u/BeeTheGlitch

hey everyone,

A client asked me to fly to Kenya for a meeting, first time I'd be visiting sub-Saharan Africa and honestly have no idea what to expect.

Has anyone here visited Kenya? Nairobi specifically? How did you find it in vibe, safety, cost of living day to day?
Anything specific to know as an Algerian traveler? (visa process, entry requirements ...)
Any spots worth seeing if I get a free day or two?

Business trip or tourism, any experience helps.t

saaank you

CAN YOU PLEASE TELL ME YOUR MAPPING FOR PILOTING THE HELICOPTER //

Been thinking about where things are headed and wanted to put this out there.

Building software is getting cheaper and faster. What used to take a team months now takes a fraction of the time and budget. That's great if you're a builder. It's a problem if you thought building was your moat.

Because if shipping a product keeps getting easier, the ship itself isn't the hard part anymore. The water is filling up. Fast.

The hard part is the harbor, actually getting in front of customers who'll pay. And there are only a handful of harbors worth anything:

Google, Meta, the same audiences everyone is sailing toward. Limited space, more ships pulling up every month.

More builders shipping similar products every quarter

All running ads on the same 2-3 platforms

Ad auctions get more competitive

CAC climbs

Margins shrink

Most never make their money back

The platforms own the harbors. They win regardless of whose ship docks.

The builders just bid each other into the ground for the privilege of being seen.

The real question for the next few years is "how do I reach people without paying the going rate at the gate."

Organic distribution, communities, owned audiences, weird channels nobody's bidding on yet, that's where the edge is.

Building is becoming a commodity. Distribution is the whole game.

Curious if anyone here is already feeling this in their CAC numbers, or if I'm calling it too early??

That said, I build ships for people. You know what can't I say..

These stuff are expensive, i want to make sure i don't get the wrong products again!

I recently launched my saas ( dw, Not gonna share it ever here ) and i built an internal mailing tool ( not sharing this too ) and after i tried tracking open rate and click rate, I LOVED IT.

A problem i faced risk of getting flagged as Spam. Since i dont have yet a reputation. So what I did, instead of just directly emailing people with my product ( which is very interesting to these people, they'll surely be interested ).

I needed to warmup ( i cant pay for warmup tools, it's too expensive and takes a lot of time. And by the time i want to get that reputation needed to send thousands/millions of emails I needed, It'll be months and thousands of dollars. )

What I did is not that much but it's kind of one thing you benefit from trying to solve problems alone instead of following everyone's way of doing it ( courses and other sh!t )

I started sending one line text format email, asking if this is the right person i'm emailing :

Hey {{name}}

Just checking to see if I have the right person, is this still your primary email?

Best,

And this got me 7-8 responds from 100 emails. by just changing the sender name to use a personal/human name, that could go up.

Another thing I did, since my saas is providing audio content, I thought about sending audios directly in the email an a test so they know what they are getting without doing much efforts. But gmail blocks that and icloud allows it, so i sent an html email in text format except the play audio button in html and having the mp3 file link.

I get visitors, but no signups yet, except one,a good one

Am I doing well ? Or I'm just liking this temporary? What's ypur advice for a new fella!

I recently launched my saas ( dw, Not gonna share it ever here ) and i built an internal mailing tool ( not sharing this too ) and after i tried tracking open rate and click rate, I LOVED IT.

A problem i faced risk of getting flagged as Spam. Since i dont have yet a reputation. So what I did, instead of just directly emailing people with my product ( which is very interesting to these people, they'll surely be interested ).

I needed to warmup ( i cant pay for warmup tools, it's too expensive and takes a lot of time. And by the time i want to get that reputation needed to send thousands/millions of emails I needed, It'll be months and thousands of dollars. )

What I did is not that much but it's kind of one thing you benefit from trying to solve problems alone instead of following everyone's way of doing it ( courses and other sh!t )

I started sending one line text format email, asking if this is the right person i'm emailing :

Hey {{name}}

Just checking to see if I have the right person, is this still your primary email?

Best,

And this got me 7-8 responds from 100 emails. by just changing the sender name to use a personal/human name, that could go up.

Another thing I did, since my saas is providing audio content, I thought about sending audios directly in the email an a test so they know what they are getting without doing much efforts. But gmail blocks that and icloud allows it, so i sent an html email in text format except the play audio button in html and having the mp3 file link.

I get visitors, but no signups yet, except one,a good one

Am I doing well ? Or I'm just liking this temporary? What's ypur advice for a new fella!

Seriously. I started trying to keep up with papers in my field out of pure curiosity and within two weeks I had tens of unread PDFs sitting in my downloads folder judging me every time I opened my laptop 😭

I'm not even in academia. I just like understanding what's actually happening in science beyond the headlines.

What broke me was realizing I'd been "saving papers to read later" for months and later never came. So I started summarizing them myself just to force myself to actually process them, and somewhere along the way that turned into something bigger that I'm still figuring out.

My honest question is, how do you actually keep up? Like genuinely. Do you have a system? Do you just accept that you'll always be behind? Do you only read abstracts and pray? 😅

Because from the outside looking in, the volume of new research dropping every week looks absolutely insane and I have no idea how anyone stays on top of it without losing their mind.