phaz

18. Shenzhen. Learning Chinese to get into AI at SZU. Freelance web dev with AI tools. Building in public. Dream: 918 before 23.

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18, living in Shenzhen, studying Chinese so I can get into the AI program at SZU. Freelance web dev on the side: 44 orders, 4.9★. Starting to build in public. Long-term dream: a Porsche 918 before I'm 23. Probably impossible. Doing it anyway.

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@rugovaBuilds @X Building in public too: sites and AI features for small businesses. Today shipped a site chatbot that can’t make things up, code checks every price and time against the site before anyone sees it.

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@danielmiutea Agree. Built exactly that today: a site chatbot that drops any answer it can’t back with the site’s own text. https://t.co/atNSbzdcIP

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Day 10 of building in public.
3 days, 45 visits, 0 clicks on the paid buttons of my cold email tools. Freezing that topic.
Back to what already paid me: sites and AI features for small businesses. Portfolio is up on Contra.
What made you stop a side project?

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@_alphashark_ Contra takes 0% from freelancers, so nothing so far. Also no clients there yet, the profile went up today. Everything I’ve earned came from sites through a Russian freelance marketplace.

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Demo on a made-up bakery, runs in your browser: https://t.co/atNSbzdcIP

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Built a site chatbot that’s not allowed to make things up.

The model only drafts. Code checks every price, time and word against the site before the customer sees it.

Asked about a loyalty card the site never mentions: draft thrown away.

29 of 31 test questions right.

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@Prashant940729 What is the site for, and who should it convince? If you share 2–3 sites you like, I'll send a rough homepage layout for yours so you can compare options before you pick anyone. Recent work: https://t.co/V4KW80PtRh

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@Hanjala216362 Knowing which countries I'm even allowed to email. Deliverability can be fixed, but Germany, Spain and Italy want consent before the first email, even to info@.

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@Sumitboy_007 8/10 replies or 8/10 meetings? Curious which markets too. The same email can be fine in the US and need consent first in Germany.

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Email verifiers tell you an address exists. None tell you if you may write to it.

So I built one on Apify: give it a lead list, get a verdict per row for the recipient's country. 33 countries, each linked to the law it's based on.

Free: https://t.co/UVWAteQ2dM

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Ran 30 test emails in 13 languages through two small open models, both running in my browser.

Gemma 4 E2B: 30/30
Qwen 3.5 2B: 26/30

The first run said Gemma 28/30. Both misses were my own checker throwing away correct answers.

Tests: https://t.co/WJP2iQA49w

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@CiprianiRanieri Kwork, a Russian freelance marketplace. Cold email is what I'm learning now.

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@Ldataengineer Same lesson in my side project: a 2B model in the browser only reads the email and quotes what it found, plain code makes the call. Narrow job beat asking it to do everything.

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@neilkanakia 87 replies from 1058 is over 8%, that's good. Before going 10x I'd check how many of the 87 were positive and whether the rate holds as volume goes up.

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@nkchandupatla Quoting also made the mistakes visible: when the quote wasn't actually in the text, the page rejected it instead of trusting the yes.

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@pobidowski Ha, I meant all 5 customers came from cold email, not 5 emails. 1000+ sends for 5 paying shops that never cancel is a solid result. Which countries are they in?

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I read the B2B cold email law of 30 countries.

Emailing info@ at a company without consent:
allowed in 14
with conditions in 5
consent first in 10, incl. Germany, Spain, Italy, Poland

Emailing jane@company: plainly allowed in only 4.

Table and sources: https://t.co/Ivl9CiVSO0

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@serena_prifti If any of those go to Spain, worth a check first: Spanish law needs consent before the first marketing email, even to a company address. Found that out right before sending mine.

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@tommobuilds 10 emails with 0 replies is too small a sample to judge yet. One thing worth knowing for AU: the Spam Act wants consent, and a published clinic address only counts if the email is relevant to that person's role. A site pitch to the practice manager fits that.