u/blizkreeg

We recently moved back from the US after spending a long time there.

Reading through this sub, one would think it’s all negative doom and gloom.

I’d love to hear stories or experiences of those who moved back with kids and have no regrets.

There is no question that life in the west is more organized, civil, clean, safe, and predictable. Did you miss all of this that you took for normal in the west?

Or did you find something that outweighed all of this, especially from a kids perspective? What have been the highlights? What have you been the positives (aside from being closer to your parents)?

I'm having a hard time building a nice looking website for our product/business. I know, this sounds ridiculous and of all the things, I know you'll tell me this is least consequential.

But, we are at that point where a basic website isn't serving us. I want something please to the eye but that also builds strong SEO/AEO for us.

We are bootstrapped, so I can't go out and spend thousands with an agency. How have ya'll done this? Any good AI products that can produce clean, well-designed websites? I'm open to even working with a freelancer who can design AND build it using claude code.

I'd love pointers. This is taking up too much of my time and mindspace.

Are there US-based SaaS companies with salespeople in LatAm / Europe / South Africa etc? Does anyone know of examples?

Sales is a universal skill but would a business (think SMBs - hvacs, service-based businesses etc) owner buy from a sales rep who wasn't in America?

As a bootstrapped US-based SaaS business that still has to have an outbound/demo sales motion, hiring in the US is feeling next to impossible for us from a cost perspective no matter where we look. A decent mid-level AE even in low-cost places like Nevada or Idaho command $120K+ OTE (rightly so). We're just not at that point where we can afford it, but we do need to hire ahead of revenue.

I'd love to hear your experiences and/or advice!

Are there examples of SaaS companies that sell to US-based SMBs but have salespeople in LatAm / Europe / South Africa etc?

Can this be made to work with the right talent (assuming no strong accents)?

As a bootstrapped SaaS business that still has to have an outbound/demo sales motion, hiring in the US is next to impossible for us from a cost perspective no matter where I look. AEs even in places like Nevada or Idaho command $120K+ OTE.

I've been on Verizon for years. I'm moving to Asia this summer but will be traveling back for business a few times a year for a month at a time. Also, while in Asia, I will need to receive and make calls (but don't really need data).

Verizon is too pricey and I'm debating between Tello / Mint Mobile / someone else. How's Tello for my use case?

I'd love recommendations from you all. Has anyone else been in a similar situation or knows which carrier might be the best fit?

I've been on Verizon for years. I'm moving to Asia this summer but will be traveling back for business a few times a year for a month at a time. Also, while in Asia, I will need to receive and make calls (but don't really need data).

Verizon is too pricey for this use case so I'm debating between Tello / Mint Mobile / someone else.

I'd love some recommendations. Has anyone else been in a similar situation or knows which carrier might be the best fit?

My b2b saas mobile app (RN+Expo) is lagging.

But I’m too focused on the web product and distribution. I don’t have the time to handhold even good devs.

I’m hoping this acts as a bat 🦇 signal to someone who is an IH/solo app builder types who has honed their ux/product/design just from the sheer act of putting their work out there and learning from it.

It’ll likely be a 2-3 month engagement.

I don’t believe that the majority of businesses will vibe code their own alternative to your SaaS but some will, on the fringes. This doesn’t worry me much, especially in vertical b2b products or software that businesses depend on for day to day operations.

But does anyone here think (and if so, why) that a proliferation of vibe coded competitors pose a real threat to the market? Or do you believe eventually most of them will die because building was always just 10% of making a business work.

I’m coming at it specifically from bootstrapped SaaS business perspective.

My latest invoice shows a $43 line item repeated several times leading to a bill of $684 for the month of April. My prior month's invoice was $34 for comparison.

Here's the line item:

EAS Build - Build (Android: 17 medium builds; iOS: 13 medium builds) -- $43.

This repeats 15 times in the invoice.

We did a total of 38 builds (17 Android and 21 iOS) in April. I can't imagine that costing $684.

I'm paying $19 for the EAS Starter Plan so I have a $45 build credit. It's not like our build output has 100xed in one month.

Has anyone else seen this happen to them? I'm very concerned.