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I tried to buy LinkedIn accounts 3 times. First seller ghosted. Second sent me accounts that needed phone verification instantly. Third one lasted 2 weeks then asked for a selfie.

Complete waste of money.

Then someone told me to stop trying to buy verified LinkedIn accounts from random Telegram groups and just use Aimfox's rented profiles.

They call them "Outreach Avatars”: you pay monthly and they give you a ready-to-go account inside their system. No proxies, no warming up, no getting scammed.

Does it cost more than trying to buy an old LinkedIn account for $30? Yes, but I've been running one for almost a month now with zero bans.

Also tried to buy a LinkedIn account with connections once and those connections were all bots anyway. Useless.

What works if you still want to buy raw:

- Use a dedicated proxy (don't log in from your home IP).

- Warm the account for 7-10 days manually before turning on automation.

- Stay under 80 actions/day for the first month.

But if you just want it to work without the headache, the Aimfox rented avatars are the only thing that's actually delivered for me.

Ask me anything if you're struggling with bans. Happy to share what didn't work too (which is most of it).

I took on a small lifestyle brand client in december and inherited a messy stack, they were paying for two schedulers nobody used. I spent january through march testing four social media schedulers properly to figure out what to keep and here's what I found:

Buffer was the cleanest ui and the cheapest entry tier, pinterest scheduling works fine too but the analytics for pinterest are basically nonexistent inside like you have to bounce out to pinterest itself to see anything.

Hootsuite is the opposite, it does everything but the dashboard is overkill for a brand pushing maybe 20 posts a week and the price doesn't make sense at this scale.

Later is great visually for instagram but its pinterest features have always felt like an afterthought.

The pinterest side, which is 60% of this client's traffic, ended up running through tailwind in parallel with buffer for the other channels. Tailwind has the deepest pinterest specific features by a wide margin and the price is honestly not bad for what you get. Not a perfect tool either, the analytics dashboard takes some getting used to and I wish the calendar view scrolled smoother

Verdict so far is that nothing handles all four platforms equally well which is annoying but probably realistic. Stack of two is cheaper than the all in one anyway

The WooCommerce chatbot plugin failure mode is specific and it doesn't show up in reviews because it only surfaces in production. The setup looks fine. The demo is clean. Then a customer asks about a product added three weeks ago, or a variant that's only available in certain sizes, or something that was updated last Tuesday. Considering it is completely unacceptable when a customer is mid-purchase, why is the bot still either fabricating answers or going generic?

ive been making stuff in Suno for months and theres one track i actually wanted to play on piano. couldnt find a clean way from audio to something playable for a while.

tried asking Suno to make a piano-only version, useful but not the same as a transcription. eventually ran it through songscription which gives you sheet music and MIDI from the audio.

main melody and bass came out clean. the inner harmony Suno does at bridges confused it and one of the v4 vocal harmonization passes got interpreted as a piano part. cleaned up in MuseScore and ended up with something playable for the first time.

anyone else doing this bridge? stems first or straight from the master?

I bought a hearth display because I wanted a better family calendar. That was the whole brief. We had google calendar, a whiteboard, a paper wall calendar, and none of them were working as a shared system. I wanted one thing on the wall that everyone could see and I could stop being the person who held all the information.

Six months in the calendar is fine. It does the job. But it's not what I think about when someone asks me if it was worth it.

What I think about is that my 6 year old now has a feelings check in every morning that she takes genuinely seriously. She picks her mood, sometimes she wants to talk about it, sometimes she doesn't, but there's this small moment of self awareness built into her day that didn't exist before. My husband started noticing it too and now we have more context for how she's doing on any given day rather than finding out at 8pm when something finally boils over.

I didn't buy it for that, tbh I didn't even know about this option when I got it. I was comparing sync compatibility and screen sizes and I skimmed over that feature when I was evaluating options.

I don't know if that makes it the best digital family calendar or not. I just know it's the thing I'd miss most if we took it down.

I was going through a can of dry shampoo every three weeks. Fine hair, oily roots by noon, dry shampoo was just part of the routine at that point, something I'd accepted as the price of having the hair type I have. It never occurred to me that the dry shampoo might be making the oiliness worse rather than just managing it.

A friend who switched to a shampoo bar kept telling me her scalp had settled and she was washing less. I didn't believe her. My scalp had been oily my entire adult life and no shampoo was going to change that, or so I thought.

I switched mostly out of curiosity and mild skepticism. The first two weeks were rough, roots felt greasier than normal and I almost went back to my old shampoo twice. Week three something shifted. My roots were staying fresher longer than they had in years, not dramatically, but noticeably. By the end of the month I'd used dry shampoo twice instead of every other day.

