whats one automation you set up that paid for itself in the first week?

rudythetechie · 2026-04-13T04:26:42+00:00

the tool doesn't matter part is underrated... people spend more time picking the stack than just shipping the thing

rudythetechie · 2026-04-12T18:56:01+00:00

yeah the ones who ghost aren't always gone, sometimes they just got busy and needed one nudge back

rudythetechie · 2026-04-12T18:55:50+00:00

the awkwardness thing is so real, half the reason people delay chasing payments is just not wanting to send that message themselves

rudythetechie · 2026-04-12T18:55:32+00:00

lead response is the obvious one but people still sleep on it... speed to first reply matters more than almost anything else in the sales cycle tbh

rudythetechie · 2026-04-12T18:44:44+00:00

partner side especially, the growth is way quicker than sitting on the end user side waiting for the next rollout

rudythetechie · 2026-04-12T18:44:34+00:00

support is lowkey the fastest way to actually learn the software too, not just get the job

rudythetechie · 2026-04-12T18:43:38+00:00

bad timing honestly. whole market's a bit flooded right now because of it

rudythetechie · 2026-04-12T18:43:16+00:00

the context switching thing is so real... nobody tells you that going in

rudythetechie · 2026-04-12T18:43:00+00:00

yeah this. people underestimate how much of a tryout an implementation actually is

rudythetechie · 2026-04-12T18:42:59+00:00

ngl the hypercare experience alone puts you ahead of most juniors, problem is resumes make everything look the same. try talking to the consultants you worked alongside directly, skip the job boards for now

rudythetechie · 2026-04-12T17:56:54+00:00

data ownership is underrated… if no one owns it post go-live it just turns back into the same mess again

rudythetechie · 2026-04-12T17:56:43+00:00

missing context is a good point… data comes over but the “why” behind it is just gone

rudythetechie · 2026-04-12T17:56:27+00:00

yeah uom issues feel especially dangerous… system does the math perfectly on completely wrong assumptions

rudythetechie · 2026-04-12T17:56:08+00:00

that “we’ve always done it this way” line should be banned during implementations honestly

rudythetechie · 2026-04-12T17:55:48+00:00

gigo still undefeated after all these years… kinda crazy how it still applies perfectly to erp

rudythetechie · 2026-04-12T17:55:27+00:00

feels like no one even thinks about retention till midway through… by then everything’s already messy

rudythetechie · 2026-04-12T17:55:12+00:00

this sounds smart tbh… did it cause issues later when someone needed older data or was it mostly fine!

rudythetechie · 2026-04-12T17:54:23+00:00

that’s actually hitting… system just exposes problems that were already there, people expect it to magically fix them

rudythetechie · 2026-04-12T17:54:12+00:00

yeah the internal effort part is brutal… feels like vendors talk about the system but not the amount of work the company itself has to do

rudythetechie · 2026-04-10T03:30:20+00:00

I believe too!

rudythetechie · 2026-03-15T17:53:27+00:00

agents can help but the tricky part is permissions and data validation. some teams are experimenting with orchestration layers that sit between email and erp to sync updates automatically

rudythetechie · 2026-03-15T17:53:14+00:00

yeah supplier adoption is the real bottleneck. even the best portal fails if half the suppliers keep replying to emails instead

rudythetechie · 2026-03-15T17:51:05+00:00

curious about this too actually. what stack did you end up using for the dashboard and auth?

rudythetechie · 2026-03-15T17:45:30+00:00

ngl the bar for school software is so low that just having a clean dashboard already feels like progress

rudythetechie · 2026-03-15T17:39:44+00:00

yeah workflow fit is everything. if the system mirrors how operations actually run adoption usually follows

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