This tends to get used as a substitute for strategy. Find the low hanging fruit, capitalize on it, and move on to the next tactic.
The problem is, as Rand Fishkin highlights in his excellent deck "Why Your SaaS Marketing Sucks", traffic for sites addicted to growth hacks looks a lot like this:
Growth hacks can be part of your growth strategy, but they're not a substitute for one.
Inspired by folks like Kottke.org, I've been keeping track of all the media I consume: Books, movies, TV, games. My method is pretty low tech: each month I rotate through a new pocket notebook that has a few pages dedicated to media diet at the front (the
We’ve got a wonderful independent cinema in town, The Pickford Film Center. They recently inherited the film library of a now-defuct shop, Film is Truth, and now offer their entire collection of DVDs and Blu Rays for rental. It’s nothing like a friday night 30 years ago
Most of my use of LLMs is to help with code, kind of like a pair programmer. I know enough to be dangerous here already, particularly SQL. I'm proficient, but I'm also pretty slow at writing anything complex. Usually, I know what I want to do
When I first started down the path of what became my 3D maps project, 48 Contours, I had a rough plan in mind for producing the models for my initial launch. I’d develop a process for turning map data into files that would work with a laser cutter. I’