Ethan Gabriel

Genuine question. I keep meeting operators with a warm list, a good offer, and no abandoned-cart flow. Or a welcome series that's one email long and just stops.

If that's you which one is it, and what's actually stopping you? The time, the build, or not knowing what email 3 is supposed to say?

Asking because I've been building for exactly this.

Building an API that pulls data across 13 social platforms, and the thing that's eaten the most engineering time isn't the scraping itself, it's how differently every platform breaks. Rate limits that change without notice, auth flows that expire silently, structured data one week and a wall of JS the next.

Curious what's bitten other builders here. Which platform has been the worst to depend on, and what did you end up doing about it?

heyy folks .. am haider, the solo dev behind PopTask .. i'm launching a big update here on july 7 (it's now on iphone + ipad, not just mac) and figured i'd start a conversation instead of just showing up launch day

the whole thing started from one annoyance: every to-do app makes me fill out a form for a 2-second thought .. title, date, time, repeat, reminder .. and by the time am done i've half-forgotten why i opened it .. so i built the opposite: you type the mess the way you'd say it ("gym mon wed fri 6am") and it becomes a real scheduled task in about 3 seconds, no forms