raymel (ai - startups - indie hacking) π
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Builder for 13 years π Integrating AI for businesses @TokwaLabsAI Open for clients / partnerhsips / dev work
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Joined September 2023
my ai agency got its first testimonial π₯π₯. months of learning ai starting to pay off. it's never too late to learn something new and help others with it π
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@advaithj1 I love this!. I followed because:. 1) You are very dedicated.2) Having interns post updates is very genius of Discord.
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I AM MAXIMIZING MY CHANCES. So I will. 1. Post 10 times a day.2. Build 50 apps for the next 30 days.3. Regret this tomorrow, but not in a year. Who's with me? π.
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Be honest,. How often do you read newsletters?.
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You suddenly had an influx of ideas. But you're still in the middle of another task. What will you do?.
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Hey π Algorithm,. I'd like to conn. .
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@fireship_dev - Be @htmx_org CEO.- Build your JS framework.- Build your No-Code tool.- Memorize every IAM permission of AWS/GCP/Azure.- Know the difference between == and ===. - Realize that everything originates from binary so you should be able to code in binary.
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Did you notice the color change?. Share your contribution graph, Halloween style.
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in search for the 1000th person to follow. so, who's gonna be the one? are you the one?
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Drop your X profile.I'll give you. .
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We just reached 2500. Knowing about my recent followers has become my habit. Introduce yourself and tell us what you do π
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Everyone says Founder Mode. I don't have a biz,.I am still figuring things out,.But I am building towards that. For now, I will be in Builder Mode. Builder Mode are for those who are building something, not necessarily a biz, but anything that has a potential to be something
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July 2023 is when I quit my 9-5 to pursue entrepreneurship. June 2024 is me landing my biggest contract to date: which is worth my annual income back in my 9-5. Building a SaaS is not working yet, but doors opened. So whatever path you're taking, always remain open, keep.
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Today's January 1st, and I am officially starting my #buildinpublic journey. So 3 months ago, I started my journey on revealing myself on social media. I said to myself: "Welp, let me just wing it and figure things out, maybe I will meet people, maybe not, maybe I should not
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First 30 min of your day, what is the first thing you're doing?.
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Building in public is slowly finding its footing π₯.All thanks to the community! π«Ά. I would like to find more like-minded people. Are you a maker?.Solo?.Dev?.Indiehacker?.With a startup?. Want to share your project?. Say Hi and introduce yourself π. #buildinpublic
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what do you think of deadlines?
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think less, do more.do less, think more. which one are you?.why so?.
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Recently, I reached:. 600+ following.700+ followers. I'm still catching up on follow requests so bear with me π
. As always, I'm open to connect with fellow devs π€. BONUS: Self introduction or friends introduction are welcome on the replies π
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Today is my 27th birthday. One year ago, I am clueless about indiehackers.One year ago, I am clueless how to ship in weeks.One year ago, I am clueless about AI. One year ago, I quit my 9-5 after not being paid for months. Which made me realize,. - I used to build SaaS for others
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You guys are intense. This is my first run,.0 to 50. 1 month later,. 800+ followers.730+ following. I saw similar stories. Everyone helping each other,.No hesitation. Felt like I met everyone here, yet it's just the surface. I'll catchup w/ follow requests!. Appreciate y'all π«‘.
Started my X journey 5 days ago. 50 followers in 5 days. Appreciate everyone who connected. Fellow developers,. Let's connect π€. #SoftwareDeveloper #programming
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About me:. Professional programmer for 6+ years. Various experiences in making web and mobile apps, cloud infrastructure, server administration. Learning Product Development these days. GitHub β LinkedIn β
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now is the best time to build and ship. thinking of this makes more pumped than ever. first, @_buildspace made me realize that you can actually build anything , show it, and make it a worthwhile experience β no matter what the outcome is. do this and the people will come, share.
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I put a Projects section to my profile. - Literacy Apps and Platforms.- Open source tools. *These client projects are launched. To add, my affiliation with these have ended post-launching. For anyone interested π.
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I do not need another domain.I do not need another domain.I do not need another domain.I do not need another domain.I do not need another domain.I do not need another domain.I do not need another domain.
