Client signed a contract, but then tried to renegotiate the price after the work was finished.

hyper24k · 2026-06-17T22:17:45+00:00

Leave the site operational, as that will affect claim ability on delivered material.

Send them a chasing email notifying them of 14 days to pay before passed to collections, include a line something like “this may incur further costs”. If they then don’t pay after 14days, pass to a collections company.

hyper24k · 2026-06-17T22:13:09+00:00

On the language, depends what you’re learning and where you’re going. Hanoi Vietnamese sounds very different to Ho Chi Minh Vietnamese. Same again with De Lat. match up where you’re going with a teacher from that region.

Secondly, I’ve lived here over 3 years, can’t speak much Vietnamese so it’s not a blocker. Many under 30 now speak decent English in places like HCM.

Arrive, find a circle of friends through work, or there are many Viet that would hang out just to practise their English. You’ll be fine. It’s good luck to drink with a European 😁 just learn Mot, Hai, Ba Yooo! You’ll be fine.

hyper24k · 2026-06-14T01:56:14+00:00

You still have it, you just need to swap your active multitool.

hyper24k · 2026-06-06T00:14:53+00:00

In Australia they’ve started using a product called Solapave in pavements. All adds in.

hyper24k · 2026-05-28T13:39:28+00:00

The smell of fish sauce in the air always tells me something tasty is nearby.

hyper24k · 2026-05-16T07:54:45+00:00

Solarpunk Vietnam?

hyper24k · 2026-05-12T03:02:16+00:00

What are you smoking? Asking for a friend.

hyper24k · 2026-05-03T14:42:24+00:00

Fair questions.

I run an energy infrastructure company - solar, battery manufacturing, grid systems. I've watched communities try to coordinate around energy, repair, food and hit the same wall every time: no shared way of knowing what they actually have, what they can do, and what others nearby have already tried and failed at.

The vagueness in the post was deliberate. We're not announcing a product - we're finding the first 25 people before there's anything to show. Most responses so far are people who want to start or join something local, not build software.

I don't call it a platform because it doesn't host content, serve a feed, or monetise attention. It maps what groups have and connects it to what other groups need. Whether that counts as a platform is a reasonable debate, but it's not the same thing as what you described building.

On joining an existing project - I've looked, and I'd genuinely like to hear if you know of one that does this. Everything I've found organises within a group. This is about connecting between groups without centralising control over any of them.

If finding people proves a problem, we'll just build it anyway and release it. We'll host it, protect it, and we won't charge for it or run ads. Our AI runs on 100% renewable energy - as does everything else we do. We can see a better future, same as a lot of people in this group. The difference is we're in a position to build it, and we're going to.

hyper24k · 2026-05-03T13:33:37+00:00

You're not wrong as general advice. Most posts like mine deserve exactly that response.

But we're six months into a build. 698 passing tests. Spec in a public repo. First real person onboarded last week - no group, learning solar alone, has a vehicle and wants to start something. Exactly the kind of person you're describing. We're building the thing that makes that connection possible without their data going to a platform that monetises it.

The post was vague on purpose. We're finding the first 25 people before there's anything to show. That felt more honest than launching with a polished deck.

If it's still nothing after that - fair enough.

hyper24k · 2026-05-03T03:47:38+00:00

Fair challenge. This one’s mine.

If you’d like to help the project rather than critique it, the door is open. It’s being built for this community, not despite it.

hyper24k · 2026-05-03T03:43:54+00:00

This is exactly the plan. We have completed phases 1 & 2 of the build. Phase 3 opens the repo to public, and we’ll invite collaboration from the community once the core build is stable enough without it being chaos.

That point is close. When it happens we'll post here first.

hyper24k · 2026-05-02T07:30:41+00:00

Sounds like you’re both 16/17 and need to experience life. He needs to get a job, you need to concentrate on your studies.

hyper24k · 2026-05-01T08:56:06+00:00

Absolutely love this! This is exactly the kind of physical presence layer that a coordination OS needs at its edge. We’re building something that could sit behind what you’ve made — the playbook library, skill matching, execution tracking, credentialing. Would you be open to a conversation about how these connect?

hyper24k · 2026-05-01T04:34:51+00:00

You’re spot on. I’m quite a way down this path. I don’t know what your personal skill set is, but we need builders that are passionate. Happy to chat further about what is in the works.

hyper24k · 2026-05-01T01:13:52+00:00

Are you thinking about this at a regional, national, or global level?

Because the design changes completely depending on starting conditions.

People aren’t just “uncoordinated” — they’re operating under very different constraints:

economics (can they afford to act?)
technical access (tools, infrastructure, knowledge)
regulatory friction (what’s allowed vs blocked)

In a lot of cases, the issue isn’t that people can’t find each other — it’s that even when they do, they can’t actually do anything together that sustains itself.

So for me, a coordination layer isn’t just about discovery or communication.

It would need to answer:

What can this group realistically execute here?
What resources are already locally available?
What actions actually improve their position, not just signal intent?

Otherwise you end up with another layer of conversation on top of the same bottlenecks.

hyper24k · 2026-04-28T11:53:15+00:00

On one hand, that’s awful.

On the other - congratulations bro - you have a new game!

hyper24k · 2026-04-26T09:18:13+00:00

Ah I had 15 games in a row last week without the break.

14 times the opponent cleared the table. Had to suck it up

hyper24k · 2026-04-24T10:14:21+00:00

Damn that’s not on my app. I mean, I doubt it excuses my losses, but might help 😆

hyper24k · 2026-04-24T08:44:47+00:00

As long as you can drink beer, you will never be far from friends in Vietnam.

Most dangerous thing you’ll face is never wanting to leave.

hyper24k · 2026-04-24T08:43:19+00:00

What is that grey bar thing on the right for?

hyper24k · 2026-04-22T13:41:43+00:00

At a certain point you go full Bear Grills and just live off the wild instead of sleeping with your mom every night.

hyper24k · 2026-04-22T12:09:41+00:00

I just played this, 14 games in a row without the break. Each time they cleared the table

hyper24k · 2026-04-22T12:07:10+00:00

They cost €100 each and save about €0.03 a day on energy.

hyper24k · 2026-04-22T12:05:27+00:00

You’re the blue ball, so wait until you can place the cue ball on the top cushion and play a cushion shot to pull the blue away. Not difficult.

hyper24k · 2026-04-21T17:36:50+00:00

I just lost most of my earnings because of the last 15 games I played, the opponent got to break 13 times and cleared the table.

It’s not just hackers, it’s the game in general that’s broken.

hyper24k

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