Plotting points to make people

Can anyone recommend books on sobriety? 24y/o male, I don't drink nearly every day but then I go on a bender and it makes me feel awful the following days. I listened to a podcast in the past, and a woman was saying that a few books totally changed her mindset on drinking and "social norms" of alcohol but I forget the title of these books. I want to read some book recommendations that have helped people in this community.

So I want to introduce my players to the mournlands for their first eberron experience, and I was thinking of doing a sword & sorcery style "survive by being brutal in a brutal world" kind of feel.
It would likely run from level 1 to level 3 or 4.
The first thing I need to do is get them there. I was also thinking of setting it near metrol and lake cyre. My two major ideas on that are:

1. Captured near the border by Lord of Blades aligned warforged raiders looking to enslave/sacrifice them.
   
2. Guard duty for a greedy caravan master who wants to save time and money by taking a short skip through the mournlands, despite knowing how insanely dangerous it is.
   

My only issue is figuring out how to make that work geographically, why are they even near the border or where did the caravan come from?
If I go with #1 I'd also like to think of a good way to get some civilians involved so the party has something else to take care of (or be forced to deal with as it may be) besides themselves.
I also need to figure out how to implement the suppression of healing in the mournlands in a way that doesn't just guarantee the party dies. I was thinking something like this:
hit points regained from healing spells are halved, rounded down.
long rests don't restore hit points (the party can still expend hit dice to heal)
eating or drinking anything created by magic while in the mournlands (such as the goodberry or create/destroy water spells) carries a risk of being afflicted by a magical disease that causes exhaustion.
Speaking of food and water, I know that basically every plant and all the water in the mournlands is tainted, and I'm unsure how to implement that as a mechanic, or even if I should for the purposes of this small campaign.
Beyond that I'm unsure of my trajectory beyond forcing the party to scrape to survive. I'm planning on doing a series of mini campaigns to introduce the players to various aspects of the setting, so with the mournlands I almost feel like it would be perfectly appropriate to just let my players wander into a creature, location or phenomena they can't possibly survive and wipe them all out, but I want to make sure it's earned and doesn't just come as a complete shock to the party.
I have a thought that maybe they end up being recaptured by the Lord of Blades and get put in a gauntlet to fight until they die for the entertainment of his followers, and if they do well enough they get put down by the Lord of Blades himself, or maybe he allows just one of them to live (and in the encounter they basically get to choose who it is by protecting them from LoB) and spread word of what they've seen.
I also like the idea of potentially involving warforged priests of the Becoming God as friendly NPCs that might aid the players in return for scrap they find.
Beyond that I would love any cool idea you might have on how to make the mournlands a foreboding, dangerous and wildly weird location for my players to experience.

Hello,
I know these questions might seem very dumb but I am just nervous about making any mistakes, so I just wanted to confirm. Thank you in advance.

1. I need to attach my original i-20 form in the document section right?

I am just confused on what the "original" means. I just print the i-20 that I received in my email, fill up all the blanks in the "student attestation", scan the i-20 again and then attach it right?

1. On the "message" section where I will explain on why I want the emergency appointment, is it fine if I write everything in bullet points?

Mice get stressed and confused in balls because they can't hear or smell very well through the plastic. Colored plastic which gets dirty very quickly also interferes with their already terrible eyesight, but people seem to think that is less important, and I think I agree. I had an idea. What if the ball was made from mesh? Fine mesh which their tiny paws can't get trapped in, obviously. That way, they'd be able to smell the world around them. If it was well made and not rattley, they'd be able to hear better too.
I probably can't patent this after making it public this way (if it was ever possible, which I doubt), but neither can anyone else. I'm happy with that situation, because then anyone can make it and nobody can make it expensive.

