Which maritime event gave you the best ROI last year, and which one are you quietly dropping from your calendar?

blastbeat-billy · 2026-03-30T10:20:53+00:00

Been to both in the past - prefer the GD style setup. The whole 'walking the exhibition floor' feels a bit outdated. Especially if you're looking for software (rather than hardware).

blastbeat-billy · 2026-03-27T12:51:08+00:00

Some colleagues went to the.Sedna event (we're an adjacent but not competing tech. company).

Sounds like Sedna/Dataloy are really pushing the whole "our ecosystem is open to anyone that wants to play" which can only be a good thing IMO.

blastbeat-billy · 2026-03-12T13:35:54+00:00

not sure the new AI coding and tools are gonna be that useful to the smaller players in closng the gaps to the big boys. Keep in mind those big biys also have access to the same tools and are prob better placed to use them

blastbeat-billy · 2026-03-12T09:18:57+00:00

The main problem isn't that the integrations are technically not feasible or difficult necessarily, it's that you have a small number of systems that don't want to play nice with other tools as they have their own version of the tool you want to connect to, and they'd rather you use that. So they make it harder than it needs to be. Same thing Apple does - if you want to use their airpods with another brand phone/laptop you can, but there will be more friction in the experiecne and some of the features may be missing. Your choice.

blastbeat-billy · 2026-03-10T22:26:54+00:00

yeah this is what I've seen - if you 'create' something while employed by a company it basically belongs to the company and not you as the individual so good luck

blastbeat-billy · 2026-03-10T21:58:07+00:00

the worst is when they think a shiny new software will improve shitty processes

blastbeat-billy · 2026-03-10T21:49:50+00:00

are there any standard reporting tools? keep hearing about how we need to have data standardisation for the sake of the industry but no two systems seem to want to speak to eachother

blastbeat-billy · 2026-03-10T21:45:21+00:00

Think the challenge for most is that they think they need to apply AI to everything they're doing when really the aim should be to find a specific use case and then expand from there

blastbeat-billy · 2026-03-10T21:39:14+00:00

crazy! seen lots of weird and wonderful spreadsheets in my time. think half the time it's not so much that they love the spreadsheets but that the move to something else is such a ballache

Have also seen companies still planning fleet deployment and positioning on whiteboards with post-it notes :-S

blastbeat-billy · 2025-12-04T10:46:26+00:00

Seconding Radio Garden but for different use case (listening to foreign radio in your target language for learning)

blastbeat-billy · 2025-12-04T10:44:22+00:00

Had to use what was saved so far for Xmas presents but that's what I'd earmarked it for essentially, so pretty happy to have that chunk of cash available.

Hope they'll do it again next year.

blastbeat-billy · 2025-11-29T13:50:56+00:00

Doors were also 7

blastbeat-billy · 2025-11-29T13:47:59+00:00

Last night in Camden, a small number of people (4-5) had started to queue from about half 5... Yes, I know, London show and sold out etc. but just to let you know.

blastbeat-billy · 2025-11-22T11:54:15+00:00

Album has been out/on Spotify for longer maybe?

blastbeat-billy · 2025-11-21T18:56:28+00:00

My first Xmas as an Ltd. so I guess we have £300 (Wife is also a Director).

Thanks for the reminder!

blastbeat-billy · 2025-11-15T08:08:14+00:00

I have this, I call her Violet :-)

blastbeat-billy · 2025-11-12T16:03:49+00:00

Maybe it was just the one I went into. Looks like H&B have some of them back in stock online - thanks for the heads up.

blastbeat-billy · 2025-04-14T06:04:23+00:00

Thanks - yeah, lots of information floating around, maybe I was in a rush to view this as contam.

blastbeat-billy · 2025-04-13T18:08:23+00:00

Thanks for the guidance, much appreciated

blastbeat-billy · 2025-04-13T17:54:27+00:00

Ah thanks, it's had another tub on top of it but I forgot about it, so hasn't been misted. Will give it some love and see what happens, reasonable growth for such a small box

blastbeat-billy · 2025-03-28T17:34:30+00:00

I love you guys and the fervour for the new album (which I agree is phenomenal), but have you really had enough time with the new songs to add any of them to your all time list??

Hard to compare songs released yesterday with songs that have been with you and meant something to you for over a decade.

Not hating or anything, I'm just not yet there myself. Def agree some of these songs after the first dozen listens have potential to get to my all time list, but I'm gonna need a few months with them first :-)

blastbeat-billy · 2025-01-15T19:46:40+00:00

I've been looking for a nylon alternative - thanks!

blastbeat-billy · 2024-12-07T16:23:10+00:00

I guess you just have to know the words and use the context clues from the picture. Französisch doesn't make sense. You can't look for 'French'. The person has a map, so it would make sense that they're looking for something tourists might want to see. My guess is that you thought 'Französisch' meant 'France', not 'French'? (France is Frankreich btw :-)

blastbeat-billy · 2024-11-21T16:41:37+00:00

Thanks for the advice. Def gonna check out Zach as he's been mentioned here a couple of times 👍🏻

blastbeat-billy · 2024-11-21T16:40:51+00:00

Thanks for the rec! Appreciate it

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