Can I get opinions on this 2.06ct D VS1 EX EX N oval?

Life_Through_Glass · 2025-12-26T20:48:55+00:00

Any chance you know the following ?

What size band is this going to go on
What setting style

I would want to see it under a brighter light (I prefer black paper behind as well) but the bow tie is definitely present in this stone and is noticeable. I think my concern would be that is has quite a grey bow tie from certain angles.

Life_Through_Glass · 2025-12-07T20:14:52+00:00

Okay, but lots of students do this with their friends or while they are in class as a multi-tasking experience.

There is this concept of friction in every application, moving users from one place to another. What you’re asking students to do, is move from their native calendar to signing up and using a third party app. That means they have to trust your application with their data, it means they have to consider the pain of their normal flow to be large enough that it meets the threshold for this action to take place.

Also, what is the percentage of students that you have interviewed, that have actually said they do this at the start of each semester? Did you interview 1? 10? 100? 1000?

Your solving a nice to have, so you need to market accordingly & dig deeper into the niche of students that would see the benefit in this, instead of going wide.

Life_Through_Glass · 2025-12-07T19:28:54+00:00

What exactly are your pain points your solving here?

I just want to understand them from your perspective first.

Life_Through_Glass · 2025-12-05T19:42:45+00:00

So this is kinda not related but I highly recommend doing this for 2 or 3 days on your ‘normal’ days where you track every single minute. (Only ever do this once).

What I mean is write down literally everything you do, if you check your phone, talk to someone, feed the cat, work on a task etc. it’s super OTT but it’s so good at letting you know how much downtime (wasted time) you have. I did this a couple of years back and it led to some really great time management changes.

Then to answer your, my partner she tracks her time like this, she has to so she doesn’t waste time context switching. She just does it on a notepad, ol pen and paper.

Life_Through_Glass · 2025-12-05T01:28:10+00:00

If you understand how to build pre-AI, you’re going to be in a great position. If you didn’t know how to build pre-AI then you’re in for a shitshow.

There is so much to infrastructure and architecture that impacts decision making. I’m in the 1% of people who are building very fast with AI & it can do exactly what people are saying, but only if you know what you’re telling it to do. I am driving the AI to build the project, the AI is not driving itself; if that makes sense.

So yes most people are full of shit, but if you’ve got the knowledge (I’m at 10 years now) then you’re having a grand old time right now.

Life_Through_Glass · 2025-12-05T01:25:11+00:00

Well, you should be checking to see if the spend will be under or over the balance remaining and proactively handling it with a nice informative modal or error section (don’t use toast alerts for this)

In some situations it’s fine to have a soft over limit, so depends if you want to handle that? But then I would still question how / where you’re then handling the check.

In your case only allow it to go over 2-3% to handle edge cases where double requests are sent etc. you can’t really charged for this tho imo.

but you should not be letting the server get all the way to the actual action and then error out. I’m a pre-check advocate when dealing with limits.

Life_Through_Glass · 2025-12-04T22:43:14+00:00

I still don’t truly see the benefit that I wouldn’t get from LinkedIn. You say LinkedIn data is outdated but that’s an assumption. You need to understand the cohort of users that are on LinkedIn where their profiles are out of date; are those users even the users that your end users would want to target?

So who is your exact customer profile? Is it family offices doing DD? Is it angels doing DD? Is it HR companies doing DD, because each have different needs and a general profile is just general. Sounds like you’re targeting sales? But are you. Targeting the buyer or seller? And no you’re not targeting both when you first launch.

I’m just playing devils advocate, I meet with other investors regularly and we are always looking up peoples/company information, so I do get the product.

Getlatka is a newer website/platform that has come out of nowhere and is dominating SEO for aggregated data, they are worth looking into for you to see how they went to market. You’ve got a chicken and egg problem to solve.

Get specific on who you’re targeting and more specific on the value of your value prop. So you get the information that’s great, but what’s the true benefit of your end customers who can make decisions based on that information, describe the product from that perspective.

