... legacy "Block AI bots" switch is deprecated on 15 September, and mixed-purpose crawlers get folded into it. Googlebot, Applebot and BingBot are in scope. Opting out is one click and the window is 25 days. Sometime in the last two years a lot of us flipped a switch in Cloudflare called "Block AI bots." It was one

... inference eats about 23% of revenue. Every growth instinct you inherited was formed in a world where your best user cost you nothing. There's a rule most of us absorbed without ever being taught it: engagement is free. One more session, one

... alex_amancio_candoa_   @aadilghani  Constant versus invariant is the useful thing here and I am taking it. One

... site, measured rather than guessed. In 24 hours, AI crawlers requested our pages 479 times. Applebot 179, meta-externalagent 180, ChatGPT-User 74, ClaudeBot 26, GPTBot 20. Over seven days, assistants sent us real people: three visits from chatgpt.com , one from perplexity.ai , two from Bing, arriving from Turkey, Greece, Hong Kong, Korea, the US and China. Small numbers. Real ones

... nolan_vu): @busmark_w_nika  Haha fair point Nika, in advance with a proper timeframe is exactly right. We're fully aligned then. Appreciate the checklist, one of the more practical ones

... coding agent gives you a working version of a feature in minutes. Ask again and you get another one, also working, slightly different. Working stopped being the filter. My rule is simple: I ship the version with the fewest moving parts, because I'm the one

... when marketing is literally how you make a living. :D I never had a problem promoting other people's products. Just my own. Now I'm in the same situation again. I'm building a LinkedIn plugin , and one of the main ways to get it in front of people is by talking about it on LinkedIn. The problem is, I don't want people to see me as someone who's constantly selling. What would you recommend doing ... ... tried so far: On X, I'm taking a build-in-public approach and sharing my coding journey and I leave the link in the comments. I've added the waitlist link to my social media profiles. When one

... home, and a cafe at once, and never being sure which one actually needed me that day versus

... users avoid getting restricted or flagged by LinkedIn by quantifying their actions over time. It s based on a problem I ve experienced myself, and (as bad as this might sound) I m hoping I m not the only one who has this problem. The product isn t fully finished yet, but the core functionality is already working well enough to serve as an MVP. The remaining features will be blurred out as Pro features with an upgrade button that ... ... everything ready for the Chrome Web Store). Here is the WAITLIST , btw. If you were in my position, what would you do to maximise the chances of people discovering the extension, installing it, and ideally joining the waitlist? And one

... same page I wont be able to work on a solid product. Once I have the solid product then its scaling :) Comment from Mustafa Arian(@thenameisarian): hardest thing: convincing people who have spent 20 years optimizing for one credential to accept that the credential itself is the bottleneck. nobody disagrees that hiring is broken. everybody is loyal to the broken artifact because it is the only one

... pretty fast and versatile (but they probably delegate some things to other freelancers - that's my guess). How many projects can you handle at once? Either solo or together? For example, I was handling 5 or 6 at one time, but it soon took its toll on my health. When it struck, I didn't care about project anymore. Comment from Phil(@looquee_26): @busmark_w_nika  basically just two projects, like two research projects or one

... ones holding the stuff that's painful to move: payments, customer records, content. The ones

... number of agents stops mattering, because you're not allocating attention to each one, you're receiving an alert from whichever one

... will go first. The meeting where everyone nods and no one disagrees. Not because they agree. Because they have checked out. They do not think their opinion matters. They have stopped investing. That silence is louder than any argument. Here are other non obvious signs I have learned to watch for. 1. The roadmap keeps growing but nothing ships. You have a list of features. It gets longer every week. Nothing gets checked off. The team is busy. Meetings happen ... ... Decisions are made. But the code does not move. That is not a roadmap. That is a wishlist. 2. The founder is the only one

... thought we were ready. Bigger deals. Fewer customers. Better margins. That was the dream. So we built enterprise features. SSO. Advanced permissions. Audit logs. A whole new pricing tier starting at $2,000/month. We spent 6 months. Three engineers. One dedicated product manager. Endless meetings about "enterprise readiness." We launched the tier. Sent emails to our biggest users. Ran LinkedIn ads targeting "Head of IT" and "VP of Infrastructure." Zero. Not one

... trade-off: Collecting users vs making income. The balance dictates the conversion rate. I'm currently thinking about the exact same question for a product I'm working on, and this is how I try to think of it: When considering the free/paid features, I always imagine it as a giant slider, where its left side point to free users, and the right one

... price-wise and fitting it in your existing workflow. Do you have a lot of background in SEO? This is definitely a useful tool for preliminary research. Beautifully simple, and has the creature comforts with things like CSV export. One thing that may be the cherry on top would be a PDF export and/or public share link. It's awesome that it isn't a subscription and has quite a low barrier to entry with your $1.99 credit pack ... ... LinkedIn posts in your voice. It's web-based, and I used Next.js, I used Better-Auth for authentication, and I added 3 strategies: email/password, Google OAuth and LinkedIn OAuth. I used PostgreSQL as the database and Polar (Stripe alternative

... rewrite everything at once. Whenever I get stuck or one model doesn t 'get' me, I just switch to another one