PickFu Reviews

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PickFu mentions (3)

• Is my 2nd book destined to fail?

  Thanks for your kind words on the first book. I initially intended to name it "Balanced As F*ck" to even target a more specific niche (namely, "Psychology & Self Help Humor") But AMS profanity policies stopped me. So, it kinda ended up being too generic I guess. Maybe I should have gone for "The Tao of Personality". The problem with testing pickfu.com is you never quite get sales forecast. More people prefer a... Source: over 2 years ago

• Changing book subtitle, without changing the cover design?

  I did not have much success with my first non-fiction book and I partially attribute it to my choice of subtitle, even though I had positive pickfu.com results that seemed to favor it. Source: over 2 years ago

• Hey, I'd like your thoughts on the Amazon page of my self help book

  The book's original title was Balanced As F*ck to compete in the Psychology & Self Help Humor genre against Mark Manson and Jen Sincero. But after I found out that I can't promote a book with profanity on the title, I've changed the name to this more generic one (Still had a pickfu.com poll that showed some preference for the title). Source: about 3 years ago

Embedly mentions (13)

• Automod remove videos less than 1second long?

  You can see what kinds of properties you can see for media - I fed the URL of a video into embed.ly as that document suggested, but none of the fields returned gave me a video length... You may want to try with one of the images posted to your sub and see what properties you get. Maybe there's something else in the metadata you can search for that is common across the short videos. Source: 6 months ago

• Embedding videos on reddit

  Some people report success with getting approved by https://embed.ly/, others report that service never responded to them. Source: 11 months ago

• free-for.dev

  Embed.ly — Provides APIs for embedding media in a webpage, responsive image scaling, extracting elements from a webpage. Free for up to 5,000 URLs/month at 15 requests/second. - Source: dev.to / over 1 year ago

• How to ban specific YouTube links?

  Use https://embed.ly to extract the MEDIA_AUTHoR or MEDIA_AUTHOR_URL from the link and add it to either of the 2 rules below. Source: over 1 year ago

• How does Reddit embed “unavailable” Youtube videos? (example included)

  If you pull up that script, it references "cdn.embedly.com", a third-party content delivery network. See their home page at https://embed.ly/. Source: almost 2 years ago