9 months ago, I started my "entrepreneur" journey. I'm still at the beginning but it's still amazing to walk down that path and witness a product comes to life. As you will see, it's far from being a straight path and we made many mistakes along the way 👇
After 3 years of startup experiences (BizDev, Product Management, Marketing) I decided to drop everything and went all-in developing what is now AirMedia - an AI platform for social media marketers. (now only available to close beta)
With no technical background but the conviction that everything can be learned, I started learning about design, no-code, ops, marketing and how to build a product that people want (still some work to be done there though).
September 2023 ($0 made, 0 waitlist)

• Made the first drafts of the platform which was very similar to what other competitors proposed at that stage
  
• Learned how to develop an MVP on Bubble
  
• Researched the current solutions of a tested and validated market
  
• Database structure first draft
  

I know most people here will crucify me for skipping the user research part and if I had to start from scratch again I would probably do it but I decided that I wanted to build a product for me (based on my startup experiences managing socials) one that I could use to spend way less time to post on socials as this part of the job was very boring.
October 2023 ($0 made, 0 waitlist)
- Learned how to develop on Bubble. At this point I had done a few pages e.g. dashboard, sign/log-in system, content creation workflow

• Learned more about first design principles and improved the first drafts on-the-go

-Database structure second draft
November 2023 ($0 made, 0 waitlist)

• OpenAI DevDay and realised it would be cool and innovative to have everything happen in a dynamic way within a discussion (creating posts, analysing them, get tailored marketing strategies). However, this wouldn't work on Bubble so partnered with my uni friend to have the chat on a subdomain while keeping the rest of the platform on Bubble
  
• Back to design
  
• Still learning Bubble on-the-go but getting better and more effective (pages done so far: dashboard, first landing page, settings first draft, my content)
  
• Decided the back-end needs to be on Django as it would go for a high-volume of users and bootstrap our way there.
  

-Incorporated the company
December 2023 ($0 made, 21 waitlist)

• Started focussing on marketing and getting user feedback on what would be the top priority features to implement (should've done that since the beginning). Seeing a good feedback for what we're building and focussing
  
• created waitlist workflows on bubble and email marketing (nurturing sequences)
  
• Main app is still being developed
  

January 2024 ($0 made, 36 waitlist)
- Testing out different organic methods to bring more awareness about our product. At this point, most of the work done is outbound sequences. I used to go Instagram and see competitors posts and DM one by one the people that commented their interest. LinkedIn outbound was what brought the best 1-to-1 conversions (and still the case until now).

• Realised most of the pages I did back in Sep-Nov weren't relevant for the product we want to get out anymore. Took away the dashboard, made another landing page, updated settings, new waitlist workflow to improve conversions
  
• Work hand-in-hand with my friend to have the custom-code page ready to deploy. Started diving into the third-party integrations I would need.
  
• Defined first pricing tiers
  

February 2024 ($0 made, 72 waitlist)

• Finished Bubble platform but still waiting on the main app from my friend. Decided that we need to be doing more organic content marketing before the launch but no budget to hire video editors so I'm gonna learn After Effects)
  
• Made a few videos to announce the launch - not sure it was worth the time. AT least I learned to edit videos.
  
• still 1-to-1 outbound
  
• It's getting too long We planned to launch in 3 months but was not realistic. Still improving every day
  
• Learned about all the platforms that allow SaaS to launch (PH, directories, HackerNews). Started to get familiar with these platforms and different strategies used to launch.
  
• Designed platform visuals on Canva
  

March 2024 ($0 made, 154 waitlist)

• Decided I need to start my personal brand as most early sales are founder-led at the beginning and it seems to be incredibly powerful. I'm big into personal development, reading about the brain and its power so I figured I would talk about this on my socials - had great feedback from friends and some waitlist from there but it's hard to be consistent when you juggle marketing, product development, waitlist nurturing etc...
  
• "Main app is almost there and I can't wait to get the platform out this month", at least that's what I thought... As we both (my friend and I started from a near beginner level, the learning curve was steep but the work was relatively slow as it involves back-and-forth to solve problems/bugs we've never encountered before). However, we still see the positive and the progress made starting from 0 and keep going.
  
• Still working on cold outbound as well
  
• Took care of legal aspects
  

April 2024 ($89 made, 214 waitlist)

• Decided we need to have some revenues and more funds to get the product out faster and hire to speed up the development. Implement lifetime deals for users that want early access from end of May.

- First Lifetime deal last week of April and sold on the first day of having this funnel !!!! My mind goes nuts and I expect many deals to be sold over the next couple of weeks.

• New pricing tiers (free tier, Plus users who can connect 10 social accounts and enterprise plan) still needs to be A/B tested though.
  
• Main app is getting there but still some bugs and UX is not great - more work needs to be done there.
  
