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I have been experimenting a lot with Instagram lately and one thing I noticed is that posts with low views barely get any attention no matter how good the content is

Meanwhile posts that already have decent view numbers instantly feel more interesting to people. It almost changes how viewers react before even checking the content properly

That honestly made me understand why some creators buy Instagram views now

Not talking about trying to fake being viral or anything extreme. More like giving content some early momentum so it does not look completely dead after posting

But I am curious does buying Instagram views actually help organic reach afterward or is it mostly just social proof?

Feels like Instagram pushes content differently once it starts getting attention which makes growing from zero really frustrating sometimes

Would love to hear real experiences from people who have tested this

Not asking for prem͏ium features for fr͏ee. Just want to test something properly before creating an account and giving my email to a platform that might get breached next month.

Is there anything in 2026 where you can just open it and start chatting without the whole registration plus credit card plus email verification process? Even 10 messages would be enough to know if the AI is good.

i’ve been trying a few nsfw ai chat apps and i keep bouncing off the ones that treat the romance part like a skip button. Ca͏ndy A͏I and J͏oi A͏I are fine if you want something more direct, but for me the build-up matters more than the scene itself.

Rep͏lika feels safer, but kind of too limited for that use case. Love͏scape has been more in the middle for me: still adult when you want it, but better for an ongoing slow-burn thing with memory and little callbacks.

not perfect, the image side can be hit or miss depending on the character style, but the chat pacing feels less disposable. maybe it’s just me, but i want the “simulator” part to feel like dating first, not just prompts.

are there any other to͏ols that handle romance-first stuff without turning every convo into the same loop?

Got a bunch of 12mm round labels for spice jar tops and even at the smallest legible font the text is starting to look fuzzy at arm's length. Has anyone found a font or weight that prints crisp at that size on a D110? Tried Roboto Condensed and Open Sans Bold so far and neither feels right. Open to suggestions before I burn through more of this roll.

I'm looking for a good to͏ol to extract data from PDF to Excel without destroying the formatting or mixing up columns. Tried a couple random converters already but most need way too much cleanup after esp since most of my docs are scanned. Anyone found something legit and accurate?

Top 5 ko! Wag Mo Na Sana, Para Sayo, This Guy’s in Love With You Pare, Gitara, One Hit Combo.

Our E2E suite had a brutal flakiness problem. Tests passed locally, failed in CI, passed again on retry. Classic nightmare.

I tried three approaches to fix it:

1. Explicit waitForSelector everywhere More control, but we ended up with dozens of brittle selectors that broke whenever the UI changed. Not sustainable.

2. waitForLoadState('networkidle') Helped with async-heavy pages but caused timeouts on pages with persistent background polling. The network never truly went idle.

3. Combining waitForResponse with action triggers This was the winner. Waiting for a specific API response after a user action gave us deterministic behavior without arbitrary timeouts. More setup work upfront, but tests stopped lying to us.

The real lesson: flakiness is usually a waiting problem, not a selector problem. Most teams reach for better locators when they should be rethinking what "ready" actually means for each interaction.

Curious what others have landed on - especially for SPAs where the DOM updates are highly dynamic. Do you lean on network-based waits or DOM-based signals?

Reading my news and Angkor just identified several high priority copper drill targets at their Gossan Hills prospect in Cambodia. Pretty big deal because these targets are directly adjacent to their existing Canada Wall copper porphyry project. A 20km geophysical survey (IP survey) just confirmed multiple chargeability anomalies. This means its detecting metal underground.

The northernmost target seems to connect Gossan Hills directly to the Canada Wall system, suggesting the mineralized zone is much larger than previously thought. This could be a ga͏me cha͏nger for the company. They're kicking off an 1,100 metre diamond drill program to test these new targets, so there should be some decent newsflow coming if the drilling starts hitting

been trying to figure out a proper way to report on the AI SEO tools we're running across our client roster and honestly the old metrics feel kind of incomplete now. like sure I still pull rankings and impressions out of Search Console for the monthlies, but with generative search eating into click-through rates a client's page can hold its position and still lose traffic, which is a fun conversation to have at a QBR. I've started leaning more into things like AI Overview inclusion, citation share across tools like ChatGPT and Perplexity, and share of voice deltas week over week per client. dwell time is another one I keep coming back to, somewhere around 45 seconds seems to be the benchmark thrown around for healthy intent. some of the newer tools have dashboards built around this stuff but the data quality varies heaps once you're tracking 10+ brands, and Sem͏rush has misclassified a couple of our clients' brands which makes the sentiment scores pretty unreliable on their own. so I'm curious what other agencies are actually tracking and putting in client reports. are you combining a specialist tool like Prof͏ound or Open͏Lens with your existing platform, or just sticking to the core metrics and not worrying too much about AI-specific stuff yet? reckon there's a solid agency setup people have landed on or is everyone still figuring it out client by client as the landscape keeps shifting?

I keep seeing Pro͏speo pop up in my LinkedIn feed and a few sales slack communities. From what I can tell they do contact enrichment and have some kind of email verification built in, but I'm wondering if anyone here has actually used it for outbound.

My team's been using Apo͏llo for the past year and while the contact volume is decent, we're burning through credits on bad data. Like a third of the emails bounce or the person left the company months ago. Really frustrating when you're trying to hit 150 activities a day.

What caught my eye about Prospeo was they claim really high accur͏acy and only cha͏rge for veri͏fied contacts. Sounds too good to be true? Also saw they have direct mobile numbers which could be huge for us since we're doing more multi-channel outreach now.

Anyone running Prospeo for their SDR team? How's the sales data quality compared to what else is out there? And are the mobile numbers actually worth it or just another data point that sounds good on paper?

Mine is Someone Like You by Adele. Favorite ’yan ng best friend ko nung JHS. She transferred mid-school year, and I haven’t heard from her since

i’m basically a human koala clinging to my boyfriend at night. cute in winter, but now feeling like i’m in a sauna. turns out dragging all day.

I've been researching cooling sheets. Bam͏boo, eucalyptus, “cooling tech” fabrics. Brands like He͏lix, Win͏kbed, Saa͏tva, and Mello͏wsleep keep popping up. But the reviews are all over the place. Some say bamboo is a miracle, others say it’s just hype. 

Has anyone actually used this stuff long-term? Do any of them stay breathable through the whole night, or is it more about the whole setup (pillows, mattress, etc.)? I’d love real opinions before buy͏ing.

Please don’t hesitate to share. Thank you!

I've been running campaigns ͏for 3 SaaS clients and 2 ecom brands this quarter. The lead sc͏rapin͏g tool game is getting harder with all teh compliance stuff.

Currently using a mix of Apo͏llo and some Chrome extensions for LinkedIn. Apollo's decent for tech companies but thier data gets stale fast. Found emails from like 2 years ago still showing as "verified". The filtering is solid though, can narrow down by revenue, employee count, tech stack.

Biggest pain point is mobile numbers. One client specifically wants direct dials for their SDR team and most lead scraper tools either dont have them or charge crazy amounts. Been testing Phanto͏mBuster for LinkedIn automa͏tion but its more for extraction than actual contact enrichment.

Anyone else running multi-client campaigns? How do you handle email accuracy vs volume tradeoff? My clients expect 85%+ delivera͏bility but also want 5k+ contacts per month. My project manager is breathing down my neck about bounce rates on one account and I'm just trying to keep everyone happy lol

Also been looking at Pro͏speo for the mobile number coverage since they apparently have a big verified number database. Still evaluating tho.