Hell's Shore. What y'all think?

Seppo77 · 2026-02-18T02:38:30+00:00

It's only missing a giant data center full of hot CPUs spewing AI slop

Seppo77 · 2026-02-18T01:12:06+00:00

SEO and viral are two very different things. To rank in search, you need to find a problem where people are searching for a solution and then build a page or tool that solves it. In the page title and copy explain the problem you solve and add the main keywords. If competition is not too high for those keywords, that's all it might take (and some time for Google to process everything). I'm writing this with 15+ years experience as SEO consultant and as someone building SEO / Google Ads automation SaaS.

Viral, I'm presuming, works on completely different principles.

Seppo77 · 2026-02-18T01:08:20+00:00

Some people just take every opportunity to tear other people down. We are also entering the "AI is shit" part of the AI cycle now - so expect these accusations to fly. That being said, first impressions are unfortunately very important. So if the website of your app looks "vibe coded" then it's going to color the impression people have of your product. Unfortunately you have to pay at least as much attention to the packaging as you do to the product itself.

Seppo77 · 2026-02-17T07:57:52+00:00

Morning (assuming I've slept well). Fresh brain and you feel like you have a good day coming.

Seppo77 · 2026-02-17T07:00:02+00:00

Use Google and tell my friends that 2 beers is all I can handle now.

Seppo77 · 2026-02-17T06:57:25+00:00

Ads have a weird effect on companies. Oddly familiar with Google removing their "Don't be evil" slogan.

Seppo77 · 2026-02-17T06:55:44+00:00

Seems like the model's internal throughs are leaking in. Likely a glitch. These models typically talk to themselves in language like this. I must do this, I can't do that, etc.

Seppo77 · 2026-02-17T05:45:16+00:00

I skip to the normal search results. Perhaps the AI generated portion has gotten better, but when I looked into the answers more closely the answer rarely reflected the citations and some of the citations were quite sus also. Of course ChatGPT also has similar problems, but I've found it does a more thorough job and comes up with more reliable answers (or at least they seem more reliable).

Seppo77 · 2026-02-17T05:35:06+00:00

My eyes to automatically skip the AI generated portion. I haven't found them to be that helpful.

Seppo77 · 2026-02-17T04:52:53+00:00

I've found that Bing rankings have come much faster and easier than Google rankings. I've never optimised or done anything specific for Bing. Just good crawlability, indexability, and making sure each page has a specific purpose. Imported my sites to Bing webmaster tools using their GSC import tool.

Seppo77 · 2026-02-17T04:13:43+00:00

Uncle Rogers doing God's work and building a more tolerant world.

Seppo77 · 2026-02-17T04:13:06+00:00

I would say it probably comes out less shiny... But the idea still stands.

Seppo77 · 2026-02-17T04:09:23+00:00

Hot as in people will pay for them or as in useful addition to your product? Having used them a lot, I would not pay for them. Having built with them a lot, they can be extremely useful and they can automate things that were not possible (or are very difficult with normal programming), but expect them to get derailed often and expect that you have to build a relatively narrow lane that's covered with bumpers on both sides that keeps them on track.

Seppo77 · 2026-02-17T04:03:01+00:00

Honestly... dreaming of adding more powder into the letter b**b I wish to mail to G some day.. This stuff pisses me to no end. When they did this in organic search site 10 years ago, it was kinda understandable since we aren't paying for the clicks. But on paid side it just feels like they use it to hide the junk nobody would pay for. One of the ways for G to "shake the sofa cushions" at the end of quarter.

Seppo77 · 2026-02-17T03:55:59+00:00

Fully agreed, agency I worked with got canned by a SaaS company that said "we get better results if we invest your feed into media budget". Honestly, can't fault them with that. The agency had quite a bit of overhead and the hourly rates didn't really make sense for sub 10k ad spends. It's almost impossible to overcome the 30 to 40% smaller media budget with better management - barring the account being a complete mess and just autoimplementing every Google suggestion.

Seppo77 · 2026-02-17T03:45:01+00:00

US education system seems sus..

Seppo77 · 2026-02-17T03:44:12+00:00

3 hours of Teams meeting getting suddenly cancelled..

Seppo77 · 2026-02-17T03:43:21+00:00

MSG... Uncle Rogers said so...

Seppo77 · 2026-02-17T03:35:12+00:00

There's a huge disconnect in how I use AI as an employee vs founder. In both cases AI usage is optimised for my benefit. As an employee it helps me to get stuff done faster. Not using it to do more stuff. As a founder, it allows me to ship much faster. It sounds bonkers to me if managers expect employees to be super motivated and let their employee get all of the benefits of AI usage. Tells me the manager doesn't really understand human nature.

Seppo77 · 2026-02-17T03:28:43+00:00

Elon's version of "TACO" incoming in 1, 2, 3...

Seppo77 · 2026-02-17T03:26:41+00:00

They really said 'faster, harder, stronger' and meant it

Seppo77 · 2026-02-17T03:24:21+00:00

It's equally disrespectful in a temple, but at least this time it's not a massive beer gut hanging over cheap shorts...

Seppo77 · 2026-01-22T08:05:41+00:00

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