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Comment · 4 years ago
Could DALL-E 2 be used to make a series of images of the same character doing different things? Like, if you wanted to make a childrens book about Bobby the 7-eyed giraffosaur's trip to the store, it would be weird if the character looked different on each page.
Comment · 5 years ago
The inevitable question: What did you do to turn the spreadsheet into a site? :-)
Comment · 7 years ago
The crowdsourced list is fully automated. I don't sleep for a few days, so I can monitor what is added (ok, that part is manual) :-) The regular lifetime deal dashboard is fully manual, I work on it every day of the year (almost)
Comment · 7 years ago
Thanks, I do try to create something useful, but I will make it less intrusive and spell out from A - Z what the purpose of the site is, and what it is not, so that I hopefully will not start world war 3
Comment · 7 years ago
Thanks, but I removed the popup instead :-)
Comment · 7 years ago
I guess it comes down to a difference it what people look for. When I set about creating this site, it was because I like getting these deals and try out new software myself, but I found myself missing some of the best deals. So I set up alerts, signed up for lots of fb groups, and checked lots of sites, but it took a lot of time, and suddenly I hade made myself a dashboard. As it is right now, the site does what I personally like, it shows a list of ongoing lifetime deals from any source I can find, and one can get the same info in email alerts or rss subscribtion. Personally I hate comparison tables, because how can I know the person who made them has tested all tools compared and know them well enough to make a fair comparison. So I actually thought it more fair to just post the links. But these comments have given me some food for thought, so I think I need to make things clearer in writing on each page.
Comment · 7 years ago
I am not a programmer, so I tried to find a tool for email signups, and Aiva looked nice at the time. Guessing from your reply, it is bad in some way, so I have turned it off. I do not need it. As for the rest of your question, I have made it clearer in the text on the deal dashboard. I borrowed your text, hope you don't mind.

My main idea is to find every single deal online that is labeled lifetime deal, and share it in a simple, searchable, sortable overview list. The list will contain my affiliate links, so I can hopefully some day earn more money from the site than I spend. If you have other suggestions to how to label things so people do not get fooled, let me know. If you think the best thing is to delete the site from existance, then I will actually think about doing so. I had a hope it was possible to show a list of links online, be they affiliate links, in some way so that it could still be useful. But maybe it is not.

Comment · 7 years ago
I agree, I will toss out the marketing book that recommended that, and try being human instead!
Comment · 7 years ago
Thank you for that very thorough explanation. I had not thought about it that way. So thank you for the mind-opener of the day :-)
Comment · 7 years ago
Thank you for your opinion. I have removed the popup, as my intention is not to annoy people, belive it or not.
Comment · 7 years ago
Yes, I agree the popup was annoying. I used a template I found, and understand it was annoying, stupid, disrespectful etc. I have now removed it. It is clearly stated on top of every page that there are affiliate links on the site. I spend 20+ hours weekly finding deals and updating the deal list. If it turns out the world hates this, I can stop doing it, close the site down, and do something else with my time. It seemed however some people found it useful, so I thought why not see if people found it useful.
Comment · 7 years ago
No, so I turned it off.
Comment · 7 years ago
Thank you for your opinion. I agree, and will rephrase it later today. I have tried to be very forthcoming about what the site is about, sticking my affiliate link disclaimer on top of every page, so I sincerely do not want to have a popup that makes people vomit!

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