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Let Us Guess What Your Business Does by Your Name Only!?

Drop the name or link to your business and others have to guess what it is just by the name.

NO CHEATING!!

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      When a specific stock (stock market) reaches a specific price.

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      Tells you when your favorite Costco item is back in stock.

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      Tells you when paid stock images/video are on sale.

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      Chicken plucking as a service?

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      Learn to play the guitar?

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      I'm scared to find out... xD

      I don't wanna know!!!

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    pulltherope ?😉

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      Some kind of mobile game?

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      MATE NO IDEA HERE lol

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      Camping supplies for gamers

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        haha, the gamer part is correct

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      Lighters marketed towards gamers? ;)

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      Provides resources and community for people to build a meaningful career.

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    Dogger. Oh God please don't try to guess. It's slang for something awkward and there's only a chance you'll know if you're a developer 😂

    Also Pull Dog, but that one's just impossible.

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      Collate all the BBC Shipping Forecast so you can listen to them as you drift off to sleep even if you don't stay up until 1am.

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        haha, this is such a niche answer - I hear you though! 🙌

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      A website that shows the best way to perform doggy style?

      Enter your details like weight, age, and gender and it will show you the safest way to do that sex position? Am I close?

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        I told you the name would bring bad associations with it! 😂

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      The frogger game but with a dog

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      Shows how users interact on a website?

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        Not bad. Fairly close.

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      Ranking most-loved video games

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        Kinda 😁 it's about reviewing your favorite games. Maybe we should also add a ranking feature!

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      Different landing pages ready-made? lmao

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        hahaha! Nice.. So am I supposed to share what it is? We are still building it tho

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      Endorsing legal forms?

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      How do you prevent someone from just copying the source code from the demo page?

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        We dont, this is just a demo site. To test product market fit.

        Go ahead and get them.

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        That's actually close. How did you come up with that?

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          The "list" in your name gave it away a lil

          Just check you guys out and I'm actually very impressed, I like what you guys are making

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        That is Correct !!

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          WHO WOULD HAVE GUESSED!>!?!?!?!?!?! xD

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            LOL !! yeah .. very tricky to get that one right :P

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      tool/platform to design fonts

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      Newsletter service?

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      tool for fonts/fontmanagement

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      a pub that only opens at midnight, for an hour

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        That's actually pretty accurate :D

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          wow haha I didn't expect that

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      a website with html snippets that have to use at least 80% divs

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      Sanctuary for Startups? ;)

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      A safe place for founders to cry on the shoulders of other founders 😂

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        😂 love this guess. Not quite, although I'm sure there are plenty of founders who need this. Potential pivot opportunity.

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      No-code form dev tool

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      Integrating forms into an existing workflow

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      Forms where next question depends on previous answer

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    The Driving Bureau
    DriverMetrix

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      write letters online, and they are printed locally and then sent within a day

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        I really hope that's right

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      An app to help improve yourself through daily habits/routines/goals etc..?

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      Improve your lifestyle app

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      An app for actors and stand up comedians!

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      An app to help you practice improv bits

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      Once a quarter newsletter about development topics?

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        an in-depth, quarterly analysis of the dev market that also happens to be part of the newsletter so yes :)

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      Sending people into quarantine

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        Oooo I can think of several people who I want to put behind ba-- I mean, quarantify. :)

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        Not the main idea behind it but could be arranged I guess 🙂

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      Some quarantine calculator / statistics

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      Upload images or documents to be watermarked

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      Add watermarks to docs?

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        Not yet for docs :)

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    My 3 current businesses:
    PressTitan
    SearchEmbassy
    UnitedDentists

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      That's easy: Medium-clone, search engine for embassies, website for dentists

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      A badass iron, encyclopedia of embassy info & special deals for dentists who fly United Airlines

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      its like fiverr, but more expensive

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        This would be Fiftyy

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          Underrated reply lmaoooo

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        I like the way you think - but nope 😊

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      A site for generating 50 shades of various colors

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        it actually generates 50 shades of gray fanfiction.

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      some gadget to fiddle in your hand

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        Ooh so close 🙌 just missing an "L" there

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      Board games created from motherboards

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        you mean "Mother-board games" 😂

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      First thought was something in the mobile connectivity space

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    Sessionbase.com
    Leaving without further comment

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      One master session to control all subsequent sessions

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      Session storage solution? Maybe a managed Redis-like store with some out of the box APIs to integrate with?

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        Hah, really interesting perspective actually. Actual product is 100x less technical

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      Pokemon virtual reality? ;)

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          That's the best thing I've ever seen

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    Market Your Purpose

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      plugin to enhance Google mail

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      Anyone wants to guess my name?

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    Not possible to guess mine 😂 Striking Digital

    Brand name was chosen as it had high rank on SEO (only it gives 0 traffic on SEO)

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      Showcasing your skills

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        Oh god. that's what it should have been.

