Tbh the jump from a casual learner to novels is humbling to say the least. Graded readers are 60 pages of someone going to the market then the next rung up is Bolaño and you're doing a chapter a fortnight with a dictionary open lol. What did work for me is shorter stuff daily, written for people from the place rather than produced for learners. a few things i've ended up using are Cronica and the long-form newspaper pieces, Unedo does a short piece a day on something cultural written by someone from the country it's about and recorded in their voice which was really practical to improve my listening. This has been helpful for me to find writers i would never find otherwise. and one final underrated trick is youtube with Spanish subs on.

I’m still putting the pieces for someone at my level and the thing that surprised me is that register matters more than difficulty. A simple piece written by an actual Mexican person taught me more usable Spanish than a harder text written to a syllabus. What did everyone else use for that middle bit?

Keep seeing this format blow up. a serious news anchor, "breaking news" graphics, and the story is something everyone in the industry is tired of. "local accountant reports client finally sent receipts before april." Or "saas company announces new feature nobody asked for, calls it AI."

it works because it's an inside joke. people in that industry share it with coworkers because it's true, and people outside it still get the tone.

What used to make it hard was the anchor. you needed someone who could deliver it straight, lighting, a set that looked like a newsroom. now people are making the anchor with AI. an avatar tool like argil gives you a presenter who stays the same every episode, so it can be a running series instead of a one off.

honestly I think it only works if the writing is sharp though. a real looking anchor reading a weak joke is worse than a phone video with a good one.

Anyone tried this for a brand? curious if clients actually sign off on making fun of their own industry or if it dies in approval. thank youu!

Running an agency plus a contract gig, so not classic OE but close enough that this sub's problems are my problems. The thing i see people obsess over here is presence, and in my experience that's not where it goes wrong. Nobody's studying your face. What gets noticed is a deliverable landing three days late twice in a row, because that's the thing other people's work depends on.

So in reality, the constraint is throughput, and what compresses well is anything with a repeatable output shape, video production is my example. I used to spend a full day per shoot, now the script is where most of our time goes rather than the filming, which means the calendar-shaped part of the job mostly disappeared. On the other hand, what compresses badly is anything requiring judgment about a specific situation. reviewing someone's work, deciding what to build, difficult client conversations. tooling makes these faster to produce and no faster to get right, which is a trap, because you end up shipping more and thinking less.

There is also a part which doesn't compress at all and I underestimated a lot lol, it’s context switching. two jobs isn't 2x the work, it's about 2.5x. The extra half is reloading where you were and trust me no tool fixes that. The version of this that fails is using capacity gains to take on more rather than to build slack. I did that for about four months and the quality drop was visible before anything else was.

What do you think is broken for people here, is it the calendar or is it the output?

Hey everyone, one of the founders of r/TrueMorocco.

Have you ever had a post removed because of unfair moderator misuse of the rules? Or have you ever wanted to share your thoughts, projects, or apps, only to feel silenced, ignored, or accused of "karma farming"?

That exact frustration is why we created this subreddit.

For too long, local online spaces have been bogged down by heavy-handed censorship, double standards, and arbitrary moderation where genuine creators get shut down while low-effort bias slips right through.

Morocco is full of talented developers, entrepreneurs, and thinkers who deserve a platform where they can actually feel heard, share what they build, and talk freely without walking on eggshells.

r/TrueMorocco stands for three simple things:

• Total Freedom: Talk openly about life, culture, and tech without arbitrary censorship.
• Support for Makers: Showcase your apps, startups, and creative projects proudly.
• Fair Moderation: No power trips or double standards just a respectful, community-first space.

If you've ever felt denied a voice or tired of the madness elsewhere, you are in the right place. Welcome home, and let’s build something real together.

Hi everyone!

If you’re looking for a frontend engineer who can turn complex Figma designs into ultra-responsive, high-performance web applications, I can help.

I specialize in frontend architecture, modular component design systems, and state management for web apps that need to scale.

Tech Stack & Capabilities:

• Frameworks: Vue.js 3, Nuxt 4, React, Tailwind CSS, Vuetify, Quasar.
• State & Architecture: TypeScript, Pinia, Vuex, Component-driven architecture.
• Performance & UX: Core Web Vitals optimization, lazy-loading, WCAG Accessibility, PWAs.