• New landing page with higher conversion rates to the waitlist.
  
• Making 5 videos a day on instagram across several accounts for 2 weeks - gained around 20 users from there
  

-Still 1-to-1 outbound
May 2024 ($267 made, 413 waitlist)

• Organic videos start to bring more awareness - still no product so far but we started introducing it to dozen of testers before launching to our waitlist.
  
• Got approval from LinkedIn
  
• Awaiting approval from Meta
  
• Started again being more active on PH
  
• Still 1-to-1 outbound
  
• Realised the Bubble part doesn't really match with the main app so new design to make it everything coherent; new onboarding flow; connected the Django back-end with Bubble to retrieve user data; built a content calendar.
  
• Made sure security is on point.
  

We have now finally finished the first viable platform (many features to be added though) and awaiting Meta approval before launching to our lifetime users and our waitlist. In the meantime, I'm looking for some ways to sell the skills gained over the way to grow our marketing budget and have more impact.

• Could develop a Bubble platform for you in less than 2 weeks now with the skills gained over time 😄

Please keep in mind this does not represent the whole story but rather some highlights along the way as I can't possibly describe everything we went through these past 9 months in a Reddit post. Hope you appreciated this post and it was actually helpful!
Check out out work :)
https://airmedia.uk

So I ordered a Silverbac and it looks like it will be delivered on Monday. With that said I see that Grilla now has a 20% off sale running on almost everything (customer service did allow me to take advantage of the sale with my new Silverbac so that was pretty awesome). I've decided to do another quick order with some accessories (cover, accessory pack) and I got to thinking I don't know what I don't know. What non-grilla accessories should I keep an eye out for? Any needed mods? This is my first smokepellet grill, previously I've only ever used charcoal, so I'm definitely a bit of a newbie to this.
I've searched through this (and other) subs for answers and I've found a few but I'm checking to see what the community thinks before the memorial day sales pass by.

Hi, this is a throwaway account so FYI.
I work in Sweetwater, I work in the customer pick up area which is included in the store. My managers treats me like shit and my wages reflect the way I am treated. I literally do everything in my power to make things right and work hard.
The store is just horrible as-well, the in store sales engineers are paid LESS then the upstairs ones. (Mind you the in-store ones actually interact with customers and do the heavy lifting.) Other coworkers have been told "well if you don't like it just leave" when they have brought up issues in a professional manner.
The DC is worse, even if you committed sexual harassment and stalking, you will get promoted as-long as your buddy buddy with the higher ups. Merit doesn't matter in this company.
My wage is $15.50, which is ok, but the way I am treated makes it way worse.
I thought Sweetwater was a great one of a kind company until I worked there, everything is horribly toxic and unprofessional especially the management.
The amazon warehouse next-door pays more but since I don't support slavery I will not work there.
mind you, Sweetwater makes over a BILLION dollars a year!
They are very anti-union, because they are afraid of people standing up to them, they use fear mongering tactics to conquer and divide people to stop from unionizing.
The "benefits" are trash, used a justification for the mediocre pay. While the employee discount is pretty good, you ain't gonna buy something because your wage sucks.
Everyone in management is so afraid of him and doesn't question his decisions of the store. They gaslight you saying you aren't doing enough while over extending your role (they don't want to fully train and staff their workers because they are corner cutting). Plently of people apply to Sweetwater because they want to be apart of something good, so there is no excuse on not staffing enough.
The senior vice president of the music store, (names starts with T) is a horrible person. T doesn't care about the store and only about making money. T is a man-child who tries to scare people into submitting to him. Many people believe he is one of the driving forces that will kill Sweetwater because of his incompetence.
Over-achievers are abused and manipulated until they become burnt-out, they will add more and more shit on your list and your pay won't change.
They also fake their performance reviews to avoid giving people raises, even if have a spotless clean record, they will make up things to give you a C on your performance review! (multiple peers have experienced this!)
They are very anti-union, because they are afraid of people standing up to them, they use fear mongering tactics to conquer and divide people to stop from unionizing.
The "benefits" are trash, used a justification for the mediocre pay. While the employee discount is pretty good, you ain't gonna buy something because your wage sucks.

