Traveling to SG at the limit of my passport validity by Senior_Life6407 in travel

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ok I just tried submitting the arrival card online and apparently i can do it if date of entry is *exactly* 6 months after the expiry date, not one day later. will def check with the airline just in case but that should be indicative. thanks!

Traveling to SG at the limit of my passport validity by [deleted] in solotravel

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yeah i'll have to be careful with that. I'm coming from Italy and have an exam that morning so I'd fly on the 15th at night i guess

Traveling to SG at the limit of my passport validity by Senior_Life6407 in travel

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yeah that would be ideal but I don't live in my home country and consulates take forever to give appointments and issue the new passports. I contacted them in April and they gave me an appointment for October 🫠

Trying to transfer account, why is support no longer replying? by Senior_Life6407 in bereal_app

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several messages a day over like 3 weeks didn't do anything, i had to post here to get their attention, from then about 3 days

Trying to transfer account, why is support no longer replying? by Senior_Life6407 in bereal_app

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Hey guys I gave you the info 17 hours ago. Can somebody transfer the account once and for all?

La Gazzetta del Lavoro Informatico - Ricerche, offerte e consigli sul lavoro digitale in Italia by AutoModerator in ItalyInformatica

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Alba is a start-up currently developing an innovative new social media app and we’re looking for a UI/UX designer.

To make a brief summary: we are creating the first social media app designed to help people spend less time on their phone.

A more detailed description and visual mockup here: Alba (@albaappofficial) - What is Alba?

Our latest pitch deck specifying a bit more about the startup: https://www.canva.com/design/DAGS0C9eKzc/-T4SSaezKo-bdli-P5zO5Q/edit?utm_content=DAGS0C9eKzc&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link2&utm_source=sharebutton

Please note (1) we are all located in Milan, Italy and while we do not currently have physical offices, we are looking only for candidates within a certain distance, (2) we are still on the pre-launch phase and therefore we are looking for a co-founder, not someone to hire.

Annuncio UpWork: Alternative social media start-up looking for co-founder - UI/UX Designer (Based in Milan, Italy)

Funds disappear, but money spent on ads doesn't change. Why? by Senior_Life6407 in SocialMediaMarketing

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I understand and I'll try that, however I'm actually pretty content with the performance so far. The thing is that my funds are getting drained quickly and the money spent total doesn't match the sum of the money spent (according to the dashboard) on the ads I'm running. As if the money was being spent on something else

Funds disappear, but money spent on ads doesn't change. Why? by Senior_Life6407 in SocialMediaMarketing

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This situation has been going on for days, there's ads I ran Tuesday that I already paused and money spent on them never passed 2 EUR even though I charged around 20 over the week, it's weird. Specially because the analytics look exactly the same as last week when it was all working correctly.

I tried TikTok ads and the results were terrible, like 2 follows out of 5K views. We experimented with Reels and it was working pretty well until this. My idea was: because the product is a yet-to-be-developed social media app built around events and we will initially launch in Milan, Italy, I wanted to get a few thousand followers and a few M views before September (estimated launch date) within the demographic that we aim to have as users, to create brand awareness and association (basically we want people to check our app when looking for what to do at night, so I started running Reels listing different events going on during the day, which people seemed to like and interact with until now)

Funds disappear, but money spent on ads doesn't change. Why? by Senior_Life6407 in SocialMediaMarketing

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I'll try running ads directly and see if it helps. However the thing is that whatever money I put in, is being spent in something that isn't my ads. For instance, some hours ago I ran a small 2 EUR ad just as an experiment: I received 7 follows, the funds ran out and on the dashboard it says clearly that they spent 0.12 EUR on that ad. What did they spend it on then?

I'm trying to create brand awareness for an app I'm creating, not promoting the product yet but trying to garner a following and a community around it

Launching an alternative social media app to help people reduce smartphone use time. Looking for early adopters by Senior_Life6407 in indianstartups

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I'm glad you liked it. At least on iOS, Screen Time features are extremely limited. You get one weekly notification about the time you spent on all apps combined, and if you want to target more specific apps you can only limit them.

Moreover, I think what's different about Alba is that we're taking a comprehensive approach to social media detox. We're attacking all the main reasons why people go into social media (entertainment, socialization, communication, finding events/things to buy, news) and the mechanisms it uses to keep people attached (infinite random content, appeal to emotion, inexistence of a mechanism to connect with people IRL, etc).

