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We bill on usage, nightly job sums the day's events and pushes them to stripe as usage records and it's been running fine for over a year.

Last Tuesday morning support got 4 tickets, all about getting double bills. I opened the invoices and they looked... fine? usage numbers are plausible, nothing weird

But it took us 2 days to see it, the aggregation job timed out at 2am, our scheduler retried it and the retry pushed the same usage again. stripe didnt know it's a duplicate, it just saw more usage and billed them twice

every invoice was internally consistent but fundamentally wrong

This fiasco ended with 31 customers, $6,200 in refunds and one enterprise account that now wants a monthly usage export to cross verify now

The fix was boring, an idempotency key on every event at the source and not at sync time and a check that flags any customer whose usage jumps 80%+ vs last period before the invoice finalizes.

the issue is that nothing was alerted, no errors or failed jobs

Does anyone else get burned by retries in billing? How are you de-duping usage?

I’ve done quite a bit of research, but I’d like opinions from people who actually use these systems.

I need product costs that include materials, labour and overhead, along with accurate WIP and inventory values. Those figures also need to update when material prices or actual production usage change.

MRPeasy seems closest to what I need because it connects manufacturing costs with inventory and purchasing. Odoo appears to cover more of the business in one system, while a lot of people recommend ERPNext for its flexibility and value.

Have you used any of these? Do the costs stay accurate once purchasing and production data start changing? Would you choose the same system again?

We are getting ready to list our house and need some minor touch-ups done before putting it on the market, but vetting independent contractors feels exhausting. Who do locals use for dependable pre-sale handy work around the district?

I want to buy some Robux, but the prices I’m seeing are all over the place. Is there a decent way to get more for the money? Gift cards, buying on the website, something else? I keep finding sites that look cheap until I get to checkout.

Ran a 90 minute webinar last week, 60ish attendees, went fine live. Screen share was crisp, audio sounded normal on the call. Downloaded the Zoom recording after and it's a mess. Video is blocky whenever anyone moves, audio drifts out of sync with the slides by the end, one presenter's mic sounds underwater for a stretch in the middle. Nobody on the call noticed any of this while it was happening.

I think what's going on is the recording captures the compressed meeting stream itself, so whatever the platform does to squeeze the call down for bandwidth is baked into the file permanently. Live your brain and the codec are both doing real time correction you don't notice. In the recording all that compression damage just sits there.

Looking into fixes now and it seems like the actual answer is not recording the call at all, but having each person's device record itself locally and syncing the tracks after. Riverside does this apparently, everyone records local and it uploads after. Anyone actually done this for webinars specifically, not just podcasts? Want to know if it holds up with a bigger panel.

Beginner here. Just started building a street mod car and I’m stuck on wheel choice. I’ve been looking at Keizer Wheels. They look like they can take a beating.

My question is where side-load is high, is a cold-spun wheel as good as a fully forged wheel? Also does anyone have experience running dirt-track style wheels on a tarmac car? I’m looking for maximum width and low weight without spending $2k a corner.

My bf and I are setting up a move toward Dandridge over the next few months to be closer to family. Since we are flying in on very short weekends, we need a central spot to crash where we can easily drive around Jefferson and Hamblen counties without spending the whole day in traffic. Are there specific towns or long-term stay spots nearby that make the most sense for quick trips?

Good day! We're looking to put in a covered patio right near the arts district. anyone know how much space you have to leave from the lot line before pulling permits?

Every laptop thread goes to "just get a Legion Pro 5" and I don't think this model is the best choice anymore.

The current generation performs about the same or slightly worse than last year's while costing more, reviewers are telling people to buy the older model at about $1,300 instead, and Acer, Asus or niche brand like Dream Machines or Eluktronics will sell you similar specs for less.

