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  • Stayed up way too late last night, making home page updates to ContentSpark. I’m not sure this really gets the message across.

    What do you think this product does?

    → 2:12 PM, Apr 20
  • What do you use today to manage your social media posting? Buffer? Hootsuite? Nothing?

    What does your company use? Asking questions to get a sense for contentspark.AI support.

    → 4:54 PM, Apr 19
  • Took longer than expected to get S3 up and running in Active Storage for Content Spark. Here’s the post with tips that helped me cross the line.

    There’s not really much for storage (yet) in the app, but at least I can have working images for user profiles and announcements.

    content spark announcements UI.
    → 5:19 PM, Apr 13
  • Tonight’s indulgence (that is totally not required to ship this thing): Spending too much time on these animations for humans moderating posts from contentspark.ai.

    → 8:59 PM, Apr 11
  • Sent out a couple of invites to contentspark.ai tonight. Hit me up if you want to get in on the next round of invites.

    www.youtube.com/watch

    → 8:42 PM, Apr 10
  • Celebrating the winners of capitalism...

    We should build a museum to honor billionaires in DC. A “Capitalism hall of fame” if you will. Have an annual ceremony where we give them a medal and a plaque that people can see on tour at the museum. We celebrate their “winning” the game of capitalism.

    “Congrats - you won the game! Here’s a plaque that can be celebrated for eternity. Oh - just one more thing…”

    “Now you are going to be heavily taxed. Very fairly, but differently from everyone else since traditional tax laws didn’t previously include you. The taxes will help pay for health care and education so that others can play and, per chance, win the game. It’s clear you were just going to use the money to fuck with everyone else anyway.”

    → 8:22 AM, Apr 10
  • The “Invited by Nudge Bar” was just a preview of what we were after. A smart nudge bar that lets you set targetted messages to people on your website:

    youtu.be/VEVI85XN3…

    What do you think?

    → 5:08 PM, Apr 5
  • Supreme Court: congress should pass laws instead of relying on the court.

    Congress:

    Courts: No. Not laws that help people.

    www.nytimes.com/2023/03/3…

    → 12:38 PM, Apr 3
  • Kudos to Twitter for releasing the algorithm… its as bad as you imagine

    There’s all sorts of crap that, while totally believable, is still grating to anyone with good sensibilities in the social media algorithms. If you thought they were bad… it’s worse.

    english.nv.ua/nation/an…

    → 8:59 AM, Apr 2
  • Be a tourist in your own city every now and then.

    → 8:04 AM, Apr 2
  • Is it wrong to get all my news from the weather app?

    Looks like a nice day.

    Carrot weather says it likes presidents that don’t get indicted.
    → 2:56 PM, Mar 30
  • I’ve realized another one of my mental hacks is listening to live music. It tricks my brain into thinking I’m being cheered on while working, running, etc.

    Today that included Big Head Todd and the Monsters: open.spotify.com/album/4dS…

    → 9:28 AM, Mar 30
  • Watch this 50-second silent demo of how I’ve been using contentspark.ai to promote long form content from KickoffLabs on social media.

    youtu.be/x5ec0d-50…

    → 8:35 AM, Mar 30
  • Starting from zero is a humbling experience, but it doesn’t have to be depressing.

    Pick a direction and start walking. Don’t feel bad for not running there.

    → 8:05 AM, Mar 30
  • The sun can have an amazing positive impact on personal psychology. Get out and enjoy it while it lasts if you live in Seattle.

    Lake wetlands in the sun.
    → 8:19 AM, Mar 29
  • Built a template on KickoffLabs for people to run “National X Day” sweepstakes like “national donut day.”

    Tested MidJourney and I liked the result even if I ended up not using it in the template.

    kickofflabs.com/landing-p…

    → 4:17 PM, Mar 27
  • Shameless plug. I got contentspark.ai to publish a week of social media posts in < 20 minutes.

    If AI can brainstorm content quickly, we have to make it faster for humans to moderate and approve the content it creates. That’s the core of the ContentSpark today.

    DM me for early access.

    → 7:56 AM, Mar 27
  • Know anyone with a @buffer account or who does a lot of #socialmedia posting for a company? If so - I’m looking to onboard some alpha testers at contentspark.ai/.

    It’s best with a buffer account at the moment.

    → 4:39 PM, Mar 26
  • If control of AI means control of the market and data is required to train better AI then the big companies are about to lock you down much harder into their garden.

    www.reuters.com/technolog…

    → 8:06 AM, Mar 25
  • Junior developers should switch from Stack Overflow copy paste to ChatGPT. It’s going to become career limiting not to.

    Also - the answers generally contain much better educational content that explains the code solutions far better than most humans on stack overflow bother to.

