u/InvestigatorMoist448

I started a Notion template side hustle in January this yr. Spent 4 months making 12 templates (yes, I feel like I'm not so creative for this one). Posted on known social media platforms such as Tiktok, Twitter, Instagram, and Reddit. I made like $42 in total, its good for a someone like me who don't have stable job.

The problem here is I was tracking followers and likes instead of conversion rate from post to Gumroad. Then when I finally checked, there's 2000 views, 3 clicks, and zero sales. My product page sucked. So, I fixed two things:

1. First, I added gif showing the template in use instead of images only. To be more interactive and appealing.
2. Second, I change my headline like from package something to a headline that states a word like "copy this" or "use this", like a call to action.

I wish someone told me to check those things I fix but yeah, that's I think part of my growth in building my knowledge. You, what metric did you ignore too long in your side hustles that actually surprise you for being the "oh that's it" moment?

As a first timer in this field (I would say a new hobby for me), it's my first time using Firecrawl and my RAG answers were garbage. The LLM reading nav bars and footers plus cookie banners. To solve that, this what fixed it for me:

1. Use formats. like markdown instead of html.
2. Add only main content like true to strip.
3. Post process
4. Chunk by headers, not fixed token size

Then, after that my retrieval accuracy went up a lot and token cost dropped 40%. I'm using this with Eva for discovery plus Firecrawl for extraction. What's your cleaning pipeline look like? Any tools better than regex for this?

I know that excessed use may be bad but in moderation, Gemini have influence me to become more. BETTER ME. It was a hard thing to do, as a Psychology Major where I encounter topics about mental health and study tips that is applicable on every student, I expected so much on myself to the point that I was overwhelmed and disappointed whenever I don't know what to do.

Gemini taught me that my emotions as a student may be the challenge since feeling pressured and unproductive lead to no things to do or to learn, so regulating my emotions thru working out my body physically have helped me. Prompt is very important, but I realize even I'm just being raw and full of emotion, Gemini respond as well emphatic person. I'm very thankful to that!

How about you? What's the thing you are most grateful about Gemini as a student or normal individual? Let me know in the comments!

I used NotebookLM to turn 200 pages of research into 1 podcast PLUS mind mapping. Now, I will show you what worked for me and what did not:

First, I had to prep for a thesis defense and had 200 pages of PDFs, Youtube lectures, and random Google Docs. Did not have time to re-read everything. So I dumped it all into NotebookLM.

What worked well: Podcast/Audio Overview
-I generated the audio summary while cooking and walking. Hearing my sources "debate" each other made me remember the arguments way better than just re-reading. It caught two contradictions between papers I would've missed.

What did not work well: Citing specific pages
-Sometimes it would cites a source but the quote wasn't exact. I learned to always ask.

-I'm curious, since I'm new to this community 😄 How are you all using the mind map feature? Do you keep everything in one notebook or splitted? Let me know in the comment! Thankyou!