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Hello,
I just found a website with some products I was interested in, call RaidAge (from iStarUSA). However, I have no been able to find anything for sale on the internet (ebay, Amazon, etc). Has anyone heard of this or seen them for sale anywhere? Thanks!
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I have seen a lot of posts regarding Southwestern Advantage and students who attend Florida State and their experience with Southwestern Advantage recruiters and thought I’d share what the experience was like for me as a 7-year intern with the program. This isn’t to promote Southwestern Advantage, but just to give a different, genuine perspective.
In 2017 I did my first summer with Southwestern Advantage, and despite the recruiters telling me “it’s going to be tough,” I didn’t realize how tough until I started. The first few weeks I thought about quitting on several occasions. Going door to door is hard as a freshman in college and although I received 100+ hours of training before moving in with my host family, I wasn’t fully mentally prepared for the experience.
But as I continued, I realized how much I had grown, how much I was learning, and while it still was work, it wasn’t as hard as it was when I first started. About two weeks in I stopped by a home and the mom opened the door and said, “We’ve been waiting for you! We’ve seen you on Facebook and our girls are so excited to see the ‘bookman.’”
We sat in their living room and I was able to connect with this family. The children were excited to see me and the mom talked about how she had purchased books in previous years and that what I was selling made a real impact on her family. She purchased a full set of products in anticipation of when her girls were older to help them with homework. I didn’t expect them to be so receptive because so many families hadn’t even bothered to open their door.
I left that home feeling like I made a real difference. And the reward of making my first big sale felt great. Throughout the summer there were many families I met that shared my passion for education and were excited about what I had to offer. I was running my own business, making connections, building relationships. And in turn, I was learning so much about how to make a sale, interpersonal communication, and all these skills you don’t learn in a classroom.
I finished my summer knowing how to talk to people. Knowing how to read a room. Knowing how to sell myself. These are vital skills I didn’t learn until I participated in this program. My first summer I learned how to lead myself. My second summer I learned how to lead others. My third summer was all about learning how to lead a team before eventually learning how to lead other leaders and their teams.
Was it hard? Yes. Is it for everyone. No. Is it worth it? For me, yes.
I feel like I’m the best version of myself after participating, but not everyone will feel the same and I get that. I just saw how much negativity there was online about Southwestern Advantage in the FSU threads, and I don’t think it’s a great representation of how everyone feels who interacted with the program or participated.
If you have questions or need some unbiased resources for reviewing the program I recommend these links:
1. ~https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Southwestern-Advantage-Reviews-E215586.htm~
2. Check out Customer Reviews on Google
3. ~https://www.bbb.org/us/tn/nashville/profile/publishers-book/southwestern-advantage-0573-10392~

This question gets asked at least 3 times a week, and so I figured I'd share my experiences in a central place so folks can search for it easier. If you've had some experiences you'd like to share in the comments, that would be cool as well.
Disclaimer: I have 1 book, it's non-fiction, and unique in that it applies specifically to political campaigning. My genre is very niche. Thus, your mileage will probably vary from mine. Additionally, I say the word "profitable", but that doesn't mean wildly successful, just that I'm no longer losing money on amazon ads. From starting, it took 4 months of tweaking for me to earn a profit in a single month, and 2 more months before I made my money back.
Now that's out of the way, lets get started.
Campaigns: Set up one of each of the Automatic, Keyword, and Product campaigns. After a few months you'll hopefully be able to open a "Winning Campaign" for the Keywords and Products to track your successes separately. Don't do custom text yet (US only), more on that down in A/B testing.
Ads: If your book comes in more than 1 format, pick the format that has the highest royalties. Again, you can test variations later.
Targets (keywords and products/categories): Go wide at first. Search for your book using the search terms(keywords) you think people will use, and add them to your campaign targets. There are plenty of services (google the term "amazon keyword tool") to help you come up with new ones. Just keep adding things, but don't be ridiculous.
After a while (like 2-3 months) if you notice that some targets just don't produce sales. If they have 50+ clicks, then just turn them off.
Bids: The big trick is to let it run long enough to really know your target cost per click. Start very small (ignore "suggested bid") and only increase later. Set these to "Dynamic bids - down only". I am serious about ignoring the suggested bid. I watched a video that said to set my bids to the suggested and max out at a dollar, but I hemorrhaged money. The people making these videos don't know the break even point of your book.
Bid adjustment: After about 200 clicks, calculate the average number of clicks before you get a sale. Then divide your royalties by that number and set your bids to slightly lower than that. Don't worry about impressions, since you only pay for clicks. For me that calculation look like this - My royalties are $5.50 per book, and the ads have sold 61 copies ($335.5 total), it took me 855 clicks to get those sales (conversion rate: 14 clicks per sale), so each click should cost $0.40. You should actually do this calculation separately for each of your campaign types. My Products campaign is set to $0.25 and my Keywords bid is set to $0.75. Unless your book royalties, and conversion rate is the same as mine, don't use my bid numbers.
Budget: Unless your bids are high, it shouldn't matter how you set it. Mine is at $10 a day, and amazon literally never uses that. Just pick a number you don't mind losing, and you'll be fine.
Winning Campaigns: Slowly, as you notice certain keywords, categories, or products produce sales at a higher rate than that average, you can spin those off into a separate "Winning Campaign" and set the bid slightly higher. My Winning Products has 4 categories and 0 product targets. My Winning Keywords has 2 keywords in it.
Remember that bid calculation from above? Do it again for each target and set the rate on each one individually.
A/B Testing: I said above not to do custom text. Well now that you have a winning campaign with profitable targets it's time to start. You can google for ideas, but I've tried a few different variations of themes from my blurb, excerpts from reviews, and just whatever I could come up with.
Other than custom text, there are number of things you can try. If you have an idea, spin it off into its own campaign, and give it a try. After a reasonable number of click (50-200 probably) you can safely call it statically relevant and turn off the losing version.
Final Tips: Be patient. Don't obsess. Don't change things too often. Keep good notes. Good luck!

