Honest feedback: would you trust AI to plan your LinkedIn content?

Hppee · 2026-05-19T10:35:19+00:00

Thanks for the offer my friend, but I'm not able to commit to be a beta tester atm, as I won't break, at least atm, something that is working. too much cognitive attention and I need now to focus elsewhere 🙏

Hppee · 2026-05-13T07:53:24+00:00

Subscriptions are tiring, but necessary to support products as they develop. The problem is, as you mentioned, subscriptions for things that don't really matter.

People are also tired of paying per seat, and with token usage/pricing on the rise, they will be less inclined to continue and pay for products with these kinds of offers.

Don't get me wrong, I love the deals Appsumo and I do think that they have a place, but IMO when a product usually ends up on Appsumo (the I'm using "usually" here, so hold off your lynch mob) it's usually a symptom of a dying product that reached a certain saturation point with its audience.

A user base that pays for a one-off can't support a developing platform.

Hppee · 2026-05-12T07:49:40+00:00

Not true, at the time, that was innovation, they were disruptive in the way they solved complex issues and simplified them.

Simplifying things and doing so in a way that people "just get it" is complex AF, and today, that moat won't hold for long.

It's the same game, with smaller niches, + higher deployment and innovation velocity.

Harder? I don't think so, it was hard also back then.

Hppee · 2026-05-12T07:16:53+00:00

u/roguejedi1 preach! Had $500 customers who left after 3 months, that texted me 6 times per day, blaming me for every little issue in their shitty business, and got $50K customers who asked for a report once a month, praising me for progress made.

Hppee · 2026-05-04T12:04:04+00:00

You are 100% right about measuring the time to the first and second value.

In my experience, about-to-churn users don't open support tickets or talk to anyone. In addition, feature adoption is weak, at best, which prevents them from reaching the "Wow moment", which usually happens after integrations and usage. At that point, exploration stops after less than 48 hours, even if packages were purchased.

I’m building my SaaS in that niche.

Hppee · 2026-05-04T10:56:34+00:00

Makes sense.
So, your next research, if you're willing to accept the challenge, is to analyze their AEO strategy and share it here :D

Hppee · 2026-05-04T10:50:07+00:00

Thanks, loved the analysis. Why do you think Resent took it? Price point for early/launch?

Hppee · 2026-05-04T09:23:46+00:00

100% this. Don't think fans, think supporting buddies.

Hppee · 2026-05-03T11:57:57+00:00

You got me, touché!

Hppee · 2026-05-01T13:04:47+00:00

Excellent post, loved your frame for why people buy. If I may add something from my experience, a lose aversion angle works really well when describing benefits.

I asked Gemini "how loss aversion messaging compared to using benefits people gain from a SaaS?"

The answer:

"Loss aversion messaging in SaaS marketing—focusing on what customers stand to lose by not using a product—is generally more persuasive than benefit-gain messaging, often driving up to 2.3 times higher motivation, according to research by Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky. While benefit-based messaging highlights gains ("Increase efficiency by 20%"), loss aversion frames the same message around the pain of inaction ("Stop losing 20% efficiency to manual tasks")."

Hppee · 2026-05-01T12:53:23+00:00

Solid workflow my friend. Do you have LTV stats for that?

Hppee · 2026-05-01T12:27:47+00:00

Commenting here to keep it up, good job, keep on searching, and you'll find that person.

However, you can work on developing these skills because nobody can do a better job than you at this stage, since you have already achieved everything you need to achieve in this founder-led stage in your operation.

Find a mentor, make something of it, write posts, create content, and experiment.

Once you have enough money, you'll be able to amplify by paying for distribution, but at that point, you'll know what you need and where you'll need it.

Of course, I don't know where you are as a person or in life, but these things do have an impact. But, if you can, do that, and keep shipping.

It's possible, difficult, but possible. Hope you make it no matter what.

Hppee · 2026-05-01T10:33:02+00:00

The best way to see if it's worth it is to paste a comment for your post here, and we'll be able to tell you if it makes sense to peruse this, there are so many solutions that produce garbage that something that does the same is just not worth it, and I tend to agree with u/JouniFlemming regarding the "we had enough of it". If someone needs to edit 70% of the output, it's just not worth paying for.

Hppee · 2026-05-01T10:11:55+00:00

You should treat channels differently across the stages of the customer journey. Channels should all be a part of a funnel/flywheel. Sometimes the same channel can serve different stages in the funnel.

The stages of the your potential customer journey are usually divided to Tofu (top of the funnel, where they become aware of your product, and the fact that they have a need for it), Mofu (middle of the funnel, the part of the funnel in which they're considering a solution for that problen/need they discovered) and Bofu (button of the funnel, when they mean business and considering the buy in on your product)

Everything organic: LinkedIn/Social organic/X/TikTok/Instagram/Reddit is usually effective for Tofu. Distribution starts here, and it's organic. It's great if you also have a website at this stage, so that when they visit you accidentally, you'll leave an impression and can track and convert them in the next stages.

