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  Sam (@King_Samus) reported 3 minutes ago

  @grok @johannesmkx @grok so I could just use Brave to access X or Gmail for example? Won't X have to lock things down with verification? Sounds like a mess.

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  Victor Godsk (@EcomVictor) reported 3 minutes ago

  Questions my agency has gotten recently from active clients and brands looking to work with us 👇 1. Do we HAVE to give a 10% discount on our pop-up like everyone else? You don’t. A lot of brands do it because it's given them the best results long-term (sign-up rate + conversions over time). But… a lot of brands also do it just because they think they have to do that to maximize email list growth with a pop-up. Here's a better option for a lot of brands: If you're already offering something like a % discount + free gifts/shipping on your product page, just use that exact offer on your pop-up. Even though people don't technically need to sign up to get it. It usually performs really well and it doesn't eat further into your margins just to grow your list. Grüns does exactly this too. Their evergreen offer is 52% off + free shipping, and that's what their pop-up promotes too. Test both for your brand and see what makes most sense for your profits/growth. 2. We've never sent emails before. How do we get good open rates? First, make sure you’ve got a branded sending domain set up. Then, start with your flows. Build 1 email for each of the flows where profiles are highest intent: - welcome series - browse abandonment - abandoned cart - abandoned checkout - post-purchase These fire automatically, get decent engagement, and slowly build your sender reputation. (If your welcome flow opens are awful within the first ~2 days, like sub 35%, turn on double opt-in temporarily while you fix deliverability. It'll slow list growth, but it pays off long-term for revenue) For campaigns, you've got no email engagement data yet, so segment with the data you DO have. - recent abandoned checkouts - active customers - recent site visitors - people who joined your list in the last 7-14 days Once you've sent a few and gathered some data, start segmenting by people who opened or clicked your emails recently (last 7-14 days) and send to those. Hit 50%+ open rates on a few campaigns? Expand to 30-day engagers. Hit 50%+ again on those? Go to 60-day engagers. Keep going until you're at a comfortable spot. That spot is different for every brand though. We've got clients where 180-day engagers is the base segment, and clients where it's 30 days. It depends. Also, exclude anyone who bounces. The whole point is signaling to inbox providers (Gmail, Yahoo, Outlook, etc.) that their users actually want and engage with your emails. 3. Our click rate is too low. How do we optimize it? Can we make that our main focus? First, ask yourself if "more clicks" is really the goal you think it is. If your content is already top-tier (angles, offers, copy, design) and you're sending to a broad but engaged segment most of the time… a higher click rate probably won't do what you think it will. Click rate doesn't equal revenue. Revenue equals revenue. We could easily get you a 5%+ click rate by sending to a tiny, super-engaged audience. But that email would most likely generate a fraction of what a bigger send at 0.7% click rate would do in actual sales. We have clients getting 2-3% click rates on every campaign. We have clients getting 0.5-0.8% on every campaign. It depends on your frequency, traffic sources, list quality, product type, customer avatar. All of it. There's nothing we could change in the "copywriting strategy" or "design strategy" that would suddenly double their click rate consistently across every send. Sure, certain concepts spike clicks here and there (gamified emails, mystery offers that bait the click, etc.), but that shouldn't replace your whole content strategy. Track click rate. Understand it. Just don't optimize your entire strategy around it. Optimize for revenue.

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  Rishi (@RishiUvaach) reported 6 minutes ago

