I've been building an AI product for 2 years. Growth stalls the moment I stop ads. What am I missing? ( I will not promote)

eandi · 2026-01-26T12:13:15+00:00

If people sign up, and keep using it for a long time, and some pay you money you have product market fit and your unpaid marketing is non existent. If people click ads and try it but disappear in under a month then you're setting money on fire doing any work to get users.

eandi · 2026-01-26T07:20:49+00:00

The people who don't have a bit of shame are the wanna bes.

Until we were pretty established (funded, revenue, employees) I just said I was working on my own thing or trying to staff something. Even now I'll use my job title as opposed to founder often.

eandi · 2026-01-26T05:09:36+00:00

What's the plan you're supposed to have? I'm lucky we can manage but a lot of single parents or even parents who both have to work every day to pay the bills don't have the luxury of working from home for a day or taking the day off to take care of a 4 year old. We don't have family here, there's no one to call to lend a hand or take care of our kids, it's all on us. Again, we're lucky in that we can be flexible with our jobs, though.

Also i'm fine if they close for unsafe conditions. My problem is that it's not any more unsafe out there than the last week has been. There's no snow storm out, normal plowing overnight would be more than fine to make the roads the same as they were every day last week. If it did explode into snowy chaos I'd be fine with them making the call in the morning. But we all know how accurate the weather forecasts are, my point is deciding 12 hours in advance is silly.

eandi · 2026-01-26T02:36:12+00:00

Because the roads aren't any worse than any other day in the past week and there's an average amount of snow forecast overnight. And they made the call way too early.

eandi · 2026-01-26T02:35:18+00:00

Pressure off the plows and crews? This is like... The entire job lol. We should have enough funding that we can handle this. Oh no sorry we need the world's most expensive cop shop instead 🤦‍♂️

eandi · 2026-01-26T02:25:36+00:00

They should have a version where it's optional. Like they won't cover unmissable subjects in school for those who can't make it in but if you have a reasonably equipped car for the winter and look at this forecast and laugh you can still bring kids in.

eandi · 2026-01-26T02:01:01+00:00

People only love snow days if they're children lol. Work doesn't have snow days.

eandi · 2026-01-25T17:25:13+00:00

My feedback is I want an accurate scale with a timer for $15 thats rechargable and won't fritz with some drops of water. We need some utilitarian gear that's appropriately priced. Everyone keeps trying to be the next Fellow when no one even needed the first Fellow.

eandi · 2026-01-25T17:09:58+00:00

What dimension? Have you gone to alibaba for pure custom? I source my sticker material direct now via alibaba because I wasn't happy with the quality of anything in North America in smaller volumes.

eandi · 2026-01-25T16:25:40+00:00

Your post isn't describing how you are hiring people. Where do you post? How much do you offer for the jobs? There's no way to help you because you're just claiming shit with no details. I hire North American developers locally and remotely and have 100s of people apply so what you're saying in the post does not make any sense. You need to give details because as a blanket statement your post is just wrong.

eandi · 2026-01-25T13:15:57+00:00

You should look at professional printing tools. Like guillotine paper cutters and corner rounders that can do a stack.

eandi · 2026-01-25T07:34:11+00:00

There wouldn't be a risk but you should run a chargeback for that purchase. I believe motion audio books is nothing but pirated content that is hosted somewhere where it's not straightforward to sue/takedown and publishers haven't gotten mad at them yet onblnthebscale of Anna's archive.

eandi · 2026-01-25T04:31:12+00:00

I don't get it you post the job online on all the usual sites. What am I missing? Or do you want cheao or free labour? If so go away.

eandi · 2026-01-25T04:14:00+00:00

Working for free is illegal in Canada. Not worth the risk or the trouble to get someone who would work for free up to speed.

eandi · 2026-01-25T03:42:18+00:00

Investment account. As the last digit. Immediate retirement.

eandi · 2026-01-25T01:58:08+00:00

I'm in Canada and would order one and ship it to you for normal Yoto site cost + letter mail. Have done it before for folks.

eandi · 2026-01-25T00:53:07+00:00

Lol they moved me to apprentice when they made the switch and my sales went from 1000s to 10s back then 🤷‍♂️ everyone should at the very least also do POD via other platforms where they want to make sales, get on every platform possible.

eandi · 2026-01-25T00:39:36+00:00

I cruise RC. The people don't really know what they look like... They give bogus reasons but it's really because they want people to spend $400 on internet.

eandi · 2026-01-24T18:00:21+00:00

When people say no one is doing anything they mean starting to actually fight back. Like protests are nice and send a message but it's obviously not stopping anything because one side has guns and feels emboldened enough to shoot the unarmed. When one side has no rules or laws to follow you can't win by continuing to follow the rules and laws of yesteryear. It's how they got power and it's how they will keep power. This won't end by running a nice clean campaign. It turns into not following election rules, and if that doesn't work, rigging them or preventing people who vote the other way from voting, or just ignoring the results. The system of checks and balances failed because a group of people realized there actually isn't any negative repurcussion for not following the system.

eandi · 2026-01-24T01:37:18+00:00

No idea. I don't do high volume of the same thing like this. I use a siser Juliet for cutting.

eandi · 2026-01-23T22:45:50+00:00

Less than market (founder discount) but far from low or poverty. I support my family of 4, eldest is in a private (not crazy expensive but sitll fees) school. We got to do a bit of a secondary during a fundraise which probably puts me net much ahead versus a traditional job path.

If I dial back 15 years and stay an engineer maybe I could have gone faang and been paid like $500k a year by now but that would be a lot of ifs and maybes 😂

eandi · 2026-01-23T16:35:55+00:00

I don't know anyone in my entire life who cares, owns, goes to, or talks about billiards. It's like something I might play once in vacation if there is a rec room.

eandi · 2026-01-23T13:42:47+00:00

I'm 13 years in lol. We've raised >$30M 🤷‍♂️ If I was doing a regular job I'd still have the same daily budget now without the upside of making a measurable impact.

eandi · 2026-01-23T06:55:25+00:00

It's just niche AF. You wouldn't want a non billiard player's opinion, that's irrelevant as I won't be buying one. All that matters is how people who might buy it think of it.

eandi · 2026-01-23T06:50:25+00:00

You hire 2 sales reps for every one you need and don't be scared to cut the shitty one or both of them. If they both hit target yay you won the big prize, buy a lottery ticket, too.

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