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Heads up if your thinking about taking those reddit based tasked jobs

i did them for about three weeks and got ~ 6.8k, bu then after that my 2 year old 2k+ karma account got banned from most major subreddits, now this is the nly one thats left....

Those copy-paste tasks might be easy, but not-sustainable in the long run and can and most prolly will damage your account, so be veryyyy cafreful and avoid them

ps - also if someone can suggest a sustainble side hustle, it would be great

Heads up if your thinking about taking those reddit based tasked jobs

i did them for about three weeks and got ~ 6.8k, bu then after that my 2 year old 2k+ karma account got banned from most major subreddits, now this is the nly one thats left....

Those copy-paste tasks might be easy, but not-sustainable in the long run and can and most prolly will damage your account, so be veryyyy cafreful and avoid them

ps - also if someone can suggest a sustainble side hustle, it would be great

Heads up if your thinking about taking those reddit based tasked jobs

i did them for about three weeks and got ~ 6.8k, bu then after that my 2 year old 2k+ karma account got banned from most major subreddits, now this is the nly one thats left....

Those copy-paste tasks might be easy, but not-sustainable in the long run and can and most prolly will damage your account, so be veryyyy cafreful and avoid them

ps - also if someone can suggest a sustainble side hustle, it would be great

Heads up if your thinking about taking those reddit based tasked jobs

i did them for about three weeks and got ~ 6.8k, bu then after that my 2 year old 2k+ karma account got banned from most major subreddits, now this is the nly one thats left....

Those copy-paste tasks might be easy, but not-sustainable in the long run and can and most prolly will damage your account, so be veryyyy cafreful and avoid them

ps - also if someone can suggest a sustainble side hustle, it would be great

I manage a small insurance brokerage, just four of us who occasionally do client meetings, chamber of commerce breakfasts, that sort of thing. Maybe one or two networking events a month, sometimes fewer.

Every time I bring up switching from paper cards, my business partner basically rolls his eyes. His argument is that we dont go out enough for it to make a real difference, and that paper cards work fine for the volume we do. And honestly I cant fully argue with him because I dont have specifics to counter with.

But the thing that bugs me is that we have no idea what happens after we hand a card to someone. Do they follow up? Did they lose it? Did they actually look us up? Paper gives you zero feedback on any of that, and it feels like we're just throwing them into a void every time.

So I guess my question is, for people who went through this same internal debate, is a digital business card worth it even at low event volume? Or does the value only really show up when you're networking constantly? Would love to hear from people who were skeptical going in and either changed their mind or didnt.

I've been running ClickUp Brain 2.0 on a few active projects for the past couple days, and my first impression is that the context thing might actually be real. Like it pulled up a customer note I wrote three weeks ago without me prompting it, just surfaced it because it was relevant to what I was working on. It knew my meeting coming up and related it to that same customer.

What I'm watching is whether that holds up across a bigger workspace. Right now I'm trialing in my personal workspace not my company one. Maybe 200 tasks.

I also test drove creating projects then updating the tasks in bulk. It was able to create views, fields, etc. Also forms and dashboards was a nice surprise as those usually are time consuming.

Anyone else mid-test on this? Curious what workspaces or project types you're putting it through.

I've sat through three vendor demos in the past month and every single one of them opened with words like 'seamless' and 'delight your guests' and I had to physically stop myself from closing the tab. We run a 90-room independent property and I'm just trying to figure out if any of this stuff actually works in a real hotel environment or if it's all polished screenshots.

Specifically what I want to know is: does it actually connect to your PMS and pull real reservation data, or does it just answer generic FAQs? And when a guest asks something the bot cant handle, what happens? Does it gracefully pass it off or does the guest just get stuck in a loop?

I've been burned before on a 'smart' phone system that turned out to be a glorified IVR with a nicer interface. Cost us a good chunk of change and three months of staff frustration before we cut it loose. So I'm not interested in the pitch, I want to hear from people who are actually running one of these things day to day.

What did onboarding actually look like? What broke first? And is there a point where you genuinely stopped thinking about it and it just ran?

Gboard voice typing still works fine for quick texts, but it gets frustrating when I try to dictate anything longer than a short reply. It cuts off mid-thought, misses punctuation, or turns a normal paragraph into something I have to spend too much time fixing.

