u/BedDesigner2568

So basically, i have experience with copy. I wrote, optimized and did a lot of stuff with websites. I also designed but they were literally based on gut feelings.

Does this look good?

But now I want to elevate my design skills so that they matche rhat of the copy and instead of being just the "copywriter" I start becoming a full website service.

I'm really interested in how to start and if there are any good resources to help me kick start the learning curve? Any good exercises? I'll started making a serie on linkedin where I take one website and revamp its hero section and make a breakdown explaining what I did on it and why I did it. Every 2 days there's one website.

So, how can I move onwards to get the best returns from the learning curve?

I was just watching how the margarine are packaged.

The package is loaded in a holder. The machine drops a load of empry packages when the sensors detect that it's in the right position with an empty packaging slot. The round table turns taking the empty packages to the filling station. Liquid margarine fills the package, the table turns again for them to be sealed. Turns again to take the ready margarine to the shipping station where the holder goes up and a metallic bar pulls those packages to the moving table.

And that got ME thinking.

Shit.

That whole process must have been done by someone at some point.

The entire process, done by hand.

And when the sensors and these machines were made.

People got laid off.

Shit. What if I GOT laid off to AI like they have been to the machine?

Those people were also giving excuses that the tech will break, I bet they were saying it is not as good as humans are.

Like, ik I'm in a creative field, but I feel like, I fear I will wake up one day and find myself

Just useless.

There are already a lot of freelancers out there.

A lot of AI tools that claim to be good ata writing.

And a lot of people who genuinely believe they are good.

I just lost a client to AI agents after I gave her my prices.

She told me that she's making some agents to handle her content. Ik where that will end up, probably working to some extent. I mean, linkedin is a bunch of bots anyways.

But what if the agents GENUINELY became good at being "creative" bcs that's the ONLY thing that makes humans better than AI at copywriting. Thinking outside of the data we know. We create stuff that we never saw or knew existed, unlike ai that generates based on some reddit post or youtube video it scanned and some math and algorithms.

I honestly don't know what to do at this stage.

Like, right now, AI is not that good yet, so I may still find some business. It's harder yes, bcs people have lost trust to -100, but still doable.

But what about the future?

What about 1 year, 2 years or 10 years from now?

Will i be like the workers who lost their job to the margarine machine?

Will AI just reach that cap where the data it starts pulling is genuinely just other AI so it starts that AI jerk off circle and we'll have the rise of human creativity again?

Part of me REALLY wants to believe that the limit will be reached soon bcs the 2000-2023 human data started disappearing. More and more AI posts and content is flooding the internet and not much new inputs will be added. That's why AI kind of slowed down these days compared to how they were speedrunning the shit out of it in 2024-2025.

But part of me is just, uk, idk like scared or something?

So now I'm really confused on what to do onwards. Like, why was i bron in soo late yet so early. So late to catch the good economic era. And so early for when jobs have been wiped or the new jobs created. Uk what i mean?

You can allll debate the whether you should build a business first then generate demand or otherwise. But think about it in this terms.

If you see an ad of someone you're already following, watching and commenting on his videos. Wouldn't you stop scrolling to see what the ad is about? You already won in attention.

Now you convert.

The only trick is to go viral in the niche you want to go viral in. For example, all I do is write, design and optimize websites.

So I'm trying to build a follower base where? Linkedin.

They have the money and they already invest in stuff like this. Maybe a bit harder to compete with the AI slop when you're trying to make something original of your own but that's the best bet for now.

For example.

You're "thinking" of making something for couples or you feel like that's the audience you want to serve. Sweet, couple content is all over IG and TikTok. Just start making videos with your partner. Preferably, funny goofy videos because unfortunately, that's what gets attention. Not "5 quick tips for couples with a child."

At this age? It's an attention game.

And not "just" attention because everyone can make dog videos get seen. But making people know who you are.

There's this guy who made a candy brand, can't remember the name unfortunately. He always dreamed about it since he was a young kid. But there are already many candy brands since decades. How would he compete? Formula won't do the work. So he just worked his ass to get famous, he became a TV host if I remember correctly, made sure he's well known among his target audience and bam. Candy brand.

