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A few local wellness brands and activewear pages have started to reach out to me for instagram collabs. Practically it seems useful in a way that it would get me more visibility online and help me get more students, but the moment they start to discuss on the deliverables and negotiations, the payoff they offer does not feel worth my time and energy.

Are such collabs worth saying yes to when you have just started out as a startup?

A few local wellness brands and activewear pages have started to reach out to me for instagram collabs. Practically it seems useful in a way that it would get me more visibility online and help me get more students, but the moment they start to discuss on the deliverables and negotiations, the payoff they offer does not feel worth my time and energy.

Are such collabs worth saying yes to when you have just started out as a startup?

A few local wellness brands and activewear pages have started to reach out to me for instagram collabs. Practically it seems useful in a way that it would get me more visibility online and help me get more students, but the moment they start to discuss on the deliverables and negotiations, the payoff they offer does not feel worth my time and energy.

Are such collabs worth saying yes to when you have just started out as a startup?

As a moderator of this community, I wanted to check if members would be interested in a weekly series where I share the brand story of one email provider at a time. The idea is to cover how the provider started, when it launched, its key milestones, how it evolved and what made it stand out.

The series will also cover different kinds of email brands across categories like business email, email marketing, mailbox cleaners, AI email writers and other email-related products.

Would this be something you would like to see?

If yes, then which provider should we start with?

I read a bunch of AI news this week & these 3 felt useful for small businesses trying to scale:

• AI tool pricing is getting tricky: GitHub's Copilot has just moved to a usage-based billing system and some users saw the costs spike too much. Better check limits and billing before a cheap tool turns into a big monthly bill.
• AI video editors are getting even better: This means that you can market consistently and grow your reach without paying an editor every time (Y Combinator founder launched Palmier Pro that lets Claude edit videos).
• "English is the new coding" (Nvidia's CEO's words): Plain prompts can now build basic workflows and automations yourself, so no developer needed (excited for this one).

What would you try first?

I am using business email with my custom domain for a while and I want to know what others are using.

If you have been with the same provider for a long time, has it held up well? Like, were there any issues that only became obvious after months or years of using it?

I am especially interested in hearing about reliability, support, uptime, and whether you would still choose the same provider today.

I think this feature could do wonders.

• Half my best thoughts never become posts & a story feature would actually let them out
• 24-hour disappear thing means less pressure to be perfect :)
• New subs always feel dead, stories would make them look alive instantly
• Mods could drop quick updates without spamming the feed
• Polls and reactions in stories beat waiting on comments lol
• It'd give me a reason to open Reddit every day :)
• Less karma anxiety when the post vanishes anyway

He elaborates with that with whosover posts on linkedin, he instantly loses respect for him. It is UNBEARABALY CRINGE for him.

I somewhere agree with this, but not fully. Posting there has worked in my favor at times but yes, for what it was originally built for, it is losing the essence for it.

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He elaborates with that with whosover posts on linkedin, he instantly loses respect for him. It is UNBEARABALY CRINGE for him.

I somewhere agree with this, but not fully. Posting there has worked in my favor at times but yes, for what it was originally built for, it is losing the essence for it.

I think this feature could do wonders.

• Half my best thoughts never become posts & a story feature would actually let them out
• 24-hour disappear thing means less pressure to be perfect :)
• New subs always feel dead, stories would make them look alive instantly
• Mods could drop quick updates without spamming the feed
• Polls and reactions in stories beat waiting on comments lol
• It'd give me a reason to open Reddit every day
• Less karma anxiety when the post vanishes anyway

I think this feature could do wonders.

• Half my best thoughts never become posts & a story feature would actually let them out
• 24-hour disappear thing means less pressure to be perfect :)
• New subs always feel dead, stories would make them look alive instantly
• Mods could drop quick updates without spamming the feed
• Polls and reactions in stories beat waiting on comments lol
• It'd give me a reason to open Reddit every day
• Less karma anxiety when the post vanishes anyway

For business tasks, what are you leaning more on: AI tools or an actual virtual assistant?

