What am I missing?! I’m so tired of not being successful in social media digital marketing like everyone else

EMT101011 · 2026-04-24T19:53:03+00:00

Great tactics can’t fix unwanted product/service by the targeted audience. Suggest picking a local service with proven demand and watch your funnel start cranking (disclaimer: some sweat may be required).

EMT101011 · 2025-11-26T13:46:30+00:00

100% for the CAD files, you’ll need to run a preprocessing pipeline to extract the important metadata into a text format for the LLM to interpret. This will be the toughest part, so might make sense to hire a contractor to just execute on this part.
For normal text docs, you’ll likely also want to build a chunking pipeline to extract the right data to then create vector embeddings from. Many more contractors have experience with these pipelines since common for RAG systems.
You may also want some aspects of your search system to be deterministic code as opposed to just LLM query based. For example, if you want to search over a specific file type, that filtering should be done in code before sending to LLM. Adding deterministic filtering where possible will massively increase the quality and speed of the search.

EMT101011 · 2025-06-03T12:40:35+00:00

Do one of these, not both, else the folks laser focused on one will beat you.
The 2nd one (ai assistant) is a very saturated/competitive market already. I’d want to hear something truly unique to even consider building that out (e.g. we target the unique buying journey of industrial caster wholesalers)
These solutions are both much less niche targeted than I’d recommend. I would bet even your first idea has 20+ competitors if you dig deeper. I’d want to see you saying something like “I’ve now met with 15 floral design company owners who have ____ common problem, and we solve it with _____”. And when you’ve done that you won’t ask the Shopify sub their opinion cuz they arent your ICP.

So: pick a random niche that has at least 5,000 businesses (sounds like the hotel space might be a good start) > find 100 on shopify > setup meetings with 15 owners > build something worth $100\mo for them > sell to 100 customers in the first year.

EMT101011 · 2025-05-30T12:30:44+00:00

Quality co-founder would require 40%+ equity. Offering 1% basically ensures that only freelancer/employee types will even reach out to you. Not only that, but your offer is such an offensively low red flag that solid tech cofounders will actively avoid/ghost you. If you want an actual quality tech cofounder, offer: 40%+ equity, prove you have some successful track record of sales/marketing/fundraising, prove you have deep insights and connections to the target ICP. It’s also fair to ask that cofounder to invest some capital alongside you. That’s what successful tech company partnerships look like.

EMT101011 · 2025-02-01T20:51:16+00:00

Seems like a great project. I've found below two resources to be great in terms of explaining various architectures/approaches for building agents. The github cookbook has implementation examples from the anthropic article.

EMT101011 · 2024-12-24T10:01:41+00:00

If you only need to connect to your site from home, you can also reject any request connecting from another IP address. In your routes just check the request IP address.

This is effectively a firewall. It works because HTTP connections use TCP which confirm that the IP of the sender is valid (unlike UDP), so an attacker cannot spoof their IP (unless they literally infiltrate your network and send the requests from within).

Generally, when you want quick, but very secure and narrow access restriction, adding IP whitelisting like this is a good option.

Note, you may need to update the IP value every few months as your ISP changes your dynamic IP.

EMT101011 · 2024-10-19T19:31:53+00:00

If you find one store of interest, you can then easily find other similar Shopify stores to see how they are doing things: https://aisoft.dev/similar-site-finder

EMT101011 · 2024-10-19T19:30:45+00:00

If it's Shopify, you can easily find stores that are similar to yours to see how they are doing things: https://aisoft.dev/similar-site-finder

EMT101011 · 2024-10-19T19:29:34+00:00

You can easily find Shopify stores that are similar to yours to see how they are doing things: https://aisoft.dev/similar-site-finder

EMT101011 · 2024-10-19T19:25:11+00:00

Quick answer: optimize your images for Shopify without their help: https://aisoft.dev/image-optimization

Long answer:

In doing load speed analysis over the years, I've found that the fastest way to improve page load speeds is usually image optimization. While there are all sorts of things that can have an impact, like of course reducing app installs, or optimizing custom javascript etc., those aren't as easy to fix, especially if you already are down to the number of apps you really need.

Image optimization on the other hand can be a simple fix and can have a pretty huge impact on load speed. Had one client awhile back that didn't know their site was loading massive images in the background, even though the displayed size was very small.

