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  Monter (@buildwithgoks) reported 49 seconds ago

  @pcshipp Reddit can work, yea. But I’d start with search terms where people already sound frustrated. Reddit threads, X search, niche forums. Reply first, then post the best answer again on your own profile. What problem does the app solve?

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  Dude (@Randomuser22147) reported 2 minutes ago

  @1x_Michelle_x1 @Pirat_Nation I installed it for the Call of duty beta. After I finished playing I noticed the flickering of my monitor every minute. Looked it up and saw a reddit thread of people reporting the same issue. I reverted back to my old driver. I'll reinstall when it's fixed.

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  GHOSTBLOCK (@GHOSTBLOCK2) reported 2 minutes ago

  @beerundbacon @Kismetangel1 Why would he possibly give a **** about citizens posting memes? Do you think he is on Reddit looking at what people post about him? Are you ******* slow?

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  Zee_Engr (@engr_117) reported 2 minutes ago

  @reddit_lies @RationalBlonde Can we report on Reddit discrimination? Same issue with /layoffs Reddit community. They ban anyone who talks and shares true fact on H1B, OPT, offshoring issue

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  techy (@Ultimate_techy) reported 3 minutes ago

  @WaltonMedenna @grok No im habing problems with them. I wouldnt trust them. Look on reddit. They got a whole thread of people with issues

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  Morpheu5 Stock Watcher (@Morpheu5Watcher) reported 4 minutes ago

