Um Life Pro Tips

Having collected numerous tips applicable to various aspects of everyday life, I registered the domain and began sending them out in an email list to friends and family.

A Life Pro Tip or "LPT" is a tip that improves your life in a meaningful way.

Some Life Pro Tip examples:

Shortly after lifeprotips.com was registered, I made the subreddit, /r/lifeprotips, as a cache to store the tips until the website launched.

From there, I submitted an ad to the self-serve system as reddit was offering it gratis at the time to moderators. I thought, why not -- so I made a crappy little advert and submitted it. From there, people started submitting their own tips amongst the initial seed list and it organically blossomed.

A few years later, the subreddit reached default status -- meaning all newly registered reddit users would be subscribed to Life Pro Tips by default.

Eventually, I was invited to the reddit offices to meet with some staff who were exploring the idea of creating short form video content from a select few subreddits including /r/todayilearned and /r/explainlikeimfive.

Around 2014, is when I launched the website. I set up a bot within the subreddit, to remove any non lifeprotips.com link-based submissions. This served two purposes:

1. Spread awareness of the newly launched website to the community.
2. Act as a filter for the majority of spam-ridden link submissions that were previously a point of contention on /r/lifeprotips and the reason why it was text-only.

Within a few hours, someone reported me to a trigger-happy reddit admin, who hastily removed me as a moderator from my subreddit and shadbowbanned my account.

The subreddit degraded into subjective "tips" and other worthless submissions without me at the helm.

In 2022, I rebuilt this website with a renewed focus in continuing my legacy of bringing useful tips to the masses.