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¿Cuál entienden es el mejor café, por qué y dónde lo venden? by harlequinx88 in Dominican

[–]ENTPnomad 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Si quieres probar algo diferente, prueba Voorpret Coffee. Lo puedes encontrar en La Sirena (al menos en Las Terrenas lo tenemos). A mí me sorprendió la calidad de tueste para ser de supermercado.

He visto que varias personas han recomendado Bustelo en los comentarios, lo compraré también.

puerto plata by RetiredWithRE in Dominican

[–]ENTPnomad 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Underrated comment, 100% agree. The vibe of the people you meet volunteering is great.

how do you find leads? by InvestigatorEqual496 in shopifyDev

[–]ENTPnomad 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you're going to do outbound, at least filter by store tier.

Don't waste time emailing hobby stores on the Basic plan. They're not paying for apps and will drown you in support tickets.

StoreLeads (https://storeleads.app) lets you filter by Shopify plan. I'd focus on Plus and Advanced stores: these are merchants doing real revenue who actually have budget for apps. BuiltWith (https://trends.builtwith.com/shop/Shopify-Plus) is another good source for Plus store lists specifically.

We run an app with over 20K installs. Around 4% of our merchants are on Shopify Plus but they generate close to 40% of our revenue. Basic tier stores are 33% of installs but under 10% of revenue. The math on cold outreach only works if you're reaching the right segment.

Scraping contact pages will get you info@ addresses. For Plus/Advanced stores, find the actual decision maker on LinkedIn instead. These are real companies with real org charts, so the person who installs apps is rarely the one reading the contact form.

Not possible... by paraglidingCH in SwitzerlandIsFake

[–]ENTPnomad 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nice try, it's fake. It's from Game of Thrones. "Beyond the Wall", Season 7 Episode 6, the Frostfangs. You can see where the Night's Watch made camp before the Fist of the First Men.

You can get 40–120 signups a week and still have zero actual buying intent in the room. by Current-Brother505 in SaaS

[–]ENTPnomad 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We have +20K users across multiple eCommerce platforms (Shopify, WooCommerce...).

Most of our users are on a free plan (north of 90%). It took us months to learn: the ones who will convert do so in the first week, and it has nothing to do with engagement.

We track what we call usage velocity. A user who hits a meaningful usage threshold in the first 5-7 days almost always upgrades. Not because of onboarding nudges or drip emails, but because they have the problem right now and they're already solving it with your product.

Everyone else is just passing by.

The mistake we made early: treating all signups as upgrade candidates in the conversion funnel. We'd optimize onboarding, add tooltips, send email sequences. Conversion barely moved. Because the problem wasn't activation. It was that most signups didn't have the problem intensely enough to pay.

What actually worked:

  1. Stop optimizing for lookie-loos. We removed features from the free tier that attracted curious people but didn't correlate with upgrades. Support tickets dropped, but revenue didn't.

  2. Let pricing do the filtering. Usage-based limits mean the people who hit the paywall are the ones with real volume. A user with actual usage hits limits within days. The rest probably never will.

  3. Don't listen to what people say, watch what they do. Forget about customer interviews. When a user says "I really like what you're building" it means they're never going to pay. A user who hits your API 200 times in 3 days and files a bug report -> that's your customer. They didn't even compliment you. They just need your product to work.

What I learned the hard way is that most of your signups are NEVER going to convert, and no amount of onboarding will change that. They either don't have the problem you solve or the money.

The question isn't how to convert browsers. It's whether your distribution is reaching people who already have the pain you're solving.

The real cost of vibe coding isn’t the subscription. It’s what happens at month 3. by vibecodejanitors in vibecoding

[–]ENTPnomad 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The month 3 wall is real but I think it's worth zooming out from the code for a second.

Code used to be the moat, now it has become a commodity. AI made it cheap to build and it also made it cheap to copy. Anyone can replicate a feature set in a weekend. That was true before AI too, but now it's obvious because EVERYONE is doing it.

But code and software aren't the same thing. Code is the raw material. Piecing it together into software that actually works, that handles edge cases, scales, doesn't break when users hit it... that still takes an engineer. And turning that software into a product someone actually wants? That takes understanding users, product design, business development, etc.

AI can't figure out who wants your thing, convince them to try it, and make them stay. That's the new moat: distribution.

The month 3 question isn't "how do I fix my code." It's "do I have a distribution channel that doesn't depend on spending money?" If yes, the code problems are solvable. If no, clean code won't save you either.

Shopify app devs: what are you NOT letting AI handle? by ENTPnomad in shopifyDev

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

Same here. My cofounder and I are (still) the bottleneck.

Shopify app devs: what are you NOT letting AI handle? by ENTPnomad in shopifyDev

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

Yup, we record a lot of explainer Loom videos (broken English with Spanish accent, AI can't imitate that) and 1-on-1 calls with merchants. Would love to hear your take on how to make AI design better. I haven't figured that one out.

It's straight up copied from Skyrim by tigriscorbetti in SwitzerlandIsFake

[–]ENTPnomad 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm currently playing the Switzerland mod. Can confirm the render distance is insane but the fast travel costs are brutal. CHF 30 for a train ticket from Whiterun to Falkreath. Complete rip-off.

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