Kyle Strouse

Software consultant for the Feds & Fortune 500
🗓️ — location based scheduling
📗 — one Pricebook to rule them all

[Kyle Strouse @MrKyleStrouse]

@NicolasLecocqHQ @indietool 💪💪💪

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@SMB_Attorney Lexus is Toyota with a different badge. Need to buy OEM parts for them? Almost always has Toyota branding on the part

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@marclou Looking at the subreddit mod and their post history I’d wager it’s a middleman trying to weasel into your biz

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Just a few pages later. They truly were ‘gloriously free.’ Ignorance is bliss.

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Reading a book. Typical Comanche diet. They were some hard MFers.

[Kyle Strouse @MrKyleStrouse]

The "5 nines" is 99.999% system uptime, meaning .001% of the time the system is "down" for whatever reason. Over the course of a year that equates to ~5 minutes.

GitHub has had 93% uptime over the past 90 days. Extrapolated over a year that is ~25 days of downtime. Why does everything Microsoft touch seem to go to shit?

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@Bobbyvickers Life is about the journey, not the destination

[Kyle Strouse @MrKyleStrouse]

Someone could have wiped out their entire service area by clicking one dot on a map.

That's the default in the mapping library I use. drag a shape down to three corners, remove one more, and instead of stopping you it deletes the whole thing.

Found it before a customer did.

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@adamchapman @ramit Context. Retirees with $200k net worth aren’t “retired” unless they’re 80+

Have fun living the retired life at 65 with 200k net worth.

[Kyle Strouse @MrKyleStrouse]

I guess I’m confused. You initially state people aren’t living paycheck to paycheck because the median net worth is $200k. Now you’re mentioning people can convert those illiquid investments to cash, usually with negative side effects (transaction costs and taxes as you indicate) to do what…pay bills?

So people selling their 401k’s or getting a HELOC to pay bills isn’t living paycheck to paycheck? Ok bro

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@ramit lol people with 200k net worth don’t own a home. Retirees with 200k net worth aren’t “retired” as that cash ain’t gonna last long..so the majority of your examples don’t apply. Wanna try again?

[Kyle Strouse @MrKyleStrouse]

I’ve started doing some HVAC work on the side. Not really for the money, more for the XP. Condenser fan motor on my fridge broke, $30 part. If it weren’t for the knowledge I picked up working on HVAC/refrigeration there’s not way I would’ve been able to diagnose and fix this. Would have either spend $250+ on a service call or $1,000+ on a new fridge. Here I’ve got a fan set up to blow on the condenser coils while I wait for the new part to arrive.

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@Bobbyvickers What is the biggest pain on these projects and why is it always “dealing with homeowners?”

[Kyle Strouse @MrKyleStrouse]

@Bobbyvickers Fun fact. That is Robert Redford. Not Zach Galafanikis (spelling?)

[Kyle Strouse @MrKyleStrouse]

@Bobbyvickers Right outside my office door. I do a set every 2 hrs during the workday

[Cartoply @Cartoply]

We're officially live on the Jobber App Marketplace! 🎉

Cartoply now syncs with Jobber — client & property sync, territory routing, and public booking, all connected to your account.

https://t.co/xBjHnBvEew

#FieldService #Jobber

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@Bobbyvickers Do the needful

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Greatness

[Kyle Strouse @MrKyleStrouse]

#3-this is why you always launch on iOS first

[James In Beta @JamesJames518]

While building RedditMaster, I keep seeing SaaS founders make the same mistakes on Reddit:

1. Building a product that delivers all its value in the first minute—no retention, no recurring revenue. You just showed all your cards at the very beginning.

2. Selling vitamins instead of painkillers. Customers don’t need nice-to-haves. They only pay for things that fix a pain in the ass.

3. Building for broke people. Making money from rich people is the easiest because they won’t care whether it’s $99, $199, or $999 per month.

4. Solving a problem they’ve never personally experienced—or verified. You’ve got to use your tool every single day. If it works 100% perfectly for you, then you have a chance of making it work 60% well for your customers.

5. Shipping a generic, vibe-coded UI that kills trust. Vibe coding gives you development speed, but it also gives you a discount on customer trust.

6. Chasing investors before proving anyone wants the product. You’re just hoping a VC is stupid enough to let you play.

7. Expecting linear effort to produce linear rewards, like a 9-to-5 job. A startup is like making no profit for years, then suddenly bursting into money. It’s never a linear play.

8. Building before establishing a reliable distribution channel. Attention is the most valuable asset in the AI era, not code anymore.