  REDDIT $RDDT ADDED $2.6B TODAY OVER TWO CONTRACTS WORTH $130M A YEAR: Reddit RDDT at $158.11, +$13.47 / +9.31% today, one of the largest gains on the board among big, widely-followed names - and the company itself did nothing to earn it. The San Francisco company runs the network of user-written forums people land on when they add "reddit" to a search, employs 2,555 people, and makes almost all its money selling ads inside those conversations. The day around it: S&P 500 ETF Trust, ticker SPY, at $765.27 (after hours), +$3.49 / +0.46%. One stock, not a market. WHAT WAS ACTUALLY SAID Colin Sebastian at Baird kept a Neutral rating and a $185 price target - the level an analyst reckons the shares are worth - and made an unusual argument. Not that good news is coming: that the bad news is already in the price. Today's share price, he wrote, already sits near his worst case for two expiring contracts, and he valued a middling outcome at roughly $10 a share of extra value, a good one at roughly $20. That is the whole catalyst: an unchanged rating and a sentence about what the price already assumes. THE TWO CONTRACTS Reddit charges AI companies for legal access to its archive of human conversation instead of letting the text be scraped for free. Two of those deals matter: - Alphabet, the owner of Google, at $337.38 (after hours), +$2.36 / +0.70% today: a reported $60M a year, from a February 2024 expansion of its access to Reddit's data - OpenAI, privately held, with no shares anyone can buy: a reported $70M a year, from May 2024 Both expire next year. Neither has been renewed in public. Together that is $130M a year against $2.78B of revenue - the money coming in the door - across Reddit's last four reported quarters. Roughly 4.7% of sales. Set the two side by side. Today added about $2.6B of market value - the share price times every share - against contracts bringing in $130M a year. Twenty years of that revenue repriced in one session, on an argument that the fear had gone too far. WHY IT NEEDED AN ARGUMENT The June quarter, reported July 30, was not the problem. - Revenue $804.9M, +61% from a year earlier - the eighth quarter in a row above 60% - Advertising was $762M of it, +64%; everything else, licensing included, $43M - Profit $252.8M, or $1.25 a share, against about $0.97 analysts modeled, from $89.3M a year earlier - People using Reddit on an average day: 130.3M, +18%. Money earned per user: $6.18, +36% - This quarter was then guided to $860M-$870M of revenue, above the roughly $830M modeled Beat, guided higher, and down 20.99% the next session - $178.04 to $140.67 on July 31, on 29.9M shares against a normal 4.5M. Two worries did that. Visitors arriving from Google searches had gone choppy, and no new AI licensing deal was announced. Both are one worry in different clothes: how much of Reddit turns on a larger company's decisions. Which is why Alphabet is in this story twice - as the customer paying the $60M, and as the search box deciding how many people show up. THE PART THAT SHOULD SLOW ANYBODY DOWN Reddit did this exact thing three weeks ago. On August 14 it closed at $178.09, up 12.63% in a session, on news it would join the S&P 500 - the index that fund above tracks - on August 18. Index funds have to buy what the index holds, so that was real, dated, mechanical demand. By September 1 the stock closed $144.64. The entire 18.78% handed back over twelve sessions. Today's $158.11 close is one cent below the $158.12 it closed at on August 13, the day before the index news broke. Three weeks, two double-digit jumps, one full round trip. The shape today was strong - opened $143.71, dipped to $143.50 early, closed within 16 cents of its best price of the day - but on 5.32M shares against a 7.03M average over the past month. A 9% move on lighter turnover is a smaller crowd setting the price than the percentage implies. Wider frame: the shares sit 44.1% under the $282.95 of September 18 last year, and $19.93 / 11.2% under where they closed the day before the July report. WHERE IT SITS Reddit is fourth on the Hypergrowth Len5, which watches early companies growing fast. It earns that on both halves at once - 18% more people showing up, each worth 36% more - which is how a 61% quarter gets built without either number carrying it alone. WHAT WOULD CHANGE IT: management's own map for this quarter is +47% to +49%, the first sub-60% quarter in two years. Growth settling there and easing further makes this a bigger company growing slower, which is a different style's shape. None of the other five carry it. Momentum watches a company climbing on news of its own, and an outsider's opinion is not that; a high built on Reddit's own October figures would be. Quality-Value hunts a durable business at a fair price; 33.6 times the last year of profit is arguable, but durability is the harder half while a real share of visitors arrives through somebody else's search box - user growth holding through a referral downturn is what would settle it. No dividend answers Income in one line. Alphabet sits first on that same Quality-Value Len5 - the top name on it - because search and cloud are about as hard to displace as any business gets, and the price reads as a real discount rather than merely fair. WHAT WOULD CHANGE IT: search revenue shrinking as people ask AI assistants instead. WHAT TO WATCH, AND THE RISK October 29 is the next hard fact, when Reddit is expected to report - not company-confirmed. That is where +47% to +49% either lands or does not, and where any renewal news surfaces. The risk is that nothing was signed today. No contract renewed, no talks confirmed, no figure published. What moved was one analyst's read of what the price already assumed - and twice this summer this same stock has been handed a reason to jump and then spent a fortnight giving it back. Not investment advice.

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  James Altucher (@jaltucher) reported 4 minutes ago

  There are two primary bottlenecks to today's AI. And solving these bottlenecks is where the money is right now. A) DATA - the big models have ALL the data already. All the texts, videos, reddit posts, tweets, etc. How can they get more data? Other than the natural daily creation of new data the biggest repository of UNUSED data is behind the corporate firewall. Whoever can unlock the data behind the firewall will create a model bigger than anything OpenAI can do. The key is this: corporate data does not want to be free (competition reasons or even legal reasons in the case of healthcare) So the method has is decentralized learning techniques where AI trains locally inside the firewall, and then shares its weights (but not the data that created those weights) to an AI model that stitches this together. This is where $TAO is the best in the world and at a $2.5B value is cheap. B) CONNECTIVITY = POWER. Everyone is complaining about power. But people don't realize that the power problem is really a connectivity problem. 100,000 GPUs in a data center means a million or more copper / electricity interconnects connecting them all. Change that from electricity to MicroLEDs and you wll use 1/30 of the power. Problem solved. Who is doing this? $MRVL $ALAB $FABC $KOPN

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  सम्यक সম্যক (@samyak128) reported 12 minutes ago

