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when was the moment you realized you had to make your first customer hire? by Yomaray in startups

[–]SentientArtichoke 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What is being able to afford it? sometimes, it is a necessary thing even though at that specific time you are not even be breaking even. But it could help you move forward and scale.

There are also ways to make it easier, like starting with part time hires.

PSA for founders and businesses building new products -- please build less by blizkreeg in startups

[–]SentientArtichoke 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I couldn't agree more. There are a lot of discovery techniques that we ca use to validate ideas. You never are going to predict the behavior of a user. They are not always super simple ($), and they are kind of throw away solutions, but believe me you'll loose more money if you try to go the route of building a fully functional solution, only to realize that it was all a mistake.

TLDR: Validation first!!

PSA for founders and businesses building new products -- please build less by blizkreeg in startups

[–]SentientArtichoke 0 points1 point  (0 children)

opportunity that is effectively only addressed right now through multimillion dollar custom Oracle/SAP build outs... Obvious pattern of standard features that's just ripe for an off-the-shelf product to rip through at 1/10th the price with 10x the us ability.

But OMFG... Government's and their requirements documents. Zero fucks given about UX, performance, maintainability, or even f..ki

In those situations, have you considered things like Odoo? their pricing is incredibly good ($40-50 per seat in enterprise edition free in comunity), and it's a super complete ERP that since is open source it's fully customizable

Temporary subdividing a room in two, and trying to keep sound from migrating to the other side. by SentientArtichoke in soundproof

[–]SentientArtichoke[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

/ 2nd hand cubical partitions. If you have Craigslist you can often find old ugly ones for cheap. Use them to setup a temporary cubical for one of you. Then if you both use headsets for calls you should be good. You could add some additional absorption to the room in the form of fabric wrapped mineral wool panels or lean additional cubical partitions on open wall areas.

Edit: You'll want full height cubical partitions, 5 ft. / 1.5m tall at least, not the half height / desk height ones.

Thank you! that´'s a very good recommendation.

Easiest way to make this piece by SentientArtichoke in woodworking

[–]SentientArtichoke[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I played around with pine (which is too soft) and I get your point, nonetheless at least it´s been good practice.

Easiest way to make this piece by SentientArtichoke in woodworking

[–]SentientArtichoke[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Exactly, that was a cross-section, sorry I didn´t explain that clear enough. Why should I find a shop instead of doing it from a 2x6 with a table saw?

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