I have been a long time subscriber to the economist for the same reason. The print edition is great and keeps me feeling informed. If only it wouldn’t include the digital edition too… Invariably, the more stressed I get in my everyday life by work and small children and lack of sleep, the more I get dragged towards the online edition of the economist, and BAM I’m back in the constant instant news cycle again, even though the site doesn’t update that often.
My latest life hack which I can recommend to anyone, at least in Germany: as part of my local library membership I get access to the PressReader app, which gives me access to the print edition of the economist! At 10 EUR a year it’s so affordable it nearly feels like it’s unethically so for what I get. I guess I’ll close with: May we forever be blessed with libraries, and may they never be „optimised away“ as an unnecessary social good.
Yes, I was so close to signing up for a pro account to get some inmail credits to be able to write someone directly, but then I decided to try writing here first lest I be stuck in a pit of dark patterns trying to cancel my subscription. I would however have been my next step.
I finally heard back! Thank you! I think this thread might have helped!
And I totally agree with your thoughts on the criticality and inadequacy of AI replies in such a context! Lack of answers was holding a months worth of income hostage with no real recourse for us other than trying to be loud online. Kind of sad.
Looking at alternative merchant of records now to buy us some optionality.
Taking a peek at the repo and the local first data layer issue (https://github.com/bartblast/hologram/issues/940) I get the sense that you aren't (and not planning to) using any off-the-shelf CRDT or the like, am I right in that assumption?
How will conflict resolution be handled? Or is it a last-write-wins type setup? It would be amazing to have this build on top of automerge or something like that! It could compile to and use the automerge js libs in the browser, and deal with automerge through a NIF server side? Ok, not knowing your implementation and plans, I have to confess I am talking a bit out of my arse here...
Exactly, or rather, the social habit part I agree a 100% with. I don't want to train myself out of being a polite human being, just to save some keystrokes.
I certainly say please and thank you. Whether or not it makes a difference to the LLM, it makes a difference to me. I want to retain some humanity and politeness in my own behavior, even if I spend an inordinate amount of time communicating with, instructing, and debating a non-sentient piece of code.
Seconded. I talk to my cats, to the software I'm troubleshooting, to my tools, sometimes even to my dishwasher while filling it. Presumably none of them cares, but every reaction is a training, so I want to train in the right direction.
My mom walked into a table and absent mindedly said sorry. Some salesman noticed. She said she talked to everything. He responded: As long as the table doesn't answer, everything is allright.
I'm all for word of mouth and things radiating out, but doesn't that need some viral factor of sorts that makes the product one that's shareable? We have customers raving about our product actually, and saying they would be incredibly sad should it go away, but are struggling to leverage that into further sales...
Affiliate marketing _does_ work to an extent, and is a kind of rideable wave I suppose?
Thank you for your thorough reply! I think we should give it another go and be more restrictive in targeting!
Speaking of paid ads: we tried google, bing, LinkedIn in the past. Do you have a preferred place that you recommend that you have seen better performance at than other places?
Google Ads at first for sure. Their search monopoly just means it's the best place for ads on a limited budget.
Moving to Bing is worthwhile once you've started to see efficiency drop off on Google.
LinkedIn is very expensive and really only worth it for highly targeted ads. Bing and LinkedIn have a slight advantage because Microsoft has all the job title/industry data from LinkedIn for its targeting options, but it charges more for use of that targeting essentially.
That means those ads pay off more for Account Based Marketing where you have a salesperson reaching out to high-ranking decision makers and you want your ads to be hitting them in a small audience campaign to back up the cold outreach approach and warm them up before the rep secures a call. So, B2B marketing for big contract based work mainly.
Ah, the research angle is good! And my take-away from what you write is mostly the need to be visible, in whatever form, be it in the users communities, or otherwise?
We have excellent feedback from the users who do find us, so there is product market fit for the subset of customers that have a need for our product strong enough to actively search for it, but maybe that's an issue in and of itself: the fraction might be too small, and furthermore, for the (hopefully) larger segment of the user base that don't have a need strong enough to actively go looking, we need to be sufficiently visible for them to chance upon us...? which I guess drives home the message even more that visibility is key...
My latest life hack which I can recommend to anyone, at least in Germany: as part of my local library membership I get access to the PressReader app, which gives me access to the print edition of the economist! At 10 EUR a year it’s so affordable it nearly feels like it’s unethically so for what I get. I guess I’ll close with: May we forever be blessed with libraries, and may they never be „optimised away“ as an unnecessary social good.
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