Hello! I am new to this whole gaming laptop thing, and would need some advice. I want to purchase one after only having general purpose laptops pretty much my whole life (you know, the kind that people do most office work on), and I have absolutely no idea which is better and which I should avoid. (I already try to avoid HP and Dell due to only having problems to the point I swore to never buy anything from them.)
Currently I am trying to decide between...
Lenovo LOQ 15ARP9 (Ryzen 7 variant)
Lenovo LOQ 15APH8 (Ryzen 7 variant, the only difference being that this one has 5.1 GHz compared to the 4.5 GHz of the other one)
Lenovo LOQ 15IRX9 (Intel i7 variant)
ASUS TUF F15 FX507VV (Intel i7 variant)
ASUS TUF A15 FA507XI (Ryzen 9 variant)
With the cheapest being the first in the list. All of them have 8 GB VRAM, RTXs, and about 16 GB RAM, but I genuinely don't know if I should buy the Lenovo LOQ 15ARP9 (as it's currently on discount, $1093/1003€), or save up more and get something else.
Thanks in advance!

If anyone going to the Philly show is going to make braclets, and I'm not sure if they are sold or given out by people that I've seen on here, then DM me. I'm going with my wife and our friend and they'd love some for sure.

Do any other newbies feel totally overwhelmed/lost or is it just me? I've tried to find videos on "What is the point of fallout 76" or "What is the plot" or "What are you suppose to do in F76???" I haven't found a darn thing that has gave me a sense of I FINALLT KNOW WHAT IM DOING lol. I get it, some of you will probably think "pfft whatta moron can't even figure this out he shouldn't play" and you aren't wrong but gaming is for everyone. Also I just am genuinely confused on how/What the heck it is your suppose to do besides your quests and build. Just seems like I'm playing advanced Minecraft or something 😂 Thanks all!

A lady hired me and 4 friends for a yard work job. For this job it was agreed that we would all get paid $20 an hour to take trash out of her yard, and to rototill and seed her back yard.
We had worked that entire Sunday very hard and made a significant difference to the yard. We rototilled the yard in it's entirety, cleaned up 1400 lbs of garbage (the weight receipts I have from the dump), and we overall did what we were asked.
The lady was extremely happy that we did the work. She refuses to check the job we did even though I really wanted her to. I am a college student that did more work doing demo and trash removal in my life and I'm new to landscaping. In my opinion we did end up doing a good job. The area was fully filled and seeded with hay to cover the seed. The only job the lady had was to properly water the grass seed for two weeks (ish) for the grass to properly take seed and grow. The soil was quite dry though so I would imagine that this would take lots of water l. And I warned her about this saying that it would be best to water early in the morning or late at night to reduce waste due to evaporation.
The original pay was going to be $640 for the labor for 4 people at $20/hr for 8 hours not counting an hour lunch break we did to get more string for our weed eater and $100 extra for the dump fees and gas that ended up fully going into the job. However, during this job she kept wanting to give us more money. To this I wasn't sure what to say so I agreed because I have never had a person want to give me extra money.
The lady wanted to pay me $30 and hour for being some kind of foreman type person, and gave us all tips of $40. This added up to her being out $980.
This is all fine and well at first, but then the next day she checks all of the work we did, and is very dissatisfied with our work. She sends pictures of things and issues that we did not agree on. That being weeding her garden and parts that weren't her exact area that I said I would work. That being her back yard and the pool around her yard. The other thing that we did not do was clean out her goat area she had on a concrete slab because it was all rotten hay and shit. This area I could have done, but I did not have the time that day or a mask that I would have liked to have worn for it.
The lady goes on to start saying that I scammed her and did not take any of the calls I sent or texts and only was saying that I scammed her and that I did absolutely no work there. She then says she is going to move on with her life and block me forever and be the bigger person. I had tried to get control of the situation over text, but she kept saying that I did not do my full job.
A week has gone by since then, and now a random guy is texting me and threatening to sue me now. I want to send the entire text chain, but this sub reddit does not allow videos. The main claims that I must return the money because I did not do my work. He claims that I tampered with her cameras around her house and stolen items as well. He said that he will go to my college and tell whoever is important that I had done this and will try and get me kicked out. He also said I took illegal photos of the house. I did not steal or tamper with any cameras. I honestly didn't take any pictures even though I really wish I did. The man is threatening to call my school and try and get me in trouble which is very worrying to me.
I am willing to return the extra money that she gave me, but I am not willing to make my friends cough up money for her and this mystery man. To make this pay as much as my friends (25 and hour technically with the tip), I would give $80. My fear is that they will say that I did not do this or that this is not enough money.
What should I do? This money is a life saver for all of us and especially me because I am coming to the end of my college year and am not going to be able to afford rent if I give her all of the money I had made. If it truly is the right thing to do, and I am breaking a real law that would require me to stay at this town for some law suite, I will be happy to fork over the money to avoid that. Yet this feels like I'm being bullied for the money.
What do I do?
(I can post the texts if that is wanted)

