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Murph

Murph

@murph

Analyst, builder, tinkerer. Typically found at the bottom of a finance, tech, or physical culture rabbit hole.
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Joined August 2024

There is a massive audience for this... I've been following this Dutch guy Martjin on his homesteading journey in the Italian alps for the last three years. 720k subs.

www.youtube.com/@MartijnDoola…

anything you read about fancy formulas (ether esters, etc.) is mostly marketing. monohydrate is where its at -- creapure is the gold standard here. its licensed and in many different brands.

the effects are not mind-bending and its certainly not like taking exogenous hormones. but! it will improve strength and capacity at the margin for super short duration, high power output activities (eg. lifting, sprinting <100m).

source: have taken creatine almost daily for 15+ years (zero side effects) and coached athletes at the local national, and international level in olympic weightlifting.

You can start with a wide net and then include/exclude based on demographics or interests. It’ll show estimated size of audience. Obv there’s a tradeoff between specificity and audience size. The algo can also make improvements on its own.

Not an ad pro, but have run a few campaigns in the ecom space. The fact that you can set the daily budget is perfect. Consider a small amount that you'd be willing to commit to writing off as an experiment (eg. $100). Set your daily budget off of that and then launch a trial campaign. You can then start A/B testing and iterating based on the results. I took the CopyThat course (copythat.com) to sharpen my copywriting. It's not specifically for ig/fb, but the general principles are valid.

Thanks for the tips and the course link!

Do you narrow your audience type right away or give broader settings and leave it up to the algorithms?

You can start with a wide net and then include/exclude based on demographics or interests. It’ll show estimated size of audience. Obv there’s a tradeoff between specificity and audience size. The algo can also make improvements on its own.

I just found out about it a couple weeks ago from a random investment newsletter i subscribe to. Haha honestly mostly just using it to snoop on homes in my area since you can see historical data on ownership, sales, and loans for a given property.

Yeah my gut reaction is that you'll dilute your seo/ efforts having to build awareness and drive traffic to different brands. With some DNS and server reverse proxy finagling, you could maintain your no-code site and coded listings site on the same domain.

I dig it. The more scattered the data is, the harder it will be... but as im sure you're aware that's also a huge signal that there's value in aggregating it!

propwire.com is also free. i don't think they have an api, but you might be able to scrape vacant lot listings from them

Hm good one about the SEO, I never thought of it like that. Nice that you think it's a valuable concept! I'm in the validation phase so this comment makes my day. Thanks so much for recommending propwire, I didn't know it! I'll definitely try that out. Did you use them yourself?

I just found out about it a couple weeks ago from a random investment newsletter i subscribe to. Haha honestly mostly just using it to snoop on homes in my area since you can see historical data on ownership, sales, and loans for a given property.

This is a fun idea! Is there a reason why you're building this as a lead gen for a separate website with listings? Why not build it all under one brand/site?

Curious how you're going to populate listings too. Have you seen land.com? I think it's US-only, but maybe there is an API you could hit.

Thank you! Not really a good enough reason. I figured a leaderboard website and the actual property listing website would make sense to keep them split up. I also want to code the second website as this one is no-code, which seems to be quite limiting. But a lot of people say that I need to keep it as one site, so maybe I will!

The listings will be scraped primarily. And I'm doing cold outreach to real estate agencies to let them post properties. But I think it's an easier sell if I have some traffic on the website. I know land.com! They don't have an API I think. I looked for good API's but can't really find them or they are really expensive.

Yeah my gut reaction is that you'll dilute your seo/ efforts having to build awareness and drive traffic to different brands. With some DNS and server reverse proxy finagling, you could maintain your no-code site and coded listings site on the same domain.

I dig it. The more scattered the data is, the harder it will be... but as im sure you're aware that's also a huge signal that there's value in aggregating it!

propwire.com is also free. i don't think they have an api, but you might be able to scrape vacant lot listings from them

Hm good one about the SEO, I never thought of it like that. Nice that you think it's a valuable concept! I'm in the validation phase so this comment makes my day. Thanks so much for recommending propwire, I didn't know it! I'll definitely try that out. Did you use them yourself?

I just found out about it a couple weeks ago from a random investment newsletter i subscribe to. Haha honestly mostly just using it to snoop on homes in my area since you can see historical data on ownership, sales, and loans for a given property.

love it! lol exactly... "this is my nutrition tracker. there are many like it, but this one is mine.

No worries ))

When I launched it, I was accused of "stealing" the idea from another guy who invented the concept of meal tracking, telegram and the whole English vocabulary :))