And you can do the same.

If you want to make money then you can start by going viral. Not only that you "might" get paid from the platform you're using but you can also have 1 gazillion ways to make money. Even if making a business is not "your thing" then you can easily promote other brands and make sponsorships and get paid good. That's what most influences do anyways.

So, for some, making the product first is best. For some you can just start by building the audience and figure out how to monetize later.

What I can guarantee is that you'll NEVER regret building an audience because attention is the currency at this stage.

Like, when I saw the r/angelinvesting I thought I'm gonna find some people talking about how to invest, trends, and stuff like rhat where I can find the investors and maybe DM some of them.

But all I found was other founders just posting "looking for investors" or "looking for co-founders"

Is this what this sub is supposed to be used for? Am I in the wrong place? 😓

Hey guys, as the title said. We had an idea, validated it and then now we decided to make a huge pivot. But we need cash to kick it fast. (Since we need to)

I never tried to talk to investors or even know the procedures.

I was thinking of starting on linkedin.

But I have so many questions and little to no answers (pls, don't say "you can ask AI" if it want AI answers i can easily ask it. I value real life experiences. Not some chatbot trained on AI recycled data)

Here are my questions for now:

1. What's the usual pitch to get an investor to respond?

2. If they agreed to talk, I can ask them to sign an NDA right?

3. What's the best place to find them aside from linkedin?

Anything else like what to say on the call and stuff can wait till I find some interest in the first place.

Like, I was reading a post on r/entrepreneur, good post, very insightful and actually one of the few posts I ever finished on that sub since it's filled with AI garbage.

Which leads me to the point

One of the comments said this:

> I love how Ai posts now have "random" capitalization errors to make it feel more "human" lol"

And another replied to him with this:

> That and the one misspelled word that doesn't make sense why it's there in an otherwise perfectly written post.

The Dead Internet Theory is more than jusy "AI" taking over internet but that humans will lose interest to even contribute to the internet because rhey'll be labeled "AI"

And I saw this in that post, in some of my posts, and many others.

People start throwing "AI" slop just when they don't agree with what you said or had a different opinion. They just label you AI just bcs they saw an em dash ("—" this thing here)

Well guess ehat? Books used the em dash far before there was even something called rhe internet.

It's mostly used to say something that you is not supposed to be in a sentence but adds context — like things that you say just to explain a point. But now, everything is AI.

I write landing pages and last night, someone called a landing oage I wrote that was converting at 12% AI slop JUST because i told him "you didn't even give the courtesy to read the landing page and now you're criticizing it". (Basically, he went and grabbed the most random FAQ question over there and called it 'bad copy' just to pitch a copywriter a copywriting service. The irony)

I started seeing the good side of this.

Maybe this is an opportunity to create a social media platform that actually fights AI slop? A social media that bans your post if the creative was AI gen or AI enhanced or photophoped (yes. No photoshop lol)

But then I remembered that it is technically not possible to do this.

Okay, you can detect a creative by the noise patterns.

But what about text? There's no noise pattern in that one.

So I thought about "maybe we can make a platform that detects your typing patterns and flags if it was a bot pattern or an actual human?" There are some school tools that has this. But then this "might" raise some privacy concerns and technically not a fix. What if someone copy pasted a text from another app or comment and just posted it or commented it? Would that be flagged as AI?

AI detectors are TOTAL garbage and rhey only work when the text is already obvious AI or not.

You cannot even talk professionally without sounding or being called AI since AI has rhat professional, polite tonality.

You can use a custom prompt to make anything sound like anything.

It is genuinely scary.

That I will take the only thing that humans are good at this point.

Talking to other humans.

Connecting with humans.

Next thing is you find yourself talking to a bot thinking he's a human.

And when you post, or comment you get labeled AI just because someone didn't agree with your opinion.

If this is how my kids will grow up?

I feel sorry for them already.

