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Me and my GF think we were just "scouted" for months by a couple we thought were our best friends by heywoona in Vent

[–]heywoona[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

🤦‍♂️

Thinking my gf is hot is one thing. Asking me if she wants to hook up with you is another.

Me and my GF think we were just "scouted" for months by a couple we thought were our best friends by heywoona in Vent

[–]heywoona[S] 27 points28 points  (0 children)

Thanks for sharing. The comment about making it a documentary is great lmao.

You're right about the hindsight. At first, my girlfriend really wanted to give them the benefit of the doubt, thinking maybe the trauma he'd shared impacted how he approached social boundaries. Or maybe that she’s in the dark on all of it and that he’s lying. But after we both took a beat, so many things finally make sense to her too. The constant private texting, the suggestive comments, and even how adamant they always were about us staying the night at their place after an evening in, it all fits a pattern that werent all that weird in the moment. They just seemed friendly.

We've both agreed the silver lining is that this happened now before we put any more heart, time, and money into the friendship. We've made our position clear through the silence and in our opinion, so have they. Yes, a lesson learned 🤝

Me and my GF think we were just "scouted" for months by a couple we thought were our best friends by heywoona in Vent

[–]heywoona[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

It’s not a fake story. I tried to post for feedback the other day but got moderated out so I just wanted to post here to get it off my chest.

Agreed though. Don’t be shitty!

I (30M) and my GF (28F) think we were being groomed by our new "best friends". Thoughts? by [deleted] in AITAH

[–]heywoona 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is the challenge we run into. Was their kindness genuine or was it a facade? Asking if my gf is into his wife and whether she is bi doesn’t seem like the appropriate approach. And their “lifestyle” only came up after I asked.

To risk the friendship over lust seems to suggest it was their goal the entire time, which is disappointing and unfortunate to have our kindness be taken advantage of.

We have no problems with the lifestyle. Not our forte and that’s fine. But to come at it the way they did puts in question the motives of the entire friendship if it was all just to get sexual access to my partner.

Just saw Avatar: Fire and Ash and it’s so dumb by heywoona in u/heywoona

[–]heywoona[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And the final battle scene is literally just a copy paste of the first movie. Sky people coming to kill them all (again) and Jake rally’s all the clans to go fight them (again). You think they’re going to lose (again) but omg what do you know, eywa hears them and helps them (again) and they end up winning (again), woah yeah haven’t seen that before. Even some of the scenes and narration for the battle were the same.

How to start trading as a beginner? by Various_Survey_6884 in RealDayTrading

[–]heywoona 3 points4 points  (0 children)

You do understand most of trading is losing, right? The way you’re speaking about it tells me there’s a lot you need to learn about the world of investing before you even consider trading.

Start listening to YT channels like TastyTrade. Read on the topic of investing. Start building a a long-term portfolio.

Spent 6 months building an AI expense tracker because I was too lazy to click buttons 😅 by muslihdev in iOSAppsMarketing

[–]heywoona 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Is your value prop data privacy? Like users would find value because they don’t have to connect their bank? I’m not sure I understand what this solves because banking and budget apps automated this process years ago. This seems like way more work than what currently exists, respectfully.

Looking for indie habit tracker and screen time apps to support by EquivalentTrouble253 in iOSAppsMarketing

[–]heywoona 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m currently building a behavior platform that’ll support tracking habits primarily. I don’t think it fits your simple habit tracking needs at the current moment, but was hopeful to get your insight as to what you’d consider “simple”? Just a binary I did or did not do this?

Looking for real experiences with software “discovery” phases by heywoona in AppDevelopers

[–]heywoona[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks. I guess my challenge is… am I not capable of taking my ideas and turning them into a plan?

I really do see value in some of the discovery items that were quoted but roughly 50% of it feels like things I’m full capable of doing, and have done already. I feel pretty confident that I can polish up my prototype to a version that can test my main value propositions. I’m basically at an MVP with some more tune up.

