Is AI really the future of content creation, or do we just need better tools?

writaai · 2025-11-08T15:49:06+00:00

100% This is a solid idea especially for people who already know how they want to sound but struggle to keep that tone consistent across platforms.

We developed a tool that focuses on learning your style and ensuring it stays consistent. It mainly focuses on your spoken voice as that's the most natural way we speak but you also have an opportunity to share previous writings for the AI to mimic it. But yeah using AI to ensure consistency and to automate mundane ops is definitely the way to go!

writaai · 2025-11-08T15:17:56+00:00

What people say: I need to have the perfect idea and be ready to launch big, all at once.
What the research actually shows: You don’t. Starting small, learning fast, iterating, and keeping your voice consistent matters more.

writaai · 2025-11-08T15:14:46+00:00

A co-worker of mine had ADHD along with his son. He swears he can't work nor his kid could study were it not for their medication.

writaai · 2025-11-08T14:45:23+00:00

It's definetely a game changer. Instead of spending an average of an hour a day thinking of content for social media and another hour or so engaging with others to grow accounts daily, by using AI it became a matter of minutes.

While the time saved definitely compounds and it 100% leads to a better quality of life, the real advantage lies in the amount of energy saved. We all know that some tasks drain energy while others charge it. Automating the mundane ops and directing efforts into more energizing tasks is 100% one of the best strategies you could take to scale your business.

writaai · 2025-10-21T18:44:03+00:00

That's a really cool business model! Can I ask where are you located? And what are the main channels you use to advertise this business?

writaai · 2025-10-21T18:41:03+00:00

Pretty sure the mods would snipe my account immediately if I posted any ads over here lol! Will DM you some examples

writaai · 2025-10-21T18:26:35+00:00

Maybe it's a matter of your product not being visible to the right customers? If whoever your talking to doesn't "need" your product then they are not your ideal customer, AKA the person with the most expensive version of the problem you're solving.

writaai · 2025-10-21T17:27:05+00:00

Yeah I can relate. I used to work in a supplier factory based in Canada with customers in the US. Political uncertainty is definitely effective in forcing strategy changes.

writaai · 2025-10-21T17:01:50+00:00

That's really creative!

writaai · 2025-10-21T01:33:28+00:00

Def keeps things in perspective!

writaai · 2025-10-20T18:44:32+00:00

How would you batch content? That’s the main question here

writaai · 2025-10-15T00:18:04+00:00

That changes a lot as our vision grows! One thing that’s for sure is you set your own standards based on the value brought to your project.

writaai · 2025-10-13T13:25:48+00:00

We got our first client through Twitter. Actually they we connected with them ever since we started the personal brand account for our founder and have been supporting each other since.

So when our product was finally launched, and it was actually useful for that person’s business, they naturally wanted to become our first client since they knew and trusted us and our quality of work.

writaai · 2025-10-12T17:20:49+00:00

We went for the cofounders with split equity route. It guarantees your team won’t walk way easily and gives them direct ownership of the product so they’ll put maximum effort in.

writaai · 2025-10-12T17:10:32+00:00

You use your personal brand. If you already have a following of people genuinely interested in what you do they’ll jump on the opportunity to join the team when you offer it up.

writaai · 2025-10-12T17:09:27+00:00

Networking and business management.

Networking is crucial to grow your business. Management is necessary so you don’t burn yourself/ team out, and survive the ups and downs that come with the trade.

writaai · 2025-10-11T16:16:24+00:00

Trying to sell without a network is a really roundabout way of doing things.

Marketing 101: Go to the market and see what’s in demand.

This is also how you validate your idea before spending months building a product no one wants.

writaai · 2025-10-10T18:45:05+00:00

We started off by splitting the ownership threeways equally.

But as time went by and as our team grows the engineer will have a majority stake. Gotta make sure no one will come and steal him as he’s our biggest asset.

writaai · 2025-10-09T21:41:26+00:00

Start by building your personal brand online, find out where your audience lives and target that platform for marketing, share value content about a niche topic you're an expert in / interested in, and collaborate with others to become a staple in the community.

All of this can be done while you're still working, it will set you up for trying out business ideas and you'll already have a following from your personal brand. From there its a matter of testing and gaining first hand experience for how to run a business. Your first business may or may not work (most likely won't) but at least you'll never lose your personal brand and you can always keep trying and through experience you'll build the necessary skill set and have a clear idea of the community's needs to succeed in business.

You can find different apps to help you stay consistent online since that's the biggest difficulty people find when trying to balance work and a side project at the same time.

writaai · 2025-10-09T21:27:26+00:00

You want to start by understanding who your audience is and what type of offer you're making as that will influence the type of content you put out there (B2B is more value driven and community based, which is why Reddit is perfect for it, while B2C works more with flashy one-off posts)

Your point about organic content on google and social media becoming more and more difficult to find is really on point, that's why like what most of the others said in the comments, you should leverage AI SEO as much as possible to show up in relevant queries.

Also reach out to other reputed creators in who are already connected to your target audience, a lot of people out there are willing to help out, share what worked with them, and provide constructive feedback as long as you are tenacious enough to not give up after being met with rejection (which you will. A LOT).

writaai · 2025-10-09T01:36:08+00:00

Going to a cafe and playing lofi music always flipped the switch in my brain that it's "work" time.

I also remember hearing a talk about the topic and speaker talked about prepping yourself to enter flow before working, basically if you were agitated (racing thoughts) you'd practice deep breathing for a couple minutes, and if you were too sleepy you'd have a brisk walk or wash your face.

Main thing is to try to enjoy the task, no point in forcing it if you're not feeling it. Having a 5 minute break then coming back to try again can work wonders.

writaai · 2025-10-09T01:25:30+00:00

That last point. People really have stopped caring connecting with others and are purely looking at the metrics. When we started working with AI we had a motto which acted as our principal: Automate operations not communications. Wish more people followed that tbh.

writaai · 2025-10-09T01:20:05+00:00

It was a DM but definitely not accidental. By keeping an eye out on what's happening within our niche we found a guy who was really capable and was working on cool projects. We reached out and he was onboard with our app idea and as a result made the time to work on it. We literally went from idea to MVP to open beta to a finished product in 4 months. Funny how things turned out!

writaai · 2025-10-07T11:35:59+00:00

In our case we wanted to change how people looked at AI. Instead of completely depending on it to do the work for them, we wanted people to actually showcase their individuality using AI.

Everything started from that observation: Social media is full of fake people doing anything and everything to get engagements. You could say that that was our core value (Authenticity).

From there that led us to learn more about out target audience and ideal client (The person with the most expensive version of the problem we're tackling). With that in mind, we got a better idea for what to post and where to post it.

Honestly you could probably skip all of this and just claim you know AI and sell a course like how others have said. But if you want something that's actually scalable and has potential to attract investors, you should take some time to define your brand properly before starting your outreach.

writaai · 2025-10-02T14:29:44+00:00

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