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6 months in and $1k MRR: my biggest mistakes so far

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Re: 6 months in and $1k MRR: my biggest mistakes so far

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Post by graeme »

glofish wrote: post #150

While I commend the creator on a good looking and well-designed user interface - I will say that it boggles my mind when people give up their login credentials to unknown entities on the internet. There is this fundamental disconnect between wanting to save yourself some money - but not realizing that you are setting yourself up for immense risks. You can lose far-far more by signing up to a site like this than what…

Isn’t it Plaid that manages all the logins?

Still a security risk, but I don’t think the dev is the risk.

Re: 6 months in and $1k MRR: my biggest mistakes so far

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Post by prostheticvamp »

throwaway1726 wrote: post #138
perl4ever wrote: post #87

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"...I don't think most men are intentionally, actively and on purpose trying to keep women out, but it's a big, big problem that they don't want to talk too much to a woman for fear that it might lead to an affair or a really terrible misunderstanding or gossip" It's bewildering how everybody knows there are these tremendous informal barriers, that have withstood all past attempts at equal rights, and yet everybody a…

> One thing that jumps out at me is you seem to be saying what holds women back is that men don't trust them Throwaway for obvious reasons. As a man, I’m rather skeptical about trusting women in business. I will never have a one-on-one meeting with a woman (especially somebody under my management), and I will especially never interact with with woman I work with outside of the office. I will generally try to keep dis…

I’ve heard the same in a lot of places. After #metoo got rolling and “guilty until ... fuck it, accused means guilty, #believesurvivors” became the norm, I heard a lot of guys in higher positions say they wouldn’t work closely with / mentor a woman if they could in any way avoid it. If they were accused, their career and possibly marriage would just be over. As you say, just not worth it.

I don’t share this feeling, but then, I may live to regret it. It only takes one bad actor.

Re: 6 months in and $1k MRR: my biggest mistakes so far

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Post by antigirl »

glofish wrote: post #150

While I commend the creator on a good looking and well-designed user interface - I will say that it boggles my mind when people give up their login credentials to unknown entities on the internet. There is this fundamental disconnect between wanting to save yourself some money - but not realizing that you are setting yourself up for immense risks. You can lose far-far more by signing up to a site like this than what…

Jesus, its comments like this that will stop future developers from documenting their stories honestly or even having an About Me page. As already pointed out, Plaid takes care of this not the dev. Sheesh

Re: 6 months in and $1k MRR: my biggest mistakes so far

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Post by hef19898 »

factsaresacred wrote: post #153
hef19898 wrote: post #143

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am working on a budget, so... But yeah, on the list to be replaced with something non-stock!

https://unsplash.com/

Thanks! I took them from pexxels for now, but that looks pretty good!

Re: 6 months in and $1k MRR: my biggest mistakes so far

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Post by bambataa »

throwaway1726 wrote: post #138
perl4ever wrote: post #87

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"...I don't think most men are intentionally, actively and on purpose trying to keep women out, but it's a big, big problem that they don't want to talk too much to a woman for fear that it might lead to an affair or a really terrible misunderstanding or gossip" It's bewildering how everybody knows there are these tremendous informal barriers, that have withstood all past attempts at equal rights, and yet everybody a…

> One thing that jumps out at me is you seem to be saying what holds women back is that men don't trust them Throwaway for obvious reasons. As a man, I’m rather skeptical about trusting women in business. I will never have a one-on-one meeting with a woman (especially somebody under my management), and I will especially never interact with with woman I work with outside of the office. I will generally try to keep dis…

I know some men have this attitude but I still find it astounding.

Are you really so unable to determine appropriate behaviours that you think women are making extreme overreactions to normal “banter”? Or that the risk of a false/inflated accusation is so high that you think freezing out all women is a reasonable and rational approach?

Women finally begin talking publicly about the endemic sexism they face, which many men just don’t see, and your conclusion from that is that women can’t be trusted.

