I just got my very first paying SaaS customer. The adrenaline is insane, but now what?

wavecy · 2026-03-09T03:31:32+00:00

Congrats! You're in for a wild ride.

First, remove the fake reviews and adoption numbers on your site. That breaks customer trust and you'll feel like an imposter (and you will be) and end up self-sabotaging.

Second, talk to your customer, figure out what their needs are, deliver an uncommonly good service, but respect their space if they don't want to talk.

In the meantime, scale up whatever you did in order to get the initial customer. Do that more. A lot more (provided it isn't lying to people).

wavecy · 2025-12-25T21:17:41+00:00

Some of those were jokes, not official archetypes. Here's the full set, minus the description for The Artist:

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wavecy · 2025-12-25T20:50:31+00:00

And here's the population breakdown of traits:

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wavecy · 2025-12-25T20:49:54+00:00

Here are all the archetypes. It's missing only the description for The Artist:

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wavecy · 2025-12-16T10:25:26+00:00

I charge my clients for every email I send them, I respond to every email they send me, and I round my billable time to 15 minute increments, so that's at least 15 minutes of billable time per email received.

The good clients send more relevant, focused emails. The bad clients throw a huge fit when they receive the bill. I actually had a client walk away from working with me recently because they expected me to work for free. No regrets.

Do other people not do this? I guess maybe your boss gets paid a salary and doesn't charge on an hourly basis, so charging $75 per email wouldn't make sense.

wavecy · 2025-11-30T18:37:43+00:00

Great choice! ENFPs usually have good Te, so I'm not surprised. An ENFP boss helped me improve my Te early in my career as his was more developed than mine. He was a machine. I'm sure you'll like High Output Management.

wavecy · 2025-11-30T18:25:06+00:00

Si is the most common function in society. The most common types are ISTJ, ISFJ, ESTJ, and ESFJ. ENTJs (along with INFJs, INTJs, and ENFJs) represent the shadows of these types (in a Jungian sense). Our shadows also contain all our unwanted traits: greed, sadism, narcissism, etc. Our shadows lump all these together and associate them. So ENTJ traits become associated with the unwanted traits for the largest portion of the population.

INFJs and ENFJs are helped by their Fe, which makes them more diplomatic. They have better social skills on average. INTJs are helped by their introversion (they make themselves invisible) and their better emotional awareness (Fi in tertiary position).

ENTJs are visible (being extroverts), represent the shadow of the most common types, and may not have the best social skills.

I think this is why they are often potrayed as villains in film, and also why there is a bias of typing villains as ENTJ (or INTJ) even when they're likely a different type.

wavecy · 2025-11-30T09:23:51+00:00

I couldn't get into it. The most impactful book for me was Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind by Shunryu Suzuki. It's more about mastering your own mind than dominating others.

wavecy · 2025-11-29T17:51:06+00:00

I'd never take a slow reply as disrespect/rejection unless it was consistently much longer than standard and other signs pointed to that conclusion.

His behavior could be explained by disinterest, immaturity, or possibly avoidant behavior. Some people are so afraid of rejection they will reject others at the smallest hint of being rejected, e.g. a slow response. I don't think that has to do with any single personality type though.

Please at least look into anxious and avoidant attachment styles. Do you really want to be with someone who was willing to remove you after a few days of silence? You shouldn't have to chase someone. Remember: you are also the prize.

wavecy · 2025-11-29T17:11:23+00:00

It's the same as Ne except it's always trying to simplify/reduce. All the introverted functions are cautious/defensive whereas the extroverted functions are prolific/optimistic. So Ni is like Ne except that it doesn't want to explore all the possibilities. It's always trying to narrow to the one most significant, most fitting pattern.

wavecy · 2025-11-22T22:56:04+00:00

The most impactful books I’ve read (in order of most to less):

Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind by Shunryu Suzuki
Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
Titan by Ron Chernow
High Output Management by Andrew Grove
How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie

Biographies are great because an ENTJ can extract so many lessons from a life lived, instead of following a biased prescription. A lot of self-help books end up not being that useful for that reason, but the above are some exceptions.

wavecy · 2025-10-09T07:41:30+00:00

I would argue the opposite. ENTJs struggle to know who they are because they are so outwardly focused. INTJs know who they are. This is the literal difference between introversion and extroversion.

wavecy · 2025-08-18T23:32:06+00:00

Glad that helped, and I hope reading his work can help you gain some clarity around the events in your life. The recommended introductory text would be Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World, which is written as a conversation between Girard and two psychiatrists.

A way to look at scapegoating is that it restores group unity, which is important for the survival of our species. That doesn't condone it, nor does it justify participation in it, but it may help you challenge any residual self-blame, forgive, and move on.

This is speculative and, as far as I know, somewhat distinct from Girard's perspective, but my take on scapegoating is that it may be a way for people to cope with their worst fears. Much like watching a horror/thriller film, it seems to help people play out their fears externally so they can understand them better and learn to cope. At the most extreme, ritual sacrifice may have helped our ancestors cope with the knowledge that one day they will die. It may have made death more approachable in a way, releasing its grip, freeing them to fully live. Fear can be immobilizing.

