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Op here. I sort of agree but all these tools offer affiliate programs and I can assure you we chose MailerLite because we think it’s a tool we can use for 5-10 years.

That being said: besides running a startup (Atlist.com) I also run an affiliate site (it’s how we funded Atlist) and I would agree there is good reason to read affiliate websites skeptically. I regularly receive offers from website builders to “buy” the top spot in my best website builder roundup. https://www.sitebuilderreport.com/best-website-builder

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This is completely ridiculous dude, Op you are so critical of everyone else trying to make a buck don't you think there should be a bloody big disclaimer/ acknowledgement about your own twisted incentives there.

Ohhhh and on this step we eliminated all the companies that don't have an affiliate program.. hmm but we'll say it's because they don't have feature x....

ITS THE FIRST LINE OF THE PAGE!

Don't pretend that the positioning and font aren't both chosen to minimize the likelihood that people see and read that line. At least without violating legal disclosure requirements.

I never bloody saw it , until it was pointed out in the comments here.

OP, you get no peer to convincing people by yelling at them. Take the feedback and move on.

Shouldn’t you focus full-time on Altist instead of affiliate marketing?

This seems an actual interesting product.

Similarly where do you feel like Elon, another entrepreneur should focus, Tesla, SpaceX, Neuralink, the AI thing, being a bully on X?

Should we police the bandwidth of every founder?

And weirdly the dude is asking his staff to work "80+ hour weeks" on his alt account:

https://x.com/cb_doge/status/1858177342436233511

Probably he should focus on seeing a therapist and repairing his relationship with his kid

While I think (as others say) we should not police op's time, I would like to know what is the reasoning the used when choosing between focusing and not having all your eggs in one basket.

I think arguments by people making these choices would be very educational to me (as a person with a bit of a scatterd brain).

This is anecdotal but

- A company I worked for wanted to be 100% focused on doing one thing. It was spending 10x more than it was making revenue. It went bankrupt.

- Another company I worked for always insisted on not having all eggs in one basket. There was one big revenue maker that dwarfed the others though. The company is still around and doing well.

I have quite a scattered brain too so I get the appeal of "choosing to focus". But looking others do it I see the risks : refusing to experiment and learn new stuff, or find new opportunities.

EDIT: I'd like to add that focusing or not focusing is not a useful dichotomy, it's more about finding the right "exploration vs exploitation" balance.

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