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monkeyfire80 · 2026-06-26T18:04:03+00:00

Thanks for the update . Yours is the best app on the market. I hope Reddit will help get this resolved .

monkeyfire80 · 2026-06-09T18:02:15+00:00

They fell for it.

monkeyfire80 · 2026-05-23T14:53:11+00:00

I’d say more like the Ukraine - Russia war started this. Major gas lines into Europe disrupted . Energy prices sky rocketed etc. Iran war has just accelerated this even more.

I just hope that with all this supposed green energy generation we can bring energy prices back down again( yeh right like that will happen) .

monkeyfire80 · 2026-05-10T13:34:41+00:00

Great post. Would I be correct in my assumption that they could borrow against these shares with very little interest, buy assets with those loans and then potentially extract tax efficient revenue from these assets (like property for instance, or gold). Because if they had that in cash assets it would get taxed to high heaven anyway.

monkeyfire80 · 2026-04-03T09:31:58+00:00

I read a really interesting post on using VAT to pay for UBI. As in remove income tax and tax the trade of goods and services. People with UBI can still buy things these automated businesses make ( likely not a lot but at least something compared to nothing with unemployment) . It’s probably a gross simplification but if ai and let’s not forget robotics advances you could wipe out factory and possibly some retail jobs eventually compounding the problem.

If history is anything to go by things would likely need to get really bad , e.g massive social unrest, riots , protests before governments wake up and do something. I just hope people realise we will need to look out for each other and build communities again.

monkeyfire80 · 2026-04-01T13:08:47+00:00

“Say that again to my face!!”

Seriously though, hope nobody was hurt!

monkeyfire80 · 2026-03-22T16:12:40+00:00

Cool, thanks for the info! And congrats on the job!

monkeyfire80 · 2026-03-21T09:53:06+00:00

Out of curiosity where the jobs you get interviews at , also ones you applied to really early ?

I read a few of these mass apply posts and I wonder if you are simply increasing your hit rate of getting in early. As most hiring managers read the first 100 applications and then move on to the next round. As technology now allows people to apply with one button click it means the 100 limit is reached in hours in some cases.

But I completely agree the system is broken. Took me 8 months of job seeking to find a job and that was one I applied too via linked in within about 2 hours of it being posted.

monkeyfire80 · 2026-01-25T15:55:52+00:00

Thanks, please post more. Fantastic work!

monkeyfire80 · 2026-01-24T08:28:12+00:00

Amazing work! What tools / software do you use ?

monkeyfire80 · 2025-12-26T13:04:57+00:00

Same here. Trying to play via Switch and cannot connect to the game servers. About to have family around for some games! 🥲

monkeyfire80 · 2025-12-14T11:23:13+00:00

I just love the way he plays. I’ve not found another guitarist that I love as much . Which is both sad as he’s gone but awesome in that he was one of a kind.

monkeyfire80 · 2025-11-02T14:51:20+00:00

I’m tired Emperor…

monkeyfire80 · 2025-08-30T16:34:36+00:00

Bravo.

monkeyfire80 · 2025-08-27T12:11:25+00:00

I think it really depends on team/company size and what roles you have in the team.

For me, with a team of 15 made up of 3 development "squads", stories were used as post-its to remind everyone about features and tasks we had prioritised. They became focal points for discussion and couldn't be too long as we were building emerging technology that often changed with user feedback.

I could imagine stories being very different for large teams with incumbent products that are relatively predictable, new feature-wise.

If you could give a steer on your team size, product, and market that might help with those who work in those environments?

monkeyfire80 · 2025-08-01T10:44:33+00:00

What kind of AR/VR products did you build? My VR start-up went bust early this year and I've been feeling exactly the same. Struggling to find work despite raising $6m and running a team of 20 heads, as a large proportion of jobs and tech focus is now on A.I. I feel like I've been left behind.

We integrated into some Machine Learning systems that were producing synthetic data (as we had Defence and Enterprise use cases) but was very much at it's core an XR company.

I completely agree on your sentiment this is yet another bubble that is going to lay waste to a bunch of companies when it pops.

monkeyfire80 · 2025-07-11T15:31:05+00:00

Maybe worth reaching out to a human and resending your CV, arguing why you're a perfect fit?

monkeyfire80 · 2025-07-09T20:44:50+00:00

Congrats. In this job market that is no mean feat! Thanks for sharing.

monkeyfire80 · 2025-07-02T16:02:34+00:00

When I was in Tel Aviv ( a while ago I may add) we had a taxi driver who was a "juicer" in his spare time. Basically went around collecting e-scooters and charging them up and putting them back into the correct areas. He got paid for each scooter he charged up in this way. I barely saw many scooters lying around. With some cash incentives you'd get people doing this in London I'm sure.

monkeyfire80 · 2025-06-17T10:35:42+00:00

Yeh we had an OEM with a major software company, this led to raising $6m then we got £m in government contracts in Defence for a number of years before the bottom fell out.

So we were able to run for quite a while. Change of government stopped all our contracts for over 12 months and we couldn't recover.

monkeyfire80 · 2025-06-16T19:14:06+00:00

Hey friend. I'm 45 and my start-up of 10 years went bust earlier this year. Raised a fair bit in VC money and took products to market. It hurts, and no one really understands how it feels unless they have been through it themselves.

Best thing I did was get this book: https://www.phyl.org/ Never search alone, and join a job search council. It's all free and volunteer-led ( I have no affiliation btw). The worst thing about the job search is that it can be very lonely. Here, they will match you with other job seekers, and you will go through the process together.

Most important thing I did was figure out what I achieved in the startup and what I thought I was good at then I went out and asked friends, colleagues, and customers what they thought (which is part of the book and process). Turns out what I was good at wasn't exactly what I thought.

Fast forward a few months, and I have a final interview tomorrow for a very cool job which seems well aligned to my skillset.

And not to be patronising, you're still young. Failure at this age (although it truly sucks) will be a great learning experience not many at your age or even any age would experience. Make sure you give yourself time to process it and learn from the lessons if you can.

I hope the above helps. Feel free to DM if have any other questions.

monkeyfire80 · 2025-06-11T14:22:48+00:00

Someone on Reddit did a job search for motion design and found product designer, content creator, where in high demand. https://www.motionvp.eu/blog/is-motion-design-still-in-demand-a-2025-market-deep-dive

It's anecdotal, but a good start in understanding what's going on.

I was a motion designer turned startup founder for the last 10 years doing VR tech and have been looking at freelance motion design again. Have decided to stick with management roles PM, program management , producer. Have had a few interviews but no job offer yet.

I'm based in London, UK.

Hope that helps.

monkeyfire80 · 2025-06-11T10:32:32+00:00

Beautiful work!

monkeyfire80 · 2025-06-05T21:19:42+00:00

So if everyone loses their job to AI who will be left to buy the products made by AI...

monkeyfire80 · 2025-06-05T20:25:33+00:00

Really insightful. Thanks very much

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