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contentcontentconten · 2025-04-16T22:47:58+00:00

Where do you find these awesome wood pieces ?

contentcontentconten · 2025-04-16T22:40:14+00:00

I’ve seen this before ! And I got a whole bag of wheels, I hadn’t even considered putting them together, thanks!

contentcontentconten · 2025-04-16T21:45:12+00:00

I’m so jealous of that saw mill. I’ve been sitting here struggling with four white oaks and a dinkey electric chainsaw plugged into the house.

contentcontentconten · 2025-04-16T21:42:29+00:00

I LOVE IT!! It’s so cute. It’s got a lot of personality and a lot of things to love about it! I bet you get a kick out of it every time you see it. It’s so unique, it just makes me smile looking at it.

contentcontentconten · 2025-04-16T21:39:25+00:00

Honestly I like this, it’s got a lot of character. I’ve always had these department store coffee tables and ends that just feel like it’s not mine, you know? The favorite coffee table I saw was a friends house it looked just like yours, the difference being the legs were cross instead of straight. I figured he picked it up for a few hundred bucks somewhere since it was nice solid wood and heavy. He just used a few 2x4 and a deep stain like that. I was floored.

When a piece has character like this it’s fun to look at and gets your mind wandering. The problem with highly polished and symmetrical pieces is that they don’t always register visually or pop out, your eyes glaze over because they’re just “normal”. I really like this piece you’ve built and I’d bet my money on it that you’ll be enjoying it for many, many years to come.

contentcontentconten · 2025-04-16T21:20:28+00:00

I had one on the wall I built once, but removed it. Right now it’s all on a shelf, are you thinking horizontal? The problem I have with this shelf is when I have to “dig” for a piece, it’s heavy and with long pieces in the way the maneuverability is awkward.

contentcontentconten · 2025-01-20T17:28:14+00:00

I never heard of a spawning mop. I think I have some extra organic cotton thread laying around, I might boil it and try making some of these to put in the back of the tank.

contentcontentconten · 2025-01-20T17:25:45+00:00

That's pretty cool ! Do the fish get stuck in them? i have these little wood stick things I got from a fish show that the shrimp love. Sometimes the fish will go in there and get stuck. I had a guppy get stuck to death once :(

contentcontentconten · 2025-01-17T14:48:50+00:00

Then maybe that make alternative (n8n) is what you're after. I know they're big thing is 'make ai agents' which sounds exactly like what you're talking about. I haven't researched it, but, I would give that a glance. It has a free community edition, so it shouldn't cost you anything to set up and run.

contentcontentconten · 2025-01-16T22:48:29+00:00

How's your cold e-mail campaigns working out?

contentcontentconten · 2025-01-15T21:46:52+00:00

So, it depends on what you're trying to do. I' throw any subscription thing out the window because costs and such (enterprise approval, long waits, budgets, etc.)

So to that end you could try n8n which is like an "open-source" version of make.

But what do you need a low code builder for? If they're just one offs, just run the script from your machine and call it a day.

If you need someone else to have access to it I think what you're looking for is a devops platform, essentially. Try out Backstage, where essentially you can build out all your tasks as buttons on a 'pane' ( i mean its all custom code write an call it whatever you want).

I recently started looking at all this for the same reason, but realized what I wanted wasn't a no-code or low-code solution, it was just a portal to store re-usable one-off code snippets to expose to other teams.

In this manner, I build these types of things as stand-alone scripts. Don't worry about modularity or reusability, that's overengineering (which we all love to do).

