There's nothing wrong with the name cold brew. It describes the difference from "standard" coffee. It is the charlatans selling warm brew over ice that devalue it.
As someone that greatly prefers coffee brewed cold and served on ice, I hope it doesn't fade away, because without it I have a lot less reason to get coffee out as opposed to at home.
There shouldn’t be a problem with the name, but my experience tells me that people don’t comprehend it the majority of the time, and assume incorrectly that cold brewed must be served cold. This mentality is even here in this thread in a few places. It does seem like some other word than “cold” might help avoid leading people into an erroneous conclusion.
Yeah I greatly enjoy cold brew too. But it's too easy for people working these stands to just take any old coffee that's cold (or even just "not hot) and call it "cold brew." Far too often people just don't know the difference and serve plain iced coffee.
If it were called something else, maybe there wouldn't be this level of confusion, or people couldn't get away with the cheap/lazy way of just serving yesterday's leftover hot coffee as "cold brew."
Yeah, but some new tech became very relevant over time.
Examples include Unicode in NT 3.5, asynchronous I/O in NT 4, multi-CPU support in Win2k (become mainstream after hyperthreading and especially multicore CPUs), 3D GPU for desktop compositor in Vista (people universally hated the hardware requirement, but over time we got pretty fast 3D GPUs even inside low-end processors).
Sadly, it seems they stopped implementing awesome new stuff after Windows 7.
I spam all the buttons on any pump to attempt to mute it, and like you have had success with top right, or second from top on the right having the highest success. In my area, I'm only about 1/4 in being able to mute it, but when it works, usually top right.
No. They charge a yearly fee for their "nitro" product which offers some perks in any server you're in. Each server can setup their own perks (emoji, reactions l, user name color, etc) for nitro users that join.
You also get sitewide access to emojis/stickers from other servers, for the $2.99/mo Basic plan. For $9.99/mo you get profile customization, HD video streaming, and 500MB uploads.
Decent perks for an eye-watering price, and you don’t even get encrypted messages to boot.
I don't have the answer, but have been seeking it for a long time myself. Heard the same advise you got, make a community, join communities, post on twitter/reddit. As you said it just feels like fake advise.
As best I can tell, success in those efdorts is equal parts luck, wit, and having something unique yet relatable.
> Heard the same advise you got, make a community, join communities, post on twitter/reddit. As you said it just feels like fake advise.
It feels fake to let people know what you're working on by writing about it? That's what you and the parent are de facto saying.
How else do you expect them to find you?
There is no possible way around it. You have to tell people what you're doing. Repeatedly. You have to cultivate an interest in your thing. If one can't be bothered with that bare minimum building block, well, there obviously will be no successful outcome. It's definitely not build it and they will come (they don't know it exists until you show them). Give them a reason to care, cultivate interest, and they'll show up.
It's a chicken and egg problem. If you post, nobody will see it because nobody knows who you are. So you have to spend a long time "engaging" or "networking" with a community you didn't really want to join in the first place just to make enough of a name for yourself so that someday when you have something to say, a few people will listen.
I'm too busy making stuff and hanging out with my real friends to go be fake with people just to market to them in the future.
I guess you could try to make as many games as possible, quickly, and hope that one hits just right, and then focus on it and make it better fast.
I think this is why most people work in companies; there are tasks that need to be done to sell a product that we don’t want to do.
I mean, Dwarf Fortress was like the ultimate “good game, tiny community” example and even they had two dudes working on it, IIRC one of whom seemed to spend quite a bit of time dealing with the community. And despite making every game designer’s favorite game, they still had to hire a publisher in the end…
It is 'fake' in a way - you don't truly want to make/join these communities or post about this on twitter/reddit. If these communities really interested you, you'd already be a part of them. There are communities where the people have known each other for years and you're going to step into their forum, make your one post, annoy them, and move on. I personally wouldn't want to be that guy, but this is just what marketing is.
When you say passive web page, do you mean a simple .htm file with no php (or other) server side language? Or do you mean it's fully managed by PayPal using a gui/admin portal?
Nothing that requires my own server. At the simplest, someone can just send me the amount of my price, and I send them their stuff. Otherwise, PP can create button code that I insert into my html.
If I could insert trustworthy code such as javascript into my page, that executes on the user's computer, that would be a fine compromise.
I'm not anti-tech, but I feel that spinning up my own server (even on a cloud computing instance) would be a lot of complexity for my tiny business. I don't even know where to begin, should I want to secure such a server. I'm a good programmer, but have not done that kind of work before. I also don't trust my own skills to protect my users' security.
Finalizing the transaction does occur at PayPal's site.
You can let someone pay you via PayPal without them needing a PayPal account (they can use credit card) and without you needing a web page. PayPal has a feature where you can create a payment link and email it to someone.
As someone that greatly prefers coffee brewed cold and served on ice, I hope it doesn't fade away, because without it I have a lot less reason to get coffee out as opposed to at home.