🚨 EXPOSING NOSTRA. AI 🚨
We have exposed some pretty nasty grifts in this space, but Nostra reigns supreme above all others (by a fair margin).
Since we have >30 min video and an intensive Notion document (linked at the very bottom of this post) I am going to just highlight
Have you watched the
@SteveBartlettSC
interview of
@garyvee
yet?
I have been watching Gary for what feels like 10 years, since the WLTV days…
Never have I seen such depth and emotion from him… and he’s a deep, emotional dude!
Enjoy.
@awilkinson
Oh Andrew, I got you here.
I have about 100 hours of research into this and I’ve sussed out the best protocol. TLDR; topical finasteride <.5% sol. + topical minoxidil 5% sol. + a few other interventions
Shall I expand in the comments or send you a DM with links to buy in CAD?
@AnthonyVicino
At least 2 trusted dog-watchers for the pup-parents here.
Knowing that I can go somewhere on relatively short notice and my children are well taken care of is worth WHATEVER they want to charge me.
Also, therapist.
Also, business/performance coach.
🚨 Exposing the biggest scam in the site speed optimization industry 🚨
If you are a
@Shopify
storeowner, or run a marketing agency that hires developers to do site speed optimization for your Shopify clients... You need to watch this, or at the very least, continue reading.
🧵
Obviously
@zillowgonewild
has never started an old fashioned backyard chicken breeding business.
All the true OG backyard chicken breeders know how sick this setup is.
🚨YET ANOTHER nasty scam in the site speed optimization world!
This one is WAY more complex that your standard grift, so I brought some heavy backup.
Join me and
@0x15f
as we completely destroy an app that is stealing hundreds/thousands a MONTH from whoever downloads it, while
🚨 Here's one of the sneakiest cloaking scams being used by fake
@Shopify
site speed developers.
It's called the "Very Large Image" hack, but I prefer
"Largest Contenful Scam"
Before we start, HUGE shoutout to
@ganacontrol
for showing me this on a call yesterday. This will
@therealRoShow
I hope this is a joke, because sentiments like this are what stop people from sharing their journey in public and potentially inspiring others to do the same.
Very pleased to announce that The Nice Agency has joined forces with
@EchelonnPtyLtd
as their exclusive
@Shopify
site speed partners!
@blvckledge
and the Echelonn team are absolute savages in the Google/YT ads realm and I can't wait to help our clients grow together!
2024 is
@ChrisWillx
I'm not a huge fan of TT but I must say, there are a lot of valuable creators on the platform.. you just need to look in the right areas :)
@jakobwhte
Howdy 🤠
I’m Lukas- I own The Nice Agency, a Shopify site speed optimization agency.
I also like to expose scams in the site speed space on my profile 👀
Growth on this platform is exponential… it’s wild!
I was at 700 like 2 days ago.
Just keep showing up and providing real value or at least make someone laugh…
We’re so damn early.
wow... that was fast... The Nice Agency is hiring!
I'm looking for hard-working, ethical
@Shopify
developers who know Shopify site speed inside and out.
With our rapid growth, our small team is at 80% capacity, which may as well be 100% in my mind.
1 position open
Listening to the
@myfirstmilpod
where
@awilkinson
talks about shooting his shot with bigger players.
Reminds me that Andrew and I have had a lunch scheduled 3 times that has been cancelled/moved 3 times 🥲
I gotta rebook and take shot
#4
!
Funny story.
I was in the running to be an enterprise account executive for
@ShopifyPlus
like 6 or 7 years ago.
I made it all the way to the final hiring stage, which was quite the accomplishment in itself. No less than 20 separate calls with the recruited and different team
@sweatystartup
I love most of your takes, Nick.. but this one is offfff.
Unless you're trolling again here.
Finasteride/Dutasteride/Minoxidil all work for the vast majority of recipients.
Further, if you get a hair transplant, the only way to keep the hair is to continually use fin/min or
VERY excited to announce that The Nice Agency has partnered with LA-based apparel brand !!!
This is huge for a young agency like Nice, marking the first (of many) marquee clients we have partnered with.
They have brought us on for the full 1-year
Basically, what the man is saying, is to just ACT.
You’ll learn more than any book by just flailing.
Be brutally honest with yourself and ask if you’re hiding behind the inevitable work… the endless work… by reading another book or taking another course.
Do.
The harsh truth is that there's someone 3x dumber than you but with 2x your results.
Because they put the lessons of 1 book into action instead of reading 27 more.
And I get it, it feels good to say you read a book a week and show off the bookshelf of trendy books you've read
Not surprised to see that has had an insane influx of site speed audit/quote requests .
What do ya know?! Do ethical work and call out bad actors…. people can’t wait to work with you!
