idopmstuff

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by idopmstuff 10d ago
At this point, I mostly ask Claude to use Claude in Chrome to use ChatGPT to create lifestyle images (because I am cheap and I don't want to pay for API usage when I could get them free) based on whatever product shots I have. Sometime
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by idopmstuff 10d ago
> How do you inspect the quality of the products you're selling? I buy them off of Amazon. But that doesn't really matter that much compared to the history of reviews. > And yet we all know Amazon sellers juice their sales
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by idopmstuff 10d ago
> Very cool! What's been the hardest part? Have you successfully automated non-trivial communications? (for example with prospects, customers, vendors, partners, etc.) Yeah, the most recent brand I acquired had enough customer conta
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by idopmstuff 11d ago
Of course I do. No one buying a business would do it without that information. I get their P&L before I even get on a call with them, and during the due diligence period I get access to Shopify, Amazon, etc. to get first-party data to v
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by idopmstuff 12d ago
So let's say we make up a new word, machilligence to serve as a parallel term to intelligence but strictly for machines. How is the world different in that case vs. if we call it intelligence? Or I guess to put it another way, if we wa
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by idopmstuff 12d ago
I suspect you mean this as an insult, but it's not too far off. That was one of the main points of the business - each one is simple to run, so I can manage a lot of them. And that was before AI got really good. Anyway, I'm sure t
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by idopmstuff 12d ago
Blind seems too far here - Claude's increasingly able to diagnose visual issues on its own. I used to have to check every single image it generated, but now it's at the point where it'll catch most bad ones and regenerate the
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by idopmstuff 12d ago
Well that's not very nice! And for the record, I only buy brands that sell high-quality products. Marketing and operations I can fix, but if the stuff they sell is no good, there's no point.
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by idopmstuff 12d ago
Mostly Claude Code and a lot of internal tools that it's built. I've honestly still not had a chance to play with those kinds of harnesses yet, but my impression is they're just a better way for you to instruct an assistant t
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by idopmstuff 12d ago
That's a fair criticism for some of it, but in a lot of cases I try to automate things that don't have alternatives because they're unique to me (e.g. all the brands I own in my fund have one bank account but need to be track
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by idopmstuff 12d ago
> They have no intelligence. These are very very very refined prediction engines. Silly and pointless criticism. Why do the semantics of the word intelligence matter? Also, you need to understand that language evolves over time, and peop
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by idopmstuff 12d ago
I am in the process of attempting to have AI run my business. I'm actually making very good progress, but it's happening in pieces - I document some task and have it take over, or I give it something to handle while staying in the
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Claude and ChatGPT Run My Fantasty Football Team: Draft Edition(theautomatedoperator.substack.com)
3 points by idopmstuff 15d ago|0 comments
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by idopmstuff 26d ago
Flippa, Empire Flippers and to a lesser degree Quiet Light Brokerage
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by idopmstuff 26d ago
One-man show here - I own a dozen small e-commerce brands. I'll assume you're just taking away AI, but not the tools I've built with AI. I've got all kinds of useful tools that do helpful things, like check to make sure
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by idopmstuff 1mo ago
Entirely factual. It's "Someone from <city> bought <product> <period of time since purchase> ago!" with a picture of the product. All purchases are real.
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by idopmstuff 1mo ago
Yeah, I mean at the end of the day there is clearly a spectrum of conversion rate optimizing stuff you can do, some of which is fine and some of which is unethical. A/B testing the color of your add to cart button and using the one tha
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by idopmstuff 1mo ago
I started an e-commerce brand on a Shopify site. I swore to myself I would never put up one of those stupid things that pops up "Someone bought X product an hour ago!" messages in the corner of the screen. I ended up trying it. Bo
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Automated Websites, Run by Claude(theautomatedoperator.substack.com)
2 points by idopmstuff 1mo ago|0 comments
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by idopmstuff 2mo ago
Thanks! There are actually five year charts for most of the data, but you have to click into the page for a specific dataset (e.g. https://the-dwell.com/anchored/east-coast ). But you're right that it'd make s
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by idopmstuff 2mo ago
The last time somebody made this thread, I posted about https://the-waterline.com/ , a site I launched as a side project/eval to see how well Claude can do a decent-sized project (mostly) independently. It pulls public
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by idopmstuff 2mo ago
"The study, authored by Capraro with Chiara Marcoccia of École Normale Supérieure and Walter Quattrociocchi of Sapienza University of Rome, deliberately used questions where AI models typically fail: visual details from films, such as
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by idopmstuff 2mo ago
Yeah good god OP please start writing a Substack about this! Engineer who buys a run-down bowling alley and cleverly fixes problems is exactly what the internet needs more of.
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by idopmstuff 2mo ago
Ah, that is a fantastic idea, it's on my to do list.
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by idopmstuff 3mo ago
Thanks! I am definitely not an expert in either, and I've run the content by both Fable and GPT-5.6 with instructions to make sure it's written in such a way that it would read normally to people in the industry. They assure me th
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by idopmstuff 3mo ago
I heard an episode of the Odd Lots podcast about HayWire (haywireag.com), a site that pulls public data from government PDFs + APIs, uses LLMs to parse it and turns it into an easily readable website that has all of the latest info on hay p
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by idopmstuff 3mo ago
I assume you're referring to this: > And when the brain encounters something it can’t process efficiently, it doesn’t simply adapt. Brain imaging studies cited in the review show it generates stronger neural responses in visual area
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by idopmstuff 3mo ago
The Limitations section at the bottom certainly has a lot of limitations: > This paper is a review, meaning it synthesizes and interprets existing research rather than presenting new experimental data. The authors themselves note that cu
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Fable, Opus, Claude Code and Claude Web: How to Use Them All for the Best Result(theautomatedoperator.substack.com)
2 points by idopmstuff 3mo ago|0 comments
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by idopmstuff 3mo ago
I own a dozen Amazon brands that are probably largely of the kind that OP would want this to get rid of (sourced from China, not name brands by any stretch, only sell on Amazon). For the most part I would say this extension is not a great i

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