I mean, sure, some woman might maliciously make some accusation against you. That’s certainly possible. It’s also possible that a man makes a false bullying accusation. Or accuses you of sexual advances. There are malicious people everywhere and gender doesn’t really come into it.

Re: 6 months in and $1k MRR: my biggest mistakes so far

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Post by bambataa »

DoreenMichele wrote: post #95
perl4ever wrote: post #87

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"...I don't think most men are intentionally, actively and on purpose trying to keep women out, but it's a big, big problem that they don't want to talk too much to a woman for fear that it might lead to an affair or a really terrible misunderstanding or gossip" It's bewildering how everybody knows there are these tremendous informal barriers, that have withstood all past attempts at equal rights, and yet everybody a…

I posted a link elsewhere in this discussion to a piece I wrote some years back called The Gray Zone. TLDR: Establishing trust is always a long, involved process, no matter who the parties are. But it's just much, much clearer that it's platonic and for purposes of doing business when it's two (apparently) heterosexual males. The waters get muddy really quickly when it's a heterosexual man and a heterosexual woman. E…

When I worked in government I noticed something similar. Every department had about five senior leaders. There would be one female and she would always be the hard as nails, gruff, no nonsense type. It took me an embarrassingly long time to realise that they had had to behave like that to be taken seriously and trusted to be competent. The men could get away with being affable and clubby but women’s range of accepted behaviours was far narrower.

Re: 6 months in and $1k MRR: my biggest mistakes so far

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Post by sudhirj »

glofish wrote: post #150

While I commend the creator on a good looking and well-designed user interface - I will say that it boggles my mind when people give up their login credentials to unknown entities on the internet. There is this fundamental disconnect between wanting to save yourself some money - but not realizing that you are setting yourself up for immense risks. You can lose far-far more by signing up to a site like this than what…

Plaid is handling the credentials, and they work with banks with their cooperation. This is FUD - it’s no different from accusing projects using Stripe of hoarding credit card numbers.

Re: 6 months in and $1k MRR: my biggest mistakes so far

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Post by DoreenMichele »

bambataa wrote: post #157
DoreenMichele wrote: post #95

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I posted a link elsewhere in this discussion to a piece I wrote some years back called The Gray Zone. TLDR: Establishing trust is always a long, involved process, no matter who the parties are. But it's just much, much clearer that it's platonic and for purposes of doing business when it's two (apparently) heterosexual males. The waters get muddy really quickly when it's a heterosexual man and a heterosexual woman. E…

When I worked in government I noticed something similar. Every department had about five senior leaders. There would be one female and she would always be the hard as nails, gruff, no nonsense type. It took me an embarrassingly long time to realise that they had had to behave like that to be taken seriously and trusted to be competent. The men could get away with being affable and clubby but women’s range of accepted…

Yeah, I'm pretty personable. I've found that being more standoffish is necessary to get taken at all seriously, otherwise men just interpret everything as flirting, basically. Whether they want to be flirted with or not, it does absolutely nothing for me professionally.

Re: 6 months in and $1k MRR: my biggest mistakes so far

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Post by DoreenMichele »

throwaway1726 wrote: post #138
perl4ever wrote: post #87

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"...I don't think most men are intentionally, actively and on purpose trying to keep women out, but it's a big, big problem that they don't want to talk too much to a woman for fear that it might lead to an affair or a really terrible misunderstanding or gossip" It's bewildering how everybody knows there are these tremendous informal barriers, that have withstood all past attempts at equal rights, and yet everybody a…

> One thing that jumps out at me is you seem to be saying what holds women back is that men don't trust them Throwaway for obvious reasons. As a man, I’m rather skeptical about trusting women in business. I will never have a one-on-one meeting with a woman (especially somebody under my management), and I will especially never interact with with woman I work with outside of the office. I will generally try to keep dis…

Thank you for speaking up.

I don't know how to constructively engage your points, but I appreciate that you posted.

Given how rampant this issue seems to be, I'm somewhat appalled that there isn't a more supportive response to the comment. It suggests an awful lot of men think they absolutely don't do this when observation suggests to me that it is more or less the norm.

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