My mother had been ill for my entire life. Lots of chronic illness and things they couldn't quite pin down to an exact cause, but were nonetheless there. She had cancer twice in my life, and that was the easy stuff compared to this. My parents didn't get along and were separated. When I was around 10~ she made a deal with my dad. She would get back with him on the condition he helped raise my sister and I.
Well, to say the least, he was still a pretty shitty person. I don't think he has a bad heart, but he certainly is not upto the task of taking care of other human beings. Taking care of my mother essentially got sicced off to my sister and I. She would have grand-mal seizures, blood pool in her legs and come out off blisters that would develop all black, have these weird age regression episodes and all sorts of other medical disasters. She was extremely narcoleptic between when I was about 10 and 16 (this is when she had the regression things too). She also had a rare condition called Addison's which means she couldn't really control her emotional responses and didn't produce the proper hormones. So when my dad would be a dick it'd put her into shock and she'd start turning blue. When this happened you'd have to give her a solu-cortef emergency injection to bring her back into a state of not dying from shock.
My dad was of course clueless and left this all up to my sister and I when we were adolescents, pre-teens and teenagers. I had severe social anxiety my entire life and stunted social development. My mom advocated to put me into home-school after 7th grade since she thought I might do something drastic. I was in home school until we moved to be with my dad as well because of it. She was always my strongest advocate and understood me like no one else on the planet did.
Anyways, to continue her little story. I got sent off to a specialty clinic thousands of miles away with her. Just her and I no one else when I was 14. I lived in a hotel for about a year and then in an apartment near the clinic after that for another year with her. Taking care of her when she could barely move. There was a good half dozen times she was on the brink of death and we barely scrapped by. There was times her heart literally stopped or she completely ceased breathing only to be resuscitated. She would forget who I was for days at a time and regress to being a teenager. She would think I was her brother who molested her when she was little and get moderately violent or irritable towards me (understandably, from her perspective. I do not hold it against her at all). In her times of lucidity she begged me to return to my home with my father. She forced me since she thought she'd really hurt me and my bestfriends father (not even my own father) drove all the way down and picked me up. He drove me thousands of miles all the way back. My dad sent my sister out to take care of her instead for the last year (of 3 she spent down there).
Well, eventually she and my sister came back. I started working at 16 pretty much right after I got home because university was certainly not in the cards economically anymore. When they returned my mom was functional enough to live somewhat normally. She was permanently immune-compromised and prone to fatigue so she was really in no state to work or anything of that sort, but my dad essentially forced her to start working after a few years. He refused to help fix her car (which had just been sitting in the garage rotting away while she had been sick all this time) and would get rough with my sister and I. This would upset my mom so much every-time that she would need her emergency injection or go into seizures. Sometimes he would pin her down or push her down and I would have to fight him off of her and this would make him more and more upset.
My sister left and ex-communicated him. So it was just my mom and I. She secretly stashed away some of her money and came up with a little plot to escape from my dad. Hired a traveling mechanic to fix her car, got extra money from her brother who she barely talked to in years because of history from their childhood. It was a whole situation. She was working in home care for elderly people and turns out one of my dad's childhood friends was on disability. So she took him in so she could take care of him in the comfort of our own home. Less stress, easier, etc.... My dad was naturally pissed for reasons only god knows for her being able to fix her car.
Anyways she finally had enough money. Her and chuck hatched an idea that she takes care of him, she gets paid, and I help with the rest of the apartment cost. I chose last second to stay with my dad. The rationale was I've seen my father have suicidal episodes and knew he was deeply troubled and not fit for the world. He is very old fashioned, only worked for his family, retired at 44 (and then went destitute because the medical debt). I mean this dude can not use a phone to save his life.... He has never written a resume because he never had to. He alienates everyone he has ever known because his ego does not match his status because of our families legacy. He thinks he is some brilliant person that knows all and is infallible no matter what. If you even challenge him he gets violently upset and angry. BUT I still was worried about him. So I stayed with him because I knew he'd be screwed alone.
My mother is much smarter than him.... So I thought she'd be okay with the situation. She was still Ill but I think I was blind to it. Having experienced it my entire life..... So I didn't go with her. Because of her fragile constitution even before she left she had a hip that had broken (and fused back together, without her even knowing), several broken ribs that had done the same, broken knee and a collapsed lung. She also got / had constant shingles because her immune system just couldn't stop it.
Anywho. My mom had been having a rough time after 5 or so months... Seemed the guy she was taking care of was running her super ragged and she was getting super worn down. Due to my stunted development I couldn't drive and my dad was no help there either. He just cash cowed me for my work money like he did to my mother. I was trying to save for a car and driving classes (I'm 24) so I could get a car and visit my mom and help her.
