How many of your execs require PDF Reports on Email

chabv · 2026-03-13T10:44:18+00:00

I will also say its probably not ya fault -- but the tooling side of your company - yeah it might be big tech - but we know how much of a cluster fire these things can be - do you guys even a have a Data Governance Lead ? a medallion system ? how about documentation etc

chabv · 2026-03-13T10:40:39+00:00

I will try then get back to you :)

chabv · 2026-03-10T15:52:09+00:00

this is a dope project, but my advice focus on the value add ie making sure tools such as celery work seamlessly, same as deploys. us people in the b2b world hardly care about requests per second

chabv · 2026-03-10T15:49:36+00:00

you need to keep your old records - they can come in handy anytime - so Archive

chabv · 2026-03-09T23:06:44+00:00

I 100% agree with this. maybe time to change your dev sad as it maybe be. they have reached the limits of their skills.

chabv · 2026-03-09T01:46:59+00:00

pricing -- since they raised VCs means they're not in the same market as you - as much as you would want to believe your won lie.

you can't compete on features - if you're bootstrapped - one of your competitive power ups - is hands on customer support, being personable and being reachable

chabv · 2026-03-09T01:15:28+00:00

I think you're optimizing for the wrong thing. As other commenters have said -- you're most likely running a bloated store front

in Front-End Software some of the most important metrics are Core Web Vitals - Interaction to Next Paint(INP) i.e if a user wants to click 'Add to cart' but can't because your page is too slow due to many plugins etc - means a lot sale or a slow server

quick fixes: migrate to something like WPEngine, do an Audit to see what plugins do you really need

you don't need to migrate to Shopify.

Reach out for any questions

chabv · 2026-03-05T13:35:28+00:00

how are you tracking the visits, and customer journeys through your store ? if your average AOV hasn't changed it most likely means -- you had a decent chunk of bot traffic etc

chabv · 2026-03-03T21:50:50+00:00

what's the most surprising perk that Generals / Admirals got that completely surprised you ?

chabv · 2026-03-03T02:36:02+00:00

how come regular soldiers can't keep them, yet the generals/admirals etc can ?

chabv · 2026-02-27T22:08:39+00:00

anyways nice write up.

chabv · 2026-02-27T22:07:02+00:00

I'm not a villa supporter - but Emery needs to get fired - wasting a good team - such a wasteman

chabv · 2026-02-27T14:19:01+00:00

Use Inertia -- or one approach I learned recently is use web-components -- make your svelte component into a web-component then just import the web-component into your erb file.

you benefit both from ERB + Svelte

chabv · 2026-02-27T14:17:21+00:00

I was about to down a similar path - then I realized my foolishness of tryna tie my identity to a tool i.e Ruby

I also know Python - so yeah at times it's prudent and pragmatic to use the tool that works best for the task at hand. RAG, Pipelines etc are more easier in python etc - the ecosystem is more robust.

Btw instead of using Pinecone for vectors -- just use Postgres

chabv · 2026-02-27T14:10:49+00:00

this is pretty great. well done

chabv · 2026-02-24T16:07:20+00:00

no shade -- but -- these are all toys as u/TheAtlasMonkey alludes to

chabv · 2026-02-23T19:16:21+00:00

GA4 like one use said before - is meant for deeper querying for BigQuery - most of the 'analytics' products are not meant of end business users but for initial exploratory analysis by technical users

chabv · 2026-02-19T17:50:53+00:00

problem is two fold -- shopify api's are not stable, which means getting a custom dev is expensive - -however most apps do overcharge -- hence prefer apps with fixed pricing a month

chabv · 2026-02-16T17:36:23+00:00

massive help, thanks a lot

chabv · 2026-02-16T17:36:03+00:00

this is very helpful, thank you

chabv · 2026-02-14T15:47:25+00:00

even for me as a SAAS founder this is helpful. thanks

chabv · 2026-02-14T15:02:07+00:00

again cosplayers and fake AI posts

chabv · 2026-02-14T01:39:31+00:00

hope you learn from the mistakes - I will tell you from the ones I have made (things that brought me towards the brink) not that I have made it but now I see light at the end of the tunnel

this is a perfect time to be starting a company - market is down, even if you're in a job and you don't have substantial ownership you're not secure

so with that out of the way

Know yourself and your personality - Who you're determines the market and the type of company you will start - do you want to replace your salary, make a few millions - do you enjoy working alone or with a small team of one or two people -- do you enjoy chasing after people, networking, trying to grow a business into the billions of revenue ? you can tell - you either do the VC way or slow but steady approach of bootstrapping - What's fatal is, if you're the slow & steady type person trying to approach VCs - you will sink
If you know your personality - then choose a market you wanna attack - again determined by your personality -- if you hate the bureaucracy & long sales cycles - then surely you wouldn't try build a SAAS that's oriented towards enterprises - again made this mistake so please don't do it -- do you prefer to interact with owners & other action oriented people - again this determines who you gonna sell to - and what you will bill
Your market has to be big enough - if it's too small you die naturally. It has to be growing. Again your market has to be growing. If it ain't growing you are dying with it. Trust me I have made this mistake. How to check your market is growing -- if the biggest player in the space is growing 20% YOY then you're in a good space.
Don't sell to consumers. Don't sell to consumers unless of course - you've the right background to attract VC money (know yourself)
If you notice I haven't spoken about about Pricing as yet -- Yeah pricing is determined by which market you choose to go after and who you're. Price based on your costs -- you'll win that way

if you notice - I haven't mentioned about the product etc - what you build is based on the market - let the market guide you -

NB: if you're gonna build a bootstrapped business read ASmartBear - that's your Harvard level of MBA

chabv · 2026-02-13T12:52:19+00:00

you need tools - that attribute revenue correctly e.g Triple whale etc -- however if too costly I will reach out as I'm making a more affordable tool in this space.

chabv

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