I see many countries promoting social media to raise the age for using it (e.g., Australia, the UK, etc.).
The sad thing is that some parents are already giving their toddlers a tablet to "entertain" them. This hurts the child's brain development. Not to mention when they get on social media and are exposed to various trends.
I build a tool that records AliExpress prices once a day and stores each reading with its date. A month in, one number keeps surprising the people I show it to.
Of the 72,898 listings we track, 65,462 changed price at least once in 34 days - 89.8%. Only 7,436 held a single price the whole time. There was no sale event in that window.
That breaks the mental model most shoppers have, which is that prices sit still and drop on announced sale days. For most of the catalogue the price is simply in motion all the time.
Two things I am genuinely unsure about, and would like other makers' read on.
Some of the most inspiring startup journeys of the last few years happened in plain sight.
@levelsio built Nomad List and Remote OK live on Twitter sharing revenue numbers, failures, and pivots in real time. @marclou does the same, shipping products publicly and turning his audience into his distribution. Both have built massive followings and real businesses partly because of how openly they build.
Someone posted a query regarding export timeouts on files over roughly 40MB. No clue whatsoever. I would've previously written a response along the lines of how much I appreciated his patience while I checked it out.
I just admitted that I did not know what the problem was, told him what I wanted to look at, and if it was alright to share the problematic file with me. Four minutes later I received the file and found out it was a 30 second hardcoded timeout I'd written way back in 2024, probably forgot about.
I scout for a handful of investors in Silicon Valley. One of my jobs is to cut through the noise and surface the gems. Every so often, someone sends me a blurb that s crisp, compelling, and makes me want to learn more. When that happens, I usually take a meeting and sometimes even make intros.
That said, most blurbs I see aren t great. Founders are flying blind because no one s willing to be brutally honest with them. Let s fix that.
What I realized is that I bounce off websites within about four seconds, and that's not enough time for me to actually learn anything about a product. Last month, I decided to spend some time trying out five tools whose websites looked horrible. Three of them were actually great. One is now paid by me.
What was common about those websites: the founder had obviously dedicated all their time to the product itself and not at all to the page. This could be a valid approach, and I had been penalizing them for it.
We're drowning in dashboards. Impressions, click-throughs, followers, reach, saves, shares but not all things are equal. Telling, is there a metric you're meant to be keen on, yet in actuality, you're not? Maybe you: Don't care about likes but are ridiculously fixated on replies Track shares but never take the time to check reach Are concerned about DMs only because that's where the magic happens We're building a social tool on the social web and taking a lot of time deliberating about what's truly important, and what just looks good on a chart. Would be great to hear your own opinion regarding what you're paying attention to (and what you're not).
