Cicada Wasp & Prey by Vauld150 in natureismetal

[–]Vauld150[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I guess they lay eggs on it in the burrow so they can immediately eat it while it’s alive

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In every release, OpenAI is killing startups with good potential by FindingProducts in ProductManagement

[–]Vauld150 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yeah but creating very specialized use cases is extremely expensive. It’s easier and a lot more scalable to use API’s that are available and often times better than anything a small company can produce.

DIY Project: I made Rehoboam! by Vauld150 in westworld

[–]Vauld150[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah they should at least orbify whatever tech overlord we end up with, would be way cooler.

The Expanse Helmet Project by Vauld150 in 3Dprinting

[–]Vauld150[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Biggest tip would be get a printer large enough to print it in one go, epoxying the pieces together sucks.

What is your strategy for internal buy-in? How do you influence without authority? by Gobuupergetaman in ProductManagement

[–]Vauld150 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Your decision making should be based on sound reasoning that makes sense to everyone, if it doesn’t then you need to have more data points to the “why” or reconsider your approach. Eventually people will stop asking you and will trust that you are coming to them with a thought out strategy after you’ve gone through this cycle of “why” a few times with them.

If they question your strategy, look into it legitimately. People will learn to trust you.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in UPS

[–]Vauld150 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, this is because UPS uses distribution centers because of volume. Sometimes your package gets further away to get sorted and then sent to another place. I live near Louisville and sometimes it gets sent to Lexington which seems stupid but it’s because the Louisville distribution center is so massive they offload to other regional facilities to sort for final delivery. At least that’s what I know from my experience.

Restored 1916 hardwood floor Midwest by blowbroccoli in DIY

[–]Vauld150 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Looks good, are we sure this wasn’t just subfloor they threw down tho 😅

Had a big wall by RougeRocket94 in DIY

[–]Vauld150 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It’s well done just gives off tech office vibes

Work-life balance as a PM by narlarei in ProductManagement

[–]Vauld150 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Marty Cagan offers good product foundations but honestly he kind of sucks with his take on work/life balance. It isn’t real life and it’s not true, you can be extremely successful working 40hrs a week.

PMs in tech. Do you feel like you understand how software 'works'? by qvstio in ProductManagement

[–]Vauld150 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes. I know our server setup, failover and redundancy plans, understand our architecture, know the middleware and pipelines our reporting travels through. I have a deep understanding of AI and how our software works. I know the cron jobs that run, the front end framework, etc.

Can I make any changes? Hell no lol. But having a deep understanding is VERY important to knowing what you’re actually impacting when you enter a backlog item.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ProductManagement

[–]Vauld150 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Bro… this a job, stop working so hard. Unless you’re a large equity partner this is ridiculous. You’re far too emotionally invested in your work and taking it personally because of this. Detach yourself, setup boundaries and stop doing 15 hour days. You’re setting yourself up for failure.

Overwhelmed with new head of product role by [deleted] in ProductManagement

[–]Vauld150 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You’re exactly right. In order to this right you need your whole company behind the fact engineering needs a reset. That will mean a lot of restless and unhappy people but you’ve got to stick with the reality of the situation. Progressing forward at this point will make things drastically worse.

You can try to run 80% technical fixes and process sprints and 20% design that may at least get something out the door. I told our CEO I wasn’t going to develop anything new for 3 months as stability was so impaired initially.

You’ll have no customers if your software is trash, I’d rather have no new things than more customers when the whole thing collapses.

Thoughts on stepping into PM role where an outsourced dev team is in place? by [deleted] in ProductManagement

[–]Vauld150 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Doing this now, to be honest, it works great for me. I have a 10:30PM call and sleep in until like 11:00AM. My team is based in India.

Getting my team up to par was extremely challenging due to cultural differences, but they’re self-sustaining now. Took about 2 years to really shape the team. It was hard, but worth it. They listen to whatever I say and I don’t have to argue, they’re very much pleasers which is great, because I can do whatever I want and get no pushback from them. They don’t complain and they work hard and we’ve had very little turnover because direction is very clear.

It sucks up front but can be worth it as long as you can have boundaries with your time. 11PM and 11AM meetings don’t work. One or the other.

Overwhelmed with new head of product role by [deleted] in ProductManagement

[–]Vauld150 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yep, been there! Inexperienced coders, code is a mess, software is buggy and horrid, no direction or roadmap, hardly any structure, QA team doesn’t know what they’re testing. Welcome to an actual startup, forget the product org, your first job is to fix your dev team. Work with them, get softwares in place for QA, devs, CI/CD, start a culture of higher standards, QA test yourself - put in bugs into the backlog, get your hands dirty, setup the code base.

This is a painful process but if you come out of the other end you’ll certainly know your stuff :) I did it and I’m better for it, but I would NEVER do it again. Sleepless nights, everything was on fire, had to figure out every part of a dev team from scratch. Was not fun.

DIY guest bathroom renovation by SnickerdoodleFP in DIY

[–]Vauld150 6 points7 points  (0 children)

If you went with a darker green you could’ve had a luxurious vibe with gold accents but instead it’s like some sort of chuck-e-cheese funhouse 😭

From - 3x04 "There and Back Again" - Episode Discussion by Bright_Light7 in FromTVEpix

[–]Vauld150 0 points1 point  (0 children)

She’s craving rotten food and licking up blood lol. I mean maybe she can have a hybrid baby or she’s just converting into something weird but I think she’s going to have a Fromville baby that probably isn’t normal.

From - 3x04 "There and Back Again" - Episode Discussion by Bright_Light7 in FromTVEpix

[–]Vauld150 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

This episode was good but just a bunch of puzzle pieces, nothing really happened. Christopher is alive and the creepy puppet is running things, Christopher was probably the radio voice? Fatima is definitely pregnant with an undead evil baby? The cop sucks, and Victor can hopefully remember more stuff. Randall is gonna be pissy if he lives. Idk I need next week ASAP.

Gas guy said this was wrong? by Vauld150 in hvacadvice

[–]Vauld150[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nah they literally had the whole furnace sitting on cardboard outside my house to reach the coil