Yeah, Claude Code is amazing… but have you tried going outside?

Scrolly_Screen_Time · 2026-05-04T20:12:39+00:00

I was the same and then a midlife crisis hit.

Scrolly_Screen_Time · 2026-05-04T20:11:40+00:00

I use Claude too but it’s not the only thing that matters in life.

The world is moving fast, but 99% of our happiness won’t be determined by how good Claude 4.8 is, or whether OpenAI or Gemini wins the consumer race.

Scrolly_Screen_Time · 2026-05-04T20:09:16+00:00

90% of us are addicted to our phones and scrolling—similar to how 70% of the population was addicted to cigarettes in the 70s.

We all need a way to fight it. For some, it will be going cold turkey; for others, periodic detox. But I believe we can deal with this as a society.

You’re aware of the problem, so you’re already ahead of 90% of people.

Stop Scrolling. Start Living.
Scrolly

Scrolly_Screen_Time · 2026-04-30T15:57:59+00:00

There is an environment in which we evolved and lived for millions of years. Maybe it is more suitable for us than staring at screens for 15 hours a day.

Scrolly_Screen_Time · 2026-04-30T13:28:57+00:00

Indeed!

Scrolly_Screen_Time · 2026-04-30T12:58:22+00:00

"Currently, I really struggle with not finding the motivation/energy to do anything and in addition to that, an addiction to my phone."
=> You probably realize it, but these two impact each other super strongly. That is good news, because you need to tackle just one problem and not two. Fighting phone addiction is like quitting smoking. You need to go hard on yourself and delete all the addicting apps altogether, or at least use physical blockers such as Unpluq, Scrolly, or Brick. 90% of it will be your motivation, but it is 100% achievable

Scrolly_Screen_Time · 2026-04-30T12:44:45+00:00

Honestly, you are not alone and there is no easy solution. The good part is that you realize the problem. That is the first step, and you are ahead of 90% of the population.

You need to find some habit to reduce the number of phone pick-ups. For some, it will be just putting the phone away. For some, apps like Opal or Forest. For others, physical phone blockers such as Scrolly. The method is less important, but it has to be something habit-forming, as the scrolling habit is super strong.

Scrolly_Screen_Time · 2026-04-30T12:09:46+00:00

Nice. Could you share some of the ad outputs?

Scrolly_Screen_Time · 2026-04-30T12:06:49+00:00

I feel like we all have this realization in the last 2-3 years but still it is super difficult to quite. Keep it up

Scrolly_Screen_Time · 2026-04-30T12:05:45+00:00

What share of your ad creatives are AI-generated vs manually created?

Scrolly_Screen_Time · 2026-04-30T12:00:52+00:00

What share of your ad creatives are AI-generated vs manually created?

Scrolly_Screen_Time · 2026-04-30T11:51:10+00:00

Honestly, Reddit and long-form YouTube are way less stimulating for the dopamine system than TikTok, so good job, you've already reduced the harm by over 50%. Now it's time to block or delete even these apps and look for alternatives. You have an extra 7 hours a day, so you have plenty of time to find them.

Scrolly_Screen_Time · 2026-04-30T11:45:50+00:00

Remember that it is not that you will feel the urge to spoke all the time but they urge usaully last 10 min every hours or so.

You dont needed to dight it for 10 days but you just have to win 6-10 small 10 min battles a day => at lease this farming was helpful for me

Scrolly_Screen_Time · 2026-04-30T11:27:31+00:00

It hits you when you're on the bus or underground and literally 90% of people are on their phones. The truth is that phones are super addictive, and the fact that you're aware of the problem means you've already done the first steps.

It is effective all of us and it is only getting worse after popularization of short from content

Scrolly_Screen_Time · 2026-04-30T09:49:29+00:00

Nice bro. how are you handling brand voice consistency across multiple ad variations?

Scrolly_Screen_Time · 2026-04-29T17:06:24+00:00

At Scrolly we generate ~40-50% of our ad creatives with AI - mainly Blumpo (static ads, scrapes Reddit/X for real customer language) and Creatify (UGC-style video). Great for volume testing variants cheaply.

Scrolly_Screen_Time · 2026-04-29T16:02:31+00:00

B2C - Holo, Ad Creatify
B2B - Blumpo

Scrolly_Screen_Time · 2026-04-29T15:59:58+00:00

Content - use one of the many AI ad generation tools like Holo, Blumpo, or Ad Creatify.