  All Indian discourse is a mimicry of American discourse from 10-15 years ago. This means we are now in the era of cringe Reddit adolescent atheism, which is basically people in their 20s projecting their issues against their parents through the internet. But since this is India, there will be no original thought, only mimicry. We even mimic the cringe. We can expect an Indian version of the Aalewis Reddit post from an Indian "professional quote maker" sometime soon

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  Ifunanya from TechOps (@TheIfunanya) reported 13 minutes ago

  @Ooreoluwa__ Used it in the first few weeks then someone told me to be careful because there’s been issues with it making bottles with wrong formula and water ratio. Then I went down a rabbit hole on Reddit and saw parents saying it landed them in the ER so I just stopped 🥴

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  Rhonda S (@Smeetsya) reported 14 minutes ago

  @s4intfelina That's the problem. Men hate women, but women hate women too. I'll bet 90% of these snark reddit are women.

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  MARCUS🇵🇭 (@plottwisssttt) reported 19 minutes ago

  @jb141_ They think the feds cant just look these up on reddit and starts taking it down one by one 😭😭😭😭

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  BLACC (@BLACCGYE) reported 19 minutes ago

  @SydusArtsLinks Reddit has a problem with people thinking their personal interests and dislikes are law and everyone should agree with them. It’s pure entitlement

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  Yash (@yashlame) reported 22 minutes ago

  Call it the unsigned citation. An AI engine pulls a Reddit thread into its answer. The thread is about your category. Your product solves exactly that problem. Your name appears nowhere on the page it cited.

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  Pmax- Pronoun Boy (@PedagogyMaxima) reported 22 minutes ago

  Imperial Guard is in such a terrible place balance wise that one of the top posts on the Warhammer reddit is about a Guard player that employed the filthiest tactics and abusive bad manners table play against a new player and still lost despite tabling their opponent turn 3. FHMR

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  Kiana_SEO (@KianaS_00) reported 22 minutes ago

  If you’re spending budget on GEO right now, this test may save you from putting it into the wrong channel. Today, my client gave us around 500 queries their in-house team was tracking, saying that they want to do Reddit. We narrowed them down to 50 representative ones and ran each 10 times, roughly 500 real ChatGPT responses in total. In this sample, Reddit appeared as a referenced source only 4.8% of the time, with zero direct Reddit citations. At the same time, we started seeing YouTube show up much more often for this AI category. And this is exactly why, for the clients we already work with, we don’t treat distribution as a fixed strategy. Also, e didn’t wait for the Reddit citation drop to become a GEO headline. Our daily monitoring was already showing the shift. Around August 5, we started noticing changes in how ChatGPT was retrieving sources across real user responses. We adjusted the client’s distribution strategy before the broader data came out. Later, public tracking made the change much clearer. ChatGPT Search’s use of site:-specific fan-out queries jumped from roughly 0.37% to 16.8% in a day, while the average number of searches per response increased from around 1.08 to 1.83. A few days later, Reddit’s tracked share of ChatGPT Search citations fell from a previous average of 3.83% to around 0.52%. By the time this became widely discussed, we had already seen the direction in our own monitoring and started moving the client’s budget. But Reddit still matters for reviews, community discussion and long-term brand presence. Before scaling content, we now look at: which domains AI is actually retrieving from which formats keep getting cited which sources are gaining or losing share how those patterns are changing week by week Then we move the budget. For visual categories, that might mean more YouTube. For another category, it might be product pages, niche publications or first-party research. The useful takeaway is simple: Build your GEO distribution plan around what the model is retrieving now. And ideally, you see the shift in your own data before everyone starts posting about it.

