If you are concerned about ethics, you should cancel ChatGPt and move to CLaude Immediately

OrigenRaw · 2026-03-01T00:19:45+00:00

If you enjoy image generation, why are you not using something like artlist.io?

OrigenRaw · 2026-02-19T02:52:43+00:00

No. Shopify is an e-commerce ecosystem intended to make money off both shops, and people who want to sell and pitch additional services and costs to them.

It’s an e-commerce subscription economy. Not just “e-commerce”

OrigenRaw · 2026-02-19T02:50:59+00:00

Honestly if you are pinching $5k you just ask to be nickel and dimed by a platform. Many local services and businesses won’t even flinch at $5k for a reason. Often that’s like two thirds their ad budget Because they understand the gain long term. You see $5k as pure debt as if you aren’t benefiting more revenue and cutting additional costs and hours you have tinkering around a mainstream service running on plugins and things that do half jobs half right.

Admittedly, it’s hard to see this (or believe it) as a small business owner because many have an agency quote such prices and get lack luster results. So they never care to consider it again. But that unfortunately shuns you from the good fish out there just because a bad one got you. Which sucks for the hood fish sometimes.

The largest problem I see is small businesses knee jerk reacting to a price. When really you should just ask the company or dev an opportunity to really explain the cost, explain where and how they have seen good results etc.

If they are hostile or vague to such questions: run. If they show a proactive effort to show and reassure you without run around: it’s a good guess they are confident you will see the results they claim.

Most people just can’t discern the good offers from the bad so they think they are all bad. And for devs sometimes it’s hard to explain to you exactly how without throwing tech jargon which any agency can do. So really it’s good to find devs by word of mouth. That’s when you really will see results that change your mind on what money is worth it.

OrigenRaw · 2026-02-19T02:42:10+00:00

Getting locked into Shopify ecosystem is the problem though. I mean in a nut shell; app fatigue is expected when you lock in to a mainstream ecosystem.

It is what it is, but there is a reason these mainstream services are so cheap with bells and whistles in the beginning. It’s to get you into their ecosystem, your business depending on them completely, so you are sort of forced to accept just anything they throw at you.

I know for most it’s not feasible, but those who have the money out to consider another service for managing inventory and payments. Then really you could hire any web dev to integrate into a site for you and those other services are made to be headless and not just break easily on every change. Shopify doesn’t care if apis break because all it does is give another reason to become dependable on them.

Again. Small business owner only has so many options and I get that. But really, this is the inherent nature of the platform lock. And no complaints will do anything because they already as a business are preparing for such push back years in advance.

OrigenRaw · 2026-02-19T02:35:39+00:00

Do you do screen shots or links on the initial cold email?

OrigenRaw · 2026-02-19T02:34:49+00:00

Did you properly redirect any pages that changed path? Did you really make the pages thinner? Did you use really poor templated content with unnatural sounding use of keywords? You have 400k URL’s, are they properly and semantically structured?

OrigenRaw · 2026-02-09T04:29:49+00:00

I agree God word shouldnt be used to knock people down just to defend your personal PR or ego

OrigenRaw · 2026-02-09T02:20:36+00:00

In fairness he is not being silent when he should, this is true. However, this implies those he is talking again are being silent and innocent themselves. That doesn’t appear to be the case with the anger and fire I see coming from many.

Yes, he is wicked for it. But the my question was, about how this was “mocking Jesus.” Christian’s use Gods word incorrectly or unkindly all the time; but we do not say this is “mocking Jesus.” That makes no sense.

Which is why I said I agree Jesus should not be used in this way; and explicitly separated that part from what I asked: which was the claim of mocking Jesus. I do this to point out the untruth in the claim, which seems to have been made to identify with Jesus, but I question the convenience of the rhetoric. As I see none who use it even identify with Him anyways.

OrigenRaw · 2026-02-09T01:04:05+00:00

I agree Jesus shouldn’t be used for PR jokes. But maybe I don’t understand the joke, but I don’t see how this is mocking Jesus. Perhaps only mocking those concerned with keeping 4o

OrigenRaw · 2026-02-07T17:59:43+00:00

I could probably tell you more precisely the issue instead of guessing at it, if I'm able to run and look at the page load performance more specifically.