Work Preferences:

• Short-term frontend overhaul or UI implementation
• Long-term contract/freelance frontend ownership

Contact: Drop a comment or send me a DM with a quick overview of what you're building

Hey everyone,

I’ve been working on a local discovery platform designed to connect diners with local restaurants and cafes, I actually have my target audience clearly defined both the local diners and the cafe/restaurant owners. The problem isn't a lack of clarity on who they are; it's that I completely suck at actually finding them and getting them to pay attention As a solo developer, walking into cafes, making cold calls, or trying to intercept the right people online feels like shouting into a void. Traditional business owners are slammed, skeptical, and impossible to reach past the front desk staff, and consumers are hard to capture without a massive ad budget I'm feeling pretty burnt out trying to bridge this distribution gap and could really use some tactical advice from people who have been in the trenches.

Thanks for reading.

We're a team of 4 doing manual QA on a Qt desktop app and squish has been the automation layer since before i joined. the 2 engineers who actually wrote the test scripts left within about 6 months of each other and nobody remaining can write C++ or python at the level the existing suite needs. Renewal quote landed last week so i've got maybe 3 weeks to decide. The constraint is windows and macOS have to be covered properly. linux would be nice because a chunk of our customers run it but i can probably get away with manual there for another year. sign off is my engineering director, who mostly cares that we don't end up with a second tool nobody uses.

Our shortlist so far is Ranorex, the one everyone points at. The record and playback is usable for non coders but it's windows only which kills it for us. TestComplete has the same problem in reverse, decent scripting story, mac support is thinner than the site suggests once you get into it. AskUI came up twice in threads here, the vision approach means you're not fighting the element tree, but their desktop app is windows and macOS with linux going through AgentOS, so it's not the clean 3 OS answer either. Staying on squish and paying to train 2 of us up is still on the table too.

What i can't personally judge from the outside is how badly record and playback breaks in practice. Every vendor says theirs is resilient and then i came across a thread that says the opposite. Anyone here moved off Squish with a non coding team?

Hey everyone,

I wanted to make a quick update regarding the state of the subreddit.

Life has been extremely busy on my end over the past few months, which unfortunately meant I wasn’t able to dedicate as much time to active moderation as this community deserves. I appreciate everyone’s patience during that stretch!

Things have settled down, and I’m now back to dedicate proper time to moderating, cleaning up, and growing this community as best as I can.

1. What would you like to see here?

Since we're turning over a new leaf, I want to hear directly from you.

• What features, daily/weekly threads, or changes would make this sub more valuable to you?
• Anything you feel is currently missing or needs improvement?

Drop your thoughts and feedback in the comments below!

2. Concept: A Dedicated Network / Platform for Seekers & Employers

I’ve also been thinking about ways we can take this community to the next level. Beyond just Reddit posts, I’m considering building a streamlined, hassle-free platform specifically tailored to our network—a simple space where job seekers and hiring managers/clients can seamlessly connect without the usual fluff or complicated application processes.

The goal would be to help talent find great work and help employers find the right people, faster. Let me know if that’s something you’d be interested in seeing!

3. A Friendly Reminder: Quality Standards & Rules Enforcement

To make this community as valuable as possible for everyone, we need to raise the bar on quality standards.

Going forward, rule enforcement will be strict:

• Follow the Rules: The subreddit rules are clear as day. Please read them before posting.
• Put Effort Into Your Posts: Low-effort posts, missing details, or posts that ignore submission guidelines will be removed without hesitation.
• High-quality, detailed posts get noticed by both recruiters and candidates so taking an extra two minutes to format your post pays off.

Thank you to everyone who keeps contributing positively! Let’s work together to make this community the absolute best place for quality talent and opportunities.

Filmed myself doing a 45 second script. then ran the same script through argil with a clone of my face. posted both, same platform, same time of week, nothing else different.

The avatar one did slightly better on views. the real one did much better on comments and replies. which annoyed me, because I went in half-expecting the avatar to obviously lose and it didn't. people watched it fine. what changed was that nobody talked to it. the real video got questions, the AI one got scrolled.

My read is that avatars are fine for anything informational where you're delivering something, and bad for anything where you want a conversation. the face people are willing to watch and the face people are willing to reply to seem to be different things.

Anyone else actually run this before? would love to know the results.

I work on the storefront for a fashion brand, and with all the agent talk lately I wanted to see whether ChatGPT could shop on our own site the way a customer would, so I gave it our URL and asked it to find a jacket in my size and take it all the way to checkout.

The browsing part was almost eerie, because it read the page and described the jacket back to me (even picked a sensible size), and for a minute I thought it was going to sail straight through.

Then it reached the buying flow and fell apart, since everything past the product page on our site is stitched together for a human clicking through a browser and not for a machine to read, so it couldn't reliably tell what was in stock and clicked the wrong buttons.

None of that is ChatGPT failing though, because our whole storefront renders for human eyes and shows almost nothing underneath that a program could read.

So the moment a capable agent shows up to buy on someone's behalf, we're the site it can't finish the job on.

