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My mom basically told me to stop going to therapy — Context: I'm a 26F that finally broke down and called her a narcissist a few weeks ago. I had showed her the presentation my childhood best friend made in 2024 when I was dreading to see her over Chri…
Donald Trump & the LOB — JM sub, It has been talked about Trump and the LOB a few times on this sub, and I wanted to remind you about how Donald Trump has used, and still uses the LOB in his favor. Recently, I've seen an in…
Web Development Interview Questions - JV Codes 2025 — # Welcome to the Interview Questions Hub at JV Codes! Preparing for a [coding interview](https://jvcodes.com/interview-questions/)? Do you experience some anxiety because you doubt what [interview qu…
How do I put together a multi-product design system as a sole designer? — Hi all, my UX design journey has been chaotic but I suspect that’s normal. I was in visual/web design for about 8 years then 2 years ago I got my first UX role (after trying to pursue and study UX f…
Should I try to learn SEO or just hire someone? — My family just opened a small pet supplies business. I used to be into web design and tech stuff years ago so I was able to throw together a simple website. The thing is, I have no clue about SEO. I …
Suggestions for affordable shipping for large unusual sized boxes and regular box that’s a bit heavy. — Im launching EV AirCare. We ship DIY Air Filter replacement kits for Teslas. It’s niche, with about 30% of Tesla drivers opting to DIY. I have all-in-one kits that aren’t available anywhere else. I’m …
How to Wreck Your Career: a cautionary tale from someone who has 5 years of experience.. — Context:- I am a 31 year old UX designer with a masters degree in industrial design from one of the top design schools here in India. I have almost 6 years of experience on the paper of which I hav…
Thoughts on a platform that can give AI suggestions layered on top of product documentation (i will not promote) — **AI suggestions layered on top of product documentation** Hey r/startups, I’m exploring a product idea and would love to hear your thoughts. **The problem:** Many users land in product documenta…
Bootstrapped Turkish Food Brand Exploring Global B2B Expansion – I will not promote — Hey everyone, I help manage a family-run pistachio butter business based in Gaziantep, Turkey — a city known for producing world-class pistachios. Since 2007, we’ve been selling a premium, all-natur…
Can AI content make your site disappear from Google Discover? — Hello! For the past six months, I've been using AI to help me create blog content, but in a smart way: I write what I want part by part, add context, rewrite some sections, etc. Our rankings remain so…
Why webapps didn’t become more popular after all? — Google had a dream where people turn on their computer and the only thing they are greeted with is the Chrome browser. People were sceptic at first but Google created a wonderful web platform called C…
Should I purchase multiple domain TLDs for my brand? What’s your opinion? — Hey everyone I own the main .com for my brand, but I’m wondering if it’s smart (or necessary) to purchase other TLDs too like .net, .co, .io, and so on. Some people say it helps with branding, trus…
E-commerce Industry News Recap 🔥 Week of May 5th, 2025 — Hi r/ecommerce \- I'm Paul and I follow the e-commerce industry closely for my Shopifreaks E-commerce Newsletter. Every week for the past 3+ years I've posted a summary recap of the week's top stories…
This Week's Top E-commerce News Stories 💥 May 5th, 2025 — Hi r/Shopify - I'm Paul and I follow the e-commerce industry closely for my Shopifreaks E-commerce Newsletter, which I've published weekly since 2021. I was invited by the Mods of this subreddit to s…
Are manipulative design tricks (like delayed buttons or fake popups) considered “dark patterns” — or just smart UX? — I’ve seen more and more websites do things like move buttons, delay the “No” option, or mimic system prompts. Curious if others in UX see this as unethical, or just part of modern conversion strategy?
