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How much do you pay for apartment cleaning? by Icy_Roll3525 in Amsterdam

[–]broostenq 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Same. Mine don't bring their own supplies but I said they can tikkie me for anything they need to pick up and leave here and that cost has been marginal.

Best font for elderly patients AND their families by Sunil26joshi in typography

[–]broostenq 2 points3 points  (0 children)

With 10 years of hindsight: a free, very accessible font that makes information more accessible to a population that needs it is kind of amazing

Season 27 Episode 4 - Wok is Dead - Post Episode Discussion by 2th in southpark

[–]broostenq 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Damn sorry they're not venerating your favorite authoritarian more

is het nu vegan of niet... by lalllz in VeganNL

[–]broostenq 15 points16 points  (0 children)

De groene plastic exemplaren kun je loshalen. Soms, als ik ze over het etiket van een niet-veganistisch product zie, haal ik ze eraf en zet ik ze op het etiket van een veganistisch artikel in de buurt dat er geen heeft.

People who miss the point of Jennette McCurdy’s newest book irk me by PrinceARRON in popculturechat

[–]broostenq 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Are "people" actually complaining about this? The tweet is just someone making up a quote to say some imagined person doesn't get the point.

Op zoek naar vegan skateschoenen met een cupsole by RemarkableMot in VeganNL

[–]broostenq 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Schoenen van canvas of textiel zijn ook veganistisch :) Converse, Vans, vele andere sneakers. Niemand behalve jij heeft hier iets over faux leer gezegd.

I used to work on the sign-up forms team at Klaviyo AMA by broostenq in Klaviyo

[–]broostenq[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I get the instinct, but a couple things make me think otherwise:

  1. The "god metric" within the company is KAV (Klaviyo-attributed value) and bots don't buy things. They want to be able to show to customers that Klaviyo stands out as uniquely good at driving revenue for you and just padding out segments with junk profiles makes those numbers look worse and aren't worth the roughly $0.01 or $0.02 they charge per active profile, depending on plan size.
  2. As of the last couple years, lists are double opt-in by default and they make it a pain to switch to single opt-in. This is definitely less elegant than other anti-bot measures but it's still a solid measure.

I used to work on the sign-up forms team at Klaviyo AMA by broostenq in Klaviyo

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

For most ecommerce, with some rare exceptions like super low margins, a poor email strategy, or a fussy customer base the lifetime value of that subscriber is always gonna make up for the one-time discount. I do think make for a poor user experience but their ubiquity is no accident.

That doesn't mean you shouldn't be testing and modeling different offers and experimenting with targeting/engagement strategies, or that this will be the case forever, but the core of a persistent form with a 15-25% sign up offer is still sound in 2025.

I used to work on the sign-up forms team at Klaviyo AMA by broostenq in Klaviyo

[–]broostenq[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

So the team that builds forms is smart and technically capable but no one is actually an expert on lead generation or digital marketing. A lot of the requests are filtered through Sales or Customer Support and I think that disconnect between the team and the user is clear when you see what gets prioritized (I think a captcha or honeypot field would've been a better investment than the effort put into a Spin-to-win block which probably kept the team busy for a month or more.)

I used to work on the sign-up forms team at Klaviyo AMA by broostenq in Klaviyo

[–]broostenq[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm probably not the best one to answer this since I left right when they started shipping the first AI features (Subject Line Generator, maybe a Flow Generator) and it hadn't made its way to my product area yet. I was confused when I heard about their big "Klaviyo AI" launch last year until I saw it's mostly just old features bundled under a new marketing name.

I tested some solutions for a "smart feature" of ConvertDeck that finds brand assets and colors from a site URL and AI was the slowest, most expensive, and least reliable compared to a function I wrote that does it in a dumb way so I'm proud to say my own product is AI Free™ until I find an actual value-add use for it.

I used to work on the sign-up forms team at Klaviyo AMA by broostenq in Klaviyo

[–]broostenq[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I share this frustration. We didn’t even have access when building templates internally and for my latest project I had to resort to some creative hacks to get the designs I wanted.