Wild strategy! 😅
Anyone looking at get real optimizations done to
The inaugural crypto thread on this new page - what better topic could I choose, than to break down
@GigaMartNFT
Let's talk about:
- What is it?
- What makes it special?
- Why is it needed?
- Why will it inevitably become the
#1
NFT marketplace
Let's pull the 🧵
My weekly reminder 🙂
IF SOMEONE PROMISED TO GET YOUR MOBILE PERFORMANCE SCORE ON YOUR SHOPIFY STORE INTO THE 90'S, THERE IS A 99.999% CHANCE YOU'VE BEEN SCAMMED. THEY JUST TOOK YOUR MONEY, INJECTED A CLOCKING SCRIPT INTO YOUR CODE AND COLLECTED THEIR 5 STAR REVIEW.
Am I the only guy here who has no desire to bulk up?
I want to stay fast and agile and light.
I want immense mobility and dexterity.
I want soul-crushing endurance.
Anyone else?
“bUt i dOnT kNoW wHaT tO wRiTE aBoUt”
Bruh… it’s 2023.
So many roadblocks from even just a year ago are now gone.
It’s never been easier.
0 excuses remain.
Sent out an early release post on our next investigation to some of the smartest/most reputable
@shopify
devs in the space.
Feedback like this doesn’t shock me but it’s still nice to hear 😌
Video dropping tomorrow 👀
@therealRoShow
Yeahhhh I have to disagree there. I’m not a public builder (yet) but I own a 7-figure business and even though I’m down to help share my story in hopes of inspiring/educating even one person… I’m not going to open my company books entirely, that’s just not the play. You can
Just shot my shot with
@SeanEcom
to do site speed optimizations for Ridge.
I know we can make a pretty big positive impact to their performance. Would be HUGE to lock down such an epic client at this stage.
Never be scared of shooting your shot. You just better be damn sure
@sweatystartup
Then you simply don’t deserve to drink a 20yr Pappy, I’m sad to say.
ANY true bourbon fan knows that a 20yr Pappy Van has to be with regular coke, 1 half lime (cut in two) and 3 cubes minimum.
Use the caffeine high to message your overseas workers at night! Win/Win!
@rrhoover
Oh man, easy.
Climbing! Specifically bouldering.
I’m a lifelong athlete and gym addict. I’ve tried or competed in nearly every sport and nothing has come close to bouldering.
It’s physical problem solving. The community is the best. It’s humbling and gratifying.
Get it!
Seeing an amazing amount of inbound traction after I started exposing all these ridiculous site speed scams, including a lot of agencies who were paying fiverr devs to do 'site speed optimizations' for their clients and were unknowingly getting totally fleeced 👀
I don't think
Man I swear I was at 500 followers like 3 days ago…
The number flies up when you don’t care about it and just focus on being a helpful, positive human.
Wild theory.
Coming out later today with another video showing yet ANOTHER site speed scam running on
@Shopify
This one is a Shopify app stealing >$500/month from their clients (victims) that
@0x15f
and I are currently in the process of getting shut down entirely.
The craziest thing is,
I feel both humbled and deeply empowered by the immense growth of this account and my business in just the past 2 weeks.
I’m not joking when I say we will be the
#1
@Shopify
site speed agency in the world.
I really don’t think it will be too long.
I am learning, growing, and
This is Etsuro Sotoo.
He is the Chief Sculptor for La Sagrada Familia, the unfinished basilica that Antoni Gaudi started building in 1882.
While working as an art professor in Kyoto, Sotoo visited Barcelona in 1978 and was so awed by Sagrada Familia that he moved to Spain and
@sweatystartup
@canyon_bikes
Aeroad CF SLX
$12,000 after shipping/duties/upgrades and kit.
What a machine. The adventures and gains in health it gives me are worth 6 figures, easy.
Listen, guys…
For everyone kind of shocked or confused or angry about this… I want to help paint the picture a bit more clearly.
@agazdecki
clearly is trying to say, in the nicest and most empathetic way possible:
‘Yeah, guys, trust us… we’ve tried the other way. The
I really appreciate this feedback
@levelsio
.
Thanks for being candid.
Sorry you had a bad experience with us.
How can we do better?
We definitely aren’t perfect.
But feedback like yours helps!
Found 5 very large brands that are being scammed by various site speed cloaking tactics today, and it's not even breakfast time yet!
@0x15f
and I are an absolute PROBLEM for these scammers 😂
We're literally coming for all of you.
I’ll say it again (and again, and again)
If any person or ‘revolutionary AI SaaS’ anyone else says they can get the mobile performance score on your Shopify store to 85+
You are being scammed. Don’t let these cretins anywhere near your .liquid
I don’t care if it’s hustle culture or whatever tf but man I love working all day every day, split up with gym, climbing, a run, some food, and walkies with my pups.
