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Nika
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7d ago
What marketing strategies do you consider unethical, and which ones do you consider brilliant?
... ethical line. I sometimes worry they can seriously damage a company s reputation. There are also other practices, such as: Fake purchase counters on websites Buying followers and likes Exploiting a brand s reputation Spreading misinformation Clicking on
competitors
Google ads to drain their budget And the list could go on. What do you consider dishonest marketing practices? Have you ever had personal experience with them? On the other hand, have you ever seen a marketing tactic and thought: That ... ... work for a bit, but it feels risky and people usually catch on, especially on Reddit. For me, dishonest marketing is anything that tries to fake trust instead of actually building it. Fake social proof, misleading info, messing with
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p/self-promotion
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Aditya
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13d ago
What if your Brilliant Directories site actually worked the way you imagined?
... community! I wanted to share something we've been building for a niche that's often underserved in the no-code/low-code space
Brilliant
Directories website owners. BD Growth Suite ( https://bdgrowthsuite.com ) is a concierge-style technical support and development platform built specifically for
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p/general
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Nika
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2mo ago
How do you decide what features should be free and what should be paid?
... something but don't have time to use it within the first 3 days. When I circle back to try it 10 days later (when I really have time), the trial has already expired. Maybe A/B testing day-based trials
versus
usage-based (like using units) trials would be an interesting experiment :) Comment from Nika(@busmark_w_nika): @pavel_build Is there any way you can track those paid users who subscribed just because some free user referenced the product ... ... need to give them your email). Comment from Nika(@busmark_w_nika): @andrasczeizel But CapCut did this after 2 years (moving the free features behind a paywall), and I bought their product, in my opinion, it was a
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p/gitscrum
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Renato Marinho
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3mo ago
Developers in VSCode. Managers in Jira. Clients in email. Reality lost in context switches.
... sustainable. Dark Mode Isn't a Theme, It's a Philosophy Fifty-four IDE color schemes. Dracula, Nord, Tokyo Night, Catppuccin, Monokai Pro. Not because it's trendy, but because developers are viscerally attached to their environments. Switching from
VSCode
to a project management tool shouldn't feel like stepping into fluorescent-lit corporate purgatory. We obsess over details most PM tools ignore because those details are the difference between flow state and friction. Developers Aren't "Users" They ... ... creating surveillance culture. Public proposals clients can view and accept with one click. Dev workload heatmaps that show who's burning out and who has capacity before someone quits. Built by People Who Lived the Problem Twenty years watching
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p/general
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Nika
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12mo ago
What are the best monetisation models you have seen so far?
... willing to pay more in that situation). On the contrary, the monetisation model that I hate Adobe: they also charged me if I wanted to cancel my subscription. -------- Can you share with us which monetisation model you found
brilliant
? Comment from Nika(@busmark_w_nika): @gin_6078 @stefanfis Stefan, of course, I would welcome a one-time payment for CapCut because when you are pushed to a subscription, you are potentially overpaying the value of the tool compared ... ... Meta will be the same case. But I couldn't find anything better at the moment. I used DaVinci Resolve, but it is somehow less user-intuitive to me compared to CapCut. (Anyway, I am still looking for some
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