Considering switching to compounded from brand and my main hesitation is quality verification. I understand pharmacies are regulated but that's different from each batch being independently tested.
I want to feel informed before I make this decision, not just hopeful. What does the actual due diligence process look like?
Feels like everything in this space is either very simple, basic quoting with nothing else, or very complex with scheduling, dispatching, CRM, the full stack. Looking for something in the middle for an electrical business. The main friction is getting estimates out fast after site visits and following up on unpaid invoices without doing it manually. Not looking for a tool that stops at sending a quote. Not looking for a platform that assumes I have a dispatcher.
Wondering if this middle category actually exists or whether the options genuinely are not there.
We're building a fintech app handling bank connections. We need analytics but compliance team is paranoid about any tool that records user data. Requirements: no PII, no recording of financial info, EU data processing, auto-blocking of sensitive fields, clean deletion on request.
Firebase is fine for basic compliance but no behavioral depth. I wanna understand how users navigate sensitive flows like bank linking without seeing their financial data. Anyone in fintech solved this?
For two weeks I had hermes running locally and genuinely could not understand why everyone was excited. Fire up the terminal, chat for a bit, close it, repeat. Nothing remarkable.
Hermes as an AI agent delivers real automation only when running persistently in the cloud, not in a local terminal session. The difference is not incremental, it's categorical. I deployed it via clawdi so I dont have to do all the setup stuff and suddenly one tuesday morning it sent me an inbox summary I hadn't asked for.
Proactive messaging only exists when the agent is always on. Hermes flagged a calendar conflict the day before it happened, summarized my inbox before I opened my email client, followed up on something I'd asked about three days prior. None of that is possible when the process restarts every time you close a laptop.
Same goes for memory. Hermes builds context across sessions, learns communication style, starts predicting tasks. That feature literally requires continuous uptime to accumulate anything. A local session that resets daily is not a real test of what the tool does.
Contrary to what most setup tutorials show, running hermes locally is not a representative experience of the product. The local session is a proof of concept. The persistent hosted agent is the actual thing.
Sold my Sony A7CII at the start of the year for a 16 Pro Max because I'm tired of carrying a body and lenses on every trip. I love photography, I hate the bag.
Image quality has been better than expected on iPhone but the editing flexibility is what's missing. ProRaw files don't grade like Sony files do. Shadows go muddy when I push them. Highlights are gone before I touch the file. It's frustrating because the capture is right there, the latitude just isn't.
Trying to find the right raw app to close that gap. What are people using who've made the same kind of switch? Not theoretical recommendations, actual experience.
Building a service in Go where ai agents call our internal apis and I need to add per-agent auth, rate limiting per agent identity, and logging of which agent made what call. Standard stuff but specifically for agent traffic not regular users.
I can build this as middleware in Go and it would be clean and minimal, probably a couple hundred lines with the standard library. But I'm wondering if I'm reinventing something that already exists as a gateway product and whether the maintenance burden of custom middleware is worth it when the requirements keep growing.
Anyone gone down this path? Did you build it or buy it?
I've been comparing telehealth providers for compounded glp1s for about three weeks and I'm not sure I'm evaluating the right things. Most of what I've been looking at is monthly price and website design, which I'm pretty sure are the two least useful signals.
From reading threads in this sub and the tirzepatide-specific communities I've started to think the things that actually matter are: which pharmacy they use and whether you get to choose it, what additive is in the formulation, whether pricing stays flat as you dose up or scales with mg, and what physician access actually looks like when you have a clinical question mid-program.
I'm struggling with how to evaluate any of those things from the outside before you've already paid and signed up. Has anyone found a reliable way to filter telehealth providers on those criteria without having to go through intake with each one?
Most people trying to track auto refi APRs hit a wall pretty quickly. Mortgage rate trackers are everywhere but dedicated auto refi sources that update more frequently than quarterly are rare.
A few do exist though. There are monthly trends reports that show where average refi APRs have been moving over time. As of February 2026 the average refi APR is sitting at 7.02%, down from 8.10% in March 2025. That's a meaningful shift for anyone who checked rates a year ago and passed.
The more useful frame for auto refinancing is less about timing the exact rate move and more about when the credit profile is in the best position. The spread between the current rate and whatever's available now matters more than catching the absolute bottom of the market.