Lately I’ve been using Voicedash for longer paragraphs, notes, drafts, and messages where I want the output to be more readable the first time. Then I still use Gboard for quick replies where convenience matters more than perfect cleanup.

That split has worked better for me than expecting the keyboard mic button to handle every kind of dictation. For longer thoughts, I care less about raw speed and more about whether the final text is actually usable.

Has anyone else moved to a separate voice-to-text app for longer dictation?

So I work in commercial real estate, just me and two colleagues who do most of the client-facing stuff. We went to a local property investors meetup last Thursday and I finally tried handing out a digital card instead of paper ones for the first time. Honestly wasnt expecting much but I followed up with four new contacts before I even got home, which never happens when I'm fumbling around with paper cards days later trying to remember who was who.

Now I'm sitting here wondering if that was just a lucky night or if digital cards are actually worth building a habit around. Like do the results hold up consistently or was it just the novelty making me more intentional about follow-ups?

Has anyone else had one of those small wins early on and then figured out how to actually build on it? Would love to know what the next step looks like, whether thats getting the rest of the team on board or doing something smarter with the contact data I'm collecting.

ive been meaning to put this all down somewhere for a while now. the full arc of going from managing a team of 8 SDRs at a series B to sitting alone in my apartment sending cold emails for other peoples companies. its been about 22 months and honestly the first year was a mess that slowly turned into something real. gonna try to lay out every number i can remember because i think the specifics are what actually help people

BEFORE

i left my SDR manager role in august 2023. we had just lost a $340k deal i had been quarterbacking for 6 months because the champion left the company mid-cycle and nobody had built a second thread. that loss broke something in me. not in a dramatic way, more like i just looked around and realized i was building pipeline for someone elses vision and i wasnt even that good at the politics required to move up. so i quit with about 4 months of savings and told myself id figure it out

first client came through my network. old colleague needed help with outbound for his fintech startup. i charged him $2,500/mo which looking back was way too low but i had zero leverage and zero proof i could do this solo. the problem was that everything i knew about outbound was built on having a team, having Salesforce with enrichment integrations already wired up, having an ops person who handled deliverability. i had none of that

month one revenue: $2,500. one client. and i was spending probably 50 hours a week on it because i was doing everything manually. scraping LinkedIn, finding emails one by one through Hunter, writing sequences in google docs and then copy pasting them into... i think i was using Woodpecker at that point. maybe Lemlist. honestly the first two months blur together

the numbers from that period were bad. like actually bad. bounce rate was sitting around 8.5% on most campaigns because my email sourcing was garbage. i was pulling contacts from LinkedIn, running them through Hunter for enrichment, and just hoping for the best. reply rates were around 1.1% which if youve done any volume you know is basically nothing. i booked my client 3 meetings in the first month which sounds ok until you realize i was sending close to 2,000 emails to get there

month two i picked up a second client through a cold DM on twitter of all things. saas company selling to mid-market HR teams. $3,000/mo. so now im at $5,500 and feeling like maybe this could work. except i was drowning. i didnt have systems for anything. i was using a personal gmail to send some campaigns (i know i know) and a couple google workspace accounts i had set up myself. no warmup. no rotation. just vibes and desperation

by month three the wheels came off. one of my domains got blacklisted. bounce rates on the HR campaign hit 11.2% which is insane and i should have caught it way earlier but i wasnt monitoring anything properly. my fintech client was getting frustrated because the meetings i was booking were mostly unqualified. i lost that client at the end of month three. back down to $3,000/mo and honestly questioning whether i should just go back to a W2

the low point was probably early december 2023. i remember sitting in a coffee shop running numbers on my laptop and realizing that at my current burn rate i had maybe 7 weeks before i needed to either get new clients or start interviewing. i had spent about $800/mo on tools (Woodpecker, Hunter, a couple random data tools i barely used) and wasnt even close to breaking even when you factored in the domains and inboxes

