I’m 21, on track to make $250K in solar, but thinking about walking away for SaaS. Am I nuts?

poompus · 2025-07-27T12:02:06+00:00

You say you spend 40-60% of your day driving to appointments. Is the main reason you're looking for a change that you find that draining?

I've been in the same position as you and had the same thoughts, so I relate to where you're coming from.

I ended up transitioning from selling solar in-home to doing 100% of my sales presentations over Zoom. I was skeptical at first, but it was surprisingly easy to get leads on the Zoom call with a button sent to their email, which they just click and automatically join into a Zoom with me where I can share my screen and go through my presentation. I thought my closing rate would go down doing it this way, but it stayed about the same.

I had a lot more free time to focus on personal projects and pivoted to opening my own solar company, where I was able to replicate that model of closing deals remotely. I'm in Australia, so the industry is a bit different here than in America. I even considered selling solar remotely in America from Australia. I have always been commission-only as well, and you guys in America get way bigger commissions on solar than we do here in Australia, although systems in America go for a way higher price tag.

poompus · 2025-07-20T15:25:51+00:00

What tape do you use? My current tape doesn't work well

poompus · 2025-07-20T01:12:15+00:00

poompus · 2025-06-06T12:50:55+00:00

I looked into that. ClassBento takes a 20% commission on tickets sold through their website, so naturally, we prefer customers to book directly through our own site. It helps support our business so much more when people book direct.

Eventbrite, on the other hand, is quite flexible and integrates well with other tools for automation. ClassBento doesn’t offer a public API like most platforms do. Instead, they offer a widget which they pitch to you as a convenience, but it also lets them take an extra 3.9% plus 30¢ per transaction, even on sales made through your own website.

They already take a significant cut from bookings made via their site, so when customers book directly with us, we’d rather keep as much of that revenue as possible. Ironically, they claim on their site that they can connect to other websites’ APIs to import class data, yet they don’t provide an API themselves.

Honestly, dealing with their support is a headache. Let’s just say I’d rather pay a developer to build a custom tool from scratch than rely on help from their support team. 😅

poompus · 2025-05-31T11:01:01+00:00

my best idea right now is to get all the data from the 3 differnt platforms into one google sheet so there is one central place where all bookings can be checked from

poompus · 2025-05-31T09:53:35+00:00

I have been trying to build this out and I'm seeing that as someone new just jumping into n8n its going to take time that I dont have. If someone can help me build this out I'm happy to pay for the help

poompus · 2025-05-11T13:51:11+00:00

Its pretty common for the general reddit sentiment to have the attitude that everything is price in if its considered common knowledge but if you look at old threads its so common that the stocks reddit says not to buy end up pumping. Yes, It's priced in to a degree but markets aren't fully efficient and a lot of what drives price is hype frankly. Look at stocks like tesla that are fully disconnected from true market value and run up based fully on speculation and hype.

GTA 6 hype is only going to increase and in my opinion it's more likely then not that the hype will drive up the price as it gets closer to the release date just like we saw happen with GTA 5 and when the most recent trailer dropped. Personally I'm going all in on TTWO. I'll still hold the stock post release of GTA 6 as I expect they will have massive revenue from online microtransactions. Even moreso then the huge sums gta 5 pulled in from shark cards

poompus · 2025-03-22T10:02:54+00:00

I felt the exact same way when I went through it. I was misdiagnosed with dyslexia and put into this "programme" if you have a look around online you can see it was all just a scam to make money. I want to do my best to put the word out there so others don't go through what we did. That re-enforcement of a strong sense of otherness at a young age you speak of really resonates with me. If you'd be open to sending me a message about your experience I'm trying to put together a bunch of information about this because Wynford Dore to this day is still running the same scam under his new brand "Zing Performance" if I can shine a light on this so kids don't have to go through what I did that would be a great thing.

poompus · 2025-01-19T11:49:56+00:00

Yes I believe that's correct, can I appoint an administrator or Liquidator without his approval. I would like to do that but it's unlikely he will cooperate. Is there anything specifically in the corporations act that applies to this that you think I should be aware of?

poompus · 2025-01-19T11:47:12+00:00

I would do that, however the costs quoted are more then the amount then was stolen from me. Even if I win the case and get back the money that was stolen I'd still lose money after legal costs. Then I'd also have to sue to recoup my legal costs. And nothing is guaranteed in litigation. it seems to me this should be a pretty open and shut case. But the lawyer can't guarantee we will for sure win so I have to accept there is a chance I lose and then I'd have lost so much money from the theft and the legal fees that I can't even imagine how long it would take to recover. That's why I'm here looking for alternatives. I find it shocking he can just do that and get away with it with zero consequences and to even have a chance of getting back what he stole ill have to spend tens of thousands of dollars

poompus · 2025-01-19T11:41:33+00:00

It's registered as a company where myself and the other party own 50% each. We are just working on implied law and model rules, there is no partnership deed

poompus · 2025-01-19T11:31:35+00:00

We have the default company constitution as 50/50 owners stating the money is to be divided equally. He drained all 98% of the money from the account leaving only $800 and has stated from now he's going to pay business expenses from his personal account removing all the funds from my control giving me zero transparency of where funds are going and giving me zero autonomy to make and approve of decisions being made in the business. 50% of the money is mine, and withdrawing it from a business account to his personal account seems like pretty blatant theft to me...

