Geoffrey Reed

A lot of teams already manage work inside Gmail and Google Workspace. Customer conversations happen in email threads, follow-ups come out of meetings, and project coordination lives across tasks and boards throughout the day.

Keeping CRM records and project workflows aligned with all of that activity still takes a surprising amount of manual updating afterward.

Built my app with Lovable a few months ago. Launch went fine but since then I've had three separate production issues; auth breaking, database timeouts, a webhook that silently fails. Each one took me days to figure out and I have zero engineering background.

Curious what others are doing. Are you just patching it yourself, hiring freelancers each time, or has anyone found something more ongoing? I've been wondering if a monthly retainer for this kind of support would actually be worth it or if that's just me.

I'll be honest I've never liked the feeling that someone "owns" me.

So being employed was very distant to me. [As if I had no power over my income.]