    → 6:56 AM, Mar 25
  • Looking for some 90s video-game-inspired web UI inspiration for an upcoming update to Content Spark. Any sites or suggestions for places to look as I try and bend TailwindUI to my bidding?

    contentspark.ai.

    → 6:45 PM, Mar 23
  • Given the data I saw about how important the home page is relative to just about anything else on our site I spent most of today updating it. What do you think?

    Check out kickofflabs.com

    → 4:10 PM, Mar 23
  • Removed our SMS auth for the KickoffLabs Twitter account. Logged out. Logged in with the authenticator app experience.

    I’d say it’s 100% more secure now.

    Just the twitter bird without any UI. It's dead jim!
    → 8:10 AM, Mar 23
  • ChatGPT Tells me what my product is good for... Not bad.

    Re: My previous post. ChatGPT gives a pretty good answer to the question, “What’s a good use for the product KickoffLabs?”

    KickoffLabs is a versatile platform designed for creating and managing landing pages, lead generation, and email marketing campaigns. A good use for the product is to launch and promote a new product, service, or event by leveraging its various features. Here are some scenarios where KickoffLabs can be highly beneficial:

    Product Launch: Use KickoffLabs to create a pre-launch landing page that captures email addresses and generates buzz. The platform can help you design an engaging and responsive landing page with its easy-to-use templates and customization options.

    Event Promotion: If you’re organizing an event, like a webinar, conference, or workshop, KickoffLabs can help you create a dedicated landing page to capture sign-ups and provide information about the event. The platform also has built-in email marketing tools for sending reminders and follow-ups.

    Content Upgrades: If you have a blog or content-driven website, you can use KickoffLabs to offer content upgrades like e-books, checklists, or templates in exchange for email addresses. This helps grow your email list and nurture your audience.

    Online Course Launch: Use KickoffLabs to create a landing page for your online course or educational program, showcasing its benefits and capturing sign-ups from interested students.

    Referral Marketing: KickoffLabs has a built-in referral system that allows you to create and manage referral campaigns. This can be useful for encouraging word-of-mouth marketing and rewarding customers who share your product or service with their networks.

    Waitlist Management: If you have a limited availability product or service, you can use KickoffLabs to create a waitlist landing page, allowing potential customers to sign up and be notified when the product becomes available.

    A/B Testing: KickoffLabs allows you to conduct A/B testing on your landing pages to optimize conversion rates and find the most effective design and copy.

    Overall, KickoffLabs is an excellent tool for businesses and marketers looking to generate leads, grow their email lists, and launch new products or services in a streamlined and effective manner.

    Pic or it didn't happen - the picture of the text I quoted.
    → 8:50 PM, Mar 21
  • In defense of ChatGPT and Copilot technologies

    It’s trendy for people to attack the use of ChatGPT copywriting, but I believe there are very legitimate uses for it. I love the branding Microsoft is using for it’s AI additions. I think “Copilot” is the sweetspot. Hell - it would have been a better name for Tesla’s fraudulent “Full Self Drive,” but that’s a different post entirely. :)

    It can give you keywords for actual research. Yes - it’s been shown that ChatGPT can just dream up research papers and statistics it thinks make sense. However, a core problem people have when learning about a topic is not even knowing what keywords to search google for.

    You can just ask ChatGPT for an overview of the topic and you’ll get a reply with all sorts of relevant topic-related keywords you can use for actual research.

    Some people are terrible writers. They can feed it a post and have correct spelling, grammar, and even the content structure to make it sound more professional like it does in their heads. You can feed it your post and have it, correct, update, and even rewrite entire parts of it.

    You can change the tone. Give it some text and ask it to make the tone more cheerful or analytical or anything else that would be more welcoming to your audience.

    Progress beats writer’s block. A blank page is just a ball of anxiety and stress for some people that don’t even know where to start. Progress begets progress, even if the first step is saying “Hey - write a sales email that pitches our latest release with a focus on speed to software developers.”

    What you get back won’t be a good pitch. It doesn’t know anything about your product or your customers. But it’s progress and I’ve found that progress makes you feel like you can then take the next step and rewrite it for your needs instead of staring at a blank page for, what feels like hours.

    Sometimes, an article’s genius comes from the idea and outline. You can feed it an outline and get a professional-sounding representation of the idea you gave it that’s more readable to others.

    Apparently, my son knew this day would come in 1st grade when he was asked to design a robot that would do things he didn’t want to do. So he imagined a “home work” robot. :)

    Now his middle school teachers have to tell the kids that ChatGPT papers are not acceptable and remind them it’s not really learning the topic or (more importantly) how to have an informed opinion on a topic. :)

    → 8:48 AM, Mar 19
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