That’s it.
7 days a week.
For the foreseeable future.
Wouldn’t change a single thing.
I’m not messing around with my SOP’s for The Nice Agency…
Each square has its own set of instructions embedded as well.
No matter what choice is made by any lead, it’s mapped out here with clear instructions on what to log in the CRM and what actions to take next.
Anyone
Not only did
@harleyf
respond to me, a little 200 follower page… he did it within minutes! He didn’t even know I own a business that runs on Shopify at 5-7m a year 😅 treat the janitor the same as the CEO!
A Startup Story.
Episode 2 - Phase 1
Back home in Vancouver and it’s time to discuss the plan.
We’ve established that although on the surface, I’m the co-founder of a fast-growing retail/ecom brand, I’m simply not happy, and it is time to exit my current role and go off on my
Nuclear fears from North Korea, the precipice of WW3, new airborne diseases forming, aliens are apparently very real and apparently very evil demonic beings.
I’m just trying to make everyone’s Shopify site faster 🥲
The more people in the site speed optimization space I speak with, the more I realize my agency is criminally underpriced right now.
Changing to a different pricing structure that is less confusing and secures a more consistent flow of MRR.
I love this game so much.
The Nice Agency is HIRING (again)
Developers and Operations People looking for work, continue reading below!
We are growing at an insane rate and with some of the partnerships/investments we have lined up for Q1, the growth is likely to become even more parabolic very soon.
@teovito
It’s ok, woke up today to realize I lost $35,000 (and counting) by selling a crypto I said I wouldn’t sell but did.
BUT got a notification of a nice invoice being paid and 3 new inquiries for my agency! Haha
It’s a sign to not pay attention to crypto and just quadruple down on
I genuinely feel bad for the people who have somehow been convinced that what we caught Nostra doing is anything other than pure grift.
Every single developer you ask to take a look at this (who’s not on the Nostra payroll) will immediately tell you what we caught Nostra doing
You know a founder is full of shit when they spend over half their “defense” touting their team/investors/advisors.
If you talk to any experienced
@Shopify
developer who's not on the Nostra payroll, they'll tell you the truth about what's happening here.
Ahhhh that feeling when you sold one decent crypto coin for another coin during the depths of the bear and now that decent coin bag is worth $35,000 currently 🥲
Luckily I’ve been in crypto since 2017 so I’m dull to this pain.
I learned from my father at a very young age:
You can do something wrong for 50 years and think you’re doing it right, when in reality, you’ve mastered failing at it.
I'm going to be posting a video exposing the unbelievably massive scale of scams that are ongoing in the 'site speed agency' world.
Simply put, 99% of the developers, agencies, and 'groundbreaking AI technologies' out there are knowingly scamming you.
Excited to share more
@drewfallon12
My guess is they have income flowing in from tertiary sources and this is noble, but ultimately misleading to some extent. Could be wrong!
Sheeeesh the response to my “I’m hiring” post was way more than expected!
I’m going to sit down and go through all the messages later today.
Thanks to everyone for sharing and everyone for taking the time to reach out!
@isvictoriousss
@sweatystartup
I wouldn’t dare to comment on this with actual conviction. I have NO clue what raising a human is like. I’d imagine it’s harder in every way, though 😅
This happened before we exposed Nostra for being absolute sketchybois… we will have to run it back!
Still, some great conversations on here about cloaking as a whole. Very much going to be worth a watch!
Tomorrow's pod with
@igobylukas
may break some things.
It's GUARANTEED to hurt some feelings
Okay, a lot of feelings are about to be hurt
But let's not talk about "driving traffic" without talking about "site speed"
And let's not talk about "site speed" without talking about
t-minus a few minutes before I drop a 17 min video exposing the massive, largely unknown scam running rampant in the site speed optimization industry 👀
Hahahaha why YES we are dropping the next video very soon.
I’m flattered beyond belief 😅
This came from a very well respected builder in the
@shopify
space, too!
Genuinely JUST getting started with our content. It’s going to be hard to top what we have up next, though. Stay
@GaristoMichael
Create a succinct plan for the next 5 years.
Break it down into each year.
Break the first year down into months.
Create task lists and SOPs for the monthly tasks.
Execute consistently.
Just got off a nearly 1 hour long call with
@0x15f
and OH MAN are we on the verge of uncovering some very very verrrrry interesting stuff going on in the
@Shopify
site speed world.
Going FULL
@coffeebreak_YT
here. It’s literally at a scale that he could do a video about this 😅
Every time I get a DM from a fitness account asking me if I need their help to achieve my fitness goals, I send them this and ask them if maybe I can help them instead 😅