  Your longer chats aren't smarter. They're dumber. Here are the 12 wrong facts you (still) believe: 1. LONGER CHAT → not smarter ☑ One chat = one task. Finish it after getting done. ☑ Need the context? Ask for a 5-line summary, paste it into a fresh chat. Faster AND cheaper. 2. CLAUDE AGREEING → not a proof you're right ☑ "Argue the strongest case against this. Be harsh." ☑ Test: if it can't find a flaw, your idea isn't ready. 3. CONFIDENT → not always correct ☑ Prompt with: "Rate your confidence 1–10 & what change would you make to your answer." ☑ A 6/10 with reasons beats a 10/10 with vibes. 4. PROMPTING → you don't need to learn it ☑ You only need 4 words: "Ask me questions first." ☑ Claude interviews you. You click. That's it. 5. LONGER PROMPT → not a better prompt ☑ Don't write "do step 1, then 2." Write the end goal ☑ "Make this report something my CEO screenshots." It's smarter than your directions. 6. BROWSER → switch to Claude app ☑ The Claude app builds the real file in your folder. ☑ The browser makes you copy-paste. ☑ Make a folder, call it "cowork," point Claude at it. Now it ships .xlsx, .pptx, .pdf - for real. 7. CHAT → not the whole building ☑ Chat is floor 1: Cowork, Skills, Code are upstairs. ☑ Open the app, click Cowork (the whole upgrade). 8. SKILLS → build one tonight, no code ☑ Type /skill-creator and say: "Teach Claude to do [your task] the way I like it. Ask me questions first." ☑ Now it fires on its own when the task fits. 9. PASTING LOGINS → never do this ☑ Never paste a password. No need to explain why. ☑ That's literally what connectors are for. ☑ Customize → Connectors → connect Gmail, Calendar, Drive properly. 10. AI → keep the understanding ☑ Outsource the typing. Not the understanding. ☑ Don't ship what you can't explain. After answers: "Explain this to me like I'll be questioned on it." 11. FIRST DRAFT → it's the starting line ☑ The first draft is yours to fix, not to ship. ☑ Prompt: "What's the weakest part of this? Fix it." 12. TOO FAR BEHIND → no, you're not ☑ The bar to 'knowing how' is to try it. ☑ Open Claude tonight. Not Monday. Tonight. Quick gut-check before you scroll: If you nodded at even 3 of these, that's not a 'you' problem - nobody told you.

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  HeyNikhila (@HeyNikhila) reported 6 minutes ago

  @surjithctly @FormNX Currently, clicking on that auto-fills the email or takes to gmail as per your login If masked this might not be useful then... FB does the same

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  nmuk (@nmuk) reported 10 minutes ago

  @ExitLiqCapital I've got my own domain, never had a problem. But my domain name doesn't end in capital which suggests some kind of financial services. It's not about having your own non gmail domain.

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  Ivelina aka Niftyhontas (@niftyhontas) reported 11 minutes ago

  instant VC rejection signals (stop wasting your time): - you make empty claims. No numbers, no proof = no credibility. - you ask for an NDA before sharing your deck. Signals inexperience. - your pitch deck has an outdated date. Signals you’ve been fundraising too long. - your market size (SAM) is over $100B. Too broad, VCs assume your numbers are wrong. - your market is too small (SAM < $1B). No VC-scale exit potential. - “we have no competition.” - founders own less than 50% after Series A. Low ownership = weak long-term incentives. - dead equity on your cap table. Bad early deals = no room for employees or future rounds. - your market size is expressed in volume, not value. VCs think in $$, not in units. - you’re not a Delaware C-Corp (or VC-friendly entity). Legal structure matters. - no technical co-founder. No CTO? No funding (for tech startups). - you want to sell to “everyone.” No clear ICP = no focus = no investment. - you talk about exits too early. If you’re pre-seed, focus on building, not selling. - your deck is full of jargon. “Disruption,” “transformation,” “game-changer” = auto-reject. - you exaggerate traction. If investors dig and find out, you’re done. - you’re using a Gmail/Hotmail email. Get a professional domain email. - you can’t estimate CAC/LTV. If you don’t know your unit economics, you’re not ready. - you’re slow to reply to emails. Speed = execution. Slow response = weak founder. - your GTM strategy is just a list of channels. No clear funnel = no go. - your round terms are off-market. Investors expect valuations in a certain range. - you’re raising for less than 18 months or more than 24 months of runway. Too little = risky, too much = over-optimistic. - talking “equity” and “valuation” at pre-seed. Pre-seed rounds = SAFEs, not priced equity. - you can’t handle rejection. VCs talk, don’t burn bridges. - you’re building in a cold market. Some sectors just aren’t getting funded right now. - no “unfair advantage.” If anyone can copy you, why should VCs bet on you? - you’re a Forbes 30 Under 30. 🚩 Investors know PR ≠ success. - your deck is circulating without investor engagement. If no one's biting, something's off. what else?

