u/Olive_Plenty

Helping a friend get her first LLC off the ground. Went to set her up with books. Both Wave and Puzzle quietly killed their free tiers. So the free beginner option just… doesn’t exist anymore.
She doesn’t need real accounting software yet. She needs something a non accountant founder can use to track money in and out without turning it into a mess someone else has to fix later.
What are solo founders actually doing here? Spreadsheet? Something scrappy? Just biting the bullet and paying for Xero early?

I am helping a friend create her first LLC and was setting up services for it when I found out that both Wave Accounting and Puzzle no longer have free access features.

Now, I am sure they are worth paying but why should she pay to use 5% of their features? All she needs is something simple and non-accountant friendly for a founder to work with so that when she does get an accountant, the transition is smooth.

Before I go build an alt software I am curious, what are founders without a bookkeeper or an accountant on staff using if they do not need full accounting software?

First off, I am a software engineer. Been programming since 1992 and doing it professionally since 1998. Secondly, I love AI. Best thing since the internet. And finally, I hate how AI is used by the masses.

I wish there was a button I could press on my machine that would remove all AI slop from being consumed by my eyes. A nice on/off switch so I can more easily distinguish humans from AI spam.

All that being said I am not ashamed to consider myself an automation expert. I’ve been that since before AI (AI just makes it exponentially better).

Ok, I had to say all that first so I don’t get confused with an AI Bro. Now for the actual post:

Grant writers, are there commercial tools or maybe customs tools being used in the industry that are not garbage? I have a task to document an AI tool for grant writing and before I do any research I wanna ask my fellow humans first. I imagine ai writing = slop but there is also AI assistant writing and even agentic search tools that could benefit the industry. However, the best tool won’t matter if an industry feels so strongly about the underlying principle that drives that tool.

An honest question wanting answers from actual people in the industry.

I'm building a speech to text API in TypeScript and I want to do the client SDK properly. Typed errors, clean method signatures, the whole thing. It's the kind of thing that's easy to rush and regret later so I'd rather have someone to think it through with.

The SDK would be the reference implementation. Other languages come after, handled by whoever knows those ecosystems. So getting the TS one right actually matters.

The rest of the project is a self hosted async server with a job queue. Not huge. Probably a few days start to finish.

If SDK design in TS sounds like something you'd enjoy, reply or DM me. Happy to share more details.

so I have this project I've been meaning to build. keeps getting pushed back because doing it alone feels like a drag. thought I'd post here first and see if anyone bites.

it's a speech to text API. self hosted, async, GPU backed, written in Bun. there's already something similar in Python but it doesn't really fit a TS ecosystem well so I want to rebuild the concept properly. the scope is pretty contained: the server, a TypeScript client SDK, a Docker image. other language clients are planned eventually but the TS one comes first and everything else waits on that.

realistically we're talking a few days of actual work. not a months long commitment. I just think it's more fun to build with people than alone, and I learn better that way too.

if you're comfortable with Bun and TS and want to ship something real, drop a comment or DM me. no bar on experience, I just want people who are genuinely interested.

I’m pretty new to Bluesky and was curious what desktop/mobile apps people are actually using these days.

Official app only? Graysky? Skeets? Anything else?

Interested in hearing what people settled on and what makes them stick with one client over another.

Hey everyone, quick question for people building with the Reddit API.

Are your apps still running these days? Has it been pretty stable for you, or has it gotten harder to keep things working?

I’ve seen a lot of mixed takes over the past year, so I’m curious what it actually looks like right now for people who are actively using it.

I’m asking because I’ve been thinking about building a tool that helps brands understand how their products are being talked about on Reddit, kind of like a sentiment or reputation dashboard. Just trying to get a realistic sense of what’s possible with the API today.

Would really appreciate hearing about your experience.