The funny thing about this is for investments like this I never watch the news and let the investment ride but for some reason I have been so glued to Reddit hype and news and back and forth that seeing it stay at $41 despite all the “selling” off shows that this funds holds a lot more weight to retail traders than we expected.
I hope it hits $100 🚀🚀🚀
I’ve been selling off and on for the last 4 years and have decided to give Mercari a try again. It’s help pay for bills and then some. As much as this app gives me grief, it is a nice source of income and I’ve become addicted to selling stuff 😂.
It helps you realize how much junk you have floating around that’s valuable.
I’ve been seeing a lot of b*tching and moaning on this subreddit about how things have gone down with $VCX. As long as the stock hasn’t tanked below $18 or lower aren’t you all not satisfied ?
We got early access to a dope opportunity and was able to see the fake Monopoly money sky rocket.
I’ll be talking about this forever.
I have an app that’s been on the App Store for a year now
30 paying users - ~300MRR
5 lifetime memberships
Steady flow of trials - 1 a week generally
600 MAU
Did Tik Tok marketing which helped me get the initial subs.
I just can’t seem to break 50 subs.
I even have Claude go through my analytics to help me with optimizing flows but it seems like what I do doesn’t work in the grand scheme.
Every time I get 3 new subs, 2 leave and it pisses me off. Any advice on how to get out this cycle?
I stumbled upon this Bilingual Haitian Creole kids book a while back called A Mile in My Shoes and wanted to just share it to the community. It’s a cute story and follows a kid named Jorge immigration from Haiti to the US.
I have some random paintings I made at paint and sips over the year that I want to get rid of. Has anyone had any success selling custom artwork ?
My cousin is a whole seller and I have little to no knowledge on how this goes but he is telling me that it’s not that different than the typical home buying process.
Anything I need to look out for ?
I approached him because I knew he did this.
Just got hired as the first engineer on a product that has been on the shelf for several years. It’s my job to figure out how to get the product to market with limited to no team supporting me but I can lean on other engineers from other part of the org. I’m usually used to being one of many on a team, but it is a fun ever green space. Any advice on how I can knock this out the park so I can get promoted without burning out ?
Got a react native app for a niche language app that I’ve been building for a year now. The Android and iOS user base are Yin and Yang it kind of annoys me how I can’t really find the issues they have and they are unwilling to give feedback but are quick to down vote on Android. Meanwhile my iOS users love the app. You can’t win or please everyone 😔. I’m 2 second from pulling the Android version 😤.
Late 20s
Been investing in my companies 401K plans steadily and transferring my money from company to company.
I look up and hit 6 figures invested.
Super exciting but feel like I was expecting the magic of compounding interest to take effect.
What should I do next ?
I recently got out the interview gauntlet and wanted to tell you all how I have been prepping for system design lately. At the senior level, system design is equal if not more important than the coding rounds so I had to be sharper on these than usual.
Pick your favorite white boarding tool
A lot of the companies that I white boarded with allowed me to pick my tool of choice for white boarding so I went with https://excalidraw.com/.
Project Walk Through
For senior+ roles you need a solid project to talk about and the decisions you made so they can see how you think about building systems.
I remember a lot of the data models I worked on from previous projects because I am a visual learner so I practiced talking through pass projects and showing how I enhanced the system.
Don’t be me and pick a personal project. I failed a lot of rounds because I walked through projects that didn’t have a lot of scale so the decisions felt meaningless in their eyes because there was no real impact.
System Design Prep
Every day for a month I grinded on Hello Interview. I would go from the easy problem like design Tiny URL to a difficult problem such as design Google Docs from scratch.
After I got destroyed early on and got feedback I watched videos on sharding, replication, and real time messaging and filled the gaps on areas I thought I was strong on.
I averaged 75-80% on the questions but it wasn’t good enough so I had to keep practicing and going back to the fundamental concepts. After a while I started picking up the patterns and being able to implement the designs and talk through the trade offs.
Designing Data Intensive Systems
This book goes deeper on some of the topics hello interview has talked about and it’s really helping connect the dots on some of the concepts in greater detail. I just started it but already have gotten a lot of value.
Learn System Design Podcast
While I was doing chores / washing dishes I was listening to https://open.spotify.com/show/7oQucsqC4hvsDJVF5d8qqm?si=2gzudpaXR\_6aXR7--5pBSg system design podcast
Finally got an offer after a month and a half and now it’s my time to send rejections to companies.