AFTER

the turn started because i swallowed my pride and called a friend who runs a bigger outbound agency, maybe 15 people. she basically told me i was doing everything wrong from an infrastructure standpoint. her exact words were something like "youre sending from 3 inboxes and wondering why your deliverability is trash." fair point

first thing i fixed was infrastructure. this was january 2024. i set up 12 inboxes across 4 domains using Mailforge. cost was about $3/inbox/mo so like $36/mo for all of them which felt like nothing compared to what i had been spending on google workspace accounts. warmed them all up for 3 weeks before sending a single campaign email. i was using the warmup built into Lemlist at that point because i had switched over from Woodpecker (Woodpecker is fine but Lemlist felt more natural for the way i think about sequences)

the warmup period was painful because i had no revenue coming in and i was just... waiting. but those 3 weeks changed everything about my results going forward. took me way too long to understand that deliverability isnt something you fix after the fact, its something you build before you start

january i also landed two new clients through referrals. one was a cybersecurity company selling to mid-market IT directors, $3,500/mo. the other was a recruiting firm, $2,800/mo. so i went from $3,000 to $9,300/mo in about 3 weeks which felt surreal

second thing i fixed was data quality. this is where things got specific. my old workflow was LinkedIn Sales Nav to Hunter to send. the problem was Hunter was missing emails for probably 35-40% of my list and the ones it did find had a bounce rate that was way too high. a guy in a slack community i was in mentioned running a waterfall enrichment setup and i started experimenting with that in february 2024

i added Prospeo to my enrichment stack alongside Hunter and the difference was immediate. bounce rates on my cybersecurity campaign dropped from around 7.8% to 1.6% within the first two weeks. i was actually shocked because i had assumed the bounce issue was a domain reputation thing but it turned out most of it was just bad email data

the workflow became: pull from Sales Nav, enrich through Clay (which lets you chain multiple providers), run Prospeo as the primary enrichment source, then verify everything through ZeroBounce before it goes into Lemlist. Prospeo found valid emails for about 82% of the contacts i fed it which was way better than what i was getting before. only complaint is the bulk processing can be slow when youre running 2,000+ contacts, like sometimes id start a job before bed and it still wouldnt be done in the morning. but the data quality was solid so i just planned around it

third thing: i actually learned to write copy that doesnt sound like a robot. my SDR manager brain had been trained on these very structured, very corporate email templates. "i noticed your company recently..." type stuff. i started studying what was actually getting replies in my own inbox and realized the emails that worked were short, specific, and sounded like a person wrote them in 30 seconds. my reply rates went from that 1.1% range to about 3.4% across all campaigns by march 2024

let me give you the month by month revenue because i think the trajectory is useful:

jan 2024: $9,300 (3 clients) feb 2024: $9,300 mar 2024: $12,800 (added a logistics company, $3,500/mo) apr 2024: $12,800 may 2024: $16,300 (added two small clients) jun 2024: $14,500 (lost the recruiting firm, they went in-house) jul 2024: $18,200 aug 2024: $21,700 sep 2024 onward: stabilized around $22-24k/mo

the jump from march to august was mostly about getting better at closing my own deals ironically. i was so focused on doing outbound for clients that i neglected my own pipeline for months. once i started running a small campaign for my own services (literally 50 emails a week, super targeted to series A and B founders) i started getting 2-3 discovery calls a month and closing about 40% of them

current monthly costs for context: Lemlist is $99/mo, Clay is $149/mo (the credit system is confusing and i always run out mid-month), Mailforge is around $45/mo now because i have more inboxes, ZeroBounce is maybe $50/mo depending on volume, Prospeo runs me about $79/mo, LinkedIn Sales Nav is $99/mo, and then domains are like $60/mo across all of them. so total tooling cost is somewhere around $580-620/mo which against $24k revenue is pretty comfortable

the thing i still havent figured out is scaling without hiring. im at capacity with 6 clients and every time i think about bringing someone on i remember all the management overhead from my old job and i just... dont want to go back to that. but theres a ceiling here and i can feel it. i turned down a $5,000/mo client last month because i literally didnt have the hours. that was a weird feeling after spending months desperate for any revenue

oh wait i should mention - the cybersecurity client from january is still with me and theyve expanded twice. started at $3,500, now paying $6,200/mo because were running campaigns into 3 different ICPs for them. that single client relationship has been worth more than any tool or tactic. i almost lost them in april when a campaign targeting CISOs at healthcare companies completely bombed (0.4% reply rate, booked zero meetings in 3 weeks) but i was transparent about it, showed them the data, adjusted the targeting, and the next campaign did 4.1% reply rate. that saved the relationship and honestly taught me more about client management than anything from my corporate days

