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I am happy to pay three times the price for something that lasts three times as long, but I keep getting burned by premium versions of the same disposable object. Extended warranties are already ruled out, I have never…
Second year of an evening course, one deck of about 3000 cards, currently 30 new a day and roughly 200 reviews. I have 45 minutes on weeknights and nothing on Fridays. Splitting by chapter would let me focus on what is…
About 400 a month going in, twelve holdings, commission free platform with fractional shares, taxable account. I could turn on automatic reinvestment per holding, or let dividends sit as cash and deploy everything…
Third time in five months. I file the travel notice in the app before I fly, and it still gets blocked on the first or second transaction, and then I am on hold for 40 minutes to a fraud line with a local SIM and hotel…
I need a B1 certificate for a residence application in roughly a year and I want to budget properly instead of drifting. Currently: one free app, one grammar book, no tutor, and about an hour a day I can defend. What…
One brochure site, five pages plus a blog they will update twice a year, about 1500 visits a month. The client pays for their own hosting and domain and will absolutely ring me in eighteen months if the renewal doubles.…
No following anywhere. I decided the honest way to start was to go where people ask about the problem my tool solves, answer properly without linking, and leave the product in my profile. Six weeks, roughly 60 answers,…
New client, six week engagement, and in the two scoping calls so far they've changed the core requirement twice. They're not difficult, they're just early and figuring it out as they go. My instinct says hourly because…
Started from just flour and water 15 days ago. It rises and falls predictably now, roughly doubling in six hours on a 1:1:1 feed at room temperature, but the smell has gone from pleasant and yoghurty around day eight to…
I have a measure that flags high value customers and sums their orders. Each row in the table looks right, but the total at the bottom is much smaller than adding the visible rows myself. Nobody at work seems surprised…
8oz jar, 7cm diameter, soy container wax, CD10 wick, 8 percent fragrance oil. First burn ran three and a half hours and the melt pool reached about 5cm across, leaving a ring of hard wax on the glass. Second burn was…
This happens to me in engineering meetings and it happened last week at a hospital appointment. I ask once, I get the same explanation again slightly louder and slightly faster, and then I nod and leave with nothing. I…
May became June because onboarding was rough, June became July because of a billing edge case that affects maybe one customer in fifty, and now I am eyeing August because I do not like the logo. There are 300 people on…
The kick sounds good alone, the bass sounds good alone, together the low end turns into mush that pumps. I've tried carving 60 80Hz out of the bass, then tried carving it out of the kick instead, and both versions sound…
The pattern instructions go step by step and I follow them, and by step six the garment is a tube and any fitting problem is now trapped inside four finished seams. This has happened on a dress and twice on a shirt. Is…
Bootstrapped, $4.7k MRR, personal savings cover roughly 11 more months. Monthly only right now at $39. I keep going back and forth on offering annual at 20% off ($374/yr). Arguments I have made to myself in both…
public signup and a password reset endpoint on a worker, both currently unprotected, and someone spent last tuesday evening hammering the reset one. i want something that stops abuse without me writing an accounting…
One off purchase, $39, with a no questions asked refund policy because that felt like the decent thing to do. Two refunds so far. Both people had generated and downloaded their complete export within an hour of paying,…
No audience, no list, no budget. What I do have is nine years of doing the thing my tool does, so I can answer most questions in my niche properly. Every time I go to post I freeze, because the communities where those…
Two years of a five box paper system for medical terminology, about 900 cards, and it works. Everyone tells me to move to an app for the scheduling. The boxes already space things out, and the app adds a phone in my…
Charity shop wool blazer, took 3cm total out of each side seam from underarm to hem to lose the boxiness. It looks much better standing still and now I can barely reach forward, the armholes feel a size smaller. I…
Pulling 80kg for sets of 5 and my hands are the limiting factor by a mile. Last set the bar rolls out of my fingers on rep 3 and my back and legs feel like they had another two in them. I have small hands and the bar in…
Closing on a 1940s house next month and the settlement sheet has a mandatory lender's title policy plus an optional owner's policy for a few hundred more. The property has changed hands twice in the last ten years and…
I can get an edge off my stones that slices printer paper cleanly and shaves the hair off my forearm, and then it struggles with a tomato three days later. Clearly whatever I am testing is not what the kitchen is…
60k lines of TypeScript, five years old, and we want to move from a hand rolled DI container to plain constructor injection. Touches roughly 180 files. Nothing about it is hard, it's just enormous and boring: exactly…