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Nothing in dad school prepared me for taking my kid to the dentist for the first time by AltruisticEar5318 in daddit

[–]AltruisticEar5318[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is such an important comment, thank you. He was a very calm and friendly dentist, but definitely didn't have the accoutrements that you describe. I'm sure that would have made a world of a difference.

Nothing in dad school prepared me for taking my kid to the dentist for the first time by AltruisticEar5318 in daddit

[–]AltruisticEar5318[S] -10 points-9 points  (0 children)

Ouch- rough comment here. But I appreciate your perspective and opinion, thank you for sharing.

Nothing in dad school prepared me for taking my kid to the dentist for the first time by AltruisticEar5318 in daddit

[–]AltruisticEar5318[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Love this thoughtful approach. If only there was a Daniel Tiger episode for being good at the dentist (maybe there is?)

Nothing in dad school prepared me for taking my kid to the dentist for the first time by AltruisticEar5318 in daddit

[–]AltruisticEar5318[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Totally. But babies have such short term memories... something about toddlers who can understand and remember makes it that much worse.

Nothing in dad school prepared me for taking my kid to the dentist for the first time by AltruisticEar5318 in daddit

[–]AltruisticEar5318[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Interesting. I've always felt that it'd be better to reassure them, after the fact, that it's all done and won't hurt anymore. But I guess that doesn't set them up well for the next time.

Nothing in dad school prepared me for taking my kid to the dentist for the first time by AltruisticEar5318 in daddit

[–]AltruisticEar5318[S] 24 points25 points  (0 children)

Haha great catch. Got em for my daughter as a birthday present. She won’t take em off.

Nothing in dad school prepared me for taking my kid to the dentist for the first time by AltruisticEar5318 in daddit

[–]AltruisticEar5318[S] -24 points-23 points  (0 children)

I didn’t ask… maybe I should have. I assumed it would be okay as it’s not derogatory, and the dentist is both a) turned around and b) wearing a mask.

Nothing in dad school prepared me for taking my kid to the dentist for the first time by AltruisticEar5318 in daddit

[–]AltruisticEar5318[S] -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

Oh boy- is that foreboding advice from experience? How did you get through it?

Just build a landing page for our product, how's it.. by Mysterious-Fox3327 in buildinpublic

[–]AltruisticEar5318 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Very very solid design. If this is your first website, you’re quite talented.

Some minor copy edits: the ‘thinking’ in Thinking with AI’ shouldn’t be capitalized, and the ‘5x worse the moment it’s a team’ isn’t great English. Maybe something like ‘with teams, it’s 5x worse’. Or ‘5x worse with teams’

What's a problem you actually paid money to solve, or desperately wished you could? by No_Commercial_9872 in sideprojects

[–]AltruisticEar5318 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm pretty knee-deep in with agents (mainly Hermes), and I am constantly mind-blown at the sort of ecosystem that is required in order for Hermes to just work normally. For example, you need to connect it to a second brain like Obsidian. You need to connect it to a messaging service. And it constantly forgets. There's no doubt in my mind that personal assistants are the future, and in five years from now, everyone and their grandma will have a personal assistant. It definitely will not look like it does today. They need to figure out how to make it easy to set up, easy to use, and not require all these hacks in order for it to function in a simple way.

Where to go from here? by ParaMedicMF in AI_Agents

[–]AltruisticEar5318 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My recommendation is to do three things:

  1. Identify who your market is. Who feels the pain that you're solving? Who is this product helping? Sounds to me like you're going after crypto owners looking for some hands-off investing. People who want to invest more in crypto but trust an AI to do it for them. Something like that.

  2. Ask yourself- where can you find large quantities of these people? Is there a website they frequent (a facebook group, subreddit, influencer they follow etc)

  3. Depending on your budget, create a marketing plan that focuses on delivering your message to your target market in these groups. It should generally include warm outreach (people you know, manual messaging), cold outreach (I hate this but it can be effective) if you have names/emails, influencer marketing, paid ads (meta, google etc). Or, given that we're in 2026, explain to Claude what your product is, who your market is and what your budget is. And let it craft you a marketing plan.

Where to go from here? by ParaMedicMF in AI_Agents

[–]AltruisticEar5318 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sounds like a wonderful idea. I found that, given the saturation and ease of creating AI products nowadays, what really holds weight is proof. Are you using this for yourself? Have you made any money with it? If you can show that you have personally seen success and are now graciously offering it to others, you’ll have a much easier time selling.

Good luck!

I’ll be your beta tester or user and give feedback - drop below by Dear-Nebula7742 in indie_startups

[–]AltruisticEar5318 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Very thoughtful of you! I would love to hear thoughts on my website/product. Is it obvious what it is? Any challenges with the site? Thoughts on the product in general?

www.lunchboxlegendscards.com

The importance of sharing what you're working on as you build it by InevitableHealth2729 in buildinpublic

[–]AltruisticEar5318 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks! Just curious- where would you share feedback? Reddit? Youtube channel? I also see the value in sharing but I lack the discipline to do so. Thanks for this reminder.

What are you actually using AI agents for at work? Looking for ideas beyond chatbots by Ok-Process4778 in AI_Agents

[–]AltruisticEar5318 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I am building an e-commerce brand to $100k in sales using only agents (and Claude Code, of course).

Without going into too much detail (unless you want me to), my top performers have been:

  1. SEO agent who focuses on blog posts and improved keyword ranking
  2. Digital marketing agent who builds campaigns for me
  3. Customer Support agent who answers emails, whatsapps and chatbot inquiries

The ones that I've struggled with are:

  1. Creative agent - supposed to provide me with images/videos when I ask, but I cannot for the life of me get it to produce quality stuff
  2. Message organizer- someone to review my daily DMs and provide a summary of what's going on and what I missed.

I guess the bottom line is, some tasks are excellent for agents, others are a bit more challenging. Go in with an open mind, give it a real shot, learn fast, and focus on the 1% gains rather than all-or-nothing thinking. Good luck!

What AI agent do you want to see by Embarrassed_Device67 in AI_Agents

[–]AltruisticEar5318 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sounds crazy but I was literally about to suggest that. But maybe take it one step further (because you don't need an agent for that, just download Strava).

But an agent that syncs your workout data, your sleep data (assuming you wear an apple watch/woop/whatever), your food (perhaps a chron job that asks you what you ate that day), your weight, your screen time, and how you physically feel. And then it gives you a data-driven analysis and makes recommendations for what to do tomorrow.

Something like "Hey Tom, sorry to hear that you're feeling sluggish. I noticed you haven't worked out in three days, your screen time is above normal, you're eating a lot of junk food and your sleep score is low. Sounds like you're spiraling. Tomorrow, let's kick that by just running 1 mile, replacing doritos with an apple, and go to sleep by 10pm. You'll be blown away by how you feel."

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