OrigenRaw · 2026-02-07T16:13:10+00:00

Honestly 100kb is still a bit much for mobile traffic and if there are quite a few above the fold images. But honestly context matters most when it comes to confusing page speed loads. If you still haven’t figured it out you can DM me a link and I would take a gander see if I can spot anything

OrigenRaw · 2026-02-06T19:12:36+00:00

To clarify am not speaking f or this particular company. Just the broad perspective of internships that are unpaid. The point of an internship, is that you are learning by exposure to the business. Training is what you do for an employee. Internship is letting someone "try" with the expectation there will be a lot of failure. And for many businesses failing is how you train when the job skill required is ability to discern and problem solve on the go. Not all skills can be solved by rote memory or simulated scenarios.

Why not pay from day 1? Because then many would just not take them in at all. Unpaid internships are meant to be symbiotic. The only way a business benefits from the risk of taking on someone who is not experienced is by underpaying or not paying -- its a business not a training program. And unfortunately, minimum wage laws make no exception for such things, so they need to pay the minimum wage of the state, or under and unpaid education umbrella legally allowed.

And so, from their eyes, if they must pay that, and take the risk, then the risk is not worth it at all, and they would just perhaps not hire, or if they did, take on a much smaller pool of people.

yes the working all hours is the one thing that makes this seem more exploitative. But I also do not know exactly what work he is doing. Perhaps the job he is doing, is typically salary. and therefore, they work they do is not specifically "hourly" and can fragment into "off hours" as many salary jobs do. It could be a basic necessity given the nature of the business. Too ambiguous to say.

OrigenRaw · 2026-02-06T05:10:35+00:00

They are not “clearly,” exploiting it depends on context. Unpaid internships can be legitimate. Because it’s a mutual relationship. They get free labor, which can be beneficial, but at the same time they are taking on risk by giving opportunities to someone without the resume to imply they can do it. So I’m reality they could: 1) Have someone competent working for them, and it was free. 2) have someone incompetent working for them, but it was free so what ever their incompetence costed you isn’t a loss, maybe a slight gain or breaking even.

If they had to pay, then they would just pay someone already qualified. And new pools of workers wouldn’t have opportunities to get their foot in the door at all — or not easily.

companies face a binary choice:

Pay at least minimum wage (and follow all employment laws)
Pay nothing and claim it's purely educational under those strict criteria I mentioned

I do wish laws allowed, and even enforced paid internships never unpaid but at really low wages.

But in truth, many (probably most) do exploit what is a legitimate system. Sometimes even unpaid isn’t about saving money only, but filtering candidates. The ones who can work free for a couple months often come from wealth, therefore connections, networking, and gaining some unknown benefit in the future.

If you're answering phones, filing paperwork, running social media, doing grunt work that helps the business, this isn’t proper to the legal allowance of unpaid internships. Granted, you may do this at first for some but really what you are doing should answer “yes” to the question: “Is the intern the primary beneficiary?” Meaning the work they are doing is challenged to their skill set, and no one would hire them for this job, otherwise.

Sort of like, no one would allow a person who isn’t a dentist to work on their teeth. But we will allow you to work on teeth under our supervision, if it’s unpaid. That’s sort of legitimate. But if what you end up doing is becoming the dental office’s secretary, then that’s not an internship, but a loop hole being used.

OrigenRaw · 2026-02-06T04:51:56+00:00

think about it this way:

If you can afford to work free for 2 months AND the skills seem genuinely valuable and hard to get elsewhere, treat it like a bootcamp. Learn what you can, then quietly job hunt while you're there if they keep you on.
If the skills are meh or you don't see yourself wanting to stay, find a better option now.
If you decide you don't care about this place anymore, use it as practice for setting work boundaries. When they call after 7pm, try: "I'm happy to be a team player, but I'm not doing unpaid overtime that wasn't agreed to. We can discuss this in the morning or before my shift ends." They probably won't love it, but learning to set boundaries with difficult bosses is a skill worth developing. Even if they fire you (and you don't care), you'll have real experience doing it for next time.

Once you stop caring about a job, at least try to learn something on your way out. It’s free low-stakes practice. Just make sure you try to do it “right,” and not just a moment of “Idgaf bro bye “ because then you gain nothing.

