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ga4 says 912 users, plausible says 1,430 visitors, my database says 274 signups - which number do i plan with

They're measuring different things and neither is wrong. One counts distinct people over a period after applying its own identity logic; the other counts visits, and a visit is not a person. Before reconciling anything, make sure you're comparing users to users and not users to sessions - that alone explains a big chunk of gaps this size.

The rest is blockers, consent banners, and one script loading before the other. You will never close it fully. Pick one and never switch, because your decisions depend on the trend, not the level.

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consulting pays $6.2k a month, the product makes $210 - how do people actually taper without falling off a cliff

Nine months into the same situation so no crossing story yet, but one thing helped more than expected: I moved all client work onto three fixed days and made those days genuinely unavailable for the product, and the other two genuinely unavailable for clients.

Before that, everything bled into everything and I did about four real hours of product work a week while feeling busy constantly. Same total hours, roughly triple the output, and the clients haven't noticed or cared which days I work.

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