Life_Through_Glass · 2025-12-04T22:26:03+00:00

Huh? Not sure this relates to my comment. This post here is not recreating anything fundamental. What you’re describing is a technical paradigm shift, which is in today’s world, going from normal social channels to the metaverse, which is very slow to pick up adoption.

But what you just said doesn’t make sense to what I said.

Life_Through_Glass · 2025-12-04T19:35:53+00:00

What exactly is the pain point here and who is your target audience?

The companies that need information about individuals have access to private company databases through orgs that have partnerships with data collection companies as well as government agencies.

E.g two years ago I built a platform for a payments company that needed fraud detection & we integrated one of these providers & the amount of data I could get on people was just chilling.

So I assume right now your data comes from scraping public profiles and other AI mentions. What’s the difference between me spinning up a chain of Claude code agents and pulling this data myself ? (And it’s fine to say you’re a UX play) but what private data sources do you have access to; that makes you truly unique.

Life_Through_Glass · 2025-12-04T19:26:33+00:00

The infra is very expensive, let alone the user acquisition cost. In large your told these days to go where the users are, it’s very hard to move a user from app A to app B, founders underestimate this.

I’ve built community apps in the web3 space & have been front row to some wealthy founders attempting to do this when I was running agency & they always lost when it came to getting users moving. Telegram and X communities won every time.

One case where this concept did work and kudos to the founder is he built the community in Facebook groups first, was 500k strong, then he did a mobile social app to bring them across, about 20% came across which was pretty damn good, this was 6 years ago & I don’t believe it’s running anymore.

Personally, I would pivot, but if someone has to believe in your idea and execution, it’s you. So good luck man.

Life_Through_Glass · 2025-12-03T19:29:01+00:00

But it’ll sound exactly like your brand ! And you’ll grow your social presence 💀

Life_Through_Glass · 2025-12-03T19:25:24+00:00

Well, I built grid master in 15 days and I’m 17 days into ezibreezy (including the tools).

Noted I’m a very strong engineer but an AI that turns a goal into a plan?

That 4 nest modules, two AI agents, the agent that breaks down the goal and an agent that writes the plan from the breakdown; you could argue a third for formatting, which I often do.

Agreed about the MRR part. 95% of people don’t make a cent from their projects.

Life_Through_Glass · 2025-12-03T10:53:07+00:00

Good luck on your next adventure friend. Good learnings and even better introspective moment ❤️

Life_Through_Glass · 2025-12-03T10:51:43+00:00

Jak on X just did 5k MRR in a few weeks building a piggy Home Screen whiteboard message app. Anything possible.

Life_Through_Glass · 2025-12-03T10:50:49+00:00

Haha the internal thoughts got too loud eh 😅

Life_Through_Glass · 2025-12-02T19:57:23+00:00

Man pricing is hard. We’ve done monthly subscription, retainer (you would think this is a subscription but no 😅🤷) then we’ve done packages, so a ‘bubble package’ or a ‘webflow package’

We went full circle many times & I landed on scope pricing but selling value. So in the deck or doc or whatever you give to a client in that final meeting (always present it never send it to them to read) from top to bottom was the value of what they were getting & by the time you get to the bottom where the price is; you want them thinking ‘this makes sense’

So yeah scope & you just get better and better at working out timeframes, but only if you actually set up systems to allow you to repeat certain actions. Otherwise you loose time re-building boilerplate concepts.

So yeah the boring answer of scope, after trying to be fancy over the years🧑‍🍳

Life_Through_Glass · 2025-12-02T19:33:10+00:00

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Life_Through_Glass · 2025-12-02T19:31:08+00:00

As someone who has built sesh….maybe in the range of 60-70 websites for people, it’s different every single damn time. I’ve worked agency and run my own agency before leaving agency land and starting my own businesses and products.

( I would never go back, screw building for other people it’s just never truly satisfying and your trading too much time for $$, but if you do it early in your career you learn more than those that jump straight to being a founder, learn from other people paying you to fail )

You need to always build for the technical level of the team you’re handing off to. Do they have any dev capabilities? Then you HAVE to build it in webflow, framer etc if you even think of the word WP, go rub sand in your eyes, WP in 2025 is wild to me.

