Joe Giglio, Chief Remote Officer

Claude and Aider have been getting a lot of attention lately. Check out this article on my experience using these tools to build a basic ticketing system! dev.to/chiefremote/us…

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@codyschneiderxx Most devs have been shielded from sales, building relationships, customer support, marketing, and training. Your customers don't care what tech stack you are using. They want to feel like your software is solving their problems and their concerns are being addressed.

here's what nobody tells you about early-stage startups: you think the hard part is building the product it's not the hard part is that nobody cares you built it here's what actually happens in the first year: you spend 6 months building in stealth mode you launch to crickets you realize you have no idea how to get customers you burn through 4 months of runway trying random marketing tactics meanwhile you're watching other startups: raise bigger rounds with worse products get customers you think you deserve grow faster with ideas you had first here's the brutal truth nobody mentions: great products don't sell themselves technical founders struggle with go-to-market most startups die from lack of customers, not lack of features you'll spend 80% of your time on things that aren't product development what they don't teach you: validation isn't building an MVP and hoping it's pre-selling before you build anything distribution is harder than development your first 10 customers will teach you more than your first 10 features the pattern that actually works: talk to customers before writing code sell the solution before building it find distribution channels before needing them measure demand, not just technical feasibility here's what changes everything: when you realize your job isn't to build a product it's to build a business that happens to have a product the founders who make it understand: customers buy outcomes, not features marketing isn't what you do after product-market fit it's how you find product-market fit the best code in the world doesn't matter if nobody uses it stop falling in love with your solution start falling in love with your customer's problem PS: if you want to track whether you're building a product or a business, Graphed shows you which activities actually drive revenue growth. comment "ACCESS" for 14 days free

@mhp_guy Public reviews and forums are a goldmine for competitive intelligence. You might be surprised how many bugs and nuisances have gone unfixed over the years while companies ignore the pleas. Address these gaps in a competitive product and you will have immediate traction.

Wanna sell something on Amazon? Export the reviews of a competitor's product and ask ChatGPT, "What are the most common complaints about this?" And then FIX and ADDRESS those complaints front and center in your product. Do the same with G2 reviews for software.

Want to shamelessly copy your successful competitor? Go to the comments. This is the best hack you'll see all week. All of the dirty little secrets are in the COMMENTS! Here's exactly what I mean, in 3 steps: 👇

@levelsio There is no shortage of physical housing. There is a shortage of housing in "desirable areas" since all the jobs are gone. By squashing remote work, we are forcing everyone to live in the same old overcrowded, overpriced areas. Long lost areas will never be rebuilt.

We should build so many new houses everywhere that there's a massive oversupply and the price goes to zero Make it a worthless asset so that everyone can have a place to live

@_avichawla These are look worthwhile. Most important, find a project you are passionate about and solve a real problem. All the training in the world is not as valuable as getting in the code, struggling and troubleshooting. Reading a book on swimming will never be good enough.

I've been coding in Python for 9 years now. If I were to start over today, here's a complete roadmap:

@jeffreyguenther @dhh Obsession drives innovation. Stay hungry.

What stood out in @dhh's keynote at Rails World were his comments obsession. The best products rarely from a team of people who are "meh" about a topic. David obsesses over Omarchy and it's reignited the excitement around desktop Linux -- among developers especially. His decades of obsession with beautiful code and his own productivity has lead to Rails becoming one of the most productive frameworks for building web applications. Do you truly have to obsessed to do good work? No, but to do great work you do. You have to care. Deeply. It's our motivation, our enthusiasm that provides the fuel to deliver a great result. If you're floating in meh land, likely it's because you're not working a problem you care enough about. I recommend you give yourself the permission to seek out a problem that fires you up. Don't worry about lacking of knowledge. If you are fascinated by the problem, you'll naturally learn all that you need to. You won't be able to help yourself. If we want a world filled with beautiful, excellent things, we need people who can't bear to think about anything else than the problem they are currently working on. Choose a problem that lights a fire in your soul.

@itsandrewgao @united AKA "Representative!"

i had to prompt inject the @united airlines bot because it kept refusing to connect me with a human 🧵 what led up to this breaking point

@MAGAVoice Don't get too excited. Companies will just do their shady hiring through "staffing agencies". They will always find a way to keep wages low.

BREAKING 🚨 Trump strongly considers banning American IT companies from outsourcing to India This will be a HUGE win for America I strongly support this

@levelsio The "merchants of complexity" strike again. This need to be technically brilliant prevents many people from starting a project. Engineers like to Over-Engineer; Builders like to Build and Iterate. Step One is always the hardest.

