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Getting paid to write code in it.

This probably would have been fun if it worked.

Clearly it is working for many people. Perhaps if you share your setup and what exactly is the issue you’re facing, someone may have a suggestion. “It doesn’t work” is just about the worse “bug report” one can make.

only 65 :)


Wouldn't the long-term cost be the reliance on "something else" that did the actual work?


Not worse than delegating those tasks to a teammate.


I don't really understand the point of this project or how it demystifies anything. Click the browser demo and I get a generic AI chat screen. Is the readme the part that "demystifies" something? I feel like I am living in a bizarro world. Is this all AI? Are all the comments here from bots?


You took a job as a tech in order to learn about pest control business so you could build a SaaS platform? Do I understand that correctly? In the end you decided not to build a SaaS and started your own pest control company?


I wanted to get in the field for real, see how it works. There is going to be a lot more people exploring blue-collar work as white collar jobs are eliminated. I plan to acquire the traditional operator I've identified, and tech-enable it. If that works, grow it as a platform by either acquiring other companies or attracting technicians over.


Congrats, and genius move. And great hustling, show's there's no way out of hard-work.

Reminder to myself to pick an industry that's always gonna have demand. We recently paid ~$200 for a 30 minute visit to seal off like 3 tiny holes around the perimiter of our house because of mice (actual cost of materials ~$5).


Lots of guys working at the big companies do this type of work (called exclusion) on the side. One guy where I worked charged a restaurant $8k for exclusion work that took 2-3 days out of hours and $500 in materials. I asked the company why we let this work go - they don't want the liability and relative hassle compared to steady service routes.


Great article. Really well written.


Is this what the kids call "astroturfing"?


It wouldn't be a first for CodeCrafters

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38236285


Everything about this design feels wrong. Like they went out of their way to make it unappealing.


Was there supposed to be a connection to AI?


From the post itself, no, but the top comment made the connection through a guardian article, though it's a bit of a stretch for this fairy tale.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45300111


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