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  Amin (@eCom_Amin) reported 24 minutes ago

  fable 5.1 is insanely CRACKED at finding winning google ads angles to scale your brand past $1m/mo research capacities literally DOUBLED so here's every prompt you'll need to reverse-engineer competitors' funnels and rip some banger gads based on it: (actually run them all rn, don't just save this) 1. load the brain before you ask it anything the research is only as sharp as the context. upload: - pdps - reviews - website - funnel pages - competitors - report CSVs - brand docs - ICP info - winners - losers literally everything then run this: "act as the angle research lead for this brand. read everything uploaded and build a working profile: ICP segments ranked by revenue, the pain points in the customer's own words, the objections ordered by how often they appear, the proof we already own, and the beliefs a buyer must hold before purchasing. do not propose angles yet. summarise what you found, then tell me what context is MISSING" that last instruction is the whole game. prompt engineering is cope just have claude tell you what he needs from you and give it to him. anybody who disagrees just loves to overcomplicate things. 2. mine untapped databases that semrush misses prompt: "search reddit threads, quora answers, amazon reviews and Q&A sections, youtube comments on competitor and category videos, tiktok comments, trustpilot, and niche forums for people discussing [PROBLEM CATEGORY]. extract VERBATIM language, never paraphrase. for each goldmine you find, give me this: the quote, the pain underneath it, what they already tried, why it failed them, the outcome they want, and the emotional state behind it" paraphrasing is how angles end up sounding like ai slop. the whole value is in knowing your ICP's EXACT words and repeating them on ads. 3. reverse engineer every competitor funnel end to end "research [COMPETITOR 1, 2, 3]. use google ads transparency center, meta ad library, their landing pages, checkout flow and email capture. for each: every live ad and where it routes, the landing page TYPE, the hero promise, the mechanism they claim, the proof they lead with, the objections handled and in what order, the offer and guarantee, and what they are NOT saying" then: "for each competitor page, tell me which awareness level it was built for. then identify which of their traffic is landing on the wrong page type" this is how you find gaps in your competitors strategies that you can capitalize on 4. diagnose market sophistication BEFORE choosing an angle this is the step 9 out of 10 brands skip and it decides whether your angle has any chance: "assess the market sophistication level for [CATEGORY] using schwartz's 5 stages. analyse competitor ads and landing pages as evidence. stage 1 means nobody has made the claim yet. stage 2 means claims are escalating. stage 3 means mechanism differentiation has started. stage 4 means mechanisms are competing. stage 5 means the market is exhausted and identification wins. tell me which stage we're in, the evidence, and what type of angle still works at this stage" if your category is at stage 4, a bigger promise does nothing. every competitor already made one. if you're operating in stage 5, the mechanism is exhausted too, and the strategy has to shift again your ad is only good if it resonates with the market it operates in 5. score every angle against awareness and funnel stage "from the research, generate 15 google ad angles for my brand. for each: the awareness level it serves, the funnel stage it belongs in, the sophistication stage it's valid at, whether it's validated by competitors or white space, the proof required to run it, and the funnel type it should be tested through. rank by expected impact and flag any we lack proof to support" an angle without proof is a claim. claude will rank those last 6. map the keywords to the angles, not the products "build the keyword universe for [BRAND] using the customer language and competitor research. split into branded, competitor, problem-aware symptom queries, solution-aware category queries, comparison, use-case, and occasion. tag each with awareness level, the angle it pairs with, the funnel type it routes to, and the campaign that should own it" this will make everything nice and organized 7. turn the research into the campaign plan "turn everything above into a 30-day google ads launch plan for this specific brand, its AOV, margin structure and market sophistication stage. for each campaign, give me: the angle it carries, the keyword cluster, the landing page type, the creative direction, and the signal that decides whether it scales, holds, or gets cut. separate must-launch from phase 2 tests" then: "tell me which 3 angles to test first and why, given our sophistication stage and the proof we currently own" and that's literally it your competitors are testing angles with fat budgets while you analyze it all, learn from their mistakes, and (ethically) rip their winners with a unique twist and if you want me to audit your brand's google ads angles using this system and show you how we'd capitalize on the winning ones... DM me "OPP"

