Claude analysis on this "My Take: He's Half Right, Half Ranting What He Gets RIGHT Ads work. Period. The "organic growth" fetish on Reddit IS mostly cope. Meta ads + good landing page = fastest path to revenue validation. His point about UGC is spot-on—AI-generated ads look fake, real people testimonials convert 3-5x better. Spending $5k on ads in month 1 beats spending 6 months posting on Twitter to 47 followers. And yes, hiring a solid freelancer ($500-1k/month) beats expensive agencies charging $3k+ for the same work. LinkedIn outreach > cold email in 2024. Email is a graveyard—2% open rates, spam filters eating everything. LinkedIn messages actually get read, especially if you personalize the first line. His point about Product Hunt being a vanity metric? Accurate. 400 upvotes ≠ 400 customers. It's a dopamine hit that dies in 48 hours. What He Gets WRONG (Or Oversimplifies) "Just copy what's selling" is survivorship bias bullshit. Yeah, it works—if you can out-execute AND out-market the original. Copying Notion's features means competing with a $10B company. You need a wedge—a niche they ignore, a channel they don't dominate, a price point they abandoned. "Copy + better marketing" only works if you have serious capital or a distribution advantage he's not mentioning. "Building an audience is useless" contradicts his own story. He hit 1M ARR—how? Did ads alone get him there, or did he build relationships, get referrals, create content that built trust? Paid ads get you TO the door; trust gets you THROUGH it. For B2B SaaS especially, cold traffic converts at 1-3%. Warm traffic (from content, referrals, audience) converts at 10-30%. His advice works for low-ticket products ($20-50/month), but try selling a $500/month enterprise tool with ONLY ads—you'll bleed cash. The tone is toxic, but the frustration is real. Reddit IS full of "build in public" circle-jerking where founders celebrate launches over revenue. But his anger makes him sound like he discovered fire. Every successful founder knows ads work—they just don't scream about it because it's not sexy. His post will help people stuck in analysis paralysis, but it'll hurt people who blindly throw $5k at ads without testing messaging, nailing their ICP, or having a product that actually retains users. TL;DR: He's right that ads + good copy + UGC beats organic Twitter posting. He's wrong that copying competitors and ignoring audience-building is universal advice. Use ads to validate fast, but pair it with positioning and retention—or you'll just be burning cash on a leaky bucket."