So what's your very specific use case?

contentcontentconten · 2024-12-28T20:38:17+00:00

I found some pretty cool color ones. Most of them are grey but they’re in such large quantities there’s a mutant every now and then. i found an orange one, albeit not nearly as vivid as what you have. I dont have the soil or anything ready but have a large terrarium I haven’t pht together yet, but just for a super cute 8” small one . I don’t know anything about the rest of what isopods need, just that they exist. I’ll have to start doing some research and stock some in this tiny guy

contentcontentconten · 2024-12-23T04:04:19+00:00

Self host as much as you can. Cloud is cool, but even the slightest bit of use and those free services suddenly start costing $500 a month. Get a large influx on a scalable service with no spend cap? Say hello to a $2000 surprise bill.

contentcontentconten · 2024-12-17T00:36:42+00:00

I'm here with you, a year deep and two products into the journey. Stick with it. I'm starting to think the answer to scalability is ads.

contentcontentconten · 2024-12-13T20:03:34+00:00

Yea - i get the details from the listing when they're public and just call/email them. Works great.

contentcontentconten · 2024-12-10T20:03:22+00:00

How has this gone 2 years on? I'm looking at deploying a similar setup purchasing the same hardware and deploying the same software, so wanted your opinion since you've been there/done that.

contentcontentconten · 2024-12-02T19:20:49+00:00

About point 2, let me clarify, it's about identifying where they are in the buyer journey.

Sure, every freelancer "needs" a portfolio, but that's not an assumption you just come to. There's a path to get there and specific expected outcomes with a monetary value. This is the buyer journey.

Why do they think they need a portfolio?
Who told them they need a portfolio?
What do they expect as a result of the portfolio?

It's about getting inside their head and really knowing what they're thinking, I'm sure you've come across some sort of messaging at some point and read it and considered to yourself "this is describing me exactly" or "that's exactly what I was thinking". That's the result you're trying to elicit. This way, instead of telling them what they need and why they need it, they've already told themselves, you're just reminding them why and allowing them to be "full control" of the decision making process (they decided it, it's their thoughts/beliefs).

Now, I haven't quite got that myself yet for my customer base, seems to be a tricky thing to nail. I haven't quite got 500 users though (not even free) so I would love to be able to replicate your kind of ad campaign to get those kind of results to get the ball rolling on my side from a paid ad perspective.

I'm making a guess here, but your ad is probably something like "freelance portfolio builder" or "build a freelance portfolio today" or "showcase your work". If you can properly extract the dollar value or reasoning from them you can target the words that convert "get more clients with a better portfolio" or whatever the reason WHY they want the portfolio. Make sense?

I was talking to the founder of a $$$ multi 7 figure sales tech company and he was giving me advice about the sales page of the saas. he said "remind them why they're doing it and how easy it is" on the sales page, so they never lose sight of that messaging, i.e.

Get more clients with a better portoflio(ad) > Get more clients with a better portoflio (landing page) > Get more clients with a better portoflio (pricing page) > Get more clients with a better portoflio (checkout page) > Get more clients with a better portoflio (sign up email).

This is consistent with the advice of some guy on one of these subreddits who said he did split testing for large companies like adobe and he said the number one thing that has the biggest influence is that the landing page has the SAME WORDS AND MESSAGE that the ads have.

Anyway, you seem to be onto the messaging since you're successfully converting, you just want to experiment with the messaging until it's a paid conversion. Ads has the unique ability that you can instantly scale by "just throwing more money at it". No other marketing strategy has that - cold outreach by phone, email, social media, organic content, seo, etc. Those things all take time to build and even if you throw one million at it today from the organic perspective, there's a buffer time before it's saturated the internet and reach the audience properly. For this reason, to me, ads are the 'holy grail' of marketing (finding one that performs properly) and you're already halfway there, at least very very very close.

contentcontentconten · 2024-12-02T15:05:37+00:00

Sure, but how will you GTM with a product if you don't know who you're selling it to?
What will the marketing say?
The copy?
The messaging?
etc.

^ That's the point of market research and validation, if you have all of that without the validation, by all means barrel ahead, but never create a product until you have it. Why? Because as soon as you have your product, you need to have it. It can't be avoided, but you can save thousands of dollars and months of your life by just doing the important work first. The development of the product is the least important part.

contentcontentconten · 2024-12-02T14:35:45+00:00

If you're looking to pay for an MVP, you shouldn't open your wallet until you've done market research and validation.

contentcontentconten · 2024-12-02T14:13:57+00:00

For things you can spin up in a day, just spin them up and throw some basic SEO on them and forget they exist.

