Lemme give some context first - we operate in a high risk environment and our current biometric verification setup is starting to feel inadequate. Seeing more sophisticated spoofing attempts, edge cases our current vendor cannot handle and a manual review queue that keeps growing. High risk for us means financial fraud attempts are frequent, the cost of a false negative is significant and we cannot afford to trade accuracy for speed or UX. Need all 3 lol. Specifically looking for something with proven liveness detection, deepfake and spoof resistance and ideally government grade biometric accuracy. Compliance across multiple jurisdictions is also non negotiable. Anyone running biometric verification in genuinely high risk production environments, what are you using and what made you stick with it?

It hooks into Notion, Slack, Zoom, Fireflies, HubSpot, Drive, Gmail, Confluence, Salesforce.

You connect whatever you already use and then you can just ask it things about your own company and it answers.

Easier to explain with what people actually do with it.

Say your sales team does 6 calls in a week and follows up on 2 of them, and the follow up is "hey just checking in".

It reads the Zoom transcript, tells you what the prospect actually pushed back on, and writes the follow up around that. You edit it and send then you either get a yes or a no I'm not interested anymore, there's nothing in between which is the whole point.

Second one is finance and ops. Someone asks what did we spend per vendor last quarter and that's four spreadsheets and half a day gone.

You can just ask it. It doesn't read the sheet and guess at the total, it turns your sheets into an actual database and runs a real query, and shows you the query and the rows it used so you can check it before you send it to anyone.

Third one is boring but it's what people keep using it for. The answer is in Notion somewhere, or a Slack thread from March, and nobody can find it, so the same 4 or 5 people get pinged all day and new joiners take a month to be useful.

Now you ask it and it points you at the exact line and if it isn't in your data it tells you that instead of inventing something, which sounds small but it's the difference between people trusting it and quietly going back to asking Steve.

It's free at the moment. Not charging because I want testimonials.

Tell me what you'd use it for and I'll tell you honestly whether it fits, it doesn't do everything.

Counted mine and it was nine before lunch, which got me looking at why rather than just how many.

Three patterns showed up. Two of the nine existed only because another tool cannot export properly. Two more were duplicates that different teams bought separately and nobody has consolidated. Only about half were tools I actually chose to use.

That split is worth knowing if you are the one paying for the stack. The tools people complain about are rarely the expensive ones. The cost is usually sitting in the duplicates nobody audited and the workarounds bolted on to cover a gap in something you already own.

What is your number, and how many of those do you think you would still need if the ones you have worked properly?

These four get used interchangeably, which is part of why HR software comparisons get confusing fast.

HRIS is the system of record. Who works here, what they are paid, who they report to, time off, documents.

HCM is that plus the strategic layer on top. Performance, learning, compensation planning, workforce analytics. Mostly a commercial boundary rather than a technical one.

Payroll actually calculates and pays people, including tax filings. Sometimes bundled with an HRIS, often not. This is the one that catches people out, because storing employee data does not mean a platform runs payroll.

ATS is hiring only. Job posts, applications, interview scheduling. It ends at the offer.

Two questions worth settling before comparing anything. Does payroll need to live in the same system, and do you need the HCM layer yet or just a reliable record with time off tracking.

If there is a category you would find useful to see clarified this way, leave it in the comments and we will work through it in a future post.

I’ve been a Loom user since it was first released and was free. And when they were acquired, having seen how Atlassian destroyed the Trello experience, I was ready for the same but hopeful. Then I got the email today that the price of Loom is nearly doubling for my small business and there are no more Creator Lite seats. Based on our seats today, that’s a 10x increase. Loom has been a tool I use daily for years!

Wondering what alternatives you use or recommend.

I’m trying to build a useful tool/software for a real problem, but instead of guessing what people need, I want to ask you directly.

What’s something you currently do manually, repeatedly, or in a frustrating way that you wish there was a simple tool for?

It can be anything — work, study, personal projects, automation, data, Excel, websites, small business, etc.

Tell me:

- What problem are you facing?

- How do you currently solve it?

- What would the ideal tool do for you?

