I'm trying to reach out to startup people or influencers to do interviews or surveys to find out the feasibility of my product, but I'm getting a very low response rate.
There's this weird pressure in tech where being available 24/7 is treated like the ultimate badge of honor. I tried stepping back from answering every random comment and non-urgent email right away, and honestly, half the people just went ahead and figured the solution out on their own. It made me realize how much time I was wasting babysitting threads that didn't need me. Have you ever tried going radio silent for a few hours, and did anything actually break when you did?
There's this weird pressure in tech where being available 24/7 is treated like the ultimate badge of honor. I tried stepping back from answering every random comment and non-urgent email right away, and honestly, half the people just went ahead and figured the solution out on their own. It made me realize how much time I was wasting babysitting threads that didn't need me. Have you ever tried going radio silent for a few hours, and did anything actually break when you did?
After yesterday s reckoning , it s time to define a plan of activities for the last quarter. I didn t implement many things from Q3, so I would like to finish them in these 3 months.
We're having some internal discussions about what users would prefer - a wide range of niche products (maybe in more of an app-like ecosystem) - or an all in one platform. Interested in learning what the community things - primarily folks who use creator tools and publish / sell / create content!
i am a small solo developer, more of a hobbyist per se. i am at the point with a few of my builds where i am in need of fielding the beta v1s. my problem is that no one i know knows anything about coding, and probably could care less. my question is this: how to get beta testers/ operators that are trustworthy, who won't siderail or steal your intellectual property? how to etablish trust with them, and literally avoid bad operators? please, any insight is absolutely appreciated.
PLG was the backbone of some of the fastest-growing companies in history.
Slack grew by making team invites frictionless. Dropbox gave you free storage for every referral. Zoom let you host 40-minute meetings without a credit card. Those models worked because reducing friction was enough.
It s easy to get trapped into doing free work when small client requests trickle in after a project is done. The real pain is trying to reset boundaries with someone who is already used to getting small tweaks for free.
If you've been in this spot how did you bring up billing for extra work without making it awkward?
Did batching requests work better for you or did you just start billing an hourly rate for every single small change?
I have been thinking about how we decide whether an AI agent is actually ready for production.
Imagine you build an agent that successfully handles 98 out of 100 customer requests. On paper, that sounds impressive. Most teams would probably consider it a success.
