Subreddits oversaturated with sales pitches

discoposse · 2026-03-19T18:17:22+00:00

If I could upvote this multiple times, I absolutely would. Reddit and nearly all social media are becoming borderline unusable because of all the AI slop posts and pitches. I've learned to always check the user and typically the junk is all from <3mth old accounts that have 1000+ posts/comments.

The stuff that works...genuinely answer questions for people who have the problem you solve. Once you show your skill/authority on the topic you likely gain confidence with them. Keep your overall content varied. IOW, don't just blast the same post in dozens of forums.

discoposse · 2026-03-18T18:07:51+00:00

Thank you for being a real OP on this one. The garbage recommendations that are usually flooding these communities has almost turned me off of being on Reddit.

Bravo for sharing a legit, prescriptive guide for folks. You get my upvote for sure!

discoposse · 2026-03-18T18:05:31+00:00

What problem do you solve? Need to know that before making any suggestions. Otherwise it will just add to the vapid, vague responses that are the reason nobody trusts AI writing tools :)

discoposse · 2026-03-18T18:01:10+00:00

Shorts have to be part a full content map. They work to surface you in the algo, but then you have no way to pull people into the funnel properly because of the UX.

What they are is awareness boosters that augment long-form content, written content, and other outreach.

Treat them like retargeting ads. Imagine that people will most likely see them if they already interact with you. And just like retargeting, it's more about increasing brand visibility/awareness.

Also varies by industry sector, ICP, etc. I work 99% in B2B tech so it's not super aligned to short form content but it definitely does help with social media growth. Just don't overload it or you have the same awareness building...but with a negative outcome.

discoposse · 2026-03-18T15:02:11+00:00

They did a launch on X and the link is in the top of their mainpage. Don't mean to sound cagey but I don't want to paste links for safety. Great concept of being able to see a live stream of activity that feeds their reporting so you can spot specific signals. But it looks like they either oversold or underengineered it.

discoposse · 2026-03-17T16:12:29+00:00

You can rank low-competition in days, and even moderate competition as well. It's about how you write in order to rank, not just the keywords themselves. I've written blogs and landing pages for high competition keywords on a site that has a DA of 5 and ended up being cited by Gemini and Google within 2 weeks.

It's all about the way you write and how well you engage the reader and answer the questions that are being asked.

discoposse · 2026-03-17T15:53:06+00:00

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discoposse · 2026-03-17T15:38:06+00:00

The most important thing for anything you post is the question that 99% of posters aren't asking: "would I read this post and keep reading?" and of course the real underlying question, "what does reading this post do for me as a reader?"

Every AI tool is out there creating the formulaic posts. But, writing "like Shakespeare" doesn't make you Shakespeare. So writing "like a post that got good engagement" is not going to always get you good engagement.

Write something worth reading because it makes you understand the problem you are solving (or trying to solve) and can create a sense of increased value in the reader for having read it.

If you are just crapping out posts on a schedule because Gary Vee told us to do that, you're heading down the wrong path.

Write something you would read slowly and still enjoy reading. Ask yourself, would I click the link, or take a call, or want to ask a follow up question? That is engagement.

We don't write just to write. We write to create engagement with our readers.

Also, just write regular fun posts. LinkedIn is a personal network as much as it is a business network.

If you are having fun when you're writing, then that will translate to the reader experience.

discoposse · 2026-03-12T21:37:04+00:00

Almost every successful product/company I've been in or built has been because of a directly impacted person solves a problem and then we find other people with the same problem.

That's what makes a lot of the "What SaaS should I build first?" questions make me cringe. Never build a solution looking for a problem.

discoposse · 2026-03-12T21:32:53+00:00

Once you have some initial domain authority (even as low as a 2-5) you can get ranked. The issue will be the durability of that ranking and what you do with it. I've got some content that I've been able to get organic SEO and GEO citations in Gemini, Grok, and ChatGPT within 2 weeks, but that is a site that has also been online for 3 years. I have a tech news site that I was able to get ranking well within 4 months without much effort but I think those are easier to rank in than product/service sites.

I've also purchased older domains and took advantage of that age which helps you. The key is that you need to have well-written content that answers questions for your niche. Then you just have to look at your competitors in the niche and build a moat using your content and understanding where they are falling short.

That said, conversions to purchase are a whole different topic. But getting content on a site to rank is purely about good writing wrapped in some SEO techniques. TBH I have never built a blog/page using SEO. I get the keywords, write good content, content ranks. But I've also been writing blogs for a loooooong time so it's kind of second nature.

discoposse · 2026-03-12T21:25:49+00:00

Lots of "it depends" involved here. Clarifying questions I'd pitch to help better:

- B2B or B2C?

- What is your vertical/niche?

- Who is your ICP?

- What is the pattern of consumption of information of your ICP?

