u/Few-Compote-2693

Hi,

Recently I was taking talking therapy and my clinical psychologist said she noticed that I'm very autistic

In 2013 when I was 21 I set out on an IT career but in the space of two years I had 3 jobs and I was fired from one for taking someone’s advice too literally and repeated it to a customer, and I burned out of another two because people would notice I'm different after a while and make my life hard, and I struggled to attended social work events and would get into trouble.

I went on to work with my dad fitting carpets for 12 years because he would deal with the customers, he worked for local carpet fitting businesses and I just had to do the work.

A few years ago a small tech business I was running started to make money and I started doing it full time, I only had to deal with support queries so I just really had to fix problems and reply back sing "Hey, All done" sort of thing but is now going out of business due to too many players in the market now and created a race to the bottom.

My dad was just diagnosed with stage 4 cancer and I can't take over his work because the local businesses he worked for would tolerate me but find me too different to employ directly.

Do you think I should qualify for benefits?

Hello,

Can someone help me understand how most new AI startups are literally just crap you can ask ChatGPT to do and somehow they are getting 1M investment? I just read one that converts docs in explanation videos, I’m pretty sure you can just ask AI to do that already? I feel like I'm missing out on a gold rush and just thinking to much. People are acting like they are elon musk when really they are just plugging a few services together.

I’m a UK technical founder with seven years’ experience running SaaS products. I’ve built and deployed an early MVP for post-production facilities covering workflow sign-off, bookings, work orders, rates, budgets, invoicing, QC and delivery.

I’m a strong software engineer and cloud operations specialist—not a salesperson. I can build and run reliable, secure services: product, backend, infrastructure, CI/CD, testing and monitoring.

I’m looking for a UK- or US-based commercial co-founder to own customer discovery, sales, marketing, partnerships and fundraising. Post-production experience would be valuable, but strong B2B SaaS go-to-market experience is equally relevant.

An established competitor reports roughly $1m MRR, so there is a proven market. I’ve built a modern MVP quickly, but it is early and needs real customer validation.

The immediate goal is to secure initial investment—an area where I need a partner with real experience—then use it to build a small, resilient team and win early design partners. We will need a very large investment for a small team to convince clients we are not at risk of bankruptcy for many years.

I’m offering a 50/50 split to the right committed partner. This is not a freelance or employee role. DM me for a link to the live demo app.

Hi everyone,

I was recently made redundant and decided to use the time to build something while learning newer cloud, DevOps and full-stack technologies.

While updating my CV, I remembered a brief IT-support role I had at a TV post house. I started trying to reconstruct, from that limited experience, how the operational side of post-production might work: episode workflows, approvals, bookings, work orders, QC, delivery, rate cards, budgets and invoicing.

The result is an early MVP. It is very much a learning project first, so I’m sure parts of the workflow are not how real facilities would work, and there will still be bugs and bad assumptions.

Nothing is hardcoded the workflow, user roles and permissions in the settings pages are totally customisable.

I’d genuinely appreciate thoughts from people working in post—what feels familiar, what feels wrong, and whether you think this could develop into a viable app for the industry.

It’s open source.

Demo: http://postpilot-demo-733667839.eu-west-1.elb.amazonaws.com/

GitHub: https://github.com/daleosm/postpilot

Hi everyone,

I was recently made redundant and decided to use the time to build something while learning newer cloud, DevOps and full-stack technologies.

While updating my CV, I remembered a brief IT-support role I had at a TV post house. I started trying to reconstruct, from that limited experience, how the operational side of post-production might work: episode workflows, approvals, bookings, work orders, QC, delivery, rate cards, budgets and invoicing.

The result is an early MVP. It is very much a learning project first, so I’m sure parts of the workflow are not how real facilities would work, and there will still be bugs and bad assumptions.

Nothing is hardcoded the workflow, user roles and permissions in the settings pages are totally customisable.

I’d genuinely appreciate thoughts from people working in post—what feels familiar, what feels wrong, and whether you think this could develop into a viable app for the industry.

It’s open source.

Demo: http://postpilot-demo-733667839.eu-west-1.elb.amazonaws.com/

GitHub: https://github.com/daleosm/postpilot

Hi everyone,

I was recently made redundant and decided to use the time to build something while learning newer cloud, DevOps and full-stack technologies.

While updating my CV, I remembered a brief IT-support role I had at a TV post house. I started trying to reconstruct, from that limited experience, how the operational side of post-production might work: episode workflows, approvals, bookings, work orders, QC, delivery, rate cards, budgets and invoicing.

The result is an early MVP. It is very much a learning project first, so I’m sure parts of the workflow are not how real facilities would work, and there will still be bugs and bad assumptions.

Nothing is hardcoded the workflow, user roles and permissions in the settings pages are totally customisable.

I’d genuinely appreciate thoughts from people working in post—what feels familiar, what feels wrong, and whether you think this could develop into a viable app for the industry.

It’s open source.

Demo: http://postpilot-demo-733667839.eu-west-1.elb.amazonaws.com/

GitHub: https://github.com/daleosm/postpilot

Hey guys,

I worked in IT from 2012–2015, spending a couple of years on help desk and a year as a sysadmin at a post-production house. They increased my hours and added weekends with no extra pay, so at 23 I left to fit carpets for much better money.