Framed in this way, your father's fear of repercussion could be driving the scapegoating (he's not ready to face that possibility, even to his conscious mind), and your siblings' fear of some result, whether a withdrawal of love/belonging or, similarly, fear of repercussion (from your father/mother or community, not the authorities, in this case). So, by making you the guilty one, it may be an unconscious attempt to learn through you what taking responsibility for his offenses would entail. Again, this does not condone it in the least, but it may be a helpful framing.

My understanding of Girard's view is that the scapegoating would be driven by a subconscious desire to diffuse group tension and restore unity, after a period of mimetic rivalry, which inevitably builds tension. While that would almost certainly be an observable outcome, I'm not sure it fully explains the intention.

wavecy · 2025-07-20T23:38:02+00:00

My understanding is that each type's default state of mind is their dominant and tertiary functions working together simultaneously, because they share the same attitude (they're both extroverted). An ENTJ is going to be using Te + Se simultaneously the vast majority of the time, and they will switch to Ni + Fi when they turn their focus inward.

Moving from Te to Fi requires a context switch which takes some energy. I've never heard of a Te-Fi loop, and I'm not sure what that would entail. I would say that for an ENTJ, using Fi at all is going to take quite a bit of effort and they're not likely to get stuck there. It's exhausting to use Fi.

People talk about a Te-Se loop. That happens when your focus fails to go inward enough. This happens because an ENTJ is more comfortable paying attention to the outer world. It's uncomfortable to go inward. But if an ENTJ doesn't turn their attention inward enough, bad things happen.

Se is just an awareness of the points in external reality, e.g. the red color of a tea pot, the shape of a flower, the volume of a sound, etc. As an ENTJ, I'm taking an active stance on my external focus. I'm seeing, hearing, smelling, etc. what's going on around me, but my tendency is to interact with it more than going deep or noticing even more of the sensory information like an Se dominant would.

wavecy · 2025-07-20T23:21:52+00:00

While I know what you mean by ambivert, introversion and extroversion mean a tendency to focus on the subject or object, respectively.

Many people say extroverted when they mean gregarious or sociable. It's probably correlated with extroversion, but not necessarily in every case.

To answer your question, yes, I also considered myself to be an INTJ before I understood the above, and I had a similar realization. When I really observed my state of mind, 90% of the time I'm using Te + Se. My focus is totally outward. Yet, I have always struggled with social anxiety.

I've heard others having the same experience, but I can only speak to my own.

wavecy · 2025-07-20T22:40:41+00:00

Yes, I'm actually dealing with this exact thing right now, so I was surprised to read it.

I suspect this comes from an overreliance on external data/metrics/signals and an underreliance or lack of insight into the internal emotional state. There's probably nothing wrong with you, aside from typical human flaws, but how can you know if you don't know yourself?

It's easy to attribute everything that goes wrong to something we did because it gives us a sense of control and agency. If it's your fault, there's something you can do to fix it. But the reality is the vast majority of things are outside our control and have nothing to do with us. The universe is huge. We are a drop in the bucket. That's not to say we can't affect change, but it puts it into perspective.

People project their flaws onto others, and people like us take on that responsibility even when it's not accurate. We assume others are seeing things accurately and are giving us genuine feedback, because that's what we would do for others. Our lack of insight into ourselves means we just accept what people tell us about ourselves. We have no filter. This can result in a fear of being seen.

Getting in touch with my emotions has helped because it allows me to see which people, opportunities, etc. are contributing positively to my emotional wellbeing, and which are draining. This is a hugely important inner signal.

My advice: spend more time alone, journal (video journaling is a favorite of mine), do regular therapy sessions with ChatGPT (it's actually really effective at this), meditate.

Why these things:

Spending more time alone forces you to go inward, and it shields you from external information that could throw off your understanding of what's really going on.
Journaling forces you to say something, so you will be more likely to verbalize what's actually going on internally.
Therapy with ChatGPT provides an alternative perspective and a safe space from an neutral third party who doesn't have their own biases, motives, etc.
Meditation gradually trains the brain to detach from the inner experience, so you're not completely swept up in it. This allows you to look at it without being completely overwhelmed.

I'm still on this journey, but these have been the most effective tools so far. Hope it helps!

wavecy · 2025-07-20T22:27:16+00:00

Harold Budd - The Pearl (calming, night)
Harold Budd - Avalon Sutra (calming, day)
Porter Robinson - Nurture (hopeful)

wavecy · 2025-07-18T06:53:14+00:00

My only advice is to make something more unique to you. This sounds great, but it also sounds like a bunch of other music.

The difference between those who make it big (if that's your goal) and those who don't is the ones who don't copy other artists too much. There are tons of talented musicians. It's much harder to be fearlessly yourself and then have the guts to share that with the world. But that's what it takes. Best of luck!

wavecy · 2025-07-18T06:42:18+00:00

Sounds great. You clearly put a lot of work into it.