I finally had the resolve... enough of my dad... to admit to her that I should have gone with her. We decided I'd get a car and we would move in together just her and I. Go someplace far away and the rest would be history. She was going to be fine. I was going to be fine. I missed her dearly. When she was gone for 10 months I only saw her face twice when she dropped by. She would hug me and tell me how much she loved and misses me. She absolutely didn't want to see my dads face so I couldn't get him to bring me to where she lived. She didn't want him to know where she was in general.
She was dead less than 48 hours after we had that phone call. She overdosed on her pain medication she had taken for 20+ years while in the ICU (she was in the ICU a lot). The last person she talked to was my grandmother saying she felt like she couldn't breathe and is suffocating. I think it was an accident but I'll never know.
I know the guy she was taking care of was abusing her and that is when I decided that we should move in together. About a week before she died he shit on her carpet and would drag a bunch of homeless people into their apartment and do drugs while she was in the hospital. She kept putting him into rehab and he kept just leaving and coming back. It turns out he fakes a lot of his disability so the government helps him and so he can push people around and is just a drug addict asshole. Last conversation I ever had with her was like 36 hours before she died she asked to borrow money for her phone bill. I of course gave it to her.
After she died and we got the news, by the time we got to her apartment for her belongings everything was taken. Her safe was broken into. The entire place was desecrated and destroyed and looted. Her phone, cards, wallet, purse, car... everything gone. Luckily they left most of the sentimental stuff. There was only 2 people that could have robbed her and the police just kinda don't care.
My dad has been heartless about the whole thing. He doesn't seem to care that much and has been pushing me around harder than ever. Asking me for super large rent payments to live in his house when I told him I need to get a car. It's like he wants me to be imprisoned to him like he imprisoned my mother. Since if I leave he will be absolutely alone. I pay for anything he asks me to already. Thousands of dollars. I didn't mind helping.
I hurt so much inside, since if I went with my mom... chances are she would still be alive right now. She wouldn't have to stress herself nearly as bad ending up in the ICU... getting out and going back to work and repeating. She was always so sick her ending up in the ICU didn't even set off my mental alarms. I would have never known she was so close to death.
She was truly the closest person to me in the entire world. Not a single person was ever more important to me. She made me who I am. She was the only person I saw as not only my parent but an emotional confident. She advocated for me my entire life. She understood me. She in spite of all her own trouble was my rock and my comfort. I loved her with all my heart and I grieve her loss with that and more.
I fear for all the times only her and I shared. Only I have those memories now. I worry about the slow sands of time warping my memories and thoughts. I can never ask her "is that how you remember that". I can never ask her what she thinks of something or for her wisdom. So much of my life just with her it's like it never existed since it only exists within me now. I can never be assured the voice in my head matches her voice in life. I can never be sure she didn't die in loneliness because I didn't make a good enough effort to visit her by my own means.
She was only 48. The idea I'll have lived exactly half my life without her when I reach her age is scary to me. Even more frightening yet is the idea that once I'm old I'll have lived only a fraction of my life with her. She will fade in my memory into the distant past; a nostalgia. I fear becoming someone she wouldn't recognize. I fear every day I have to continue to live without her. When I see the blue skies I think about how it's a blue sky she will never have seen. When I see a TV show I think she would have liked it hurts me to think that I'll never know for sure. It devastates me all the questions I didn't ask her that I'll never know the answer to. What flowers did you enjoy mom?
I wish I would have been less frugal and done more for holidays and her birthday. I so desperately wish for even one hour to talk to her about all this in a final parting.
And what makes me feel just a little better? She had mostly online friends. A self proclaimed recluse. She was very much like me and shy herself. Introverted and just interested in what she was interested in without a care in the world. A lot of her friends have messaged me and other people from throughout our lives telling me how much I resemble her. Not only her physical likeness but in personality. She of course would say this to me herself when she was alive. It comforts me in a weird way to know that I'm so much like her, that I am truly in every way her son, that if I like or dislike something I can say with some confidence she probably feels the same. In a way I feel like I can really experience the things she wanted to do for her. This is the only thing that drives me forward right now. I had been incredibly suicidal until I made this realization.
It also comforts me to know how much people cared for her even when she was in her own world away from the world. When people tell me I have her kind heart and gentle soul I realize that those are qualities they saw in her and respected. And I feel great pride that people would see her in me because I loved her so dearly.
Finding meaning without the person you cared for more than anything is truly a Sisyphean task.
Love you forever and ever mom, I'll never forget you. I'll forever be your little pessimist!

