That's wild. I literally just launched https://pestpro.app and find this extremely fascinating.

AI slop - you've sent me the same message on linkedin and you vibe coded that two minutes ago.

I wasn't sure you'd see the comment here (didn't know you posted it yourself). Was just trying to connect to learn from you.

Really quite disturbing that you can now generate this kind of slop in minutes.

https://pestpro.app/blog/

Let's be honest here, why did you generate this just now, are you hoping for work building mobile apps, or are you sincerely expecting to run a pest control SaaS business with AI generated blog posts and a download link that doesn't work?

You've done the incredibly easy bit (making a prototype), do you intend to do the hard work of building a business over 10+ years?

On top of the app store link not working, the privacy and terms links also 404.

Also why is it free? Presumably the data is the product.

yeah, apple still has to review it... hence the broken link

Agreed, reaction from OP is concerning to say the least

thanks

FWIW didn't mean to hurt/insult(?)

If you click on "download button" which should open the link to the App Store you will notice that is a broken link. This is why is ai slop.

Spinning a web like that today is 30 minutes of Claude Code prompting.

But like it or not, the gatekeeping of Apple and Google means that pushing an app to their stores is days work and wait time.

So yeah, reeks of ai slop.

apple still needs to review it. That's why I said "literally just now".

Still working on it, happy to give free credits for feedback!

Somehow I thought it would have been lesss...

I am also surprised it's so low (the number who haven't read). I would have expected 3 in 5 or even 4 in 5 americans to have not read a single book in 2025. I wonder if these stats include "tried to finish a book (and failed)" rather than actual completion stats.

Maybe it's 1 readers, 2 honest people, and 2 people who preferred to lie than confess they didn't read a single book.

Parents reading books to kids, students reading books for classes, and people who end up reading at least one book a year for work (many teachers or professors, for instance) set a fairly-high lower bound on this.

Much of the rest is people who exclusively read very easy books from one or two genres (“romance”, true crime, airport thriller/mystery, young-adult fantasy, and self-help/business-guru, mostly). That’s especially going to dominate the shelves of the set of folks with books-read counts far higher than one per year. Whether that crowd counts much toward a measure of the exercise of quality, general literacy, is a judgement call, but those readers are the engine of what little remains of the market for new books.

(There’s a niche market that’s commercially viable that involves books laser-focused at being optioned for TV or movies, but it’s as cliquish as you’d expect and hard to break into, and of course other genres still support a tiny number of super-stars)

The project is using PurpleAir data.

Footer should say "Data from PurpleAir API" instead of "Data from SF Microclimates API"...

Meetings aren’t a scale problem, they’re a clarity problem dressed up as collaboration.

When execs dominate decisions, it’s usually because the org failed to make customer truth unavoidable.

Most process exists to protect careers, not outcomes.

Understanding why something exists doesn’t make it justified or effective.

I always had fail2ban but a while back I wanted to set up something juicier...

.htaccess diverts suspicious paths (e.g., /.git, /wp-login) to decoy.php and forces decoy.zip downloads (10GB), so scanners hitting common “secret” files never touch real content and get stuck downloading a huge dummy archive.

decoy.php mimics whatever sensitive file was requested by endless streaming of fake config/log/SQL data, keeping bots busy while revealing nothing.

Google API was not matching url for permission. fixed, thanks!

No fix seen on my end

should be now, thx

fudge, thx for spotting that. was imported from a different project. shouldn't be there. Also have an error in the conditional

Devil's Advocate: isn't selling making people believe they do want your product and are willing to pay for it? The vast majority of sales people are (mostly) paid on commissions.

For me, I don't come up with them, they come to me. The trick is letting them find me. Do stuff you like, hang out with people, go places.