I've been using the kitsch rosemary biotin bar and what I think happened is the sulfate stripping I was doing with my old shampoo was triggering my scalp to overproduce oil constantly to compensate, and the dry shampoo was just absorbing the excess without ever addressing why the excess was there. Switching to something gentler broke the cycle.

I still have oily hair. But I wash every three days now instead of every day and a half, and I haven't bought dry shampoo in two months. For fine oily hair that felt like an impossible outcome six months ago.

We spent most of the school year building systems that finally worked for our 8yo with ADHD. By April things actually felt stable. Then May hit and suddenly every system collapsed right when we needed it most. The problem with Maycember and an ADHD kid isn't just the volume. It's that the volume breaks the predictability, and predictability is the whole thing. When the schedule changes every day because there's a field trip or an early dismissal or a spirit week activity that replaced the normal afternoon, the routine scaffolding that took months to build stops working overnight.

Every ADHD parent I've talked to describes the same May pattern: the systems that held all year collapse right when you need them most, and you spend June trying to rebuild something that worked fine in April. What actually helped us was separating the routine from the calendar entirely. The routine my son follows in the morning doesn't change regardless of what's happening in the rest of the day, and keeping those two things visually separate was the specific thing that made the difference.

What helped was treating routines and the actual family schedule like two different things. The calendar could change constantly, but his morning sequence stayed identical. We are using Hearth for this because it let us keep those separate visually, which mattered way more than I expected.

Bonjour. J aimerais diversifier mes investissements au meme endroit. J ai vu qu on pouvait trader differents actifs comme les actions les indices et les cryptos sur AvaTrade. Est-ce que les frais sont raisonnables pour un compte tout-en-un ou vaut-il

mieux separer ses comptes chez plusieurs courtiers ?

We track time off in a Google Sheet and I'm the only one who updates it. My team just pings me on Slack or sends an email when they want days off and I do the data entry. I want a simple tool where they can request vacation themselves, connected to Slack or email. Anyone have recommendations?

Looking for the Fujifilm recipes app that actual Fuji shooters (people who own X-T5s, X100Vs, etc.) use on their iPhones for second body coverage or for situations where the Fuji isn't the right tool. Less interested in opinions from people who don't shoot Fuji and just like the aesthetic. What's the recipes app the Fuji community has actually adopted?

I've been doing this mostly through Instagram search and a few recommendations from people I know. Im spending a lot of time on it and I'm not sure I'm finding the right profiles, probably missing a lot of good ones.

I'm a property manager for a small office building. Our maintenance team keeps aerosol lubricants, spray paint, adhesives, and cleaning products in a utility closet, roughly twenty-five to thirty aerosol cans plus some quart-size solvent containers.

During a recent fire inspection the inspector mentioned we might need an approved flammable storage cabinet depending on the total aggregate quantity of flammable liquids. Those cabinets run anywhere from $500 to $2,000.

I'm not even sure which products are classified as flammable liquids. Some aerosol cans have the GHS flame pictogram, others don't, and I don't know whether aerosols and regular containers are counted separately for maximum allowable quantity calculations.

Before spending money on a cabinet, I want to understand the actual requirement. Do our quantities trigger it, or was the inspector being overly cautious?

May hit and I genuinely did not see it coming even though it comes every year. Three kids, two schools, and suddenly every single thing is due at once. I'm talking… spirit week, a recital, so many sports tournaments, teacher appreciation, camp deposit deadlines, end of year party i forgot i volunteered for , field trips. Not one at a time. All of them, same two weeks, across four different group chats, two school apps, AND my email.

The whiteboard I'd been using since September was a fail. Not because it ran out of space, but because I ran out of capacity to keep transferring things onto it. The system only works when one person has enough bandwidth to maintain it and May is exactly when that bandwidth disappears.

I texted a friend asking how she was handling it all and she said wasn't that overwhelmed?? . Apparently something called a Hearth is helping.looked it up that nightIt is basically a digital family calendar that sits on the wall and syncs all your calendar events, routines, to-dos, meals, etc.. automatically so the May sprint shows up without anyone manually transferring it.

Not sure I believe anything can actually make Maycember feel calm, but I do think there's a real difference between everything living in my head vs everything living on the wall and it seems like this is basically built for that shift... pulling calendars, lists, and routines into one shared place so it's not all on one person to track.

So… yeah, I'm honestly considering it. Has anyone else tried this?

Choosing between a business line of credit and a term loan mostly comes down to what the money is for and how predictable your expenses are, so here's how they actually differ.

