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i lived in the brand-new Trinity tower on 8th / Mission. leaving my apartment each morning for work i saw... 5-12 broken car windows along 8th outside the hotel. despicable.

one could argue a robbed car at 2am is not a safety issue (if nobody is in the car), but i somewhat agree with the broken window theory.

the first day i bought a new bicycle and parked/locked it outside the big mall on Market, in front of 2 security guards, my seat was stolen within 30 minutes.

etc etc. presence of crime == less safe.

ahh the plot thickens. maybe a lot of people leave SF because they support Trump and want more of that. (doesn't exactly explain high NYC frequency, which is also liberal), but i like it

if author saw my previous comment re adopting a "proper case" toggle view, they could have given me the benefit of the doubt. i definitely want people to read in a format comfortable for them. i also know which rules don't matter

good idea. has anyone ever moved to SF without either 0 prospects OR 13 offers from Google et al?

totes - i did all this in < 4 hours but would love to read a more thorough analysis

after hitting publish i acknowledged another opp: “goodbye {{ other city }}” posts. meta meta.

perhaps as many people leave nyc, for example, but only the SF posts get shared

it’s tricky cuz i still capitalize proper nouns e.g. San Francisco.

i do have css for down-casing title etc however

i wrote this with “just graduated from X bootcamp and will be starting a new job as a jr developer” type commentary in mind.

totally valid criticism tho

amazing. maybe i’ll turn this into a toggle on all my posts

hi folks, stoked to launch this today. it's a 100% free resource, powered by our team at Fomo.com.

marketers are getting a bad rep (for good reason) and we want to start shifting the paradigm that "marketing == lying."

you must be fun at parties

no empathy or pity required, i won!

just 2-3 times

actually, at the end i offer forgiveness

bingo. criminal reports always public

you should try standup

i find CC chargebacks (for us, they're via Stripe) more likely to win than PayPal tbh. and often w/ CC chargeback an accountant simply wasn't aware, mistakenly filed. PayPal, otoh, is often used by people with bad intentions on Day 0.

this was PayPal USA, i'm an American.

thanks Julien! clever personal website btw ;)

thanks for the support and feedback.

one book i recall is The Elements of Style, often called Strunk & White: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Elements_of_Style

otherwise i've not studied writing per se, just "practice" a lot in blog posts like this one.

my shtick is to add humor, remove qualifiers, stay conversational. all tips real writers would share too, but maybe not the same writers. ;)

Lobiloo (https://www.lobiloo.com) is an invoicing tool exclusively for florists.

i acquired it from a florist about 1.5 years ago and have been going deep on the industry ever since.

my challenge is (obviously) not having domain expertise, but i compensate by listening to customers, getting feedback from the former owner (now a lifetime user), and doing what i do: hack.

i'm writing a book about this actually, and giving away some free copies... fitnessforhackers.com

even folks who buy it, get a 100% refund in exchange for progress pics.

maybe this is harsh. idk. but am i the only one who senses caste system > ecosystem?

hi everyone, i was stolen from last weekend by a scammer who bought my course, listed it for sale on his "group buying" site, then filed a chargeback.

i put everything i know in this spreadsheet; tldr you can email the website admins and they'll remove your course.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/12oxBlJ1xlVDCVhpI0VLr...

yep, you can do this with Fomo(.com) as well.

thank you. we actually acquired a Shopify app, which already had some customers via organic app store traffic.

more here: https://blog.fomo.com/how-we-bought-a-small-software-startup...

(note, 2.5 year old post)

many of our competitors do allow customers to plug in fake data, it's sad + illegal + gives the space a bad rep. sigh.

this is why we aggressively build native integrations, sometimes 1 per week. deters bad actors.

changelog: https://new.fomo.com

hey, the 11k figure is active websites. you can verify all this via our Open API: https://fomo.com/open

since a customer can have unlimited websites per plan, we actually have around 5,500-6,000 customers. many will add a personal site and a company site, or an ecommerce store and a blog.

yes, older customers have plans as low as $8-12 /month. good times.

thanks for the feedback.

this homepage is actually our 3rd and probably most abstract implementation.

1st, 2016: https://web.archive.org/web/20161108025452/https://www.usefo...

2nd, 2017/2018: https://web.archive.org/web/20190107040431/https://fomo.com/

indeed, the numbers speak for themselves. over the last few weeks since deploying we saw lower signup conversion rates. but, we also have a few product launches forthcoming.

balancing between "be short and to the point" and sharing a vision is perhaps more art than science, and that's why we have so much art on our website.