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I made $32 after 16 months of coding. Was it all a waste of time? — Over the last 16 months, I’ve done something that sounds cooler than it really is: I built a SaaS. In my free time, at night, on weekends, while everyone else was at the beach or watching Netflix, I …
What’s the smartest business to start today with $50k–75K? — I’m 18 and looking to start a serious business with a budget of $50K–$75K. I’m not interested in quick flips or side hustles. I want something solid and long-term. Ideally, a real business with a phys…
We Fired a Developer But Not Because He Was Bad, But Because He Wasn't Right. Only 2 Legit Reasons to Fire Anyone. (i will not promote) — After building a small team and running a startup for a while, We’ve come to a hard conclusion: There are only two legitimate reasons to fire someone. 1. They are not the right fit for the company.…
Looking for marketing strategy tips for our startup(I will not promote) — Hey all, My friends and I are currently building a startup. We’re in the preparation phase now and plan to go live in about 3 months. While we’re handling the operational and technical side, we’r…
Looking for marketing strategy tips for our startup — Hey all, My friends and I are currently building a startup. We’re in the preparation phase now and plan to go live in about 3 months. While we’re handling the operational and technical side, we’r…
Looking for marketing strategy tips for our startup — Hey all, My friends and I are currently building a startup. We’re in the preparation phase now and plan to go live in about 3 months. While we’re handling the operational and technical side, we’r…
Funding Questions (I will not promote) — I started a chatting site in January. And I’m at the stage now where I think I’m ready for funding. I have created a decent pitch deck, one pager, new sign up website, LLC, trademark pending, and th…
Fed up with scattered UK property data, I built an AI tool that combines everything into one smart search — **What It Does** This is an internal tool I’ve been building to help with UK property prospecting, market research, and deal due diligence. If you've ever tried to buy or invest in property in the U…
How do you make sure nothing falls through the cracks of your business operations? — I work with companies that use a ton of different tools (CRMs, inventory, payments, shipping, etc.). The problem I keep seeing is that things slip through the cracks, and no one realizes until it’s to…
Looking to Start Small Scale PCB Assembly/Manufacturing. Where Should I Begin? — Hi everyone, I’m planning to start small scale PCB manufacturing with a budget of $100k. I have experience testing circuits on breadboards and assembling Drone flight controllers and LoRaWAN systems,…
Bouncing around a new business idea — Hello everyone. I have an idea to purchase a commercial property in my town (old government building) and outfit it to be mainly a golf simulator business with multiple bays including small kitchen an…
Share some tips for start up business — How do you approach automation to help a startup grow faster and work smarter?
"I quit my engineering job due to anxiety and built a small business—how do I scale from here?" — Hi everyone, I wanted to share my journey and ask for advice from those who’ve scaled small businesses. I studied chemical engineering and got placed in a great company right after graduating from S…
Is A Personal Loan A Good Option To Get My Freelance Off The Ground? — I want to get my business off ground, it's just doing video and photo work. I don't have an LLC or any business accounts, everything I've done has been in my personal name. I need better equipment and…
Should I starting selling products? I'm working at a temp job soon to be over or wait till I find a ft job? — Hi everyone. I have an llc for my small online business. I want to sell digital products on etsy. However, I'm currently working at a temp job which work is becoming much slower. Although, my end dat…
"Mastering Content Creation with Real-Time Optimization, Competitor Analysis, and Smart Editing Tools" — Content is still king—but not just any content. Today, high-ranking content is the result of a strategic balance between creativity and data-driven precision. To climb the search engine results pages …
Projecting insecurities — Hi everyone, I’ve just realised something that I’ve been doing which I think is both an outcome of my low self esteem and also a way for me to find excuses to end relationships when otherwise I have n…
Feeling conflicted, I don't know if I don't love him and I am settling or if I love him and the "cons" are avoidant deactivation? — I 33F have ve been dating this guy 32M for 8 months. He's chased me for years and eventually recently I started to feel attraction back, he figured it out and kissed me. For some months I didn't feel…
I'm so tired of people. — For reference, a couple of years ago, I was in an abusive relationship that kinda changed who I am. I won't go into too much detail, but let's just say that I used to be outgoing and fun, but also I h…
My boyfriend (M35) and I (F27) have not said i love you, over a year of dating — TLDR; My boyfriend (M35) and I (f27) have been together for over a year, he hasn’t said I love you despite having talked about marriage, kids, future together. In a conversation he said he was apprehe…
