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Samad Ahmed

@_samadahmed

Playing in the mud

chamoy.io
halaldiners.club
convergentsoftware.pro

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๐ŸฏThis is how you create a sticky product What we noticed? ๐Ÿ‘‰๐Ÿฝ A massive influx of visitors ๐Ÿ‘‰๐Ÿฝ But, people are leaving the app to view details What we did? โœ… Scraped alot more โœ… Restaurants have wayyy more info now When does it drop? ๐Ÿ˜Ž In two days

๐ŸฏThis is how you create a sticky product 

What we noticed?
๐Ÿ‘‰๐Ÿฝ A massive influx of visitors
๐Ÿ‘‰๐Ÿฝ But, people are leaving the app to view details

What we did?
โœ… Scraped alot more
โœ… Restaurants have wayyy more info now

When does it drop?
๐Ÿ˜Ž In two days
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Scraping a ton of photos of restaurant photos. Takes around 2 hrs to scrape and eventually need to move this process to a container. Big updates drop tmrw for HDC if nabil permits ๐Ÿ‘€

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The funniest thing to me is that small business owners see themselves different from employees, yet, they rely on the same resources.

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Doing business with people from people that don't agree with you politically is okay. I'm liberal and I've worked in highly conservative industries with people from diverse backgrounds. Hell, even one of my cofounders shares a different political opinion and we get along just

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We knew from the get-go we wanted to build HDC as a web app first as it provides near zero friction for adoption. But this means Nabil and I have to design and develop both mobile and desktop views which isn't quite as simple despite being "just a CRUD" app You see - the

We knew from the get-go we wanted to build HDC as a web app first as it provides near zero friction for adoption.

But this means Nabil and I have to design and develop both mobile and desktop views which isn't quite as simple despite being "just a CRUD" app

You see - the
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Rails 8.0: #NOBUILD, #NOPAAS, all-in on SQLite as a production database option with jobs, cache, and cable, new authentication generator, and so much more! Final release is out ๐ŸŽ‰ rubyonrails.org/2024/11/7/railโ€ฆ

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Nabil literally killed it last night for our talk on growing HDC and how we went from product to a couple thousand active users in just over a month. Multiple messages and DM's coming in - everyone said it was the best presentation they've seen! Love working with you bro,

Nabil literally killed it last night for our talk on growing HDC and how we went from product to a couple thousand active users in just over a month.

Multiple messages and DM's coming in - everyone said it was the best presentation they've seen! 

Love working with you bro,
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Really good client of mine asking for a near identical JIRA clone for a niche use-case in 6 week timeline including discovery + design + development. Despite wanting to pay a major premium, will have to take a hard pass. Some things are not possible.

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Securing enterprise or large customers? This is what I do - look at the last bullet point. You will not be able to beat incumbents by features. You will be able to beat incumbents by how your administer customer service.

Securing enterprise or large customers?
This is what I do - look at the last bullet point.

You will not be able to beat incumbents by features. 

You will be able to beat incumbents by how your administer customer service.
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One of the most engaging talks I have given on AI agents - loved every minute of it, especially with friends coming out to support

One of the most engaging talks I have given on AI agents - loved every minute of it, especially with friends coming out to support
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I do not believe you can build a complete business or product (emphasis on complete) on AI technology alone. Not today. While I do think that MVPs are achievable through AI-generated code, this is analogous nowadays in my eyes to "wireframes" in design. It represents merely the

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Never thought i'd say this but Nabil and I building something new centered around: โœ…๏ธ Hookah โœ…๏ธ Henna โœ…๏ธ Hijabs Incoming soon.