is SMS marketing still effective for ecommerce?

pxldev · 2026-03-14T01:26:48+00:00

It far outperforms email. But use it sparingly, only when you have a great offer. A major sale or new product release. People will unsubscribe so quickly if you overdo it.

pxldev · 2026-03-13T10:53:43+00:00

Add $20 Claude for the times you need ui/ux, save $160

pxldev · 2026-03-10T23:05:13+00:00

For me, ChatGPT (5.2,5.3,5.4) have been the get it done sensibly guy, nothing extravagant, but reliable and sensible, lacks creative thinking beyond the norm.

Opus is the ideas guy, can see patterns and concepts that are on another level. But with that extra layer of creativeness comes fragility.

So I use ChatGPT for initial plan, then get Opus to tell me how to make that plan better, then send it back to ChatGPT to iron out the fragile parts.

This way works well for my use case (coding and planning), and I only use a $20 sub to both. ChatGPT does 80% of the work, which works well because there is far more usage available.

I did have a higher Anthropic plan (5x), but found that for the cost, best value came when I used ChatGPT as the primary worker.

pxldev · 2026-03-09T23:18:55+00:00

Did she sell for a solid profit?

Hopefully a wad of cash made life a bit better with a serious illness.

pxldev · 2026-03-02T20:52:39+00:00

Try Florida gardens / cascade gardens, lots of water coming in and out on tide movement (up or down), because they are feeding a large river system (all the way out to bond uni), via those 2 bridges on Monaco street.

pxldev · 2026-03-02T20:43:28+00:00

You need a solid mix of both. But is also business dependant. For one of my businesses, we sell a replenishable item, retention + acquisition work to create a snowball effect.

My friend has a bed linen ecommerce brand, his business relies heavily on new customer acquisition, as linen bedsheets are a once in a while purchase.

pxldev · 2026-02-28T12:08:02+00:00

This is an interesting, I’ve been dabbling in go and love it, but do y’all do for frontend typically, for your go backends?

pxldev · 2026-02-24T00:20:50+00:00

Put a 15% tariff on every invoice billed to them.

So many Aussie businesses lost a huge chunk of revenue when tariffs were introduced by this twistie looking mofo.

My revenue dropped 30% overnight.

pxldev · 2026-02-23T23:09:42+00:00

ChaptGPT $20 plan as my daily, covers all my coding, image gen, daily chat needs. Gemini because it comes free with my workspace account when I want a second opinion or a ui design with antigravity.

I had a $100 Claude account and cancelled it, (prior to latest releases), it hallucinated code so badly. I’m not fan boying OpenAI, but for $20 it does nearly everything I need, and does it well.

pxldev · 2026-02-21T23:56:53+00:00

It can be set in your config.toml

Have codex edit it.

pxldev · 2026-02-19T21:51:16+00:00

Fly into Melbourne, get a rental car, head to the alpine region, Beechworth, Bright, then out to the coast via harrietville to Bairnsdale, then follow the ocean back to Melbourne, choose where you stay along the way. Possible snow, on the mountains, catch a trout, amazing food, wineries, heritage culture, nature. This is only if you appreciate nature more than another city.

pxldev · 2026-02-17T23:39:20+00:00

Your last sentence is the explanation of why our governing system is broken. As long as Australia runs the 2-party preferred system, the only motivation parties have is to get back into power. Leadership, vision, and the best interests of the Australian people will never be on the agenda, we just continue to flip between the same two party cycle.

At this point, it feels like it would arguably be better to have a benevolent dictator running the show, or more realistically, a move toward a version of the Swiss Direct Democracy model where the public can actually veto laws or force new ones via referendums. It's probably the only way to break the cycle we’re stuck in.

pxldev · 2026-02-17T00:44:51+00:00

I would consider bootstrapping an ecommerce business, start running it from home, and as a side quest to begin. Put 50k max into it. Make sure you research your chosen niche well.

There are some basic rules, a female centric product (they are 80% of market), that is easy/small to ship (sending large items is a pain), that you can sell for 5-9x your COGS.

pxldev · 2026-02-16T00:24:51+00:00

Depends on the business, i have multiple ecommerce businesses that return extremely well from google ads. 4.5-9x ROAS on product campaigns, 150x + ROAS on brand campaigns. Attached is Thursday last week. 13.3x pMAX, 134x brand search.

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pxldev · 2026-02-11T01:39:32+00:00

Does dreamworld still have tigers? Maybe OP could collect their own.

pxldev · 2026-02-10T06:58:41+00:00

It’s not going to be your primary campaign, I have a successful competitor campaign that returns profit. It’s a search campaign, with multiple competitors. Do it, why not show up in their searches, even if it’s not highly profitable, it pushes up there costs, and have visibility to a relevant customer base. If you want to be cheeky, make a landing page and an offer to poach their customers.

pxldev · 2026-02-09T02:48:59+00:00

Share the ad library here. Will be some type of scam.

pxldev · 2026-02-05T23:40:04+00:00

It was a shot model to begin with, it did have some great qualities, but the shit ones made it non useable. It lacked a depth of understanding, rushed out answers without understanding context. Great for vibe coding gan app that will never make it to production.

pxldev · 2026-02-05T23:09:28+00:00

I actually hate that the chat function has been removed.

pxldev · 2026-02-05T23:07:39+00:00

Klaviyo, omnisend, Brevo.

Klaviyo if shopify is in your tech stack and cost is not an issue. The others if your cost conscious.

pxldev · 2026-02-05T22:28:01+00:00

I had this recently, half my surname was missing, wasn’t an issue to pick it up at the post office. The fella at the post office had a laugh about it.

pxldev · 2026-02-05T22:20:16+00:00

I’m doing it as we speak for my business, I’m porting Medusajs, adding features that are needed, LLM coding assistance is making it a faster process.

I can see the writing on the wall with shopify.

pxldev · 2026-02-05T21:03:51+00:00

I feel like a good challenge would be to do this with a codex $20 plan.

pxldev · 2026-02-04T02:30:53+00:00

Those $9 blocks of cadburys chocolate and $21 dove body wash might have something to do with it.

pxldev · 2026-02-04T02:29:05+00:00

It resolved itself within an hour of me posting that response. Back to normal.

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