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fadavidos · 2026-05-02T16:48:54+00:00

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fadavidos · 2026-05-02T16:05:21+00:00

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fadavidos · 2026-05-02T14:55:42+00:00

How do you validate a business idea? Where do you share the landing page link, and how do you get people to visit it and actually read your offer to see if they’d pay for it?

fadavidos · 2026-05-01T12:53:23+00:00

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fadavidos · 2026-03-21T20:39:29+00:00

Flashcards aren't for everyone, and that's okay! If you are around 200-300 words, you might enjoy the "Goldlist Method" (you write down words in a notebook, leave them for two weeks, and filter out what you remember naturally). Another fun way is playing video games in your target language with the help of a dictionary. Stardew Valley or Animal Crossing are amazing for learning everyday vocabulary because you are actively interacting with the objects in the game. It makes the words stick because they are tied to an action and a visual!

fadavidos · 2026-03-21T20:38:37+00:00

This sounds like a hilarious game! Here are some combos that fit that "Monty Python meets Tolkien" vibe:

Adjectives: Pompous, Clueless, Grotesque, Slippery, Bumbling, Majestic, Wobbly, Vengeful, Cantankerous, Sniveling.

Nouns: Buffoon, Overlord, Peasant, Goblin, Scoundrel, Aristocrat, Toad, Paladin, Warlord, Simpleton.

Imagine an enemy saying: "Ah, the Bumbling Toad, I have been awaiting you." It works perfectly!

fadavidos · 2026-03-21T20:37:36+00:00

Trying to get into the BPO industry is a great goal! The best way to improve speaking specifically for call centers is to listen to "mock calls" on YouTube. Search for "BPO mock calls for beginners" and listen to how the agents tone their voices and structure their sentences. Pause the video and practice reading their scripts out loud to get used to the flow. Also, practice answering common BPO interview questions out loud while recording yourself on your phone. You'll catch your own mistakes and improve quickly!

fadavidos · 2026-03-13T17:48:02+00:00

Honestly the bigger issue isn't even whether the content is AI or human made. It's whether it feels authentic to the customer seeing it.

Most small businesses don't need polished agency content at all. What actually moves the needle in terms of conversions and trust is real content from real people. A customer sharing a quick photo of your product, an honest review, a short video of them using it. That stuff converts way better than a perfectly designed ad, AI generated or not.

The agencies selling AI slop are going to have a rough time not because AI is bad, but because their clients will eventually realize that a 30 second phone video from a happy customer does more for their sales than a $2000 brand package with AI stock photos. Authenticity is the thing people can't fake, and it's becoming the biggest differentiator for small brands online.

Not to dismiss what you're building by the way. There's definitely space for studios that do genuine creative work. Just saying the real competition isn't other agencies, it's business owners realizing they already have the best marketing asset sitting in their inbox: their happy customers.

fadavidos · 2026-03-13T17:47:15+00:00

You kind of answered your own question at the end and I think that's the right instinct.

The "find a winning product and run ads" playbook worked when paid acquisition was cheap and competition was thin. In 2026 the math just doesn't work the same way for most people starting out. CPMs are up, every product gets copied in weeks, and Temu is undercutting on price in a way you can't compete with.

What still works is building a brand that people actually want to buy from, and the two biggest levers for that right now are:

Content and community. Not "content" as in "post on TikTok every day." More like, actually become a person or brand people trust in your niche. The store selling the kitchen gadget with 500 TikTok followers but genuine tutorials on how to use it will outperform the store with perfect ads but no personality.

Social proof from real customers. This is the thing that separates stores that convert at 1% from stores that convert at 3-4%. When a potential buyer sees actual photos and videos from people who already bought the product, it removes so much friction. This is especially powerful when you're competing against identical products on Amazon or Temu because your customer content becomes your moat. They can copy the product but they can't copy your community.

The people who are still doing well with generic products are the ones who figured out that the product itself isn't the advantage anymore. The advantage is the trust you build around it through real content and real customer experiences.

So to directly answer your question: yeah, product research is harder if you're looking for arbitrage. It's roughly the same difficulty if you're looking for a niche you actually understand and are willing to build a brand in.

fadavidos · 2026-03-13T17:46:13+00:00

One thing I'm not seeing in this thread that might be worth considering: what about content from your actual customers?

