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d1 jungle main, mostly lee/xin. the biggest gap between low and high elo isn’t mechanics or clear speed, it’s information. and the cheapest piece of info in the game is enemy raptors.

most junglers start there. ward it at 1:20 before they path that way and you see which side they started, which tells you their whole first clear. from there you know when and where they’ll be at 3:30, which is usually the first gank window. plan your path around being on the opposite side or setting up a counter-gank.

if your own clear doesn’t allow it, ask your mid to ward it at 1:30 on their way to lane. takes them 3 seconds, info is just as good for them as for you.

lower elo junglers make invade/gank decisions with zero info then complain about counter-ganks. the counter-gank was predictable from minute 1. you just didn’t look.

sub-tip, if the ward expires without seeing them, they started the opposite side. absence of info is still info.

Ran a subscription content business with my ex from 2022 to early 2024. she handled the product side, i handled everything else. one of the mistakes i see people make with new businesses is the one we almost made ourselves — treating the first $1k month like it means something it doesn’t.

we hit $1.2k in month 5. felt like we’d arrived. immediately started making plans around that income. by month 7 we were back at $600 and panicking.

the lesson: the first time you hit $1k isn’t a milestone, it’s a data point. one good month in a new business means almost nothing. the metric that actually matters is $1k three months in a row, same pricing, same effort. until then it’s a spike, not income.

the people i’ve seen burn out fastest are the ones who scaled their lifestyle around a single good month. quit the day job, raised their overhead, started treating it like a career instead of a side hustle that’s trending up. then month 2 dips for any of 50 reasons and now they’re scrambling with bills they didn’t have before.

the ones who survived did the opposite. treated the first $1k like nothing. treated the third consecutive $1k like maybe. six months of consistent $1k+ was when it became real.

if you just hit your first big month, congrats, it’s hard. but don’t make decisions on it yet. see if you can do it again.

Ran a small subscription content business with my ex from 2022 to early 2024. She handled the product side, i handled everything else — customer acquisition, retention, billing, outreach. Learned most of it the hard way.

Biggest mistake i made for way too long was sending customer outreach based on when i had time to send it, not when customers were actually engaged.

Sounds stupid when i write it out but i’d batch out 30-40 outreach messages at like 2pm my time because that’s when i sat down to work. Conversion was ok. Not great.

Eventually i started actually looking at when individual customers were opening messages and replying. Turned out our top spenders were almost all late night, like 11pm to 2am their timezone. I’d been catching everyone at work or mid day when they were half paying attention.

Switched to sending in waves based on customer timezone and past engagement times. Conversion roughly doubled on the same messages. Nothing changed except when the message hit.

The broader lesson i wish i’d internalized sooner is that a lot of what we blame on product or copy is actually a timing problem. You can have the best offer in the world and it dies if it lands when the customer is distracted.

Couple other things i got wrong that might save someone time.

Treating every customer the same. Segmenting into new, active, lurking, and high-value changed everything. Different message, different tone, different offer. Took an afternoon to set up and changed our numbers within two weeks.

Sending the sales message cold. A throwaway check-in message the day before outperformed any hook or headline i tried. People don’t want to be sold to by a stranger, even a stranger they bought from last month.

Posting at the “peak hours” everyone talks about. Our actual best conversion window was 10-11am on weekdays, not the evening slots everyone assumes.

Anyway, curious what mistakes others made that took too long to catch. Feel like this sub is way more useful when people share the stuff that didn’t work.

Ran the backend for my ex from 2022 til early 2024. Reddit, chatting, ppv, all of it. She did content, I did everything else. Learned most of it the hard way.

Biggest mistake i made for way too long: i was sending PPVs based on when i had time to send them instead of when subs were actually active.

Sounds stupid when i write it out but i’d batch out 30-40 PPVs at like 2pm my time because that’s when i sat down to work. Conversion was ok. Not great.

I finally started actually looking at when individual subs were opening messages and replying. Turned out our top spenders were almost all late night, like 11pm to 2am their timezone. I’d been catching them at work or mid day when they were half paying attention.

Switched to sending PPVs in waves based on sub timezone and past open times. Conversion roughly doubled on the same content. Nothing changed except when the message hit.

The broader lesson i wish i’d internalized sooner: everything on this job is a timing problem disguised as a content problem. Posts, DMs, PPVs, mass messages. You can have the best content in the world and it dies if it lands when the sub is distracted.

Couple other things i got wrong that might save someone time.

Treating every sub the same. Segmenting into new, active, lurking, vip changed everything.

Sending the sales message cold. A throwaway “how was your week” the day before outperformed any hook i tried.

Posting on reddit at “peak hours” everyone talks about. Our best converting posts were usually 10 to 11am EST on weekdays, not the evening slots.

Anyway, curious what mistakes others made that took too long to catch. Feel like this sub is way more useful when people share the stuff that didn’t work 🖤