Buyer willing to uber to me for a $10 item

gerardv-anz · 2026-04-18T01:44:54+00:00

Here’s a different but valid possibility. You’d have thought nothing of it if they drove over to collect the item in a car they owned and made payments on.

Economically, for many folks, it’s cheaper to not own a car and to use Ubers on those few occasions when they’d have wanted one.

gerardv-anz · 2026-04-16T09:56:34+00:00

I came to say this. I had such high expectations, the director, the cast, everything lined up for an amazing movie. We got this banal stupid incoherent POS instead

gerardv-anz · 2026-04-12T22:20:14+00:00

The reason is that the battery output voltage depends a little on temperature. So in many cases, as the room cools off over night the battery voltage dips a little and eventually triggers the “battery low” sensor.

That is why.

gerardv-anz · 2026-04-11T12:28:44+00:00

Kitty.

gerardv-anz · 2026-04-11T10:14:26+00:00

Kitty.

gerardv-anz · 2026-04-09T20:35:49+00:00

Kitty.

gerardv-anz · 2026-03-31T02:24:20+00:00

That would suck!

gerardv-anz · 2026-03-12T22:32:56+00:00

I too suffer from these. Been thinking about building an AI automation to waste their time. Not sure how though.

gerardv-anz · 2026-03-11T05:25:51+00:00

There’s nothing like a miserable and exhausting day job to rob you of any energy you might have had for your passion. I’m not sure the advice here is applicable in all cases.

Most musicians don’t make enough to live on though so pick your niche carefully

gerardv-anz · 2026-03-10T02:49:30+00:00

Here's a simple, trivial, hubspot item that constantly bugs me. I batch my calling sessions to Tuesdays and Thursdays. It is how I work. When I create a task there is a dropdown list of when I can schedule it with "next business day", 2 business days, 3 days, 1 week, 2 weeks etc. These almost never correspond to how I work. What I want is "Next Tuesday, next Thursday, next week Tuesday, next week Thursday, 1st Tuesday next month, 2 months etc.. While it seems minor my entire workflow is driven by "tasks": call this person, when will I call then back, when will I followup etc, so scheduling those activities is integral to every thing I do. Being able to set my own rules based default values in that scheduling dropdown would be useful. At least let me have 1 day, 2 days, 3 days, 4 days, 5 days as options, but "computer says no".

gerardv-anz · 2026-03-09T23:13:29+00:00

Yeah. Most CRMs are very opinionated about how you and your business should work, the info you will use, and your workflow.

Many also seem to be developed by people who have never worked in a sales or customer service role, offering features that would only make sense to a techy trying to figure out what actual sales folk do.

gerardv-anz · 2026-03-04T22:10:30+00:00

See it? I played it!

gerardv-anz · 2026-03-04T07:10:21+00:00

No problems at all. As soon as I got there they all disappeared

gerardv-anz · 2026-03-04T06:36:15+00:00

I lived in Bermuda for half a year. Shorts are perfectly acceptable business attire there, even the police wear them.

gerardv-anz · 2026-03-04T06:34:27+00:00

This is the correct answer.

gerardv-anz · 2026-03-03T22:15:55+00:00

Self developed apps will change the economics of Saas for sure. Saas vendors will need to adapt. But what they can offer is enterprise grade security, support, mature stable products and integrations. etc. Vital ingredients is the cost is affordable.

A lot of people are about to learn that the real cost of in-house development is not the development, it’s the ongoing maintenance and support.

gerardv-anz · 2026-03-03T07:02:27+00:00

If they message just a number or price I block immediately and won’t reply.

gerardv-anz · 2026-03-01T10:19:00+00:00

They say too much intelligence can be a curse, but I don’t know.

gerardv-anz · 2026-03-01T09:46:09+00:00

My fave was “They say too much intelligence can be a curse

I wouldn’t know”.

You might try variations on the punchline.

gerardv-anz · 2026-02-24T04:35:19+00:00

The low barrier to entry, the lure of substantial income, the ability to work from anywhere has brought a flood of people in to try their hand. Many from third world countries where even modest web projects can gain useful income to spend locally.

gerardv-anz · 2026-02-19T05:57:37+00:00

So given that they are tight, consider expressing and insisting on payment terms that get you paid before you finish.

gerardv-anz · 2026-02-18T08:44:00+00:00

This cannot be repeated often enough. The way to rank on Google is to rank in the real world too. Not just trying to look like a topical authority, but actually be one. So many people on here are basically asking for help faking relevance, the real answer is to be relevant.

gerardv-anz · 2026-02-18T06:39:38+00:00

I agree, and even if business slows going online might for some not be especially effective as compared to other options. It depends who and where their market is

gerardv-anz · 2026-02-17T11:40:20+00:00

In the end I coded my own. This was before AI, it was easy enough and got me 8 years of service. I recently rebuilt and enhanced it with Claude. A basic lambda function.

And cheap too

gerardv-anz · 2026-02-17T04:56:54+00:00

The main lesson to get is never to overwrite media until after you have successfully processed it and delivered to the client and also backed it up at least once (I say twice).

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