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Hakeemmidan

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I tried this:

hello,

I'm calling to tell you that we have found out that your insurance needs renewal. It would be of the utmost importance for you to renew it in order to avoid fees. Moreover, we'd like to offer you a 20% discount in order to continue our great partnership together.

Banana Insurance

And go this:

Hey,

Your insurance is expiring. Renew it or pay fees. We'll give you 20% off to keep milking you for cash.

Banana Insurance

Needless to say, it works.

Since you're talking about business specifically, then no it's not the best piece of advice imo. There are plenty wonderful things and works of art that nobody really wants to buy or pay money for.

You could make a really great website with a lot of cool animations, but if it serves no utility then people will probably not pay for it. Maybe a 1-month subscription or a one time payment to take a tour of the website, but that's probably going to be it. So it's not sustainable on the long-term, or in other words, it's probably not a good business.

"Make something people want" (YC's mantra) seems much more fitting for business intentions.

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Will tools like GPT-4 make frontend developers obsolete?

Add some horizontal padding to the page: 1. Right-click, 'inspect'

2. Click on the 'console' tab in the newly opened inspection pane

3. Paste the following into the input field:

document.getElementById('bodyContent').style = 'margin: 0 15%;'

4. Click 'Enter' or 'Return'

PS: This isn't permanent. Doing a page refresh gets rid of it.

The book "A Mind For Numbers" by Barbara Oakley highly praises memorization as a way of learning.

And from a personal perspective, it (memorization) has proved highly effective for my learning.

Your pricing seems way too low (in my opinion). Creating API docs is not very common, so your customers might not be that many. So you need to be more aggressive on pricing to stay sustainable. But I could be totally wrong.

Also, on an unrelated side note, SEO seems very important here (for public facing API docs), so I'd put some emphasis on that as well. Good search mechanisms are also of great help in API docs. So I'd try to knock that out of the park as well.