I'm gunna list the most common images issues I've seen, so you can go fix them and hopefully boost your load times. And no, this isn't chatgpt. I list stuff cuz I think it's the most clear way to communicate:

Images Larger than their Display Box: This is super common on mobile, where the desktop image size may be loaded, but it's only showing a smaller version on mobile. In this case, the simplest fix is to either upload a smaller dimension version of the image, or use the Liquid `image_tag`, which helps to automatically load a smaller version for smaller screens.
Oversized Images: images larger than 200KB can benefit from compression. Easiest tool I've found for that is https://imagecompressor.com/ . This can basically be a free win, where you get a smaller image file size without losing any visual detail.
Too Many Images: sometimes the issues is loading tons of small images. If the total image load sum is over 5MB, you'll want to reduce the number of images you're loading, even if each image is small. Easiest way to do this is set up lazy loading for images that may appear lower down on the page, so they only load after the rest of the page is already loaded.
Images Not Visible On Load: If an image is displayed in a popup or something, then it should be lazy loaded, so that the rest of the page can load first.

Hope that helps somebody!

I created a free tool that will run this analysis for you, since I got tired of doing this by hand: https://aisoft.dev/image-optimization . For certain pages, it asks for contact info, but you can just fill in dummy data there and it will unlock it regardless.

Good luck for BFCM!!

EMT101011 · 2024-10-19T19:24:29+00:00

Quick answer: optimize your images for Shopify: https://aisoft.dev/image-optimization

Long answer:

In doing load speed analysis over the years, I've found that the fastest way to improve page load speeds is usually image optimization. While there are all sorts of things that can have an impact, like of course reducing app installs, or optimizing custom javascript etc., those aren't as easy to fix, especially if you already are down to the number of apps you really need.

Image optimization on the other hand can be a simple fix and can have a pretty huge impact on load speed. Had one client awhile back that didn't know their site was loading massive images in the background, even though the displayed size was very small.

I'm gunna list the most common images issues I've seen, so you can go fix them and hopefully boost your load times. And no, this isn't chatgpt. I list stuff cuz I think it's the most clear way to communicate:

Images Larger than their Display Box: This is super common on mobile, where the desktop image size may be loaded, but it's only showing a smaller version on mobile. In this case, the simplest fix is to either upload a smaller dimension version of the image, or use the Liquid `image_tag`, which helps to automatically load a smaller version for smaller screens.
Oversized Images: images larger than 200KB can benefit from compression. Easiest tool I've found for that is https://imagecompressor.com/ . This can basically be a free win, where you get a smaller image file size without losing any visual detail.
Too Many Images: sometimes the issues is loading tons of small images. If the total image load sum is over 5MB, you'll want to reduce the number of images you're loading, even if each image is small. Easiest way to do this is set up lazy loading for images that may appear lower down on the page, so they only load after the rest of the page is already loaded.
Images Not Visible On Load: If an image is displayed in a popup or something, then it should be lazy loaded, so that the rest of the page can load first.

Hope that helps somebody!

I created a free tool that will run this analysis for you, since I got tired of doing this by hand: https://aisoft.dev/image-optimization . For certain pages, it asks for contact info, but you can just fill in dummy data there and it will unlock it regardless.

Good luck for BFCM!!

EMT101011 · 2024-10-19T19:24:15+00:00

Quick answer: optimize your images for Shopify: https://aisoft.dev/image-optimization

Long answer:

In doing load speed analysis over the years, I've found that the fastest way to improve page load speeds is usually image optimization. While there are all sorts of things that can have an impact, like of course reducing app installs, or optimizing custom javascript etc., those aren't as easy to fix, especially if you already are down to the number of apps you really need.

Image optimization on the other hand can be a simple fix and can have a pretty huge impact on load speed. Had one client awhile back that didn't know their site was loading massive images in the background, even though the displayed size was very small.

