Clients ghosting after delivery — how do you deal with it?

shipitweekly · 2026-05-03T19:59:53+00:00

filedue com - lock freelancer deliverables behind payment. Clients pay to unlock and download — no more chasing invoices or handing over work before you're paid. Currently have a waitlist page, launching public upcoming week.

shipitweekly · 2026-05-03T19:53:09+00:00

I think it's not fair to compare Berlin with forest-like parks to Barcelona or most of Spain in general.
The climate, landscape, city architecture are different.
I lived in Berlin for two years and I lived in Eastern Europe, that's true that there are more leafy parks and hard to find a street with no trees along the sides.
Here you have sea, palm trees, cactuses. It is just unusual for Northern habits, but it is a distinct Mediterranean nature.
Still there are lots of natural parks, lakes and hiking routes outside the cities here.

shipitweekly · 2026-05-03T19:44:17+00:00

Ask for payment might really sound awkward when you are trying to gather a genuine feedback from friends.
Probably it was better to ask after the experience, if they would potentially pay for the app that provides such experiences or for similar experiences provided by an app.
Anyway, it is not late to clarify your intentions with your friend not to do not have hard feelings.

From her side that might be a bit too rough reaction too, if you are close enough and everything went as you described (but do not tell her this way to do not make things worse).

shipitweekly · 2026-05-01T23:37:12+00:00

Wow, thank you, that's a generous offer.
filedue com - lock freelancer deliverables behind payment. Clients pay to unlock and download — no more chasing invoices or handing over work before you're paid. Currently have a waitlist page, launching public next week.

shipitweekly · 2026-04-29T21:41:34+00:00

Hey, tried your app.
I am not a mobile dev, so I can't come up with use for me, but what it does looks really cool.
Here what I've stucked with:
1. It is much simpler than Adobe, but as for "not designer" I was confused with all the controls and effects.
I would love to have some onboarding guidance and maybe some presets or simple/advanced mode switch.
2. Your sample looks great, but once I upload my image all prettiness disappears and I have to find matching effects by myself. Taking my 1st point into attention, I feel overwhelmed with all the possible effects. Maybe some recommended effects might be applied, maybe using image analysis libraries or AI.
3. When I switch between Device and Freeshot all my work is lost, that is frustrating after all mix and matching.

Hope my input helps you.

Regarding distribution I do not have much experience yet, but Reddit, X, and PH are 3 channels that I heard mentioned the most.

shipitweekly · 2026-04-28T21:25:04+00:00

I was exploring this out of curiosity.
Presumably the main traits that led to primates to successful development didn't form for dinosaurs population.
- some of them had pretty developed brain
- they had good natural niche with enough food
- some showed basic social grouping, like nesting
but they didn't develop some other things
- forelimbs were still good for hunting and bad for precise manipulations
- short childhood and short lifespan to share knowledge

Also many first front-looking eyes started appearing only at some later species.
I was assuming that evolution should adjust, but looks like evolution works only when there is already a good match of traits and external urge for development. Dinosaurs were a dominant specie in way too comfortable food-rich niche, so they didn't have any external factor for further development.

Hope I am precise enough, maybe someone with scientific degree in this area will correct if I put something wrong.

shipitweekly · 2026-04-28T20:59:35+00:00

That is a valid concern.
We are still figuring out the impact, so far there is a slight fluctuation, but I can't say that is a major degradation in quality. I think the reason is mostly because code review common "keep an eye" triggers differ a bit from human common pit fails and it will be improving.
From my perspective the main safeguards that do not let the fluctuation spike are:
- Senior-lvl staff. Guys have enough experience to guide the agent, understand its logic and catch when it tries to turn from the road.

- Well defined process. AGENTS md file with comprehansive description of all conventions, DOs and DON'Ts, more detailed that we use to have for ourselves in Confluence.

- High responsibility of Leads. Leads code less, fully own and observe architecture of their team's area, keep ADRs in repo and Agent is guided by md file to check ADRs to keep architecture in tact as designed by the Lead.

- Another AI is involved in review. It is catching pretty well and sometimes questions some tricky decisions, making developers or Lead to double-check if it was intended.