And it dragged the replatform conversation we'd been putting off right back to the surface, because the stacks built API-first are the ones an agent can read and buy through…

Which is the whole idea behind the composable platforms (commercetools, SCAYLE, Spryker and that crowd) where the storefront is one client of a clean set of commerce APIs and not one big app doing everything at once.

I'm still not sure how soon it matters, because today it's a novelty and most orders are still humans on their phones, but it's hard to unsee once ChatGPT has stood at your own checkout and failed to pay you.

It's got me wondering how many other stores would fall over the same way if someone pointed an agent at them.

I am a product analyst at a b2b tech startup and i've got a gap i can't seem to close. Quantitatively we're fine, amplitude tells me exactly where users drop in the flow, what percentage never activate, which features nobody touches. what it can't tell me is why. The why lives in customer calls, support tickets and sales objections, and none of that sits in something i can query. So every time leadership asks "why did activation drop 4 points," i produce a beautiful funnel chart and then hand-wave the explanation from whatever anecdote i heard in a meeting.

I tried to be proactive about it and i’m trying to find out how teams actually join these. On the quant side it's the usual, Amplitude, Mixpanel, PostHog. On the qualitative side there's Dovetail which is more research-repository shaped, Enterpret which aggregates feedback across channels, and BuildBetter which works off call recordings and clusters themes out of them. They all structure the unstructured stuff differently, and none of them plug into the quant tool in a way where i can cross-reference a cohort against what those users actually said.

My current hack is exporting themes into a sheet and eyeballing them next to the funnel, which is exactly as rigorous as it sounds.

how are you all doing this? is anyone joining qual and quant, or does everyone keep them in separate worlds?

Hey! I'm launching a series highlighting local restaurants and hidden food gems across the city, and I'm looking for a female collaborator to host and be on camera for short-form content.

If you're confident in front of the lens, love local food, and are based in Tangier, send me a DM with a quick intro or a link to your socials!

Hey everyone,

Something I’ve been thinking about lately: when you’ve been single for a long time, you get used to your own space, zero drama, and complete peace of mind. But there's a flip side the longer you stay single, the higher your tolerance for bad dates drops, and the harder it gets to let anyone in.

At what point does "protecting your peace" start working against you? For those who’ve been single for a while, how do you balance enjoying your solitude with staying open to actual connection?

We're a US based team expanding into the EU markets this quarter and we realised video creative doesn't localize the way static does. With static ads it's easy, swap the copy, maybe redo a hero image, done but our best-performing creative is all short video with a presenter talking, and now marketing wants that same ad in German, French, Spanish, Italian and a couple more. We tested a few ways to do this using Synthesia and Argil among many others but we just couldn’t crack it yet and we feel like we’re missing something. Our goal is to build one recurring presenter and push the same script across every language without it looking like a different person each time which matters for brand consistency across markets. Anyone had any luck with this?

Also we’re not really sure how much of this you can really automate vs having a local person rewrite the script first. how's everyone else handling this at scale?

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Is it just me, or is the entrepreneurial ecosystem completely broken for people who are just starting out?

Every "community" I join is either a ghost town, a breeding ground for people trying to sell me a course, or an echo chamber of founders who are already at seven figures and can't relate to the day-one struggles.

There is literally zero actual support for young, early-stage entrepreneurs who just need a sounding board, honest feedback, or a bit of peer camaraderie.

Why doesn't a genuine, active, no-BS community for beginners exist? Are we all just expected to grind in complete isolation until we magically succeed, or am I looking in the entirely wrong places? Would love to hear if anyone else is feeling this frustration.

For context I'm a developer whi set out on a journey to build an app that solves real painful problems for restaurants pplus elevating the user experience and making it effortlessly easy to use a lot of features in it, mentioning the name respecting the rules of the sub, but my frustrations loes in how certain hargawa deal with you, like being very clair and and being professional, and yet they still act like hargawa, i know this is common and very normal to struggle at the beginning the question is why? Why some people just act like that? No manners

Clay is doing the job for us but the seat pricing is getting expensive now that we're past the build-it-once phase and pushing waterfall enrichment across multiple workflows daily.

We support outbound and CS for a B2B fintech, pushing around 60k contact lookups a month through a waterfall on a mix of US and EU prospects, and the value Clay added in the early days was the orchestration plus the table UI.

Now that the playbooks are stable, I'm wondering if there's a leaner waterfall tool that does the multi-source lookup without the workflow-builder overhead and the per-seat cost.

Seen FullEnrich and Datagma float in similar threads here as the bigger names on the pure-lookup side, and starting to think going with one of them feels safer than staying with a full workflow suite we don't need.

So what are you all using instead of Clay?