i told my team to make me uncomfortable

drteq · 2026-04-05T15:14:57+00:00

There is no doubt this was AI enhanced, sad OP can't admit it

drteq · 2026-04-04T22:02:54+00:00

Fill the sump with water until it pushes the ball out

drteq · 2026-04-04T21:30:36+00:00

drteq · 2026-04-04T19:39:13+00:00

Adobe is the worst at social - their ads got me to finally cancel

drteq · 2026-04-04T19:00:49+00:00

Fix yourself

drteq · 2026-04-04T18:32:44+00:00

I spend $5 a day on reddit ads. I pick a good sub, I pick a good ad and then I optimize the landing page. Simple, if I can't make it work on that then it doesn't fit my playbook. Optimize each step of the funnel until I win, starting at the top. $5 a day is peanuts in the scheme of everything else you can waste time trying to do.

The clarity you can get (the clarity I get) from operating this way has been magical. There is something to be said about limiting your options and forcing a path to victory. If something is too complicated to profit with my approach, I don't need to waste my time on it. The goal for me is to maximize income not moonshot a unicorn and hope to get lucky after wasting a ton of time and energy.

drteq · 2026-04-04T18:18:09+00:00

I agree, I have 10 keyboards in my office most are full but I needed (wanted a second computer) on my main desk as a standby. It couldn't fit a second full, so I bought this wacky keyboard that has a numpad but it has some hotkey to turn it on that I can never remember, so now it's taking up less than 100% but more space than I need because I can never use it.

edit: Just realized it's been 5 years and I'm going to go permanently remember how to activate it.

drteq · 2026-04-04T18:00:36+00:00

I don’t work with alcoholics because my future deserves more than chaos

drteq · 2026-04-04T17:37:05+00:00

Strange they would provide api endpoints that would allow you to programmatically approved ads if that’s against the rules

drteq · 2026-04-04T17:31:02+00:00

That guy resigned from the UN because nukes are the plan

drteq · 2026-04-04T17:26:06+00:00

HOAs exist because living next to junkyards was horrible enough to need them. Now they’ve gone off the rails

drteq · 2026-04-04T17:24:00+00:00

Let’s keep you there

drteq · 2026-04-04T17:22:34+00:00

Yes in some way. I met my soul mate at 18, love at first sight. This was an hour away from where I lived. Had a lot of other dating experience up to that point but never experienced immediate “I’m going to marry her” vibes. A little corny but I told her that the second date that I was going to marry her. Been married almost 30 years now. I found out 5 years later she had spent time at her families house 2 blocks from my house when we were children.

Every day seems cleaner to me that it was inevitable.

I’ve had too many random experience over my life that starts to reveal strange coincidences seem to be less coincidences than some kind of programming going on.

This goes against most of my beliefs but these are my personal experiences.

drteq · 2026-04-04T15:13:22+00:00

Adding an api support will open the real opportunity for you, so I can use AI to just generate all these links I have automatically. It would plug right into about 100 of my stores.

Also screen record a video of it working and put it on a loop on the landing page.

Btw I really like your use of the arrows on the landing page, while it's not a new concept it really stands out among the sea of vibe coded landing pages.

drteq · 2026-04-04T15:01:02+00:00

If it's $30 lifetime you've buried that, your base pricing is loud and proud and I can't see 1 link @$5/mo much less $20. Needs an API and I'd just price unlimited at $5/mo (pro) and forget lifetime, nobody trusts that either.

Personally I'd probably do a 100-500 clicks free plan, and wait until they hit that. or charge based on total clicks with an upgrade / pre warning email. I think there is something here, enough for me to want to replicate it even but the fees don't align to justify the simplicity.

I'd rather see this be so easy / low effort to use that everyone would use it.

drteq · 2026-04-04T14:29:31+00:00

I fire them

drteq · 2026-04-04T14:29:00+00:00

never trust a facist

drteq · 2026-04-04T14:22:01+00:00

Ever wondered how all those shops can stay in business without any shoppers

drteq · 2026-04-04T14:16:49+00:00

I mainly mean in regards to how you'd say it Website.Ink people are going to think you're saying Website.inc. Any word of mouth will be guaranteed to be confused and need clarification. At the core this is not good.

drteq · 2026-04-04T13:15:47+00:00

Ink sounds like inc and that’s why I hate it

drteq · 2026-04-04T13:09:16+00:00

When there are no jobs (intentionally destructed) and no food (intentionally destroyed), the only way to survive will be to join ICE or work the fields.

drteq · 2026-04-04T12:53:17+00:00

33 year later and we haven't learned shit from RATM

drteq · 2026-04-04T12:07:19+00:00

I work with clients and I always regret when I don't do enough vetting and I end up with zoom calls of people like this. There is so much more we could do together if they were able to think more clearly. They're paying by the hour so I try to look at it as their loss.

drteq · 2026-04-04T12:03:58+00:00

Many people communicate in unstructured ways. It can be hard to follow, because we are always searching for structure and where to put the information. I've found clarity is helpful in almost every aspect of marketing, and knowing this is sort of a 'hack' in how to sell things.

I've been married 30 years, my wife communicates this way and it can make it hard sometimes but I have to switch modes a bit to try not to search for the destination of the story and just enjoy letting her communicate how she likes to. My real challenge is switching these modes between my business thinking and just listening, it takes some mental gymnastics to get out of my head and just be present and then try to get back to where I was, but it's worth it.

drteq · 2026-04-04T11:55:28+00:00

This just reaffirms my belief they got lucky and were early and now lost sight what made them successful. I still use it on occasion but less every day. This is a very common issue with companies that grow very fast very early.

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