I cant tell which of my clients actually paid me this month
6 clients right now. two of them pay through their own portal, one uses bill.com, one just does a bank transfer with no reference on it so I…
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6 clients right now. two of them pay through their own portal, one uses bill.com, one just does a bank transfer with no reference on it so I…
Ive lost access to two note apps now, one shut down and one raised prices past what I was willing to pay. both times the export technically…
tried to sign up for a crm last month and gave up. the plan that has the actual pipeline view has a 3 seat minimum, so being a one person sh…
I want a customized Chat GPT Psychologist sort of thing as an app that I can use, and should be cheap compared to real ones.
new person started monday. the setup guide is from 2023 and 3 of its steps are wrong, so they spent a day and a half in dms asking us things…
the price trackers all follow a single product. my shop is the same 40 things every week and its gone up a lot, but I cant tell you which it…
invoice goes out and then nothing happens for 5 weeks, because chasing it means writing an email that feels rude so I put it off, and then I…
I have a decent contract a lawyer wrote for me in 2021. every project needs 2 or 3 changes to it and every time I change something im guessi…
one dashboard on the basic plan. five on the next one up. we have 9 projects and all I want is one view of whats blocked across all of them,…
got ghosted on a final invoice in the spring. afterwards 3 people in a slack group said theyd had the same thing with the same company. that…
I record interviews im not allowed to upload to someone elses server. the offline options Ive tried are either a research repo with a readme…
ordered something that shipped from overseas. its been through 3 carriers so far and the tracking number changes at every handoff, so follow…
"contact us for pricing" plus a mandatory 30 minute call plus a follow up sequence, all to find out its 4x my budget. thats an hour of my li…
looking for a product review now means 6 pages of the same generated paragraphs with affiliate links in them. same on forums, where half the…
I keep a list of books I want to read, and a separate vague idea of whats at the library, and the two only ever meet when im standing in the…
"typically replies in under an hour" at 9am. at 4pm im still waiting. if it had just said its a bad day expect tomorrow, Id have gone and do…
3 cards in a drawer, one of them already dead. theres no system for this because each one is a different shop with a different expiry and no…
email, slack, the helpdesk, comments in the project tool. 4 places something can be sitting waiting for me and the only way to know is to ch…
40 volunteers, most of them not that comfortable with apps, and we need hours logged for our funders annual report. right now its a paper sh…
everyone sells unlimited. I use about 6gb and call my mother. somewhere out there is a plan that fits that for half what im paying, but comp…
our suite takes 40 minutes and about 38 of those are irrelevant to any given change. we wrote path based rules to trim it and they were wron…
we have about 200 channels. a new engineer gets auto added to 8 of them and told to browse the rest, which nobody ever does, so they miss th…
I have a feeling about which recurring meetings are dead weight but a feeling does not survive contact with the person who owns the meeting.…
"make it look modern and professional" is a real brief I have been paid for, twice. both times it turned into 4 rounds of revisions because…
found a 9.99 going out for something I used twice in 2023. cancelling meant an account I couldnt get into, a password reset to an email I do…
signed up, got a checklist with 4 things on it, did them, and then the product went quiet. two weeks later I still hadnt done the one thing…
two clients make me log time in their system. one uses a shared airtable. one wants a weekly email with a number in it. everyone else is tog…
digital receipts are fine, they sit in gmail and I label them. its the paper ones. jacket, car, a drawer, theres a gift bag by the front doo…
every meal planner Ive tried starts from a plan and hands me a shopping list, which is backwards. the food is already here. half a cabbage,…
year end. 34 invoices from one vendor. 3 or 4 clicks each, no select all, no zip, no date range filter. thats 20 minutes of clicking for som…
postman takes longer to start than my editor, wants me to sign in, and syncs collections I never asked it to sync. im sending 4 requests to…
us citizen, live in europe, brokerage account back home. both countries want a return, a treaty decides who gets what, and consumer tax soft…
every quote starts from a blank doc even though the deal already has the products, the quantities and the price we talked about on the call.…
everything aimed at agents assumes a brokerage with a hierarchy and lead routing and compliance workflows. theres two of us. we need contact…
spent 2 weeks putting real data in so I could evaluate it properly. day 15 everything goes read only, including export. so the only way to g…
I think better standing at a wall moving sticky notes around. then the session ends and someone has to retype the whole thing into miro, whi…
on paper I charge 70 an hour. after fees, the hours I spend quoting, two calls that never became projects and an invoice I wrote off last ye…
the insurers directory listed 4 in network doctors near me. 2 have left the practice, 1 isnt taking new patients, and the 4th stopped taking…
our booking system exports a csv with like 30 columns and I need 4 of them. every month I open it, delete columns, fix the date format, grou…
every pipeline change is the same loop. edit yaml, commit, push, wait 4 minutes, read a log, realise a path was wrong, repeat. my git histor…
trying to understand a kernels filesystem code at the moment. im 12 jumps deep with 8 editor tabs open and Ive lost track of which one calle…
900 tickets. maybe 40 of them matter this quarter. the other 860 exist for the day someone searches for them, which happens about twice a ye…
6 of us, 2 weeks, euros, forints and one big hotel bill that got charged in dollars for reasons nobody ever worked out. splitwise did the sp…
we pay for 11 tools. im fairly sure 2 of them havent been opened since the person who wanted them left last year. cant prove it without aski…
something stops loading and I spend 10 minutes restarting a router before finding out on a forum that its been down for an hour. their statu…
want to ssh to a host, land in a fresh container, break whatever I like, and have it gone when I close the session. keep almost building thi…
800 words about someones grandmother, 4 ads that move the page around while im reading, a video that follows me down the screen, and then ev…
it was on the roadmap in the demo. that was 14 months ago. Ive asked support twice and got "no timeline to share" both times. theres a publi…
20 minutes of feedback on an essay, the session times out, and its gone. happened enough times that I now write everything in a text file fi…
the bot opens the pr, the changelog says "bug fixes and improvements", and the diff is 4000 lines of build output. so either I read it prope…
I want to send my mum a link, she opens it, ticks things off, done. every app Ive tried needs her to install something and make an account,…
every morning 6 people say what they did yesterday and all of it is already in the commits and the prs and the ticket moves. then someone ty…
it says it syncs. what it does is create duplicate customers with slightly different names, misfile anything with a partial payment, and ski…
pretty sure were on the tier above the one we need. the sales conversation was 2 years ago, the feature list is 40 items long, and nobody he…
I block time like an optimist. 6 focused hours back to back, no travel, no lunch, no recovery after the hard one. then the day happens, 3 bl…
the routing apps keep sending me down a road thats technically a cycle route and is actually 4 lanes of traffic with a painted line at the e…
3 of us, 3 different room sizes, one has the parking space, and one moved in 6 weeks after the lease started. splitwise is fine for grocerie…