over the last two years my pmdd has gotten better in that I'm not constantly freaking out and the suicidal ideation only happens once in awhile instead of every month. I just needed somewhere to vent right now though sooo, what I'm struggling with this month:
Last Saturday was a great day, Sunday I woke up and the flip had been switched. Went from having a nice weekend with my boyfriend to being positive that he's cheating and seeing him as the enemy (dont have another word for it). Any peace or calm that I attain during the follicular phase is ALWAYS wiped out by this shit. I've barely slept all week due to pms and generally living a sedentary lifestyle due to depression and exhaustion. I've gained 30 pounds this last year because of being on a medication to help with bladder issues and endometriosis. We live at my boyfriends parents house right now and they're incredibly toxic and dirty/gross people, which becomes way more stressful at this time of the month. the house itself is disgusting. I'm dependent on weed to get me through mentally but it really isnt helping. I've slept well maybe 3 nights in the last two months. I've applied to alot of jobs but am scared to go forward with them because of how the pmdd is and the fact that I dont have a steady place to live. My boyfriend and I are constantly arguing and I'm constantly wishing i had ANY place of my own i could retreat to instead of staying in his freaking childhood bedroom with him without access to the rest of the house. His dad and brother drink all the time, randomly freak out and scream at night and his brother has vandalized my car in the past. I also have PTSD from alot of trauma this last 7 years and thats hard enough to navigate on its own. This is all to say, I am really freaking sick of how pmdd makes all of this 1000x harder each month. I turn 35 in a couple of months and want to get ahead in life so badly but this honestly makes it feel like I'm just going to be stuck forever. UGHHH.
Sorry for the negativity. Thanks for coming to my tedtalk. wish i could figure out how to insert the crying emoji.

