mavsman

Are there certain things you used to care about that you don't any longer? What even is tech debt to you these days?

Credit usage costs are cryptic enough that it is reasonable to actually fall for this trap. If you run out of credits/tokens/etc and you need to use more Claude/Codex, do not by credits because it seems worth the money. They'll be gone before you know it.

After seeing how Claude can help me clean up my disk space in no time I figured I could find some easy budget improvements with it. Perhaps just pulling in some CSVs to Claude would do the trick but I figured I'd check if there's most of a full-service solution that anyone is using, or maybe even a non-AI solution that I could modify.

Given yesterday’s ruling that Apple can’t take a cut of purchases made outside the App Store and must allow devs to link out freely, are you actually planning to do anything with this? As a small developer, I’m weighing whether it’s worth the effort to build around the App Store now that (supposedly) we can keep 100% of off-platform revenue. Curious what others are thinking and at what point you find it worth it to go off app store.

If you look at ProductHunt and other places like that you’ll just see a sewer pipe full of crappy AI products. But there are surely some out there in different areas that have a nice UI and provide a lot of value. Do you have any that you’ve found? (I’m specifically curious about a language learning tool for complete beginners but wondering about other niches as well)

This whole process is sucky for seemingly no reason. We found our own home we want and put a single offer and it got accepted and yet our realtor is taking a 2.5% cut.

Our mortgage officer only seems knowledgeable because they uses terms I can't understand but it seems like most of their work is just plugging my numbers into a calculator to tell me my options (and not really giving me much advice). Seems like I could do this myself but I'm scared my info will get sold to a million more people.

Speaking of which, as soon as I submitted information to a loan officer they pulled my credit which then led to dozens of spam calls from mortgage companies. Finally I found out that when my credit was pulled, Equifax gave my info out to a bunch of people telling them I was looking for a mortgage. I don't even know where to start with this.

These things are just the beginning and I'd imagine there are some tools or approaches that could reduce the pain, even just a little bit.

I used to use DuckDuckGo.com but then switched exclusively to the CLI https://github.com/jarun/ddgr. I've been happier and more productive since.