So, I'm trying to make this new serie on linkedin's newsletter to grow my follower base and set my brand voice.

I want to test ONE thing in this campaign.

Will novelty beat the AI slop?

I genuinely spent time thinking the entire serie and used my own copywriting skills to actually write something valuable, different, and entertaining.

Pumping linkedin with some good posts rather than AI slop.

But, I'm not the very expert in its algo. The only things I know for now are that the keywords you use decide who sees your post. No links on the body. The first 2 lines are rhe most important. (This general for all platforms but worth mentioning) add a creative. Carousels get more attention. (But I'm making newsletter posts, so videos it is) posts with no likes, comments, or reposts get ignored most of the time. If someone commented, their contact gets notified and your post will be displayed to their contacts on their feed.

These are all that I discovered for now. (I never searched for it, ik, my mistake. I was heavily relaying on testing and observing. I treated it like a copywrtiting and marketing project rather than just my social media.)

So, i don't want to ruin this newsletter test just bcs I suck at the algo or did something that suppressed my post.

So anything I should know about or that helps push the post or at least stop the post from getting flagged or pushed down?

I looked around, stayed between founders, startups, tech bros, and literally people who's only build.

But the issue is, what's that thing?

Most of them are just copy pasting each other with the idea of "if a lot of people are doing it it means it's valid and makes money"

Like rhe "reddit lead gen tool" that I'm sure everyone of you had seen at least 5 or 10 of these around here or got DMed by 10s of people selling it.

I mean, there's no issue when the market is a little sophisticated, I honestly see competitors as a good thing, Coke and Pepsi would have never reached the height they are at now without each other. The beef they have gave them more exposure.

But I'm quite the opposite. I don't know if it is bad or good thing but I hate doing something that's already very sophisticated.

I tried it, did well in it, wrote and optimized a landing page of a sophisticated product to 9-12% conversion rate (it was one of those reddit lead gen tools. ik, ik, but i actually made it different in positioning) got 134 users in a month. Optimized rhe cold dming script to 40% replay rate and 5% conversion rate. (Funny thing is that the tool grew itself, it found and DMed rhe leads. I close.)

I could have kept making a good buck out of it but I genuinely got bored very fast and had to close it. And now it's just sitting as source clde in my laptop and i just sell it to friends or my clients as an upsell when they show a need for it.

I tried focusing on my freelancing and ofc, like any other freelancer with no fans,

cold DMs or emails are your best plans.

So I cold dmed.

I just sounded like everyone else, and i hated it after 2 DMs I just said.

Wtf am i doing. This looks shit.

And rolled out a whole different unique script.

88 DMs sent, 20 replied, 2 closed, 4 not interested.

People told me things like "okay, I will respond just because you were different, lmao"

"Nice work catching my attention with your differentiation strategy"

And that alone was worth more than booking the client.

I'm not saying that everyone should be q creativity junkie like me, but the world is wide, there are many opportunities that you just have to find. Or if you want to make what exists, at least give it a twist. Make it unique and different then the rest because rest assured that you'll be asked why you are the best.

And you better have a sick response for that one.

Stay with me.

As a designer, If you want to show you're good, you just show them some samples and they say

"nope, I can't design like that"

As a video editor, you just show them your edits and they say

"nope, i can't edit like that"

A videographer is the same, a beat maker is the same, a producer is the same, a developer is the same.

Most of these don't even NEED real clients to show that they are good.

But for some of us? Like copywriters? We can't.

The job entry is low and we don't have a "real" way to tell if someone is a good copywriter or not until you work with them.

Last day I was talking to a potential client and she asked me to show her that I'm good. I have real case studies for websites i wrote and worked on and I just showed my numbers. Most of my numbers are double of triple the industry average.

And guess what she said?

"Yeh, show me why i should hire you."

Excuse me? I just did 😅

Add for that being from a 3rd world country with bad reputation like africa (me) or india.

And you already need to overcome the

"is he a scammer?"

I was talking to this prospect and he said this after asking where I'm based.

