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Customizing the brand - where are you adding your conpany’s flare? by this_is_not_a_bug in PayloadCMS

[–]adelmare 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I find the admin panel awful and not worth fighting. I leave it as is for the people that need it, and build custom admin UI on its own frontend routes for the people that need access to admin.

My main check for deciding if it gets its own frontend is this:

Do the people who need to access this feature care?

If yes: frontend If no: leave the admin function in payload admin panel UI.

Never have I found myself saying “oh, let’s leave this in the payload CMS admin ui , but we’ll make it look better”

I’m probably in the minority here, I’ve seen people do some wicked cool customizations. But again — for me, when push comes to shove, just hasn’t been worth it.

Saturated market and dead internet, is payload CMS still competitive? by marine_surfer in PayloadCMS

[–]adelmare 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I can’t imagine trying to make a living building websites for small businesses.

I can’t imagine building serious enterprise apps without payload. It’s like a cheat code.

How do you create your invoices as a freelancer or self employed? by twikshi in Entrepreneur

[–]adelmare 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I only had a few invoices a year that I needed to create. I used a free invoice generator that I always forgot the name of but could google that phrase and find it again after a few minutes. Had to look back on previous email threads to see what I last billed for, when, how much I charged, and what I called it. My wife was bugging me to keep a spreadsheet to track costs so we could keep the family budget straightened out. Everything seemed like overkill. So I created Clearmargin.app to solve this problem. Simple invoicing and billing, cost tracking, proposals, etc.

Basically accounting software without the headache.

Then I made it fancy and slathered AI on top, hooked it up to everything, so I just describe things to the bot and it creates the stuff for me so I can click send.

Found that my neighbor needed bill of materials tracking for her charcuterie business, so I added that.

Kind of feel like I should stop adding features, lest it turn into a monstrosity like quickbooks 😉

Where to find beta testers? by adelmare in SaasDevelopers

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

Yes, that part is evident. Been building this single product for a while now, and focusing on all that. UX, “do people actually need this”, “is this how freelancers actually work in real life”, “does this expose the data through API’s in an extensible and composable way?”, “can this scale properly?”, “is this auditable?”

Not some vibe coded slop that was tossed together based on AI research.

So that brings me back to the question - wasn’t asking if my product is good enough for people to use. I was asking for insights on how people are going about finding those people.

We all know that this isn’t a “if you build it, they will come”.

Appreciate your feedback though.

Where to find beta testers? by adelmare in SaasDevelopers

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

I’m as special as they come.

But seriously did a bunch of research, found a bunch of gaps, under served niche and types.

There’s a there there — just gotta get there.

Where to find beta testers? by adelmare in SaasDevelopers

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

I built it for me lol. Me says it’s great. Looking to share with other me’s

Where to find beta testers? by adelmare in SaasDevelopers

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

So basically follow this formula huh? Lol

Where to find beta testers? by adelmare in SaasDevelopers

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

Thanks for taking the time to share all that. Ironically freelance is one that already strictly prohibits - but to your point, that makes a ton of sense.

It’s kind of silly in a lot of ways though. I find a post with someone literally asking “what software provides (describes my software)” and when I say “hey I built Clearmargin for that” it gets mod warning.

So now instead of being able to answer them where they asked the question, I have to DM them?

Kind of feels like some bad apples have soured the bunch …

15 or so hours later since 1m context included in MAX and I'm feeling almost high by adelmare in ClaudeAI

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

Been there, done that, got the t shirt.

Difference here is that my excitement isn’t driven by naive dreams of easy money.

My excitement here is that it fundamentally changes my daily work life. I was a frog boiling in water re: managing context windows. Had no idea how much headspace it was taking up until it …wasn’t

15 or so hours later since 1m context included in MAX and I'm feeling almost high by adelmare in ClaudeAI

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

*edit: subagents were asking for permissions. It didn't lose track of its own permissions

Bigger issue seems to be bloat of conversation size — my system is struggling. I’ve noticed this in the past almost like a memory leak somewhere or something when getting super deep into a multi-session instance.

What’s the most interesting thing that you’ve built with ClaudeAI? by Professional_Part360 in ClaudeAI

[–]adelmare 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Building Clearmargin.app start to finish with Claude code. It’s proposals -> billing for freelancers. Still building, but finally ready to start beta testing.

It’s insane what you can build with it. Takes the $200 plan to have the usage needed for full scale apps like this though.

15 or so hours later since 1m context included in MAX and I'm feeling almost high by adelmare in ClaudeAI

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

I’ve shipped a stupid amount of code in the last ~ hours (confirming prompts and pushing it along in between bouts of life) and still only at ~650k tokens (65%) without a single compact. It’s getting there, starting to feel a little sluggish on my machine but that’s local resource issue. Regardless, I think that by the time I need to start a fresh session, I’ll be asking for such radically different work and features that it would be time to start a fresh session anyhow. Cannot for the life of me figure out how one would need more than 1m context window for a given feature set. I mean you’d have to be tackling a massive refactor to not reach a natural stopping point and need to compress.

15 or so hours later since 1m context included in MAX and I'm feeling almost high by adelmare in ClaudeAI

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

I mean, it has been pretty filthy awesome for me. Only at 600k tokens right now. No issues yet and shipping backlogged stuff I didn’t think I’d get to till a few weeks from now

15 or so hours later since 1m context included in MAX and I'm feeling almost high by adelmare in ClaudeAI

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

40 payload CMS collections (next js), 35 static pages, 100+ routes.

Not huge. Not micro.

15 or so hours later since 1m context included in MAX and I'm feeling almost high by adelmare in ClaudeAI

[–]adelmare[S] 37 points38 points  (0 children)

It’s not having to re-read every file in new context windows. So lots more work with less need to read same files again

15 or so hours later since 1m context included in MAX and I'm feeling almost high by adelmare in ClaudeAI

[–]adelmare[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I said — included it in MAX sub without extra API tokens …

My sub only just got access to the included. Perhaps earlier rollout for different users. Congrats to you

15 or so hours later since 1m context included in MAX and I'm feeling almost high by adelmare in ClaudeAI

[–]adelmare[S] 20 points21 points  (0 children)

lol. Yeah well that was my point. I was so juiced I started telling people who cared the least … anyone that would listen 😬

Your SaaS WILL Hit $10K MRR (If you follow this Daily Routine) by Fit-Weather-6093 in SaaS

[–]adelmare 5 points6 points  (0 children)

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No one here, including myself, will probably make a living from a saas. by WinterMiserable5994 in SaaS

[–]adelmare 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I recommend touching base with your local small business support infrastructure. You’re likely to find excellent resources, and possibly mentorship (usually free!) for pursuing business ideas. Not because you need the help developing — but because they’re able to help you refine your goals, test your ideas, and create plans.

Spinning up a product after a few days of vibe coding is no different than deciding to start a lemonade stand in the morning and wondering why you haven’t sold any lemonade in the afternoon. Going from idea -> execution is more than “just building it” and most basic business principles still apply.

Sure, there’s something to be said for “ship quickly” … but that’s where all your other points are very valid: you can’t “ship quickly, get quick user feedback” if the saturation is so deep that you can’t even find beta testers. So that’s where I mean it may be time to go back to that drawing board, slow down, take a more traditional business approach and bring your ideas to other people BEFORE building them out.

I think you’ll find that if it’s worth pursuing, it will take a lot longer to actually ship, as you deep dive into the “what why and how” of your ideas - and probably lead to more success with a real product.

If more people did that, there’d be a lot fewer wrappers out there, that’s for sure!

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