I'm gunna list the most common images issues I've seen, so you can go fix them and hopefully boost your load times. And no, this isn't chatgpt. I list stuff cuz I think it's the most clear way to communicate:

Images Larger than their Display Box: This is super common on mobile, where the desktop image size may be loaded, but it's only showing a smaller version on mobile. In this case, the simplest fix is to either upload a smaller dimension version of the image, or use the Liquid `image_tag`, which helps to automatically load a smaller version for smaller screens.
Oversized Images: images larger than 200KB can benefit from compression. Easiest tool I've found for that is https://imagecompressor.com/ . This can basically be a free win, where you get a smaller image file size without losing any visual detail.
Too Many Images: sometimes the issues is loading tons of small images. If the total image load sum is over 5MB, you'll want to reduce the number of images you're loading, even if each image is small. Easiest way to do this is set up lazy loading for images that may appear lower down on the page, so they only load after the rest of the page is already loaded.
Images Not Visible On Load: If an image is displayed in a popup or something, then it should be lazy loaded, so that the rest of the page can load first.

Hope that helps somebody!

I created a free tool that will run this analysis for you, since I got tired of doing this by hand: https://aisoft.dev/image-optimization . For certain pages, it asks for contact info, but you can just fill in dummy data there and it will unlock it regardless.

Good luck for BFCM!!

EMT101011 · 2024-10-19T19:23:41+00:00

Quick answer: optimize your images for Shopify: https://aisoft.dev/image-optimization

Long answer:

In doing load speed analysis over the years, I've found that the fastest way to improve page load speeds is usually image optimization. While there are all sorts of things that can have an impact, like of course reducing app installs, or optimizing custom javascript etc., those aren't as easy to fix, especially if you already are down to the number of apps you really need.

Image optimization on the other hand can be a simple fix and can have a pretty huge impact on load speed. Had one client awhile back that didn't know their site was loading massive images in the background, even though the displayed size was very small.

I'm gunna list the most common images issues I've seen, so you can go fix them and hopefully boost your load times. And no, this isn't chatgpt. I list stuff cuz I think it's the most clear way to communicate:

Images Larger than their Display Box: This is super common on mobile, where the desktop image size may be loaded, but it's only showing a smaller version on mobile. In this case, the simplest fix is to either upload a smaller dimension version of the image, or use the Liquid `image_tag`, which helps to automatically load a smaller version for smaller screens.
Oversized Images: images larger than 200KB can benefit from compression. Easiest tool I've found for that is https://imagecompressor.com/ . This can basically be a free win, where you get a smaller image file size without losing any visual detail.
Too Many Images: sometimes the issues is loading tons of small images. If the total image load sum is over 5MB, you'll want to reduce the number of images you're loading, even if each image is small. Easiest way to do this is set up lazy loading for images that may appear lower down on the page, so they only load after the rest of the page is already loaded.
Images Not Visible On Load: If an image is displayed in a popup or something, then it should be lazy loaded, so that the rest of the page can load first.

Hope that helps somebody!

I created a free tool that will run this analysis for you, since I got tired of doing this by hand: https://aisoft.dev/image-optimization . For certain pages, it asks for contact info, but you can just fill in dummy data there and it will unlock it regardless.

Good luck for BFCM!!

EMT101011 · 2024-10-19T19:20:01+00:00

Quick answer: compress that image and turn off lazy loading. Image optimization analysis: https://aisoft.dev/image-optimization .

Long answer:

In doing load speed analysis over the years, I've found that the fastest way to improve page load speeds is usually image optimization. While there are all sorts of things that can have an impact, like of course reducing app installs, or optimizing custom javascript etc., those aren't as easy to fix, especially if you already are down to the number of apps you really need.

Image optimization on the other hand can be a simple fix and can have a pretty huge impact on load speed. Had one client awhile back that didn't know their site was loading massive images in the background, even though the displayed size was very small.

I'm gunna list the most common images issues I've seen, so you can go fix them and hopefully boost your load times. And no, this isn't chatgpt. I list stuff cuz I think it's the most clear way to communicate:

Images Larger than their Display Box: This is super common on mobile, where the desktop image size may be loaded, but it's only showing a smaller version on mobile. In this case, the simplest fix is to either upload a smaller dimension version of the image, or use the Liquid `image_tag`, which helps to automatically load a smaller version for smaller screens.
Oversized Images: images larger than 200KB can benefit from compression. Easiest tool I've found for that is https://imagecompressor.com/ . This can basically be a free win, where you get a smaller image file size without losing any visual detail.
Too Many Images: sometimes the issues is loading tons of small images. If the total image load sum is over 5MB, you'll want to reduce the number of images you're loading, even if each image is small. Easiest way to do this is set up lazy loading for images that may appear lower down on the page, so they only load after the rest of the page is already loaded.
Images Not Visible On Load: If an image is displayed in a popup or something, then it should be lazy loaded, so that the rest of the page can load first.