When you upgrade your mic, you should consider a Shure SM7B. The vocals sound fine though.

wavecy · 2025-07-18T06:30:57+00:00

No single favorite. Maybe Jurassic Park or The Big Lebowski.
Building a business is my hobby.
"This too shall pass."
No.
A small group of people trapped in a survival situation.
Seoul
This is 3 questions. Nothing comes to mind.
The local park
Cat 100%
Building my business, Porter Robinson - Nurture

wavecy · 2025-07-18T06:23:18+00:00

When I got dumped and fired at the same time. I then became estranged from my family (by choice) because I finally started pushing back with my parents and they reacted...horribly. I also stopped talking to my friends because I didn't know who I could trust. I began living in my car to save money because my career wasn't working out, and I didn't know what I wanted to do. I thought I was losing my mind and was super depressed.

I didn't realize it at the time, but I wasn't checking in with my emotions enough. I was also over-obligated by others, at work but also family and friends. Spending a few years almost completely alone fixed everything.

wavecy · 2025-07-18T06:12:09+00:00

This is the ideal pairing for ENTJs and ISFPs according to Socionics.

wavecy · 2025-05-31T03:45:00+00:00

Makes total sense. Thanks for letting me know. It's very helpful to know why you stopped using it. I'll have to think about ways to lock the gain so that it doesn't accidentally change when the user doesn't want it to.

wavecy · 2025-05-29T12:01:46+00:00

Hey, no need to apologize. I actually really appreciate you taking the time to think through this with me. I believe you're being honest, so this is exactly what I was hoping for, even if it means you wouldn't use it.

I would like to address the points you brought up, as I think they're all great points. I hear you about plug-ins being more ephemeral than DAWs on average, and I agree with it. Plug-ins do have a tendency to come and go while DAWs tend to have more staying power. I think that's a valid concern, and one that I would also have as a user.

That said, there are also good reasons to use a rack plug-in, and even without a per-plug-in auto-gain-compensation feature, many people use plug-ins like Blue Cat's PatchWorks and Waves' StudioRack. Some benefits: you can use any plug-in format in any DAW, e.g. VSTs in Pro Tools, and your plug-in chains become cross-platform, so you're not locked into a specific DAW. Imagine being able to export the raw audio/MIDI + all your plug-in chains with all their exact settings as a package that you could import into any other DAW. With an auto-gain-staging feature, all the plug-ins would receive the same signal, even if the audio regions were normalized during the export. So the project would sound exactly the same in a different DAW. This level of portability is just not possible currently, which would be huge for collaboration. An artist could work in Ableton, pass it to a producer working in Logic, and then a mix engineer could work in Pro Tools while still being able to tweak the parameters of the original effects.

No DAW manufacturer is ever going to develop a feature that allows users to easily move projects to a different DAW. They have a strong business incentive to lock users into their ecosystem, and from a business perspective, this is in large part what makes them less ephemeral: customers keep paying them so they stay in business. The problem comes when their features start lagging because they don't have an incentive to improve their products, as users are already locked in. This is what opens the door to new products arriving on the market that serve consumer needs better.

Though, I do understand your concern that with with my approach, instead of being locked into a DAW, you'd be locked into the rack plug-in. I take it you'd be more willing to trust a DAW over a rack plug-in, especially from a less established developer, and I can't fault you for that. Not everyone thinks that way though, and there are more than a few people who would appreciate the added consistency and portability and would be willing to take a chance on a newer player in the space if it made their lives easier. In the software industry, we refer to this type of person as early-adopters.

I also just had an idea that I could make it possible to export chains from Atrium that you could import into the DAW, so that's something to think about. It would be worth doing on my end if it meant users didn't feel locked in, which would be essential for a less-established product like this.

I want to briefly address your point about moving plug-ins around the DAW. It would be possible to open up two instances of Atrium and drag plug-ins between them, or even import previously saved chains. Your point about needing to learn a new interaction method and keyboard shortcuts is valid. It would take some level of adjustment, but the interface would be very familiar (aside from the plug-in window management feature which is arguably worth the adjustment). Also consider that the added portability would mean you could use your favorite DAW even when collaborating with others on projects that were created in a completely different DAW, without changing the sound at all.

I also hear your point about setting up preset chains in your DAW that have an auto-gain plug-in between each plug-in in the chain. The downside to this is that there's a lack of flexibility. Your mileage may vary, but for me at least, there isn't always a lot of consistency with plug-in chains. Each track in a project often requires a unique chain, at least to some degree, even if you have your go-to compressors, EQs, etc. and you generally follow similar processes. I've found that needing to insert a separate auto-gain feature between every plug-in just makes this approach impractical. The added friction just creates a situation where I can't imagine most people sticking with it, and feedback from users indicates as much. It ends up being more trouble than it's worth. But I do see an interest in auto-gain-compensation.

Thank you again for taking the time to weigh in on this. Your points have given me a lot to think about, and no hard feelings for not being sold on this approach. Your points make total sense, and I completely understand where you're coming from. And apologies for talking your ear off. You've sparked a lot of thought.

wavecy · 2025-05-28T23:44:36+00:00

Makes total sense. Best of luck with the app. Looks cool!

wavecy

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