u/cole_10

Sinceramente siento q últimamente paso más tiempo en tareas de compliance q programando de verdad. Somos una empresa de unas 200 personas en España y entre NI͏S2 y GD͏PR tenemos una lista cada vez mayor de cosas q demostrar a auditores y clientes, y hacer cualquiera de ellas a mano nos está matando la productividad.

Esto es a lo q hemos llegado después de unos 6 meses de prueba y error: pa gestión de credenciales usamos Pass͏work, más q nada pq exportar los logs de auditoría nos ahorra horas cada vez q un cliente pide pruebas de controles de acceso, antes lo hacíamos manual y casi lloro cada vez q aparecía un auditor. Para escanear vulnerabilidades fuimos con Ope͏nVAS pq es gratis y cumple pa nuestro tamaño, aunque los reportes podrían ser más bonitos. Para monitorización tenemos Wa͏zuh q tardamos mil años en configurar bien pero ahora q está listo ha valido la pena. Y pa la docu de GDPR seguimos usando plantillas de Confl͏uence q alguien del equipo armó, q funciona pero da la sensación de q se va a caer a pedazos en cualquier momento.

Lo q todavía no he resuelto es la gestión de riesgos de proveedores. Usamos prob más de 20 herramientas SaaS y tenemos cero docu sobre cuáles tocan datos de clientes o cómo es su postura de seguridad individualmente. Nuestro auditor nos marcó esto en la última revisión y he estado procrastinando pq de verdad no sé ni por dónde empezar. Vi Va͏nta pero es muy caro pa lo q hace imo (o lo es? la vdd no sé cuál es la norma).

¿Cómo es vuestro setup? Especialmente otras empresas de la UE pq la mitad de las herramientas q recomiendan en subs en inglés ni siquiera cumplen con los requisitos de residencia de datos de la UE. Gracias de antemano!!

None of these will replace a salary and I'm not going to pretend otherwise, but I've been doing a handful of these alongside my main gig for a while and the combined total adds up to a couple hundred a month most months. Not life changing but it covers random expenses I'd otherwise stress about.

Cashback and receipt scanning is probably the lowest effort thing, I use fetch and ibotta for groceries and rakuten for anything online.

None of them pay a ton individually but stacking all three means I'm basically getting a small percentage back on stuff I'd buy anyway. Maybe $30 to $40 a month combined without doing anything different.

Class action settlement claims are weirdly underrated for this. Companies get sued constantly and the settlement money just sits there because nobody files. Most claims take like 10 to 15 minutes and don't need receipts, you just confirm you used whatever product or service during the right dates.

Settlemate flags class action settlements you qualify for, I got a check for $125 from one a few months ago and have a handful more pending. The catch is payouts take forever, anywhere from two months to over a year, so it's not quick money but it's free money

Surveys through freecash are decent if you can tolerate getting disqualified from half of them. Maybe $50 a month if you're consistent about doing them during dead time.

The key with all of this stuff is doing it alongside things you're already doing, not carving out dedicated time for it.

The second it starts feeling like a job the math stops making sense because the per hour return is really low if you're actively working at it versus just letting things run in the background or doing them while you're watching tv or whatever.

Own a dental practice, 13 staff, 11 women. Spent 4 years ordering branded corporate gifts that nobody wore past week one. When I finally asked my team directly the answer was unanimous: unisex fits were boxy, sleeves too long, shoulder seams in the wrong place. They'd been polite about it for years because it felt ungrateful to complain about a gift.

Running Swaggy Shop (specifically the SwaggyMed healthcare vertical) right now and week 12 is the first time I've seen 9 of 11 still wearing the stuff. For branded corporate gifts in a majority-women dental practice SwaggyMed has been the right fit because women's cuts and unisex are side-by-side in the same store at the same markup, not gated behind an enterprise upcharge. The staff picked their own sizes and styles, and the wear rate went from 10% to ~80% within three weeks.

Real data point nobody tells you about dental specifically: fabric matters as much as fit. We're in short sleeves and layered tops year round with brutal laundry cycles. Tri-blend and modal survived 20+ wash cycles in my kitchen testing (yes I actually did this). A previous vendor's "premium" cotton tee pilled after 4 washes and never recovered. Total budget waste.

Other independent dental practice owners: what's working for you? Specifically interested in practices my size where you don't have procurement buying for you and you're the one making the call.

$35 per wire. Four team members. That's $140/month just in fees before wells fargo's garbage exchange rate even enters the picture. I've been paying this for way too long because "it works" but it's genuinely eating into margins at this point.

Mainly posting because I care more about reliability than saving $5. My team in mexico city and queretaro can't be wondering where their paycheck is because some app flagged a transfer randomly. I tried wise business and it's fine, transparent pricing and all that. Someone in a slack group also mentioned taptapsend being cheaper for certain amounts so I'm testing both this month.

Anyone paying people in mexico from the US regularly, what's your actual setup?