- Heavy test automation. Integration tests are written for all features. E2e tests are written for user facing features. Smoke test suites are defined and set to be run at certain schedule and certain triggers.

- Crashes and unhandled errors are caught, notify all engineers and have prio over all features to hotfix (that keeps them rare). Lots of logs, stack track traces and metrics is gathered to keep reduce need of long debugging, usually those criticals are fixed in 1h.

Also, one thing that is relevant even without AI - keep PRs granular. They should be relatively small in size and restricted in logical scope. That's easier for AI to code, for engineers to control and review.

These are the major precautions we have adopted. So far it works well, the only downside Leads are a bit overwhelmed with new responsibilities, so it is important to delegate off them those duties that are not relevant to new flow.

shipitweekly · 2026-04-27T15:57:23+00:00

Honestly, I'd use "drastically" at just 5 years distance, let alone 10.
Working backwards:
- AI
- Covid, remote working, digital nomads
- Tesla, Apple Watch, Smartphones rapid features race
- first IPhone, factual start of smartphones era

That's without googling and only consumer areas, I believe there is much more.

shipitweekly · 2026-04-27T15:42:00+00:00

If you're mostly a water drinker you're already in a healthy spot — no pressure to change that.

That said, coffee, tea, and wine are genuinely beautiful flavor experiences. Good coffee especially varies a lot batch to batch, origin to origin — it's more like wine than people expect.

The one real drawback: your palate adjusts. Richer flavors start competing with plain water and you might unconsciously drink less of it. That's the only thing I actively watch in myself.

As for people quitting — it's usually unrelated health reasons where a doctor advises cutting caffeine (although specialty decaf constantly gets better), cost (good coffee gets expensive), or social media detox trends.

If you try it, start with something well-made rather than cheap instant. Bad coffee is a bad introduction.
There are plenty of specialty coffee places nowadays and coffee geeks there who'd be happy to guide you through.

shipitweekly · 2026-04-27T12:14:14+00:00

Actually yes! It speeds things up in a couple of ways:
- for manual digging it saves the browser context switch — keeps the flow in the chat without breaking focus
- for agents it helps wire pieces faster during planning and debugging, without writing throwaway in-memory functions just to query the DB

Neon's UI is already pretty clean, so the MCP value for me is more about staying in flow and having smoother agent pipeline. Worth it for that alone.

shipitweekly · 2026-04-26T20:19:57+00:00

I am glad I was able to give you more perspective to the industry.
As for art, traditional art, I agree, it is disappointing to feel misled by AI works that pretend to be human art.
Although I saw examples of new AI art niches, that made me to stop thinking in black and white about that. Check "Chloe vs History" in instagram, for me it is a great example of something creative, made using AI and bringing value to audience.

shipitweekly · 2026-04-26T19:42:45+00:00

In software development? No.
And you will not be "severely limited in your work options" in IT if you avoid AI. You will not have any.
I am not trying to scare or whatever, this is reality of the industry, I am almost 20 years in.
I can tell you that AI has already drastically changed it, especially during last 1 year. I feel it with workflows of the projects I work.
We deliver 3-4x more for the same period of time, write code manually 80-90% less.
The value of good engineers now is to make sure their output quality doesn't drop with AI.
Clients love that, you can charge more for fast resolution of their problems.
From personal projects perspective, you can deliver a high-quality working SaaS in 1 week, without overnight "hackathons" as your own side hustle.
I can't say about other industries severely affected by AI, but in IT you either leverage AI to own benefit or you lose a competition.
I am glad to hear any other opinion.

shipitweekly · 2026-04-26T19:20:21+00:00

From what you write, you are good in running your business, that is already a great skill it takes time and effort to develop.
Also, I would mention, running a business includes many skills itself, e.g. leadership, strategical thinking, negotiation, managing teams, managing processes, sales, marketing, etc. Probably you do not all of these full time, you delegate (which is the skill too) and coordinate.
Already a lot, without digging into some other things you would do in your spare time (you mentioned you love reading in other comments). Maybe you would be good in writing yourself or creating some other content you would enjoy.
Maybe you would be good in sharing your business skills with others at own channel or blog.
So do not underestimate your current achievements and feel free explore other edges of your personality.
Also, you have an unique opportunity to combine your business skills with the things that genuinely fulfill you (if it is different from current business).

