Tyler King

@tylerking.app

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Professional hater. Co-founder / CEO of Less Annoying CRM. I talk about bootstrapping, tech, entrepreneurship, and business practices that annoy me. Podcast: startuptolast.com 📍St. Louis, MO, USA

A chart of signups over time, color-coded by the source (but without labels for what each color represents). Red accounts for 85% of all signups currently.
A screenshot of text from a feedback form saying: "I cannot accept incoming calls. I see them, click "Answer" and then there is nothing. It ends.
A screenshot of a customer feedback survey. The question is "What can we do to improve?" and the answer is "Add more enhancement"
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A Trustpilot review saying: Is this integrity I'm sensing?? Is this integrity I'm sensing??? 9month old small business owner here. Getting started, I have been sucked into many a disappointing/scam subscription and have had to set up some base rules after learning things the hard way. Example: use the entire free trial period and only sign up for the one month subscription (you know - bc that reduced annual one has a no-refund policy attached in the event of any issues....). I am 3 days short of my free trial with LA ending and am loving the simplicity for my minimal needs - with options to add automations, forms, and custom fields - along with pipeline management. Yes, other providers offer these things but make it SOOOO complex to utilize - there is definite training needed for use. But with LA it is so user friendly and common sensical - like the next logical step is the actual step! I knew in my first few days of use I was going to sign up. As I went to start the subscription I noticed - weird. $15 a month or $180 a year ($15x12)?....no gimmicky sales lures? Just $15...at my convenience? With three days left I figured I would just sign up today (so I didn't miss it) and eat the last 3 trial days. After inputting my information it showed my next due date was 3/26 - in 3 days. With the the subscription installment due so close to signing up, I assumed (based on my experiences with the ways other companies operate in this space) they were back-charging me for my trial now and then charging me again my next month in 3 days....BUT NOPE!! Imagine my surprise that they were still honoring the additional 3 free days of my trial before billing my new subscription! Just WOW - simple, easy to use, transparent, and fair? Could this be true? I am impressed and if this isn't a fairytale - I just may be a lifer! :)
The NameCheap navigation bar. Out of nine links, five have a big red "New" badge and one has a blue "TRY ME" badge. It's very busy and chaotic looking.
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An ad for a travel agent saying "Prefer the human touch from the very beginning?" next to three headshots of people, but the people are obviously AI-generated
A dashboard showing results from an A/B test. One variation is slightly beating the other, but not in a statistically significant way.
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A button in the new iOS that has text that is virtually the same color as the background so it's very difficult to read
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A chat window with Google Gemini. It says... Gemini: I can add dropdown lists to these columns to help organize the data. Would you like me to proceed with adding dropdowns to all of these columns? Me: Yes, please proceed Gemini: This action is currently not supported in Sheets.
A chart showing the number of clicks from Google searches and the number of impressions. Over the last few months, the impressions increase significantly, but the clicks are the same, meaning the click-through rate is dropping.
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A line graph showing the number of users trying forms for the first time. It's mostly flat, but trending slightly downward.
A line graph showing the number of submissions we're getting to our form tool going up from zero per week last October to almost 900 per week right now.
A screenshot of a warning in an app that says: These recommendations were made by AI, but sometimes AI is stupid! Good thing we’ve got a team of real people who are happy to help with whatever you need, so feel free to book a call with us!
A table showing support volume in 2024 vs 2025. The rows say: Emails sent (CRMCS) 113 97 Inbound calls (in-hours) 28 24 Booked call hours 5.7 7.3 Contact forms 30 25
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A chart titled "Weekly form builder metrics" showing roughly 5x growth over the last two months
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A screenshot of the "Tax Withholding Estimator" on the IRS website showing a planned outage from Dec. 31 - Jan 15
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A graph showing total submissions, active users, and users who received a submission over time. The lines are mostly increasing from late September to now.
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My desk with some fast food and Product Hunt pulled up on the screen
An email saying: I often greet upgrades with a roll of the eyes … “what do I have to relearn now?” BUT … WOW you guys!! WOW! WOW! WOW! What a huge improvement! I love it so far! Thank you!!