AI: cheap & instant but needs a lot of babysitting
VA: costs more but owns the work

What is working for you? I will share mine in the comments.

Hi, you can share your current project below in this format:

Project: one short sentence about the product or service you are building
Status: just an idea / testing demand / built the first version / looking for users / trying to scale
Need feedback on: optional

I will go first:

Project: I am running a small yoga studio and trying to build + understand systems.
Status: running everything manually but trying to improve the process.
Need feedback on: trying to scale the studio with better scheduling and class management.

What are you folks working on?

Drop your project below and try to give feedback to one other founder here. Let us help each other move one step forward.

I run everything solo and honestly I cannot keep up with posting yoga content everywhere.

I am sort of on Instagram, YT and Facebook, but they all want different things with their respective algorithms and I really do not have time for that. I am teaching all day, so by the time I sit down to post, I am all tired and end up doing a bad job on all of them.

I cannot afford to hire someone just to manage my social media for now, so I am the one managing it manually. Part of me wants to pick Instagram, put all my energy there and let go of the rest. But then I worry if I will miss out on people who might have found me on others.

Will being on every social media platform realistically help me or is it better to pick one and do it properly?

I run everything solo and honestly I cannot keep up with posting yoga content everywhere.

I am sort of on Instagram, YT and Facebook, but they all want different things with their respective algorithms and I really do not have time for that. I am teaching all day, so by the time I sit down to post, I am all tired and end up doing a bad job on all of them.

I cannot afford to hire someone just to manage my social media for now, so I am the one managing it manually. Part of me wants to pick Instagram, put all my energy there and let go of the rest. But then I worry if I will miss out on people who might have found me on others.

Will being on every social media platform realistically help me or is it better to pick one and do it properly?

I run everything solo and honestly I cannot keep up with posting yoga content everywhere.

I am on IG, YT and FB but they all want different things with their respective algorithms and I really do not have time for that. I teach all day so by the time I sit down to post, I am all tired and end up doing a bad job on all of them. I cannot afford to hire someone just to manage my social media for now, so i am the one managing it manually.

Part of me wants to pick Instagram, put all my energy there and let go of the rest. But then I worry if I will miss out on people who might have found me on others.

Will being on every social media platform help me or is it better to pick one and do it properly?

I run everything solo and honestly I cannot keep up with posting yoga content everywhere.

I am sort of on Instagram, YT and Facebook, but they all want different things with their respective algorithms and I really do not have time for that. I am teaching all day, so by the time I sit down to post, I am all tired and end up doing a bad job on all of them.

I cannot afford to hire someone just to manage my social media for now, so I am the one managing it manually. Part of me wants to pick Instagram, put all my energy there and let go of the rest. But then I worry if I will miss out on people who might have found me on others.

Will being on every social media platform realistically help me or is it better to pick one and do it properly?

I run small yoga group classes + 1:1s. The pattern is always the same, someone shows up twice a week for a few months, totally into it and then gone (new job, baby, injury etc). This always bugs me because these are the people I would want back the most since they already know that they like it and they are not some cold lead off IG.

So I have been thinking about how to stay on their radar without being the person who is obviously chasing a booking. Maybe a quick "happy b’day, hope you're moving well" note or a "hey, it's been a year since your first class!".. these kind of stuff.

But does that actually bring people back or is it a formality that does nothing? Also, do you do this by hand or automate it?

Curious if anyone has actually seen this work. Thanks!

I teach yoga classes and I also have a few private clients. This month I finally hit my goal to get fully booked but I am earning about the same as before because every class is just me in my studio for an hour. I cannot make more money unless I work more hours, and I am already exhausted tbh.

So now everyone gives me the same advice: 'use AI' (let it write your posts, build an online course, handle the marketing you hate kinda stuff) But a part of me feels weird about it since what I do is all about being present with real people and I do not want to become someone posting AI-written captions and a faceless course while pretending that it is still personal.

For anyone who has faced this, has AI actually helped you grow without making it all feel fake?