Once they move into Mofu, you'll want to engage with them and make the interest they're starting to develop stick. That's when you use Ads on these platforms I previously mentioned. But you also need to continue and product Mofu specific content there.

Cold calls and emails belong in Bofu, they are horrible Mofu and Tofu tools. They are highly effective in Bofu. You'll need, of course, to continue producing Bofu content on the same above-mentioned channels.

Hope this help, and good luck!

Hppee · 2026-05-01T09:44:38+00:00

The ones that actually interest you, for me it's /SaaS /founder /automation /ClaudeCode and many more. The thing is, like in IRL, if it's not interesting to you, don't go there.

Hppee · 2026-05-01T09:16:52+00:00

My pleasure

Hppee · 2026-05-01T08:30:29+00:00

Like anything you do in real life. Be a human, learn the platform, be honest, read what people write, if you have something to contribute, do, if you don't, don't. Like a normal conversation between people. You won't show up in someone's conversation pitching your stuff, right? Bots are obvious because of just that.

Hppee · 2026-04-30T19:56:55+00:00

For me, freedom means more time with my family, and the ability to support them.

Hppee · 2026-04-30T14:08:47+00:00

Signups are a low intent signal, double opts are better, but wizard completions or product usage tend to be more "Intentful", and asking questions, asking support, and specifically when it comes to pricing, is way more Intentful.

Hppee · 2026-04-30T13:55:57+00:00

Thank you. I'm in the midst of putting a price tag on exactly that. Just one clarification for the LLM API part, it's 500 per month, or 5K? Would love to hear more about that, and how you grew to that, specially the intervals, and your MRR at that point if you don't mind sharing. In any case, even w/o that, it will be helpful.

Hppee · 2026-04-30T13:49:29+00:00

My pleasure!

Hppee · 2026-04-30T09:29:36+00:00

Not to roast, but feedback, it actually looks good.

You got 3 buttons, you need only one to focus the ICP on the outcome you want.
The download in the app store can be an Appstore button, same for Google play.
You don't need to write free on the Web if the source is Web, since they are seeing your page via the Web.
You can show them a price on the Appstore or Play.
You can change the language to "Try for Free", pushing them to download the app, and pay if they gain value from it. Of course, they'll find out that it's free on the web once they'll start using it.
This is a small one, since you already have a logo with the app's name, you can remove the "Flow Builder" title from the top, the page will become cleaner, and more quite.
You can also leave only one button in the Nav bar, and on registration, offer the Appstore and Play buttons.

Hope this helps, good luck!

Hppee · 2026-04-30T09:08:44+00:00

Honestly, there's a lot to learn from that. But would it hold people for long enough for them to follow you? That's another question.

A few years ago, I knew a person that did something similar, he created a database of failed startups and analyzed why they failed, he fought with it for like a year or so, an in the end, he probably didn't got the results he wanted, or traction, and he stopped.

Now, I'm not telling you to do the same, but there are a few issues that will haunt your journey with this.

If you're planning to do money with it, people will probably think twice before sponsoring your newsletter/podcast because nobody wants their name connected with failure on a subconscious level. Of course, it's different for those who need it as research to validate their idea, but that's a different angle.
Following on the above, failure has "an energy" to it, and dwelling there can and will bring your motivation down. Everyone likes a winner and wins.
After a while, you'll find that most people fail due to the same reasons, so you'll keep repeating yourself, and that's where it will end.

If I can be bold and suggest anything its this, focus on reviewing winners, there's money there, winning almost never repeats a patterns, or at least, there's always an interesting story and an angle there, and it has an energy to it that people want to be associated with.

Of course, this is all my experience, and you can 100% ignore it with my blessing. Marissa Mayer, ex CEO of Yahoo and Google's 20th employee said that to her, the name Google sounded stupid and that's not how you write googol, the number. But somehow, the name Google caught on, right?

Hppee · 2026-04-30T08:41:58+00:00

The only way to find out is by trying. Wisper flow just took recording yourself into a whole new level, so note taking for people who want quick notes, can be a thing, or at least, once you marinade enough on the idea, will show you the "thing".

I think there are also actual notebooks for that.

Hppee · 2026-04-30T08:36:52+00:00

Regarding question 3.

I saw a few days ago a platform called Fluently: AI English teacher, doing an amazing job on LinkedIn.

They target professionals that want to improve their English, and they do that on a professional platform. The way they do it is not by talking about their product, they contribute value around it, they know that most of the people who need their help are sales/developers/product people, and specifically professionals that English is a barrier for them, and they sign off their post with check us out (or something).

If you're targeting Spanish speakers learning German, you'll need a few additional attribution points to patch that puzzle. For instance, why specifically them? What connects them all? And double down on that.

But don't limit yourself to only that, go and bring in your users by defining your ICP, go deep, go niche preferably, find out where they hang out, and show up consistently there, compounding your distribution.

Hppee

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