"A lot of scammers in that side of the globe"

And I had to sit there thinking HOW to answer 🤣🤣

I just apologized and said this is not a fit. He said this right after that line "I'm running low on cash..." So, paranoid with previous scam history with cash constraint issue?

Sorry, will pass it to the next one.

Another said that my results are fake or inflated. I showed the screenshots of dashboards, testimonials from the owners etc. And he really just said "could easily be faked. AI is powerful right now" (FYI, he flipped tonality when I answered the "where are you based" question haha)

Okay, just ask the owners i worked with?

And he ignored ALL the easy to justify ones, and went to the ONLY person I can't prove his honesty no matter what I say.

My co-founder.

He can just say "he's saying this because he's you're friend."

So I just blocked him and moved on. Not worth it.

And a lot of incidents like these happen to many freelancers out there lol. I'm not a special case at all.

But ofc, that's not how everyone treat us. Some of my clients didn't give a shit about where I live, look, or EVEN sound. One client never saw or heard me TILL DAY. And she still paid.

But some people just woke up and choose to be the scumbags of society.

Like, I just saw a post from someone who literally just said "Hey, I build websites, and I have some open slots for new clients. Dm if you want. Thanks"

Ofc, this is shorter.

He showed no past experiences, no shenanigans marketing tactics, no social proof, no nothing and still got some people interested to work with him.

AND that was a reddit post.

The anti-promo platform?

Before I opened the post I was dead sure he will be roasted as hell. like, 18 reddit comments on a promo post? RIP man. But nope, people really contacted him (and some people tried to steal his leads lol.) There was just ONE comment who said self-promo or maybe cussed (comment was deleted by mods) and someone else replied to even defend OP's "Reddit" self promotion post.

And I was like what? Is this a parallel universe of some sort?

I'm sure as hell i will be roasted to death if I did this, right?

Truth is, I don't know for sure. And no one knows because I'm sure he may as well thought the same as I did but still did it anyways and got some leads. And you may spend thousands on what might "look" like it would work but still won't.

History is the witness of the FAILED marketing campaigns that cost thousands on 100s of thousands or even millions of dollars.

Funny story is that JUST before i saw the post i was explaining this exact thing to some "past appointment setting agency owner" I cold DMed to offer my service; website copy, design, development and conversion optimization and I made it really clear what she'll get etc etc. But with a small funny twist that "kind" of sounds childish at most but it works. The template brought me 40% replay rate with 5% close rate on a consulting service i ran not so long ago and is getting me interest and people reply with things like.

"Lmao, I like your opener. Alr, show what you've got"

"Lol, alright, I'll respond because that was a great cold pitch"

"Good job getting my attention, nice differentiation strategy"

And guess what she swore about? "As someone who has ran an appointment setting agency in the past i would say this DM won't go far bro"

It was interesting that she knew the outcome before even testing it. While the testing phase is showing a promising result (still tailoring and optimizing it for my website service. At the moment, I'm at 22% reply rate which sucks. And 2% close rate which sucks even more, but close rate is not the opener's fault but mine.)

So, assume things can work until proven otherwise.

Most of the the times the ideas that we get in the toilet (believe it or not, that's where i had that opener's idea) are best ideas we can ever get.

The best answer is "Test"

I wake up a bit early, usually 7AM sometimes 8 or 9am if I stayed late watching the suits. I do a couple of push ups to get the blood pumping.

Hygiene while my coffee is being made (you CANNOT start a day without coffee)

I drink my coffee while I play a ranked game in CODM. ONE game. Lose, win, doesn't matter. Just something to make my "optical" captures open up so I can see what others can't see to be creative later today and get a dopamine hit. (In human words, just wasting time)

Once that's finished, I open my laptop (usually around 8-9AM if I woke up early) and start checking my reddit comments of last day's posts (this is usually the part where I rediscover rhat people hate me)

I reply to everyone and open slack to see what the team is up to and trying to calm a hyped CEO from acting up impulsively.

I check whatever task he assigned, and ask the CMO what he's up to this time bcs somehow we speak the same language but i can't seem to understand him. She gives me whatever we need to do and I do it.