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  RicciTeTroll (@trolltom02) reported 27 minutes ago

  I feel something this morning, just left a thesis on FOMO under @snoofi_RH 's $snoofi reddit stock coin pair. "ok listen, I am desperately trying to find the reddit stock pairs that could run. So far I have narrowed it down to 2: snoofi, the literal logo of reddit (and a token that got massive bid back in the days) and chud on long, which is something redditors can definitely resonate with"

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  Guaranteed Estimates. Free Work. (@realscotttygett) reported 31 minutes ago

  @XAmericaTtrivia The last time I visited FB, there were hints of my needing to enter by way of trespassed works/organization-pages (mirror?) parallels with changed passwords and new occupants and Reddit kitten imagery analogous to where my low-profile several-acre mining metaphor digs had similar paranoid flesh hung on them but hundreds of feet down. Neurodivergent mining influencers staking claims on private property held by one owner and two trespassers courtesy of what appeared to be townie malice/opportunism? Certified mail that. I mention Elon Musk fanboy syndrome in different contexts, but never having met him, focus on the shifting sands of self-described noise: science factoids best not described, let alone repeated out of based 17 S.D.G. context, mineshaft lockdown scenarios, shoestring homebrew quantum and a decade of sideways logistics around compulsive gambling Nevada? Second-hand Pall Malls agreeing with curried ****'s combs fried rice and tan sweet coffee, one's egotism symbolized as an eight foot-tall slot machine evoking nothing whatsoever stoically. An ascetic's kind of Nirvana, whereas having every other face in the place celebratory and devout only agreed with its being a Christian Science Reading Room, an arm-wrestling trial for Mr. Magoo showing up where he was sure a decompression hackathon was any minute taking place?

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  🏳️‍⚧️ R.I.P. LYDIATÁR (@volkmardeadguy) reported 36 minutes ago

  @slimesphere @penis_beast The monetization isn't even bad, my issue is their ****** mod manager is cheeks and the actual dev of it replies to every reddit thread saying "its just an issue on your machine not the app"

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  finngaalkn 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🐺#NEVERTrump#NEVERMAGA (@finngalkn) reported 36 minutes ago

  @beardpandaa I’ve been called “theyfab” and I’m a whole *** binary trans man. Some of those comments about trans men having “privilege” meanwhile over on Reddit r/trans has been completely shut down because a trans masc tried to point out underlying transandrophobia and the entire subreddit

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  Let 📖: the raven scholar (@f1reheartt) reported 39 minutes ago

  @LilyRosey79580 yeah… lol I actually saw two people on reddit who had the same problem as me, but they were luckier, since theirs went back to normal. I think the best would be to do regular backups

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  nexa_sama (@nexasama) reported 42 minutes ago

  Matt Damon says Steven Spielberg intentionally banned him from Saving Private Ryan’s boot camp so the cast would genuinely resent him: "Is it true that Steven Spielberg excluded you purposely from the military training on the set of Saving Private Ryan to create a real resentment between the rest of the cast and you?" "That is totally true... I was ready to go to boot camp, and he said, 'Absolutely not.' He goes, 'You can train in any way you want, but I'm separating you from the other guys.' They really did" "they were totally resentful every time they brought up boot camp." "There's an internet rumor on Reddit that if you watch the famous 'idiosyncrasies' scene in Good Will Hunting" "you can actually see a subtle wobbling up and down because the camera operator was laughing uncontrollably along with you and Robin Williams." "I don't know, we could check. I wouldn't be surprised. Robin made everybody laugh... When he would see people's energy flagging, he would just launch into like 10 minutes of stand-up."

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  Arthur (@arthuryuzbashev) reported 46 minutes ago

  If your startup has no traffic right now, it's a skill issue. Reddit gets 10M+ daily visitors hunting for solutions to their problems as we speak. You don't need an audience. You don't need followers. You don't need a brand. Right subreddit. Right place. Right way to promote. That's the whole formula. The subreddits are public. The winning post formats are public. Everything is free. One post per 48-72 hours. 30 days. Zero bans. What's your excuse?