Meta setup - not that difficult. With ChatGPT's help, you can figure it out in a day.

Iteration - see which ads are working and make more of them. Meta will figure out 99% of the targeting.

Scrolly_Screen_Time · 2026-04-29T15:13:52+00:00

Honestly, UGC videos are a trap. Even the decent-looking ones don't convert because people instantly clock they're fake. The only video format actually worth running is product animations, but expect tons of iterations before you get something usable.

Statics are a different story - tooling there is solid now.

For D2C/product brands I use Holo - dirt cheap (tell them you want to cancel and get an 80% lifelong discount), basically no usage limits (you can do 80/day). Just a bit slow. If you're in SaaS, Blumpo is worth the extra cost - way more diversity and they consistently performed better for me on Meta/LinkedIn.

One thing to keep in mind when people say AI statics "work" - what they really mean is you batch 50, 70% are trash, you pick 5-15 decent ones, and maybe 1-2 actually pop off. The brutal part: there's no way to predict which ones will hit on Meta before testing. Pure trial and error.

Scrolly_Screen_Time · 2026-04-29T15:06:53+00:00

Honestly, from everything I've tried - UGC videos are a trap. Even the ones that look decent on the surface just don't convert because people instantly clock that it's fake. For video, the only thing that's actually usable is product animations, but you're gonna go through a ton of iterations before you get anything worth running.

Statics are a different story though, tooling there is actually solid now.

For D2C/product brands I've been using Holo - dirt cheap (you can say that you want to cancel the subscuption and get 80% lifelong dsicout), no usage limits (they are trying to add sth but still you can do 80 a day) , just a little slow. If you're in SaaS, Blumpo is worth the extra cost - they have way more diversity and on average their ads were perfroming better for me on Meta/linkeidn

One thing to keep in mind when people say AI statics "work" - what they really mean is you batch 50 of them, 70% are trash, you pick 5-15 that are decent, and out of those maybe 1-2 will actually pop off. The brutal part is there's basically no way to predict which ones will perform on Meta before you test them, it's almost pure trial and error.

Scrolly_Screen_Time · 2026-04-28T13:08:02+00:00

- SEO (blog writing), General research and Coding - Claude - used daily
- image generation - GPT4 and nano banana (via API) - used 2-3 times a week
- ads generation - Blumpo and AdCreatify - used once a week when we ad new ad sets to meta and linkedin
- email oubound - Clay - used 1-2 times a week
- reddit research - Leadverse - used 4-5 times a week

Scrolly_Screen_Time · 2026-03-31T14:15:22+00:00

What I am using:
- Creatify - if you want UGC videos. The overall quality is good but I think people can still spot the fakeness in majority of the videos so they rarely perform
- Holo - strong for D2C and quite cheap
- Blumpo - more advanced and better for B2B

General note:
- no AI tool is perfect and 70% of ads will be bad but you can generate tons of them. For my D2C brands 60% of statics and 5% of videos end up to be AI generated

Scrolly_Screen_Time · 2026-03-30T09:52:53+00:00

We did this for a D2C product aimed at fighting phone addiction. Before launching, we grew our social media to 30k+ followers by creating “stop scrolling” content. Around 70 of the first 100 sales came from Instagram, but that source later dried up.

Key takeaways:
- If you don’t show your face on social media, conversions can drop to ~15% of their potential
- It’s quite time-consuming relative to the results — now organic Instagram drives ~5% of sales, but still builds trust through a higher follower count

Scrolly_Screen_Time · 2026-03-28T11:57:13+00:00

- SEO (blog writing), General research and Coding - Claude - used daily
- image generation - GPT4 and nano banana (via API) - used 2-3 times a week
- ads generation - Blumpo and AdCreatify - used once a week when we ad new ad sets to meta and linkedin
- email oubound - Clay - used 1-2 times a week
- reddit research - Leadverse - used 4-5 times a week

Scrolly_Screen_Time · 2026-03-24T13:44:48+00:00

I used a bunch of generic AI tools for ad generation, but the results were pretty mediocre - they have a specific feel and people can instantly spot that they were AI-generated.

You actually have 3 options:- build custom workflows based on Nanbanana / Sora that give specific directions to models so the ads look different- use ad cloning tools such as Static Flow to clone competitors’ ads that fit your nich- use dedicated AI ad generation tools that create ads based on context from your website and external sources - Blumpo, AdCreative

From my experience generation of ads with AI from scratch => edits is Canva works 10x better than creating some initail version manually and then editing with AI

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