If you continue developing this, I recommend completely scrapping the UI and finding a person or AI who can create something usable. What you're showing there is really that bad -- if you consider it acceptable, and expect to be able to sell it, then you really need to partner up with someone who knows what they're doing.
To be clear: as a prototype, it's more than fine. As long as the UI isn't the innovation, make it real first and experiment with it as much as you can. Show it to users, see whether they understand it and see the value. As a domain expert, making your ideas real in any way will make it easier to bring others on board who can create a pleasant experience.
The UI you're showing now looks more like a bag of controls thrown on a page by a backend engineer in 2006 and less like a B2C product in 2026. Various boxes all over the place, weird colors, misalignment, inconsistent spacing, confusing what does what, a random calculator(?) in the middle of the screen, unclear abbreviated labels. It needs so much work that a full rethink might be in order.
You did not do the work, why should you feel any ownership of it? You asked someone else to do it, they did it, and you used the result. You could have just as well used Fiverr.
But you're right to have an existential crisis if you're in the creative industry, we all have that capable someone else on our phones now for $20/month.
I don't understand Casio watches. I know that aesthetics are highly subjective but, outside of retro nostalgia, does anyone actually enjoy looking at this thing on their wrist?
The massive plastic bezel shouting PROTECTION, G-SHOCK, G-LIDE, random text on the display like SOLAR POWERED, HEART RATE, START-STOP, SHOCK RESIST, WATER RESIST 20BAR, TIDE GRAPH, besides the permanent function labels, all strike me as childish at best, not something an adult would wear unironically.
They release collabs all the time with streetwear brands. They’ve released watches with PAC Man, stranger things, haribo gummies,
Toyota, Honda, etc.
Chunky digital watches aren’t my thing either but Casio has carved out a very nice niche for themselves. They can essentially keep releasing the same designs with various colors and materials for decades.
And I do appreciate a solid, durable and accurate dumb watch sometimes. I have a couple analog/digital G-shocks that look very nice.
Personally I don’t understand the market for very expensive watches that are fragile, less accurate, need constant maintenance and look like nothing special for many thousands of dollars. To each their own.
I wear them. Sometimes it’s just fun to have a blocky, overly decorated thing on your wrist. Mostly I wear one for the utility I.e I’m doing something stupid where I might get hurt or wet or both and I really need to know the time.
They’re fun and functional. Childish? I hope that’s something that will never entirely fade in me. Pretending to adult all the time is exhausting
I just wish the guy on the right would stop trying to take a shit while he plays. It's hella distracting. But yeah, thanks for the intro to this - me likey.
You can run something like Qwen 2.5 Coder on a regular machine (https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen2.5-Coder-7B) but it's really not in the same universe with Claude Code, it will be slow and generate bad code.
It might make sense to run a small LLM locally for general conversation or very specific tasks, but they're not a serious option for agentic coding.
Already many years ago I remember installing a firewall on my phone and noticing in surprise that Outlook was not connecting at all to my private mail server, but instead only sending my credentials to their cloud and downloading messages from there.
The only Android mail client not making random calls to cloud servers was (back then) K-9 Mail.
Indeed, the current state of affairs is rather sad.
To employ a regular (non-management) employee in Spain (and it applies anywhere else in Europe), an Estonian company would to at least have a local address, then register and maintain regular contact with several authorities there (chamber of commerce, social administration, tax office). The bureaucratic overhead makes it practically impossible to have employees across several countries (definitely as a small company), the only practical option is to pay an employer of record ~600 EUR/month extra (significant salary difference) only for the joy of maintaining the employment paperwork.
The really fun part happens if a managing director moves. Then the company is considered to have a permanent establishment in Spain, needs now to maintain ALL administration like a Spanish company, and to comply with Spanish corporate law, in parallel to what it was already doing at home. Both countries' laws apply, both expect taxes, and it is not even clear cut how much of the company activity and profits should be taxed by the company's home country and how much by the director's country! And having multiple managing directors in several countries is probably an exercise in frustration.
Then, if the director has enough and moves somewhere else, it all starts again in the new country (and you also have the headache, costs, and risks of closing the Spanish entity).
The EU may have free travel, but you can basically forget actually freely moving around as a small business owner, the company administration is prohibitively complicated.
This is why I don’t get what the EU brings to the table at all. I’ve considered starting something, never quite yet pulled the trigger, but I may as well do it in the UK because it’s extremely cheap, gives access to a great number of services, and I can do it all in English there.
It’s not like the company itself is going to be queuing at an airport or whatever.
I’ll have to file in Finland for the company anyway then, but I can skip all the stuff about starting an organisation here.
The actual practical option people end up using in practice (speaking as someone who've moved around in Europe, working for various other European companies) is that you ask them to self-employ in the country they live, then you treat them as contractors, offset any extra costs that'd come with compared to full-time, and do the best you can with that.
It's not ideal, and not a real solution by wide margin, and there is plenty of stuff that can get better, but I think it's the most "practical" and pragmatic option you can make use of today.
Yes, but some companies need employees on paper. When they do custom based software and want to apply for a job, there is often a number of heads you need to employ.
_Every_ ticket system with an API (all of them) is a ticket system in a box. You can add that functionality to your application by talking to the API directly.
I think what you are thinking about is a standard API for ticket systems, that would allow you to transparently swap them. Unlike authentication, nobody has bothered to standardize something like that because ticket systems are more varied, not as often integrated into other platforms, and even more rarely replaced.
https://tailscale.com/blog (overall clean)
https://arun.is/blog (sidebar, colors)
https://www.vitsoe.com/us/voice (general feel)
https://github.com/TryGhost/Headline (interesting article header, open source)
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