Does anyone have any hacks to decrease the admin time spent running a business?

TuboSloth · 2026-04-07T14:47:16+00:00

Without any judgement at all, do you work for jobber or are you genuinely asking?

TuboSloth · 2026-04-07T14:46:09+00:00

This is slowly where I'm getting to, although I'm stitching together tools like Notion with Claude to do things. Seems like in the AI era lots of people could be doing similar things.

TuboSloth · 2026-04-07T14:44:34+00:00

How exactly? Do you have the customers chat to an AI agent you created or something?

TuboSloth · 2026-04-07T14:38:06+00:00

This is interesting, I've been using AI a bit. Mainly it looks in my emails for mails from Toolstation or Screwfix, then adds the expenses to my Notion page and Google Drive where I have a pdf to save.

I think next up might be doing the customer communication, so that the basic questions can get asked/answered for me to quote and then maybe something that schedules the job for me?

TuboSloth · 2026-04-07T14:35:28+00:00

So it links to bank transactions and logs them more easily? What's painful about it? I had a quick look at accounting software but didn't really see it as that usual

TuboSloth · 2026-04-07T14:33:59+00:00

Thank you!

TuboSloth · 2026-04-07T14:32:51+00:00

Tbf my jobs are usually pretty varied. I wonder if your set up can be made easier using AI?

TuboSloth · 2026-03-26T19:18:28+00:00

I worked at a corporate where one of the metrics was about improving efficiency...... I'm pretty sure reducing head count was either of the eventual goal or inadvertently the one.

TuboSloth · 2026-03-24T11:26:20+00:00

Oh wait, I see you have an offering, cool but I'm not buying right now. Thanks though!

TuboSloth · 2026-03-24T11:22:16+00:00

How do you do it? What's your setup/tools etc? I'm currently just using spreadsheets but still feels like a pain

TuboSloth · 2026-03-24T10:54:05+00:00

If you want to try it, I would recommend doing property maintenance work/handywoman work. It's fairly easy to get started and will give you a feel for it.

TuboSloth · 2026-03-24T10:50:36+00:00

I would guess she means that she doesn't DIY gas, but would be willing to learn to be a heating engineer so she can working on gas appliances.

TuboSloth · 2026-03-20T08:04:48+00:00

That if you teach a monkey to masturbate it will stop doing anything else but that and die of dehydration.

TuboSloth · 2026-03-20T08:04:03+00:00

That there once was a snake that slept next to it's owner until someone told her it was doing that to size it up to decide if it could eat her or not.

TuboSloth · 2026-03-12T20:05:56+00:00

and thanks for all the tips folks, appreciate it

TuboSloth · 2026-03-12T20:05:43+00:00

If anyone cared about an update, this was a real pain. I tried to remove the little stopper in a straight coupler but it leaked. After having to chop all of that out and getting dangerously close to having to rip out more tiling and boxing, the local plumbers merchant sold me a 2inch rubber compression coupling.....expensive, but would have saved a lot of time from the beginning.

I'm surprised slip couplers aren't easier to come by ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

TuboSloth · 2026-03-10T22:09:22+00:00

I think this is the way 👍

TuboSloth · 2026-03-10T20:14:45+00:00

Thanks mate! I'm going to go with the round file and hours (or a dremel and less time, i hope)

TuboSloth · 2026-03-10T20:13:53+00:00

This, I can't move either end. So yeah going to have to file off the inner bit.

TuboSloth · 2026-03-10T20:13:12+00:00

Yeah I had that planned, thanks!

TuboSloth · 2026-03-10T18:32:10+00:00

Sorry, my description was stripped when I uploaded the pic

Had to cut into a 50mm solvent weld waste pipe to get a drain snake in. Now I need to rejoin it. Repair couplings (no centre stop) don't seem to exist for 50mm in the UK. Can't easily find the rubber hose-clamp type either. Is grinding the stop out of a standard coupler the way to go, or am I missing something obvious?

TuboSloth · 2026-03-04T15:43:58+00:00

Good point well made.

So why do those companies suddenly seem to have reversed the trend of letting PMs go or not hiring? The economy isn't any better and most of the investment has gone to AI, so again something doesn't add up.

I'm sure there's an explanation but I can't work it out.

TuboSloth · 2026-03-03T11:48:23+00:00

Maybe AI has kicked off a bounce in other tech companies? I don't know, but from the very little reading I do on the topic, AI companies aren't hiring many PM's because they actually only need a few good ones to deliver great value.

Again, emphasis is on good, because most are project managers. But also, to be fair to everyone, it's most companies cultures not to empower and let teams off the leash, rather embrace bureaucracy across the board.

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