I’m genuinely looking for ideas from real users and may actually build one of the suggestions.

I have used a handful of Baas(backend as a service) platforms for my apps like Firebase, Supabase, Appwrite. But I am curious about what you people use when it comes to a real need for your app. Or do you recommend anything else. Or any kind of combinations of multiple platforms

Hey community!

Recently, I launched a SaaS called FeedFast, a 3-in-1 tool that is tailored to SaaS owners. FeedFast allow users to build a public hub for changelog, feedback and uptime monitoring for your vital endpoints (marketing page, checkout, APIs, you name it...).

I need your help with an honest review of the core functionalities, marketing pages, pricing, what works and what doesn't. What is your experience with this kind of software?

I built this because I used to place a feedback button on the dashboard that sent content to an email, which is okish until you start getting more and more emails and lose track of requests, bug fixes, and improvements.

FeedFast allows you to collect feedback, publish a changelog based on those feedback entries and monitor the uptime of your endpoints from one simple dashboard. Besides all of this, I added an MCP server with 12 tools that allow you to manage your account right from your AI of choice.

You can find this tool at https://feedfa.st

Looking for: what tool, what task, and why it stuck when others didn't. Trying to build a shortlist based on what real small business owners actually kept using - not vendor case studies.

Every company has one. The report nobody else can generate, the admin panel with one password holder, the automation someone built in 2021 and never documented.

It starts as a small favour and turns into a permanent part of your job that appears nowhere in your title.

What is yours, and what happens when you go on holiday?

Hello everyone!

I'm looking for people currently managing projects across tools like Jira, GitHub, Slack, Notion, spreadsheets, etc.:

I'd like to receive your feedback on things like:

• What do you still have to check manually across multiple tools?
• What information is surprisingly hard to get?
• What tends to fall through the cracks?
• What do you wish was automatically surfaced or summarized?
• If you could magically add one cross-tool functionality, what would it be?

Interested in both small annoyances and bigger workflow problems.

Would love to hear what your ideal setup would look like.

thank you for your time and have a great week!

Everyone talks about the good migrations. Nobody mentions the ones where you spent three months moving everything over, told the whole team it would be better, and then quietly realised the old thing was fine.

No going back either, because someone already cancelled the old subscription.

What was yours?

We keep seeing the same HR platforms come up again and again, BambooHR, Rippling, Gusto, Workday, Deel, Paycor, UKG, and a few others. But the “best” option on paper is not always the one that works best once a team starts using it every day.

For smaller companies, ease of use and payroll might matter most. For growing teams, integrations, onboarding, reporting, and automation become more important. Larger companies may care more about workforce planning, compliance, and having everything in one system.

Curious to hear from people actually using these tools. What HR software does your company use, what size is your team, and what do you like or dislike about it?

hi iam a solo developer i actually wanted to build an profitable SaaS and i wanted to build an software like how cursor and windsurf are there so what kind of software i could build so please tell me what can i build i admire my english phrasing might be bad but my main point is i need an idea so please tell me guys

I am looking for a software that can show me everything my pc stores. Setups, setup wizards, photos, sounds... Basically everything including the things i cant see with my own eyes. Thank you so much for helping me out in advence!

I want to start my own business. I have knowledge to develop deploy and scale application but need a suggestion which application help me to start my business for future large business.

Open to discuss

Hi all, I’m hoping for a little insight. I have an opportunity to help out my studio owner a few hours a week so that she can maximize what she’s getting from the MINDBODY software. I know a bit about using it from being a student and also a new teacher, so I’m somewhat familiar with it but definitely not in depth. There would be an initial learning curve so I could get on top of what all is offered with our package and how to get the most bang for our buck. What I’m hoping is some insight from other users who have been in similar administrative situations, and how helpful they feel like the learning/tutorials on MINDBODY are, and how helpful the company is when there’s questions or you want training or support.
I’m trying to be realistic here as I already have a full-time job where I have to be pretty acclimated to several different types of software, so I don’t wanna take on some huge additional job if the platform really isn’t user friendly for business managers.

Thanks so much for your time and info!