Being kind isn't just nice...it's smart...b/c we live in an environment made of each other. — Think of it like a fish swimming in an ocean made of other fish. Everything we do as we move through this world...for our little bit of time here...relies on other people helping us, often in ways we…
Want to hurt a covert narcissist? Tell people the truth (but be smart about it) — **DISCLAIMER:** Only do this if you are physically, financially, emotionally, and psychologically separated and safe from a narcissist. The following will probably not be applicable if you have to mai…
Why are they always convinced they've won even when they've lost? — I'm married to a narc, and I am always flummoxed by how delusional she is about victory. "HAH I got him to leave the room and end the conversation I didn't want to have about how I won't have anywhe…
Would you stay in a relationship with someone like this? — I’m in my first relationship post-divorce after 20 years of marriage. We’ve dated for a year and I love and care deeply for this man, but I’m struggling with whether I’m ignoring red flags. The good:…
[Prove Me Wrong] Bruce Lee was the last English speaking Asian that represented us well — Bruce lee was: * Well Articulated (and spoke good english) * Confident * Smart * Masculine * Good in fighting I feel that the \- kpop/kdrama: more girly/pretty/gentle boys are famous \- china: …
Pretty privilege success manifestation — I’m like one month into manifesting and I have multiple success stories already but the one that I love the most is about my self concept. JUST KEEP IN MIND, you absolutely DONT need to be like 100% …
Being forced to become smarter than them because they are dumb as hell — My Indian parents turned out be really really dumb. Their problem solving skill is terrible. My father is the worst, he is a utter brainlet. All he does is work all day. No socializing, no nothing. Ju…
I was going to be incredible — I was such a smart kid. A gifted child, kind and clever and great at academics. Everyone said I was going to change the world. I could have done so much. Instead I am thirty and I am frozen with terr…
Why am i so average — I've put effort in everything I do, and yet everything I do leads to just an average outcome. How do other people try a lot less and do much better? Is life only successful if I have raw talent and we…
The "Manosphere" — Last night my wife and I watched the new Netflix documentary on the Manosphere. It was entertaining and informative, but also quite sad. My first reaction, honestly, was that with the exception of th…
I was in Barbados… Well actually it was Turks and Caicos but close enough! — I was in Barbados… Well actually it was Turks and Caicos but close enough I just came back from a 4 week long vacation in Turks and Caicos in the Caribbean. This was the 10th year in a row I have don…
I (37F) am tired of my boyfriends (45M) cleaning OCD and the comments it comes with. Is this workable? — My boyfriend is very smart, caring and kind in so many ways, but we're not on the same page about cleaning. I feel like a broken record bc I know this is an issue in many relationships, but what's hap…
Just feel so disappointed in myself all the time — I just can't help being so disappointed and sad about myself all the time. I constantly feel like I've been a disappointment, and that no matter what I do, I won't be able to escape that, and I'll end…
Calling AM on her bluff, even if it means she becomes homeless — \*\*\*\*Warning this contains Abuse, this is not for everyone if you’re under 18 please do not continue reading this. I’ll try to make it brief. My AM was a single parent of 5 kids. That’s where he…
How do people become emotionally immature? — I was raised by and surrounded by emotionally immature adults my whole life, while living in a toxic and abusive household created mainly by my father’s abuse towards my mother, and her compliance and…
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About point a, moonlight, oh, sweet, old memories, I actually hallucinated about 1 year, trying to act as if. No, it was not rough, it was hell, but I did it. And it kinda worked, but I don t recomme…
You are honestly the smartest guy on this sub. This sub is sort of populated by people that still live off of ego and still have not connected with the Universe. They believe that we are only respons…
Knowing that there's a physical reason for the confusion and lack of awareness makes it easier to accept. One feels like an outsider; the people around you seem to know how to be with each other. An…
Unbelievable that you are tryin to diss neville, i never thought i would see haters towards him, while he was tryin to help people than you got idiots like moonlightconcerto , maybe you should wake up…
Yeah I'm just trying to sound smart. You're right though. I look at this as I should stop waiting for my ex sigh...
I'd just tag on that posters pay attention to all advice posted, regardless of the upvotes/downvotes. The hivemind here can be brutal. This is PARTICULARLY problematic when advice gets legal advice …
No way around it except practice, smart application of what you're supposed to have read in the index, and discipline. At the end of the day, that's where the real work lies to impress the SM and get …
I had a quick glance at this on my break and will chip in more later, just by point 1 alone I see you haven’t grasped it, feeling is the secret indeed. But the feeling isn’t emotions. 2 That knowing…
Very smart and a good reminder to try to intentionally practice this. “I really miss him, and my nervous system feels more regulated without him.”
