Tom @TomFromRealLife

building a solo business in personalized children's books selfarama.com Melbourne, Australia Joined August 2006

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Tom @TomFromRealLife

6 months ago

I've spent tens of thousands of $$$ with @gelato and mostly it's been great But now they've delayed 100+ orders There's no indication anything will arrive by Christmas They quietly shorted the shipping window by a week w/ no announcement And I'm stuck in "ai support bot hell"

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Tom @TomFromRealLife

7 months ago

@jordienr @supabase Yeah idk what happened, it worked again shortly after! Weird, soz for the noise! 🙏

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Tom @TomFromRealLife

7 months ago

@supabase did y'all just make the table editor sidebar super wide? too wide for me! 🙏

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7 months ago

@IMJustinBrooke gcp

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7 months ago

storybrand X hero's journey - a character the customer can relate to - put them in a hole "it hurts" - make it worse "in fact it was killing me" - get them out of the hole "this product/service saved me" - happily ever after - cta: if you're in that hole, get this

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Tom @TomFromRealLife

8 months ago

@rqobela 304 Stop Hassling Me

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8 months ago

@DavidGouge @rqobela The “yeah nah” of http codes

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Tom @TomFromRealLife

8 months ago

ngl, windsurf is awesome, but somehow i still love the og copy-paste into chatgpt workflow

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8 months ago

Picked a good week to consolidate on us-east-1

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8 months ago

also created a lil shell helper called `did()` which adds annotations to my posthog analytics easy/dumb way to see what happened near interesting moments in the charts

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8 months ago

i've broken my checkout too many times so i've just rolled out playwright every time i deploy, it runs a test purchase using the airwallex demo card in my shiny new staging env

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8 months ago

gpt5 on @replicate nice but lacking self-awareness

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8 months ago

@prisma @vercel @supabase I'd love to, but I'm pretty happy with supabase... and the todo list is looooooong :)

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Tom @TomFromRealLife

8 months ago

db latency from @vercel to @prisma accelerate to @supabase, before and after localising vercel in us-east-1 prisma is everywhere (cf anycast) before: supabase in ap-southeast-2 p50 = 1.2s, p99 = 4.4s after: supabase in us-east-1 p50 = .23s, p99 = 1.9s

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Tom @TomFromRealLife

8 months ago

Dark patterns for dealing with meta - a brainstorm 1. Send conversion values reduced by 50% to pixel and capi. See if meta’s skimming algorithm adjusts 2. Every time I get a sale, increase ad budget by 10% immediately. Any hour without a sale, decrease it What else?

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Tom @TomFromRealLife

8 months ago

@SamMendelsohnW6 I have had thoughts like these and dismissed them as sour grapes. But maybe I’ll change my pixel & capi to send meta conversion values of 50% the real value and see if my CPA goes down 😅

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Tom @TomFromRealLife

8 months ago

Results of my headlines & desires test Looking primarily at CTR, side-eye on CPC ✅got a shortlist for further testing Interesting to see the low-CPC & low-CPM outlier top the charts 👀

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Tom @TomFromRealLife

8 months ago

- cbo with 'autoshutoff' in name - automated rule to kill any ad with >$3 spent and campaign name contains 'autoshutoff' - one adset, usual audience suggestion (no restrictions) - one ad per image - daily budget $150 all ads should be done in a couple days, ready to analyze

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Tom @TomFromRealLife

8 months ago

2/2 - export images - create bulk import csv with same headline and primary text for all rows - use facebook ads 'bulk import ads' tool in new cbo campaign next: campaign setup

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Tom @TomFromRealLife

8 months ago

today i'm probing market desires... figuring out what do ppl click on most running $3 each in ad spend to 55 ugly AF ads only diff is the headline using traffic goal instead of sales 😳🤯 bc i want fast signal about interests & desires don't care about readiness to buy rn