Why social media marketing is broken — and most brands are doing it wrong 🎉 1M views.❤️ 100K likes.📲 10K shares. Your video “blew up.” Congrats.But here’s the real question: Did it drive revenue? Or just dopamine? ⚠️ The obsession with virality is killing real marketing You’re not building an audience. You’re entertaining one — […]
Why building your entire brand on a third-party platform is dangerous 📦 Your entire store.💳 Your checkout.📧 Your customer data.📱 Your analytics.🧾 Your revenue. All of it depends on Shopify’s servers, policies, pricing, and roadmap. You’re not self-hosting a business — you’re renting one. And the landlord can change the rules anytime. ⚠️ Here’s what […]
The platform’s real business model isn’t subscriptions — it’s upsells 💬 You want reviews on your store?→ Install an app.💬 Want BOGO promotions?→ Install an app.💬 Want better SEO tools, advanced analytics, or upsell funnels?→ You guessed it: install an app. Shopify’s App Store is less of a marketplace — and more of a crutch […]
Here’s a controversial post about Shopify, calling out the growing concern that Shopify is becoming too locked-down and too expensive — shifting away from its roots as a developer-friendly, flexible e-commerce platform into a tightly controlled ecosystem. 🔒 Shopify Wants Your Store — And Your Freedom How the “easiest” e-commerce platform is becoming the most […]
Speed is great — until no one knows what they built or how to fix it 🎯 Drag.🧩 Drop.🚀 Launch. Everyone’s building websites faster than ever with page builders like Elementor, WPBakery, Divi, Bricks, and Oxygen. But beneath the surface?🚫 No version control.🚫 No understanding of the WordPress loop.🚫 No idea how to debug when […]
The hidden price of building on the world’s “cheapest” CMS 🧾 WordPress.org homepage: “Free and open-source.”🎯 Client pitch deck: “Low-cost development.”🙌 Everyone agrees: WordPress saves money. But does it? Let’s break it down. 🧨 The real cost of a “free” WordPress site: Suddenly your “free” WordPress site costs more than Shopify or Webflow — with […]
How WordPress turned an entire generation of developers into copy-pasters Need a form?Plugin.Need a slider?Plugin.Need SEO, security, caching, GDPR, social buttons, popups, analytics, and custom post types? Plugins. Plugins. Plugins. Building with WordPress today often means stitching together 30+ plugins and hoping nothing explodes. 🤯 WordPress turned convenience into a crutch WordPress isn’t low-code. It’s […]
How front-end dev is becoming a popularity contest instead of a craft 🧱 HTML, CSS, and JS used to be enough.Now? You need to choose between: And next month? Something even newer. ⚠️ We’re not building websites — we’re collecting badges It’s no longer about solving problems — it’s about staying relevant in the hype […]
How modern management tools are becoming the new corporate theater 🛠 18 dashboards.📆 7 daily standups.📊 3 progress reports.🧩 Kanban boards, Gantt charts, roadmaps, workflows, tags, sprints, and timelines. But somehow…💣 Deadlines are missed.💬 Communication is broken.😮💨 The team is burned out. Welcome to Project Management Theater — where everything is tracked, and nothing gets […]
Why ignoring accessibility is the biggest failure in modern web development 🎨 The site looks stunning.✨ Animations everywhere.📦 Fancy components from 5 different UI libraries. But… 🛑 Can’t tab through inputs.🛑 Screen readers can’t interpret it.🛑 Color contrast fails every WCAG test.🛑 <div>s everywhere — no semantic structure. It’s not a website. It’s a visual […]
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