This is geared towards deciding what kind of service/consulting business you can start, or course you could create and sell. But also works for figuring out what kind of higher-paying job you can get, product-based business, etc.
PHASE 1: IDENTIFY
Take 30 minutes today, and 30 minutes tomorrow. Actually invest this time, over two separate days. It works 1000% better that way.
Write down as many answers as you can to the following questions:
1) What tasks are you good at?
(e.g. running, fixing cars, making girls laugh, brewing good coffee)
2) What skills have you learned well?
(e.g. programming, writing viral tweets, a sport)
3) What challenges have you overcome in life?
(e.g. fixed a stutter, overcome a phobia of X, dug yourself out of debt, lost 50 lbs)
4) In jobs you've had, what tasks did you do well at? Especially if you became the "go-to" guy when anyone needed this?
(e.g. calming down mad customers, creating excel spreadsheets, selling)
5) What's easy for you, that's hard for other people?
(finding great photo ops, getting girls' numbers, picking winning stocks)
Keep going until you get a MINIMUM of 30 things. 50 is better. If you don't have at least 30, think harder, and/or start asking friends what you're good at (this is a good thing to do anyway)
Once you have done that:
6) Find at least two friends and family who have known you for years. Ask them: "What have you noticed I am good at?" Ask them in a way that they can take time to give a thoughtful and thorough response (over text works well, since then you have a written record.) If they need prompting, help them with questions like:

• "What do you mean by X?"
• "Tell me more about X."
• "Can you elaborate?"
• "What else have you noticed I am good at?"

This will give you many good additions to your list, which you would never have thought of on your own.
PHASE 2: CLASSIFY
Get a sheet of blank paper, divide it into 4 quadrants. Along the top, write "FEW <-> MANY". On the side, write "LOW <-> HIGH" (but write it sideways).
Take every single item you came up with in Phase 1, and classify it in two ways:
1) FEW vs MANY - How many people does this appeal to?
(e.g. Few: tuning your race car, advanced mathematics.
Many: get a raise at work, get more dates (for guys), find a great guy and keep him (for gals))
2) LOW vs HIGH price - what are people willing to PAY for this?
(e.g. Low: folding clothes, digging dirt, posting comments on twitter, how to throw a baseball
High: Writing advertisements that sell, finally getting in shape after failing at it for 20 years, launching a new high-paying career)
Write each into one of the 4 quadrants on your sheet of paper. If you're not sure, just guess - sort through them quickly, your first impression is fine.
PHASE 3: SORT
The sweet spot is MANY and HIGH PRICE. If you can solve a problem that many people have, and they're willing to pay an arm and a leg for, and you can actually solve that problem for people - that's the easiest to monetize.
For FEW and LOW price - forget about those.
In fact, forget about most LOW price - No one's going to give you stacks of cash for your high-end agency or course for repairing holes in socks.
The exception is something that is you feel you can serve to MANY people, at a profit. You come up with a unique product that you can sell worldwide through Walmart, for example.
Your best bets will probably be on the HIGH end. The more people who want it, the better.
PHASE 4: FILTER
Make a spreadsheet (or write it on paper) with your ideas in the first column, and then five more columns with these labels:

• Need
• Entry
• Control
• Scale
• Timing

Evaluate your ideas on a scale of 1 to 5 for each of these facets:

1. NEED. Is this something people desperately need? The more it is a "need" rather than a "want", people are more likely to pay for it.
   [5 = desperately need, 1 = completely optional]
   
2. ENTRY. How easy is it for a competitor to clone your business, and compete with you? Barriers can include copyright/IP law protections, unique reputation or brand, ingrained habits of the market, etc.
   [5 = difficult to clone and compete, 1 = no barrier to competing]
   
3. CONTROL: Do you have control over the product or service being sold, your pricing, etc.? Or is it controlled by some other entity (e.g. with affiliate marketing)?
   [5 = you have full control over every aspect of the business, 1 = some other entity has full control]
   
