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Just wanted to share this cool project I built that I hope can turn into something bigger

Basically, AI creates a brand profile based only on a website URL

It uses a combination of 3 social media APIs and some scraping to aggregate influencer data with keywords from the brand site (this was very hard to do at low cost!)

Then it checks profiles individually and scores them based on content performance, audience demographics, and brand-fit

Finally, it auto-contacts the highest scorers on behalf of the brand, so basically brand owners just get positive replies from qualified influencers

I'm really hoping the price point will make influencer marketing more accessible for small to medium sized brands who don't have dedicated marketing departments.

Especially because you can get some insane ROI output with micro influencers in particular.

Any case thanks for reading and there's a no-card trial if it sounds interesting to anyone!

Very open to feedback as well, cheers

thanks

im a US citizen but spend lot of time in EU

that's what im thinking but just trying to see if there's any long term blind spots / downsides to not starting domestic

no, if bohemianism and cheap beer are your priorities I don't imagine it would be.

as far as a place to raise a family, be a part of a community, general quality of life, it fits.

if it was always summer there, i'd be there no question.

I found Finland to be incredibly orderly and utopic as well.

recently launched a product i knew was great, people who have bought it sing its praises, 0 negative feedback.

sales were not terrible, but they were about 10x worse than I was hoping for.

I took the "focus on the product, customers will come" aphorism a bit too literally.

Marketing does not magically happen yet it's easy to ignore.

Obviously i knew this but it took experiencing it myself to fully believe it. Hard lesson.

rarely do i laugh on HN. thanks.

I'd rate it above most, but we are not sure about the side effects since there are no long term studies on it

imo it's good for certain things like coding but significantly reduces lateral thinking / creativity

kinda gives you "mental tunnel vision"

30%+ downvotes seems like there is not a consensus around this issue

you can also use the chrome extension "dark reader" to make every site dark mode, including HN

Tesla covering 3/6... stock price is definitely still low

not only that but I kind of feel like "selling" lets down the new-media movement he's been leading

his success is basically a middle finger to traditional media and corporations - having a very small team, organic growth, and being more authentic and making millions without NEEDING to sell out.

of course I've never had a 9 figure deal so I'm soapboxing here.

but I'd be lying if I didn't say this damages what i really admired about the podcast. idk.

and that's just the money up front, there are certainly some performance bonus clauses in there as incentive, too.

those things you listed as "work" all still apply though, except now there's a contractual obligation

if his desire was to kick back it seems like the move would be to just relax his release schedule

wanting something steady in the chaos of creative work though, I can completely understand

Maybe I'm in the minority here, but I get clips through the YouTube algorithm and if I like them, watch the whole podcast.

point being, I think the YouTube platform has played quite a large role where users don't have to "seek out" new episodes and I don't think that can be understated.

ultimately, only the numbers will tell.

yea.. same thing that's happening in the live stream world with Ninja leaving Twitch and etc.

Ultimately seems to be a lose-lose-lose for the platform (where they don't pull 1/4 of their prior numbers), fans (who generally just stop caring), and creator (who makes money short term but loses major brand equity, relevance, growth)

Rogan didn't know how high he could've taken it. Now he does. Maybe he was ready to retire anyway?

semi-technical prose and confirmation bias both at work here, what else did you expect?

Follow up: I know it seems crazy and hate to make it political but there is data to back this up...

https://twitter.com/phl43/status/1227343129696702468/photo/1

Try to have an open mind

Not sure if this will get buried, but I have an anecdote to support the visual link, which may also help anyone dealing with psychic issues.

I was 23, living abroad, feeling totally isolated.

One day, I smoked weed which led to an "episode" I guess you could say -- quite literally I was hallucinating that I was in a hospital, while i was in my room.

What happened next was weird. I felt extremely depersonalized for weeks and months after, concurrently I developed a swirling blind spot in my right eye.

A distortion, so to speak.

I saw neurologists and was diagnosed as having an "ocular migraine" however I never had a headache so this didn't add up.

Looking back, I believe I was on the brink of becoming schizophrenic - and would have unless what happened next did.

So this next part is slightly controversial -- but hear me out

Through the several months that would follow I would discover and get obsessed with "RSD" -- a controversial company that teaches guys how to pick up girls.

On the surface, it sounds crass and not politically correct, but if you watch their videos "get you in the door" with "game", and teach you topics of incredible value, like "growth mindset", "the power of now" / meditation and believing in abundance.

Now WTF does this have to do with the topic at hand?

Well, being receptive to these new ideas and absorbing them completely changed my world view.

I grew up in an extremely liberal household, and did feel any agency to affect the world around me. Fixed mind set.

What these guys gave me was empowerment, agency, a more conservative mindset under which the world "made sense" - there was now a framework for reality, rather than chaos.

Subsequently, I was able to learn programming from scratch, start a business, go on to make 6 figures less than a year later.

Somewhere along the line the distortion and negative feeling were entirely replaced. I couldn't tell you when.

tl;dr: I was close to schizophrenia which manifested itself in visual symptoms, overcame with a mindset change

"Segmentation is repulsive" -- this makes no sense as a blanket statement without product context.

I don't think Ninja is a particularly good example because (1) he is operating at a scale where the normal rules don't apply (2) his rise was equally fast and volatile (3) twitch requires a constant presence more than other content platforms.

Furthermore I read your take, and maybe I'm wrong, as a 1k "fans" and not 1k "true fans"

The "true fans" model is a subset within the larger audience demographic -- they don't care if you stop producing for a while, need their short attention spans pandered too, or the like, this is what makes them "true" fans.

maybe your advice changed their life, or they really resonate with you for some personal reasons -- and again this would only be a sub-set of a creator's total fan base.

At least this is my interpretation of the concept.

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great list

hyperlink btw https://youtu.be/okGN2RXFw_U

did you work with lisp day-to-day or just find the derived programming principles to be super valuable?

I highly recommend reading the book "Company of One" by Paul Jarvis if you are considering going the entrepreneurship route

just to add an extension to this "outside the box" idea:

with the exception of a few countries, being abroad is so much cheaper than the US.

if you plan to move to eastern europe or southeast asia, you will literally triple your runway - with $60k we're talking 5 years to succeed instead of 2.

getting out of your comfort zone will spark more creativity as well (just like shoe dog, great book btw)

if you know you want to do entrepreneurship, why consider anything else? with enough iterations, as long as you're learning and cycling quickly, you will eventually succeed.

who doesn't have food clothing and shelter in the US?

So interesting how the diaspora happened. Especially with the slavic Czech Republic and Croatia all the way west.

That's some great info and thanks for sending those.

Check out another one I found -- "Russia US Trade up 25% in 2017"

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kenroberts/2017/04/22/russia-u-...

There no doubt that Russia is still a major player in trade, in fact economists see it as one of the countries with the most potential for development in BRIC (brasil russia india china).

Unfortunately, the way the strata of government and society are has left the population to stagnate in terms of their well being and they are missing the opportunities in new-age, non-oligarchical industries - Russia is held back by its antiquated social structures and lacks incentive to change.

People forget that Germany was still reverberating from its own bounce-back for many years. Now it's bogged down by immigration and currency woes.

As for Estonia.. here's a golden ticket to make international internet income + low cost of living. Not to mention Talinn is charming.