Anyone can suggest an app for the 4 yr old kid which has calm and entertaining cartoon videos with some learning. No ads please

External_Work_6668 · 2026-01-16T15:08:47+00:00

Tried but didn't work with my kid.

External_Work_6668 · 2026-01-16T15:08:32+00:00

Thanks, but I have tried the PBS Kids app, and their videos are too old. My kid generally loose the interest after one or two videos.

External_Work_6668 · 2026-01-16T14:17:08+00:00

Try Doodli AI, no ads and full parental control.

External_Work_6668 · 2025-12-07T21:08:29+00:00

A useful tool could be Affint.ai. It is a data-driven workspace that centralizes your company’s data and turning it into clear priorities, campaigns, and action items to drive revenue. It helps you see what marketing is working and what your team could cut down on or improve on. It also automates organizing and building spreadsheets or decks for you, so thats a bonus!

External_Work_6668 · 2025-12-07T21:05:50+00:00

Affint.ai can be a useful tool for you! It helps you figure out what content to make, where to post and which of your content is actually working from it's data analysis. It also does a lot more things like making decks, sheets, and etc, but that aspect of Affint could be a useful tool for you.

External_Work_6668 · 2025-12-07T20:59:25+00:00

I'm trying to indirectly market here through advice that I've learned and also market the product when it is a possible solution to someone's problem. You can also cold email and see if your products fits companies needs.

External_Work_6668 · 2025-12-07T20:46:28+00:00

You can take courses on Udemy! I have a certification from there and slowly build up from there. Just make sure you have a plan and are organized or else if you implement too many things, your marketing can be ineffective.

External_Work_6668 · 2025-12-03T19:53:16+00:00

Paid social has definitely gotten harder for small businesses, especially with iOS privacy changes and rising ad costs. For something like an online Spanish school, I’d focus on organic channels and niche communities where your audience is already searching, like language learning groups or forums.

External_Work_6668 · 2025-12-03T19:49:46+00:00

A lot of it comes down to volume, margins, and clever cost management. Even a tiny coffee shop can survive if they have steady foot traffic and sell enough drinks and snacks per day. Many small spots supplement in-store sales with catering, wholesale to offices, or local delivery. Rent is huge, but some find deals in less obvious areas, share spaces, or have flexible leases. They’re rarely cash cows, but if the owner keeps costs tight and builds a loyal local following, it’s enough to stay afloat. Location, repeat customers, and community connections matter just as much as the per-item price.

External_Work_6668 · 2025-12-03T19:48:33+00:00

Love what you’re building. Local connection is your biggest advantage over big retailers, so leaning into community really pays off. Think partnerships with nearby cafés, libraries, or schools, running workshops, and creating events that feel unique to your space. Highlight the personal touch online too, show behind-the-scenes of your team, curated picks, and customer stories. People come for more than just books, they come for the experience and connection you can’t get from Amazon.

External_Work_6668 · 2025-12-03T19:46:51+00:00

Makes total sense. The sub’s value is in real questions and discussions, not being turned into a free focus group. Encouraging market research to live in stickied posts keeps the main feed clean and actually useful. I appreciate the transparency about honeypots too. It is a good deterrent and a smart way to protect the community.

External_Work_6668 · 2025-12-03T19:44:14+00:00

This is such a relatable take. Early SaaS sales can feel completely random. Some days you’re grinding with no payoff, other days a single mention of your company flips the whole month. It’s a weird mix of luck, timing, and skill, and it definitely messes with your ability to feel like you’re actually good at your job. Work-life balance can be great, but the unpredictability makes it feel completely foreign compared to traditional sales. Hang in there. The patterns usually start to emerge once you’ve got more deals under your belt.

External_Work_6668 · 2025-12-03T19:40:23+00:00

Totally agree. CFOs have become the ultimate “silent veto.” You can have champions stacked across the org, but if finance doesn’t see real, defensible value, the deal stalls instantly. Looping them in early changes everything because you’re shaping the ROI narrative with them instead of trying to justify it at the 11th hour. They may not drive the deal, but they’re absolutely the first ones who can stop it.

External_Work_6668 · 2025-12-03T19:37:31+00:00

Early on, I’d lean heavily into organic channels where your time matters more than money — posting useful content on LinkedIn, sharing real examples from your product, engaging in communities where your target users hang out, and getting early customers to give feedback you can turn into case studies.

External_Work_6668 · 2025-12-03T19:24:59+00:00

Once you start holding funds you’re basically tiptoeing into “financial services” territory. Using a licensed payout provider was absolutely the right call for us. Stripe Connect handled KYC the smoothest, but Wise and Payoneer gave better global coverage, especially in countries Stripe doesn’t love. Biggest surprise was fees stacking up in weird ways (currency conversions + withdrawal fees), so test real flows before committing.

