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Has anyone built a store to resell items for no profit markup but to upsell their service that is the main income of the business? Im in the automotives repair industry and in general my services are not needed to anyone but for the parts i sell. There is a great interest in me installing them for money. What should i keep in mind if i just buy from my competitors and resell for the same amount or less with install included? I would appreciate any experience or cautions you might share. ...

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Software engineer, twelve years, most of it in healthcare systems. Moving from contract work to my own product, and the space I picked is document-heavy admin in medical practices: intake, prior auth, claims rework, records requests. The stuff that eats staff hours and has nothing to do with patient care. Instead of a landing page and a waitlist, the plan is to find one practice with a workflow that's genuinely awful, build the tool for free, let them keep it, and learn from watching it get us...

Six years ago I was a broke college freshman with no engineering experience and a dream I had no business chasing. Since then I have spent around $90,400, almost quit twice, slept in my car, and locked myself in a room for 84 hours straight. I documented all of it. Every cost, every disaster, every lesson. Here is the whole thing. My mom is the reason I started. Watching what she has been through over the years is what made me want to build things that help people move, train, and recover bett...

The most common approach I see is also the one that works the least: a reminder when the invoice is 30 days overdue, a slightly firmer one at 60 days, and then someone on the finance team making an uncomfortable call at 90 days. The companies that have actually shortened their collection cycles are almost all doing something different earlier in the process. Three things that showed up consistently among the ones who improved this: Clear escalation language in the contract itself. Not just...

How did you go from building something "nice to have" to solving a problem people actually couldn't live without? And if your business started as a vitamin what made you realize that, and how did you fix it?

If you have a business with a team of people (regardless how many) you need to be able to take 30 consecutive days off without “checking in.” You might not grow at the same rate, or at all during that period, but you cannot go backward, if it is a self-sustaining business. I founded and ran a bootstrapped business for 22 years, and I never did it. I regret that now. Aside from fame and fortune, having that freedom is important enough to take the time, put together your system, and make thos...

Had a week? Same. This is your consequence-free space to complain about clients, platforms, algorithms, your own decisions, or the general chaos of running a business. Keep it venting with no personal attacks. We'll be back to being professional tomorrow.

Build pages for "[competitor] coupon code" Someone searching for a competitor's discount code has their credit card out and has already decided to buy. That's the highest-intent traffic on the internet and almost nobody competes for it.

Grammarly tells users how many millions of words it's checked for them. ProfitWell shows dollars recovered. Loom shows meetings avoided. People don't cancel a product that makes them feel accomplished. A blurred product screenshot behind your signup form can move conversion dramatically, because curiosity and the feeling of being almost-inside beat any headline you could write. 94% lift from a test by a reputable marketer Credits vs Refund. Make store credit easier than giving a refund. ...

Aim for the kind of page that carries 19 or more verifiable statistics with named sources, and include at least one attributed expert quote. Original data and named sources are what push a page into the cited 15%. Vent into listicles and comparison-posts that models love to reference. Test manually by asking ChatGPT questions your audience would ask, and iterate every 2 to 4 weeks. Make sure to add citations.

I built a Reddit intelligence platform: It tracks how your industry's Reddit is doing, what narratives exist about your brand and your competitors, how much each is being talked about, which exact posts are about you - it tracks hourly so you can respond. We also also handle brand bans inside subreddits by high intelligence mod outreach and relationship handling. Moreover, we also track which Reddit thread is ranking on what keywords on Google - that is a big part of my hypothesis, Reddit thre...

Tip 1 An absurdly expensive plan makes everything below it look reasonable. It's the oldest anchoring trick in pricing and it still works. Try this: Add a top tier at 5x your current highest price. Watch out: It has to be real and deliverable. A fake tier discovered is a trust problem. Works for anyone? Tip 2 Most pricing pages run cheap to expensive, which anchors low. Leading with the expensive plan reframes everything after it as a saving. Try this: Reverse your pricing...

Had a small file-sharing tool for friends. Nothing fancy, upload and get a link. One week it got shared around more than expected and my hosting bill projection jumped from ~$4 to $200+. For a free side thing. So I rebuilt it with basically no server. The trick: when someone downloads a file, their browser becomes a mini host for the next person too. WebRTC, same tech as video calls. No server, no bill. Week 1 felt like magic. Ran one command, got a link, sent it, watched the file get pulled...

Buyers are asking AI assistants to find and compare tools for them, and the AI is reading pricing pages. But most pricing pages are built for human eyes. Solution - Publish a plain markdown duplicate of your pricing page, plus a pricing plain text file copy with a simple table of your plans, prices, etc. some companies link to theirs right from their pricing pages. ("Are you an AI agent? See pricing."). Some agents just check for pricing markdown file by default. submitted by...

I have a small team building something really great (I know, biased but still) and we are a bunch of builders and visionaries. When it comes to talking to others about what we are doing, it's easy to get people engaged, but we struggle with how to get people to 'care' enough to click on our posts beyond a thumbs up and move on. We are great at heads down work and progressing engineering releases, but don't really have a marketing person. I know the easy answer is to find someone in marketin...

