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I have two ideas I am working on. One came from problems I faced while building my ecommerce business.

The other came from my time as an employee when I kept wishing there was a tool that could make certain tasks easier.

I am not a developer. I have been exploring Codex and Lovable and Claude. Getting a prototype together seems possible but I am unsure about what comes after that.

Once people start using it and paying for it can I manage the backend and fix problems with these tools? Or will I reach a point where I need someone technical?

I am willing to learn. I just want to understand how much coding I would need to know to keep the product running myself.

Has anyone here done this and launched a paid product?

What could you handle yourself and where did you need help?

I am an absolute newbie, will be relaunching my product this month, initially when i launched it did not do good because the website had issues

Its a 40 dollar product , has a lot of good competitors but i have tried to build the product to give the customers a good branding experience and connection.

Now my question is seeing the recent post regarding meta is it a good time to start on meta or should i look for tiktok

Budget is limited : 30-40 usd per day

Can any one help me understand this?

Also just one more thing if i have to understand how this thing works can anyone tell me which guy should i follow that would a newbie like me to understand the platform better, either a youtube channel or a course just to understand the way it should be done.

Parents, has anyone’s child who was once severely affected by ASD and ADHD grown into a highly independent, conversational, and socially functional person—someone whose autism is not noticeable unless others are told?

If so, what were they like in childhood, at what age did you notice major improvement, and which therapies or interventions helped most? I would really appreciate honest experiences—both positive and realistic.

I’m curious if I’m the only one who does this.
Every morning I open Shopify and Meta Ads Manager hoping the numbers look better than yesterday.

Then I spend another $20-50 thinking “today might be the day it turns around.”

A week later I’ve spent hundreds more without realizing how much runway I actually had left.

I’m thinking about building a very simple tool that only answers questions like:

How many days of cash do I have left?
At my current ad spend, when do I hit zero?
How many orders per day do I need just to survive?
Should I scale, pause, or keep going?
Not another analytics dashboard. Just a financial circuit breaker before emotions take over.
Would something like this actually be useful, or would you just use a spreadsheet instead?

I’d love brutally honest feedback.

I never thought i would write something like this.

I left a stable corporate job because I wanted to build something of my own that aligned with my values. I started an ecommerce business knowing absolutely nothing about coding, sourcing, logistics, or ads. I’ve learned a lot, but i have also burned through a lot of money.

I got my first sales and thought I was finally on the right path. Since then i have spent around $900 on ads and made back only about $300.

What makes it harder is that my daughter is on the autism spectrum and needs ongoing therapy and support. Every dollar matters.

I used to trust my decisions. Now I question almost everything.

For those who’ve built businesses before, how did you know whether to keep going or accept that it was time to pivot?

I am not looking for sympathy just honest advice from people who have been there

I’m looking for some honest advice from experienced Shopify developers.

My store has a very high LCP (around 10–12 seconds), so I’ve been hiring Fiverr developers to optimize the site. However, I’ve noticed a pattern.

Whenever I tell them not to manipulate PageSpeed scores using hidden JavaScript or other tricks, and that I only want genuine optimization (image optimization, lazy loading, removing unused code, app cleanup, etc.), they either stop responding or block me.
I previously hired someone who injected obfuscated JavaScript into my theme, which seemed more like an attempt to improve PageSpeed metrics than actually speed up the user experience. After removing that code, my score dropped again, but at least the theme was clean.

So my questions are:

Is injecting custom/obfuscated JavaScript to manipulate Lighthouse or PageSpeed scores a common practice among cheap optimization gigs?

Are there legitimate ways to reduce LCP on Shopify without resorting to these techniques?
What should I specifically ask for when hiring someone to ensure they’re performing real optimization instead of gaming the metrics?

Has anyone here had good experiences hiring Shopify speed optimization freelancers?
Would love to hear your experiences and advice.

So I started wondering:
what if there was a platform that simply organized human problems properly instead of organizing content?

Not another social network.
More like a searchable database of recurring frustrations and unmet needs.

Am I overthinking this or does this gap actually exist?

Been reading through a lot of the comments and discussions in this community recently, and it got me thinking more seriously about digital product distribution.

Right now, my primary plan is to start promoting my digital products through Twitter/X and Facebook groups organically instead of relying only on marketplaces.

But I wanted some honest advice from people who’ve already done this:

- Do you think it’s better to promote using your own personal identity/account?
- Or does it make more sense to create a separate brand/account from the beginning?
- Has anyone here used AI influencers or AI personas successfully to promote digital products?

Also, apart from Gumroad, I’ve been hearing a lot about Payhip recently. Curious to know which platform you guys prefer and why.

Just trying to understand if I’m moving in the right direction before going all in. Would genuinely appreciate any suggestions or lessons learned.

I made two digital products this month and posted in gumroad, got only 5 views

There are people who are making a livelihood out of digital products. How are they doing it, what are they doing

I wanted to know someone who has started this journey in this way and is doing right now.

Hi all,

I am extremely new to this and come from a non technical background, trying to build something with loveable and Claude.

Wanted to understand once the product is ready how do you distribute it? Why would people buy it from you? Where do you find the people who is interested in this

One day you’re sending each other random screenshots, memes, voice notes, long paragraphs…

And then somehow life slowly turns the relationship into:

“Did you eat?”
“Did you pay the bill?”
“What time are you coming home?”

No big fight happened.
No betrayal happened.

You both just got tired. Busy. Distracted.

And I think that’s what hurts the most sometimes — when two people still love each other, but stop feeling emotionally close.

A lot of relationships don’t end suddenly.

They fade quietly.

I’ve been in a relationship where this slowly happened and honestly it’s weird how you don’t notice it right away.

You still talk every day, but at some point you stop sharing the dumb little thoughts, random moments, or things you’d normally tell each other without thinking.

Looking back, that quiet distance hurt way more than the actual fights did.

One thing I’ve realized about long-term relationships:

Most couples don’t suddenly stop loving each other.

They slowly stop checking in emotionally.

Conversations become logistics.
Connection becomes routine.
You’re together — but not really present with each other anymore.

I’m curious:
What’s one thing couples slowly stop doing before emotional distance starts building?