Feels like reputation is carrying it more than the current model. Change my mind in the comments

been using klap to chop my episodes into shorts and it's honestly better than opus for my workflow, but the monthly price stings. anyone got a discount code or know when they run sales? or is annual the only way to get it cheaper

I need help with this, I'm starting to freak out a little...

I'm a marketer in a SaaS company (don't want to disclose which, please don't ask) and all I get asked about is showing up in AI answers. Honestly I have no idea what I'm actually doing here. Like, honestly all I am doing at the moment is researching on Reddit and YouTube and I feel like there's so much conflicting advice. I've tried to use Semrush's tool because I'm already paying for it (I use it for SEO) but from what I understand it doesn't show you whether you appear inside AI answers. So yeah, I feel kind of screwed and very stressed.

If you were me, where would you start?

We’ve been struggling with Meta and google ads and would love to hear from people who have actually worked with a good agency in this space.

Not looking for random agencies, only interested in people with real experience with peptide brands.

My worry with billboards is the channel gets credit for demand that was already converting through search and social. Last touch won't tell me anything useful, and a before and after read gets muddied by seasonality. What I want is a real incrementality test, holdout markets or a geo split. Has anyone structured that properly for out of home, and what did the read look like?

Past spot-cleaning on an 8x10 and every option seems bad. Professional cleaning was quoted at $150-300 and it's gone for a week, a rental extractor leaves it damp for days, and hosing it outside only works if you have the space and the weather. Is a big rug just a consumable you replace every few years, or is there an actual answer here?

I’m seeing this with a healthcare practice account and wondering how other PPC people handle it.

Google Ads says the lead volume is fine. Call tracking says calls are coming in. Forms are submitted. But the practice says “these leads are bad,” and when we dig in, some of it is real lead quality and some of it is front-desk process. Missed calls, slow callbacks, unclear insurance fit, after-hours inquiries going cold.

Stack right now is Google Ads, CallRail, GA4, Looker Studio, and possibly DearDoc on the intake/review/chat side. I’m trying to separate campaign waste from office workflow waste before making bidding decisions.

Do you include front-desk conversion steps in your PPC reporting for healthcare/local service clients, or keep that outside your scope?

We run search and social for a multi location retail client. They want billboards in their top three markets and asked how we'll prove it worked. Outdoor doesn't give a clean conversion number and I'd rather bring a real plan than hand wave at impressions.

How are people measuring this, and does anything handle the buying and the measurement together?

Ran a small digital billboard test through Blip. Easy to set up and fine for a first try, but the inventory we could reach was limited and there was almost no measurement. Now there's budget to do it properly across more markets. What did people move to after a test like this? Looking for wider inventory and better reporting.

Spending about $25k/month on Meta. Our winning ads die after 7-10 days now. The algorithm eats through creative faster than ever and the only way to keep performance stable is constantly feeding it new variations.Our current process: brief a UGC creator ($200-300/video), wait 7-10 days for delivery, half the time the take doesn't match the brief so we go back and forth, finally get the video, test it, it works for a week, repeat.At the rate we need content we'd have to spend $15k/month just on creative production to keep up with the testing velocity we need. That's insane when our entire media spend is $25k.Is anyone actually solving the creative volume problem without blowing their entire budget on production? I keep hearing about AI video tools but the last time I checked they looked like deepfakes. Has the tech gotten good enough for real paid ads?

Running a small SaaS startup and burning through budget on lead gen tools faster than we'd like. We've tried the usual suspects but most are either overpriced or the contact data is garbage.

Right now we're testing Prospeo for lead generation software since their verified emails are actually connecting (getting around 25% reply rates) and they have this pay-per-verified model which helps with budget. Also looking at Apollo but their credit burn rate seems aggressive for what you get.

Our main use case is finding verified emails for decision makers at mid-market companies, ideally with some intent signals. Need about 2-3k contacts per month.

What free or cheap lead gen tools are you all using that don't compromise on data quality? Especially interested in tools that have solid email verification built in since bounces are killing our sender rep.