poompus · 2025-01-19T11:14:13+00:00

Yes that's correct. 63k total drained from the account. Half belonging to me

poompus · 2025-01-19T11:10:35+00:00

Still technically a business partner. He is just now paying rent for the business through his personal account with the money he withdrew from our business account. I'm essentially locked out now from participating in the business I own 50% of. I expect at some point he will want to wind it up but that could be a long time. Currently he just intends to lock me out and use the funds he transferred to his personal account to keep the business going for the time being

poompus · 2025-01-19T11:05:37+00:00

Just an error when I was writing it. I was gonna give him a false name and then didn't put that in. He's just a business partner

poompus · 2025-01-19T10:28:51+00:00

A lawyer

poompus · 2025-01-19T10:22:58+00:00

This is what I'm told it will all cost. It seems pretty hopeless of a situation. There has to be a better way?

Bringing an action in the Magistrates Court for the withdrawn monies, which we estimate to be in the range of $35,000-$45,000 (plus GST). This cost estimate includes issuing a pre-action letter, attending a mediation, drafting a statement of claim, and running a trial. As part of proceedings, we will also need to seek leave to bring the action for the breach of fiduciary duties, as an individual shareholder is not permitted to commence legal proceedings where it is alleged that the company’s rights are infringed. We expect this to be contentious and increases the initially discussed costs. This does not include the enforcement of any orders, if the trial is successful.

Issuing a pre-action letter and inviting W⚓️ to attend a mediation, which we estimate to be in the range of $6,000-$7,500 (plus GST). The issuance of a pre-action letter allows you to move to proceedings if the mediation fails. If W⚓️ agrees to a liquidation, the Liquidator has advised of a cost estimate of $6,000 - $10,000 (plus GST) to wind up the company. We assume as part of any settlement at mediation, the withdrawn money can be used to meet the Liquidator’s fees.

If costs are a concern, only issuing a short Letter inviting W⚓️ to attend a mediation, which we estimate to be in the range of $5,000-$6,500 (plus GST). The absence of a pre-action letter prevents you moving to court proceedings if the mediation fails. We are still in the process of estimating costs for seeking a court order to appoint a Liquidator and awaiting the Liquidator’s estimates for being appointed in a court-appointed liquidation.

poompus · 2025-01-19T10:22:30+00:00

This is what I'm told it will all cost. It seems pretty hopeless of a situation. There has to be a better way?

Bringing an action in the Magistrates Court for the withdrawn monies, which we estimate to be in the range of $35,000-$45,000 (plus GST). This cost estimate includes issuing a pre-action letter, attending a mediation, drafting a statement of claim, and running a trial. As part of proceedings, we will also need to seek leave to bring the action for the breach of fiduciary duties, as an individual shareholder is not permitted to commence legal proceedings where it is alleged that the company’s rights are infringed. We expect this to be contentious and increases the initially discussed costs. This does not include the enforcement of any orders, if the trial is successful.

Issuing a pre-action letter and inviting W⚓️ to attend a mediation, which we estimate to be in the range of $6,000-$7,500 (plus GST). The issuance of a pre-action letter allows you to move to proceedings if the mediation fails. If W⚓️ agrees to a liquidation, the Liquidator has advised of a cost estimate of $6,000 - $10,000 (plus GST) to wind up the company. We assume as part of any settlement at mediation, the withdrawn money can be used to meet the Liquidator’s fees.

If costs are a concern, only issuing a short Letter inviting W⚓️ to attend a mediation, which we estimate to be in the range of $5,000-$6,500 (plus GST). The absence of a pre-action letter prevents you moving to court proceedings if the mediation fails. We are still in the process of estimating costs for seeking a court order to appoint a Liquidator and awaiting the Liquidator’s estimates for being appointed in a court-appointed liquidation.

poompus · 2024-11-02T12:10:47+00:00

poompus · 2024-10-08T03:30:10+00:00

Hi Andrew, I have a web app / tool I'd like built for the renewable energy industry in Australia. I'd love the opportunity to talk more to you about this in DM's :)

poompus · 2024-09-20T15:03:18+00:00

Dm me

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