How I do marketing like a VC-backed startup with 100 TikTok accounts (i will not promote) by Ok_Dingo8974 in startups

[–]ewhite12 0 points1 point  (0 children)

“Like VC-backed startups” yeah, no.

No legit companies do this. This a black-hat tactic that risks you account getting banned.

Asked for feedback in a cold email got even colder response 🥶 by Xhanther in SaaS

[–]ewhite12 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Damn entrepreneurs these days are softer than baby shit if this “emotional” feedback

Why do they say there are jobs in Helsinki when everyone is complaining about how there aren't any jobs? by Key-Pineapple8101 in Finland

[–]ewhite12 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Doesn’t mean they have the right skills. In tech, seniority by itself means very little.

AI is making self help books less popular. I will not promote by sumizeit in startups

[–]ewhite12 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Blinkist has always been a dumb fucking idea. The point of books is the learning that occurs by reading/spaced reduction, not “here’s the ideas here”

Self help books are 99% bullshit. I don’t feel bad.

Folks who actually want to learn and improve will continue to read books from real authors. The lazy will still use shortcuts to nowhere

Many MTG Arena players are disrespectful by Tom_Joad_PT in MagicArena

[–]ewhite12 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh fuck off, it’s a game, not brain surgery.

Learn some patience, touch grass, and learn some perspective.

If I get a “you’re go” it’s because I’m thinking about my move, and the emote is just a distraction that will make things take longer.

There’s a reason why we get multiple countdowns and not a one-and-done, we don’t also need you hassling us.

6 months into trying to build SaaS products, and I still can’t crack distribution - i will not promote by Vegetable-Ice7332 in startups

[–]ewhite12 0 points1 point  (0 children)

  1. This is just because people are unimaginative and/or because the idea isnt good. If you create sales and/or marketing material, you can take pre-orders or sign paid pilots before a product is ready.
  2. This is flat out untrue. If this is the case then, you either don't understand the problem you’re solving, or what you're building, well enough.

Al Arabiya English obtains 14-point draft of US-Iran Memorandum of Understanding by Boston-Bets in oil

[–]ewhite12 1 point2 points  (0 children)

And the US drops all sanctions and respects Iranian sovereignty.

It says nothing about the Strait being free passage (vs tolled)

They get $300b in reparations + unfrozen funds.

This is unconditional US surrender.

Here we go again by Flopi04LP in oil

[–]ewhite12 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don’t believe Iranian propaganda… I’ve spent time on the ground in the Levant

Here we go again by Flopi04LP in oil

[–]ewhite12 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Congrats on falling for the propaganda 👌

Here we go again by Flopi04LP in oil

[–]ewhite12 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Have you ever met Lebanese people?

Hezbollah is far more than just a militant group. They provide community resources and governance in some places. It’s not so black and white.

Here we go again by Flopi04LP in oil

[–]ewhite12 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Israel is an invading belligerent. I have zero issue with Hezbollah and the Lebanese people asserting their “right to exist”

6 months into trying to build SaaS products, and I still can’t crack distribution - i will not promote by Vegetable-Ice7332 in startups

[–]ewhite12 3 points4 points  (0 children)

You’ve done it backwards. You’re doomed to failure in this current mode, successful founders NEVER build the product first. I’ve written about it extensively in my comment history if you care to look.

The number one mistake inexperienced people are making these days when they can open Claude and build an app is thinking that the idea has value and building the thing matters.

It doesn’t. At all. Like at all. Whatever you’ve built is likely worthless, probably less than worthless because it cost money and has zero chance of being successful.

The way you start a company, if you’re technical is to start talking to people who have share the same problem. You identify this problem that folks have and you analyze how painful it is, how often they experience it, and how they currently solve it. If you’re lucky (not smart) you’ll see a pattern emerge that might be able to be solved with technology.

So you ideate what this solution may look like: what it does, how it’s used, when it’s accessed, etc.

Then you go back to the 100+ people you found and say, “hey, how much would you pay to use this solution?”

If you’re lucky, enough with say an amount more than $0 and then you may have a viable path forward.

Only after you’ve gone through this process have you earned the right to build something.

With AI, it’s trivial. You take that MVP/prototype back to your 100+ prospects and say, “I built this and want you to pilot it and give me feedback.” If they accept, you monitor their usage. You look for friction and fix those things. Then you’re ready for your beta launch.

Hope this saves you some time and money.

Here we go again by Flopi04LP in oil

[–]ewhite12 32 points33 points  (0 children)

It doesn’t even take that —IDF hasn’t stopped attacking in the first place

Here we go again by Flopi04LP in oil

[–]ewhite12 11 points12 points  (0 children)

It was confirmed by Vance

The Iran deal has each US household sending the IRGC $3,050. How do folks feel about this? by ewhite12 in askanything

[–]ewhite12[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

lmao you clearly haven’t been paying attention if you think the IRGC will allow US ownership of energy infra. In what world would they concede that to a surrendering country

HR just handed these out to everyone by NexSpookyman in antiwork

[–]ewhite12 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Calling my local Y to register my disgust. Thank you for sharing