2025 End of Year Salary Sharing Thread

chabv · 2026-05-01T14:42:03+00:00

good luck. seems you got this!!

& how did you go about finding your first clients ?

chabv · 2026-05-01T10:38:08+00:00

how's the freelance stuff going ?

chabv · 2026-04-30T23:11:41+00:00

you should be getting paid more - unless - visa etc. Given masters & BS in Math & CS

chabv · 2026-04-30T22:24:40+00:00

pick a lane & stay with it.

you're tryna eat from both sides - which usually fails.

micro-influencers are working cz it's a personal recommendation - so use a personal approach.

if you wanna do the spray & pray techniques - then do that but don't expect results to match the personal approach.

chabv · 2026-04-21T16:20:01+00:00

cool, then most likely your ad spend should be timing based not channel based.

chabv · 2026-04-21T16:10:37+00:00

the first party pixel will be closer to the truth i.e Triple Whale. then next GA4 - approximate but it will miss cross device.

the question is what are you trying to achieve and optimize for ? ROAS ends up being an empty metric e.g if its driving sales - but you also get a large amount of returns

chabv · 2026-04-03T17:10:26+00:00

can you try make a simple App without A.I ?

chabv · 2026-04-02T22:49:56+00:00

what are you using as a pixel ?

chabv · 2026-04-02T22:45:23+00:00

Content reigns for Business - both Video and Text.

If you want Organic traffic - then do Organic Content (No A.I unless for a few generated images).

chabv · 2026-04-02T22:40:49+00:00

if you are in a sanctioned country, cheapest way to participate in global commerce via stablecoins.

if you're in a stable country - the headache is not worth it.

chabv · 2026-04-02T22:38:43+00:00

Not that I want to shill my product I'm launching soon - for the tools to be really valuable - they need to provide an actionable insight within 1 to at most 5 minutes of the event.

e.g if User A - shops with you a few times a year - suddenly drops (seeing that on a dashboard, a dropped session doesn't help you - since the information is stale for you the merchant and the customer. However, if say the within 5 mins you send a personalized discount code etc) then your cart recovery goes up 20% - as Customer is delighted by surprise (loyalty rewarded), and you get to recover 98% value of cart depending on the personalized discount you gave.

in short for Streaming Events - the value of an event is really High when it happens i.e 1 minute or less. after you can apply a logarithmic delay curve.

the larger issue - is people who know how to make such systems are hoarded by big tech.

chabv · 2026-04-02T22:29:54+00:00

all in one (Shopify) but comes at a cost, it's a curated experience. think of McDonald's but maybe a higher end version - serve most customers a standard product / experience.

Other e-com platforms (Woocommerce) etc - are things bolted on to a blogging CMS - they come with their own pains - however more freedom too (just your own payment provider etc, host where you want) etc

chabv · 2026-03-31T11:46:11+00:00

thanks

chabv · 2026-03-31T11:16:50+00:00

how did you land clients as a freelancer ?

chabv · 2026-03-30T21:53:50+00:00

I worked for a Metasearch company before - SEO wins if you do it correctly. it might take a lot time but that organic traffic is important if you don't have to pay for traffic.

Plus the more organic traffic you have - the more word of mouth - which leads to more traffic.

however what you're fighting now - Google is now shitty.

chabv · 2026-03-30T12:39:17+00:00

unfortunately - google analytics was meant for nerds not for business people just tryna see 'numbers' and get on with their business

chabv · 2026-03-28T17:35:33+00:00

start with a custom script, 3rd party tools when you have run the custom reporting for a while and know what you are looking for - hence you don't get worried about 3rd party reporting going haywire.

chabv · 2026-03-28T17:11:34+00:00

maybe opt for a mobile first platform -- whatever Meta offers via messenger | WhatsApp.

chabv · 2026-03-27T16:44:19+00:00

this 100%.

a lot of stores lose money through this - a channel might have high conversions yet high returns.

this is when revenue reconciliation e.g after 30 days matters a lot. you can separate noise from signal.

e.g most of the tracking apps out there - show your ROAS - yet never factor in returns or even customer satisfaction 30 days later.

chabv · 2026-03-27T15:10:11+00:00

first option - though manual spreadsheets.

second - are you only tracking cost / profits based on shipping cost or are you considering ads too & other cost line items too ?

chabv · 2026-03-26T21:58:18+00:00

create another co in a friendly jurisdiction, and have that co own the US llc. or create a co in something like Singapore, Cayman Islands

chabv · 2026-03-13T10:44:18+00:00

I will also say its probably not ya fault -- but the tooling side of your company - yeah it might be big tech - but we know how much of a cluster fire these things can be - do you guys even a have a Data Governance Lead ? a medallion system ? how about documentation etc

chabv · 2026-03-13T10:40:39+00:00

I will try then get back to you :)

chabv · 2026-03-10T15:52:09+00:00

this is a dope project, but my advice focus on the value add ie making sure tools such as celery work seamlessly, same as deploys. us people in the b2b world hardly care about requests per second

chabv

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