i have this really bad habit, where if i wanna do smth and its embarrassing, i stop myself because my mindset is “what if somebody asks a random question or what if somebody asks me about this, and i can’t lie and have to admit that i’ve done it before” im scared of people finding out smth embarrassing that i’ve done before in the future, so i don’t let myself do embarrassing things in the first place. it could be something small like watching a movie that’s like, weird or like literally about horses or something. or example i wanna make a friend on discord or something and somebody talks about that in the future or asks smth dumb like never have i ever made friends on discord idk maybe im just like fuckin stupid LMAOO like i’m scared the shit i do will somehow come against me or some shit idk
If it helps i’m autistic and lowkey severely scared of being judged by my friends

My boyfriend is 19, 1 am also 19. we have been together for around six months. I've told him how it makes me feel. After being a victim myself i cannot get behind the idea of watching stuff like that.
I've gone through his twitter and his bookmarks are filled with so many people, and it's always of girls and not like specific body parts. that makes me feel so bad. even after i pour my heart out all he can say is sorry. i'm so close to an edge i'm going to start ripping my hair out. i hate corn. it's a vile disgusting thing. i hate it so much. what am i supposed to do?
Tl;dr- my boyfriend watches adult videos and i hate it, how do i cope?

So first of all , I get that the running joke in GTA ( and gaming community) put a lot of time into playing GTA and the running joke on the Internet is giving a Rockstar a hard time for making us wait so long for GTA 6 ,
But it does seem like people are actually thrusted with this amount other things to do with Rockstar.
Now , please keep in mind I don't play a lot online as much as I used too , and although I do play a lot GTA and RDR alot and have done since GTA 3 and Revolver , I still wouldn't call myself a "gamer" . So I want to get some feed back from this community and maybe get some insight into why so many people feel so thrustrated with Rockstar, particularly over the wait for GTA 6.
To elaborate , I myself am kinda thrustrated with the countless blogs , news , updates etc . that pop up on the Internet speculating on the release of GTA 6 . The main topic that's seems to come up in comments is "ROCKSTAR,WHY IS THIS TAKING SO LONG ? " .
This is the company that between 2004 and 2024 gave you San Andreas, GTA IV , Red dead 1 , Red Dead 2 and GTA V (not to mention online which is its own beast ) All of which could be argued as some of the greatest games of all time .
And here you have fans complaining about the wait being too long , weve only had one trailer , Red dead online is dead , why can't I do this online bluh bluh bluh . Is seems like the fan base for rockstar games have been spoiled and come sounding like needy little brats because they have had to good for too long .
We got 4 great games in in the last 20 years and people are complaining about minute things , where is the appropriation , anyway sorry about the long rant but what do you guys think , is rockstar lacking or are fans just to spoiled ?

Hi, I am looking into becoming an RPN in Ontario, Canada. Practicing RPNs, where do you work and how much do you make? Canada only please, Ontario preferably. Shift premiums, speciality etc, years of experience? Is it really capped at the $35-36 an hour? Better to work hospital or not? Ways to not have to work nights or not have to work many per month? Weekends are fine. I am mid 30s with a one year old, so please positive experiences only. I know that some of the realities of nursing aren’t so great. I want to hear some of the upsides and people who still enjoy it! Can you make more in other provinces? Is it worth it to bridge to RN eventually?

Hello all.
I am making videos about dogs in the shelter that are looking for their forever home, however in order to make sure that the video is giving the right message to potential owners, I created this survey - https://buas.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_07lTJkmY8Lw87Pg.
The survey consists of few questions about which are the key determinants that influence the choice of people when adopting a animal from the shelter.
The survey will not take you more than 5 minutes, however your answers will be of great value for the future adoption videos that I’m creating for the dogs that are still looking for their new home.
Thank you for taking the time to read this message and complete the survey.
Have a lovely day!

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!
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Since discovering Reddit, my Facebook fell by the wayside. Then I reopened Zuck’s rusty door and got splattered by diarrhea. Conspiracies, scams, gory videos, and deranged memes are everywhere. Porn infests Buy/Sell groups. People fall for freakish AI images. Most everything is bullshit pandering to the lobotomized. What the?
Why are old Romanian women coming in droves? Why do they all leer at me amid sparkly flowers? What is the point of these anticlimactic ‘suspense’ skits? Why is Jesus portrayed as a root vegetable under a list of celebrity hashtags?
“You will never regret Liking this photo!” Disagree. I regret even seeing it.
Last Spring, a group banned me over nothing (how dare I “mistreat” the Admins by apologizing for an error). In Autumn, an obsessed buyer offered to “guide me to success” if I move in with his guru. Over the holidays, a comment exchange incited three weeks of horny death threats. The other day, I was informed that dewormer will cure my Autism.
The putrefaction dismays. Facebook was my first foray into society. I finally made friends, two of whom proved real. Groups aided in my personal growth, and let me experience human connection. Now, even favourite communities dwindle in quality and discourse.
I question whether to stay for career purposes, or backup and delete altogether. Insanity aside, Meta’s offsite spying came to my attention (late, as usual). That struck a nerve. I am intent on freedom and privacy, and greatly detest surveillance. Facebook went from a haven to an enemy overnight.
Needless to say, this shift is disconcerting.