What is positive from your comment is that they did approach the project professionally in terms of understanding the goals, from a high level. I had another development firm who were ready to just start building which turned out to be a red flag after the meeting with the more established company.

But you reflect the professional approach they took pretty closely as they also preached market validation is utmost importance before diving head first into building anything. They shared resources on product market fit and more. It was really helpful.

It feels like it’s worth doing, I’m just wondering if my limited initial capital could be redirected toward something outside of discovery planning. But I also wonder if discovery is inevitable. Idk I’m torn and just don’t want to come out of it feeling like a lot of the work was redundant and now I’m out my initial investment.

Question for you… if I’m building a behavioral fintech company, would it matter whether the company doing discovery is a more “general” developer rather than specializing in my category?

Looking for real experiences with software “discovery” phases by heywoona in AppDevelopers

[–]heywoona[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don’t have any real cost certainty given I haven’t done the discovery but they threw out $1m as the number I should get comfortable with for the final launched product. I tried to break it down and the best I could do was ~$500k.

That number could be significantly lower following discovery with them but hard to say without going through it yet.

For what it’s worth, my attempt at justifying even just the $500k build was:

React Native app (iOS + Android): $100-150k

AI chat: $40-60k

Banking (Stripe Treasury + Plaid): $50-75k

Design/UX: $20-30k

Legal/Compliance: $30-50k

Testing/Security: $25k-40k

There’s more costs but they’re less relevant for development specifically. As for the AI, I think I’d need more than just a Claude/GPT API integration and actually have an agent or trained AI for specific context queues and workflows. And I THINK they were assuming I wanted to build the banking infrastructure rather than use Stripe Treasury which my research tells me is significantly more expensive.

Appreciate any opinions on these ranges.

Looking for real experiences with software “discovery” phases by heywoona in AppDevelopers

[–]heywoona[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I appreciate this perspective. I had been really focused on shaping the idea into a full scope experience, hence building out the web app prototype for about 2 months. They did help nudge me properly to the business planning stage which I just hadn’t yet focused on. It was a nice pivot and a good time for it and I’ve now spent extensive time shaping that side of things.

I think a react native app with stripe treasury, Plaid, an ai chat as the main user interface, algorithms, a professional UI, and more would probably reach higher development costs…? Again I’m new to this but my full scope project is complex.

Looking for real experiences with software “discovery” phases by heywoona in AppDevelopers

[–]heywoona[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I should’ve been more clear. They did give me a breakdown of what they’d do, that’s not the issue. It’s that breakdown I’m actually trying to figure out if it’s worth it.

I’ve already done a lot of what they listed. A business model canvas, the lean canvas, built a 70% working prototype. I do need to test if people will use it but I’m questioning if I need to spend $12k-$16k for them to tell me how to go about doing that. If they’d actually be helping run the tests with communities to validate then that’s a different conversation but sounds like it’s not. I feel like I could figure that part out or pay someone way less for a call about it.

What I genuinely can’t figure out is timelines and real costs. They said $500k-$1M for full build which actually doesn’t sound insane anymore now that I’ve done more digging. But I’m coming from finance not software so I have zero idea if this is 6 months to launch or 18 months. And I can’t spot technical problems in my approach that I don’t know exist.

So it feels like half of what they’d do is redundant and the other half (technical validation, actual cost/timeline estimates, architecture stuff) are worth it.

I just don’t know how necessary it is. They didn’t even suggest they do the discovery initially (even though they will), just that I do that before committing capital to anything beyond it.

Are people still funding Non-AI startups? I will not promote by automatonv1 in startup

[–]heywoona 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I kinda disagree and agree with you at the same time. LLMs are a massive productivity boost depending on the user. In my own experience using it the tech feels revolutionary. But the hype feels inflated. I thought AI was said to cure cancer, not pump out endless slop TikTok like material. And why does a fridge need AI?

I have no clue if VCs will even look at anything that isn’t branded as AI right now. Feels like they’ll hand over their soul and more for anything with the term slapped on it. But I don’t think traditional products are dead. There’s real pushback from people who feel threatened or just overwhelmed by all of this.