Did you ask Claude to make your design futuristic? I sometimes get the same layout haha.

Pretty sure Clippy is trademarked. Had the same idea but did not go through with it because of the TM.

Correct.

https://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=90782096&caseSearchType=U...

Actually this says the trademark is pending them proving they are using it and they aren’t so they keep filing extensions. Also it’s limited in scope to word processing (at there is lots of back and forth with the trademark office about that)

The character is actually named Clippit. Although maybe MS trademarked Clippy after it became the more common name.

I seriously doubt Microsoft would enforce it for a non-commercial side project.

Trademarks have to actually be used to remain enforceable, I think. Not sure MS could claim Clippy after all this time, not that they might not try.

Three fact that it's not a product anymore doesn't mean it's unused; a quick search says they at a minimum used it in 2021: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/blog/2021/07/0...

Wow, had no idea. Like a bad penny.

Microsoft uses Clippy for the paperclip emoji in the Fluent Emoji set. The trademark is why the open source version of Fluent Emoji doesn't use Clippy's likeness.

I literally was working on something similar. Emphasis on `was` since you beat me to it! :D

Some many people these days seems to have a coin with Russia and China on each side, they flip it and then comment.

Well, I am Russian who has left the country for political reasons. I have some idea of what Russian government is capable of, and how critically they are interested in destabilizing the West.

Yeah, make sense

Have you ever occurred to you that it might be the other way around? There was always one monotheistic religion and God, but then things got sidetracked and people started making stuff up.

Also, Moon is relevant in Islam, as a calendar and timekeeping, nothing to be worshipped.

Also, All Monotheistic Religions have had fasting (the 3 big ones that survived so far) but again, the worst enemy of the people is their own selves and not the devil, and thus they modified what was given to them.

> There was always one monotheistic religion and God, but then things got sidetracked and people started making stuff up.

We know for a fact that this is false. For example, the Egyptians were building the pyramids and worshipping their gods at least a thousand year before any known monotheistic religion. The native people of Australia have even older polytheistic religions.

The ancient Egyptians were spectacularly insular and xenophobic, though. If anyone was going to make up their own belief system, probably out of spite, it's them.

What evidence there is specifically in this case suggests that the monotheistic middle eastern religions were derived from the evolution of a polytheistic belief system into a monotheistic one via a stopping-off point that acknowledged multiple deities, but consistently only worshipped one of them. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israelites and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahweh are worth a read, and there are several references to multiple gods in the Old Testament, often in the PAY NO ATTENTION TO THE OTHER GODS BEHIND THE CURTAIN sense rather than as direct callouts, as you'd expect.

So unless we might mean that the sidetracking happened before the archaeological record of Canaanite polytheism starts, it's not really tenable as a suggestion.

I do not say this to devalue or challenge anyone's beliefs today; just that ignoring facts has a tendency not to go well. The moral and personal value of religious belief need not, to my mind, lean on historical record for its validity.

Look into Zoroastrianism, the grand-daddy of monotheistic religions. About 1800 years before Islam. They didn't fast more than one day a year, if that.

"In Zoroastrianism or Mazdaism, however, fasting has been implicitly rejected throughout the faith’s history. Zoroastrian doctrine perceives no disjunction between spirit and matter along lines of good and evil; rather, it regards both as essential for achieving piety and both as susceptible to unrighteousness. Hence, Zoroastrians believe that the body should function as a means by which the soul can fight evil and regard any action that physically weakens the body as sinful. Moreover, sex is viewed as essential for procreation which brings more believers into the world. Standard or Young Avestan texts such as the Vidēvdād (Avesta, ed. Geldner, 3.33, 4.48, 7.70) emphasized that eating was essential for life, claimed consumption of meat enhanced spiritual perception, and suggested hunger and thirst caused much suffering. Pahlavi commentaries continued this anti-ascetic theme, stressing the notion of moderation or paymān between gluttony and privation in partaking of food, drink, and sex. Piety was said to result from not fretting about moderate consumption, and deviation from this mean was equated with concupiscence (Dēnkard, ed. Madan, pp. 267, 295)." https://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/fasting

Then Mani came along, introduced fasting. It was the main rival to Christianity before Islam came along. Both Islam and Christianity are heavily influenced by Mani and vice versa. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manichaeism

> Have you ever occurred to you that it might be the other way around? There was always one monotheistic religion and God, but then things got sidetracked and people started making stuff up.

After 30 years of trying, I'm pretty sure I can't believe any religion was ever true. It's literally all made up, and the only bits that survive are the unfalsifiable parts or rely on nostalgia or ignorance.

It. Was. A. Status. Symbol; Not. Any. More.

It shouldn't be a status symbol, but a useful utility instead.

Now it's neither. Worst of both worlds.

Only someone who is an idiot who doesn't understand how Twitter works thinks it was a status symbol.

Elon Musk thought it was a status symbol. See my first sentence.

Its purpose was to let tweet readers know they were reading a verified account. That's it.

Learning the Grammar of any language is, of course not very hard; the hard part is actually the speech, and the idioms of the language, its patterns and context as well. You can probably learn Korean grammar in a day, but may take you years to master the language, and the same applies to programming :)

Having attempted to learn Korean as a kid living in Korea (but in an English language community since we lived on base, didn't get true immersion), and later on as a teen/college student (using the grammar and dictionary I still had but can no longer find), programming is a breeze in comparison.

However, this crash course also teaches the basics of speaking.

Feedback:

The website, and idea seems interesting caught my attention, but I would say:

1. Like many have iterated, the website looks very busy.

2. The website layout and brand is good, but there is too much animations, and also UI is sometimes inconsistent.

3. Selldone as a name is not that interesting, but BusinessOS is very on point.

4. After going to the blog there was so much generic information that I didnt want to click on anywhere.

5. Pricing lists too many features, rather compress features into categories.

6. The animations are annoying, especially the navigation animations.

7. Cutting down on your customer target is better in the long-run. Focus on one or max two customer target, than focusing on everyone. You can't solve everyones problems, especially if you have not solved yours.

Also another thing.

If you want to target corporate customers, try not to post memes. If you want to target mom pop shop, then you maybe can do it, but don't over do it.

Hey Guy,

Thanks for your helpful feedback.I updated the site and removed or minimalized animations and layouts in these two days. (Add more spaces and remove navigation -scrolling animations)

Selldone = Sell + Done (Also has convenient pronunciation in middle-east and eastern-Asia)

+++ About the blog, can you give me any suggested topics?

About the pricing page, it's correct; we have a plan for it. +++ It's our a demo targeted landing page : https://selldone.com/business-ideas/kids-clothes

We have targeted sellers on social media and selldone fits for them (Instagram, Telegram, Facebook,...)

Yeah, the site is really overwhelming and slow. The animations are not subtle at all, they take attention away instead of guiding it, and they made my computer's fan to spin up.

Hey buddy thanks for the feedback you've provided. We will be updating and expanding our business based on the feedback of experts like you. This is a long cool journey.