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  Mendía Helicopter Tours (@MendiaTours) reported 46 minutes ago

  @PriestRitchie They trained hard for it. Enormous amount of debate and discussion. They forged and refined their rhetoric together. The problem is they were on Reddit, a place that bans truth and dignity and hides dissenting views. They assumed it would be more of the same here

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  Amin (@eCom_Amin) reported 49 minutes ago

  fable 5.1 is insanely CRACKED at finding winning google ads angles to scale your brand past $1m/mo research capacities literally DOUBLED so here's every prompt you'll need to reverse-engineer competitors' funnels and rip some banger gads: (actually run them all rn, don't just bookmark) 1. load the brain before you ask it anything the research is only as sharp as the context. upload: - pdps - reviews - website - funnel pages - competitors - report CSVs - brand docs - ICP info - winners - losers literally everything then run this: "act as the angle research lead for this brand. read everything uploaded and build a working profile: ICP segments ranked by revenue, the pain points in the customer's own words, the objections ordered by how often they appear, the proof we already own, and the beliefs a buyer must hold before purchasing. do not propose angles yet. summarise what you found, then tell me what context is MISSING" that last instruction is the whole game. prompt engineering is cope just have claude tell you what he needs from you and give it to him. anybody who disagrees just loves to overcomplicate things. 2. mine untapped databases that semrush misses prompt: "search reddit threads, quora answers, amazon reviews and Q&A sections, youtube comments on competitor and category videos, tiktok comments, trustpilot, and niche forums for people discussing [PROBLEM CATEGORY]. extract VERBATIM language, never paraphrase. for each goldmine you find, give me this: the quote, the pain underneath it, what they already tried, why it failed them, the outcome they want, and the emotional state behind it" paraphrasing is how angles end up sounding like ai slop. the whole value is in knowing your ICP's EXACT words and repeating them on ads. 3. reverse engineer every competitor funnel end to end "research [COMPETITOR 1, 2, 3]. use google ads transparency center, meta ad library, their landing pages, checkout flow and email capture. for each: every live ad and where it routes, the landing page TYPE, the hero promise, the mechanism they claim, the proof they lead with, the objections handled and in what order, the offer and guarantee, and what they are NOT saying" then: "for each competitor page, tell me which awareness level it was built for. then identify which of their traffic is landing on the wrong page type" this is how you find gaps in your competitors strategies that you can capitalize on 4. diagnose market sophistication BEFORE choosing an angle this is the step 9 out of 10 brands skip and it decides whether your angle has any chance: "assess the market sophistication level for [CATEGORY] using schwartz's 5 stages. analyse competitor ads and landing pages as evidence. stage 1 means nobody has made the claim yet. stage 2 means claims are escalating. stage 3 means mechanism differentiation has started. stage 4 means mechanisms are competing. stage 5 means the market is exhausted and identification wins. tell me which stage we're in, the evidence, and what type of angle still works at this stage" if your category is at stage 4, a bigger promise does nothing. every competitor already made one. if you're operating in stage 5, the mechanism is exhausted too, and the strategy has to shift again your ad is only good if it resonates with the market it operates in 5. score every angle against awareness and funnel stage "from the research, generate 15 google ad angles for my brand. for each: the awareness level it serves, the funnel stage it belongs in, the sophistication stage it's valid at, whether it's validated by competitors or white space, the proof required to run it, and the funnel type it should be tested through. rank by expected impact and flag any we lack proof to support" an angle without proof is a claim. claude will rank those last 6. map the keywords to the angles, not the products "build the keyword universe for [BRAND] using the customer language and competitor research. split into branded, competitor, problem-aware symptom queries, solution-aware category queries, comparison, use-case, and occasion. tag each with awareness level, the angle it pairs with, the funnel type it routes to, and the campaign that should own it" this will make everything nice and organized 7. turn the research into the campaign plan "turn everything above into a 30-day google ads launch plan for this specific brand, its AOV, margin structure and market sophistication stage. for each campaign, give me: the angle it carries, the keyword cluster, the landing page type, the creative direction, and the signal that decides whether it scales, holds, or gets cut. separate must-launch from phase 2 tests" then: "tell me which 3 angles to test first and why, given our sophistication stage and the proof we currently own" and that's literally it your competitors are testing angles with fat budgets while you analyze it all, learn from their mistakes, and (ethically) rip their winners with a unique twist and if you want me to audit your brand's google ads angles using this system and show you how we'd capitalize on the winning ones... DM me "OPP"