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+111 new people in the past 2 weeks? π₯π₯. Guys, let's warm each other up. - Say Hi π.- Tell us what you're working on.- Or any random fact about yourself. Doesn't matter if you're new or an OG, you are welcome to reply! π«£
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Caught it. Lucky weekend to all of us!
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So I asked the #buildinpublic community for feedback. and decided to turn it into a short-form video. (this is my first attempt, so please bear with me π«£ )
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I value every relationship I built in this community. Everyone who knew me for long, knows this. So it sucks to see something like this. I feel like I owe the community an apology. I actively supported this Emma account for the recent weeks, believing that this person is real.
I found something creepy. Is Emma a catfish? . Emma = Jerome?? π±. If so, we were all catfished.
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One month ago, I'm unknown. 400+, 500+ connections later, I'm grateful. Was a spectator for 2 yrs on tech community. Reality checks motivated me to be part of it. Chase now, or never. So I started to test the waters. Met talented people in return. To more cool things aheadπ₯
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I am back on building in public. TLDR:. 1. I am doing this for my new audience who did not witness me doing this back in January. 2. I took a five week break. 3. I will do a launch spree and see where it brings us all. Read on for the gist:. First, I am doing this for the new
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What is the point of growing when we are all at the mercy of an algorithm?.
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Jumping right in this circle trend. Do you see yourself?
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We are closing to 2300. I mean, just one more. Who's gonna be the 2300th follower? π. The last time I celebrated a milestone like this? Ages ago. Cheers to everybody, like really. π«‘. Those who followed along since September, from my programming content to my #buildinpublic
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Looking for fellow builders with yellow avatars. Say Hi π.
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Late lunch after a trip to doctor's office β all before the evening work of research, planning, and coding begins. Dish is Katsu + Shoyu. How's your week going folks?
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Silently breached 600 followers today. I'll try to catch up with follow requests slowly. Please bear with me folks. π. I'm always open to connect, so let's go π€.
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Claude 3.5 Sonnet and @cursor_ai is the best combo. Earlier I wanted to add a cool collapsible sidebar to a dashboard I'm building. Unfortunately @shadcn does not provide one, so I have be creative. Finding something to use as basis, I told Claude to generate a version of it
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Managed to capture the elusive Cloudflare number (iykyk). So I met a couple of awesome people this week, and had an influx of connection requests for the past few days. I'll catch up with the requests!. Appreciate everyone as alwaysπ―
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hey it's easter sunday and im back. hows ur weekend goin?. me: beating the tropical heat with some Postman work
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Saturday lunch. Just made a pesto penne and sprinkled a few olives to it. Feel free to roast π«£
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Slept for a total of 9 hours. Never felt this good in months. How do you ensure you're having a very good sleep?.
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all these years of casual atmosphere. now I'm cringing writing "Dear Mr." π€£
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Productivity hack: You only have 144 ten minutes in a day.
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12 things I wish I knew when starting out:. 1. Do not quit on your cash cow. 2. Problems do matter, but opportunities determines its worth. 3. You can solve your own itch, and you can also be the only one having that itch. 4. Spending your time on the right things is the name.
Entrepreneurs, . what's the one tip you wish someone had told you before starting?.
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Building a new header photo for my #buildinpublic journey:. In 5 minutes π₯.With combo of 2 tools βοΈ. β by @thejorgemedina.allowed me to personalize my header photo.(thank you for the beta access man). β by @prsnlbrandexp.allowed
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NEW landing page is now LIVE π₯. What do you guys think?. Check it out β
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Does your product have affiliate / referral program? π€. I will feature 5 products on my first newsletter issue this week! π₯π₯. P.S. If we get 100+ replies, I will feature 1/4 of products listed!. #buildinpublic #indiehackers
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My mission is to create. I am happy when I know I can create things. So I find it natural to see myself pursuing multiple endeavors. My endeavors have one or two of these characteristics:. β Should be easily replicable across niches.I can build a series of newsletters,
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Phind - @phindsearch worked pretty well for my tiny Bash script. It even adopted how I use a third-party script (jq). All on first try. See it in action:
Phind can now beat GPT-4 at programming, and does it 5x faster.
