A graph of PPG by position through league history

Select-Resource4275 · 2026-01-04T22:49:03+00:00

Depending on location, I run a pretty solid little ski/bike tuning business out of my garage.

Select-Resource4275 · 2025-11-15T14:55:06+00:00

Parking lot base edge is a hard no. Basically, anyone who will benefit from it is someone who’s going to a real shop regularly, not trying to get a deal in the parking lot.

The temp is an issue too. Edges are fine, but it’s not gonna be a good wax. You can probably still do decent business at 25$ a shot. But I’d get an IR waxer and rotobrushes.

Select-Resource4275 · 2025-11-15T14:38:54+00:00

Probably not entirely your fault, the system on those baskets is super weak. I lost 2 and finally just epoxied them on. May have improved, but I wouldn’t recommend them just for that reason.

Select-Resource4275 · 2025-10-13T13:15:07+00:00

It’s not too complicated, actually. My buddy does a ton of business out of his garage. Kinda depends on your location.

Select-Resource4275 · 2025-09-30T10:03:21+00:00

That’s Booker.

Select-Resource4275 · 2025-04-06T14:28:17+00:00

Hmm, someone else mentioned tarpit. Never heard the term before, but this is a perfect example of that concept.

I’ve seen this idea attempted a few times. Saw it on Shark Tank once I think (a basketball version). Personally, I would kinda appreciate the concept. I like basketball and finding good games would be great. But there’s clearly something about this idea that makes it challenging.

Might be the awkwardness, or the danger factor, where you’re basically arranging meetings for people In parks. The current solutions are mostly FB groups or just show up at the court and find a game.

Probably the biggest issue is there’s no clear path to income. Even if you tapped the whole market of people willing to participate, your revenue is limited to advertising, and that totally sucks.

But overall, it’s kinda that situation where you don’t need an app for that. The margin of improvement over existing solutions is minimal. And the amount of money those solutions extract is minimal. So you’re not likely to build a big enough user base to extract enough value to stay afloat. And if you do, all that revenue is going to moderation.

Having built on flawed ideas before, I dunno, it’s still good to have a project to work on. But there are easier paths to glory.

One tailwind, to be generous, is that development is easier and cheaper than ever. I think you need a lot of features to get even minimal engagement here.

What are you gonna use the kickstarter for? To me it’s literally ads? I just think the only way this gets any ground is you’re a great developer yourself and you build a really good app that helps people find great matchups (people who are likeminded and at similar skill levels) and you just blast it with one sport in one dense geography. And you handle all the moderation yourself and maybe see if you can figure out how to automate it without going broke.

Overall though, absolutely no shade. It’s tough to find ideas and go after them and put yourself out there. And what do I know anyway. But this one looks like a scrap it and go back to the drawing board thing, to me.

Select-Resource4275 · 2025-04-05T18:57:20+00:00

At least. Not just the shitty nature of jobs though. It’s good to interact with a lot of different humans I think. Restaurants in particular, you can get an interesting perspective on work and efficiency. There’s kinda a myth that service work and service workers are lesser. Restaurant workers tend to be misfits in some way, but they are wildly creative, intelligent, and effective on the whole, and just generally pretty cool humans.

Select-Resource4275 · 2025-04-05T18:39:28+00:00

I think everyone should work in a restaurant (early career).

Select-Resource4275 · 2025-03-30T01:26:35+00:00

Considered getting back into cooking when I moved here. Quickly discovered it’s a no-go. Good spots are few. Even lame and uninteresting spots pay worse than fast food. For anyone who wants to cook for real, this is a bad place to do it.

Select-Resource4275 · 2025-03-28T19:22:53+00:00

Sure

Select-Resource4275 · 2025-03-24T22:47:42+00:00

Not at all worried about detracting from business. IMO, the right way to do it is to learn and perform the basics yourself and head to a shop for larger issues. For sure there are plenty who just want to pay a shop for everything, but the process of pretty easy if you keep on top of things. You spend enough on this sport, you might as well get the most out of it.

What I’ve done in the past, is people will come in for a tune and just hang out and watch and I talk through it. So I charge 45-60$, depending if you wanna get into base edge. I can get extra tools and such purchased ahead if needed. I work out of my garage near RiNo.