For the last five years I’ve run my own SaaS, which is now winding down. I’ve worked with AWS, Python, Docker, Compose, Linux and CI/CD, and I hold an AWS Solutions Architect cert. I’ve also been using Linux/web tech casually for over 20 years. (Since LAMP days)

More recently I learned Kubernetes and Argo easily because I did a short course like 10 years ago. I’d avoided K8s before because my SaaS wasn’t stateless and, a few years ago, forcing it into Kubernetes would have been bad engineering. Ironically, I now feel like I’m being punished for making the sensible technical choice.

The hard part is that I feel technically capable and there isn’t much I can’t do or figure out quickly, but the job market doesn’t seem to value my experience. I’m not really sure what roles I should be targeting.

Hey guys,

I worked in IT from 2012–2015, spending a couple of years on help desk and a year as a sysadmin at a post-production house. They increased my hours and added weekends with no extra pay, so at 23 I left to fit carpets for much better money.

For the last five years I’ve run my own SaaS, which is now winding down. I’ve worked with AWS, Python, Docker, Compose, Linux and web stacks, and I hold an AWS Solutions Architect cert. I’ve also been using Linux/web tech casually for over 20 years.

More recently I learned Kubernetes and Argo. I’d avoided K8s before because my SaaS wasn’t stateless and, a few years ago, forcing it into Kubernetes would have been bad engineering. Ironically, I now feel like I’m being punished for making the sensible technical choice.

The hard part is that I feel technically capable and there isn’t much I can’t figure out, but the job market doesn’t seem to value my experience. I’m not really sure what roles I should be targeting.

Hey Guys,

I worked a few years in IT between 2012 and 2015 and did a couple of years on help desk and a year as sysadmin for a post production house. They increased my hours and added weekends for no extra pay. I was 23 and had enough and left to fit carpets for a living for much better pay. Last 5 years I ran my own SAAS but my I'm struggling to turn it into a DevOps roles frustratingly even though I have allot of experience. I think my future is heading back to 1st depressingly. Any advice?

I recently sold a managed app-hosting company running around 3,000 containers. My background includes Docker, Compose, Linux, Python, Bash, TypeScript and CloudFormation. I took a short Kubernetes course years ago and later evaluated EKS, but it wasn’t a good fit for our stateful app. I also built Jenkins CI/CD pipelines about 10 years ago.

For the past month, I’ve been studying EKS, Terraform and modern CI/CD full-time. I’m finding it fairly straightforward because I already understand the foundations, but LinkedIn makes the whole thing feel pointless. The competition is global—my feed seems dominated by candidates from everywhere around the world —and many UK roles appear to remain here mainly because they require security clearance.

I’ve applied for around 100 roles and received two technical quizzes. I was told I got most of the answers right but missed a couple of simple things. I’m kicking myself because I knew the answers; I’d just never been put on the spot with those questions before.

I can learn and build almost anything, and I know enough Python, TypeScript and Bash to solve real problems, but I’m not going to spend months grinding LeetCode.

I love tech, but after only a month, I’m already demoralised and considering learning a trade. Am I wasting my time?

Hi recruiters,

I’m reposting this because I realised my previous post made it sound like I’ve already sold my tech business, which isn’t the case.

I’m currently looking for tech roles and trying to work out how best to position my background. I founded and run a tech business, but I’m unsure whether it would be better to say I’m currently running it, planning to exit/sell it, or looking to move on from it.

My concern is that employers may see “currently running a business” and question whether I’m fully committed to a full-time role. At the same time, I want to be honest and frame the experience in the best possible way.

From a recruiter’s perspective, what’s the best way to present this when applying for tech jobs?

Edit: I’m leaving because it is not profitable enough.

Thanks in advance.

I run a small SaaS-style tech business that I founded myself. It is still operating, but the market has become very competitive/low-margin, and I’m now looking to move back into a full-time tech role.

My concern is how to frame this on my CV and in interviews.

So far, I have been applying for jobs using wording that suggested I had sold or exited the business. That seemed to help with recruiter interest, and I have had some calls from it, but I’ve realised I’m not comfortable with that framing because it is not really true. I still own the business, and I don’t want to end up having to live with or explain something dishonest if I get further into an interview process.

At the same time, I’m worried that if I say I still own/run the business, recruiters may assume I won’t be fully committed to a full-time role, or that the business will compete for my attention.

The reality is that I built and operated real infrastructure, dealt with customers, handled production issues, automation, monitoring, backups, and other technical work. I feel the experience is relevant, but commercially the business is no longer my long-term plan.

From a recruiter or hiring manager perspective, what is the strongest honest way to frame this?

Would something like this work?

“Founder / DevOps Engineer — built and operated a SaaS platform; now transitioning back into a full-time engineering role.”

Or would that still raise red flags?

I’m mainly trying to avoid two bad impressions:

1. That I’m not fully committed to a new job because I still have a business.
2. That I’m unemployed or failed because the business is no longer my long-term plan.

Any advice on the best wording for CVs, LinkedIn, and recruiter calls would be appreciated.

Hi recruiters,

I’m currently looking for tech roles and would appreciate some advice on how to position my background.

I founded and ran a tech business, but I’m unsure whether it’s better to say that I’ve sold/exited the business, or that I’m still involved in running it. I don’t want employers to think I’m not fully committed to a new role, but I also don’t want to appear unemployed. It's a SAAS style so it's on going and not like contract work.

From a recruiter’s perspective, which framing is stronger when applying for tech jobs?

Thanks in advance.