Then I start DMing some people about my website copywriting service. Just something laughable. (This is usually the part where my name becomes "not interested" bcs idk why they keep assuming this. "Hi not interested, thanks")

Then I make whatever website is on my plate for my clients.

Then I start promoting a different platform i co-founded. (Hmm, very fun)

Usually this is the time where they call me to eat dinner. So I eat dinner while thinking about what's the next hype post I should make on r/entrepreneursridealong

And that's it.

That's a mini version of a day in a failure entrepreneur

That's how I managed to stay busy the entire day and still stay broke. (The job and the side project don't make me any money 😒 thank you freelancing for being something)

I was just posting on linkedin here and there about Zillow and their entire monopoly and blah blah blah (not a realtor but making something that competes in generating leads with Zillow)

So I came out of the shower to THIS.

"In 1995 agents and brokers paid $5B (in 1995 dollars) to newspapers to drive exposure for their listings. That number today is close to zero because of the free exposure on Zillow, Realtor(.c om) and others.

Think about that for a second.

Name"

A CXO from Zillow? Wow. Interesting.

But he gave one hell of a weak statement. Man, I expected more from him than to lay down some quick random fact.

He messaged about a post where i said that zillow made $2.2B from realtors last year and explained the whole scheme that they ran against realtors.

Here's how I replied anyways.

"In 1995, brokers paid to get a feature on an advertising channel. The traffic came from the newspapers. If we were to compare, we won't compare with Zillow but advertising platforms like facebook.

That aside, that $5B didn't disappear. Zillow captured the check. Absolute cinema.

Take the listing from the realtors, the listings attract customers, Zillow captures the customers, resell them back to the same realtors who attracted the leads in the first place. In 2023, Zillow acquires FUB (their databases, organized, segmented, etc) Zillow announces the ToS change in 2025 to get qualified premium leads and cross check the closed leads still paying no acquisition taxes.

I gotta say. That's playing 4D chess.

The irony is that the realtors built value behind Zillow and the same Zillow cornered them from every angle where they can't live without paying Zillow anymore.

Think about that for a second.

Ren."

Btw, if I was wrong in any statement here I would REALLY appreciate corrections 🙏

I honestly didn't expect my posts to reach anyone anytime soon but in just 4 days the reach, increased 1288% with 26% on avg being my target audience and the rest is adjacent niches and even reaching stake holders as well.

I'm a website copywriter and I run a platform where founders post their projects or stuff to get feedback by others.

And i review EVERY SINGLE WEBSITE. 400+ websites reviewed by me. And the ONE thing I keep seeing (or reading) over and over and over and over again is the AI copy or websites. Like, OMG, the moment my eyes land on it or read the headline I go like "aw man, again?"

Like, here you go:

"Expense cleanup for people who fall behind."

"Turn fragmented product context into shared decisions."

"Choose-Your-Own-Adventure, Powered by AI"

If it doesn't sound like a it was a linkedin profile description it sure has "AI-powered" in it.

Let's just add a quick note about AI-powered. NO ONE CARES ABOUT IT. My bad to yell but you all gotta get this through your heads. Just because it has AI, doesn't mean people will jump from their beds, and pull out their credit cards to pay. Heck, I even read a thread asking people about AI-powered apps and almost all of them said this

"if it is not necessary to run, then I will pass"

I had this with SupaDemo, I needed a dynamic tutorial demo for a project i was working on and found that they had something good. Recorded everything, set everything up and THEN I got hit with a $100/mo payment wall just to keep that tutorial live, use their analytics dashabords and "AI-powered" insights. Well guess what? I dropped the idea and just made the video myself.

Back to websites.

You all are not competing just "your competitors" anymore, you're competing against EVERYONE.

The market is starting to get exhausted by AI on EVRRYTHING. Social media, Reddit, hence even newspapers are using AI nowadays. People got accustomed to what AI sounds like. Especially on landing pages, when everyone is filling their cup of tea from the same kettle. It tastes the same.