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  Jose Velez (@J_dev363) reported 15 minutes ago

  @nandoprince93 The problem is that while the integration is good the app itself is not that good. I’ve tried using Apple Maps and I always get a wrong direction. I try using Apple Music but the recommendations are not that good. I use Apple mail because I prefer it over Gmail but even that, the ui is weird

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  Afc_klasic (@Badboy_klasic) reported 18 minutes ago

  I Dan swear for them inside gmail them Dan fix am now

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  Ivan Landabaso (@IvanLandabaso) reported 22 minutes ago

  1/ Act 1: The Wilderness (2017-2020, $0 to <$1M) After ~100 rejections, one name was left on their list: Mark Cuban. Steffen found his private Gmail inside the Sony hack data dump (anyone could download it back then, wild), sent a cold email with a video of the tech, and Cuban replied in 5 minutes ($1M at a $5M post). - Lever 1: they marketed a product that didn't exist yet by making famous people speak languages they don't. A BBC anchor in Mandarin, Beckham asking for malaria donations in 9 languages (800M+ impressions), Messi selling Lay's (a Cannes Lion), etc. Great (almost free) distribution leverage for a 10-person startup at the time. - Lever 2: they killed their only product with real revenue on purpose. Dubbing booked just under $1M over 18 months but sat at the wrong end of the workflow, "a vitamin, not a painkiller" as Victor puts it, so they shut it down (trade-off to identify and focus on a long term revenue driver, corporates). - Lever 3: they sold a worse video to people comparing it to no video at all. A clunky 2020 avatar lost to a film crew but it beat the 15-page PDF nobody tended to read in a coroporation, and that flipped pretty much everything (roadmap, monetization and trajectory). Self-serve hit $0 to $1M ARR in ~4 months.

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  Chickennugget🐤******* supervillain⚢🏳️‍🌈 (@JurassicParkTho) reported 22 minutes ago

  @Poppy_yyyyyyyy @thespiralquirk DO NOT CLICK ANY LINKS IN THAT EMAIL. Twitter/X DOES NOT USE A GMAIL ADDRESS. It’s a fake email fishing for your login data. Flag the email as spam, and delete it. Change your X password and enable 2 factor authentication in security settings

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  Lea Marie Korsawe (@leakorsawe) reported 26 minutes ago

  @Samaytwt Switched from Outlook to Gmail and still prefer Outlook. But at this point the problem is probably not the tool.

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  DWS | Sound lighting Video installation services (@DWsound) reported 26 minutes ago

  @Google are you finding a fix for Gmail - where you open Gmail & keyboard on Google pixel doesn't launch - current work around is to auto rotate phone, keyboard launches then turn it around to use...

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  ‧₊˚✧Karen✧˚₊‧ | Agent P (@Lovely_Karen_) reported 27 minutes ago

  @bambiaatch I also can't access it either and I used my Gmail I hope its just a glitch

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  UnknownDanny (@FlavourUnknown) reported 27 minutes ago

  @glintintel Discord almost no reply, slow communication, can not login with gmail ? Wth ?

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  Pradipta Ray | Money & Credit (@PradiptaMoney) reported 28 minutes ago

  @Sakshi50038 Love the sentiment, honestly. But let's be real. Zoho Mail over Gmail — valid. Zoho is genuinely world-class and Indian. ✅ Indus over ChatGPT — tried it. Not there yet. ❌ Paragon over Nike — for what exactly? Running shoes or formal wear? Context matters. Bisleri over Kinley — both fine, honestly. Voltas over Samsung AC — actually a solid choice. Tata product. Indian brand. ✅ Jio over Vodafone — most Indians have already made this switch. ✅ SBI over Standard Chartered — depends on your needs completely. The problem with "Go Desi" campaigns: We celebrate the idea. But the Indian alternative has to actually be better or equal first. Choosing India out of guilt doesn't help. Choosing Indian because it's genuinely good — that builds the ecosystem. Build better products first. The customers will follow naturally. 🙏