I'm Launching a New Product (PostWrite.ai)
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Part of quitting my job in May was to allow myself the opportunity to start building more products online. Since then, I’ve worked on several things including my new mentorship program, DevLaunch, The Daily Byte (helping others to pass coding interviews), reviving my YouTube channel, and more, but I’ve still had the itch to build more products.
Whenever I consider building a product, I think it’s first important to decide on a problem to solve and ideally this problem should be one that:
You’re extremely familiar with
Would pay to make disappear
I’ve found that both of these points are good litmus tests for if you’ll feel passionate about building that product and if the product has a real chance at gaining traction and succeeding. Conversely, don’t build products you aren’t the customer for and don’t build things you wouldn’t pay for.
Most recently, the problem I’ve been repeatedly running into can be summarized in the following points: wanting to post on socials without losing consuming socials (I ideally want to post and immediately get off), struggling to refine and distill thoughts I want to post into a coherent message (I have a “draft” of what I want to say, but it isn’t quite right), brainstorming new content related to certain topics that I can then formulate a post from, and easily posting the same message on multiple platforms but with different tones or formatting (think X I want a casual tone without punctuation whereas LinkedIn I might want hash tags, proper punctuation, etc).
Because of these recurring problems, I decided to take a stab at building a product to fix my own problems. I encourage everyone to do this where possible. It’ll teach you not only how to build and market products online (and hopefully make money in the process), but it’s the repetitions of doing something over and over again that eventually lead to your success, not sitting on your hands and pining over a single idea, product detail, or domain name (although I’m definitely guilty of this one).
To try and practice what I’m preaching, I’d love for you to try out my new product, PostWrite (use code "SWEEKLY” at checkout for a one-time 50% off coupon for paid plans). I’ve been lucky enough to grow sizeable audiences on a handful of different platforms and this tool is my attempt to help others do the same. You can’t grow a following if you don’t post content. And part of my goal with creating PostWrite is to help you quickly and easily do just that. PostWrite is your AI ghostwriter for creating content on all text-first platforms (posting to other socials will be available soon). I thought the name was a fun play on “ghostwrite” as well as “post right” as I feel people should be leveraging tools AI tools to help create the most engaging and compelling content.
While it’s no means a finished product, I’d love to get it in the hands of users and start getting real feedback. As a very clear and intentional warning, I’m still actively working on it, but that’s the beauty of software, you can iterate quickly. Because of this, I’d rather take action, launch something, and iterate incorporating feedback.
If you’re willing, I’d love for you to try PostWrite as either a free or paid user and let me know your thoughts! Please feel free to DM me your feedback on X (good or bad) or leave it in the comments below. This product may succeed or fail, but I’m sure that the way to succeed in building software online is to simply ship more. If you manage to do that success is just a function of time which is exciting to me as it means I just need to focus on creating more and consuming less which PostWrite will help me do!
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woo hoo! congrats on launching!