4. SCALE: If it becomes profitable, can you ramp up sales (and profit) by a factor of 10? 100? 1,000? What is the MAXIMUM monthly profit this may grow to?
   AND: how easily can it ramp up to that limit?
   Do you have to hire, train and retain expensive employees to scale it?
   Or can you use automation to scale up without effort?
   A food cart on a street corner has a low upper limit to its profit. A nationwide restaurant chain can scale that 1000x, but that will cost a lot of money and time. In contrast, a SaaS computer program can quickly scale up worldwide, maybe even without having to bother hiring any employees at all.
   [5 = scale to the moon easily, 1 = cannot scale high or will be difficult/expensive to scale]
   
5. TIMING - How much of YOUR time is required for the day-to-day operation? At the beginning, of course you will be fully involved. But is there at least a potential path to where it can continue to earn money without requiring a lot of your time?
   [5 = you can eventually drop off the grid for a month and it continues printing money, 1 = it only ever earns money while you are giving it your full attention]
   

Once you have ranked your ideas on these dimensions, select one you feel you can be successful with. An idea that is all 5's is likely to be much better than an idea that is all 1's, but in the end go with your gut.
PHASE 5: EXECUTE
Test it. Create an idea for how to make money on it - whether that's building a business around it (ideally), or getting a job/side hustle - and put that plan into action.
It'll either work or it won't. You'll either make $ or you won't. If not, asking people for feedback in this room. You may need to pick a different idea. Maybe the idea's great, and you need to execute differently.
But keep going, learn from your experiences, and NEVER GIVE UP. There is no failure, you either learn or succeed. The only possible failure is doing nothing and letting time pass by unused.
PRODUCTIVITY WHILE COOLING OFF.
A productive activity that takes very little effort is reading through the money room and spend a good amount of time going through it.
You’ll see how hundreds of guys are making real life building money. Go through them all, and find 5 that appeal to you, and the telegram username of who’s making money that way.
You should be able to answer basic questions. How much do they make monthly from that income source? How long did it take to make that income? How long did it take to get their first payday from that income source? Did they have any prior skills that were required to be able to start that income source? Etc.

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Hey, I actually Work for an AI startup, we have a product to sell, we are unable to find clients out of LinkedIn, and since our target customers are US agencies we didn't even find a single lead, who is interested in our product, they didn't even reply, we sent some 300 LinkedIn connection requests, 30 got accepted and none of them replied, does anyone here know, how to get us clients to book a call or atleast reply, and are there any other ways I can get leads other than, Apollo and LinkedIn sales navigator for free I can use.

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Hi, everyone! I lost my scooter and fortunately for me, a family friend has offered to lend their extra motorcycle for my daily commute. Registered ito and obviously, I'm a licensed driver. Di naman ako lumalabag sa traffic rules, pero sometimes, may mga routine checkpoints in my route to school and back. Considering na we don't have the same surname, middle name, or even address, medyo kabado ako.
Mahuhuli po ba ako sa checkpoint if hindi sa akin nakapangalan yung papers? Kailangan po ba ng authorization letter? Dadalhin ko pa po ba original ORCR as proof?
NOTE: This is temporary, got a new scooter secondhand from the same family friend pero I'm still saving up for finalizing the deed of sale and transfer of ownership
TIA!

eFootball gameplay seem to be going in a bad direction for the past months. To much AI defending/assistance/game balancing, game adding input lag, interceptions, poor passing, fouls not called for, hot potato football not rewarding any type of skillful play. The gameplay feels like its on rails, freedom is gone, players don't respond to your inputs and chances are created by either teams AI players mistakes or incredibly stupid runs. It's just not fun to play anymore. Neither online or vs AI.
eFootball could be fantastic if Konami would listen to ideas, criticism and improve. Here is my wishlist. Feedback based on me and the kids playing on PS4, PS5 and mobile. Offline and online.

