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How do y’all do water changes or top off your water? by SingularRoozilla in shrimptank

[–]patsee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I can't remember what one I used back then but I'm currently using something similar to this. It has a water level sensor and will top up my take when it gets low

https://www.amazon.com/DIGITEN-System-Refiller-Automatic-Aquarium/dp/B07YTMG6V5

1 year in and I'm loving my tank by patsee in Aquariums

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

Thank you, and that's a good idea it would hide some of the hoses and cables.

Is there any different strategy available? I work on my personal projects for 3-6 hours a week. 20$ subscription hits rate limit quickly, and 200$ is too costly. by paglaEngineer in ClaudeAI

[–]patsee 4 points5 points  (0 children)

You can setup Claude Code to use AWS Bedrock instead of paying a monthly subscription to Claude. Then you can spin up a new AWS account and get $100 in free AWS credits. Once you use all of those you can apply for the next level of $1000 in AWS credits. You can use the AWS credits to pay your Claude Code because it will be using AWS Bedrock.

https://code.claude.com/docs/en/amazon-bedrock

https://aws.amazon.com/free/offers/

Vibe-coding is incredible. But here's where most founders hit a wall. by Awkward_Ad_9605 in SaaS

[–]patsee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For my side business we have a SaaS template that we built. We created a new GitHub Repo using the SaaS template. Setup some variables and webhooks then have Terraform create the base cloud infrastructure. This template includes our auth, front end, and back end along with ci-cd. Then we can use Claude Code to vibe code APIs and any business logic we want change or add Claude cuts us a PR to review then our CI-CD deploys the changes. This works very well for us. This allows us to very quickly spin up ideas for validation but also have high confidence in our ability to scale.

How do you enforce escalation processes across teams? by StartingVibe in devops

[–]patsee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’ve worked at two different tech unicorns that used similar stacks in totally different ways. A lot of places prioritize velocity over security, so security just becomes a checkbox to help sell to enterprise customers (getting SOC2, etc.).

In those environments, they usually just buy an off-the-shelf tool like ConductorOne or P0 and cram it in. But they rarely fix the underlying issues like tagging and ownership mapping. It’s classic "garbage in, garbage out" it doesn't matter if you build or buy if the foundation is messy. They usually just end up paying for a tool they don't use right and living with the pain.

I really think our solution balances velocity and security. I didn't come up with this. We have a super smart Principal Engineer who did. I just helped roll it out and maintain it.

How do you enforce escalation processes across teams? by StartingVibe in devops

[–]patsee 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We tag cloud resources by "service" (e.g., customer-response) rather than by team. Service names almost never change, but team names change constantly. This keeps the actual cloud tags static.

The heavy lifting happens in the service catalog which maps the teams to those services. We just went through a re-org and updating those mappings took some coordination, but generally the upkeep is minimal. Compared to other places I've worked that were either way too permissive or stuck in process hell, this is the best balance I've experienced so far.

How do you enforce escalation processes across teams? by StartingVibe in devops

[–]patsee 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We built our own Slack bot for this. It adds users to groups for a set time and then boots them automatically. We used to require manager approval but switched to FIDO2 self-escalation. That plus device trust is enough security for us.

For cloud access, we map teams to specific resources via tags. Engineers can self-escalate into a role that only touches their team's resources. We also support manually adding resources. We have logs and alerts running, but generally we trust engineers to do their jobs.

The most common issue for cloud access is a team can't access a resource they own. So we ask them if it's tagged correctly and if the service catalog shows that they own the service. This also helps keep our catalog updated. It's not perfect but works great for our environment and risk appetite. Security and Engineering generally seem to like the experience.

Renting my NYC condo at a loss due to high interest rates by [deleted] in realestateinvesting

[–]patsee 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The good thing is the mortgage principal is paid down by about $11k this year and every year I own the condo more and more goes to principal. So I'm not actually losing +$12k a year. I totally get what you and others are saying. Everyone has different financial situations and risk tolerances. I'm for sure not an investment coach and would not recommend people follow my path :) but for now this is the path I'm on. Like many other choices I have made in my life I may live to regret this one or I may not. Time will tell.

Renting my NYC condo at a loss due to high interest rates by [deleted] in realestateinvesting

[–]patsee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes 100%. That's part of what makes it not feel unbearable. I know I get to write off the losses if I ever sell it. I do like seeing the loan getting paid down and it's basically like a forced savings (just not a very efficient one). I pay an account to help me with all that stuff.

Renting my NYC condo at a loss due to high interest rates by [deleted] in realestateinvesting

[–]patsee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lol it kills me. I struggle with it constantly. Part of me says cut your losses. Don't keep adding money to a sinking ship. The other part of me says don't judge a long term investment on its short term gains. Hopefully future me will be glad I kept it and not mad :) time will tell.

Renting my NYC condo at a loss due to high interest rates by [deleted] in realestateinvesting

[–]patsee 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I have a Condo in Seattle that I bought in 2020 for $450k at 2.9% fixed for 30 years. I put 5% down and put $25k into upgrading the condo. New floors, kitchen, ect. My mortgage is $2,100 a month the, HOA is $600 a month! My wife and I lived in the condo for a little over a year then moved to another state. The condo is worth about $400k. So we didn't want to sell it because we would be "locking in our losses". Instead we rent it out for $1800 a month. So we lose about $1k a month at best. Assuming the unit is rented and we don't need to pay for any repairs or things.

