u/Impossible_Quiet_774

I was skeptical about spending more on a cleanser because it always felt like the step where price mattered least. You rinse it off. How different could it be.

Two months on the ogee face cleanser and the difference is actually in everything that comes after it. Actives absorb better, moisturizer sits differently, skin isn't starting from a compromised place every morning. The formula is low-pH, rinses completely clean without any film and doesn't leave that tight feeling I'd normalized from years of foaming cleansers.

The certified organic formulation is a real thing here, not a label. Jojoba-based, no synthetic fragrance, ingredient list that actually makes sense for the skin barrier.

Not going to oversell it. It's a cleanser. But it's the first one where I stopped thinking about whether I needed to switch to something else which is honestly the best thing you can say about a basic routine step.

Solo PT owner, 4 treatment rooms, around 20–25 patients a day. We go through roughly 60–80 lbs of linens weekly (treatment towels, pillowcases, sheet drapes).

We're seriously considering removing our inhouse laundry setup entirely and replacing it with a pickup service like Poplin instead of reinvesting in equipment. Our current washer in the back office has already broken multiple times this year and it's becoming more of a maintenance burden than a useful system.

Replacing it with a commercial machine would be around $4,500 upfront plus installation, utilities, and ongoing repairs. Linen rental companies also quoted long term contracts with minimum volumes far above our actual usage. So we're now comparing the idea of fully outsourcing laundry as a workflow change rather than maintaining it inhouse. At our current volume, a $1/lb pickup model with no contract comes out to roughly $250–$300/month.

Has anyone in a similar small clinic completely removed their laundry room and switched fully to pickup laundry services? Curious how it holds up operationally long term.

We do small to mid size private events and markets, our payment setup was a terminal at the main table and cash everywhere else, it worked until the terminal had a connectivity issue at an outdoor event last summer and we lost about an hour of transactions while we sorted it out.

For two months I’ve been trying out tap to pay app, cpos, it's been solid for any day where carrying the full terminal setup doesn't make sense. The power and connectivity redundancy was the original reason to look for something phone based but the rate and the setup speed ended up being reasons to stay.

I’m curious if anyone here is using OpenShift clusters on Xelon or a similar Swiss IaaS provider.

Right now we’re testing a small OpenShift setup on top of their VMs and storage, mainly for EU/CH data residency reasons. If you’ve done OpenShift on Xelon (or comparable regional clouds), how did it go in terms of performance, upgrades and day 2 ops?

As Thierry Henry, the King, once said, players of Saka's caliber face constant doubt and comparisons throughout the season especially when they're out of form. But the mark of a star is their impact in big games. In crucial moments, they make a huge difference just by being on the pitch and their sense of responsibility demands they step up when it matters most. The same goes for Julián Álvarez and Antoine Griezmann.

P.S. Henry is honestly the perfect pundit. Legends of his stature and resume like Ronaldo Nazário, Andriy Shevchenko, Zinedine Zidane or Ruud van Nistelrooy have stayed away from the media spotlight due to language barriers or personality differences, never becoming fan favorites. But Henry is a Premier League icon, witty and articulate in his analysis, universally respected and on great terms with the British media. He's basically a ratings goldmine, of course he's killing it

Spent time on this when I was trying to sort out what was actually useful for a small electrical contracting operation versus what was built for something bigger and repackaged for smaller teams.

The pattern that kept coming up was that most of the well-known options, Jobber, Housecall Pro, ServiceTitan, are designed with an operational model in mind that includes some form of office infrastructure. Scheduling coordination, dispatching, crew management across multiple jobs running simultaneously. That model makes sense at a certain scale. It doesn't map well to an owner-operator doing site visits themselves and needing to turn estimates around fast.

The tools that work better for that specific situation are the ones built around the field workflow rather than the office workflow. Bizzen is the clearest example of this. The product starts with the site visit and the estimate that comes out of it, rather than starting with scheduling and working backward to estimating as a feature. Invoicing and automated follow-up are included.

If you're running a small crew and the bottleneck is time lost to admin after site visits rather than complexity of scheduling across a large team, the tool that starts with the field problem is going to fit better than one scaled down from an office-first platform.