1. Reduce the heavy AI assistance / game-balancing / handholding / Auto defending / Dynamic Difficulty / momentum / whatchamacallit (scr...). I understand its for getting new players staying in the game, having a chance getting coins in the events and winning games. And perhaps make games more non-predictable "anything can happen, maybe". With the current AI handholding level its "anything will happen, constantly". So many chances are created by either teams AI players making mistakes or just making incredibly stupid runs, its like a badly scripted B-movie. The amount of goalpost hits and missed open goals is just silly currently, this goes on until the last few minutes of each match. Please reduce it, or even remove it from Co-op and other game modes where skill should be rewarded. I'd rather get smashed 15-0 and learn from a good player. Than having to play another game with: added input lag and your players turn, react with 0,5 sec delay / 1 team loses every header / 4 shots in goalpost / own goals / missed open goals from 2-3m consequently, instead you have to run the ball into goal!!! / hide n seek players with pass receiver running away from the ball positioning behind defender / every ball intercepted / misdirected passes / every pass straight to other team / passes goes through "invisible" player / player freezing or even running wrong direction vs your stick / opponent attacking with high punt or lofted pass but your defender running past the ball towards opposition goal / ball glued to opposite player in the box / every attempt clearing the ball goes short distance straight to other team, even goalie high punt / all stunning shots 3m over the goal before 85min + all the other crap that's in there. This gameplay on rails is so unrewarding. If I manage to do something skillfull the AI assistance just kills the opportunity with any means. When the AI assistance takes a break, I get an easy goal with no effort from a random through pass + tap in. Many times I can't tell if I am playing well or the game has decided I should win/lose, it kills the joy for me and it's just boring. If Konami could tone down all the weird punishments I'd be very grateful.
2. Passing and interceptions. Currently worst ever IMO. Game just decides your pass from a player in balance is 90-180 degrees of straight to opponent. Even on Beginner AI and no matter PA1, 2 or 3😂 And the constant interceptions. No flow in the game. Please work on this Konami.
3. Remove the artificial input-lag. (This is a controversial one, some players simply don't believe our experience it. For me it's obvious as it can be tested offline in several ways on PS5, on mobile I havent tried to confirm it) Stop punishing one side with artificial input lag which make the gameplay feel heavy, unresponsive and your players turn & react with 0,5 sec delay. This is not from server lag as it's there in AI matches and local Trial matches as well, just switch controller between team 1 & 2 and feel the difference. It might activate from beginning of game, or in 2nd half, usually when you are doing well. And vice versa it can dissapear in 2nd half. From my experience it can be reduced or removed by switching playstyle. When finding the right playstyle for that specific match, your players suddenly become responsive again, it can even happen after switching to lowest Manager profiency. I assume its part of the game balancing mechanics. For me this is one of the worst things in the current game, when it kicks in your players don't respond to inputs in time and gameplay just feels awful.
4. Fix the player freezing. Example: after losing a header to last defender suddenly your attacker just freezes. What's going on here? Have Konami added to much AI handholding and broken the game? 😂😂😂
5. Reward different playstyles like build up play. Currently most games seem to be high press, interception ping-pong, quick pass and no dribbles. Hot potato football. Holding the ball has become very difficult. Before the AI assistance and auto defending went berzerk, you could actually keep the ball for a second and do something creative. Without 3-5 guys surrounding your player with no options. Now the gameplay is boring with the lack of variety.
6. Create a game mode free from AI assistance & artificial input lag. Just pure skill. It could be beta, division free or whatever just let us play without the heavy AI handholding. And maybe eFootball will be esports ready 😉. To be honest if another football game is released without momentum/game-balancing /added input-lag and with gameplay based on pure skill. I think eFootball will lose a lot of players.
7. Add Dream team into Trial match. We have 2 kids who love the card collecting and building their team. But playing online is of no interest to them, and won't be in many years. They want to play local PvP or co-op but with their own Dream team. By now we are very tired of playing the same local play Trial match Argentina Vs PSG. The kids have almost stopped playing eFootball, since they cant play against each other with their own team. In addition this would be a great way to test out new players, builds and game mechanics together with a friend. Much more fun than training mode. This mode is what my family is missing most from this game. And if it would be a "pure" mode without any momentum/game-balancing things would be fantastic. Just pure skill, best player wins.
8. Please add Dream team to Trial match local co-op Vs AI. Would be so much fun to test your Dream Team against the AI together with the kids or a friend on the couch beside you. Would love this mode if it would become available.
9. Add local co-op in Events. Would be great if me and the kids could take on the events together. At least add it to the AI events. Then we would actually play them and not just sim them.
10. Myleague local co-op. Add both local and online co-op into Myleague please. A reason to play it and win the league together with the kids 😀
11. Make My League worth playing. 100.000GP for completing 38 matches and winning the league is very poor IMO. Add some skill trainers and raise the GP perhaps?