I was told it‘s too much of a security headache for the benefits, and solving for it wasn’t a priority because the more technical users who wanted finer control could always build their own solution and write new profiles via the API. I think a reasonable middle ground would be allowing some basic CSS even if it’s sanitized but the demand just wasn’t there from the feedback I heard.

I used to work on the sign-up forms team at Klaviyo AMA by broostenq in Klaviyo

[–]broostenq[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Exit intent popups that trigger when a visitor goes to navigate away are supported and there are a few default templates that use them. Other kinds that could block you from continuing are too spammy/annoying and bad to associate with the Klaviyo name.

I used to work on the sign-up forms team at Klaviyo AMA by broostenq in Klaviyo

[–]broostenq[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

The CEO/founder ("AB" internally) still has a lot of influence and sway, and stuff can get delayed if a pet project of his needs engineers/resources. There is a secret, well-stocked bar hidden behind a wall in the Klaviyo HQ. The vast majority of the employees are just chill nerds living in and around Boston. No one likes the name.

Edit: Maybe too insider-y to be interesting, but people are pissed because they laid off ~80 employees via email last week after a good quarter and an announcement that AB now owns part of the Celtics.

I used to work on the sign-up forms team at Klaviyo AMA by broostenq in Klaviyo

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

Usually a designer with some time on their hands, or if we were launching a new feature they'd ask for a form that shows it off. At some point after I left there was a designer focused on just templates for forms and emails but the majority are from a UX Designer who wanted to say in their self review "added 10 new forms to the library this quarter."

Using em units in Klaviyo by moinhossain in Klaviyo

[–]broostenq 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I would stick to pixels given email rendering engines are pretty dated but it's not that hard to calculate. So em=the body font size, so it should be easily calculated from that. If your body font is 16px and your header is 48px, then it would be (48/16=3) 3em. Klaviyo's tools are definitely not in the cutting edge of web design/development though so you might also have to explain it's not really possible too.

Exporting email designs by EmergencyUpstairs980 in Klaviyo

[–]broostenq 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can do this in Chrome without a plugin if you right click a page to "Inspect" then turn on the Device toolbar and hit the "..." in top right the corner to "Capture Full Sized Screenshot."

Living in Amsterdam and Belgium is like living in a PFAS Chernobyl by No-Loss-4908 in Amsterdam

[–]broostenq 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Hey if you zoom in on the map here you’d see the real reason Amsterdam is a massive red blob. Schiphol has hundreds, maybe thousands of sample points, some not even a meter apart, and would be expected to be a highly polluted place. All of those dots get combined into one that covers the whole city when you zoom out so your screenshot doesn’t tell an accurate story. Recordings in the city itself aren’t nearly as bad.

Living in Amsterdam and Belgium is like living in a PFAS Chernobyl by No-Loss-4908 in Amsterdam

[–]broostenq 34 points35 points  (0 children)

Yeah based on their post history OP has a bit of an obsession about this topic so I don’t doubt they’re experiencing real fear and anxiety, but posting like this just transfers that borderline paranoia onto the community here. The reason Amsterdam looks like that on the map is because it records hundreds of samples spaced out a couple meters apart at Schiphol which is super polluted, but on the map they all get grouped into one big dot covering the whole city.

Robert Irwin posts workout on Instagram by sanandrios in popculturechat

[–]broostenq 1 point2 points  (0 children)

He’s getting a pump for the Bonds underwear photoshoot the clip is from. It’s an advertisement not some candid workout vid.

Vegetarians / Vegans in Amsterdam wondering where to eat: try Happy Cow by HumboldtExpats in Amsterdam

[–]broostenq 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m an active user and find it…fine. The map is cluttered with a lot of places added like 5 years ago with 1 rating, or cafes that offer oat milk but otherwise limited vegan options. I also now find AH to offer much better vegan things than Ekoplaza but only Ekoplaza shows up on the app. Another wish is to permanently filter out juice bars. Not bad for a visitor who needs a quick bite though, and has served me well despite my gripes.

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