My daughter (29) is getting a filing cabinet and pastel folders. And a cute EDC kit with knife, pen, and screwdriver. My grandson (2) is getting books, little people, and a cheap drone that floats and is controlled by hand movements.
I'm sure you know, but for those who don't know: "Little People" is a Fisher-Price brand of American-chibi-style figurines. They're basically the kids version of Funko Pops. I got my son the Fellowship of the Ring set.
As an agency owner, we don't use these tools regularly but we have clients who do, and we support them. As far as the domains, they are a registrar like any other. You can transfer the domains away or to them like any other registrar. This means that the customer "owns" it for the period of time it is registered for with an accredited registrar. The web builder companies do not own it on your behalf.
There are no real SEO penalties, but as with any web property, you have to do the work to get all the SEO working as you want.
As far as benefits for developers, give me an open source tool any day that I can improve on, extend, or mess up with sketchy coding. These tools are meant for consumers to build their own sites for the most part. They represent the initial commodification of "get a website". They are more difficult and/or expensive to extend than a tool like WordPress, Laravel, Hugo, etc. And they are walled gardens, which means they are difficult to migrate away from.
Thanks. Yeah, that’s good to know that there’s nothing shady going on with the domains. It does seem very inexpensive when you factor in the domain and hosting, so I was curious if there’s any drawbacks.
It's extremely expensive. At $17 or $21 a month which works out to $250 a year you could go to a million other places. For $5 dollars a month wordpress will include a domain and 6 gigs. Hostinger is $2.99 with domain.
Good point about the files. Wix is a walled garden.
But cost wise, $20 a month is nothing. The first time they run into a WordPress security, theme, or extension issue, they'll spend more than a year's worth of Wix hosting to hire a dev to fix it.
Well, Wix isn't really file-based (to the user's eye). They're probably just a bunch of entries in a database. It's more that Wix doesn't offer any sort of easy export to a standard format.
Editing in Wix is kinda like Dreamweaver was in the old days, a bunch of WYSIWYG widgets and building blocks you drag around on a virtual canvas.
If they wanted to, they could probably offer a static HTML export of the rendered pages, but as far as I know, they don't.
Thats fake news you CAN move away from wix for one and second of all in terms of cost it is pricier than other platforms but they have sooo many integrations that you would end up buying plugins for anyways on wordpress…
In standard scrum, the Scrum Master is responsible for managing the process around developing software, not for actually estimating, creating features, tracking, etc. A Scrum Master's tasks remain the same regardless of what product is being worked on. A Product Owner would be closer to the role you describe above.
As a SWE who moved to Agile Coach, it can be a fun challenge, but since you aren't actually doing scrum, you shouldn't worry about actually following the full process and instead should think about essentially being a product owner (no matter the title) - the interface between the development team and the customer. You'll want to watch out for you being held responsible for the team's performance instead of the ICs on the team. So some CYA could be in order, even if that's just clearly defining your roles and deliverables with management before taking it on.
As another commenter noted, you should be able to lean on your team for help with things like estimation and tracking, but that really depends on your organization's existing process.
Might want to add the year to the movie titles in the autocomplete. In today's puzzle, the title for both the 60s movie and the 2000s movie show up in the list and there's no way to differentiate them other than guessing. I guessed wrong.
I checked out the site, and if I hadn't known it was a coffee company, I would have thought it was a supplement company. As it was, I thought that this must be coffee with added supplements (which does not appeal to me). It wasn't until I got to an actual product page that I realized that the "supplement" concept was just the branding. If I were simply browsing for coffee, I would have left the site from the home page without exploring enough to understand it's just branded that way.
The home page offers minimal value in understanding the concept. If you had a text section just below your hero that explained why/how you are marketing coffee as a "supplement", it would be extremely helpful. Something light-hearted that hammers home the point you are treating coffee as a supplement. You already lean into it by having supplement info sheets on the product pages, so perhaps below the explanation, you could put some CTAs to drive people to click on/order the coffee. Like, "Looking for sweet flavor with an intense aroma? Try X. Looking for a more traditional flavor? Try Y".
Obviously these are quick off-the-cuff suggestions, but the meta-problem I'm looking at is helping a new visitor understand your branding and aid them to find what looks like really good coffee by easing them into the "supplement" branding concept.
If you're targeting gamers, to me nothing about the site indicated gamer-related or even gamer-adjacent except for the label font. The pictures are all hoodied zoomers. If you want to go after the gamer supplement market, I think you might need a redesign that focuses even harder on the supplement concept (e.g. Kill Enemies Faster! Shave Seconds off your Speedrun!), as the current one feels like it's targeted at higher-end urban professionals and influencers.
I hope any of this is helpful. The social proof makes the product sounds fantastic and I'd love to try it.
Could not agree more. Bought just a low-end cold-water one and it's amazing. I miss it anytime I have to use a bathroom at the office or a public restroom.
So they are surveilling people they know are on the drug, and they are seeing those people buy less food. Wow. The surveillance bothers me a lot more than the fact Walmart might experience a slight downturn in the bottom line. Here's a non-paywalled recap of the story: https://futurism.com/neoscope/walmart-ozempic-food
It's just data analysis, the same way that other retailers do it for product recommendations. The only difference with more anodyne correlations (eg. people who buy cereal are also more likely to buy milk) is that they're using anonymized pharmacy data.
It's not being shared. Walmart is both the pharmacy and the grocery store. If you use the same account to buy drugs and food from them, they can see that. Nobody needed to give them the data and they aren't giving it to anyone else.
It could be transaction level data (eg. credit card ending in 1234 bought X at store Y).
It's anonymized in the sense that one can't know what medication Joe Blow takes just by looking at the dataset, even if their transaction data is part of it.
If such analysis is concerning, then one can choose to buy their medication elsewhere or pay cash without any rewards card.
I handled this with AT&T by calling customer service, letting them know that the email was wrong, and then when customer service wouldn't do anything, threatened to login, change the password, then cancel all the services used by the person who used my email address. Suddenly they could do something. Never received another mail from that person's account.
