🎧Enhanced Concentration
And launching a slow-dating website
You’re seating at a table inside a cute coffee shop in Melbourne, enjoying forty minutes of intense concentration. This one works best if you set the volume to the minimum.
Ramblings
The slow-dating trend
I started my first business during lockdown — it was an online matchmaking website for queer folks in NYC. I carefully matched each profile with another and arranged a Zoom date. Being a matchmaker was fun, but it was a very demanding side-hustle, and I shut the site down within three weeks.
There’s a newsletter that does a similar job (for free) on Substack, and I thought it would be fun to share. “Slow-dating” seems to be a thing again. Once and Hinge are both slow-dating apps that work very well. The concept is increasingly popular, as millennials and Gen Z are getting tired of meaningless online dating apps.
Launch on Product Hunt
I found a short and to-the-point guide to help you successfully launch a product on Product Hunt. If you’re creating anything that can be experienced online (whether it’s a newsletter, an app, a game), Product Hunt is a great way to get some traction.
What are you working on at the moment?
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Make your own drink
Today, let’s make the combo I always order in coffee shops: a fresh-squeezed orange juice and a Philly bagel. This meal never fails to brighten my day, and it’s a healthy option for lunch AND breakfast.
The orange juice is the easiest thing to prepare: you just need to buy oranges and squeeze them. Some people like to add lemon as well.
For the Philly bagel, you’ll need to toast a bagel, cut it in half, spread Philadelphia cheese on both sides, add avocado, salad, onions, and smoked salmon. It’s the tastiest bagel of all.
Enjoy! 🥪
— Alicia
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Thanks for all this. It's appreciated. :)
Re. Product Hunt - if any fellow newsletter-writers are reading this, newsletters count as "products" too and you can promote yours over there! Here's an example of a really great newsletter doing it: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/tedium-2
As for what I'm working on? I'm currently up very late (it's past midnight here in Scotland) doing reading for a piece I'm writing for my own Substack about pareidolia: our tendency to see human faces in the most random things. It's fascinating, but the coffee I had around 6pm is definitely wearing off, so either I (a) go to bed or (b) have another small one and resign myself to being awake for a few more hours. It's a choose-your-own-adventure nailbiter...