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Cool, email support@intromaker.com from your account email and I'll delete you. (Which is the same offer I made to everyone else in lieu of an unsubscribe button.) I did weigh whet…

Average ~$3500/mo, but that can go up and down depending on organic traffic, competition (who's running ads), and world events (2-3x'd for a month or two during peak Covid lockdown…

If we're getting technical: CANSPAM doesn't cover account/privacy/ToS notices -- it's not a marketing message (falls into "other content"). I didn't "upload a mailing list manually…

I would love to use MailChimp, but it was price prohibitive when I first got started. The site was using Mailgun when I acquired it, and I stuck with it after evaluating a BUNCH of…

Follow-up thought: they just got acquired, so maybe there's some consolidation happening in terms of support or business processes that I'm not privy to. This was definitely more o…

I'm less mad about the cleaning service and more mad about the pace of responses and the fact that I got 3 different responses from 3 different customer support reps who apparently…

Not exactly. These emails all go to users who have signed up for an account. Traffic is weird right now (domain migration in progress), but I was getting ~250-350 user signups a da…

Agreed! I don't know why they don't just keep a master list of every bounced email across every domain (or maybe that's what their paid verification product is and I just haven't l…

Are you a game developer? (brb writing a new engine)

Haha, cash isn't the limiting factor -- it's the hours of disappearing into the workshop to leave her with childcare duties. I just need to wait for the kids to get a bit older and…

I tried to carve one of these in styrofoam just to show it to the kids after reading about it a year or so ago, but the material was too soft/porous. It's on my project TODO list i…

I learned most of what I know about the Three Kingdoms era from playing hundreds (thousands?) of hours of Dynasty Warriors. I later read Romance of the Three Kingdoms and the game …

We usually quote 50-100% increase for agency web dev stuff (mostly marketing sites) and I'd say we've underestimated a few times. For basic html layouts it's not too bad but the mi…

I learn by taking notes. I have notebooks full of notes... but I don't ever actually refer back to them. Just the act of writing things down helps me remember things.

I have the Ikea sit-stand desk, but I find it hard to stand during deep focus work. I rotate between a tall cushy stool and standing when the desk is up. When the desk is down I ro…

My site's not huge and mobile ads were only ~$150/mo. I might revisit it later, but for now I'm willing to take the path of least resistance.

A) This level of vitriol directed at internet strangers is not super healthy. I hope you find something that helps you chill out a bit. B) I didn't say they did, but not every prod…

The desktop performance targets are easy to hit, but mobile tests for Lighthouse are rough: "Simulated Fast 3G" network throttling and a 4x CPU slowdown. I don't know anyone in the…

I've been doing a lot of this work over the last month and LCP has been the hardest metric to move by far. I ended up dropping AdSense on mobile entirely from my site, which was ir…

Update: I played a run on Slay the Spire with the new controls and I actually prefer it to the paired XBox controller. I think this is a pretty great update for any turn-based game…

The only good experience I've had with it so far is Slay the Spire (mysteriously missing on Android). I play it full-screen with a gap in the middle -- I wish there was an OS or ap…

Seconded. Roku started out as the "we partner with everyone" streaming device and all this "we're a platform now" bullshit is such a consumer betrayal. I think I've bought 4 or 5 o…

Because there's nothing I love more than fiddling with obtuse settings menus just to have to do it again in couple of hours. This would maybe be acceptable if there was a charm/qui…

Seconded. I looked into this at the start of the Pandemic -- there are a few crap ones on Amazon. I couldn't get them to work with my phone. I'd love to just have a set of web book…