Yeah. But I learned that I can't beat myself up about it. Gotta move on

Well, didn't work out. Company is shut down. Parents sold their house, gonna start job hunting now.

@heyheni Thanks for following up, yeah. Things seem to look better. Unfortunately that hasn't still translated to cash in the bank. But I'm hoping soon that it will. Got someone to market the company purely on commission basis. And he seems to be doing well, a good friend of mine and I had a very convincing idea in the same field of work to get more customers essentially in a way that the marketing happens on its own. I'm looking at things to get settled in the next 2 months. If it does, then I'm getting the personal loans cleared immediately and never making that mistake again, if it doesn't. Well we decided that selling the house and buying a house in a different place is the way to go. My parents said it doesn't make sense to spend 5 years of my life on a business error that they had made. So I'm mentally in a better place. What happens in the next 2 months, I'll definitely post the end result here.

@cursee Only one way to figure that out

@helloworld Hey, thank you for your words. I definitely agree with you that it shouldn't be " just because they helped me, I should help them back". But after speaking to people and doing some basic research, in the case that I have to shut down the company, getting a job in a different country with a much better economy, and keeping my expenses low, will allow me to finish this up in a fraction of the time. And that way, I will have time for myself and my parents will be debt free. So I guess, I can really work on that situation.

@ShotgunSurgeon Thank you. I really appreciate it. Speaking to many of our community has really opened possible solutions. I'll work towards that.

@heyheni (2/2) the Downside is that many of our clients are bigger corporate companies. So they really vet their vendors. And office visits and staff interviews are one big part. Previously, because our address is a high value address, we've won bids because of this fact. It's so weird and we don't understand why people care about where our office is, but it is.

Marketing suffered quite a bit during the aforementioned restructuring. This situation is the result of that. I've takes steps to hire a marketing person purely on commission basis, but I feel that may take a bit of time before fruition. The situation I feel, is not impossible to get out of, but will require a crazy amount of work and a healthy dose of luck.

I'll definitely go through the links you sent. Thank you all so much for investing your time to help me out. I definitely will keep you guys updated on what happens.

@heyheni Hey, just to answer your questions:
We can keep the company open for a couple of months.

The downturn started when we had to change our strategy from sticking our hopes and income on one big project to more projects with lesser value. Honestly, I feel that this change was necessary, cause most of the time, we felt that we were at the mercy of the client to pay, and sometimes when that didn't happen, we had to really agree to things we hadn't initially agreed in the project to get payments.

Our running costs are relatively high, I feel, because our rent is quite high. But this place has very very low retainers. And if we want to shift to another place with probably 1/3rd of the rent that should be perfect for us, they want a retainer of 10 months without negotiating. That's is why I feel we are stuck on that front. We are strongly considering the possibility of going fully remote to reduce our costs. (1/2)

@adwalvekar sort*

@seraphimsystems business software. ERP, BI, integrations. That sorry of thing.

@cursee got it, since we got stuck in some big projects that got executed successfully and we were restructuring, we couldn't focus on sales. I'll look into the old customers like you mentioned. This actually helped me quite a bit. Thank you

@helloworld I understand where you're coming from, but I'm not from the West, and just because this situation has taken place, doesn't mean I can quit on them, they have been very supportive, but I will also consider what you said. Thanks mate

@cursee I should really look into this. I guess my mind was really blocked as a result of all the stress. Thanks mate!
I will start looking at other type of software offers, you're right cash flow is King.

@cursee Hey, no, we are actually a company of about 15 - 20 people. We are in the business software and services industry. Sales is the Cruz of our issue, and I'm sure that if that was fine, things will be fine in a matter of a year. But we've run out of money in order to increase sales. Does anyone have any advice on increasing sales?

@Fast-Nop Yeah, I accounted for that too in my estimate, they are more than willing to do that. I guess I just have to move to a different country with a better paying job

@Fast-Nop yeah, I understand that now. Thanks anyway

@Fast-Nop Well, they(parents) definitely aren't forcing me to pay, and they feel guilty about me being intertwined in this. Due to various reasons, the debt was personal in nature. So I am, actually required to pay it off. :/

@Cheeseus aRtIfIcIaL iNtElLiGeNcE

Fair enough, I meant that, simplifying will help out

Get all the data in a single call and use a simple charting library like charts.js I've found that it really helps when you're in a pinch

Honestly, it also depends on the size of your project. Sometimes, if your project is uncomplicated, and you don't need a bunch of extra built-ins Flask can really make sense. But for larger projects, having the tried and tested boilerplate code can significantly reduce the time you spend on working on your projects.

I did a bit of digging in this, saw a few videos. An Intel CPU and an AMD graphics card is the way to go. But it is almost impossible to have auto updates on. People need to update their bootloader, backup their kext files and then try the update and see if it works. It doesn't "Just work". But I would love some more input from a fellow developer cause all YouTubers measure only stupid video benchmarks.

Side rant: Why do YouTubers only use video benchmarks for the most part? That's probably not the way to truly measure the whole performance of it. It just appeals to the press and the group of people who use it to make videos. Helps no one else.

I honestly believe that you already know enough to start learning Android. If anyone asks you to learn all the APIs that Android uses, run far far away from that person. Experiment and break things. Spend nights on a very stupid bug. Teaches you a lot!

@antoniomerlin yeah. I explored that option. I guess I wasn't looking for the correct thing from the beginning, but that's a cool setup though.

@C0D4 yeah. I guess you're right. Spent another day, I feel that webhook and some script that moves code is the right thing.

The vulnerability was that Facebook has a feature called "View-as". Which, as the name suggests, allows you to view a person's profile as that person or any other person. While this is harmless in theory, things can get super messy if you don't have a good set of security rules, as with anything.

@C0D4 you can choose either. And it's open-source.

@C0D4 this may be a long shot, but if you have heard about odoo, the solution is for this. I'll just read up about this.

@antoniomerlin okay, so we work with many types of applications. Quite a few server apps and a few on-device applications too, I'll be honest, quite a bit of what you said went over my head. I'll read up more and get back with answers

@joykill Thanks! I read through about it, and I just posted a comment, I feel, that may not be for me, as I was looking more for an auto-deploy solution.