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ARCHIVED DEMOTIVATION
FRIDAY, 14 JULY 1989
Your startup is an app that replaces a phone call.
With a waitlist, a subscription, and no customers.
— Zack, unqualified
VERIFIEDUNHELPFUL
PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- You said "my For You page knows me so well". It knows you're awake…
- Passive income takes a surprising amount of active effort. Mostly explaining it at parties…
- Monday motivation is a myth. Like the Loch Ness Monster, a clean office microwave,…
- Your banking app pauses slightly before opening. It's deciding how to tell you.
- You're "manifesting abundance". The only thing abundant is your payment reminders.
- It's not a career ladder. It's a hamster wheel. The hamster has a LinkedIn…
- Opposites attract. Then they argue about the thermostat for forty years. Whoever outlives the…
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