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The simple guide to improving cold email deliverability. 1. Ten cold emails per mailbox per day. Instantly will happily let you set 25 or 30. Don't. Reputation is scored on the domain, so every mailbox on it shares the damage. 2. Twenty-five…

Three messages every business quietly ignores after 6pm: 1. "Are you open tomorrow?" 2. "How much for…?" 3. "Can I book in?" Each one is a customer. And each usually goes to whoever answers first. An AI receptionist answers all three instantly,…

Humanoid robots are currently cleaning your living room. Most people see a cool robot. I see the acceleration of utility. We are moving from screens that tell us what to do to machines that simply do it for us. The shift from…

A warmup score dip is usually one of three things: you're running a live campaign on the same mailbox too soon (within the first two weeks), your DNS records (SPF/DKIM/DMARC) aren't fully set up, or warmup just stopped sending for a bit,…

Cold copy is dying. This is what's replacing it. Instantly's 2026 Benchmark Report put the average cold email reply rate at 3.43%. Down from 8.5% in 2019. And when you track all the way to a closed deal, Reachoutly's 2025 data puts…

You can't even reply to leads without upgrading to Hyper Growth to use their Unibox. Getting your inbox passwords out is deliberately painful, and when you finally do, the Unibox blocks the app passwords Google sends so you still can't access your…

I recently built an AI receptionist for a dental clinic — and it doesn't just answer questions, it actually runs the front desk. Here's what it handles, start to finish: 🦷 Greets visitors and answers questions naturally, like a real receptionist would…

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Local-first systems: what every expert frontend engineer should understand Your app works perfectly. Then the user gets on a plane. Or your API has a bad day. Local-first asks a simple question: why is the network in the critical path at all?…

We are officially living in the age of total absurdity. A graphing calculator running AI is the peak of human ingenuity and procrastination. It reminds me that complexity is often just a mask for boredom. We spend hours building the tool but…

Stop turning your database into a notification service. One of the biggest mistakes I see developers make is constantly querying the database to check if something has changed. “Any new orders?” “Any new messages?” “Did the payment go through?” Multiply that by…