I've recently gotten into training grip strength and since it s a new area of strength training for me, I ve been asking Claude a lot of weird questions about training and recovery techniques. So now, my chat history is a ton of stuff about work with the occasional odd question about how often I should be using extensor bands haha
What are some of the strangest things you've asked AI to help with? Did it actually help?
Hello! Quick question: do you use TikTok to promote your business? If yes, do you consider TikTok as a game-changer in your social media marketing? If no, do you plan to post content there?
We talk a lot about retention, but I think there are products where people not coming back is actually a good sign.
If I use something to prepare for an interview or sort out a one-time problem, I probably don t want to keep using it. I just want it to work so I can move on.
Obviously that doesn t work for every product, especially subscription-based ones.
But it makes me wonder how much we rely on retention simply because it s easy to measure.
I'm not the most technical person here, and I'm learning as I build.
AI coding tools have made it possible to build things I wouldn't have attempted on my own. But something I've been wondering about is what happens after the code works.
Frameworks change, dependencies get updated, and security vulnerabilities are discovered. How do you know when your code needs attention if everything appears to be running fine?
Do you regularly ask your AI coding tools to review your codebase? Rely on GitHub security alerts? Or follow some kind of maintenance schedule?
When I started my newsletter 2 years ago, I used Mailchimp I was familiar with it from previous projects because it offered fairly extensive analytics and testing. The problem was that the articles weren t public. Mailchimp is more suitable for business newsletters like sales offers, etc.
Monetization:
When I wanted to take the next step and monetise, I looked into Beehiiv. At that time, however, I wasn t in the mood to pay the costs without yet earning any revenue in my opinion, Beehiiv has the best monetisation model (subscriptions, ad revenue sharing, sponsorships, etc.). Considering costs...
Everyone talks about launch day. The upvotes. The ranking. The traffic spike.
But for me the best moment is quieter than that. It's when a stranger uses something you built and it just works for them. No help needed. No DM asking how. They just got value out of it and moved on with their day.
It s so easy to fall into the trap of forcing the exact same card or button component onto every single screen just to keep the design system clean.
I ve worked on projects where sticking blindly to the rulebook made a simple workflow feel super awkward for the user just because we didn't want to break the pattern. A tidy layout looks nice on a Figma board, but if it makes the actual task harder it defeats the purpose.
How do you guys decide when it's okay to break the system rules for a better user flow?
Six months ago, we were desperate for cash flow to keep the lights on. We decided to run a Lifetime Deal (LTD) campaign. We thought it was a win-win: we get a quick cash injection, and we get hundreds of users to give us feedback.
It worked... at first. We made $5,000 in a single week. I felt like a genius.
But the reality check hit us hard over the next 90 days:
Our support tickets exploded by 400%. LTD buyers were incredibly demanding, asking for custom features and 1-on-1 onboarding calls for a product they paid $49 for once.
Our server costs tripled. Many of these users were uploading massive files and using our API heavily. We were now paying AWS $300/month to host users who would never give us another dime in recurring revenue.
Our real MRR stalled. We got so bogged down supporting the LTD crowd that we completely stopped our outbound marketing and sales efforts.