i also lost a deal in june that still bugs me. $8,000/mo engagement with an edtech company. we were in final negotiations and they went with a bigger agency because they wanted someone who could also do LinkedIn outbound through Dripify or Waalaxy. i didnt offer that at the time (i do now, added it in september) and it cost me what would have been my biggest contract. that one stung for weeks

my average across all campaigns right now is about 3.1% reply rate and roughly 0.8% positive reply rate which translates to about 12-18 meetings per month per client depending on their TAM and how niche the ICP is. cost per meeting for my clients ranges from about $180 to $340 depending on the vertical. cybersecurity is the most expensive because the audience is small and skeptical. logistics is cheapest because nobody is doing good outbound to that market yet

anyway this got way longer than i planned. 22 months ago i was an SDR manager who thought he knew outbound and it turns out knowing how to manage a team doing outbound and actually doing outbound yourself are completely different skills. the infrastructure stuff alone took me 4 months to figure out and i could have done it in 2 weeks if someone had just told me what i wrote above

I have tried so many in the past, but a coworker sent me this brand that is grown directly in vermont. Just curious if anyone has tried this brand!

Moving to a new walk-up near Ditmars soon and I have major PTSD from my last NYC move. The company gave me a low quote, but once they loaded the truck they claimed they used $300 worth of "special tape and blankets" and held my bed hostage until I paid cash. Who is actually honest around here and gives upfront pricing without the sketchy hidden fees?

Bitcoin feels a lot more mainstream now than it did a few years ago. Between ETFs, wider adoption, and the number of easy on-ramps available, getting started seems much less intimidating than it used to be. Even services like Paybis have made buying crypto pretty straightforward for someone with no prior experience.

What I'm curious about is how people view Bitcoin in 2026 compared to previous cycles. Do you see it primarily as a long-term asset at this point, or does entry timing still play as big a role as it did when the market was less mature?

Magnetic options are starting to look pretty appealing to me. Wired banks are turning into more hassle than they\'re worth, you\'re untangling the cable, holding the phone in place, and the whole thing just gets annoying when you\'re out and about.

Before I switch though I\'ve got a couple concerns. First, does the magnet actually hold while you\'re walking around, or does it just slip off? And second, is wireless charging speed actually usable these days, or is it still clearly slower than plugging in? I\'ve heard mixed things on both.

Nothing heavy here, I just need something to top off my iphone 17 during the day. Anyone made the jump from wired and actually been happy about it? Any recs?

ran this test because we were burning through credits on hunter and snov with garbage bounce rates. took 500 contacts from recent trade show leads where we had full names and companies.

results were... interesting. hunter found 312 emails but 47 bounced. snov found 298 with 38 bounces. apollo found 341 but like 15% bounced which was rough. clearbit only found 187 total which was disappointing for the price.

pretty much decided on prospeo for the email lookup side since they found 378 emails with only 8 bounces. their verification seems way more accurate than the others. still testing their mobile finder too since we want to add cold calling to our outreach mix.

my boss has been on my ass about sender reputation so this whole test was basically me trying to justify switching tools before we scale. anyone else done similar comparisons? curious what bounce rates you're seeing with different email finder tools. trying to keep deliverability clean as we scale from 500 to 2000 emails per week.

I’m getting married in a warm month and I already know nerves alone are going to make me sweat more than usual.

I keep seeing Carpe come up when people talk about wedding-day sweat and honestly it seems more promising than just relying on standard deodorant and hoping for the best. I’d rather test something ahead of time that’s actually meant for sweating.

If you used it as a bride, where did it help most? Underarms, chest, thighs, face, anywhere else?

