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From 0% Retention to 3,000 Monthly Visitors: A Failed Founder’s Marketing Playbook

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From 0% Retention to 3,000 Monthly Visitors: A Failed Founder’s Marketing Playbook TLDR; After spending $700+ on failed marketing experiments across Reddit, Twitter, and TikTok, I’m sharing actual metrics, costs, and learnings. Plus, what finally worked: systematic manual engagement and SEO content strategy that took me from 0 to 3,000 monthly visitors. All these insights came from launching 5 different products and failing fa…

Reddit Social Media 1.1k 2024-12-11

From 0 Renewals to Finding Product-Market Fit: My Journey Through Failed Products and Marketing Experiments

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From 0 Renewals to Finding Product-Market Fit: My Journey Through Failed Products and Marketing Experiments TLDR; After multiple failed products (including a Twitter personality analyzer and a browser translation plugin), I’m sharing what marketing strategies worked/didn’t work for me, and how they shaped my approach to product development. 🌱 How it Started Like many builders, I’ve had my share of product launches and failures. Each one taught me valu…

Reddit Social Media 587 2024-12-05

25 years old, starting from scratch after kidneys failed when I was 17, finally transplanted and working full time.

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25 years old, starting from scratch after kidneys failed when I was 17, finally transplanted and working full time. I don’t have any savings or money invested I make about £24k annually Recurring expenses (rent, energy, ctax, phone, WiFi, loan payment, car insurance, vehicle tax) add up to around £13k annually Haven’t included food/petrol or a few other things that are less predictable in there Bank loan was £3k over 12 months at 19% (I know it’s bad but …

Reddit Personal Finance 920 2024-11-26

Getting back on track after having failed to file taxes in years.

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Getting back on track after having failed to file taxes in years. So, I haven’t filed my income taxes since I think 2014. I know, I know… I’m trying to fix it. In the past few years, things have gone great for me financially. I’m making >$160k/yr now, and when I sat down and actually did the work, my unpaid tax burden last year was literally like $29. So nothing anyone is gonna care about, and the penalties …

Reddit Personal Finance 939 2024-11-12

Roblox is making changes for pre-teen users after reports that it failed to protect children

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Roblox is making changes for pre-teen users after reports that it failed to protect children Illustration: The VergeRoblox is making some potentially major changes that will limit what pre-teens can access and give parents more control over what their kids do on the platform, according to an email sent by the company and shared with The Verge. The changes follow recent reports highlighting how Roblox has failed to protect children. In J…

The Verge 1.1k 2024-10-24

Thief tried to pickpocket me in Europe twice in the past year, both failed. Tell me your story.

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Thief tried to pickpocket me in Europe twice in the past year, both failed. Tell me your story. For context I am an Aussie living in London. In Australia you could leave your phone and laptop on a table/restaurant/library and there’s a high chance you’d return to it hours later Meanwhile in London, I hear about phone snatching occurring left, right and centre. Anyway, my first pick pocket incident was in Paris last year whilst walking thr…

Reddit Travel 998 2024-07-26

Tried and failed…going to give it another shot.

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Tried and failed…going to give it another shot. Back in 2019, I started in e-commerce…started to do well, and the product I had started with was trademark striked. Switched gears, tried a handful of different products and over-estimated demand. Next thing you know, pandemic is here and I shelved the entire thing. Well, I’ve decided to start again but going to take a different approach. So I…

Reddit ecommerce 1.0k 2024-07-17