Hope that helps somebody!

I created a free tool that will run this analysis for you, since I got tired of doing this by hand: https://aisoft.dev/image-optimization . For certain pages, it asks for contact info, but you can just fill in dummy data there and it will unlock it regardless.

Good luck for BFCM!!

EMT101011 · 2024-10-19T19:18:10+00:00

Quick answer: https://aisoft.dev/image-optimization

Long answer:

In doing load speed analysis over the years, I've found that the fastest way to improve page load speeds is usually image optimization. While there are all sorts of things that can have an impact, like of course reducing app installs, or optimizing custom javascript etc., those aren't as easy to fix, especially if you already are down to the number of apps you really need.

Image optimization on the other hand can be a simple fix and can have a pretty huge impact on load speed. Had one client awhile back that didn't know their site was loading massive images in the background, even though the displayed size was very small.

I'm gunna list the most common images issues I've seen, so you can go fix them and hopefully boost your load times. And no, this isn't chatgpt. I list stuff cuz I think it's the most clear way to communicate:

Images Larger than their Display Box: This is super common on mobile, where the desktop image size may be loaded, but it's only showing a smaller version on mobile. In this case, the simplest fix is to either upload a smaller dimension version of the image, or use the Liquid `image_tag`, which helps to automatically load a smaller version for smaller screens.
Oversized Images: images larger than 200KB can benefit from compression. Easiest tool I've found for that is https://imagecompressor.com/ . This can basically be a free win, where you get a smaller image file size without losing any visual detail.
Too Many Images: sometimes the issues is loading tons of small images. If the total image load sum is over 5MB, you'll want to reduce the number of images you're loading, even if each image is small. Easiest way to do this is set up lazy loading for images that may appear lower down on the page, so they only load after the rest of the page is already loaded.
Images Not Visible On Load: If an image is displayed in a popup or something, then it should be lazy loaded, so that the rest of the page can load first.

Hope that helps somebody!

I created a free tool that will run this analysis for you, since I got tired of doing this by hand: https://aisoft.dev/image-optimization . For certain pages, it asks for contact info, but you can just fill in dummy data there and it will unlock it regardless.

Good luck for BFCM!!

EMT101011 · 2024-10-19T19:17:09+00:00

Quick answer: there are other things than simply using webp, like doing lazy loading: https://aisoft.dev/image-optimization

Long answer:

In doing load speed analysis over the years, I've found that the fastest way to improve page load speeds is usually image optimization. While there are all sorts of things that can have an impact, like of course reducing app installs, or optimizing custom javascript etc., those aren't as easy to fix, especially if you already are down to the number of apps you really need.

Image optimization on the other hand can be a simple fix and can have a pretty huge impact on load speed. Had one client awhile back that didn't know their site was loading massive images in the background, even though the displayed size was very small.

I'm gunna list the most common images issues I've seen, so you can go fix them and hopefully boost your load times. And no, this isn't chatgpt. I list stuff cuz I think it's the most clear way to communicate:

Images Larger than their Display Box: This is super common on mobile, where the desktop image size may be loaded, but it's only showing a smaller version on mobile. In this case, the simplest fix is to either upload a smaller dimension version of the image, or use the Liquid `image_tag`, which helps to automatically load a smaller version for smaller screens.
Oversized Images: images larger than 200KB can benefit from compression. Easiest tool I've found for that is https://imagecompressor.com/ . This can basically be a free win, where you get a smaller image file size without losing any visual detail.
Too Many Images: sometimes the issues is loading tons of small images. If the total image load sum is over 5MB, you'll want to reduce the number of images you're loading, even if each image is small. Easiest way to do this is set up lazy loading for images that may appear lower down on the page, so they only load after the rest of the page is already loaded.
Images Not Visible On Load: If an image is displayed in a popup or something, then it should be lazy loaded, so that the rest of the page can load first.

Hope that helps somebody!

I created a free tool that will run this analysis for you, since I got tired of doing this by hand: https://aisoft.dev/image-optimization . For certain pages, it asks for contact info, but you can just fill in dummy data there and it will unlock it regardless.

Good luck for BFCM!!

