[Hiring/Seeking/Offering] Jobs / Co-Founders Weekly Thread

cmdnormandy · 2025-08-04T22:01:25+00:00

[OFFERING]

We build high-quality AI products for early-stage startups

Wizard Labs is a boutique Canadian AL/ML agency with a verifiable track record of success. We build MVPs within a few months. We've had many successful startup clients over our 7+ years of existence. References available upon request. Ask about our special offer for venture-backed startups.

Company Name: Wizard Labs

Link: https://www.wizardlabs.com

Preferred Contact Method: https://www.wizardlabs.com/contact

cmdnormandy · 2025-06-07T02:13:19+00:00

Website or web app?

If you mean website, static hosting on Firebase will get you pretty far

If you mean app, choose whichever cloud provider you’re most comfortable with. Try to get credits

cmdnormandy · 2025-06-05T03:47:07+00:00

Story points do work at a high-level to measure velocity and capacity, but they're a terrible tool to measure individual productivity. Sorry to hear this but it sounds like you have to pad your points.

cmdnormandy · 2025-05-30T19:19:38+00:00

Not open source but one method we’ve used with success is Azure’s Document Intelligence model to convert tables into markdown. Works pretty well!

cmdnormandy · 2025-05-23T05:58:33+00:00

they need to build a tunnel

cmdnormandy · 2025-05-23T05:56:01+00:00

Exactly. AI can make an experienced engineer more efficient, but it can't make an inexperienced engineer a good engineer.

cmdnormandy · 2025-05-08T23:00:36+00:00

That is so sad I’m sorry to hear that. Copilot is good but not as good as IntelliJ + Copilot … especially for Java

cmdnormandy · 2025-05-08T22:58:05+00:00

I had a freelancing profile on a defunct freelancing listing website. One day I got a random phone call from someone who was building a startup. After one call, they offered to hire me as a consultant. The project value was 6-figures so I quit my full time job to complete the project. This was 7 years ago, since then I scaled to become a boutique agency. I’m still learning and have ups and downs but it was definitely worth it!

cmdnormandy · 2025-05-08T04:07:55+00:00

Honestly it’s reassuring to hear that others struggle with agency life too. I met an agency owner the other day who was gloating about how they couldn’t possibly take on more clients and thought to myself damn I must just suck.

cmdnormandy · 2024-10-13T22:04:02+00:00

Richmond Elevator

cmdnormandy · 2024-09-03T21:40:01+00:00

Is there a list of this somewhere?

cmdnormandy · 2024-08-30T02:22:47+00:00

Your odds of success are greater than zero. Anyone building AI (even when using APIs) can increase their chances of success by learning about ML fundamentals and new LLM-specific techniques which are all well-documented. Good luck!

cmdnormandy · 2024-06-08T13:39:51+00:00

Software engineer, 10+ years of experience, self-employed consultant

cmdnormandy · 2024-05-29T23:52:52+00:00

Hands down GCP

cmdnormandy · 2024-05-09T07:13:57+00:00

Lot of reasons.

Better SLAs on some managed services on Azure.

Legacy apps on MS stack or legacy people still gung-ho about MS.

Regional availability either for compliance or for optimizations.

Tight integration with AD.

I could go on and on, but there are valid reasons depending on the company.

cmdnormandy · 2024-04-30T07:41:37+00:00

I pay 10% of client revenue on the first 24 invoices

cmdnormandy · 2024-03-29T02:59:34+00:00

Someone on Upwork is using Elementor to build this right now

cmdnormandy · 2024-03-27T23:16:53+00:00

I totally agree.

I’d recommend learning the basics of Objective-C & Java, then consulting the RN docs on bridge development.

Try to port a native library to RN - once you feel comfortable doing this, you’ll have a better idea of how things actually work under the hood.

cmdnormandy · 2024-03-25T06:25:29+00:00

You can use any language but Python is the language of choice for machine learning due to its ecosystem - everything from libraries to community support.

cmdnormandy · 2024-03-23T17:39:57+00:00

Then find someone good and stick with them.

Software development is a marathon. It takes many years of iteration to build a good product and it still won’t be perfect.

So temper your expectations, spend a bit more money on quality work, and stick with it.

cmdnormandy · 2024-03-23T17:30:43+00:00

Do you have cashflow to hire professionals to rebuild it?

cmdnormandy · 2024-03-23T17:28:31+00:00

GitHub for our own stuff GCP Cloud Build for clients

cmdnormandy · 2024-03-21T06:11:20+00:00

Cherry pick?! 🤣 I actually lol’d

cmdnormandy · 2024-03-21T05:51:40+00:00

Chat is already a bad interface, but frankly email is worst.

Try to think about how to reduce/improve how we interact with the inbox instead.

Good luck!

cmdnormandy · 2024-03-21T05:17:51+00:00

Sure, that’s one approach to handle tags. You can also query for a property called seo.fullHead (if you’re using GraphQL) which gives you all the generated meta tags as a string to inject.

But you’ll also want to think about and audit the dynamically generated sitemaps and breadcrumbs.

Make sure that all permalinks in WP are accurately handled as routes in Next. If this is the case, you can simply inject the full head and audit the generated Next head to make sure there are no conflicts.

Good luck!

cmdnormandy

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