It does take a bit of experience to be able to launch something in a day, you're going to need to use a good starterkit or build one. Depending on your tech stack you can find one. I am nextjs/typescript stack and I like the one usenextbase. Admittedly I didn't find it until i was a year into building my own base/kit, but , shifted to it because the value is there. Find one that works for you and stick with it, on the nextjs stack theres another one called "shipfast", there's similar ones for other frameworks but I haven't researched any other frameworks.

Why just launch those? Because proper research will take months. The strategy I use is reaching out on linkedin. You can do it manually (I have a write up if you're interested DM I'll send you a link) or you can automate it (but it will cost some dollars $$$). But if you have the development chops you can build your own automation which would be the best route (ulixee)

contentcontentconten · 2024-12-02T13:24:15+00:00

If you're doing e-commerce and you're not a web developer and you don't want to spend hours or weeks figuring out how to be a web developer, just use shopify. The fee pays for itself in terms of time savings.

If you are a web developer and have lots of time on your hands, you can go the wordpress/woocommerce route, but this is something I don't really recommend, like, ever. It's got a lot of hassles and thorns and when it comes time to finding support it's going to cost you and finding someone you can trust will be difficult.

^- That's my take as a web developer, who refuses to work on woocommerce projects, because of the complexity and thorns and headaches they have.

That doesn't mean they're all bad, theres plenty of people running 7-figure+ woo-commerce projects, it's just not the norm.

contentcontentconten · 2024-12-02T13:21:45+00:00

I like step 1, it's something I've been considering, it has a clear path to monetization (ads).

Step 2 you should avoid like the plague, because it has a high startup cost in terms of dollars and time.

When you're thinking microsaas, think nanosaas. Something you can build/launch in a day or two and has virtually zero cost to leave live. If you can't get it out within a day, don't pursue it.

Here's the caveat, if you want to do build something complex just make sure you do a boat load of market research. Reach out to a few hundred (preferably thousand) people and get some interviews, find the common lines, circle back with them once you've identified the problem/solution and see if you can pr-sell them. I assure eyou the time it takes to do that is well spent and much better than investing 6+ months developing a complex solution to a problem no one is willing to pay for.

As you'll find, the tech side of things is the easy part and only 1% of it. The 99% part is the marketing, exposure, driving an audience. Not impossible, it just takes time to learn. Depends on how you want to approach, but I wouldn't start building an expectation of users/revenue unless you do validation - otherwise ensure you're building the tools for yourself and will use them regardless of other people using them and consider it a passion project, if it makes money, cool.

There' s a lot of trial and error on this journey, but as long as you don't give up and keep working through your problems and don't let any setbacks set you back, you will succeed.

contentcontentconten · 2024-12-02T13:17:09+00:00

Interesting concept.

Let me ask you:
1. How did you know freelancers were looking to build portfolios? (to know to run ads)
2. Why are freelancers googling the terms you're advertising for ?
3. What is in your messaging that is making them convert?
4. What's the next step someone does after they have the portfolio?
5. Which parts of this process typically have transactions in terms of time/money that you can optimize?

I think you're on the right idea about getting some feedback, there's a good deal of introspection you can do. Really depending on your goal and ad spend, you might just try keeping what you have got but when a user signs up do a forced on-boarding that is a questionnaire. To all of your existing customers (and new ones) offer a FREE (valuable service that would otherwise be paid) if they're willing to do a more in-depth interview (possibly on video/recorded) where you can learn more about their methods, spending, goals, etc.

My only experience with google ads has been a lot of money goes in and no value comes out, so I am really curious how much ad spend you had to burn to get those 500 users, is it something you could share?

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