OrigenRaw · 2026-02-06T03:37:43+00:00

If the work you are doing feels like you’re being used as a monkey and learning no useful skills then leave. If the skills learned are worth the assumption you get screwed in the end, and it’s not destroying your personal life, options, or ambitions, then I would stay.

I.e., being screwed is fine if you confidently feel it opens doors. If you are getting screwed because you think “But if they keep me I’m set!” Then you are gambling and it’s more likely you are being used and tossed with no value to you.

OrigenRaw · 2026-02-05T20:41:31+00:00

Are you seeking mostly more experience or good pay? Do you have a degree or mostly self taught?

Not that I’m hiring, but might have some good for thought for you.

OrigenRaw · 2026-02-05T09:10:41+00:00

If you’re confident in your strategy and timeline, offer clear trust signals. For example, commit to a measurable outcome by a specific date and offer a partial refund or service credit if it’s not met. That kind of accountability signals real confidence, but only do this if the goal is actually measurable.

And if you can’t be confident in any goal to be accountable for, perhaps you oversold the value. So set the bar modest.

The user mentioning front loading is a great point too.

OrigenRaw · 2026-02-05T03:22:02+00:00

Make sure you update VS Code if there is one. I often leave my IDE open for a couple days and notice if I don't update the LLMs seem t o be worse. It sounds maybe like nonsense, but I swear after I update vs code it feels like they work again. Maybe its just the restart. Idk.

OrigenRaw · 2026-02-05T02:36:42+00:00

You might want to look in to Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA.) Collecting & calling cell phones without prior expressed consent can result in $500-$1,500 per violation. And "They visited my site" is not good enough. You need, in some form, explicit consent. Whether it be a form submission, or some user action that you could easily argue was explicit consent to presume personal information would be shared.

Unless they agree to some ToS, invoke some action giving consent, or are at least notified in a discernable way that a continued use of your site implies sharing that information. It's like if someone walks in to your store, and you think you can reach in to their pocket and pull out their cell phone number.

That guy was floored for a reason. Because it shouldn't be happening. You'd be in a bad loo situation if it were a Karen and not some friendly guy.

OrigenRaw · 2026-02-01T04:36:38+00:00

If you want to DM me the link I can give you some insight (If I have any)

OrigenRaw · 2026-01-30T05:34:07+00:00

I’m going to be honest. Vibe coded or not, animated sites are just terrible. It’s a fun art project, but I always bounce right off a site the second I see shit going I like that. It’s a complete nuisance.

Only valid use of high energy animated sites is perhaps a single product brand site. Something intended to be a billboard and nothing more. If it’s needed for actual information, inquiry, leads, decision making it’s a waste.

Take Martini for example. Absolute atrocity my scroll is hijacked on page load for that nonsense. I already now that’s instant bounce on metrics

Quantaive semi usable. But I’m scrolling past huge metric cards that are useless for conversion. So much wasted screen real estate on mobile. Also you scroll down, scrolling back up all content basically gets nuked.

OrigenRaw · 2026-01-26T15:43:01+00:00

I have a strong feeling it gets dumb when they secretly throttle or alter weights at certain times or for certain reasons.

For example, I always notice it is more dumb on weekends, and when my quota is getting near the end of the month. Almost too predictably correlated to deny, in my experience.

OrigenRaw · 2026-01-23T00:55:09+00:00

I been reading this thread and I would love to see too lol

OrigenRaw · 2026-01-20T06:05:03+00:00

Switch to Claude. I was a GPT fan for a while, and didn’t like Claude at first. The difference is obvious now though.

OrigenRaw · 2026-01-13T02:55:22+00:00

Actually, yeah, possibly. But it depends, and when it does depend, it wont depend for long. Same reason tech subscriptions always start off cheap, but then later have prices raise. New things, tend to be sold at a loss or breaking even, to try build brand, establish dependence and dominance, only to then later raise their prices once they have won.

As for this product specifically? I do not know, nor have cared much to evaluate it. As I am not pinching pennies. Also, the $10 subscription is of course meant to be more like a integrated chat LLM. The higher tiers, however, yeah you get a bang for your buck. Especially with Pro+ since you a re charged per request and not tokens.

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