Switched from dropshipping to holding inventory a few months ago because delivery times were killing my repeat purchase rate. Toronto felt like the obvious base since most of my canadian customers are ontario-based and I'm here too.

The part nobody really prepares you for is finding a decent toronto fulfillment setup takes way more evaluation time than you'd expect. Went through three quotes before finding one that actually published their pricing, had no minimum order commitment and had a shopify integration that didn't require babysitting.

The integration piece was the most painful part of the search. The first provider I seriously looked at had a shopify connection that synced orders twice a day. Not a bug apparently, a deliberate design choice. Contrary to what they said in the demo, overselling in the gap between syncs is not a theoretical risk at any real volume, it's an inevitability.

Where I landed was using a toronto fulfillment provider for canadian orders, keeping domestic shipping fast and cost efficient and evaluating a US location separately for my american customers because cross border shipping from toronto to US buyers was eating margin I didn't have to spare.

Something about songwriting that I cant quite figure out. My best ideas almost always come when im just improvising at the piano. Messing around, no plan, just playing what feels right.

In those moments the song sounds incredible to me. There's a flow to it that I love. Then I try to actually write it down, capture the chord progression, the melody, the rhythm and somewhere in that translation step, the song loses half of what made it feel alive in the first place. By the time its sitting in front of me as a structured piece I can play repeatedly, the magic is mostly gone.

Ive tried recording the improv first and transcribing later but the recording always sounds different than the moment did. Ive tried writing chord charts immediately after but I always lose nuance. Ive tried just keeping the recordings unformalized but then I cant develop them or share with collaborators.

Is this just a fact of songwriting or is there a better way to preserve the improv moment when you transcribe it?

I do mostly in person work, on site sessions, events, that kind of thing. For a long time Venmo was my default and it worked until it really didn't.

Three things broke me. Client with a corporate card I couldn't take had to invoice and wait two weeks for accounts payable. Venmo payment sitting pending for four days after I'd already delivered the files. And a client who just didn't pay because nothing was actually charged yet, no urgency, no obligation in their mind, just a request floating in an app.

Spent some time looking for something that would let me take card on the spot without buying hardware. Tried a couple options, landed on CPOS after comparing it against Square on fees. Their free plan runs a bit cheaper and I wasn't ready to pay a monthly fee just to test something new.

Four months in, client taps their card or Apple Pay on my phone, takes a couple seconds, no follow-up texts, no "I'll send it later tonight." Payment just... closes when the job closes.

Two things worth knowing before switching: funds take about two days to settle which is normal for card processing but feels slow if you're used to Venmo and the onboarding is fast I had it running mid job the first day I tried it which isn't how I'd recommend doing it but it worked.

Anyone else made this move? Curious what pushed others off Venmo for in person work.

Sometimes I notice a very faint smell like disinfectant. It’s not strong but it’s enough to put me off that first sip. Any thoughts guys? TIA!

Lately, I’ve been drinking less water. Not because I’m not thirsty but simply because I don’t feel like drinking the water at home. And that change is more noticeable than I thought.

Small deck repair last fall, took me 3 hours, client was happy, she asked if I had Venmo. I had a personal account but I'd had a situation earlier in the year where a payment went to someone with a similar name and I'd been avoiding it since.

Told her I preferred cash or check, she apologized and said she'd have to run to the ATM. The job was $180. She came back twenty minutes later, paid, and that was that.

On the drive home I sat with that exchange. She apologized to me for not having cash. Which means she felt bad about a problem that was entirely mine. And I'd made her wait twenty minutes after a job she'd already approved and was happy with, because I hadn't sorted out my own payment setup.

That was when I actually fixed it. Not because of the $180 or the twenty minutes, because I didn't want clients apologizing to me for my own unresolved logistics problem ever again.

We have signals coming from website visits, G2 review activity, LinkedIn ad engagement, and job change monitoring. Four sources. None of them talk to each other. We're pulling reports from all four and correlating them in a spreadsheet at the end of each week. The cross channel part was supposed to mean the signals feed a single account view automatically. What it means in practice is a spreadsheet maintained by one person who's basically doing manual data ops. We get the insights eventually but by the time we act on them an account has usually moved on.