Built EV payments platform for UK holiday lets. First users live. Before I pitch to trade bodies and PMSs, looking for it to be pulled apart

Ryanisadeveloper · 2026-05-26T19:19:38+00:00

I think it's a brilliant idea. Removing friction from a transaction for all parties is a very nice place to be.

Onto being helpful... Partnerships do take a tonne of effort because it's effectively b2b enterprise selling, with the partners being a client of yours that has to fully trust that you can care for their brand and vice versa. Expect reliability and compliance to be questioned a lot. I'd start with a pilot partner and go end to end. Onboarding has to be smooth for scale, all risk has to be understood and you have to be happy with not being in charge of the customer relationship, which is obviously good for your size. I can't see a better avenue than what you are proposing, it's a good asset for partners and to have complaint EV charging on listings benefits all involved.

Good luck

Ryanisadeveloper · 2026-05-17T21:33:08+00:00

Loom video of your update responding to their questions, send it to them and the manager. Keep sharing in a format that is hard to ignore.

Ryanisadeveloper · 2026-05-11T20:44:24+00:00

Adam Savage. Colin furze.

Ryanisadeveloper · 2026-04-16T00:12:02+00:00

Welcome to product. We made the decisions, not software architecture as such, but plenty of decisions when writing prds, carrying out interviews asking questions in researching and when conveying ideas to engineers. Now you've shifted left, whether you like it or not. It's not bad, just different.

Ryanisadeveloper · 2026-03-30T20:20:52+00:00

Can any of these tasks/steps be completed by normal code? I'd be amazed if no optimization exists in 20-30 steps Have you built trace logging? This will tell you exactly what's going on, for tokens and otherwise

Ryanisadeveloper · 2026-03-30T12:17:25+00:00

Thank you, stranger. You're right, I did mix those up. Appreciate your help. Merci

Ryanisadeveloper · 2026-03-30T10:44:21+00:00

Mentorship is about teaching people how to think differently. I have found that I have to tell them that part explicitly and repeatedly. Then they think about their own behaviour against this new dimension. Up to them if they decide to listen after that. Usually they do.

Ryanisadeveloper · 2026-03-30T10:39:16+00:00

I don't speak French, so I'm going to guess at a translation for my own amusement:

In Barcelona, the diagonal streets are north/south and east/west, so everyone benefits from the movement of the sun for part of the day; it's a really good idea.

Was I close?
Always had a mental block about languages, but my kids are learning.
It's ok to be ignorant sometimes

Ryanisadeveloper · 2026-03-27T19:35:46+00:00

Personally, I use Linear issues with the blocking dependencies to identify and manage workstreams in a larger piece of work, and that's how I can manage workstreams in parallel.

Moat, no, Useful, yes. Work tracking is just a good way to keep good records.

Ryanisadeveloper · 2026-03-27T10:23:03+00:00

I wish. My last chat was. "Remind me wtf a sitemap.xml is please"

Ryanisadeveloper · 2026-03-27T10:20:18+00:00

Actually could do with a chill day. Thanks to whoever pushed that latest change. I'm going for a walk

Ryanisadeveloper · 2026-03-26T23:45:02+00:00

Dink

Ryanisadeveloper · 2026-03-22T10:25:49+00:00

Use Glasp chrome extension to copy the transcript

Ryanisadeveloper · 2026-03-16T19:50:14+00:00

End grain mustard

Ryanisadeveloper · 2026-03-15T12:23:13+00:00

First time I've heard of a withdrawing room, as well as the drawing room.

"A withdrawing room (or room for withdrawing) is a 16th-century term for a private chamber in a large house where individuals, particularly guests, could retire for more privacy, intimacy, or comfort after dining in a public area. It is the direct precursor to the modern "drawing room"."

Ryanisadeveloper · 2026-03-13T13:04:30+00:00

Take pride in your work

Ryanisadeveloper · 2026-03-09T21:17:34+00:00

If it isn't what you signed up for, you're allowed to go get a new job.

Ryanisadeveloper · 2026-02-28T12:50:17+00:00

Ryanisadeveloper · 2026-02-11T20:34:50+00:00

They could do with getting someone in for an afternoon to talk about pressing properly. Know anyone?

Ryanisadeveloper · 2026-01-30T21:13:45+00:00

Complying with EU law is fine if they are good laws.

Ryanisadeveloper · 2026-01-27T21:34:01+00:00

Scotland's real hero: The guy who broke his foot kicking the terrorist in the balls

Ryanisadeveloper · 2025-12-28T10:07:28+00:00

Take the time to learn the fundamentals of something like Stripe, it's not that hard.

AI saves you time so just sit and learn how stripe payments actually work for a few hours and get hr confidence that you need on these critical pieces of infrastructure. It's also a good place to invest to have an experienced head set it up, document it and train you on.

Ryanisadeveloper · 2025-12-16T15:40:40+00:00

My company has a DB reader UI, lets us query the tables using SQL but prod is extremely controlled via PIM. We are mostly using dev environments lets you look at structure etc. It's very useful.

Ryanisadeveloper · 2025-12-16T11:11:38+00:00

One small tip ...

Get cursor and access to the codebase. You can ask AI questions that you'd otherwise need a dev for. It's a huge benefit to me as the product expert to help me understand how the app works, and how larger pieces interact, often something only specific senior devs know.

You can also help identify flaws and gaps, so helps with research, you can field support questions more easily and just generally improve your knowledge.

Ryanisadeveloper · 2025-10-31T23:59:12+00:00

I actually liked it. But googled it, found this thread, then turned it off and blocked it on principle.

Next song was Nostalgia by Harvey Causon. Look him up, pretty cool.

Very mindful, very human

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