12. Add all Goal Scorers, Assists and Passes made to Half Time and Full Time game stats. So we can quickly get the overview of which player cards performed well in both teams. That information would be highly appreciated.
13. Contract renewal is way too expensive. Considering many players have paid plenty in real money to get the favourite players, and you only get to keep your player for 1 year. We are paying for this digital football Pokémon and we can't even use it as long as we would like. There should be more ways to get contract renewals, the periods should be longer, 3/6/9/12months and the price should be lower. Currently it's just irritating and another killing the fun factor.
14. Make each playstyle worth using. And reward playing different type of formations. Instead of everyone using META 4 defenders and no wingers/LMF/RMF.
15. Better & more expensive Point shop players. Can we please have some decent players? I'd gladly spend 50000-100000 pink points for a player if his stats are good. IMO there hasn't been an interesting player since Ferrer & Pires. Currently I don't see any use for points except contact renewal.
16. Remove the GP cost for player reset. Having to wait for 2-3 months and then stressing for a few free weeks to retrain and test new builds doesn't make sense. GP is too valuable for me, I use it for Legacy Transfer and Contract renewal, and the few occasional GP buys for Events or hidden gems. I enjoy training players and trying out new builds, if free it would keep me logging in even when there is nothing else to do in the game.
17. Reduce the cost for Legacy transfer. Getting your wanted skills and then transferring to your favourite player is one of the game aspects I really like. But 257,000 GP for one transfer is a lot and takes away much of the fun in Legacy transfer. You get 1 Mbappe for less than 2 Legacy transfer. I am always low on GP these days, and I think 100,000-150,000 GP would be reasonable for Legacy transfer for 1 skill.
18. Legacy transfer of skills to POTW cards. If we could add 1-2 skills to the POTW the cards would be more interesting and I'd spend more coins spinning. We would get more varied and unpredictable squads instead of everybody using the same players. Most players know the good cards, what to expect from opponents cards and how to counter. Lets say you add some strong passing or shooting skills to a player usually weak in that aspect. The unpredicability would be awesome!
19. Replace/delete added skills. Building players would be much more fun if I could replace a trained skill with another one using legacy transfer. Or just be able to delete an added skill. Perhaps my playstyle changes and I want Neymar to have Through passing instead of the previously added Long-range shooting.
20. GP an option for pack spins. But it shouldn't be easy. Hard grind should be rewarded as it gives a reason to play the game. I am thinking 7,5M GP you get 75 spins in a 150 pack. That takes perhaps 6 months to grind. And perhaps the remaining 75 spins is coins only. Lower thresholds like 10 spins för 1M GP would be great but I understand its not gonna happen, as it would hurt the coin sales.
21. Remove the 500 player cap or reduce cost of adding player slots. If you are grinding skill trainers with 0GP players and training players the 500 fills up quite easily. Or reduce the 500.000GP for an extra 50 players to maybe 100.000GP. This 500 player limit is very annoying and seems unnecessary.
22. Add skill trainers and position trainers to each match pass. Would make the Match Pass way more interesting and I would spend coins.
23. Make it worthwhile playing League / divisions. Currently I don't see much reason to play it. A few skill trainers and low GP reward can't motivate me spending the time.
24. Find a way to prevent players from forfeiting games, at least events and co-op. Maybe if you are down a few goals sometimes add a random bonus like score with player X to receive 1 skill trainer, 10000 GP or something. Just to motivate players completing the match. Or create a non forfeit streak, like 10, 20 or 30 games without forfeit and you get an free extra POTW spin. (Credit: Part of this idea is from eFootball Universe Youtube)
25. 1st celebration should also be skippable. It's just time consuming in online games. Not adding any value to except maybe noobs who scored their first goal ever.
26. An option to make Sub tactic clearly visible in Game plan if activated. I played to many games now without knowing I had sub-tactic activated 😂
27. Matchmaking. This was good for a while after the matchmaking update, but not anymore. There must be something seriously wrong here. When playing in Division 9 to 7, we constantly get division 1-2 opponents in the events. Had top 120 and top 200 in a row even. 750M downloads and nobody else playing. Really?
28. The daily penalty needs an upgrade. Suggestion: More fun If I could choose player from my Dream Team. And add random Epic goalies to spice it up 😉
29. Add statistics of headers, penalties and free kicks scored on each player card. This would add value and make it more interesting building squads. Konami you have the data, use it!
30. More variety in Events. BBVA, Turkish, Brazilian Italian, English, Japan league. Over and over and over... Cmon Konami create something different so we can rotate our squads more. Suggestion: An event where only max 4 star players are allowed? Or higher GP rewards the weaker squad you use? (Credit: idea is partly from Rockchok Youtube)
31. More Beat the Clock type of events. Both me and the kids enjoyed this one. Create something similar for skill moves. Example: Perform 5 Double touch + 5 Marseille turn across pitch with fixed dummies or defending players. Or a sequence where you have to perform skill move x and y before scoring.
32. Objectives with extra bonuses. Add weekly objectives or similar. Score a hat-trick, win on penalties or score 5 times using skill move. And get some type of rewards, GP, Skill trainers, Position trainers, avatars, whatever just variety and something to play for.
