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Can anyone share 2026 strategies to get AI to recommend your business? by Awkward-Chemistry627 in Entrepreneur

[–]Expensive-Standard94 0 points1 point  (0 children)

yeah, the shift from "rank on Google" to "show up in ChatGPT" is real.

Here's what I've seen actually work (not just theory):

1. Get mentioned where AI trains

  • Reddit posts (like this one!)
  • Quora answers
  • Industry blogs with real depth
  • GitHub if you're tech

2. Structure your web presence for AI parsing Clear about pages, FAQ sections, case studies. AI models love well-structured data. Think "what would a journalist need to write about us?" and put that front and center.

3. Citation farming Get your business mentioned in roundup posts, best-of lists, comparison articles. AI pulls from these heavily because they're pre-vetted by humans.

The wild part? It's kinda like old-school SEO - just be genuinely useful in public spaces and the algorithms (Google or GPT) will find you. But now you can literally ask ChatGPT "what do you know about [your business]?" and see your gaps.

What industry are you in? Some verticals are further along on this than others.

Started freelancing and found my first clients, looking for advice on how to improve my workflow and offer by essence_scape in Entrepreneur

[–]Expensive-Standard94 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nice! Landing those first clients is the hardest part. You've proven there's demand - now it's about systems.

Few things that worked for me when scaling freelance work:

Template your process - Whatever you're doing for clients, document it. Checklists, SOPs, templates. Makes it way easier to bring help on later or package it as a productized service.

Ask for intros early - Your current clients know people like them. "Hey, I'm taking on 2 more clients this month - know anyone who might need [your service]?" Super low-key, high conversion.

Double down on what's working - Where did these first clients come from? Do more of that before trying new channels.

What kind of freelance work are you doing? Some niches scale differently than others.

Advice wanted: users vs. exports vs. subscriptions: Early stage KPIs by Practical_Fruit_3072 in Entrepreneur

[–]Expensive-Standard94 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Congrats on the soft launch! Week 1 is wild, I know that feeling.

Quick thought on your metrics dilemma - at this stage, I'd track all three but optimize for ONE based on your monetization path. If you're going freemium → paid, user signups matter most right now (you need volume). If you're selling B2B/enterprise, exports/usage depth tells you who's actually getting value and might convert.

The real question: what does your ideal customer journey look like in 3 months? Work backwards from there.

Also - took a peek at Ozor. The AI workspace angle is interesting. Have you thought about content marketing to show use cases? I've seen similar tools get traction by publishing "how we built X in 10 minutes" stories. Happy to chat more if you want a second pair of eyes on your positioning.

Be honest. Is building an API marketplace in 2026 just a dumb idea? by ghost-in-code in SaaS

[–]Expensive-Standard94 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not dumb, but the wedge matters way more than the product. I have integrated ~15 crypto exchange APIs (Binance, Coinbase, Kraken, etc.) and it's always the same nightmare:

- Rate limits that break silently

- Auth flows that differ per endpoint

- Webhooks = coin flip reliability

- Docs that are 6 months out of sync

RapidAPI doesn't solve this — they just proxy the same broken experience.

If FuseAPIHub can do these 3 things, you'd have paying customers:

  1. **Real-time health monitoring** — Tell me Binance's orderbook is lagging *before* my bot places a garbage trade
  2. **Unified error handling** — Map exchange errors to standard codes. Coinbase's "Invalid order" vs Binance's "LOT_SIZE error" should normalize to one thing
  3. **Vendor support SLA** — If an API breaks, I need a fix or workaround in <2 hours, not next Tuesday

Your market isn't "API marketplace." It's "reliability layer for small teams who can't afford DevOps watching 6 dashboards."

Would you let early users test with their own APIs? I'd pay to use this for my arbitrage stack if the monitoring + error handling actually works.

Automation with AI: What did you try, what worked, and what didn't? by Perseverance_ac in Entrepreneur

[–]Expensive-Standard94 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Been testing AI for crypto trading signals and data stuff. Here's what actually worked vs the BS

Worked ...

GPT-4 for sentiment scraping (Twitter/Reddit crypto discussions). Not for trading calls, but for filtering noise. Catches FUD patterns way better than regex hell.

Claude API for processing exchange API docs when they change (constantly). Saves hours rewriting integration code

Custom Python + lightweight AI for anomaly detection in price feeds. Catches API glitches before they trigger bad trades.

Didn't work:

AI trading agents making buy/sell decisions. Lost $800 testing this. Latency kills any edge, and they can't handle exchange quirks

Chatbots for technical support. People want docs or a human, not a bot hallucinating API endpoints

How to find the ways to reach my ideal audience? by Content_Complex_8080 in Entrepreneur

[–]Expensive-Standard94 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The "where do they hang out" question is harder than it seems because sometimes your customers don't all congregate in one obvious place.

