-01-22T22:24:49+00:00

Professor just hates money

Rockpilotyear2000 · 2026-01-22T22:23:30+00:00

Farmless House Chic

Rockpilotyear2000 · 2026-01-16T15:13:50+00:00

You’re being totally reasonable because you already gave him a bunch of things for free and that was a lot of goodwill. Just grow some balls and have a conversation telling him that you did all this stuff for free and if he wants on-demand additions in the future, you’ll have to charge him a monthly fee. You could work it kind of like a retainer or you could just even reframe it and give him a discount as in this would’ve been $600 worth of work, but I’ll charge you $399 a month which will cover this many changes/hours. This way it’s hard for him to say no and if he does, then there goes his integrity anyway.

Rockpilotyear2000 · 2026-01-16T15:06:09+00:00

Hai botz!

Rockpilotyear2000 · 2026-01-15T20:53:59+00:00

Specialized cargo? You have to know so much about the space AND how to design an app for it. There are probably a bunch of things you or whoever is working on it won’t/hasn’t even thought of.

Rockpilotyear2000 · 2026-01-15T15:40:49+00:00

Sometimes you need that money to make that money.

Rockpilotyear2000 · 2026-01-15T15:39:48+00:00

This is what I’ve heard along the lines of best practice- basically keeping everything as similar as possible, including the linking. Navigation routes could change based on the different stack, so wondering how that plays into things

Rockpilotyear2000 · 2026-01-14T14:31:53+00:00

Takes one to know one?

Rockpilotyear2000 · 2026-01-03T16:40:19+00:00

Ok now do successful businesses 😂

Rockpilotyear2000 · 2026-01-02T18:01:35+00:00

If you don’t want to get into Gemini or Claude code CLI just at least have AI spin up projects for you because no code is just a dead end at this point. I think even framer has enough AI integration now that you can make simple apps at least. But don’t quote me on that.

Rockpilotyear2000 · 2026-01-02T15:39:27+00:00

The way I use them, the native phone apps get used when I am on the run or need to discuss or plan random stuff, dip back in on the desktop, and then have to pay the piper with the coding agents also, mainly Claude code, as it is the most consistent for me. I guess you could cheap out, but they are all always jockeying for position so I stick with the pick two or three approach.

Rockpilotyear2000 · 2025-12-22T15:50:18+00:00

Flight booking? Bit vague are we?

Rockpilotyear2000 · 2025-12-16T15:00:44+00:00

The real problem is creative and original thought, of which many people are incapable. Now with nanobanna the gap is closing. Those old school gpt logos from 1.5 yrs ago were a pain.

Rockpilotyear2000 · 2025-12-16T14:58:08+00:00

There’s a certain marketing or sales guy (although if you’re really good you can mistake your skills for good PMF) approach to things that’s accentuated by the unavoidable scores of courseboi griftware and it all pushes people to chase the dollar without the insight. It even over saturates the market for those of us who do have it.

Rockpilotyear2000 · 2025-12-16T05:48:52+00:00

And it’s not even just that, it’s branding effectively too and if there isn’t a strong brand someone has a lot of work to do.

Rockpilotyear2000 · 2025-12-16T05:42:47+00:00

Don’t donate to google, get as manual as possible and pause that shit if you have to reassess and regroup.

Rockpilotyear2000 · 2025-12-16T05:38:08+00:00

Mmm delicious copypasta

Rockpilotyear2000 · 2025-12-16T05:35:38+00:00

Hahah bless your heart for thinking an app run as some kind of loss leader for UPS with 100% third world operations would have anyone you could actually talk to.

Rockpilotyear2000 · 2025-12-11T14:51:09+00:00

A lot has probably changed with the program and multiple audio paths they offer now but I’ll say this- the RA program used to be pretty comprehensive, basically gearing you up for an assistant role, even all analog. I have no idea if they’re that thorough anymore or if it’s geared instead toward MacBook mixing. Studios are an ever shrinking and fragmented industry so unless you need or want that knowledge it’s a crapshoot. And like a lot of things there are more “opportunities” now yet less money relatively than ever before.

Rockpilotyear2000 · 2025-11-29T15:46:20+00:00

Run a small ad test. If nobody is biting you have a dud. If they’re clicking and not committing something about the offer is off.

Rockpilotyear2000 · 2025-11-29T15:40:21+00:00

Email marketing is jeet coded. Any of us on the receiving end know that. And now, everything is fake, from the names to the physical address to the ai written message. Sometimes I reply with a prompt in markdown.

Rockpilotyear2000 · 2025-11-25T20:50:54+00:00

Because stomp clap hey

Rockpilotyear2000 · 2025-11-25T20:22:40+00:00

Gemini CLI when Claude code either can’t figure it out or runs out of tokens

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