230 apps
30 interviews
2 offers
Fortunate it wasn’t a longer stretch of time. Appreciate this subreddit for the solidarity and hearing what others have been through.
I have a niche language app I have been running for about a year now. Just hit 300 MRR 🎉 with 30 customers.
Of the monthly / annual paying users I got a lifetime at $129. I’m curious how long should I keep the offer for ?
I’m also aware of some legality of having something called “lifetime”
Been looking for an app to learn creole and have been trying Duolingo for a year and haven’t really been learning, has anyone given this app a try ? Seems to be pretty popular
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/learn-creole-with-jorge/id6745862015
To all my new grads and junior engineers joining the work force you are in for a treat.
Not only have been tracking PRs for quite some time now but they are now tracking token usage.
Not using enough tokens, you are seen as a risk because you are anti AI or inefficient
Burning too much tokens, you are inefficient
So they not only want you to 10X but also save tokens
And if you hear them talking about “we don’t track PR count or lines of code shipped, it’s a vanity metric”
80% it’s a lie and they are tracking
I hate it here
If Pluto could get laid off then why do I think I would be safe 😂😔?
I got laid off last month and have been on the job hunt for about a month and a half. Had a month of severance and went hard in doing Leetcode and System Design.
I applied to about 230 roles
Interviewed for about 30
Walked away with 2 offers
I have 5 YOE, specialized in one role and was open to hybrid or onsite so was able to get a lot of calls back thankfully
I’ll give a break down of the trends and what the current market is like.
AI experience matters
Companies don’t want to hear you built a landing page they want to hear about features you built from the ground up along with your workflow work using agentic tools. Luckily my last startup had us using Claude heavy so I had real projects.
Story and fit mean more than ever
In the beginning of my search I was getting rejected from hiring manager calls / recruiter screens for roles I qualified for. It was so cut throat that I didn’t even get to a tech screen which is insane. But with all the ai slop apps hiring managers have to do more filtering.
Interviews are changing
I’m seeing less leet code and more pair programming exercises, ai assisted coding sessions, or even sessions where they want you to design a system from scratch.
System design is way more important
Grinding Leetcode won’t save you when the interviewer asks you to create Spotify from scratch. One of the offers I received I didn’t even do a coding assessment, all we did was 2 rounds of system design and that was enough for them.
I got good at knowing when I was going to not move on
If your interviewer doesn’t tell you that you will hear about next steps from the recruiter or if you hear, “im going to compare notes with the founder” it’s cases closed
When I got my offer companies started getting petty
having one offer is a party having two is leverage. After I got my offers I emailed every company I was in proceses with to see if they wanted me still and a lot of them started to say that my application was great and strong and went with other candidates. Some companies don’t want to play the game so you make life easier for them and weed out the ones who were playing with you.
I doubted myself
Getting laid of feels like shit. And getting rejected on top of that makes it worst. I doubted my skills and had some of these rejections get to my head and I contemplated working at Home Depot or leaving the industry all together.
I had to touch my 401k
Keep a damn emergency fund in this market thankfully I only withdrew a bit but it can get scary out here
Head hunters are your friend
They have access to a bunch of companies and helped me cast a super wide net.
Network matter
A good 20+ of these roles were referrals, shake hands and continue to make friends.
People don’t go as hard for you when you get laid off
People don’t have the same urgency as you when you are the one looking for a job so you have to constantly remind folks
Side hustles saved my life
I was able to make rent and pay bills because I had a small saas and other things that I was able to pull cash from
Corporate America is a cold place, but this one genuinely messed with my head.
About seven months ago, I vouched for someone to get into a lead role at my company. Since we had history, I trusted them to be my eyes and ears in upper management.
I was wrong.
Two weeks before my layoff right after we’d just let someone else go I specifically asked this person to give me a heads up if I was ever on the chopping block.
Then the day came. An unexpected invite appeared on my calendar, and I asked them directly: should I be preparing for this meeting?
“No, just a check-in.”
I’ve loss all levels of trust in management tbh.
I’m applying for roles and have been through different loops over the last few weeks. I want to say that this platform though simple is the cheat code to acing interviews now.
Most companies are doing a combination of pair programming, Leetcode easy problems, with or without ai and then drilling system design heavy.
It’s like you either know how to build systems or don’t and grinding HelloInterview has helped me get past those rounds.