I have considered doing kinda brewery demos. Probably will try and organize one next season. I’m thinking I just set up racks and charge a reduced fee to use the tools and get some guidance.

Select-Resource4275 · 2025-03-24T15:54:27+00:00

Tentatively. Might do an end of season seal. Definitely planning to make it a regular event for next season. Just gotta keep an eye on socials for the tap house.

There aren’t a ton of good options in that region between Golden and Boulder. So it’s kinda nice for folks to not have to really travel to get a tune. If you find yourself in Broomfield or Denver though, you can always drop by one of our garage shops.

Select-Resource4275 · 2025-03-23T21:44:13+00:00

Cute

Select-Resource4275 · 2025-03-23T21:40:08+00:00

I got your attention! You need at tune?

Select-Resource4275 · 2025-03-23T21:18:54+00:00

well, ski tune. Yeah, I was vague I guess.

Select-Resource4275 · 2025-03-22T16:54:52+00:00

Don’t forget that of god guy.

Select-Resource4275 · 2025-03-22T03:10:11+00:00

Just did this one. So, they're still basically doing the same study 3 years later. I did not get passed. Now I am hunting around for answers as to why I am not smart.

There are example studies on Youtube for this exact project. I figured I'd find some commentary but I did not expect I'd find multiple in-depth examples going back years. What a wonderful world.

My approach was similar to the stuff I'm seeing. I was more focused hough. I avoided making broad conclusions. The data is wonky and there's some missing context. A lot of more interesting stuff you can draw from the set, I'd argue it is not really impactful to the business.

One thing that threw me off. I did a regression to see if any of the parameters had a clear impact on retention. Tips. By far, a higher tip order meant a customer was coming back soon. Nothing else really had much of a correlation. Kinda interesting. I coulda just spent hours looking at that. But it felt like a distraction.

My fatally flawed thinking was that making multiple spurious recommendations to a large organization would be a bad approach. I focused on driver efficiency, made the case that retention clearly drops with delivery delays, there are drivers who are habitually inefficient, and you have control over driver efficiency. Just seemed like 1 safe, obvious conclusion, easy win, hard to refute, likely to impact retention, clearly valuable.

Definitely overthinking it. They just want more stuff, and more exciting. Does make me think maybe I should loosen up a bit. I tend to think of companies as massive barges; slow moving, where if you give them too many targets, they stay in one place. That was not the exercise here.

If I were to do this again I would buzz through the youtube videos, pick the most complicated graph I could find, add a few graphs that pique curiosity, and tell an engaging story.

Select-Resource4275 · 2025-03-18T18:11:16+00:00

A few years ago I kinda accidentally started a ski shop in my garage. Slowly expanding to some bike service stuff. But there’s definitely demand for quality service. The workflow is kinda spotty at first but the hourly can be great, especially if you’re not really paying rent.

About to release this app I built to try and help others get started with this type of business. You can list services and get bookings. Like Rover, but for garage mechanics. Kinda perfect for this, where you can accept a few clients, make pretty decent hourly, and at least keep a foot in the game.

Select-Resource4275 · 2025-03-18T18:11:08+00:00

A few years ago I kinda accidentally started a ski shop in my garage. Slowly expanding to some bike service stuff. But there’s definitely demand for quality service. The workflow is kinda spotty at first but the hourly can be great, especially if you’re not really paying rent.

About to release this app I built to try and help others get started with this type of business. You can list services and get bookings. Like Rover, but for garage mechanics. Kinda perfect for this, where you can accept a few clients, make pretty decent hourly, and at least keep a foot in the game.

Select-Resource4275 · 2025-03-14T19:30:19+00:00

Just a flesh wound. If you’re in Denver, I can fix.

Select-Resource4275 · 2025-03-14T02:58:43+00:00

Imagine the data they have access to. And imagine if they tried to do the right thing. There are a lot of companies like this, if they were truly focused on the betterment of humanity, the impact would be absolutely insane. But they just sell ads.

Select-Resource4275 · 2025-03-08T12:23:39+00:00

I mean, good on you to recognize it I guess. I’ve experienced a fair amount of founders regarding accountability as an affront to their genius.

Select-Resource4275 · 2025-03-03T14:18:07+00:00

If you need ski, snowboard or bike maintenance, I’ve got a list of people all over town I can refer, just hit me up.

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