Business line of credit: Revolving facility with a set limit, you draw what you need when you need it, pay interest only on what you use, and the credit replenishes as you repay. Works best for recurring but uneven expenses like covering payroll gaps, inventory, or bridging the time between invoicing and getting paid. You're not carrying interest on money sitting idle, which matters if the need is spread out over time rather than a single purchase.

Term loan: Lump sum paid back in fixed installments over a set period. Payment doesn't move with how business is going, which makes budgeting more predictable but can create pressure during slower months. Makes more sense for a specific planned expense with a known cost, something like equipment or a renovation where you know the number upfront.

How to decide

If the need is ongoing and unpredictable, the line of credit fits better because flexibility is built in. If it's a one-time investment with a fixed price, the term loan is cleaner. Businesses with seasonal or variable revenue generally do better with something that moves with performance rather than a fixed schedule.

Where to get either one

Community banks and credit unions are the traditional route if your financials and time in business are strong, SBA 7(a) covers term loans up to $5M but the process runs long. For faster approval with lower documentation requirements, direct lenders like total merchant resources do both lines of credit and revenue-based financing with repayment structured around monthly cash flow

Hey, I'm the marketing lead at a 50-person SaaS, and I've been iterating on content for about two years now. Figured I'd share what actually moved demos for us vs what didn't, because I wish someone had told me this earlier. The volume playbook didn't work for me. I was pushing 15 articles a month, all top-of-funnel stuff, best-of lists, the whole thing. Did it for 14 months straight. Got the rankings, got the traffic, got almost zero demos out of it. Brutal lesson. The buyer-intent playbook is what finally worked. I cut us down to 4 articles a month, max, with each one tied to a specific pain point that was actively coming up in our sales calls. Articles built on internal interviews instead of just skimming what competitors had written. And I started tracking demo attribution per article so I could actually see what was pulling its weight. What forced me to make the switch was hiring Grow and Convert. They require interviews with our product and sales team for every article. Our production cycle went from a week to 3 weeks per article. But conversion rate per article went from under 1 percent to 5-8 percent. So the math worked out. The catch you should know about: your internal team has to actually commit the interview time. If your product or sales people can't give you 30 minutes per article, this whole approach falls apart. I had to fight for that buy-in early on, and honestly it's the thing I'd protect hardest if I were doing this over. So I'm curious, what playbooks moved your numbers if you're running content for a small SaaS team? Especially keen to hear from anyone who tried something different from the buyer-intent approach and made it work.

I'm an engineer at an aerospace company and after two years I realized we never really challenge our component choices. We always go back to the same manufacturers without questioning it much. Looking to build a better picture of who the reliable names are for electronic components (diodes, ICs, capacitors, inductors, resistors, EMI filters, connectors etc)

Peak season support prep has a real ceiling. Seasonal hires need training time you don't have. More automation means more edge cases piling up. Asking the team to work faster drops quality. The math never closes perfectly.

The deeper issue is that peak season changes the query mix, not just volume. Will this arrive by X and is this a good gift for Y are much harder to automate than standard WISMO because they need judgment.

So the team gets hit twice. More volume and harder questions simultaneously.

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Ok so I know webtoon has some romance stuff with spicy scenes but they always cut away right when it gets good and it's frustrating lol. I'm looking for platforms that have more mature comics and manhwa that don't censor everything, like actual adult themed stories with good art and real plot not just random smut. Something like lezhin or toomics but with a bigger catalog maybe? Where do you guys read sexy comics that are well written and don't feel cheap?

Spent time on this recently and the thing that kept tripping me up was comparing tools that aren't really in the same category. Once I understood the actual split, the decision got easier.

Full FSM platforms like Jobber and Housecall Pro are operations tools that include estimating. Estimating is one module inside a broader system built around scheduling, dispatch, and crew management. If that infrastructure is what you need, they're the right call. If estimating and invoicing are the core problem and you don't have a dispatcher or office admin, you're paying for a platform that doesn't match your operation.

Lightweight quoting apps like Joist solve a narrower problem. Low friction, easy to start, gets limiting once you're past the early stage.

Purpose-built estimating tools are the middle category and honestly the least talked about. Bizzen is the clearest example of this category I've come across: built around the site visit and the estimate that comes out of it, invoicing and follow-up automation included, no heavy setup. The design assumption is the field workflow rather than the office workflow.

The feature list comparison matters less than understanding which category fits your actual operation. If the bottleneck is admin time after site visits, you want a tool built around that problem, not a platform that treats estimating as one of ten modules.