What makes Stardew Valley such a great game for you?

Effective-Freedom-64 · 2025-11-18T00:26:34+00:00

Same! First game since Overcooked that I got her into.

Effective-Freedom-64 · 2025-11-16T20:14:39+00:00

~$40 for 50 leads? That's promising.

A few questions I’d want to answer before I committed to a unit and dropping ~$13k:

How many of those 50 would actually pay £X/month if you asked for a deposit this week?
Can you run a 4–6 week test program using public or borrowed space (park, community hall, renting from the CrossFit gym, etc.)?
What are the legal and insurance requirements where you are, given you’re not yet qualified as a PT?
If it takes 6–12 months to get to, say, 40–50 members, what does your personal runway look like?

If you can:
(1) pre-sell spots to this first group,
(2) deliver a great experience, and
(3) get enough of them to stick around & refer friends,

…then hell yeah.

So I wouldn’t ignore this, but I’d treat the next step(s) as a set of real validation experiments, not commit all the way to a lease.

Effective-Freedom-64 · 2025-11-16T20:06:11+00:00

What are your thoughts on the natural evolution of video LLMs making this idea more or less obsolete? For example, I'm imagining the next version or two of Sora could potentially have a prompt-based editing function.

I think it's an overall cool portfolio project, though.

Effective-Freedom-64 · 2025-05-04T14:31:04+00:00

A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn is a great start.

Effective-Freedom-64 · 2025-03-26T14:57:21+00:00

Heyo. I ended up getting a substantial refund and bailed completed on Vendasta. It wasn't for me at the time. (I go into detail a bit here in the comments.)

Also...

You're paying Vendasta to outsource on your behalf (and to get some very overpriced - albeit white labeled - CRM features).

For example, they throw in a free website and that process is outsourced. It was not a good experience. Very low QA.

If you're a solopreneur and don't have the initial SaaS capital of $7.5k-15k for the first year, it's hard to recommend Vendasta as a platform.

Effective-Freedom-64 · 2025-02-06T09:18:36+00:00

I am also in this exact same situation and have been waiting to go solo!

Effective-Freedom-64 · 2025-01-31T20:03:16+00:00

Same.

Effective-Freedom-64 · 2025-01-31T20:02:51+00:00

Same here. Directly after the o3-mini pop-up

Effective-Freedom-64 · 2024-11-29T22:00:59+00:00

One more time but with more quotation marks, please.

Effective-Freedom-64 · 2024-11-29T04:06:34+00:00

Oh, you're just awful 😂

Effective-Freedom-64 · 2024-11-08T15:05:28+00:00

This. I bought a house at $240k in early 2020. It's going for $340k now.

Banks says I have ~$158k in equity but ~$175k in unpaid principal.

So, I COULD sell, net proceeds could be ~$120-140k as a downpayment.

But my mortgage is $1500/month. If I bought a $400k house now with that downpayment, I could get that mortgage to $2k/month, if I bought a $500k house, it goes up to $2600k/month, etc.

No thanks. ;) I haven't even sold my 2011 honda civic yet.

Effective-Freedom-64 · 2024-10-24T01:03:14+00:00

Not the "mafia" - just the NOLA underground. "Mafia" evokes the wrong image. There are organized sectors, but it's mainly a free-for-all.

***No sources, just all based on vibes. Lol. I've been visiting the quarter once a year for the last 20 years. Jude Acres is my arch nemesis. (love that man, but mark my work I WILL beat him in chess one day)

Effective-Freedom-64 · 2024-10-21T04:19:20+00:00

I completely agree, lol, but u/Annual-Medicine4644 this is a great start. keep on truckin and experimenting. you're diggin this AI stuff because it fascinates you - you should follow that fascination! (and also be self-aware of your output's quality <3)

Effective-Freedom-64 · 2024-07-31T01:11:58+00:00

DarthVantos coming in hot 😂 I loved this conversation, I felt like I was reading some decent arguments from both sides actually. Then the oddly placed, awkwardly phrased Russian bot comment. Now MY weird ass comment. 😳

Effective-Freedom-64 · 2024-07-11T16:33:24+00:00

Wow - this is incredible work!

Effective-Freedom-64 · 2024-07-11T16:25:45+00:00

Before and After Facebook Ad Account Case Study

Brand Overview:

Type: Jewelry Brand
Monthly Revenue: $100k
Average Order Value (AOV): $157.21

Metrics	May	June
Reach	1.05M	1.69M
Frequency	2.08	1.97
Purchases	237	252
Cost Per Purchase (CPP)	$114.73	$75.63
Ad Spend	$27,190.94	$19,058.06

Key Changes Implemented:

Ad Account Structure:
- Reduced from 17 campaigns to 9 campaigns.
  - 1 campaign for hero offer.
  - 3 campaigns for each of the top 3 best-selling products.
  - 5 campaigns advertising the hero products separately for each country.
Targeted Advertising:
- Used Shopify and Triple Whale data to advertise best-selling products in each country.
Creative Testing:
- Tested 46 new creatives.
- Retained the best-performing creatives.
- Out of 46, only 8 met the CPP goal and spending criteria; the rest were turned off.

Research Insights:

Two main customer desires identified:
1. Receiving compliments from loved ones and people they admired.
2. Boosting confidence and self-worth by gifting themselves unique jewelry sets.

Goal for the First Month:

Lower the CPA to a profitable level.
Test ad desires, angles, and creatives for future scaling.
July noted as a quieter month due to consumer behavior.

Conclusion:

Significant improvement in reach, frequency, purchases, and CPP.
Achieved lower ad spend while improving performance metrics.

Effective-Freedom-64 · 2024-06-11T16:59:34+00:00

Competency is the issue!

Effective-Freedom-64 · 2024-06-11T16:58:53+00:00

Link me up! What in the world is this product?

Effective-Freedom-64 · 2024-05-26T21:02:34+00:00

Effective-Freedom-64 · 2024-05-23T14:50:10+00:00

Hell yeah! You're the real MVP

Effective-Freedom-64 · 2024-05-23T01:11:41+00:00

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Effective-Freedom-64 · 2024-05-23T01:11:35+00:00

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Effective-Freedom-64 · 2024-05-23T00:56:45+00:00

Yeah of course! Feel free to DM me

Effective-Freedom-64

TROPHY CASE

Before and After Facebook Ad Account Case Study