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by pembrook 2y ago
This is just basic email deliverability 101 stuff. Gmail's algorithm has really tightened up this year. Open your spam folder right now and you'll probably see more than a few legit businesses in there. Basically if your engagemen
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by pembrook 2y ago
Your deliverability is going to be trash in Gmail if you’re keeping a bunch of free users who don’t open your emails on your list. Email is expensive on purpose to incent customers into following good practices. Otherwise you attract all th
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by pembrook 2y ago
I wasn’t criticizing you specifically, but yes, your article does seem dishonest. Your evaluation criteria was downright silly (1), you didn’t actually try most of these tools, and your “top pick” has the highest affiliate payout (and longe
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by pembrook 2y ago
I see these same affiliate listicles every time I try to find software for any use case these days. Basically every Saas category has now turned into a giant affiliate marketing cesspool. Doesn't matter if it's GPT-written blogspa
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by pembrook 2y ago
I presume you also feel strongly that people should call health/life/car/homeowners insurance "gambling?" Because insurance is quite literally a prediction market. Not trying to be snarky, I know certain religions a
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by pembrook 2y ago
While you might like and trust these youtube creators, incentives drive everything. It's downright silly to believe these creators won't behave rationally, given those incentives (eg. lean more and more toward pushing products wit
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by pembrook 2y ago
The presence of affiliate links should be the biggest indicator that the information provided is going to be heavily financially incentivized (ie. bad). Would be much simpler to calculate and detect. I would be super surprised if Google&#x2
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by pembrook 2y ago
I'd rather take having a tech industry at all and the 2-4X bigger US salaries (and 30% lower average taxes) than having my fellow citizens shoulder the burden of giving me 6-12 months of daycare. In the US luckily the job market is sti
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by pembrook 2y ago
As a fellow tech worker, I genuinely believe all the things I mentioned are upsetting. It's happened to me before! I realized though that I was probably going to be okay, and what I actually needed was some perspective. Sometimes the c
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by pembrook 2y ago
Wow, that's horrible. And you might even have to stay at a 4 star instead of a 5 star resort in Bali when you take a vacation during your severance, job market is tough. Even worse, you might have to miss one contribution to your FATfi
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by pembrook 2y ago
Democrat, Republican, or Independent, Google gets rich either way. You can clearly see price per view has gone up dramatically from the historical comparison. $2B in Google ad spend so far this cycle. Also interesting, the New York Times is
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by pembrook 2y ago
The comment I was responding to was criticizing the idea of having to provide hosting support for other CMS's. That fact that you constantly have to upgrade Kirby and pay new licensing fees (and bill your customers for this) because no
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by pembrook 2y ago
No database required, but you’re still tied to being a “wonder-host” for Kirby. I’ve used it before, and many clients sites are now dead because their web host didn’t want to support old PHP versions anymore. Any cloud-based CMS doesn’t hav
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by pembrook 2y ago
I don’t think you understand how Google ads work. Here’s a super common example: - I sell red bowling shoes - I pay Google for access to anyone searching for ‘red bowling shoes’ - Once they land on my site I know who came via the Google ad
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by pembrook 2y ago
There’s a million standalone CMS’s (headless) and standalone site builders (ranging from pure technical to no-code to no-design) and even sitebuilders with robust CMS’s attached these days (eg. Webflow). There’s zero reason to use Wordpress
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by pembrook 2y ago
I think we’re just arguing semantics. No, you can’t buy user data on 1 specific person (then again, there’s many examples of people buying ads on a persons name to catch them googling themselves), but you can buy user data on small groups o
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by pembrook 2y ago
Defacto, yes they do, that’s the entire value proposition of their advertising model — that they can target customers better than any other platform due to buying intent signals from search queries. When companies buy ads with Google they’r
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by pembrook 2y ago
The point is, there’s no way to evaluate if this commenter is wrong, since nobody is going to read 7 books to verify the validity of an internet comment. It’s a classic logical fallacy; appeal to authority. There is no reason to believe any
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by pembrook 2y ago
I’ve never heard of a malware that tells you exactly what it’s doing with your data upfront. But anyways, not sure the EU will love it so much once the US finally puts its foot down and the EU capitulates. Unfortunately it’s hard to say no
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by pembrook 2y ago
Facebook didn’t determine he was gay, it’s just spray-and-pray by the algorithm exactly like you said. He’s just bringing the court case in bad faith to raise the issue and create another foothold for the EU to extract further billions in f
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by pembrook 2y ago
Nothing says scientific method like "0% doubt in my mind the hypothesis is true."
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by pembrook 2y ago
I think it's super interesting that the "violent videos games" moral panic is basically non-existent as a mainstream narrative these days. Yet, both time spent playing videos games per young male and school shootings have ris
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by pembrook 2y ago
Interesting how most comments are bending over backwards to argue against the findings and support the moral panic narrative (“social media is making kids commit suicide at dramatically higher rates”). It seems a majority of people really w
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by pembrook 2y ago
Definitely agree that startups have to find a foothold somewhere, and basically land and expand from there. If we take B2B products for example, it's super common to niche down into a specific industry and then expand out to adjacent
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by pembrook 2y ago
Anecdotal, but it seems like all the people who “build in public” end up trapped by their chosen distribution strategy. What I mean by this is, if you’re building in public there’s a 99% chance you’re going to end up building products for o
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by pembrook 2y ago
Agreed, I wouldn’t have hopped on the first airplane with some bicyclist named Wilbur. That would involve risk of immediate physical harm. On the other hand, we’re talking about a 2 year old browser leaking what websites you visit. Do you
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by pembrook 2y ago
Surprise surprise, turns out it takes a looong time for every software startup to finally strip out all the hacky stuff from their MVP days. Apparently nobody on this startup community forum has ever built a startup before. Pro tip: if stuf
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by pembrook 2y ago
It’s the same for pretty much any product category now. Affiliate marketing and Google using its monopoly to prioritize ads over search results has basically ruined search. It’s in their best interest to lower the quality of results because
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by pembrook 2y ago
Agreed that it’s definitely not everybody. But it feels like the “sour grapes” cohort is the fastest growing one, and increasingly is tilting all discussions that direction. HN feels like a bunch of people bitter about AI, bitter about soci
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by pembrook 2y ago
I'm not saying the root of all criticism is jealousy. Obviously there's legitimate utilitarian value judgements to be made on any particular human activity. However, I would argue that on this particular forum, in 2024, there&#x

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