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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 19h

boost your user satisfaction and growth with this one weird trick (removing the shit everyone hates that you added for no reason)

r/SaaS
u/soasme
I deleted ALL AI features... and user growth went UP.

Everyone's busy adding Al to everything.
I did the same for indie10k.com but it didn't work.
I removed all of fancy Al stuff - Al coach, Al growth ideas, Al "personalized" advice - everything.
Guess what?
I see more registered users and higher retention.
That actually make me wonder why now i have one page with one button, without all that Al thingy, but it does better?
Here's my question:
Is Al feature actually helping SaaS grow?

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Will BOO-rows 🖖🍞🥀 @reforest-kelley.bsky.social · 11h

A photo of three people in inflatable frog suits outside an ICE detention center in Portland, overlaid with an excerpt from Exodus 8:2-6

"But if you refuse to let them go, I will
plague your whole country with frogs...
The frogs shall come up on you and on
your people and on all your officials."

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Chelsea Cristene Bock @chelseacristene.bsky.social · 11h

What you see when you watch the livestream of the Annapolis City Council meeting: My husband participating virtually from Maine

What you don’t see: Me on the couch behind him and to the left, eating a literal wheel of brie

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Peter Beaumont @petersbeaumont1.bsky.social · 1d

If you've never been to Gaza, you won't appreciate what the yellow line means. Basically Israel now holds most of Gaza's small but important agricultural land. Continued Israeli occupation, which I judge the likely outcome, makes Gaza even more unliveable and more dependent on outside goods.

AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 1d

Gaza Strip: Israeli army has withdrawn to the 'yellow line'

AFP Infographic with map of the Gaza Strip showing the 'yellow line' where the Israeli army has withdrawn its forces as of October 10, according to US envoy Steve Witkoff

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Chelsea Cristene Bock @chelseacristene.bsky.social · 23h

Excellent news! I didn’t think she’d be freed and I’m glad to be wrong.

But as someone from Hagerstown: the amount of folks cheering “God is good!” without the slightest introspection that they voted for this woman to be taken in the first place is too damn high.

www.thebanner.com/western-mary...

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Doug Mack @douglasmack.bsky.social · 1d

i'm sorry WHAT

Wikipedia screenshot

Brassica oleracea, also known as wild cabbage in its uncultivated form, is a plant of the family Brassicaceae. The species originated from feral populations of related plants in the Eastern Mediterranean, where it was most likely first cultivated. It has many common cultivars used as vegetables, including cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, romanesco, kale, Brussels sprout, collard, Savoy cabbage, kohlrabi, and gai lan.

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Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 1d

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.

When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Kamala Harris: "I don't know if we can trust what's coming out of the DOJ right now. And that pains me to say that."

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Chelsea Cristene Bock @chelseacristene.bsky.social · 1d

But sure, we’re all the assholes for pointing this out!

Chelsea Cristene Bock @chelseacristene.bsky.social · 1d

If someone used ChatGPT to text me about making plans for a date I would heave my phone into the sea

C. Buckthorn @cbuckthorn.bsky.social · 2d

This is amazing. I laughed out loud www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

As 32-year-old Rich points out, though, "it's not like using ChatGPT guarantees success".
When he met someone in a bar one Friday night and swapped social media handles, he asked AI what his next move should be.
ChatGPT discerned that sending an initial message on Monday midmorning would set the right pace. "Then it gave me some options for what the message could be," says Rich.
"Keep it light, warm, and low-stakes so it reads as genuine interest without urgency," the bot advised. "Something like: Hey Sarah, still laughing about [tiny shared moment/reference if you've got one] - good to meet you!" Rich went back and forth with ChatGPT until he felt they'd hit upon exactly the right message ("Hey Sarah, it was lovely to meet you") but sadly she never replied, he says. "It's been two weeks now."

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kat, ghost of helenruthsghost @chaoskat.bsky.social · 2d

Salvation Army seen feeding ICE today. For anyone who doesn't already know about their bigotry, here is more, No need to give them your money this Christmas, or ever.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 2d

It’s dinner time for the police. Appears to be pizza from a Salvation Army van.

Broadview’s “free speech” curfew starts soon, at 6pm.

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Chelsea Cristene Bock @chelseacristene.bsky.social · 2d

@fishmanpet.bajurny.us Oh to receive a Cheese Champion award someday

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Blake Leyh @earlofedgecombe.bsky.social · 2d

If you think you know why US newspapers died, this feature documentary now streaming for free on PBS might surprise you. It wasn't the Internet. Newspapers were specifically targeted by vulture capitalists.

I composed the score for the film, which features electric cello & Crowfoot guitars.

Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink

A handful of journalists rebel against a hedge fund that is gutting newspapers nationwide.

www.pbs.org

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Accessibility Awareness @a11yawareness.bsky.social · 2d

When using Microsoft Word or Google Docs, don't just make text bigger and bolder to make it a heading. That will work for sighted users, but screen reader users will miss that and just hear it as normal paragraph text. Use actual heading styles, like level 1 through 6.

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Chelsea Cristene Bock @chelseacristene.bsky.social · 2d

🤣🤣🤣🤣

Chelsea Cristene Bock @chelseacristene.bsky.social · 2d

Not Diane Keaton! This is so unfair.

Chelsea Cristene Bock @chelseacristene.bsky.social · 2d

Hahahaha hard same! Could it be the Flying Spaghetti Monster? Could it be the abyss? Could it be @thegodpodcast.com? No one knows!

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Chelsea Cristene Bock @chelseacristene.bsky.social · 2d

Proselytizing is just so weird. The existence of a deity is unknowable! That’s why it’s a belief (or a lack of belief)! As long as you’re using your belief system or lack of one to help you be a good person who does good in the world, I really don’t care.

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Chelsea Cristene Bock @chelseacristene.bsky.social · 2d

Atheist proselytizers can do this too (communist China, Stalinist USSR) unfortunately 🙁

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Chelsea Cristene Bock @chelseacristene.bsky.social · 2d

As a friend of mine once said, I’ve never met an atheist who wasn’t excited to tell me all about it

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 2d

Atheist proselytizers are the religious proselytizers I’m most likely to come into contact with and they’re just as annoying as all of the other ones I experience

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 5d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 2d

THIS. THIS. This is what we've been waiting for. A candidate who is talking abut the specifics of Queer history in NYC and advocating a plan to immediately protect trans persons. THIS IS HOW YOU DO IT.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 3d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Chelsea Cristene Bock @chelseacristene.bsky.social · 2d

a man wearing glasses and a brown jacket is making a heart shape with his hands

Alt: Jeff Goldblum is making a heart shape with his hands

media.tenor.com

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Chelsea Cristene Bock @chelseacristene.bsky.social · 2d

@abegoldfarb.bsky.social I have found your next theater project

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Chelsea Cristene Bock @chelseacristene.bsky.social · 2d

I told my husband that I keep getting David Cronenberg and Steven Soderbergh confused. He misunderstood and thought I said Stephen Sondheim. Who can forget the classic “Sunday in the Park with Brundlefly”?

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