I'm curious how other developers handle printing features in their applications.
If your app generates invoices, shipping labels, reports, tickets, or certificates, do you provide users with a way to verify their printer before they print important documents?
I've seen many support issues that turned out to be printer-related rather than application bugs. Problems like incorrect paper size, alignment issues, faded colors, poor print quality, or users selecting the wrong printer can all lead to failed print jobs.
Some operating systems include built-in printer test pages, but they're not always easy for users to find. Has anyone added a simple "Print Test Page" option directly into their application?
just saw that there is a petition going on by the big frontier model companies, asking the US government to develop technical and governance tools to pace the AI development.
I have been trying platforms such as YC s Work at a Startup, Wellfound, LinkedIn, and other job boards, but not much of remote hiring(outside US).
I have been working with react, next.js , react native and node.js from last 4 years and more. I wanna to join an early-stage startup, contribute closely to the product, and learn more about a startup.
Whenever I find an interesting startup, I usually reach out through email or Discord. Most of the time, they are either not hiring, do not have the budget, or do not reply. I have also tried approaching founders with specific suggestions about how I could improve or help build their website or product but no luck.
I have the flexibility to take some risk so idm working on contract, freelance type. I just wanna have try something like this.
For about a year we sold a suite. Six or seven modules, and we would walk buyers through the whole catalogue. Outreach sat in there as the entry item, the cheap one, the thing you would add on at the end.
We were also running it on ourselves, because we needed meetings and had no budget for them. It was the only module getting daily use by anyone, including us.
One thing I realized while exploring mental health apps is that, in moments of anxiety or panic, having more content isn't always better.
When you're overwhelmed, scrolling through dozens of meditations or trying to choose the "right" exercise can become another source of friction. It made me wonder whether wellness products sometimes optimise for larger libraries when what people really need is less choice and faster support.
It completely changed how I started thinking about designing for stressful moments. Curious if others building in health or productivity have noticed the same thing. Does reducing choice sometimes create a better user experience?
I keep hearing the same story from friends running small web design, dev, and SEO agencies. A client emails something like "hey can you also add X" or "small tweak, shouldn't take long," and the team just does it, because pushing back over email feels awkward or not worth the friction. Multiply that by a year and it's apparently real money left on the table.
I'm trying to figure out if this is worth building into an actual product something that reads your signed scope of work, watches new client emails (read-only, nothing sent automatically), and flags requests that fall outside the contract, with a suggested charge and a drafted change-order email you review before sending.
Before I put real time into this, I want to sanity check it with people who've actually run agencies or dealt with scope creep firsthand.
Is this a recurring, quantifiable cost for you, or something people grumble about without it ever really hitting the P&L? Would you pay monthly for a tool that reliably caught it, or would it just become one more dashboard to ignore? And is email even where most of this happens, or is the real leakage in Slack threads and verbal "sure, no problem" moments on calls?