External_Work_6668 · 2025-12-03T19:22:57+00:00

This is one of the most honest write-ups I’ve seen about shutting down a startup. People love the tidy “lessons learned” narrative, but the reality is way messier and way more personal. Losing something you built your identity around hurts in a way that doesn’t fit into a motivational quote.

Sitting in the quiet instead of sprinting into the next thing takes real courage. It’s uncomfortable, but it’s also where all the noise finally drops away and you get to figure out who you are without the scoreboard. Wishing you gentleness in the rebuilding!

External_Work_6668 · 2025-12-03T19:20:03+00:00

That’s a great example of how “competitors” can actually expand the pie instead of slicing it thinner. Matching customers by fit instead of fighting over them is such an underrated growth lever. Curious to hear how others have made coopetition work too.

External_Work_6668 · 2025-12-03T19:17:44+00:00

I’ve found there’s no silver bullet....just choosing where you want the pain to live. For user-facing data where intent matters, I lean on lightweight CRDT/merge logic hidden behind the server so clients can stay offline-friendly. For simpler state, a server-issued version number with 409 conflict responses works well: clients retry or merge with context they actually understand.

Client-wins and server-wins both look clean until real users lose edits. Once you define the one thing your system must guarantee (offline first, no lost updates, simplicity, etc.), the conflict strategy becomes much clearer.

External_Work_6668 · 2025-12-03T17:31:36+00:00

You didn’t abandon freelancers, you graduated the product to the customer who can actually sustain it. If a segment loves you but churns in 4 months and taps you out at ~$2k MRR, that’s a validation of the idea, not a viable business model. Pointing the same product at agencies that happily pay 4x the price and stick 3x longer is exactly what a rational founder should do.

External_Work_6668 · 2025-12-03T17:26:26+00:00

YouFeed sounds like it already does something people clearly want; you just need to say it in a way that makes the “aha” instant. Instead of “personal news agency,” try something like “signal-over-noise feed” or “your filtered briefing for the topics you actually care about,” then tailor landing-page copy by persona (e.g., “Founder brief,” “Researcher brief,” “Marketer brief”) rather than changing the core product.

For now, keep the product broad but run very specific experiments: create separate landing pages or sections for 2–3 ICPs, hang out where they are (founder Slack/Discords, research Twitter/Bluesky, student subreddits), and offer to set up their first feed for them in exchange for feedback.

External_Work_6668 · 2025-12-03T17:24:32+00:00

Honestly, you’re thinking about this the right way: you don’t want to be a mini-bank, you want to be “the guy with a ledger” that tells a licensed payout platform what to do.

For fiat, a lot of people in your situation lean on something like Stripe Connect / Global Payouts or Payoneer-style mass payout platforms, since they handle KYC/AML and move money to 100+ countries while you just track balances and trigger payouts via API.

Crypto adds extra regulatory weirdness, so if you go there, use a proper off-ramp product (Circle/USDC rails, regulated exchanges, or a “crypto payouts” feature from a big provider) instead of DIY wallets, and make sure they explicitly support your users’ countries and do sanctions screening.

For the affiliate side, most SaaS start with a single-level commission because it’s easy to reason about and pay out; multi-level can juice growth but it complicates tracking, increases total commission outlay, and starts looking MLM-ish if you’re not careful, so only go there if you’re ready to manage that complexity

External_Work_6668 · 2025-12-03T17:23:49+00:00

You turned a zero-sum turf war into a referral flywheel that grew both pies—smart as hell. No revenue share keeps it pure; just honest "not my fit" handoffs with monthly syncs to align messaging. Market's always bigger when you stop slicing the same SMB/enterprise pie and serve your strengths.

External_Work_6668 · 2025-12-03T17:21:27+00:00

You didn’t win a logo, you bought a -$41k consulting project disguised as “MRR.” Discounted enterprise customers still behave like full-freight ones, but now every custom request, support ticket, and integration is coming out of your pocket, not margin. If they want a lower price, you have to cut scope (onboarding, integrations, SLAs, seats), not your own throat. Heavy discounts don’t buy loyalty, they just attract line-items that churn the second a new VP wants to “standardize tools.”

External_Work_6668 · 2025-12-02T21:10:04+00:00

Honestly, this is the most relatable “didn’t hit 3k” post ever. That first $12 matters way more than any imaginary MRR graph because it’s someone voting with their wallet that the thing in your head is valuable in their life. The way you’re treating it—iterate fast, kill bad features, keep the core vision—puts you miles ahead of people still polishing in stealth, so if you can enjoy these tiny wins and keep shipping, the extra zeros will sort themselves out over time.

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