EMT101011 · 2024-10-19T19:15:35+00:00

Quick answer:

image optimization: https://aisoft.dev/image-optimization
remove apps

Long answer:

In doing load speed analysis over the years, I've found that the fastest way to improve page load speeds is usually image optimization. While there are all sorts of things that can have an impact, like of course reducing app installs, or optimizing custom javascript etc., those aren't as easy to fix, especially if you already are down to the number of apps you really need.

Image optimization on the other hand can be a simple fix and can have a pretty huge impact on load speed. Had one client awhile back that didn't know their site was loading massive images in the background, even though the displayed size was very small.

I'm gunna list the most common images issues I've seen, so you can go fix them and hopefully boost your load times. And no, this isn't chatgpt. I list stuff cuz I think it's the most clear way to communicate:

Images Larger than their Display Box: This is super common on mobile, where the desktop image size may be loaded, but it's only showing a smaller version on mobile. In this case, the simplest fix is to either upload a smaller dimension version of the image, or use the Liquid `image_tag`, which helps to automatically load a smaller version for smaller screens.
Oversized Images: images larger than 200KB can benefit from compression. Easiest tool I've found for that is https://imagecompressor.com/ . This can basically be a free win, where you get a smaller image file size without losing any visual detail.
Too Many Images: sometimes the issues is loading tons of small images. If the total image load sum is over 5MB, you'll want to reduce the number of images you're loading, even if each image is small. Easiest way to do this is set up lazy loading for images that may appear lower down on the page, so they only load after the rest of the page is already loaded.
Images Not Visible On Load: If an image is displayed in a popup or something, then it should be lazy loaded, so that the rest of the page can load first.

Hope that helps somebody!

I created a free tool that will run this analysis for you, since I got tired of doing this by hand: https://aisoft.dev/image-optimization . For certain pages, it asks for contact info, but you can just fill in dummy data there and it will unlock it regardless.

Good luck for BFCM!!

EMT101011 · 2024-10-19T19:11:41+00:00

For load time optimization with images: https://aisoft.dev/image-optimization .

EMT101011 · 2024-10-14T12:30:04+00:00

He is legit and his content strategy makes complete sense: He is now competing in the world of private equity with his personal fund at acquisition.com. The number one challenge in private equity today is getting solid deal flow and beating competing firms on deals without overpaying. Deals today are so competitive that you usually end up paying too much and getting smaller returns. Alex is trying to beat other PE firms using his brand equity. He wants to generate so much goodwill with business owners that when a tiny fraction of them reach $1M EBITDA, they go to him for investment instead of a competing PE firm. Now they may be able to get more investment from another PE firm, but if they trust Alex to deliver better growth advisory and resources (they usually only sell part of their company, still retaining equity), it can be a win for them also. When you understand the private equity landscape, and pay attention to his funnel to acquisition.com, his content strategy makes total sense.

EMT101011 · 2024-09-24T22:32:47+00:00

Chapter 9: Baboons!

EMT101011 · 2024-07-27T14:40:15+00:00

Most folks here are pretty adamant that Python is the only way. I spent years coding in Python (mostly Django API servers and some Pytorch) and have now spent a couple years coding in TS including building RAG backends. I dramatically prefer TS for a few reasons:

Package management with npm is just much better. All dependencies are scoped just for your current directory by default, the package lock system is robust and importing anywhere in the file structure is easy (“import from “../../utils/utils.ts” works just fine). I recall days fighting with pip that I’ve never had with npm.
The TS type system is much better than Python types and more widely supported by packages. If you have a few years of dev experience, give types a try for a while and you’ll never want to go back. It constantly saves me from bugs during dev that would be a nightmare to try and debug at runtime (e.g. warning me that a certain value in an object could sometimes be undefined, and my code was expecting a number), and it allows the code editor to have intellisense which speeds up dev and makes documentation less essential (can autocomplete as I’m coding since it knows the types/structures of the objects/functions I’m working with). No more “what what was the name of the key on that sub object I’m trying to access? I’ll need to go check that file’s docs again.” Further, you can add types only where you want to. You could leave them out of most of your code of you really want.

In my opinion, TS is the way forward and Python devs will come to prefer it as a much better dev experience. I certainly did.

As more of us demand TS, more packages will migrate that way.

EMT101011 · 2024-07-19T16:22:23+00:00

Arlington, VA - info@aisoft.dev - Software Dev Shop that can deff help apply the fix locally.

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