u/Neat-Peanut-1141

Hey SEO people,

I was slowly building up SEO for my website over the past couple of month and it started to work. I had around 900 impressions and 50 clicks per day.

And with the recent google search update it looks my page is gone, it dropped to 100 impressions and almost no clicks.

I know my website has an "ai look" but what counts is that the app is useful for me.

Anyways, I try to look at my website today in a more critical way. Can you help me, what am I doing wrong? Do you think my domain name is toast now? Its ListenDock dot com.

Suspicion is that my sitemap.xml is too stuffed. E.g. when a user creates a publicly shared episode, that gets added to the sitemap. Could that have triggered it? Or are my pages too repetitive, eg. i have pages for "pdf to mp3" and a very similar page for "txt to mp3" etc.

TLDR: Hard drop in impressions, what caused it?

I thought you fine people might like that.

Hey, I've made a tool to add beautiful graphics into QR codes. Currently ai-generated art, but if people like the idea I will add the feature to bring your own art.

There is more space occupied by QR codes nowadays (at least in Europe, is it like that in the US as well?). We can make them look a little bit nicer.

Previous approaches generate the art with diffusion models, but they look like the picture merged with the QR code, and I thought that could be better.

Just generating codes with chatgpt works sometimes, but not reliably. So a dedicated approach seemed reasonable to me, and as I was experimenting with it already I might as well launch it.

Today I'm launching my tool on ProductHunt.

Have a nice day!

I think we can make QR codes look nicer when we put art into them. And they will grab more attention from your visitors. You can match your brand colors and add your logo, and the art will include that. I thought you might find that useful to make the booth nicer. What do you think?

In Europe I see them getting used more and more, is it the same in the US?

Hey, I'm a software developer but not a biologist.

I've been hearing about AlphaFold and RFdiffusion and it sounds almost magical. I've heard big claims like this:

E.g. "Need an enzyme to break down a specific forever chemical? Need a protein that binds perfectly to a novel cancer receptor? AI generates the DNA sequence, you print it in a lab, and it actually folds and works."

• Is this really true? Are there early signs that the whole field will move in that direction?
• Do non-biologists misunderstand something about that?
• Is this used in real workflows or are those just cool demos?
• What are the bottlenecks?

I’m especially interested in concrete examples, not hype.

Around 2015 I saw the first AI demos that felt magical. The deep dream pictures, the first paintings that were completed by AI. If you would have followed the magic back then, you would have been very early.

Which early demos are there today that feel like magic? From any topic, I'm not asking about AI.

Hey, I've recently heard someone say "Magnesium and Zinc, that stuff does not exist in the soil anymore". That made me super curious and I did some basic research about the topic.

It is not only the soil that gets depleted. The plants are not optimized for nutrition anymore.
E.g. in the book "How innovation works" I've read that plants have been bred to yield much more. E.g. they first bred wheat to have more grain per plant, then the plants grew too heavy and folded over. So they bred them further to be shorter but have more grain.

And now the same area can feed much more people (like 10x maybe!?) but the nutrients did not keep up with that! The nutrients are spread thin basically.

And something new I've learned, when they fertilize the soil with eg. potassium, that can hinder the plant to take in other nutrients.

In this video I remixed three ideas:

#1 Confidence
Trust and confidence in the future of a country drives investment. People build houses, plant trees and build infrastructure. A loss of confidence can lead to the downfall of a society.
Here is a nice explanation in the "Civilisation" documentary: https://youtu.be/3YvjanfFz0A?t=437

#2 Merchants build societies
The rise of societies is caused by merchants, building them from the bottom up. People come together in one place because specialization and exchange create wealth. Governments form later on, initially to protect trading routes and create property rights. But when the government makes too many rules, the very mechanism that created the society gets suffocated.
From "The Rational Optimist" by Matt Ridley:
https://cpcglobal.org/publications/The%20rational%20Optimist.pdf

#3 Reducing bureaucracy in England
Loosening up property rights in England was a precursor to the Industrial Revolution. Rules were in place to keep land within the family, and people were not allowed to sell it. Farmers had many fragmented strips of land, but it was impossible to unite them. Then the problem was solved, which caused more roads and canals to get built. People also had a better stake in their land, because instead of many little strips they had one big patch they could invest in efficiently.
From a new article in "Works in Progress":
https://worksinprogress.co/issue/how-abolishing-the-stakeholder-state-caused-the-industrial-revolution/

I’ve been building ListenDock, a tool to turn PDFs into audio (MP3s).

I’ve added Kokoro as a free TTS service and you can bring your own API key for the document processing. I'm pretty impressed with Kokoro, it just doesn't support as much languages yet as paid services.

Curious if this makes the product feel more useful, and whether users will come back more regularly now. What do you think?

I've created reminders on my iPhone that I get every day, its somewhat helpful but its just text. Would you find an app helpful that sends you motivating pictures, eg with pictures of fit people or memes to stay on track?