Fil 🐶
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Fil 🐶
@BallinFil
DTC marketing tips from the trenches: lessons from launching an email agency & 2 brands: @drinkpearly & @societysocks. P&G Alum.














Another bear case on $SHOP Talked to a founder on @MentorPass yesterday who’s done ~$45M TTM and is projecting $100M+ run rate with an AI-first approach. Duo-channel business: - Native ads - Google Ads Zero Meta. Zero AppLovin. The reason he’s growing so fast? He’s not on Shopify. He runs everything on a Medusa-like headless solution built on Next.js (blanking on the exact name). His rationale was simple: 1/ Seamless plug-and-play with Claude 2/ Can spin up landing pages + localization insanely easily (he launches hundreds of products per month) 3/ Way more iterations, flexibility, and speed vs Shopify Cost wasn’t even the deciding factor (though it’s much cheaper than a full $SHOP stack). This is becoming the new normal. Pretty crazy to watch. If I had the courage I’d switch Linjer tomorrow — our catalog management and especially localization is an absolute nightmare on Shopify compared to what this guy had. But we're growing a lot this year and I don't want to disrupt the train.


My parents’ garage has its first sponsor. I’m no longer cooked.