A new objection have been created that EVERYONE needs to handle nowadays.

"Was this made by AI?"

From the amount of AI-made websites I audited or reviewed I started losing interest in ANY website that felt like I promoted 2004's ChatGPT to tell me about the business.

I would value a low quality human written copy than any polished 5 pages long AI made website. Every DAY.

At least put in some efforts into prompting and research man.

Like, some websites are LITERALLY a one time thing. You write it once, optimize it to the bottleneck and voila. Just refresh it seasonally or make some light tests here and there if you want to.

But what do I know, I'm just a copywriter "ranting" about the very same tool that stole my job.

Alr, peace ✌️

This is a post title I saw on r/entrepreneur, and honestly? I was afraid to open it.

I know it is true but that's not the point. I'm at my lowest, I have been even lower and no one asked if I'm okay anyways.

How would it be when I go to the top?

This is the question that stopped me from opening it bcs I knew the answer will be there.

Looked around me, a brother who i stay with almost all the day and barely say a word to. A family that I barely talk to, not even at dinner or launch.

Friends who I never call or check up on them or meet them.

I keep telling myself that I'm busy, I'm working, I'm trying to gather my shit but am I? It's been a week without any clients and still $8.89 on my bank account.

A whole damn week of avoiding even the closest person in my life.

I heard about the 4 oven burners in the entrepreneurship world, where you have 4 oven burners, health, family, business, and friends. But you can't light all of them at once. You need to turn one off to be successful. To be extra successful, you need to turn 2 off.

And which is the easiest to turn off? Family.

I fcking turned off 3 of them.

I want you to emerge yourself in the situation.

You run a platform that is not a money printing machine on the short run. Highest it reached was $60MRR and rhen flopped again when your uni exams kicked the door and had to cut marketing for a month.

You get unexpected medical bills. You go back to net $0.

You borrow $8.89 from your friend to pay for some software rhat you NEED. You've got no job, no investments, no financial or government backing. Just living in a bedroom in your mom's house.

The technical cofounder have been burned out and not rewarded yet.

All you did before running that platform was make websites, optimize their conversion and sell them. That's how you survived and how you saved the money that the medical bills drained after you made a stupid mistake to stop freelancing and work full time on that platform.

Yes.

This, is me. Minus the personal bullshit ofc. Just the professional one.

But rhe issue is that I don't feel like too pressured.

Idk why but it feels like, existing.

Like if I hate the game but I love the rush.

When I had some money in my bank account to go off it felt so boring, like, there wasn't that "em!!" in it uk what I mean? But now it feels more...fun?

I'm back at freelancing and making websites and like many freelancers without an audience or money to promote, i had to either go with cold emails or cold DMs.

It's obvious. Cold DMs.

So instead of stressing over what to say, I literally, just dropped my dming template, spintaxed it and started dming. Even the DM template on its own is risky to send as some might see it as stupid or too controversial of some sort. But not according to the data it brought me.

Idk, am crazy to thinking like this?

You know what's the best time of the day?

The mornings.

Waking up early when the sun hasn't risen yet, doing some push ups to get the blood flowing, brushing your teeth and fixing your messy hair.

No one is awake, everyone is sleeping while you prepare your morning coffee.

You take a look out of your window and see trees and mountains with the sun rising.

It's just peaceful.

Guys, I did it.

I finally found a job that will change my life upside down.

A friend of mine who is about to raise a 5m funding for his startup i said congrats man, if anyone deserves it, it would be you. Then he showed me his linkedin profile and I said "oh shit, nice followers you've got in there." And he said yeh, and I have a growing newsletter as well.

Then out of no where, he said you can manage those if you want to. I'll pay you X/mo if you do that and handle the newsletter. Full time. 40hrs/week. I honestly got sold the moment he mentioned the price, but you have to play it "cool" So I said lemme think about it. Then he mentioned an extra benefit for the deal and I just said "uk what? Fck it. I'm in"

And just like that. No resume, no applying no ass kissing some stupid recruiter who doesn't even know what a qualified candidate looks like.