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Sweet 360. 400 is also sweet. A sweet way to end the month isn't it?. So, will you help me reach. 400?. Will you?.I'll help you back if you do. Connect with me if you do π€
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Earlier while checking connect requests:. Was wondering how non-dev people found me. Oh, because I wrote my non-dev interests in my bio π«£. Tale as old as time: Keywords work. Bonus: Checking profiles lead to project discoveries, so put your project there. What's in your bio?
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We just reached:. ~2100 following.~2400 followers. To my new circles here, I would like to know more about you π«΅. Tell me about yourself and/or about your project π. I'll start:. 1. I am Raymel, a dev who started building in public this January. 2. I work on:.β
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Knowledge is power,. But how do you motivate someone to gain knowledge?.
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Build in public is not dead, but I've outgrown it. However, these things grew on me:. 1) Testing marketing channels.2) Building prototypes.3) Exploring tools.4) Talking to customers.5) Brainstorming with friends.6) Networking.7) and many more. These things happen behind closed
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I still do not understand why I need to send a post that is sending already. P.S. Premium user for 4 months
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I have a total of 8 people signed up for recapsβ€fyi and makeabentogridβ€today waitlists, combined. I appreciate everyone who supported me, but I could have done better, like way better. Warning: This is a self roast. I admit how BAD the landing pages are,.and not only that, I
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This week in #buildinpublic. β Teased my newsletter.People voted to name it "Level Up". β 10 newsletter subs.Thank you friends π«Ά. β 2 initial newsletter articles ready to ship next week.Subscribe to the newsletter, link on the replies. β Feedback group stronger than ever.
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It's only December but my mind is already on January-March plans. Basically the next quarter, the upcoming season. Wild. Do you also plan like a madman?.
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What do indiehackers spend time on weekends?. Wrong answers only
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my first app back in 2012. this is where it all began
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Month 2 of building in public (in numbers). First of all, thank you everyone for making this happen! π«‘. recaps .fyi.β
413 views (2x vs Jan).β
~50% increase in signups vs Jan.β
~160 views (Feb 16-23, best 5-day period).β
~130 views (Feb 2-7, 2nd best 5-day period).β
2 major
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dude what have I done π« . I missed building in public π«£π«£. should I bring it back?
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Look, I am down with a fever yesterday and now I'm back (kind of, still have a mild one). First, you can subscribe to Level Up newsletter for free. Yes, that is my newsletter. Link on the replies. We'll do things lightly today. Just had the blog set up for our lovely
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Sometimes I do wild and unnecessary actions to accomplish things. PSA: Don't do this at home, kids. I live in Southeast Asia, but since January I've aligned my working hours to North American time zone. Throwback to January, I just shifted my audience from programmers to
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Feels surreal to charge my old employer 7x of what he is paying me back then. Things are different this time because I am a contractor and he is my client, not his 9-5 guy. No lessons here, just years of building up my value and having the guts to realize and finally enforce it.
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Happy New Year from Manila! π.
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Airchat is pure entertainment. Love it π€£
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Today I made a localized ChatGPT clone using @AnthropicAI Claude Artifacts and Claude 3.5 Sonnet, their most powerful AI model to date. Should I use @huggingface to power this clone?
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I built a Telegram bot so I can avoid For You Feed forever
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The past 3 weeks has been a roller-coaster. Biggest contract to date is about to end soon.But the experience brought me:. 1) Runway to build again.2) Confidence to build again.3) Refresher on how to build right. Thanks to the seasoned founders who trusted me and allowed
July 2023 is when I quit my 9-5 to pursue entrepreneurship. June 2024 is me landing my biggest contract to date: which is worth my annual income back in my 9-5. Building a SaaS is not working yet, but doors opened. So whatever path you're taking, always remain open, keep.
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Recap:. β 0 MRR.β 2/infinity Products.β 0 Newsletter subscribers.β 3 Months.β 8181 Tweets.β 5 Bio changes.β 2 Domains. I will look back into this, for sure. Another thing's for sure:.#buildinpublic starts in Jan 1st. Yes, finally. Happy new year folks!
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Sometimes all we need is a nice workout, a couch, and our favorite music. How do you enter flow state?.