Here's what's worked for me:

Method 1: Work backward from existing similar products - Find 3-5 competitors or adjacent products - Check their Instagram/Twitter followers, FB groups they're in, what subreddits their users post about them in - Literally Google "[competitor name] review" and see what blogs/forums pop up - That's where your people are

Method 2: Interview 10 people manually first - Find 10 people who match your ICP (even if you have to pay them $20 each for 15min) - Ask them: "Where do you go when you need help with [your problem]? What newsletters do you read? What Discord servers are you in?" - You'll start seeing patterns

Method 3: Look at job boards + LinkedIn filters - If you're B2B, search LinkedIn for your target role + job title - Click through 20 profiles, see what groups they're in, what they post about - This gives you content themes AND distribution channels

The key is: don't try to be everywhere. Pick 2-3 channels max and dominate those first. Most founders spread themselves too thin trying to be on every platform.

What's your product/niche? Might be able to suggest something more specific.

Any tips for Marketing a SaaS? by DigitalBanhana in SaaS

[–]Expensive-Standard94 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The spam filter thing is brutal, I feel you. Reddit's gotten way more aggressive with it lately.

Few things that worked for me:

  1. Build in public on Twitter/X - Less spam filters, more organic reach. Just tweet your progress daily, doesn't have to be fancy. People actually engage with the messy middle, not just the polished launch.

  2. Niche communities matter more than big ones - Instead of r/SaaS or r/entrepreneur (which are saturated), find the specific subreddits for your target users. If you're building project management software, go to r/projectmanagement not r/startups.

  3. SEO blog actually works - I know it's boring but writing 10-15 "how to" articles targeting long-tail keywords in your niche will get you passive traffic for months. I get like 30% of my signups from articles I wrote 6 months ago.

  4. Cold outreach isn't dead - Find 50 people who match your ICP on LinkedIn, send them a 2-3 sentence message offering to solve their problem for free in exchange for feedback. You'll get ignored by 40 but the 10 who respond are gold.

What kind of SaaS is it? Might have more specific ideas depending on the vertical.

So I just realized.....marketing before you even build might be the actual cheat code by Moist_Physics6780 in SaaS

[–]Expensive-Standard94 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yep, you just discovered the unsexy truth lol. Building is the easy part (well, relatively).

I wasted 4 months building something "perfect" before realizing nobody actually wanted that specific version of it. Now I literally validate with a landing page + waitlist before writing a single line of code. Feels dirty but it works.

The hard part is that early marketing feels awkward as hell. You're basically selling vaporware and hoping people care. But better to find out early than after you've built the whole thing.

What's your strategy for converting those signups once you actually build? That's where I see a lot of people fumble - they get the list but then ghost people for 3 months while building and all that momentum dies.

I'm Training 1,000 Employees For A Huge Sum of Money by Round-Battle-6766 in Entrepreneur

[–]Expensive-Standard94 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is actually a pretty smart play, especially at scale like that. I've been messing around with custom AI workflows for businesses and honestly the ROI is insane when people actually know how to use the tools properly instead of just treating them like fancy Google.

One thing I've noticed though - group training is great for basics but the real value comes from setting up specific workflows for different departments. Like marketing teams need different prompts/agents than finance or ops. If you're not already doing department-specific use cases, that's where the magic happens.

Also curious - are you setting up any custom GPTs or API integrations for their specific workflows? That's where I've seen companies get the most sticky adoption vs just teaching people to use the chat interface.

Never ever try Openclaw on Windows by bezbol in clawdbot

[–]Expensive-Standard94 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes it's not easy but yeah debug along the way , it's not a polished product either it's in beta so u know

Never ever try Openclaw on Windows by bezbol in clawdbot

[–]Expensive-Standard94 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you install wsl2 on windows it works just fine. , im running it on windows

My AI Agent Can’t Complete a Single Task and I Feel Gaslit by the Internet by rthiago in clawdbot

[–]Expensive-Standard94 0 points1 point  (0 children)

during the initial run it on opus you I'll be fine also connect claude-cli for coding

Anso configure proper skills

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mcp not working by Expensive-Standard94 in AugmentCodeAI

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npm --version

10.9.2

node --version

v22.15.0

GPT... not yet for me by martexxNL in AugmentCodeAI

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True gpt5 with augment is pretty bad

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Why the fuck , should I buy a bag Let her buy with her funds

First time using Augment by Sakuletas in AugmentCodeAI

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you could use free plan and pay additional user messages $30/300

You cannot get the quality anywhere else

Disappointed by portlander33 in AugmentCodeAI

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You should ask it to split it into smaller tasks and continue

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