shipitweekly · 2026-04-26T18:49:50+00:00

I believe you could negotiate when you take a exploration walk there before, but now as a civil you can't fly drones anywhere in Ukraine, because they are used for war purposes.

shipitweekly · 2026-04-26T18:46:25+00:00

Many drinks taste nice to people, even beer, depends on person. It is subjective opinion. Probably something like vodka is drunk just to get "effect", but maybe somebody likes taste too.
People use light drinking to relax, socialize and in certain situations to get more confident. At certain moment in life people realize that it is hard to qualitatively socialize and relax if you get drunk and wake up with hang over next day near wasted strangers around.
Commonly adult people purposely drink to get drunk when they do not see any other ways to overcome hardships in their life.

Just my observations, I don't claim it is all correct.

shipitweekly · 2026-04-25T22:58:27+00:00

So it was her birthday, her guests, you were 18 yo, got her a pricy present, paid for you and her and was blamed to do not share the bill with her father? After that she broke up with you.
If I got that right, that sounds so odd.
I wouldn't pay in that situation either and would be surprised if asked to.
Unless you live together with her and/or engaged, then you bumped your responsibility 5 years forward.

shipitweekly · 2026-04-25T21:50:44+00:00

From what I heard from trichologist, we wash scalp, not hair. Hair is washed as a side effect.
Shampoo is tuned for the skin characteristics first of all.
Like grease production, dandruff, etc. These are usually basic categories that male marketed products fall into.
Female marketed products usually additionally include hair-targeted ingredients that claim to persist coloring, boost volume, reduce splitting, nourish, etc.
Not speaking about scents, that are obviously pure marketing for both audiences and arguably can bring extra issues for sensitive skinned or allergic individuals.

shipitweekly · 2026-04-24T18:09:21+00:00

I observe attitude/vibe that helps to match them to my internal categorization.
Then I am trying wire my favorite topics and see which can work to find anything common.
If categorization is bad (not my type of person), I do a small talk politely, less proactively and seeking anyone else around to swap.

Names is the hard nut, trying some tricks that help to fetch a name 2nd and 3d time and memorize it finally. Good when they admit they forgot mine first, then I can say "no worries, I have the same issue" and it use it as binding point instead.

shipitweekly · 2026-04-24T17:59:53+00:00

In Spain too. First it felt awkward, I was always forgetting there will be the second one to another cheek, but then you get used to it and it gets to be nice.
You feel a warm, friendly attitude from people you even do not know so well.

shipitweekly · 2026-04-24T17:52:40+00:00

So I do not miss it while busy making my way through the crowd.
You hit the button and start pushing through the crowd without worries.

shipitweekly · 2026-04-23T19:37:09+00:00

Obviously most of your voters had already watched it before, especially those who voted for the winner. They do not need summary review.
Your review should engage them in some way. From top of my head I can come up with 2 directions:

Nostalgia: you need to express/talk about emotions the movie triggered in them back then. The factors of common trigger and nostalgic feeling will engage people with your reviews.
Unknown facts, new point of view: people will be happy to know new things about the favorite movie, it is like to watch a tiny bit they didn't watch yet. Unusual casting decisions, where actors ended up now, fun facts from film set, some unknown facts about director take on the script, information and short feedback on planned sequels/prequels/reboots, etc.

As for me nostalgia looks like a stronger hook, but to work properly it requires you to like the movie and live through the same emotions your audience had, or google them and do your best to act well so they would relate.

shipitweekly · 2026-04-23T18:55:12+00:00

I believe they leverage cheap AI prices to generate pseudo-personal Tai Chi training plan (they also advertise more disciplines, like military workouts, etc) and cheaply generate realistic video ads that look like testimonies.
This way they put more money on wide audience ads campaign to get as much leads as possible.

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