This shows how far we've come with the dev brainrot Most sites don't need a multi-region edge server! Only apps with strict latency requirements like trading, gaming, real-time collaboration apps need them, but that's an extremely small share of most apps/websites A basic CDN that hosts assets (images, JS, CSS) at edge servers like Cloudflare is sufficient for 99% of websites/apps because it caches 95% of requests

@mitchellh It should not come as a surprise to anybody in the industry, but most software Engineers are not very close to the product or customers. They are more concerned with tinkering with modern frameworks, refactoring and updating their resumes. Culture issue.

GitHub feels like a product that isn't used by the people that work there. That can't POSSIBLY be true, I know. I just hit issues everyday that really make me wonder... how can this bug exist? More likely engineers aren't empowered to fix things and are bogged down by red tape.

@ReclaimTheNetHQ There has never been a better time to move to Linux. Try Mint if you want something surprisingly stable and comfortable.

The desktop version of Microsoft Word will now auto-save all new docs to the cloud by default. Local storage is still possible but buried in settings. They call it “modernization.” Another step in pushing users into Microsoft’s cloud, trading control and privacy for “convenience.”

@icanvardar Death by 1000 features. A design pattern shared by most other enterprise software.

google developer console is so scary that i hesitate to go there just to get an api key 😭 who designed this nightmare?

@GergelyOrosz Like most other Enterprise software, it gets embedded in company workflows, becomes the standard and after getting everyone trained, you don't dare rock the boat bringing in other options. There is work to do! Death by 1000 features, certifications and long term contracts.

How is it that Atlassian builds tools that: - SO MANY people use - SO MANY people dislike (JIRA, Confluence. Previously also HipChat) They are defying the conventional wisdom for business success that starts with "build something people will love"

@thejobchick Hey, don't forget COBRA!

Executives get golden parachutes. Employees get 2 weeks per year worked... if they’re lucky.

@tunguz Correct. As I have been saying, there is no shortage of housing. There is a shortage of housing in "desirable areas" because the jobs are gone. By putting the squash on remote work, you force people to live in the same old overcrowded, overpriced cities. This inflates housing.

Actually the fastest way to make more people able to afford a house is to normalize remote work. The discrepancy between the concentration of capital in the few ultra wealthy hubs, the accompanying reallocation of the capital into the real estate and the stringent zoning rules on one hand, and the lagging increase in the real wages on the other, make the current housing crunch all but inevitable.

@dhh A surprising take from someone who has pushed common sense Convention Over Configuration in Rails. The less comfortable it is for people to switch, the less likely it is they will do so. Copy Paste keys should be universal.

Rewiring your muscle memory for copy/paste when you go from Mac to Omarchy is an important rite of passage. Not friction to be whittled away. We need more rituals in society. More tokens of sacrifice. This is a small one. Make it proudly.

@levelsio Most of these languages are just different enough to make you crazy. Don't bother memorizing them. Nobody does and nobody can... And don't be religious about them. They will all come and go. Instead, focus on understanding CONCEPTS and asking the right questions.

Exactly!!! And with AI coding you can be even more language ambiguous I used to write PHP and jQuery In the last few months I made things in Python, Go, Rust and Node JS with PM2 I have no clue but I have sites running on most of these now and it works fine

@jeremyphoward @jquery Sometimes the best tool to use is the one you already know... 🤓

For many years, I've been looking for the perfect replacement for @jQuery. Modern vanilla js has many of the features that made jQuery popular, but often with worse ergonomics. Today, I finally discovered the solution: Just use jQuery. :D

@thejobchick An interesting phenomena in this grueling job market. I see companies that are KIND OF hiring so they collect applications and conduct interviews. But then when they get to the finish line, they back out and have layoffs instead.

People don’t care what the unemployment rate is if they’re not getting an interview for a job they’re qualified for. The BLS said +73K jobs. Then revised the last two months down by 258,000. But this isn't about those numbers. It’s about vanishing roles, fake job postings, and offshored jobs. And I just opened the full breakdown for free: thejobchicksinsideredge.substack.com/p/the-headcoun… Read it. Share it. I just ask that you subscribe for free if you don’t already. 🙏

@thejobchick This is why it is important to keep your network strong. It is not who you know; it is who knows you.

Apply 100 times. Hear nothing. Meanwhile: – 1 in 6 referrals get hired – Just 7% of traditional applicants make it – Referrals are hired 10 days faster – They stick longer (46% retention) What was your experience? Bookmark this. We’ll check the numbers again at year-end.