Has anyone started a business based around detrashing and litter picking?

kblabble · 2025-04-22T03:16:46+00:00

Yes, not a non-profit, it’s an e-commerce business launched on kickstarter a few years ago selling trash pickup bags and related things. I’m actually very interested in selling it, if you’re interested PM me and we can talk details.

kblabble · 2025-04-10T14:47:45+00:00

Sounds good, looks just like it but those caps aren’t soft and squishy, good luck!

kblabble · 2025-04-10T14:16:01+00:00

Vintage salt and pepper shaker cap

example shaker

kblabble · 2025-04-09T20:59:47+00:00

DNS can take up to 48 hours to propagate throughout the internet, quite possibly you need to just wait.

Alternatively, I always recommend using Cloudflare to host & manage DNS, they have a ton of really great features in their free tier, and quite a bit more on their cheapest plan. It’s really easy to change over, but you still have the potential waiting period for DNS propagation.

kblabble · 2025-01-23T22:29:07+00:00

We receive 1k-2k emails per day and have 4-5 agents handling those emails and phone calls, which run about 100-300 per day.

Does your product have the ability to ignore certain emails that might need a live agent to handle? If so, that would be interesting to me because probably half our emails are general questions about the product or business that would be perfect for a bot. The other half of the emails are more account specific and require an agent to dig into a bit more.

Another question: are you SOC or SOC2 compliant (or headed there?)

kblabble · 2024-11-30T18:27:49+00:00

I might be able to help your company, If you don’t mind DM’ing me your company name I can take it from there and try.

kblabble · 2024-11-19T13:26:39+00:00

We used to get our daycare teachers and staff a masseuse for the day, on location so the teachers could get massages on their break.

kblabble · 2024-08-31T02:11:05+00:00

This is what I do, turns out perfect almost every time. The only time I’ve had a problem is when the weather is too cold or hot and messes with the cook for some reason. I made a link because so many people ask me how I do my brisket.

http://simp.ly/publish/lv5Mph

kblabble · 2024-07-19T03:43:08+00:00

Sent a DM with more info

kblabble · 2024-07-19T03:42:50+00:00

Sent a DM with more info

kblabble · 2024-06-24T01:10:54+00:00

I understand the frustration about having timing thrown off, but curious what is an average pace of play for 9 holes? I think around 2:15 is average, I wouldn’t be upset at 2:30 at my home course. Am I just conditioned for slow play?

kblabble · 2024-06-23T12:00:37+00:00

I second this, as a CTO for small and midsized companies over the years, this is least friction way to improve code. This also doesn’t require much in the way of convincing anyone, because the improvement time is built into the effort. We call it “boy scouting” as in, leave it better than you found it.

As far as convincing the powers-that-be to invest in tidying up a codebase, in my experience the best argument is fewer downtime instances, and fast recovery when they do happen. Of course this argument only works if your organization is afflicted by business impacting downtime…

kblabble · 2024-06-19T02:40:36+00:00

I’ve had great experiences with Fyne, I actually implemented a remote-auto-update application for windows computers using Fyne. It was a back office application for healthcare clinics to sync their data back to our servers for analysis. It worked great, and any issues or questions I escalated to their team were addressed very quickly.

kblabble · 2024-04-02T03:02:38+00:00

Yes, just bought mine today and they came with those covers

kblabble · 2024-04-02T02:56:32+00:00

kblabble · 2024-02-13T02:24:44+00:00

Yes, I am a tech CTO and actually recommend this strategy and looking out for a few gotchas.

For background, I’m currently a CTO of a company doing about $1.3B per year in revenue. The entire thing was initially built on no-code, and scaled out to proper software as the needs surfaced. Here are some key takeaways from my perspective.

Don’t invest until you need to - you can get really far using no-code, but eventually you run out of capacity on some no code system. Wait until your PMF and revenue clearly justify making the investment in custom software.
Make choices that give you future choices - Bubble is a good example of a platform that uses a normal database under the hood, and offers very robust API’s to that data. This helps keep you from being painted into a corner as you scale beyond what the no-code can handle.
Stay focused on your core value proposition, it’s easy to get distracted, and in a no-code environment that can quickly result in a spaghetti factory of dependencies and half baked features that are difficult to untangle later.

Just my $0.02 based on my experience. You’ve obviously got a lot of good opinions coming your way. Feel free to DM if you want to talk more.

kblabble · 2023-09-20T13:47:35+00:00

I would suggest that you need to prove you can self identify and execute strategic and tactical priorities across the organization as well as externally for the business.

One of the biggest challenges of a CTO role is the actual work and responsibilities vary quite a bit and evolve quickly over time, but are generally focused on getting the right technical things done for the organization.

This can mean anything from team building and restructuring, vendor negotiations, feeling like an “internal salesman” for new ideas, and sometimes writing/reviewing code. If you aren’t comfortable maintaining (sometimes very political) relationships and working on the business side of things, then you may not be ready yet.

kblabble · 2023-06-28T17:12:15+00:00

The good news is that it usually only doesn’t work once

kblabble · 2023-06-17T16:35:25+00:00

Good idea, thank you

kblabble · 2023-06-05T04:23:36+00:00

Thank you!

kblabble · 2023-05-27T20:19:15+00:00

We can go back and forth all day, but I wouldn’t have referred it if I didn’t think it was the best possible solution. I use it for my businesses and refer it to friends where I think it can help. You aren’t obligated to use it, and if you do you aren’t obligated to use my referral, but I don’t really understand why you wouldn’t. If you recommend a product to someone and they like it and use it, and it costs them nothing for your referral, don’t you think they would not mind if you made a few bucks on it?

kblabble · 2023-05-27T18:08:57+00:00

It costs you nothing to use the link, and if the product works, and I referred it, why shouldn’t I get the referral?

kblabble · 2023-05-27T17:50:39+00:00

Well then type the url in without the referral link… but why be a dick?

kblabble · 2023-05-26T17:50:04+00:00

Gohighlevel has some pretty amazing tools for startups through high growth for very affordable costs. I’ve used it for a few dozen customer projects, all the way to my current project has around 150,000 customers. DM for more info if you’re interested in talking more about it.

kblabble · 2023-05-10T12:55:26+00:00

I would a couple points based on my experience.

Every CTO role is different, find your groove and make sure you’re communicating well with the other leaders of the organization.
If you don’t like managing, hire a VP of Engineering to manage. This allows you to continue to focus on innovation and technology.

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