بعد سبع تجارب فاشلة في سوق اشتراكات iptv بالسعودية اقدر اخيرا اقول وش يشتغل فعلا ووش مضيعة فلوس. كل واحد يدور اشتراك iptv مستقر يعرف المعاناة. تشتري من واحد بتيليجرام يشتغل اسبوع وبعدين يختفي مع فلوسك. صار معي خمس مرات هالسنة وكنت قريب اترك الموضوع بالكامل

زميلي في الشغل يستخدم اشتراكات iptv من اكثر من سنة ونص وقالي انه ما واجه مشكلة وحدة. ما صدقته اول شي لان كل الناس تقول نفس الكلام. بس لما رحت بيته وشفت التلفزيون عنده بعيني تغيرت نظرتي بالكامل. الدوري السعودي كان شغال بجودة 4k احسن من bein sports الرسمي. الفرق كان واضح من اول دقيقة

سألته وش يستخدم بالضبط وقالي عنده خدمتين. tvoxar للرياضة و tvzitam للافلام والمسلسلات. قلت خلني اجرب بنفسي قبل ما احكم

للرياضة: tvoxar.com

الدوري السعودي كل اسبوع مستقر بجودة 4k حقيقية. ما علق ولا مرة وحدة في ستة شهور. دوري ابطال اوروبا ايام الثلاثاء والاربعاء بدون اي تقطيع. قنوات bein sports و ssc كلها شغالة. حتى كاس العالم للاندية شغال وتصفيات كاس العالم بدون مشاكل. جمعت الشباب عندي لمباراة الهلال والنصر في الديربي وكنا عشرين شخص والبث ما تأثر ابدا. واحد من الشباب عنده اشتراك iptv من bein الرسمي بالف ومئتين ريال بالسنة وقال صراحة ان جودتي احسن من جودته. يشتغل على iptv smarters pro و smart iptv بدون اي مشكلة. التطبيق يفتح بثانيتين وتغيير القنوات سريع جدا. احسن اشتراك iptv للرياضة بعد كل اللي جربته في سوق اشتراكات iptv بالسعودية

للافلام والمسلسلات: tvzitam.com

هذي اللي غيرت رأي زوجتي بالكامل. كانت ضد الموضوع مئة بالمئة وقالت لي اذا ضيعت فلوس مرة ثانية على اشتراك iptv ثاني بتاخذ البطاقة البنكية. بس لما شافت المحتوى تحولت لاكبر فان. المكتبة اكبر من شاهد ونتفلكس وديزني مع بعض بكثير. افلام جديدة تنزل بسرعة بجودة 4k hdr حقيقية. مسلسلات عربية وتركية وكورية كلها موجودة بجودة عالية. قسم الاطفال مرتب حسب الفئة العمرية عشان بنتنا اللي عمرها اربع سنوات ما تلاقي شي ما يناسبها. زوجتي الغت اشتراك نتفلكس في ثالث يوم بدون ما تسألني. الغت شاهد بعدها بيومين. حتى ديزني بلس راح. كل شي كانت تتابعه كان موجود. امي لما تزورنا تستخدمه لمسلسلاتها التركية وتلاقي كل شي بروحها بدون ما تتصل فيني. يشتغل على smart iptv وعلى iptv smarters pro بنفس الجودة

الارقام

قبل كنا ندفع bein رسمي زائد شاهد زائد نتفلكس زائد ديزني بلس. تقريبا ستمئة وخمسين ريال بالشهر. الحين ندفع جزء صغير من هالمبلغ على محتوى اكثر بعشر مرات وجودة احسن. نوفر اكثر من ستة آلاف ريال بالسنة. زوجتي سوت جدول اكسل فيه كل ريال وفرناه. تخطط لرحلة عائلية لتركيا بفلوس التوفير. ما عندي اي حق تصويت على الوجهة

الخلاصة

سوق اشتراكات iptv في السعودية تطور بشكل كبير. قبل سنتين كل اشتراك iptv كان يموت بعد اسبوعين والسوق كان كله نصب. الحين في خيارات حقيقية مستقرة اذا اخذت وقتك وبحثت صح. بس لازم تبتعد عن عروض تيليجرام الرخيصة اللي بعشرين ريال بالشهر. اللي يبي اشتراك iptv يدوم لازم يستثمر شوي ويبحث عن اشتراكات iptv عندها سمعة

نصيحتي: جرب على iptv smarters pro او smart iptv لان هذي احسن تطبيقات. وخذ وقتك قبل ما تدفع. السعر الرخيص دائما يعني سيرفرات مزدحمة وتقطيع مستمر

في احد هنا عنده اشتراك iptv مستقر من اكثر من ستة شهور بالسعودية؟ ابي اعرف وش تستخدمون

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