_Are you letting AI interact directly with ops tools?_
Yes but very cautiously and always with human in the loop. AI is great at cutting away ops noise (false alerts), OK at root cause analysis / debugging and terrible at actually prioritizing and fixing the thing.
It's not a solved a problem and companies like Rootly's actively speaking in this area. I'd read their blog and see what's the latest in the field.
Apple did have conversations about how to profit from Facebook’s apps.
But there’s no evidence that the App Tracking Transparency was a direct result of failure to come to terms with Facebook on some type of revenue share.
Even if a portion of the comprehensive set of protections included in ATT was specifically to target Facebook, Apple did not use it to punish Facebook.
Apple’s customers did.
Because when given a choice, 85-96% of all people across the entire planet did not want Facebook tracking them.
If one was to speculate on The decision-making behind platforms’ leadership, it follows to consider Google’s reluctance to follow in the footsteps of Apple with ATT due to google’s own direct reliance on ad revenue.
Apple is no saint, it’s made many compromises on user privacy in the face of business.
But there’s no doubt in my mind that the position of selling products and services, including the distribution of others’ software is by far more consumer friendly than the quiet identification, data collection and targeting of individuals.
You wrote a book about a topic that you are very much into, and although it's only 60 pages, you were all about the contents, not the process or the readers. Often, authors just want to "write a book" or "be a writer". That rarely results in interesting books in my opinion.
> What stops authors doing what I did? Plenty of people want to read, to blame lack of readership is just completely wrong.
Because for three months of writing and it sounds like numerous hours of marketing you’ve made almost $8000. While I imagine that puts you ahead of the curve for the average self published author, The hourly return on investment sounds pretty low, especially for a job that sounds marketing heavy, which is not everyone’s cup of tea
- gained an engaging audience on X
- multiple inbound leads that turned into long term collabs
- a discord community of my best readers where we meet once a week
What stops authors doing that is that most authors struggle to sell 50 copies at far lower price point no matter how much effort they put in because most books just aren't interesting enough to enough people to be easy enough to sell without it turning into gruntwork paying far below minimum wage.
Congratulations, you're a massive success as an author, having sold more than most authors will. That's amazing.
But consider that most authors have no interests in writing business / self help books, and most who do still fail spectacularly because having success with those kinds of books tends to happen primarily if you already have an audience and a track record in the field you're writing about. E.g. the perceived value of your book is 99% your story about your track record, and most would-be authors don't have that track record.
So just to clarify I didn't have an audience when I wrote the book. I took the time and told people my story over the past 6 months, and while I did that - sold books.
I think good storytellers should be able to build an audience regardless of the format - highly recommend any aspiring author to try it.
The thing is, most storytellers don't have nearly as compelling a value proposition. E.g. the best value a fiction writer can provide is a good story. Your value proposition is selling at least the hope of learning ways of bringing in money. It doesn't need to have a very high chance of success before it's perceived net present value is higher than the cost of your book, while fiction writers are competing with enormous amount of free or already paid for entertainment and fiction from a writer you don't know is often seen as having a sufficiently high risk of being a waste of time that the perceived risk adjusted value for a lot of people is negative.
Getting people to take unknown fiction even for free is an uphill battle.
You're describing self-publishing a business-related e-book. TFA describes the harsh reality of traditional paper publishing of fiction. It also has a section on self-publishing, incidentally.
I find your site and sales pitch interesting but honestly, I can't help but feel like a schmuck for giving you 20 USD for this. It feels akin to giving money to Tai Lopez or some other guru selling a pipe dream.
No offense to you, I want to like what you're offering, but I can't excuse it. Do you have a PDF of the first chapter or the intro at least? I want to see a bit before I send you 20 bucks.
- Early stage SaaS startups about to raise a new round and need staff augmentation - but don't have the HR resource.
Why us:
- We're entrepreneur and founders first. We understand that crossing the finish line is #1 priority, and we understand the venture funding cycle and urgency.
- We're based in Toronto
- We're fast and flexible, darn good at delivering.
- We got focused experience, built multiple web startups from the ground up.
- We're more than SWEs, we've built an audience and community on X (twitter) and discord. We can help you test and market your SaaS with the right audience.
Yes but very cautiously and always with human in the loop. AI is great at cutting away ops noise (false alerts), OK at root cause analysis / debugging and terrible at actually prioritizing and fixing the thing.
It's not a solved a problem and companies like Rootly's actively speaking in this area. I'd read their blog and see what's the latest in the field.