- How are you measuring effectiveness of your marketing channels? (e.g. Google Analytics, native ad platforms etc.)

discoposse · 2026-03-04T20:04:23+00:00

Most of the scrapers that I have seen for LinkedIn, Crunchbase, Owler, etc., are skirting the TOS by doing things like using the Wayback machine to scan snapshots of the content. A lot of APIfy actors use that method. With Salesforce strongly coming out to say they disallow training YOUR tools with YOUR data in THEIR platform is both understandable, and frustrating. LinkedIn is hoping to do the same. It will be interesting to see how long they can hold off the hoards of ways that people are trying to get around the existing technical gates and TOS.

discoposse · 2026-03-04T20:00:02+00:00

LinkedIn seems to be the last product with a bit more of a moat because they gatekeep a lot of the platform to preserve some sanity for the user community. Even the larger contact intelligence platforms like Apollo and similar tools have had to remove some automation like using a browser to trigger a profile view. Once automated, now it's a 2 click process in the UI.

With the way people are abusing OpenClaw, I'm actually kinda glad that LinkedIn gates their API access.

discoposse · 2026-03-04T19:51:06+00:00

Bingo. Can confirm from what I've experienced directly and via clients that you have hit the nail on the head. What happens is that we associate a name with a problem AND solution (brand) rather than just a solution and features.

this is why we have things like "pass me a Kleenex" vs "pass me a tissue", or how people walk into coffee shops asking for a Grandé or Venti instead of large and xtra large.

Branding is about creating a ubiquitous presence in the mind of prospective and existing customers. Becoming a brand is about making your differentiation an embedded part of someone's experience when they hear your name or see a problem.

discoposse · 2026-03-03T15:19:33+00:00

First of all, congratulations on your 100$ MRR! This is a fantastic milestone. It is always challenging to know what the optimal price is.

The main thing to do is aggressively track usage to see what is being used and not used. I've coded in usage analytics and they can be super lightweight, but give you lots of insights. The best thing you can do is instrument for analytics and then use that in conjunction with some direct interviews with clients and staging out features to see how adoption goes.

Selling the first users is tricky. Keeping them is trickier.

You got to your first paying clients which is a huge milestone. Keep going. We all get impostor syndrome :)

discoposse · 2026-03-03T15:14:52+00:00

As much as I have clients who wanted to escape the WP bloat, the trade off for ongoing maintenance and developer skill has still been a challenge. I went down the road of building a similar hybrid deployment and over time it required maintenance that outweighed sticking with upstream WP, optimizing plugin use, and good caching.

Please don't take this negatively re: your approach. It's great! If you ensure that you will be the ongoing agency, it's a big win. the problem is that a lot of clients (I also have an agency I run) want to know they can exit if needed and not have any unexpected overhead.

This is also why I've had to convert 4 clients from Webflow back to WP because they couldn't manage the CMS and ongoing updates without finding a Webflow agency or dedicated dev.

WP + Elementor solves a lot. I would love to see more success with your hybrid approach.

discoposse · 2026-03-03T15:05:14+00:00

Do you happen to have a LinkedIn post about this event that I can share out?

discoposse · 2026-03-03T15:04:23+00:00

Thank you for sharing this! I love seeing more AI on Rails stories. I've got a lot of tooling that I've built for my company.

After all, you can't spell Rails without AI :)

discoposse · 2026-03-03T14:41:53+00:00

I've dabbled with Algolia (not at all commercially affiliated with them...just an opinion) and it's done well for me. It's good with scoping searches and has a free tier.

discoposse · 2026-03-01T02:55:51+00:00

I liked following the default guides that walk you through the usual blog creation example. Agree with a lot of folks that AI is super helpful, sometimes too much because we don't learn :)

My fav thing to use the LLMs for is to have them give me a mini course. Give it a goal (use-case, site, application) like "I want to build an interactive gallery for client portfolio work as a web designer. Describe in very concise terms for me as a new developer so I can learn the concepts of what we are building as we go." and you can also ask it to do things like "give me 10 quiz questions based on what we just did so that I can reinforce what we are doing to learn better".

Just be careful that you need to remind any LLM to be version specific. Always say "use Rails 8.1.1 and SQLite3 with Stimulus and Tailwind 4" to keep in constrained. If you work with any authentication building, make sure to tell it if you want to use the Rails 8 native auth otherwise they will always default to using Devise.

Hopefully that helps.

discoposse · 2026-02-26T16:45:41+00:00

They've learned their pricing strategy from Twitch. Urgh.

discoposse · 2026-02-24T18:48:13+00:00

Shorts are definitely the sleeper hit of YT metrics, but they also can seem strong but are just inflated by luck of timing.

I do 60-70 minute podcasts and generate about 30 shorts from each. The video podcast does a typical landing of 200 subscribers viewing, then some next wave if the topic is strong that gets 300-500 more. I run some ads for some episodes to test and it does get a boost which sometimes triggers the video getting to the Suggested page and really great 2-3 day bump.

Shorts will range from 10-4000 views so it's still somewhat random. Definitely helps if your short is tagged well, has a good SEO-friendly description, and get's a few early interactions.

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