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Comment · 3 hours ago
I’m not sure this is still the case. An AdWords campaign worth its salt is going to cost a lot more money than some local advertising, and with plenty of bot fraud to boot.

I asked some magazines for print ads and one issue is 60-150€ in my niche. That’s not bad, I think I’ve blown twice that in digital ads before to help a friend and we got a 2 conversions to a paying customer.

Dunno. Maybe at a large scale digital advertising is where you have to go, but small businesses might actually benefit from… small advertising.

Comment · 4 hours ago
Got it, put all my life savings into guac.
Comment · 5 hours ago
*Cries in Belgian*. You do know that a lot of people live in places with less sunlight, right?
Comment · 5 hours ago
Given Vercel’s plunge in some circles, maybe it does run the product. Might want to install some Product Manager skills on their Claudes.
Comment · 5 hours ago
I understand the cynicism and… well, I agree.

Hopefully, Europe has learned something and our energy dependency and trade policy changes a little bit.

Hopefully, US voters are now a little more careful with the choices they make.

Not to be too Eurocentric, but we didn’t need a 2nd energy crisis in 4 years, this time caused not by Evil Russia but our old, trusted ally.

Comment · 17 hours ago
My hosting providers gives you IPv6 for free, whereas IPv4 costs ~3€/month. It seems like a no brainer, until you realise that many clients wouldn’t be able to find you with IPv6 alone.

So I don’t see how to fix this except at the ISP level (forcing them). No one is preventing this but the providers.

Comment · 1 day ago
Zoho offers a lot of good stuff in their platform.
Comment · 3 days ago
To be fair, train crashes happen rarely enough that the safety procedures are in place and work (at least most of the time).
Comment · 3 days ago
It’s still a relatively decent and ambitious thing to aspire to, i.e. a lean interface/tool scope that prevents scope creep. Composability (with pipelines) also works quite well. But yes, it is somewhat propaganda.
Comment · 3 days ago
I thought you were exaggerating but man…
Comment · 5 days ago
Google’s issue (and many large companies’?) is organisational. Google has famously launched a bunch of products to compete in multiple markets, only to sunset these products soon after.
Comment · 5 days ago
Comment · 5 days ago
> … any out-of-warranty screen damage will cost $999.

Good heavens, if your Duo breaks, it’s cheaper to get almost ANY other new phone.

Comment · 6 days ago
I don’t find a non-smart 4K television on Bol, except for a single 800€ model. Sorry but it’s not 2016, I’m not gonna sit and watch content at a resolution worse than my laptop’s.
Comment · 6 days ago
And literal freezing of Europe at the current gas prices.

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