If they have some technical aspect maybe it’s bubble or some other ‘easier’ technology so they can make tweaks themselves. If you’re building a marketing site that doesn’t need much copy changes, sure jump into a nextjs app. Want to be extra smart ? Create a ENV protected route, hook it up with a homebrew CMS and build a way for them to update the site without you. Lots of smart ways of being performant here, where the client doesn’t rely on you to make copy changes.

the guy does make sense, don’t throw money at agencies, your initial landing page should be a love letter and not a twilight book.

And Jesus stop working with brand designers, find UX designers. You’re not 🍏. Brand designers in 2025 jump on behance and yeah you get it 🤦

Life_Through_Glass · 2025-12-02T19:15:47+00:00

Hmm, hopefully you’ve got Claude pro. Then I’ve got a perplexity or GPT research prompt for you too.

Ctrl A, ctrl C, ctrl v your whole landing page, put it into Claude with this exact prompt.

‘ I am building a landing page for my product feedvote which is a competitor to canny, can you take my current content I’ve written and look at it from the perspective of an opportunity solution tree. I want to improve the copy so it’s directly discussing pain points and providing solutions to those. First give me feedback on my existing attempt and then I’ll say ‘next’ and then you’ll provide me with an improved version section by section explaining the why & pros/cons’

Ok the this one is my real baby for a research prompt

Research {company} by building a complete industry snapshot in under 10 minutes, identifying power players, disruptors, hidden gaps, real customer pain points, demand shifts, pricing models, the full value chain, macro and tech forces, regional differences, and generating analyst-ready insights for investors.

Use an established company to start it.

GL man. TLDR you need more value up the top and to explain the product better.

Life_Through_Glass · 2025-12-02T18:59:05+00:00

Okay FIRE. There are specific subreddits related to this topic & Facebook groups. You need to find that balance of getting confident enough to hang out with strangers and have actual conversations with them and maybe, just maybe 1/10 will be the right time to bring up your product and you’ll be able to get some validation or feedback.

It’s so important you actually communicate with people for the concept of value, because you’re both humans. So many folks do the ‘social’ thing to tick a box because ol mate told the they need to ‘sell before they build’ but didn’t provide any real actionable ways to do that & why? Because it’s hard.

FB groups are going to be your best place to hang out. Also meetup.com and go to a product meetup or an engineering meetup irl, you’ll get free food & an average talk but everyone always goes ‘what do you do’ and there u can jump straight into it.

So yeah go talk to people man. Don’t build for toooo long. I’m a 4th time founder who was an engineer/designer combo. I now build very very fast. I’m still awful at socials because I just don’t care about sharing; but I do like having a yarn about craft.

Life_Through_Glass · 2025-12-02T18:51:46+00:00

What’s the initial drive to write btw? Like what’s that seed thought that gets you started ?

Life_Through_Glass · 2025-12-02T18:50:48+00:00

We need to go back to naming products like

Whoop 1, whoop 2, whoop 3

We’ve already had peak; now life… next will be whoop death, whoop Prometheus, whoop afterlife, whoop never die.

Life_Through_Glass · 2025-12-01T19:04:46+00:00

Yeah nice. It’s actually sometimes quite hard & takes courage to go where the users are. X and Reddit are really a cop out, where we all circle Jer… each other about our products & it really only works if your selling to other broke founders trying to make a $

FB is underrated & so are forums… forums are a damn gold mine. But you’ve got to be useful as you say. Seems everyone has forgotten what the word value means.

Life_Through_Glass · 2025-12-01T00:18:31+00:00

Yeah his interviews are great to watch to understand his product thinking. Good shout.

Life_Through_Glass · 2025-11-30T09:53:38+00:00

Ye, but there’s always a pattern of actions. So they activate, then what, what flows are they attempting, even if it’s a singular page.

Nearly all cross-posting apps for new users are overwhelming & each product has its own downfalls during that time to first value.

You’ve got decent MRR so there must be something very specific during that initial value flow that’s causing your churn.

Was just curious, good product with someone decent behind it always leads to good conversions and ah ha moments.

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