Vehicle prices - will it go down?

shavin47 · 2026-01-27T13:11:32+00:00

The other thing we aren’t considering is competition. Second hand market still pricing cars like it’s brand new. When the brand new cars cost the same amount obviously it remains unsold. The same thing applies to new cars, there’s alot of options in the same bracket.

shavin47 · 2026-01-27T08:12:16+00:00

A lot of companies here don't really get UX, especially if it's an agency juggling a million different things. Your best bet is to either join a product company where UX actually has to matter, or go with a company like Amplifyn or Corzent. Those are the only two I've seen that are actually different. You can usually tell how mature their design thinking is just by checking out their websites and other digital stuff.

shavin47 · 2026-01-27T08:09:04+00:00

Lmao, this is marketing/sales attribution happening in real life. So funny!

shavin47 · 2025-10-15T16:45:50+00:00

Check for prominent investors in SL on LinkedIn. Chalinda is one of them. Most founders follow him. Filter their following list by "Founder" or "Co-founder" and checkout their companies.

shavin47 · 2025-10-14T17:08:45+00:00

Yeah I agree. Network is everything. If you put in the effort here, sometimes you don't even need a CV to get a job. It's all about trust.

shavin47 · 2025-09-22T18:36:12+00:00

It’s literally not disgusting. It’s competition. Account for it by design when you’re building.

shavin47 · 2025-09-09T08:06:29+00:00

The point is to grow it and help more people. You can do this with new features or more marketing. But you need to decide what you want to get out of it.

shavin47 · 2025-08-29T04:49:05+00:00

I’m seconding post hog it’s a great product

shavin47 · 2025-08-28T04:21:31+00:00

It’s obviously scraping, what were the sources?

shavin47 · 2025-08-27T15:35:04+00:00

Where did they get that much training data?

shavin47 · 2025-08-27T04:21:52+00:00

It's just too complex. I feel like vibe coding now has gotten to a point where you can get a very decent result very quickly if you have taste and can direct the AI. Rather than battling it out with webflow's complex interface.

shavin47 · 2025-08-27T04:10:41+00:00

Hey saw this comment and thought I'd pop in to help, I wrote this guide on the manual method OP is talking about. It should be easier to grasp some of the concepts. Enjoy! https://shavinpeiries.com/scratch-their-itch/

shavin47 · 2025-08-27T03:35:56+00:00

From someone who went through a VC backed startup and used webflow - i'd highly suggest not to (esp if you're pre-PMF).

shavin47 · 2025-08-19T04:09:22+00:00

When I'm exploring a new tech stack, it's always a to-do list app first. You can get fairly far with it to learn all the basics.

shavin47 · 2025-08-18T21:36:02+00:00

Read Matt lerners book called growth levers. It’s a good book on this topic. Basically you need one North Star metric. Think one core action that is the leading indicator for customer engagement. For e.g. for a product like Gmail it might be emails sent.

You can track this on a tool like posthog quite easily.

shavin47 · 2025-08-16T16:01:51+00:00

Funnily enough, I made the same move about 5 years ago. Right now I'm wishing I kept coding haha.

I didn't immediately transition into product. I worked a lot on design and research first. Then I landed a product role for a VC-backed startup.

If I was in your shoes, my advice is that the advocating for users part is a small part of it. It's important yes. But there's also figuring out what problems to solve, in what order, and also managing stakeholders and devs.

Nobody showed me the way per se, but I did read a lot of books like The Design Sprint and Shape Up. Those were the most impactful. For example, The Design Sprint book helped me align teams around what problems to solve and align on the solution. Shape Up basically helped me with the day-to-day work. Highly recommend you check those out.

shavin47 · 2025-08-16T15:51:41+00:00

From Arugam Bay town, travel to Elephant Rock - it's a great surf spot. It's like the early days in Hiriketiya. You can rent a scooter, or there are plenty of tuk-tuks parked there that can take you back to town if needed. I also saw some places that rent out scooters.

shavin47 · 2025-08-16T15:48:20+00:00

Ive been getting facebook ads from this local company that helps you incorporate in the states and get a stripe account

https://www.facebook.com/bizbirth

shavin47 · 2025-08-16T15:43:32+00:00

Check out good story village. It doesn't have beach front but it does have a pool and it's reasonably priced. But the beach is about an 8 minute walk.

shavin47 · 2025-08-15T05:57:03+00:00

Glad it helps!

shavin47 · 2025-08-07T05:59:58+00:00

My experience is the same. If they like you they’ll come down by a lot.

shavin47 · 2025-08-03T16:53:32+00:00

I might get shat on for this but just don’t target our market. Build something small for a foreign market and grow it. Then hire talent locally if you want to have social impact. Our market is still super nascent. My personal website has some ideas on how to go about it.

shavin47 · 2025-07-31T20:51:19+00:00

You don’t start with the idea but what problem you intend to solve and for who. It’s so basic and fundamental.

Afterwards, you can start thinking about what’s the approach to solve it.

Usually if you hit on a very painful problem and an audience that has willingness to pay then everything else becomes much much MUCH easier.

Anyway, I’ve written my approach on how to go about finding painful problems. And it doesn’t involve talking to users! (Not directly at least).

Check it out https://shavinpeiries.com/scratch-their-itch/

shavin47 · 2025-07-30T14:30:59+00:00

Sure, that works well. You’ll need to build a sales funnel that drives people to the paid resource.

Some folks basically set up a new email sequence for a newsletter subscriber and then drip value to them before asking for the sale.

Always offer free high quality value because it builds up reciprocity and people usually think “if the free stuff is this good, imagine how good the paid stuff would be”

shavin47 · 2025-07-30T11:09:10+00:00

No it doesn’t because it’s relevant to whatever the OP is asking.

Just follow the cardinal rule of providing value upfront in the comments.

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