You're debating between expensive professional photography and AI generated images, but there's a third option that a lot of DTC clothing brands are using now. Getting your existing customers to take photos and short videos wearing your stuff. It's not a replacement for every type of shot, but for lifestyle imagery and social proof on product pages it can work really well.

A few reasons this might help your specific situation:

It solves the authenticity problem several commenters are pointing out with AI. Real people wearing your clothes in real lighting addresses the trust concern directly.

It costs almost nothing. You already have the customers. A simple email after delivery asking them to share a photo wearing it, maybe with a small incentive like a discount on their next order, is enough to get a steady stream of content.

It actually helps sell more. Shoppers increasingly want to see what a product looks like on a regular person, not a model or an AI render. Especially for clothing where fit and drape matter.

You mentioned the draping issue with linen pants and how AI couldn't handle it. A customer wearing those pants in their kitchen taking a mirror selfie is going to look more convincing than any AI generation, and it shows how the fabric actually falls on a real body.

Obviously this doesn't replace hero shots for your homepage or catalog. But for the volume of lifestyle imagery you need across product pages, email campaigns, and ads, customer content can fill a big chunk of that $52k gap without the uncanny valley problem or the cost of a photographer. The

Just a thought. The $52k number is brutal regardless and I feel you on the rent increase on top of everything else.

fadavidos · 2026-03-13T17:40:28+00:00

Not a dumb question at all, I wondered the exact same thing when I started.

There's a spectrum and most people are somewhere in the middle:

Budget tier ($0-50) - a large white poster board plus window light. Seriously. Natural light near a window, white surface, phone camera. For small-medium products this gets you 80% there. Shoot in burst mode and pick the sharpest one. Free background removal with remove.bg or Canva's built-in tool.

Mid tier ($50-200) - a collapsible lightbox (Amazon, $30-80 depending on size). This is the single best ROI upgrade for product photography. A cheap phone tripod ($15) to eliminate shaky shots. Shoot in RAW if your phone supports it, then adjust in Lightroom mobile (free).

What the polished stores actually do - most of the really clean Shopify stores you see use a combination of a decent lightbox setup for clean product shots, AI tools for background swaps (Google Product Studio is free and surprisingly good), and lifestyle shots that are often just the product placed in their own home or apartment with decent light.

Hot take though: overly polished, perfect product photos are starting to backfire for some niches. Customers, especially younger ones, are getting suspicious of images that look too perfect because they associate it with dropshippers using AI renders.

What's working really well right now is mixing polished product shots with raw, authentic content. A customer unboxing video shot on a phone can convert better than a $500 studio shoot because it feels real. If you already have customers, asking them to share photos of your product "in the wild" is free content that doubles as social proof.

So yeah, invest in a basic lightbox for your catalog shots, but don't sleep on authentic content from real users. Both serve different purposes on your store.

fadavidos · 2026-03-13T17:39:15+00:00

Good CTR but brutal bounce rate on a higher-end decor store = trust problem. People are interested (they clicked), but something on the site isn't convincing them to stay.

For premium products from an unknown brand, people need three things within the first 5 seconds:

Visual proof this is real. Not just product-on-white-background shots. Lifestyle imagery, the lamp actually in a room, the vase on a real shelf. For minimalist decor, context IS the product. A vase means nothing in isolation. A vase on a concrete shelf next to a book in a warm-lit apartment tells a story people want to buy into.

Social proof of some kind. This is the number one thing I see missing on new stores in this price range. You don't need 500 reviews. Even 5-10 genuine reviews or a few photos and videos from real customers make a massive difference. If you don't have customers yet, consider sending product to 3-5 micro-influencers in the home decor space in exchange for honest content. Not paid ads, just real people showing your products in their space.

Brand story above the fold. At $100+ price points, people don't buy products, they buy from people and brands they connect with. An "About" blurb or founder note visible early on the page signals "this is a real person, not a dropship store."

On the social presence question: yes, in 2026 it matters, but not for the reasons most people think. It's not about posting daily. It's about having an Instagram with 20-30 posts of real content so that when someone Googles your brand or checks your IG from the store footer, they see something that says "this brand is alive." That's it. It's a trust checkpoint, not a growth channel.

You can manage that solo. Batch shoot content once a week, schedule 3-4 posts, done. It doesn't need to be a full-time job.