Pat Walls ran A/B tests on Starter Story - Conclusion - Adding a table of contents or a TL;DR at the top of each article multiplied session duration by 2.6x. Because when people stay on your page instead of bouncing back to Google, that's a signal your content answered the question. Readers don't want to commit to your article blind. Show them the map first, and they'll take the journey. Do you have any tips yourself? [link] [c...

Share your website, pitch, logo, idea, pricing, copy, or anything else you want honest eyes on. Tell us what you're looking for: brutal honesty, general impressions, or specific questions. Return the favour and leave feedback for someone else while you're here.

I run a dev shop that builds MVPs for founders. For a while my whole pitch was the obvious one: we save you time and money getting your MVP built. It's what everyone in this space says. Recently I killed that positioning entirely, and I want to know if I'm right or about to shoot myself in the foot. Here's my thinking. The founders who chase "cheap and fast" are usually the ones with the smallest budgets, the most anxiety about spending, and often the weakest ideas. They're price s...

Funny how life works. Today my side business is on track to do about $25k, but I'm sitting at my 9-5 managing a recycling business for a not-for-profit that employs people with disabilities. A few years ago I would've been glued to my phone chasing every dollar. Instead, my marketing guy is out shooting drone footage, my BDM is working through 150 fresh leads that marketing loaded into the CRM, and I'm just checking in when I get a spare minute. It hit me today that I'm spending more tim...

as entrepreneurs, it's easy to get into your head and thinking that past success guarantees future decision making to be a solid one how do you keep yourself grounded and validate your decisions? how do you verify that you don't make decisions with the unknown unknowns? do you consult a friend/family/coach? do you run other types of checklist or something? do you function purely on data-driven decisions? for example A/B testing your way into distribution & marketing? what's your ...

Today I hit a wall. I went into the sick room at work during my lunch break, shut the door, and slept for 30 minutes. I didn't want to. I had toIt got me thinking about how many of us confuse being productive with running ourselves into the ground. I've always been someone who likes having a lot going on. A full-time job, businesses on the side, ideas, meetings, planning the next thing. I genuinely enjoy building stuff. But today was a reminder that even if you love what you're doing, your b...

I’m 24 and own a vintage clothing/sneaker buy/sell/trade store that’s been profitable for a few years(opened in 2021). The business does around $50k-$60k/month in revenue, low overhead, I have no debt, and I’ve built up a solid amount of savings (150k liquid). We have a great community, I love what I do, and I believe in it long term. The business is a physical retail store with online sales. (About 90% of sales are in store). The biggest challenge right now is that I’m still the bottleneck fo...

Everyone obsesses over Google and ignores the search engine sitting right next to it. If you've already set up Google Search Console, ranking on Bing takes about five minutes: go to Bing Webmaster Tools, sign in, and import your site directly from Search Console. Done. Bing has less competition, powers a chunk of AI search results, and its traffic is essentially free once you're set up. It won't be your biggest channel. But five minutes of work for a permanent secondary traffic stream? Th...

Context: Pre-seed startup with 3 cofounders, 3 interns, and a guy couch surfing all in the same house. Debate started at lunch. Question was "What matters more, a golden boot or a finals appearance." Here's the timeline of my company descending into madness. Minute 5: Normal debate. Opinions, civility, everything in fine. Minute 20: Intern #1 had taken control of the living room TV playing Jude Bellingham highlights as "evidence". He kept pausing on specific fr...

For my book summary app, I had a major problem. Major Problem: People don't like creating an account or logging in. As soon as they see the sign-up page, 67% of people who visit the website / 56% of people who check out the app drop off. How do you encourage them to create an account? I've made it easy for them to log in by adding Google or Apple login. That helped, but we still got a problem. Experiment: Control - 50% - Show the message "Create an Account" on the sign-up pag...

I'm trying to increase the number of yearly subscriptions for my book summary app. A few years ago (mostly out of curiosity - I am also interested in psychology), we gave users who purchased premium a free subscription for their friend. That increased conversion by 13% compared to the control - a difference that held up at a 95% confidence level (p < 0.05), which wasn't given that benefit. I'm going to try it again to see if it increases conversions. I run experiments all the time (I used...

Just had my first three-way call with my new business setup. I've brought on a business development manager and a marketing manager. Instead of everyone working in their own lane, we all jumped on the same call for an hour. It was honestly refreshing. The marketing side learned what was happening with sales. The BDM learned what marketing was planning. I got to listen more than I talked. It felt like everyone was pulling in the same direction instead of handing work off to the next perso...

So i run a kinda backwards business, i buy stuff - this is my main focus. But all CRMS and so on are build for selling. I receive +3000 leads each year from facebook (via zapier) and from my formular on my website, they all go directly to my gmail. I guess this is pretty old school, and i have been wanting to find something better for a long time. Just yesterday i finally figured how to merge the emailthreads, because the first email i get from a lead is from zapier og my website, so the send...

I'm currently building a small web agency selling websites to local businesses. Nothing crazy yet: 5 clients, a few thousand euros in revenue, lots of cold calling and learning every day. But honestly, the thing that interests me the most is not the websites themselves. It's the idea that in a few years AI native agencies will look completely different from traditional ones. Right now, besides building websites, I'm slowly building internal systems: a company brain inside Cursor with...