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See, I am not kidding when I said I joined this wonderful space one year ago. ~2k friends and 3k followers later. We still here. Time to keep shipping because I missed shipping things
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Passed out at 9pm.Woke up at 2am.Went straight to my fave corners (any w/ TV).Opened @shipixen.Customized a template.Landing page done β
οΈ. This is only the beginning. My dreams of expanding my consultancy services to product dev is starting to pan out. More details to come.
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My main programming languages:. 2012 C++, C#, VB.2013 C#.2014 C.2015 C, Java, C++, Python.2016 Java, Python.2017 Java.2018 Java, Python.2019 JavaScript, PHP.2020 JS.2021 JS.2022 JS.2023 JS. So I realized, I code mostly in Java before I became a full-blown JavaScripter.
My main programming language:. 2012 C#.2013 C#.2014 JavaScript.2015 JavaScript.2016 JavaScript.2017 JavaScript.2018 JavaScript.2019 JavaScript.2020 JavaScript.2021 JavaScript.2022 JavaScript.2023 JavaScript.
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Today I got a quick call from my mentor after months of no comms. "Hi Raymel, do you have 20 minutes? Maybe I can get you to start the core of a project I am working on. Can we get on a call?". In 3 sentences, I agreed. 1. Notice the "20 minutes" (It always takes longer lol, so
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January is a rollercoaster:. β Jan 1: Declared I'm building in public. β 1st week: Introduced β Same week: Tried making my first video by reviewing met a fellow builder in return in @thejorgemedina . β 2nd week: Made short
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I barely use LinkedIn. Now LinkedIn recommends me profiles of people I knew here.
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Make an entrepreneur cry in 4 photos π
Make an entrepreneur cry in 3 words. π.
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You don't run from a goldmine. You just run back to get a truck.
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Day 13 #100DaysOfCode . Quick layout work. Preview? Not yet.π
. Made with: Astro, Tailwind, DaisyUI
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One of the best things on tech community is learning from the ways of others. What is the most valuable thing you've learned here?. Feel free to tag the amazing person where you first learned this valuable thing!.
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What are you cooking on a Monday?. Me: Two new blog articles
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What inspired you as a child to chase your dreams?. Me:.Hollywood and TV
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I'm becoming more mindful with my time spent on each task. Can't drift away, and if I do, I look at the clock and tell myself, this is what needs to be done, not that. What's your way on keeping focus on days where you're easily distracted?.
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done π―. final week's speedrun in one day (yes, today)π
. it's full of insightful articles,.good job @depthsHQ team!. have you finished yours? share your dashboard!. #30DaysOpenSource
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I installed LinkedIn app just to verify myself. Now I am uninstalling it.
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Who would have thought that 9 months later. β
We are still here, and.β
We are nearing 3k followers?. From a random decision of "F** it, I should stop being the lurker and be the creator. ". To hanging out with devs on X,. And ultimately fulfilling my dream of being a solo maker.
Started my X journey 5 days ago. 50 followers in 5 days. Appreciate everyone who connected. Fellow developers,. Let's connect π€. #SoftwareDeveloper #programming
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I am back in building in public. This time, I am building an AI company with my friends. To start our journey, we are starting from the simplest things π§΅
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Something is missing but I can't pinpoint it right now π€. Will post snippets on how I built the specifics:. π΅ Smoke backdrop for the center floating component.π΅ Glowing circle on search bar.π΅ Pause / resume of grid shuffle on tile hover. So stay tuned right on this thread π
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Did you know that can recap your Twitter polls with a visually appealing video?. If you want to try it out,.I am offering 5 slots, for free. Just send me your poll. Let's talk on my DMs. Launch Notice:. recapsβ€fyi will launch a self-service soon, so you.
Polls are super interesting β but often a bit anti-climatic when they end and that's that, lost in the wind. I've been so happy to see my buddy @pseudokid build to generate videos from social content URLs like twitter polls. This also doubles as a way
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Believing a Reddit thread = 3 days of me mingling with other AI SDKs to no avail. Trying @vercel AI SDK myself = job done in 2 hours. PSA: Reddit isn't always the greener side
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