I was trying to work this out the other day and ended up building a thing because I couldn’t find anything similar from the energy companies: https://energybillcalculator.sensecall.co.uk/

Nice idea!

As a UX designer with some dev chops, I’ve been getting a lot of value from the whole vibe coding thing lately. I can get from idea to solid working product super quickly.

I’ve noticed 2 parts where I get slowed down and I’m sure there’s a market for a product or two, which would fit your idea (I think):

- setting up all the tracking/monitoring/netlify config. So like GA, Search Console, AdWords, netlify hosting etc.

- guiding me through the launch - helping me plan and track how to market and get users onboarded

Would love to chat as I’ve had a bunch of ideas and your product looks like it’s off to a great start. Not sure if you’re hiring?!

> from idea to solid working product

What platforms have you been using for this? Did you face any challenges in getting the backend setup?

Thanks for your advices! We are using amplitude for the user tracking/monitoring config. And yes we should add the guide through feature for newly registered users to onboard the product.

This is my email: [email protected], let's have a chat!

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> Our prompt is currently very simple: "OCR this PDF into this format as specified by this json schema" and didn't require some fancy "prompt engineering" to contort out a result.

This is super interesting.

Would this be suitable for ingesting and parsing wildly variable unstructured data into a structured schema?

It would make sense to have some sort of review and proportionate “cooling off” period for Government suppliers if they have failed to deliver.

That companies are allowed to continue to bid and deliver projects after failing on previous projects is worrying.

Doesn't seem a big deal that they aren't forbidden from bidding. It's the government that should be prevented from choosing them, if anything.

Questionable how enforcable a bidding-ban could be, given how trivial it presumably is to bid through a proxy/subsidiary entity.

The Horizon project didn't fail — the customer was happy and signed off on the successful delivery. The customer even insisted that all was well for decades after that. Quite clearly there was no failure and no reason for any cooling-off period.

RAA. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reductio_ad_absurdum if you want.

Based on my experience of consulting with public sector, most projects “fail” in one way or another.

Gov departments are notorious for not giving correct requirements, changing requirements or swamping the project in bureaucracy.

If we said firms couldn’t rebid after a failed project (without the cool off) I suspect there wouldn’t be many firms left.

It shouldn’t be this way but unfortunately it is.

UK and Australian Governments manage to do this, at least to a certain extent:

https://www.gov.uk/service-manual/technology/making-source-c...

https://www.dta.gov.au/help-and-advice/digital-service-stand...

The vast majority of code written the for Australian government is, and I think will remain, closed, though there's certainly support for contributing to or publishing open source. But the reality is, most government software isn't particularly interesting, and what is would most likely not be approved to be open sourced.

Like what else? I feel like simplifying is the imperative.

Good UX relies on understanding user needs.

Meeting user needs doesn't always require simplification: adding friction and complexity can sometimes help.

I had a similar experience with my 2012 rMBP last year. Out of warranty: screen, logic board, keyboard and battery replaced.

Charge? £0.

I was told that many of them are also not automated, but manned behind the scenes, Mechanical Turk style.

That's exactly right (and what I was trying to say!) :)

I have almost no idea what the offering is here... can someone explain?