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Millions of laypersons a month search "convert (file type) to (file type) online" and just smack an AdWords embed on their site for it. Millions of people want a QR code's embedded link in their camera roll, without access to a camera that's pointing at it.

You'd be surprised how big the "(simple task) online" search query market is, and how much they are usually multi-visit monthly customers, and how much their ad space is worth.

I cannot stress this enough, just because it's simple does not mean it's not lucrative.




You should do it then.

Besides all of this is completely besides the point. This isnt useful for a programmer. These examples are barely useful for a layperson. And said layperson is paying money and time for this.


I have, that's how I'm telling you the way you can, too.


Any way or intention to prove that? Wheres you "convert (filetype) project"?

Not to attack you but from your profile it sounds more like your the typical marketing grifter talking big. Why is none of those projects in the list you mention there?

Looking deeper you got lots of projects with parts of your websites just broken and seem to be peddling what looks like life insurance scams.


Some of my projects are public, most are private. The ones that will typically do me better in people networking and/or will bolster my portfolio, are the ones I share publicly. For most of my projects, private is the default. With a profile like yours, I'm sure you can understand.

Sure, there's probably more projects of mine, over the years, that are more broken than not. I've cast several wide nets for product creations and iterations over the years, and kept maintaining the more "fittest" of the bunch. Billit's probably the only one that's broken AND I have no control over it; I sold it. I don't know what else to tell you here, perhaps you value a lesser repertoire with higher rigidity?

I'm not sure how to address your pre-conceived notions that a single industry I've worked in, at large, is a scam. Also, the one company mentioned in life insurance doesn't have a backlink on Lead EnGen - so I especially don't know what you're talking about when you say "peddling".


The goal posts keep shifting. It's so obvious to anyone who's paid attention to this space for a few years.


Except my goalposts never shifted. And my point stands, these are extremely trivial examples.


Goalposts shift; growth is critical to being (staying?) an intelligent species.


> You'd be surprised how big the "(simple task) online" search query market is, and how much they are usually multi-visit monthly customers, and how much their ad space is worth.

Not surprised at all; my inability to find examples of /how/ someone might get an LLM to produce—or even intelligently collaborate on—something useful, well… it says a lot about how much junk is out there contributing to the noise.




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