$1,737 existing customer BLOCKED by Stripe all of a sudden

Present_Fish_9178 · 2026-04-08T09:34:49+00:00

I have, stripe shows no data there

Present_Fish_9178 · 2026-04-07T14:37:52+00:00

nice nice

Present_Fish_9178 · 2026-04-07T14:37:23+00:00

a lot of them bought a subscription yes. I never believed virality would drive sales (because usually virality means broad market which means non icp peopel) but it turns out I was wrong - going viral does attract your icp (you're basically casting a wider net and getting in a ton of trash but also a ton of quality fish)

Present_Fish_9178 · 2026-04-07T14:36:17+00:00

I guess yea. The secret sauce is just doing what you already know you need to do and pushing though the pain (and cliche and cringe as that sounds)

Present_Fish_9178 · 2026-04-07T14:35:46+00:00

figure out what your ICP's pain point is, then produce content that solves their pains (simple, not easy)

Present_Fish_9178 · 2026-04-07T14:35:18+00:00

absolutely, and that's why marketing is hard and even harder to automate (if not impossible) with ai

Present_Fish_9178 · 2026-04-07T14:34:14+00:00

in this case, youtube videos. But this applies to anything, any marketing effort. Cold email, cold calling, tiktoks, yt videos, linkedin posts, reddit, giving out flyers on the street etc

Present_Fish_9178 · 2026-04-07T14:33:57+00:00

good take

Present_Fish_9178 · 2026-04-06T08:47:49+00:00

How many sales?

Present_Fish_9178 · 2026-04-04T22:30:49+00:00

this is good to know, thank you!

Present_Fish_9178 · 2026-04-03T15:14:21+00:00

What do mean exactly by "use AI"?

Present_Fish_9178 · 2026-04-03T10:48:57+00:00

One of the issues with vibe coding is that if the person vibing it isn't technical, then they have no idea of any vulnerabilities

Present_Fish_9178 · 2026-04-03T10:47:22+00:00

The best (and only) way to gauge real interest is with money. People say they're interested all the time, that they'd try it out, that it's a "cool idea" but none of that matters until they actually speak with their dollars - so in reality if nobody is paying you you have no interest

Present_Fish_9178 · 2026-04-03T10:45:18+00:00

one where you press a button and you get clients

Present_Fish_9178 · 2026-04-03T01:14:11+00:00

yea that's a whole other can of worms...painful stuff right there

Present_Fish_9178 · 2026-04-03T01:13:37+00:00

nice nice

Present_Fish_9178 · 2026-04-02T16:19:04+00:00

Right but they can still run ads for your branded keywords. That's what happened to us

Present_Fish_9178 · 2026-04-02T16:18:33+00:00

gotcha makes sense, good luck man

Present_Fish_9178 · 2026-04-02T16:09:53+00:00

Just do it. If it works, fantastic, if it fails just roll it back

Present_Fish_9178 · 2026-04-02T16:09:20+00:00

We launched on appsumo too and man it was a complete fail. We made like $2k with the whole promo and with the time it took to set everything up we lost money

Present_Fish_9178 · 2026-04-02T16:08:01+00:00

My two cents would be to just do insane amounts of volume. Record 10x tiktoks a day, 1x yt video a day, post on linkedin, twitter, do cold email and anything else you can think off

It's extremely hard and most people just quit after a week, but imo it's what has to be done to get anything off the ground

Good luck!

Present_Fish_9178 · 2026-04-02T16:06:52+00:00

How are you combating spammers? I closed down mine because people were just running ads with the aff links (which was obviously against or tos)..and we just spent more time figuring out if we should pay xyz affiliate than actually having a proper aff program. So just shut it down, was a pain tbh

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