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  Arjun Premkumar (@arjun_prmkmr) reported 54 minutes ago

  @ayoub_el77927 Talk about what and how you solve the problem on X an Reddit as much as possible.

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  Harshal (@harshal_lfc) reported 55 minutes ago

  @Chikudi_US Also, according to reddit rumours they already had issues from 2nd or 3rd month itself. Plus, early months in marriage is mostly lovey dovey after which people show their true colours if they are hiding something

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  Dylan Txa (@Dylan_txa_) reported 57 minutes ago

  I'm 30. I built an AI startup called GojiberryAI doing over $4M ARR in one year. Got accepted into YC. If I had to start from 0, here's exactly what I'd do: 1. Sell it before I build it. No code. Just a simple slide deck (mine was 6 ugly slides) explaining the problem, the solution, the outcome, and the price. I made my first $10k that way, before writing a single line. 2. Pick a painfully specific customer. Not "B2B SaaS." Something like "founders at 20-person SaaS companies about to hire their first SDR." So specific that the right person reads it and thinks "that's me." 3. Start outbound on day one, but only to people showing intent. Not scraped lists. People engaging with competitors, changing roles, raising money, or publicly posting about the exact problem I solve. That's the gap between a 1-2% reply rate and 25-40%. 4. Lead with value, never a calendar link. Send a blueprint, not "got 15 minutes?" Let the resource do the selling, and the trial becomes the obvious next step instead of a pitch. 5. Pick ONE channel and go deep. For us it was outbound first, then Reddit (10M+ organic views), then LinkedIn lead magnets. I wouldn't touch a second channel until the first one was clearly working. 6. Talk to customers every single day. The product doesn't matter until you understand the problem better than they do. Spend 90% of every early call listening, not demoing. 7. Only build once people are actually paying. Then keep it dead simple and price it to sell itself. We landed on $99/mo with a free trial, so the funnel runs without me dragging anyone onto a call. 8. Do this relentlessly for about 12 months. That’s roughly how long $0 to $3.5M took us. Bootstrapped. No outside funding. Most founders don’t lose because they can’t build. They lose because they build too early, sell too late, and quit the channel before it compounds.

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  Saulthis445 (@Mass3279) reported 58 minutes ago

  @libertybelleX47 @brndxix Reddit is down the hall and to the left

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  Lekhansh Ojha (@lekhanshojha12) reported 58 minutes ago

  “Claude Code writes my code. Why can’t it do my marketing?” I spend ~3 hours a day on Reddit. Not building. Not shipping. Scrolling. Hunting for the one post where someone describes my product’s exact pain. Writing comments that sound helpful instead of like an ad. Digging through profiles to find people who might actually buy. Then rewriting the same message 40 ways so it doesn’t feel copy-pasted. Most days I find the wrong post, DM the wrong person, and ship nothing. So I started building an MCP that hands the whole loop to Claude Code, finds the posts, drafts comments in my voice, builds the lead list, writes the outreach. Marketing runs while I go back to building and fix bugs. Would you use this, and what breaks first? Let’s talk in the comments. If you want in, drop “interested” and I’ll put you on the beta tester list.