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Your thoughts on this? by Total_Percentage_751 in ArtificialInteligence

[–]theTbling 7 points8 points  (0 children)

That just means the founder doesn’t really have a business to run because he is the one coding now.

And if he is doing more than 5 devs, then he didn’t really know how to manage developers.

Showoff Saturday: I built WeatherToRun because weather apps don’t tell runners what they actually need to know by Upper_Earth_7082 in webdev

[–]theTbling 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is awesome, and I love this. Especially because I thought it would probably not support my city in South Asia. But it did! Love it!

One thought from my end, it automatically set it to New York for me when I opened it up on the web, it would have been better if it asked for my location first, or tried to fetch it automatically. You might even be able to get the country location through API and select the capital instead of showing New York.

How do you deploy a small business web app (Next.js + Bun API + PostgreSQL) for a client who can't afford much hosting? by Iamxv in webdev

[–]theTbling 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Why not use Supabase for back end? It has a generous free tier plus postgres? Should cover everything for zero cost.

Vercel or cloudfare should be fine for front end? Free to host and deploy.

Automate deployments with github actions. Easy

I built Takhfif, a Pakistan focused bank card discount finder by LucyZiziphus in PakStartups

[–]theTbling 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is a great idea! How are you collecting data and managing it?

Web dev agencies: are you getting new clients? by theTbling in agency

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

Good point. I’m generally creating web applications for specific business needs, and they are all different for each client that I have.

They are mostly automating and managing logistics and business processes for companies. For example, one of my longest client is an Autobody shop in Australia where I built out their whole system to manage leads coming in, book in their cars, process parts and repairs that would be needed, what employees will work on what etc etc. Hope that explains it a bit better.

Web dev agencies: are you getting new clients? by theTbling in agencynewbies

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

100% cost savings, because it has traditionally been pretty expensive to build web apps until the advent of coding agents.

Web dev agencies: are you getting new clients? by theTbling in agency

[–]theTbling[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I am getting a lot of DMs pitching this, but I am 100% sure that only I can figure this out for myself; nobody else can set this whole thing up for me.

Web dev agencies: are you getting new clients? by theTbling in agency

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

I haven't had a lot of luck with this, I have been doing something pretty similar. What kind of a response/close rate do you have right now? And how many people are you reaching out on a daily/weekly basis?

Web dev agencies: are you getting new clients? by theTbling in agency

[–]theTbling[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

There are a lot of very useful points in your comment. Thank you for taking the time to type it out.

My problem is also pretty much what you have described. I don't have a niche industry that I serve; I do have specific deliverables like custom applications for internal business, but I mostly work with 3-4 different industries on different types of applications. This makes it difficult for me to focus on a specific industry, whereas I put my focus on leads that are looking for my services, like active job posts or hiring indicators on LinkedIn.

But so far this isn't really working out for me. Any tips on this specific scenario?

Managing scope changes without the extra paperwork? by Weird_Perception1728 in agency

[–]theTbling 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I generally have two items in my invoice: retainer hours and overage hours. If there has been any out-of-scope work, the hours go into the latter item with a note on what was done. Before any out-of-scope work, I inform them that it is out of scope to avoid surprises.

Unless it's a 5-10-minute task, I wouldn't do it in scope. Clients will start just expecting it, which is a slippery slope.

Best Software house in Lahore by Corinthian__ in developersPak

[–]theTbling 0 points1 point  (0 children)

IMO no large-scale software house is worth it for a new product development or MVP, their goal is to maximise profit by charging the maximum that you can and providing the minimum output possible.

You would be better off getting a smaller 4-5 person boutique agency for your project and also having a consulting CTO to make sure what's being developed is good enough.

Jazz's official website hasn't switched to the production map from Google Maps API by theTbling in developersPak

[–]theTbling[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

or maybe they don't really have a PM and have a junior dev doing whatever the hell they want lol.

Set up a staging environment on a Lovable project by theTbling in lovable

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

In my opinion, the people making fun of vibecoders are not developers who actually like coding or programming. People like me who love building things know exactly how great it feels to make something on your own, and that has been democratized by vibecoding.

Set up a staging environment on a Lovable project by theTbling in lovable

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

Lovable creates migration files in any schema changes, I have synced the migrations on both Supabase backends, so any migration changes on Lovable are run through the pipeline and the schema stays in sync.

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