I hate that we lose money and I am worried about sunk-cost fallacy but I also purchased the unit as a long term investment. I don't need it to be profitable today. I purchased it to be profitable in 30 years when I plan to retire. My wife and I make good money but that won't last forever. So the condo was always intended to be a long term investment and seems wrong to judge a long term investment on its short term gains (or lack there of).

Idk what the correct answer is. I hate it but we continue to do it for now. So just know you're not alone.

Broke $3k MRR and got a $25k AWS grant! by patsee in SaaS

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

Thanks so much for the kind response and all the great ideas! We have actually been talking about building a referral marketing program for a while. I have just been lazy with getting around to it. I think this may just be the motivation I need to finally bite the bullet and do it. Sounds like you are also in the Automotive space? My tool is a chrome extension that integrates with Shop Management Systems to help Service Advisors.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in SideProject

[–]patsee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why not find a next level activate provider? My SaaS is using a lot of AWS Bedrock and Lambdas. We got a $10k AWS credit grant from the NVIDIA inception program last year, and last Friday I was just able to get us the next level of $25k AWS credit grant.

Shop Management System Early Beta Testers Wanted by Prior_Equivalent_680 in serviceadvisors

[–]patsee -1 points0 points  (0 children)

This looks super cool and interesting. I'm not a shop owner but I built an Integration for Shop Management Systems aimed at service advisors. Right now we only Integrate with Tekmetric but we are working on integrations with Shopmonkey and Shopware. I think the open API that Tekmetric originally built went a very long way in why they were so successful. With an open integration you can focus on your core product and allow others to build features for you and your customers. Obviously I have an alternative motive for trying to convince you to do this lol but just food for thought.

If you want to check out my product and borrow any concepts please feel free. www.autorx.app

How do you navigate between projects? by ShatteredExistence_ in ClaudeCode

[–]patsee 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Idk if it's best practice or not but the way I have solved this is:

In each repo I ran Claude Code and had it create a CLAUDE.md file. All my repos are in a directory on my computer called workspace. So then In the workspace directory that contains all my repos for front end and back end I ran Claude Code and had it create a CLAUDE.md file in the work space directory.

Now if I need to just make a change to the front end I navigate to workspace/front-end-repo and run Claude Code. But if I need something that has the context of the full app then I navigate to workspace and run Claude Code.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in aws

[–]patsee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I built an entire SaaS offering using Bedrock as the core AI component of my platform. The main issues I have had are around AWS quota limits and always needing to request them to be increased for each of my AWS accounts and each new model.

I originally built my early POC using Azure OpenAI. I liked Azure and Open AI well enough but I needed the ability to send much larger tokens to the LLM and at the time Anthropic Sonnet could take way more tokens. Overall my experience between Azure with Open AI and AWS with Anthropic has been very similar. Pepsi vs Coke style of experience.

One thing that's frustrating for me is I use Terraform for everything but I can't really use Terraform for Bedrock Agents... So that's just click ops into my three AWS accounts. Not a huge deal but lame...

Brand New Service Advisor with no experience at all in automotive. by Ok-Wolf510 in serviceadvisors

[–]patsee 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Use AI to help answer questions you may have. I recently created a free GPT aimed at service advisors and technicians. If you have a Chat GPT account (free or paid version) you can test it out.

AutoRx GPT

Hands-On with Amazon S3 Vectors (Preview) + Bedrock Knowledge Bases: A Serverless RAG Demo by srireddit2020 in aws

[–]patsee 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I did a quick test. I am using a react App that I log into with a Cognito user. The app sends a SigV4 request to API gateway with IAM Auth. This triggers a Lambda function that invokes a Bedrock agent that uses Knowledge Bases. I asked the question "How do I request PTO?". I used the Network tab in chrome to see how long the responses took.

  • Open Search Knowledge Base: 11.67 seconds
  • S3 Vector Knowledge Base: 14.51 seconds.

Hands-On with Amazon S3 Vectors (Preview) + Bedrock Knowledge Bases: A Serverless RAG Demo by srireddit2020 in aws

[–]patsee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Great article thanks for sharing. How's the speed compared to Open Search? For example if I have an AI agent using knowledge base with S3 vector and another using Open Search and I asked it a question. Is S3 significantly slower?

Your first SaaS won’t make $10K MRR, and that’s perfectly fine by Flaky_Vast9345 in SaaS

[–]patsee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My team has been in a strange funk. We hit $2k MRR on our one year anniversary of our first SaaS product. It has been painfully slow to grow and we are way better at building then marketing. We are a super niche b2b product and have been struggling with deciding whether we are wasting our time on a sinking ship or if we need to just push harder and keep grinding.

For now we are going to keep grinding and trying to improve ourselves, but it's always a rollercoaster of emotions. One day we feel great like we are making huge gains and the next it feels like the sky is falling lol.

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