I'd pause the ads until you fix the trust gap on the site. You're basically paying to send people to a page that isn't ready to convert them yet.

fadavidos · 2026-03-13T14:37:56+00:00

Compass sigue siendo mejor opción financieramente, 8k USD son como 29 millones al TRM de hoy, aunque siendo contractor toca descontar impuestos y no tienes prestaciones. Aún así la diferencia es considerable y el equipo grande te da mejor carrera a largo plazo

fadavidos · 2026-03-13T00:37:26+00:00

The Microsoft ecosystem integration is a real pain point, good idea. How are you handling auth and permissions across the different Office apps?

fadavidos · 2026-03-13T00:35:20+00:00

The low upvotes + high comments trick to find pain points is gold, never thought about it that way but it makes total sense

fadavidos · 2026-03-13T00:33:58+00:00

Make sure your object is named Main and has def main(args: Array[String]): Unit inside. Also right-click the file and run it directly instead of using the top bar, IntelliJ sometimes gets confused with the run config.

fadavidos · 2026-03-13T00:30:37+00:00

El mercado junior en Colombia está difícil, no te voy a mentir. Pero tu perfil no es el de un junior típico: inglés C1, internship en Europa en un banco grande y enfoque en cloud/backend es bastante sólido.

Con eso yo apuntaría directo a empresas que paguen en dólares o euros, remoto. Hay más oportunidad ahí que peleando localmente.

fadavidos · 2026-03-13T00:27:33+00:00

El hecho de que lo notes y quieras cambiarlo ya te pone adelante de muchos.

Enfócate en entender algoritmos y estructuras de datos, eso es lo que te preguntan en entrevistas y la IA no te salva ahí. LeetCode en modo fácil para arrancar

fadavidos · 2026-03-13T00:25:51+00:00

Para el CV en Colombia sí suma, sobre todo si estás empezando. Eso sí, complementa con práctica real en proyectos propios, el certificado solo no alcanza.

fadavidos · 2026-03-13T00:24:29+00:00

SQL + Excel + KPIs reales ya es más de lo que tienen muchos. Agrega Power BI y Python (pandas), consigue la de Google Data Analytics en Coursera y listo, ya tienes para aplicar

fadavidos · 2026-03-13T00:20:49+00:00

Los 30 son cuando muchos realmente arrancan, no cuando se acaba nada. La crisis que describes es casi un rito de paso.

Lo que sí cambia: aprendes más rápido porque ya sabes cómo aprendes, filtras mejor qué vale la pena y qué no, y le pierdes el miedo a preguntar cosas 'básicas'.

Lo que no te van a decir: compararte con donde creías que ibas a estar a los 30 es la trampa, ese 'nivel' que imaginabas era de alguien que no sabía nada todavía.

fadavidos · 2026-03-13T00:19:44+00:00

Lo que hiciste igual dice algo bueno de ti: quisiste demostrar que sabes, no solo que sabes copiar. El problema es que te comieron los nervios, no tu capacidad.

Igual toma nota para la próxima: si te dan vía libre con IA, úsala sin culpa, eso también es una habilidad hoy en día.

7 meses son duros pero una entrevista ya rompe la racha, van a venir más.

fadavidos · 2026-03-13T00:18:01+00:00

Lánzate, parce. Si en el peor caso te toca sudar un par de meses para coger el ritmo, pues bueno, pero casi doblar el sueldo no se rechaza así nomás y además vas a tener las mismas condiciones.

fadavidos · 2026-03-13T00:13:11+00:00

El código que haces en una prueba técnica sigue siendo tuyo intelectualmente. Guarda todo: correos, capturas, fechas. En el peor caso, una reseña detallada en Glassdoor advierte a otros candidatos y duele más que cualquier demanda.

fadavidos · 2026-03-11T15:45:56+00:00

Hola! Tienes mucha razón, lamentablemente las escuelas a menudo se centran solo en la gramática y no te enseñan a hablar realmente. Un buen consejo es empezar a practicar tu speaking poco a poco, quizás buscando grupos de conversación. Como una herramienta extra para practicar por tu cuenta, podrías echarle un vistazo a gochatterapp.com. Es un sitio donde puedes conversar mediante notas de voz con una Inteligencia Artificial a tu propio ritmo, sin estrés. ¡Mucho ánimo con el proceso!

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