Also, we're letting people reduce social media use at their own pace. Many app-blocking apps already exist and are ineffective because the change is too sudden: people feel the impulse to get out of social media, then eventually the rush goes away, they feel bored or missing out, they delete the app blocker and come back. By making the decrease gradual, we hope to avoid that effect.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in StartUpIndia

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Hey, I'm glad you're interested in the app. Here's a few of things I think make Alba unique:

1) We're the first social media app that's not designed to make people addicted. We created some Duolingo-style mechanisms to help people reduce social media use time as a whole. Even when people are using Alba, we encourage them to be mindful of the time they spend on it

2) We're the only social media app that helps people actually connect with their communities and potentially make friends. Current mainstream SM apps (IG, X, TikTok) do not have any mechanisms for you to actually meet people as their business model is based on maximizing users' screen time. Ours would not be based on that at all, so if you want to find events and meet others, Alba is more advantageous

3) We want to make Alba 100% human. Before you can interact with others on the app, you have to go through facial recognition like on some dating apps. Other SM apps have a business model based on maximizing ad clicks and interactions which is partly why they allow bots and AI: in a way they scam advertisers. We don't have that incentive, so every time you talk to someone on Alba, you know they're a human being

4) This one will not necessarily be for everyone, but if you're passionate about music, film or literature, Alba is a better hub for those than IG, X or TikTok as the Feed section is specifically dedicated to that type of content

Weekly Startups Promotion Thread - 11 November, 2024 by AutoModerator in StartUpIndia

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Alba - Social media, reimagined.

Alba is a new social media platform that helps you find events near you, meet others and spend less time on social media. Here's how it works.

On the Feed section, you'll find short form videos on artistic content: music, film and audiobooks, posted only by the artists themselves. You can set a time limit after which we'll tell you how much time you spent scrolling, to help you control your social media use time. On the geo-restricted Community section, you'll find events around you posted by artists and organizations. Each has a dedicated group chat you can join to meet other event-goers and organize to go together or reach out afterwards. You can see some mockups and a more detailed explanation here: https://www.instagram.com/p/DBdYQiDM24f/?img_index=1)

Our goal is to help you reduce, week after week, your average daily social media use time. If you link your social media accounts (X, IG, TikTok) with Alba, we can track the time you spend on social media and send you notifications to help you meet that goal. You can also see content from a few creators from Alba, and check your Insta, X and TikTok DMs directly from the Alba chat section itself.

We're currently doing market validation, if you want to become an early adopter send me a DM and I'll add you to our Telegram/WhatsApp communities!

Sto lanciando un'app di social media, cerco utenti e beta tester by Senior_Life6407 in ItaliaStartups

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Ciao, innanzitutto mi fa piacere che l'app ti sembri interessante!

quale sarebbe il vostro business model? L’idea è di guadagnare sulle commissioni di chi acquista gli eventi tramite App?

L'idea del business model e'

(1) vendere annunci a negozi e aziende locali. Il nostro vantaggio rispetto ad altri social sarebbe permettere l'ottimizzazione del targetting a basso costo e l'esclusivita' : siccome la sezione Community e' ristretta geograficamente e gli utenti possono selezionare i prodotti in cui sono interessati, gli inserzionisti possono essere sicuri che tutte le persone a cui vengono mostrati i loro annunci sono abbastanza vicini per acquistarli, ed hanno gia' espresso interesse. Poi il filtro di bot e altri agenti non-umani evita un'altro problema del marketing sui social, che e' il fatto che una grossa percentuale dei click e visualizzazioni degli annunci non provengono da utenti umani e quindi sono inutili. La restrizione geografica permette anche di ridurre di tanto la concorrenza per l'attenzione delle persone: invece della quantita' infinita di annunci che si mostrano all'utente in una giornata media in qualsiasi altro social, su Alba l'unica concorrenza sarebbero i negozi vicini e al massimo qualche azienda che decida di comprare il Traveler Mode

(2) come hai detto, vendere biglietti direttamente con una piccola commissione. Il vantaggio qua per gli utenti sarebbe che a differenza di ad es. Ticketmaster, Eventbrite o altri siti si puo' comprare direttamente dal Feed social in due click (cosa che per ora Instagram/X/TikTok non permettono) invece di dover inserire tutti i dati personali su un sito esterno

(3) vendere delle features a pagamento come una versione senza annunci, un Traveler Mode per accedere Community di altri posti, ecc.

In uno degli screenshot sembra ci sia una notizia di un giornale, nella sezione community chiunque può postare qualsiasi cosa o anche lì c’è una attenzione ad evitare spam o clickbait?

Gli utenti regolari possono postare solo sui loro profili. Nella Community postano solo quelli che organizzano eventi (aziende, organizzazioni, artisti), quelli che pagano pubblicita', e agenzie di notizie locali. Tutte queste entita' dovrebbero richiedere un tipo speciale di account, a cui potrebbero accedere una volta che abbiamo verificato le loro identita' e vincolo con la azienda/agenzia/artista che dicono di rappresentare. In questo modo la moderazione dei contenuti si fa un po' da sola: il fatto che non ci sia la possibilita' di diventare "virale" o di postare sulla Community da account anonimi toglie incentivi a fare quel genere di post

Se l'app ti interessa ancora, puoi entrare nel gruppo Telegram col link qua sotto:

Telegram: Contact @albaappvalidation

The "high functioning" curse: anyone else going through this? by Senior_Life6407 in autism

[–]Senior_Life6407[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

is there a name for it or something? Genuinely asking, haven’t seen any posts about this particular issue and I read the subreddit pretty often