I'll never understand doomer takes on ecommerce.
"I would never start a @Shopify store in {insert year}"
"You're not profitable until you hit X"
"You have to launch thousands of ads" (way too sweaty)
My favorite one is "The economy"
It's all so noisy and honestly such a bad vibe (sorry if you're a bad vibe)
My store is coming up on 2 years old and just passed $1m net.
And I'm not trying that hard. I'm paying attention to other things. This is everything that we're doing.
My VA sends email & sms with Shopify messaging
Nearly all my ad spend is on catalog ads
and I have 6 paid apps
@Marpipe_HQ by @danpantelo@aftersell by @varunkundra@KnoCommerce by @JeremiahPrummer@VideoWiseHQ by @claudiucioba
@tapcart, I don't know who made tapcart.
and @AliaPopups by @iamshaanarora and @corylgill
What else... We just got @memelordtech by @iamjasonlevin for $20 a month and it's rad, so we're going to try launching meme ads and we're tracking our competitors with @foreplay_co
If you have an idea for a physical product that people might like, Shopify has made it pretty easy. Don't let the doomers stop you.
If I wanted to reach $5k MRR in the next 365 days, I’d build a simple Shopify app that tells merchants what's their profit, powered by AI.
@jackdoesecom turned his spreadsheet into Profit AI. Five months after launch, he reported $30k MRR with fewer than 40 paying customers.
Go search “profit calculator” on the Shopify App Store. The first three organic results I saw had 66, 97 and 28 reviews. Only one of the top six had the Built for Shopify badge.
I'm sure you can do better.
At $39/month, 129 stores would bring in $5,031 MRR.
-- Idea 7/n to make $5k MRR by next October
Everyone can express their own opinion in a free society, even an idiotic one. It helps us know how dumb someone is.
But calling for political violence against other Americans crosses a line that we shouldn't tolerate.
This is exactly what everyone getting older without kids says and it is truly sad to hear because I know in my soul it is just not true.
I lived many years of my life without having a child and now 6 years of my life with a child.
I can definitively say that my life is full of exponentially more joy, purpose and fun now with Quin in our life.
It is nearly impossible to try and explain the feeling you get when you look into your child's face as they laugh at a joke or say they love you and give you a big hug after coming home from work.
This is something people like Seth will never get to experience and I honestly feel bad for him.
One additional note, I have been fortunate enough to make enough money to afford all the toys. We have very nice cars, a beautiful house, the watches and all the other "things".
All of those material things are really cool and exciting for a small period of time and then quickly become just another thing.
This does not happen with children and I would never in a million years trade having a kid for being able to have another exotic car or a bigger house, which is the argument I see a lot of older people without kids make.
@Seanfrank I think that the average person thinks that tax money is spent on a common good, so paying taxes is the right thing to do and if they don't they'll lose their freedom. They're right on the last one.
Marxist friend advocating for central-planning but recoils when I mention Flock what mean? Where is you gonna get them data for them central planning dawg?
"voice is going to enable way more parallelization" - @finnatsea on the future of voice-interfaces and tracing meaning and compression for optimal workflows
Had a great talk with @finnatsea and the guys from 1 to 100 on voice interfaces, what we've been building at @aquavoice , Singleton AI, human desire, agent swarms and much more!