Chris Surita

This sounds like something I could've used when swatting away the tourist traps that typically spawn camp the cruise ports, airports, and roads in almost every major city I've been in traveling! Good luck and hope the focus stayed on authenticity, too often these start out finding hidden gems and then devolve into what local LLC can spend the most marketing dollars to get to the front of the...

Some feedback here! So I was using this during a meeting, and those funfact details during generation (and the animation!) were actually fantastic for keeping an in person group activated and attentive. One of our more senior folks eventually sat in and he did have a bit of a grumpy face at it though, so I'd just watch the user metrics on which groups seem to like this and make sure they align...

I feel like I actually say I rely on data, but fundamentally rely on instinct to start off my marketing search. For example, I could've tried to build an online presence and brand first, but I REALLY wanted to go with my gut and market locally. Since I live near a big city (NYC) I felt that my marketing almost should match the source environment that it grew out of, and for the most part, I've...

Pretty timely post in light of market events actually! AdTech alum here, there already was a pretty major market for "grammatically incorrect" creatives. There are jokes to hell and back on current slang usage of gen Z and Alpha for example, and these are incorporated into algorithms by major(Google, Meta, X) and minor players alike. They certainly understand how specific slang or even sentence...

So there's a lot to unpack here I'll try to break down. I think the first thing you, and all of us, continously need to always work on is the story. I noticed throughout your own product pages you have things like "OpenAI Whisper integration for accurate, multilingual captions". If we take a step back, it looks like you're not really writing for customers, but for yourself or a colleague....

Honestly, completely incompatible with reality. This seems like a naked grab for control and I can't even fathom how this will actually be enforced. I feel like this is just going to lead to actual ways to hide things which are going to be even more difficult to find.

I actually think the mirror can really help sometimes! I think it's important to remember that you are your own customer 0, and at some point you (hopefully!) had a passion for building what you did. So I guess in a nutshell, take some time and enjoy your own product. I feel like it does wonders when you can sit down and just go "yeah, this works awesome!" and allow yourself some grace and look...

I built Drip after watching friends, family, and coworkers slide into the news-doomloop. Refreshing feeds to feel informed, only to end up more anxious and short on free time. The big aggregators like Google News and even the paid services like Apple News are great at stoking FOMO, but not so great at letting you breathe. With us you pick the sources, we stay out of your data, and an in-house...

I can confirm I am indeed part of the group to see what happens next as others launch their own models. I feel like with the last few releases I've been less excited about any one particular release and more what the oneupsmanship leads too at the end of the month. I also wouldn't say the models are "nerfed" necessarily, just tuned. There's already articles blowing the change a bit out of...

Looks great! I feel like as a point of feedback I'm starting to see teams actually want ChatGPT, Cursor, Copilot, etc for hiring, especially for coding interviews. I know there's a huge blowback against using these for copypaste solutions, but I've noticed that key talent has been using AI the most to actually enhance their workflow and reach that complex endstate for a feature faster than they...

Going to hog this since I’m first! What surface did you use to reach users in the greatest quantity? Tangentially, when you gained users in rapid succession, what strategies did you use to retain them in higher quantities? If you gained 10,000 users but lost the same number in a month I feel like that’s not really as impressive as gaining 1000 but retaining 800. Last Q, there’s so much content...

I'd actually say YouTube. I like finding great content from lesser known creators thats really polished and thoughtful. I do unsubscribe pretty fast though. Many people get famous too fast and quickly copy the "popular persona". It's why I can't get onboard with TikTok or Instagram. Might give Threads a shot since it's the only one I haven't tried.

I think there's an inherent problem with both that is actually similar in nature, and thats intention. You can have a human take all the training in the world, but on average if leadership decides that they should apply their learnings in a specific way, there is certain to be bias for hiring, L&D, retentions, and so on. When we look at how UnitedHealthcare for example applies AI, we saw that...

So I used to head HR divisions for large outfits before I moved to tech, and I feel HR was hit more by the current zeitgiest than AI. I had automations and Slackbots galore. There were full blown data scientists in HR, who created their own python automations, had jupyter notebooks pulling from live databases, and you get the idea. I'd say from past experience that finance (FINRA for example)...

Buy it ASAP, find it's limits, and make content/a vlog to recoup my money in the worst case scenario is my plan! But in all seriousness it depends on the phase of my business. Just starting? I'm probably more focused on ROI, as are most responses in this thread, and thats reasonable from a profit perspective. I too enjoy a lot of avocado toast. More established? I think the psychology shifts to...

Quick answer: Yes. I've professionally been exposed to peers using Originality.ai and GPTZero. Some others, like Winston AI, can come out cheaper depending on when you visit their site, first time discounts, etc. ----- Long answer that might help you/others: This will actually depend on which content you're concerned with. Some are better at text, some are better at image, some are better at...

Had lots of people I knew who were stuck in newsletter doomloops. They escaped the newsfeed experience, except instead of endless feeds they had an endless inbox. I started out making a sort of newsletter summarizer that distilled everything into a new newsletter, and realized I recreated the classic xkcd comic about standards. Pivoted, made Drip News, and crafted the experience more to "wean"...

I feel like the common thing is to waffle and take a hybrid approach, but I am strict boundaries on the weekend. Back a few years ago when docker and kubernetes weren't as wide spread sites could indeed catastrophically go down, and I remember many a sprint dedicated to chaos engineering to make sure launches were smooth. Nowadays I don't think this is the case. I gave myself a longer SLA,...

Learn to when to let go. The first 2 things I sold in hindsight could've been sold a lot earlier to let me move onto the next thing, but I kept believing that this time if I just positioned something the right way, that was my ticket. We can't turn everything to gold, and sometimes it's ok for the goal to not be some longterm profit engine but just an exploration of an idea. I think it's tricky...