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Professional hater. Co-founder / CEO of Less Annoying CRM. I talk about bootstrapping, tech, entrepreneurship, and business practices that annoy me.
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I'm not sure I've ever used a product with more annoying UI glitches than 1password. It just constantly breaks in new and creative ways. I have no idea how non-technical people are able to use it.

submitted 8 hours ago • 0 comments

There are so many great SaaS tools I rely on. Aside from the ones we all know about (Notion, Slack, etc.) I'd like to especially shout out Front and Demodesk. Both of those products have so many little touches that make them way more useful than they might seem at first.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Has anyone seen an app use the space to the sides of the iPhone notch/dynamic island effectively? It seems like completely worthless space (vs just making the top a black bar like it used to be) and it adds quite a bit of work to build an app where that area looks good.

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

The trend of AI making cold email worse continues. Every single one these days looks like this... Hi Tyler, [Summary of what my business does]. [Compliment about how that is innovative]. So here's some crap I want to sell you.

submitted 14 days ago • 3 comments

Is anyone playing around with this new OpenAI Codex thing? I'm curious how well it works compared to something like Cursor.

submitted 16 days ago • 3 comments

Given all the different lines of business Stripe has gotten into, it seems like such a miss that they let Mercury become the default bank for tech startups.

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

I'm shifting my investments from US to international index funds. There are many reasons, mostly unrelated to expected returns (I know better than to think I can predict that). One big reason: I don't have to own Tesla or MicroStrategy this way. I prefer not to participate in ponzi schemes.

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

I'm doing some vibe coding with Claude, and I've got to say, I like it more than ChatGPT. I don't mean that I think it's better (it's very hard to know for sure). I mean that I personally like Claude as a companion more. Like, I feel like I'm coding with a friend instead of a robot.

submitted 52 days ago • 2 comments

When I switched to a Mac and questioned the app install process, people very smugly told me how great it is that Mac apps are just folders, and uninstalling is as simple as deleting the folder. Now I've got a bunch of phantom apps running in the background that I just can't uninstall. I hate this.

submitted 54 days ago • 2 comments

Related pattern we've started adopting: Instead of building tools for our support team that are accessed via the admin portal, we've started making them pages within user accounts. Mostly we log in as the user and run the tool for them, but we can tell power users how to do it themselves.

submitted 55 days ago • 0 comments

I'm increasingly bullish on building software with the assumption that someone on your team will be in the loop. For productized services this is obvious. But even classic b2b SaaS opens up a lot if you can build power features with the expectation of your support team setting it up for customers.

submitted 55 days ago • 1 comment

Just had a cancellation because of the economy. Probably the first of many. Plus multiple Canadians who have cancelled because they don't want to buy American. I'm already sick of winning.

submitted 58 days ago • 3 comments

Uptime Robot is yelling at me that my site is down, but everything seems completely normal. Anyone else experiencing this?

submitted 61 days ago • 0 comments

According to Google Search Console, our clicks have been pretty stable over the last year, but the impressions have gone way up over the last few months (so CTR is much lower). Anyone else seeing this? I assume this is related to changes Google is making and not our site 🤷

submitted 62 days ago • 0 comments

Every day Bluesky goes without monetization is a day closer to them being corrupted just like all the other social networks. The only way to be different is to be independently owned by founders and employees. You can't do it as a public company or with heavy VC backing.

submitted 64 days ago • 1 comment

Every workflow in a Google product now takes one additional click compared to before. You always have to close the Gemini pop-up.

submitted 64 days ago • 0 comments

"Not using the CRM the way that I thought that I would. Good product that I recommend though!" We get cancellation reasons like this one *all the time*. Always feels like we missed an opportunity, but I'm not sure what else to do.

submitted 65 days ago • 5 comments

Summary of the two takes on coding with AI... It's an absolute game changer (if you're starting a new project, or working on something relatively simple). It's a nice tool, but not that big of a deal (if you're on a big, complex, legacy code base). Interpret what you read online accordingly.

submitted 65 days ago • 0 comments

Seriously, who is attending this shit?

submitted 68 days ago • 0 comments