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joelrunyon
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My name is Joel Runyon. I do the impossible.
Personal Site - https://JoelRunyon.com
Impossible HQ - https://Impossiblehq.com
Ecommmerce Site - https://impossible.co
Giving - https://Impossible.org
- joelrunyon parentIs the information wrong?
- Do you care about the ethical implications of the business practices of the brands you're supporting?
- If you care about the ethical reasons for plant-based meat, you should look at the companies business practices behind the scenes when they think no one is paying attention - https://x.com/joelrunyon/status/1927531529883762920
Kind of wild how they're treating creators.
- If you didn't like that, the CEO of impossible foods is now proposing a 50/50 burger (50% fake meat, 50% meat) - https://x.com/joelrunyon/status/1936183159491584134
https://www.wsj.com/business/retail/impossible-foods-growth-...
- I got annoyed with it, then went and fixed it in 5 minutes and went on with my day - https://twitter.com/joelrunyon/status/1788312003670360320
- Why is this not linking directly to the wired article? https://www.wired.com/story/a-revelation-about-trees-is-mess...
- This site https://startablog.com fluctuates - we have spurts of way more than 2k/month and some way less. I think it averages out to <2k/month though.
- If you want to just write - the answer is still wordpress (https://startablog.com/guide).
If you want to focus on tweaking the site to your heart's content, go right ahead, but the number #1 component to a blog is...writing.
Focus on that and stop worrying about the rest of the details.
- This is accurate. I laughed :).
- Not sure what HN has against wordpress, but it's still the GOAT in terms of blogging platforms. It's
1) Easy to setup
2) Incredibly SEO friendly
3) Most importantly: you own your content.
Yes - it's not as technically advanced as engineers would like - but let's be real - it's a blog - not a venture funded startup.
Buy your own domain. Own your content. Then, just write. If you need help, you can even get it set up for you for free → https://startablog.com/free-blog
- I've got a few
Free blog setup service to help people star their own blog → https://startablog.com
Meal Planning web app & service → https://ultimatemealplans.com
Mobility training and exercises → https://movewellapp.com
- I understand that - but they should be able to sync the databases or pass an auth token of some sort.
The fact you have to re-enter it all makes the experience stupid and customers frustrated.
- How soon until someone lets you
1) create a series of help docs
2) trains an AI on those help docs
3) solves customer headaches using a chatgpt interface with that training
4) drops you into a human that can help as soon as you ask for it.
My primary issues with "live chat" features are
1) They ask you for stupid stuff (email/name/etc) when you're logged in that are already in the system. This makes things worse somehow.
2) The sheer resistance to handing me over to a human when I've asked for it. If you don't have humans on live chat - that's fine, but at least send it to a help desk.
3) The fact they try to ask me to categorize the issue vs. semantically figuring it out via the request is extra annoying as they will often ask you this AGAIN if they can't initially place you in one of their pre-selected categories.
- This.
When you have already troubleshot and gone through the help docs and are actually pointing out a flaw in their system - chatbots are completely useless.
- I know this is the "CNN lite" - but the photos on the main CNN site article significantly color this piece it seems - https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/27/us/tradwife-1950s-nostalgia-t...
- Company I consulted for had 12 engineers, spent millions and 18 months to build some niche custom e-commerce solution.
They were burning money and about to go belly up.
We spend 3k on shopify plus some outsourced shopify engineers to get 95% of their solution in ~4 weeks with zero engineers.
Turned the company around and ended up doing a M/A 2 years later.
- The site isn't working for me? Anything I have to fix on my side to make it work?
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- If you travel and liked wordle - you should try http://airportle.com
So much harder. Maddening.
- I spent way too much time in the calendaring space.
> Makes scheduling collaborative instead of a nuisance.
This is not a strong opinion (sorry Derrick, I love you)
Every calendar/scheduler thinks they do this. Most are just variations of calendly (which no one loves, but does it's job).
Calendars (imo) need to stop getting enamored with scheduling and more enamored with helping people use their time wisely.
Stronger opinion: scheduling sucks - do less of it.
Stronger opinion: you should schedule your calendar exactly this way (https://www.nirandfar.com/schedule-maker/)
Stronger opinion: a full calendar doesn't make you productive. Making sure you've scheduled the things that matter to you first before you let any other events is, is the only thing that matter.
Tying the way someone calendars to a specific workflow is what matters. You saw Superhuman do this with "inbox zero." They convinced you that inbox zero means you're productive. It's the wrong metric IMO, but that's how they built out their fan base.
If someone is trying to get a calendar off the ground, they should just hire Nir as an advisor, make his workflow the default calendaring experience and start from there. That would do worlds of work for differentiating in this space where everyone largely does the same minor improvements in different colorways.
- Who bought Angel List?
- Twitterati would have been a much more apt/fun name.
- Feels like this would be a perfect add-on use case for https://donotpay.com/
- Yes - they're both great compounds for helping improve sleep performance - (which unlike knockout pills you can improve over time). Most of our customers tracking their sleep with an Oura ring, Whoop band, or Eight sleep see improvements in both their scores and energy levels when adding our product to their nightly routine.
- https://impossible.co/blogs/health/magnesium-and-sleep - https://impossible.co/blogs/health/l-theanine-for-sleep
- Ah - here's the link - https://impossible.co/blogs/health/melatonin-side-effects
- If you're struggling with sleep and "turning the lights off" around bed time - we made a custom natural sleep product for high performers focused on quality, restful sleep - https://impossible.co/products/sleep
Shoot me a DM if you want to try it out - happy to send one your way.
- I was gonna say this. He bought it back.