He'll send me everything I need to know and the legal papers in a couple of hours from now and if everything goes smoothly, I should start next settling next month.

Although I still have to find some people to make websites for as a freelancer this month bcs I still need to get the ends meeting. But this is really a dream come true.

And the best part is that he's a guy with a vision and he's not afraid to shoot big. And that's what I like the most.

Hey guys, was about to start marketing using reddit ads and want to hear your honest opinions. I heard that it had this spending threshold where if you reach it you'll start seeing success or something. Some said that it doesn't work and redditors have aimbot for skipping ads. (Which i can confirm from my experience)

Anyone with hands-on experience?

Yesterday I made a post about how 1st world people are blessed and they should appreciate it a little bit.

It blew up. Almost 2K upvotes and 500 comments.

I read every comment and had some quite good discussions but I also had some hate and cussing bcs of ONE THING.

A lot kept biting my head about:

"You're not seeing the opportunity. You're stupid, you should not be an entrepreneur and be a cleaner." (True story, someone said that lol)

Alr, fair enough. But here's the thing most of you missed. You're measuring a 3rd world market with the western playbook.

We are NOT the same. The infra is different, the culture is different, and even two 3rd world countries can be super different just bcs of the culture the people were raised in

Everyone here sees the opportunities. And some even tried. You think 10-15 million sane adult people in my country are all stupid enough to miss it? That is not the problem. The problem is the cost to take it or execute it. Or the infrastructure to provide it.

Let me give you a real example:

My dentist. I was trying to pitch her my website copywriting service to make her a website (back when i tried to sell locally until i discovered how underpaid i was compared to 1st world clients. I explaned this in the comments of the previous post as well after people pointed the fact that i can sell my sevice locally) i told her, why don't you make a website to show your availability, let people book online so they don't have to drive all the way down just to check if you have a slot open. I told her that i hated the long travel i had to take with uncertainty just to see if there's a spot.

She said she tried something like this. Made a Facebook page, told people in the comments that they were fully booked, don't bother coming. She have her phone number on her card.

BUT THEY STILL CAME ANYWAYS.

It's not that they were stupid. They are just not used to the online culture yet. They just say "M3lich, ro7 s9si lya kyn blas" which means "No problem, go and ask anyways."

To shift that belief you need to educate the market first. And to educate a market you either need an audience or cash for educational ads. Not necessarily sales ads. But ads that explain the thing they need to understand BEFORE you can even sell them.

That is what Yassir and Indrive did. They had the investment capital to run educational campaigns.

We didn't have online payments even inside, but lately, i discovered a new service affilated with the banks to provide an API for online payments. I said finally, i can now try to make some stuff, websites, apps, and charge online.

Even the goverment made efforts to push online payments BUT the card thieves came right after that and took a shit on all the progress that happened. Even i now feel scared to swipe a card on an algerian website that is not a mega business or official government. Bcs even the "trusted" websites or services still ran their scams on people.

A lot of people lost money, got scammed, gave their card information. Now even official links are debated. My mother got an SMS FROM THE BANK with a link to connect to the official app and she said it's a scam. Don't fall for that. 🙄

That's a HUGE barrier. I can sell them on the solutions but I can't shift their beliefs when big companies with HUGE capital couldn't make it.

So yes. I SEE the opportunity. I WANT to take it. I just can't afford it yet. I have to keep freelancing, making websites and selling them to 1st world countries to gather some capital and THEN take advantage of the market. (Investing power is ass in the country btw and as stupid as it sounds, not everyone wants to be a slave for the investors)

I'm not in a situation to risk what is working for me to chase a dream idea that requires me to shift an entire belief system rooted in extensive bad experiences.

You cannot walk when your feet are stuck in the mud.

I might be stupid, i might be dumb, i might be a coward, i might be negative i might be whatever you want to call me. But I'm still 22. Life is still ahead of me. I just have to gather myself first before I risk everything and get back to net 0. Everything that i built went straight up to the shitter once. Made that stupid mistake. Not making it again.