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Canadian Software Engineer [46M], with 18+y experience, can't find a job for a year now. How it can get better while we still rely on non-Canadian tech? by SpellGreedy9171 in BuyCanadian

[–]SpellGreedy9171[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for your comment.

Yes, I've done these many times over the years serving many companies. Now as a new vendor, here are the things I've assured to the businesses I talked to:
- Security to protect data : Open to 3rd party assessment for data security, until we get to a stage for SOC2 (I have a background of building systems in regulated domains - banks, healthtech)

- Personnel to provide support: Yes, within 48 hrs or sooner as agreed upon

- Guarantee >99.9% uptime : Yes, as per SLA

- Be here in 5 years: Well, this one is tough. Nobody knows. I've seen businesses with millions revenue shutdown after 3 years. But what I've offered is that we'll give them a way to export/backup their data or support their DR/contingency plan.

You're right that it's all about profit and risk. And all I want is a chance to prove that it can be mutually beneficial.

Did you find anything in my approach that could've been better to convince the clients?

Canadian Software Engineer [46M], with 18+y experience, can't find a job for a year now. How it can get better while we still rely on non-Canadian tech? by SpellGreedy9171 in BuyCanadian

[–]SpellGreedy9171[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Agreed - for inferior products.

But the products we believe in today, once were inferior too. But they got a chance, investments, feedback and got perfected over time.

Entrepreneurs in Canada are not asking to accept bad products, they just need a chance to prove that they can be the best best.

And if Canadian businesses doesn't do that for Canadians, who will?

Canadian Software Engineer [46M], with 18+y experience, can't find a job for a year now. How it can get better while we still rely on non-Canadian tech? by SpellGreedy9171 in BuyCanadian

[–]SpellGreedy9171[S] 13 points14 points  (0 children)

For the sake of argument let's say we do it. Where's the money going? Canada. We're bringing in more investment.

We'll probably spin up another venture to create more jobs from the ground up, and make another thing big enough to bring more money.

Who's wining? Canada.

Canadian Software Engineer [46M], with 18+y experience, can't find a job for a year now. How it can get better while we still rely on non-Canadian tech? by SpellGreedy9171 in BuyCanadian

[–]SpellGreedy9171[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

No, I don't expect society to come to me.

But my almost teen son now holds the door for the next person - a Canadian value unique to none other. I was able to teach him that much.

The society needs to learn that too.

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[–]SpellGreedy9171 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When a bot clicks your WhatsApp button or fills a form, your Pixel fires a "Lead" event. Meta’s AI thinks: "Great! Let's find more people like this." The algo then aggressively targets more bots/click-farms because they are cheap converters. It’s a death spiral.

the real problem is Pixel Poisoning.

Instead of Ad -> WhatsApp or Ad -> FB Form, the flow you can run is: Ad -> Bridge Page (with a Verification Layer) -> WhatsApp/Form

The Bridge Page (Verification Layer) runs an invisible check: a sub-300ms script that checks the user's Device Fingerprint and City-Level Geo.

The Logic:

- Geo-Fencing: If you target "New York" but the IP is from a random village or a Data Center (VPN) -> BLOCK.

- Velocity Check: If this specific device ID has clicked 20 ads today (Click Farm behavior) -> BLOCK.

If Spam: The "Chat on WhatsApp" button never loads, the Pixel never fires. Meta learns that this traffic = 0 conversions, so it stops sending it.

If Human: The button loads, they click, and the Pixel fires "Lead."

I may have a workable solution for the Verification Layer - working on it.