Im sorry, but 80GB ingest/month is not medium company. 80GB/hour may be middle sized company. You are really looking for small scale/homelab sized solution. Worst part of grafana stack is loki. If yo…
Yep, Redshift observability is one of those things that should be easier, but ends up buried in system tables and tribal knowledge. Some practical tips that might help: 1. Build a lightweight monito…
There is no such thing as “the smartest business to start today”. There are trends, opportunities, needs and problems to solve. It’s difficult to future-proof businesses these days with the constant v…
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Simple SEO is beneficial for the site, and you can use ChatGPT to make sure to highlight keywords and phrase your page descriptions in a way that makes it stand out in the algorithm. Social media is…
Reaching $300k in profit usually doesn’t happen overnight, but here's how I got there: I started with a side hustle while working full-time. Having a steady paycheck allowed me to take risks without …
Sounds like a major improvement for property research in the UK. Love that you're automating the mess of data. The smart alerts and chat-style Q&A are solid ideas. If you can scale this up, it'd save …
Matchmaking platforms are tough early on since they rely so much on user activity. One thing that helps is starting with a small niche where you can really deliver value. Also AI can make the platform…
If the design agency is no longer aligned with your focus and the offer is reasonable, selling could free up valuable time for your growing b2b marketing agency. Letting go of what’s not working might…
If the design agency’s holding you back and the other biz is growing faster and making more, it’s probably time to sell. You’re getting a solid offer and freeing up time to go all-in on what’s workin…
Childhood trauma doesn't always look like yelling or hitting; people mistake this a lot. You can have a lovely attentive parent who still didn't teach you emotional regulation, sent you in time out in…
Thank you aa a formal c I a intern and psia intern thank esp law of attraction opportunity women and some form of finance within a few weeks will come your way surprisingly unless your third eye se…
"What would your subconscious most likely be SEEING (if you were in a relationship with them) throughout the day? " This post uses the above line as the central premise for its "logic" that you shoul…
> Better yet, many are up front and say they don’t want anything serious/don’t want a relationship. This isn't even an AT comment specifically, but imo ignoring people when they say this is just a re…
Yea I get that, my point was that "self identifying as" only gets you so far. There's how we view and perceive ourselves, vs. how the outside world views and perceives us - and then there are objectiv…
This is definitely not true. You can still get attracted to them. Especially avoidants tend to be very charming, successful and if the person is smart or you share a lot of common interests, until the…
When I mention ‘AI’ I don’t necessarily mean that which exists in its current form, but rather a smart artificial intelligence that actually does know how to counter your thoughts and redirect them to…
I knew the answer but I asked you anyways because I wanted to know if you truly knew the answer or not. Most of the time people don’t because they don’t read the index or use the search bar. You didn’…
This is such a wonderful and thoughtful reply. I took screenshots so I can reread it when I feel discouraged. You're a smart one, electricboobs2019!
\* HINT \* - don't be dismissive, arrogant, a pompous azz, or rude. ASSUME Experiencers are, in fact, telling the truth. Also assume we are smart enough to have gone down the checklist of prosaic an…
Ask ChatGPT to ask you questions to help determine your style. Then when you answer, give a lot of detail about why you answered that way. Before you send your answers, express that you want to know i…
That’s such a smart distinction because as anxiously attached we think we aren’t avoiding, but we are. Avoiding the feeling because it feels endless through food, alcohol, romance. When really it’s ac…
This. This is an immature relationship given how young the OP and the SP are. They will likely break up when she realizes he is a loser and they will never get married. She’s better off getting over…
Sorry this is long. I’m 27, I have only been on dates with like 10 guys in my life (I don’t understand why getting a date, let alone a relationship is so incredibly hard, but that’s a different topic)…
What I’m hearing is you want him to be a mind reader. You’ve listed things he could have done. Maybe give him this list for next time? You mention the pain made it difficult for you to communicate w…
Yeah I guess you’re right. It does affect me on that level. Or at least there is the potential it could affect me and that’s why my subconscious or nervous system is reacting. Looking at it from a non…
I think you’re right which is why I'm dating again. She's smart so I'm sure she’ll heal one day it just pisses me off that some other guy who is just at the right time and right place will get to be w…
Ahh this is smart
I've heard (and taught) all this stuff so many times. I just...have a lot of snags around it all. Let me go through each of your points. I have other hobbies and interests, but it's hard for me to ac…
I’m new to Reddit but find it of good use to try and find answers to my problems. I’ve been in a LTR with a man but we’ve always had issues where he has said I’m narcissistic - I couldn’t understand w…
This is probably not the answer you want, but it could be the one you need. With 8,3 billion people on the planet. It is to be expected that a few of them doesn't get the same emotional response as o…
He’s kind, smart, funny, confident, physically I’m attracted to him. He wants to talk about how shitty the world is right now. I dunno he just doesn’t have the hidden X factor ya know?? Hahah I swe…
No I'm picking up on some bitter vibes tbh. On the other hand he pursues me pretty heavily. He even crafted me a gift. I'll see it through and keep talking to others. I feel bad taking to others but I…
It is never going to happen for this guy. He runs with ignorant assumptions and assumes that he’s the smartest guy in the room. Nothing wrong with asking - I think of tech as a male dominated field, w…
Been there brother, I dated a very smart, charming beauty model end of last year. I wanted to want her in all the ways you mentioned and just couldn't. Very odd.
Not at all. I don’t feel this way neither about me nor about my friends, not about men I have been going on dates with. I also don’t think people are single because “no one wanted”. My friends are bea…
He said I'm "smart, easy to talk to, and obviously very beautiful." Second date with Greek dude is Friday. 🇬🇷
I saw someone's profile who also lost a lot of weight, they didn't mention anything about it but one of their pictures was a before/after. I think that's a smart way to go about it and gets the point …
Progressed to being exclusive recently after 10th date (my proposal), and now in a period I'd call probationary as we are (I am) still figuring out how the official label will work out for us. I said …