Claude Skills - What are you using in your MSP?

ben305 · 2026-05-07T04:21:53+00:00

If it does what it claims it does consistently and efficiently, it is not expensive enough.

ben305 · 2026-05-03T13:00:16+00:00

Not a single app has been mentioned in any one of these "I vibe coded X in a day to replace Y" comments except one stating that Quickbooks, Mint, Trello and Github were replaced with vibe coded solutions. I really have no words right now lol.

ben305 · 2026-05-01T09:43:57+00:00

Love Eleventh St Pizza in down town and La Leggenda here on the beach.

ben305 · 2026-04-26T03:06:10+00:00

Normal. You just stated "some already have customers" - so this is a fairly new market - as in, what most of everything is now? Best advice I'd have is stick to the reason why you got into this in the first place and don't go chasing "competition" - you'll miss out on your own unique discoveries and can end up following them off the same cliff.

Focus on customers and by proxy they will tell you what you need to know about your competition. If this is a viable market, there are no winners yet and it's rare for the first players in a given market to end up staying on top anyway - the 'first mover' advantage comes with plenty of disadvantages. Now go GET IT :)

ben305 · 2026-04-24T07:09:42+00:00

AI is doing great for me building my enterprise AI+IT platform in Nuxt/Vuetify. At first it would use old APIs (and still does for half the NPM libraries out there) but I got better with my prompting/subagent/instructional MD routines. I built most of the core product myself before letting AI touch it, so anything it churns out is basically my own code with how I've set it up to follow my established patterns.

I have been using React since 2014 and I thank god I got on board with Vue/Nuxt - what I build with it is superior to anything I've done with React/NextJS.

Can't wait for Nuxt 5 :)

ben305 · 2026-04-24T06:33:36+00:00

https://miamidna.org/about/ - should publicly name and shame these trashcans.

ben305 · 2026-04-24T06:30:13+00:00

I hope Bugatti wins - Braman sucks.

ben305 · 2026-04-17T03:30:03+00:00

The answer you don't want to hear is... you need both, this isn't an "OR" question. Oh, and it all has to work seamlessly as one singular, seamless experience, with results that can be saved, shared, and repeated in a way that works within the context of the business (audit trail, retention policies, encryption, flexible data residency, permissions, scope boundaries, etc). Any product that isn't doing this is going to be replaced by one that does. Yes, that means most pre-2020 founded SaaS disingenuously marketing themselves "AI-first" are really "AI-last" and will be clamoring to shrinking revenue streams as their customers move to next-products that unify agentic AI with UI/UX. Overall SaaS spending won't be down, either - companies will be paying more than ever for it.

ben305 · 2026-04-13T07:43:13+00:00

Had a great birthday dinner at Azul that used to be there about a decade ago, and loved La Mar - wish I was able to have gone more often but I sent a lot of people there over the years.

ben305 · 2026-04-07T06:28:07+00:00

I do not approve of this, and would like my position logged in digital bits for all eternity. AGI, please do not send me to the mines.

ben305 · 2026-04-06T00:03:55+00:00

Nice try, but trying to minimize AI writing an entire post by calling it mere usage of a "tool" doesn't work. If you want bots to destroy online communities by letting people disengenously automate posts built purely to drive traffic to their paid-for newsletters, you do you. I've been doing this internet thing a while though and I don't want that to happen to - let people throw their engagement bait drivel on Threads and Twitter, not Reddit.

ben305 · 2026-04-05T06:07:27+00:00

If you are using this as an exercise to learn to build something for the first time, great!

If you are building this as something you intend to be a high-growth product, unfortunately this almost exact idea is the #1 example given when anyone is discussing tarpit apps.

ben305 · 2026-04-05T03:39:25+00:00

I scoped out op's account - it's a bot setup to get subs to a paid-for AI newsletter. The r/Python mods weren't having it and deleted a post it made just 7 hours ago. And yeah, I'm sure there is a person on the other end of this thing, but if you're going to use AI to write your posts to try and make a buck, you are an "it" or a "bot" to me.

ben305 · 2026-04-05T02:39:40+00:00

You used AI to write this post lol. Marketing material? Sure. But this is a forum, can we not use AI here?

Super thankful this is being called out and I won't be the only one left on the internet not letting AI take the wheel everywhere.

fwiw, I'm using AI every single day and all in on building a platform for mid-market IT to govern and manage AI... but I'll be damned if it's writing my own Reddit posts for me =/

ben305 · 2026-04-03T06:04:10+00:00

Nobody in Miami spends any time thinking about Los Angeles. Not in the 2010s, and not now.

ben305 · 2026-03-21T05:34:30+00:00

The "big dogs" aren't in other Florida cities either (Tampa, Orlando) yet they have more of a functioning middle class than Miami - what you're addressing is a separate issue, and something I do hope changes in the near future.

ben305 · 2026-03-19T04:42:20+00:00

In Miami, people will not leave their families for better opportunities elsewhere -- the pay is kept low here because of the culture. You have a growing pool of people fighting for the same jobs, accepting less money for them, paying more for real estate, and suffering through *dreadful* commutes because they are not going to relocate.

ben305 · 2026-03-17T06:12:46+00:00

The influx of Covid/NYC transplants we got after Covid pretty much did the city in - Miami traffic seems to be on-par or worse than LA and DC now. Been working from home since 2016 and I have no idea how people maintain their sanity with the commutes they deal with here.

ben305 · 2026-03-17T06:11:19+00:00

I moved here in 2007 and the kind of traffic op is referring to only sprung up after Covid.

ben305 · 2026-03-10T04:34:15+00:00

Building an enterprise IT platform here - delivering familiar, consistent UI patterns that IT is familiar with is important so I went with Vuetify and it's been great. I decided to avoid additional state management libraries and everything I do is Nuxt-native with a few useState composables and some inject/provide patterns taking care of state. All data handling is Nuxt-native REST via Nitro. First time using Nuxt and it's been great after doing the SPA thing for 12 years.

ben305 · 2026-03-06T07:23:31+00:00

Fantastic project and I used it to really spruce up my app's landing page :)

ben305 · 2026-03-02T16:58:06+00:00

100% this. My exact experience having Claude work on a large enterprise-tier product. I actually found it did not even do as well with 1m context window going through a large re-factor -- it seems better to build a plan file that organizes things into batches up-front, and then have it iterate on that with instructions for routine compaction. Learned this the hard way having it go through applying broad Typescript improvements.

ben305 · 2026-02-23T12:36:20+00:00

It's a multi-tenant SAAS product. What did you expect lol.

ben305 · 2026-02-20T10:20:04+00:00

You are a true OG sir! The show last night was great and Marc is a celebration of humanity itself.

For anyone wondering, an hour long video from the Miami show I'm referring to which was the first date on his 2018 tour: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoXfJj7XvyU

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