u/weilding

My wife set up cozi when our first kid was born because her best friend had been using it with her husband and recommended it. It was fine for a while, simple shared calendar and lists, no complaints. But I have adhd and I just dont open the app, so events go in there and I just never see them because I don't check it. My wife gets frustrated because "it's on the calendar" but if I don't open the calendar it might as well not exist.

Now we have another baby coming and I will have to manage the schedule and household management since she will be with the baby, so I'm looking for a cozi alternative that somehow reaches me without requiring me to remember to check it, or maybe some tips, because trust me, just add it as part of the routine doesnt work, I dont have a routine and I shouldnd be counting on my wife everyday to put in info and check the app.

Anyone else switch from cozi to something else? What worked for you, especially if you're someone who struggles with the "remembering to check the app" part?

The metric missing from most AI support dashboards is wrong-answer rate. Deflection rate, response speed, CSAT. Nobody is measuring what percentage of AI answers were correct. A chatbot can have a 70% deflection rate and also be wrong 20% of the time. The customer who got the wrong answer didn't escalate, they just left, or placed the order on bad info, or wrote a review. Wrong-answer rate is invisible because customers don't always flag it. They just experience it. Is anyone tracking this separately from deflection rate, or does it just disappear into the support metrics noise?

Separation is coming up and I keep looking at job postings that feel like a step backwards. After running operations and leading teams for years, the idea of starting at the bottom of someone else's org chart doesn't sit right. Franchise ownership keeps making more sense the more I look into it. Proven systems, training, support, defined territory, but you're the one building and running the thing. Started pulling FDDs on a few categories and home services stands out so far. Lower overhead than food or retail, the work is physical and operational, and the businesses run on essential services that hold up regardless of what the economy does. Still early in the process and haven't narrowed down an industry or a brand yet. If anyone here went the franchise route after service, what did your research actually look like? What mattered most when you were comparing options? And knowing what you know now, would you do it again?

I spent way too long trying to figure this out before I booked so putting it here for anyone in the same spot.

How long does CPR certification take depends entirely on which format you do. Fully in person is typically a two to three hour class covering all the content and skills in one sitting. The hybrid format splits it up, you do the heartcode online module at home which runs around an hour to an hour and a half depending on how fast you move through it, then you come in for the in person skills check which is the part that cannot be skipped. When I went through safety training seminars the skills check ran about 35 minutes start to finish, so the total time investment for the hybrid format was under two hours spread across two sessions.

For CNA work the AHA BLS cert is what most employers and state licensing processes recognise. Worth confirming with your employer before you book anything but in most cases that is what they mean when they say CPR certification required.

The card is valid for two years from the date you complete the class.

(looking for recs on the best free flashcard maker app, spaced repetition would be a plus)

I'm really tired and bored of the manual instagram + hashtag approach. It works but it takes crazy time and we're missing tiktok and youtube creators entirely because nobody has bandwidth to do the same thing on three platforms.

I'm looking for what people actually use for cross platform discovery in 2026. I'm not interested in tools that are just dressed up scrapers either, want something that does real audience analysis.

Marine parts and electronics online is a space where prices vary wildly between retailers and knowing who's competitive on what categories matters more than finding one store that's cheapest on everything. fishermans marine shows up in boating forums as one of the options but the question is whether their pricing on the categories that matter most, specifically electronics and engine parts, is genuinely competitive or just average.

How does the selection compare to west marine or defender on the items boat owners actually buy regularly, and is the shipping reliable for heavy or oversized parts?

We run a DTC Shopify brand and have been self fulfilling out of a garage setup. Just crossed around 1k orders/month, which is where everyone starts saying to move to a fulfillment company, but I'm not fully convinced yet.

I get how it works in theory send inventory to a 3PL, orders sync from shopify, they handle pick,pack,shipping. What I didn't expect was how much of a difference there is on shipping rates. A couple quotes I got were noticeably lower than what I'm paying through shipstation, to the point where it almost cancels out their pick and pack fee on some SKUs.

At the same time, once you factor in storage, monthly fees, and everything else, I'm not sure if it actually improves margins or just shifts costs around.

I've mostly been looking at options that can handle both Canada and US orders since that's where most of our customers are. One thing I noticed is some providers run separate facilities, while others like shiphype operate on both sides of the border, which seems like it could simplify cross border shipping a bit.

Still hard to tell how much that actually matters day to day vs just pricing.

For anyone who made the switch around this volume, did it actually make financial sense, or was it more about saving time and scaling?

Also curious how same day processing holds up in reality vs what's said on sales calls, and if there's a reliable way to test their system before committing.

We have a task management app, 5k MAUs, react native. Im sharing the analytics setup I landed on after trying too many tools:

Posthog for event tracking and feature flags (free tier generous enough). Uxcam for session recordings, heatmaps and app screen flow analysis. Firebase crashlytics for crashes. Custom logging to postgres for business metrics.

The screen flow analysis was the eye opener. It showed me 70% of users go straight to a specific project and never visit inbox. I was about to build inbox notifications as next feature. Would have been completely wasted effort.

Total cost: $0/month on free tiers at this scale.

Most lists of "best online nursing courses" are aimed at people just getting into nursing. This is what I found when I was looking for online nursing courses that are actually built for mid-career working nurses.

Graduate level MSN programs with flexible pacing are the biggest category, these let you work toward your master's while keeping your full time schedule. The ones worth looking at are fully asynchronous with no mandatory login times, and ideally self-paced so you can push through faster during slow months at work and pull back when things get crazy on your unit.

Post-master's certificates are underrated for mid-career RNs who already have their MSN but want to add a nurse practitioner specialty or switch tracks. These are shorter than doing a whole new degree because they focus on the specialty specific coursework and clinicals, and most are available fully online through university partners. A lot of nurses use these to go from nurse educator to FNP or to add PMHNP to their existing certification.

Bridge programs like RN to MSN or MSN to DNP are designed specifically for nurses who already have experience and want to skip redundant coursework. The good ones give you credit for what you already know and focus on the graduate level content that matters for your next role.

Post-master's certificates are great if you already have your MSN but want to add a nurse practitioner specialty or switch tracks. These are shorter than doing a whole new degree and most are available fully online.

For mid-career RNs the biggest thing is making sure the online nursing courses you pick are designed for working nurses not just available online. There's a huge difference between a program built around shift schedules and one that just recorded their lectures and put them on a website.

If you want help sorting through which online nursing courses fit where you are in your career, I know that nursingcareeradvancement .com has advisors who match you with programs based on your goals and schedule. You can also start calling admissions offices and asking directly how their program handles working nurses. I know there are AIs for this too but check everything they say and double check everything, it's a big decision to leave it 100% to them.

The suite starts clean then someone changes a data-testid and half the tests go red for reasons completely unrelated to actual bugs. Is anyone running something autonomous that handles selector drift without constant babysitting?

The expensive options in this category aren't always better on the core emergency response function, they're often just more advertised. Most families don't realize how different the terms and structures are until they're already deep into a comparison and by then someone has usually already signed something.