Dark Culture
Platforms come and go. Email addresses are portable.
Instagram can delete your account tomorrow. TikTok can get banned. Twitter can change the algorithm and bury your reach. Every...
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tech
BTS
The WhatsApp architecture behind the brand
Before SMS lists, before email CRM, before any ticketing platform, the entire SLIST operation ran on WhatsApp. The community architecture...
Dark Culture
The serial optimizer: same brain, different domain
The pattern is locked in. Enter a domain. Learn the system deeply. Identify the inefficiencies. Build systems to fix them....
BTS
Creating funnels is my biggest passion
I said this to someone once, completely unprompted, and it is probably the most honest thing I have ever said...
Guides
The WordPress tech stack
Running an event brand on WordPress sounds like bringing a knife to a gunfight. Every other promoter is on Squarespace,...
Guides
Ticketing platform showdown
We have used four ticketing platforms across 37+ events. Each one taught us something about conversion rates, data ownership, audience...
Dark Culture
I taught myself everything with ChatGPT and spite
Four hundred and eleven conversations with an AI taught me more about running a business than any degree I almost...
BTS
Whoever controls the digital infrastructure controls the brand
In 2024, my co-founder tried to push me out of SLIST. He introduced voting structures I never agreed to. He...
BTS
Rave organizing feels more like a software project
I said this to myself somewhere around event number fifteen, after spending six hours debugging a ticket tracking spreadsheet at...
Shitposts
From shitpost blog to software company
SLIST started as a shitpost blog on Instagram. An anonymous account in Mexico City posting about which raves were good...