33. Co-op events. So much potential but the gameplay on rails, AI assistance and the constant random AI punishments kills the fun for me. You feel almost instantly if the AI assistance is on your side or against you. Either everything goes your way and it's too easy or Epics can't make a simple pass, the input lag kicks in and your player is even dragged out of position so the other team can score. Every game feels pre-decided with almost every touch being a mistake or fumble by the team who is supposed to concede a goal. Or its 1 goal back and forth with short sequences where the conceeding team can't touch the ball. In my experience the AI assistance is at its worst in the Co-op games. Quite easy to spot as players regularly just drop the controller. And game continues to auto defend like prime AC Milan, the non-active player is forcefielded holding the ball, every ball in the box is magically sucked to defenders feet and passes and clearings going 90-180 degrees off straight to opponent. Recent example which has happened in several co-op games: Goalie makes several stupid run outs to a perfect 4 man defending line, leaving the net wide open. Changing goalie doesn't help. Same thing with 2nd goalie until opponent gets his 2 goals. Sorry but when my player, gameplay and result is controlled by AI instead of me and my teammate I lose interest.
34. Add 2nd local player to co-op events. Why can't 2 players join the co-op events together from one Playstation? Me and the kids would play co-op events a lot if this was possbile.
35. Booster player forms. Wirtz card and several other are never on A-form. Whats the point of creating a booster card then? (credit: PES Pepe Youtube)
36. Communication. Info on gameplay changes in each update would be appreciated. Like before. (credit: PES Pepe Youtube))
37. Heavy first touch or fumble receiving the ball. +90 Ball control player cant receive a pass without starting to fumble or needing several seconds to gain control, then losing the ball, again and again and again. Does stats even matter when game balancing just decides anyway?
38. Don't launch Crossplay with mobile. I suspect the recent braindead heavy assisted gameplay is needed for upcoming crossplay console & mobile update. This might be what we are getting. Gameplay on rails, autodefend, no skill, unrewarding, boring. I hope I am wrong and the previous fun gameplay on console is not gone forever 😢.
39. Master League? Promised some years ago. I guess it does not generate enough coin sales?
40. Edit mode. Create a custom crest and kits for our dream team.
41. AI games are boring and inconsistent. Even on easier difficulties the dynamic game balancing makes you miss so many chances in 1st half, open goals whatever. Then in 2nd its just walk the ball into box and quick shot goal. But if you decide to pass the ball in the box then it's magnet to defender, why not reward passing in the box? The inconsistency in the AI is just bad. And the coding seems lazy. I watch our 11 year old play and do all the right things, but the game just kills all her self-created chances. On harder difficulties even if I read the play and position perfectly to intercept a pass, the pass goes straight through my defender. And adding to that the constant interceptions and not being able to hold ball more than 0.3sec. To my understanding the AI was better before without having to bypass game mechanics (cheat), instead it was actually playing smarter. For me playing the AI is either to easy once the early game "Thou shall not score" wears off or just boring on higher difficulties. How hard is it to develop AI gameplay which is both fun, rewarding and teaching how to play better?
42. Player speed is broken. The slowest defender will catch up in 2-3 seconds with any attacker running with the ball. No matter stats of players. You make a great pass but this broken game mechanic ruins the opportunity. This is both unrealistic and highly unrewarding.
43. Player switching. Another game mechanic which seems broken and with hidden punishments added. I have mostly been using semi-assist and player oriented switching, R stick to switch. Recently switched to ball-oriented. And in my experience. When the game is against you, it constantly punishes you with bad player switching and worst default player selection. Many times the game refuses to switch to player in front of ball when I am trying to defend. Instead I am flicking through the guys behind the attacking player, while I am trying to get control of my defender. When I have free kick against me, default player is always the worst possible option eg. my CF standing 10m behind the free kick taker. Why? I enjoy a challenge but having to fight with my controller is not one of them.
44. Sort player list by team name. Would help when choosing team for events. And a nice feature when browsing all my players.
45. Position trainers. This feature was a nice addition. But can be improved and made more interesting. (A) Remove the possibility of getting duplicates on full position slots. It's just stupid and annoying. (B) Add random playstyle rewards on the new position. So an AMF Hole Player could also be SS Deep Lying Forward after Position training. (Credit: efNuts YouTube)

Some of these are cosmetics and should be quite easy to implement, whereas others like new type of events takes more effort. Dream team in Trial mode and adding already existing local Co-op to more events/game modes shouldn't be that difficult. Gameplay affecting changes are likely hard and need to be tested so it doesn't affect game in a negative way.
I guess Konami calculates profits are better by pushing all players to online play. But at the same time they are neglecting the player group which prefers offline, and are willing to buy coins to get their favourite players cards. Hopefully Konami will reconsider, add a proper Master League and more offline modes with co-op and PvP.
All in all it should result in a more enjoyable experience for both ballers, casuals, squad-builders, card-collectors and those who just want offline couch co-op or PvP with their Dream team. More people having fun and spending time in the game usually results in praise, recommendations and growing user count = more coins spent. Konami keeps earning and customer base is happy. Everyone wins.
/ Cheers and thanks for reading
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