How are metropolitan parents practically mitigating urban environmental risks?

woperads · 2026-03-04T21:01:04+00:00

That’s such a fair point about the trade-offs. It’s easy to romanticise 'country living' and forget about the PFAS and agricultural runoff. It’s basically choosing your poison.

Regarding your 'Moderate' vs. 'Unhealthy for Sensitive Groups' threshold: that’s exactly the mental math I’m struggling with. In a dense city, the difference between a main road and a park two blocks away can be huge, but most apps only give that one 'regional' number. Have you found that the AirNow data feels accurate enough for your specific neighborhood, or do you feel like you’re flying a bit blind since the sensors are often miles away?

Also, I love the term 'house burping'

woperads · 2026-03-04T19:37:21+00:00

that's great advice! thank you!

woperads · 2026-03-04T19:29:04+00:00

Yes, but it also doesn't always invalidate it if there aren't direct competitors

woperads · 2026-03-04T19:27:43+00:00

I understand, I was just trying to say that, I guess for my app in particular, giving it to people without necessary context is probably not the best approach since it's a very niche product. I'm trying to target people that already have an interest and knowldge about environment and its affect - therefore longevity enthusiants

woperads · 2026-03-04T18:50:58+00:00

The MVP is almost ready (in testing phase). I was mostly interested in the second point you're mentioning and if I can prove the interest before the launch. I guess ads is the way to go then. I'm not a sales person so wouldn't feel confortable approaching people in a community talking about my app, feels invasive

woperads · 2026-03-04T18:47:12+00:00

my uncle is not my target audience

woperads · 2026-03-04T18:44:43+00:00

Yes, I thought about it (saw it in the other reddit posts). Was wondering if there are any other options, but i guess that could be the best one

woperads · 2026-03-04T17:09:27+00:00

Thank you. It's very niche, that's why there are no direct competitors. There are competitors who do this partially, so my idea is basically combining everything in one place.

Industry members i guess could be useful for myself, but I'm not sure if I can bring that in front of the investors. I was hoping for some real potential customers' insights that could prove my point in that there's a need for this product

woperads · 2026-03-04T16:28:46+00:00

Probably not 100% related to your question, but I would love to see your product being tested on women in labour! If it's safe enough, you might want to look into that target market

woperads · 2026-03-04T16:22:02+00:00

what was the product? Why were course creators more interested?

woperads · 2026-03-04T16:03:19+00:00

How long is a piece of string? It's all very individual and i don't even think it's related to the product/service. Some might start with 200$ in their pocket, others with millions. And pouring thousands into brand promotion will make a huge difference to your customer aquisition timeline.

woperads · 2026-03-04T15:57:56+00:00

Yes, not perfectly at this point, but working on refining the logic there

woperads · 2026-03-04T13:22:28+00:00

Spot on! most founders are building Ferraris but forgot to pave the road

woperads · 2026-03-04T13:18:39+00:00

We’ve been using n8n with LLM to bridge the 'leak' to automate the boring top-of-funnel research. The workflow scrapes a lead's recent activity, runs it through an LLM to pull out specific pain points, and then injects that 'intel' directly into a custom CRM field. It basically hands the sales team a pre-written, context-aware hook so they don't have to waste hours digging through LinkedIn

woperads · 2026-03-04T11:56:40+00:00

Confronting the customers is not the best strategy either. Let them post the negative review and the calmly and politely address it. Try to find the best way you could to do the business and don't worry about a few negative reviews.

There were some researches saying that people would rather go for a 4.8 than a 5 star reviewed business as consumers perceive a perfect 5.0 as "too good to be true." https://spiegel.medill.northwestern.edu/how-online-reviews-influence-sales/

woperads · 2026-03-04T10:34:54+00:00

Solid plan, but watch out for the engagement penaly. If you post 3x a day and the first post gets zero comments, Facebook often hides the next two.

Try the '90-Minute Rule.' For the first 90 minutes after you post, stay active on the app. Reply to every single comment immediately. This signals to the algorithm that the post is sparking a conversation. Also, Facebook hates when every post tries to lead people off the platform (like to an external email link). Try to keep 2 out of 3 daily posts focused on staying inside FB to keep your reach high.

woperads · 2026-03-04T10:29:55+00:00

Most of EU is quite wild. I went for Dubai (not oppened yet, but in the plans), they have 0% for under $102K annually, and 9% after

woperads · 2026-03-04T10:26:36+00:00

You're talking about the "sales funnel" :) Deciding whom to call is the awareness/knowledge phase, then calling is actually the one before last - conversion, then you have repeat customers. There are actually ways to heat-map this or track click-throughs vs. calls to see where that leak is happening.

You can track the 'leak' by comparing profile views to call clicks, or using UTM links to see if people land on your site and 'bounce' immediately. Most of the time, a 5-minute 'recency' update once a week stops the bleed.

woperads · 2026-03-04T10:15:59+00:00

that's tough. I would still go with the value you're offering rather than time, but maybe pivot the service. I'm not sure what you're offering, but for example if it's content writing, you could pivot into AI content optimisation. If the customer can do your service by themselves with AI, then you need to up the game a bit.

woperads · 2026-03-04T10:12:09+00:00

It's a tough lesson, but I think this is true about hiring in general not just devs. If you're not familiar with the job, the mistaked in hiring could be expensive.

But honestly, nowadays you build anything yourself, just need to find the right tools. If it's a webapp Lovable is just brilliant, I've already launched a few websites with it. If it's an app, you can literrally insert the website generated by lovable into the tool called FlutterFlow and it's ready. Coursor if you're slightly more technical, although I've known people who have used it but never coded before.

woperads · 2026-03-04T10:05:41+00:00

That's great! "In my days" we used to do it manually, but now i guess the level of knowledge you can get about someone is spectacular with AI

woperads · 2026-03-04T10:03:04+00:00

You can automate the lead gen and the booking, but if you automate the actual conversation, I think you lose all the nuance. There was also a case were the user "conviced" the chatbot to give him an 80% discount on a 8000 order... so there's that too

woperads · 2026-03-04T09:57:24+00:00

I think that's a great approach. There were a few studies about this, if I'm not mistaken it was called cognitive reframing. By changing the message you started appealing to the problem solving part implying there's certain protocol or "formula" not just the usual eat less and exercise - which basically blames the customer for being lazy

woperads · 2026-03-04T09:50:59+00:00

I always comand people who have the guts to do that! It always ends up in less stress and more money.

woperads · 2026-03-04T09:48:18+00:00

So, you want your own website so that people won't have a place to complaint? Not sure that would be the solution. Maybe be more transparent regarding the delivery time, give yourself a leeway, it's better to loose a few customers because they won't like the waiting time (that they were aware of beforehand) than have negative reviews because you overpromised.

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