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      Free audio meditations that magically balance your company budget in 3 minutes a day - added benefit: mental peace!

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      Submit your budget to be critiqued by experts

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      Personal finance app

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      Social network for sharing your homemade ales

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      Destroying old files

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      Platform to work remotely with developers

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      Marketplace for remote developers

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      Online dating from home?

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        :) that's funny. https://meetfromhome.io - this is what we do

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      AI-powered version control file merging

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      Some sort of code merging helper..?

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        Pretty much. It's a platform for reviewing and merging pull requests. The help is in all of the features we provide developers.

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      Fan site for finding the nearest Gap stores

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        Lol, I thought I would get 'need gap insurance' type response.

        Anyways it's a problem validation platform - https://www.needgap.com.

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      Resize tool for favicons

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      Pay people to write your reference letters

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    Not business but side hustle.

    https://hashtag.rocks

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      Use AI to find out which hashtag to use in your post to maximize clicks

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        close! but no AI good old good developer intuition :D

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      Find domains that are up for sale

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      Achievement tracking of some sort

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        Much closer than I expected!

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      Design your own kite shipped to your home.

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        No, but the name is very misguiding if you don't know what it is 😆 www.kitemaker.co

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          @SigKILL, do you know what keepsy.app does? Thanks

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            Keep information that my loved ones can access when I die?

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              You already knew? That was easy.

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          Time to make a domain name change? ;-)

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            We like the name, and I don't think every domain needs to be descriptive :)

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      Newsletter about bees?

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      Resources for PMs?

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      Simple backup of your PC or mobile?

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      A no-code solution for building MVPs on the web

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        Sorry no, it’s actually a place to buy easy to use HTML themes.

        Yeah the name is a bit tough 😅

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      Exercise for your brain

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      I've actually used the app! Maybe I shouldn't spoil it.

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      A captcha that doesn’t drive people crazy.

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      A captcha that doesn't feed AIs with the responses

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      Project manager that breaks things into bite-sized tasks

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        I mean it's not very far 😁

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      An adventure travel company with excursions that include tourist destinations, challenges and building an app along the way - filmed as a reality TV show, of course.

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      A community for people building apps to share their journeys

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      Competitor to Adobe Creative Suite

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      Video editing platform?

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      A creative platform for people to adapt to? (Sorry I’m really bad at this 😅)

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      Buy oranges and apples direct to your home?

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      Get paid for work? 😂

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        You got it right. Just bought the domain and started working on tech. The idea is to create a payment solution mainly focused on freelancers for easy payments.
        Hey I am currently selling app templates as well. Check them out here: https://bit.ly/my_GR_store
        If you are interested in collaborating for selling more templates feel free to reply .

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          Oh Sick. Following for GetPaid!

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          Yeah sure that would be great! - BuildFaster.co

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            Hey I sent you an email please check. BTW: The themes are amazing👌👌👌

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    • mambix
    • Rocinante Systems
    • enhandsglove
    • enmes
    • letsproxy
    • deb2img
      :D
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      An app that keeps your desktop clean

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        Closer! (has to do with the browser)

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      A project managment tool?

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      Compete in fitness challenges

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      PvP but with workout sessions

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        hahah actually true :D

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      A way for people to show off how strong they are?

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        close enough, but it's about motivation

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      health tracking app with a cute mascot named Bobo? :D

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          Bobo means sleep in Indonesian language :) and sleep is the key to your health!

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            That's so cool, never heard of that before haha. Might have to add that to my landing page in the future.

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      Haha very hard really, sounds like you have a website builder

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        I know its hard :)

        Yes. Thats a powerful website builder to build websites using Google Sheets.

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      Like a gallery of meetups around the globle?

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        Nice idea... but no!

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      Some kind of video chatting software?

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        Close - realtime collaboration for meetings.

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      Share your job and people guess how much you get paid?

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      Attempts to return geolocation from web request?

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        Haha, I am roasted. I thought of the same when I bought the domain, but the idea is about tracking where you are in your self learning journey.

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      Feature request app for your startup?

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        @mangooly you got it right! its more of feature request/feedback management tool.

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      I submit my page and you will tell me how improve it?

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        @m121 No... not like that. basically my app helps you collect , manage & prioritize feedback in simple way to know what to build next.

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      A travel website?

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        eh... very far from that))

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      Damn I think I already have seen your project before, but i don’t remember..

      Software to “spread” the word, like branding or marketing maybe?

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        Marketing is correct yes! - Content marketing to be specific

        Congrats mate I count that as close enough! haha

        I'm so happy you've seen me before lol

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      Appify your spreadsheets?

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        Lmao love it but nowhere near xD

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      Pay someone else to manage your fantasy team

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