just spent $100k in ... windows ๐คฏ
(yes they are big .. but still)
the process was a nightmare
and this is a MASSIVE opportunity
the process is extremely confusing, too many choices, too many constraints, in like every little details, and extremely expensive
and 80% of people we talk to in this space don't actually use AI (or like a random thing on ChatGPT free version)
if i had to start from 0, i would definitely go into a physical business, make it AI-native and prepare for the robotic revolution
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Google AI Overviews, AI Mode, ChatGPT, Copilot - this Outrank user shows up in all of them ๐คฉ
they're a Shopify pet treats brand
team of 2, so content was always "on the back burner"
domain rating 1
very few backlinks
organic traffic basically 0
now it's 1,000+ users a month from organic, 95% of it from the blog
DR went from 1 to 31
their words: "it has completely changed the trajectory of our store's organic traffic with almost no lift from our internal team"
publications are now reaching out to partner with them
love seeing our users win like this โค๏ธ
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calling for people with taste ๐
working on the living space in the future chalet
i have doubts about the wood stove
wondering if a big fireplace would be better
what do you think?
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people think blogs are dead ...
but blogs are still the easiest way to build backlinks, swap links, build competitor-alternative pages, publish listicles and eventually get mentioned by AIs
free blog hosting on Outrank is actually being tested for a few days ..
and i feel this is gonna be big
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I'm making Outrank free to host blogs
every Outrank user needs a blog to publish on
it never felt fair to make them sign up for another tool and pay another subscription just for that
so now we're making it free for you to host your blogs:
- live in about a minute: drop in your website, pick a design, done
- your own domain included, even
- templates, newsletter forms, analytics without cookies
- sitemap, llms.txt and structured data set up for Google and AI search
- 3 free AI-written posts to get started
- free up to 10,000 visits a month, no credit card
now you have a place to publish your articles
from here, Outrank can take over: keyword research, 30 SEO articles a month, backlinks from real sites, and help you get mentioned by ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini, all on autopilot
even if you never use Outrank for the backlinks or articles, I think this is the best place to host a blog right now
on your own domain, built for Google and AI search, no plugins, and no hosting cost
start here:
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I'm making Outrank free to host blogs
every Outrank user needs a blog to publish on
it never felt fair to make them sign up for another tool and pay another subscription just for that
so now we're making it free for you to host your blogs:
- live in about a minute: drop in your website, pick a design, done
- your own domain included, even
- templates, newsletter forms, analytics without cookies
- sitemap, llms.txt and structured data set up for Google and AI search
- 3 free AI-written posts to get started
- free up to 10,000 visits a month, no credit card
now you have a place to publish your articles
from here, Outrank can take over: keyword research, 30 SEO articles a month, backlinks from real sites, and help you get mentioned by ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini, all on autopilot
even if you never use Outrank for the backlinks or articles, I think this is the best place to host a blog right now
on your own domain, built for Google and AI search, no plugins, and no hosting cost
start here:
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Google has the opportunity to do the best thing
this week I learned:
you can run a real website INSIDE a tweet ๐คฏ
people click, type and play in it without ever leaving the timeline
3 days ago I saw
@tarasshyn do it
since then I've shipped 3:
- a multiplayer pile where you throw others
- a red pill vs blue pill tower defense game
- my newsletter signup (it's the card below, try it)
here's exactly how:
1. add the player card tags to your page
twitter:card = player
twitter:player = the URL X loads inside the tweet
twitter:player:width = 640, height = 480
twitter:image = the poster people see first
2. let X embed your page
add a frame-ancestors header that allows X .com
and remove any X-Frame-Options
3. post the exact final URL
https + www, zero redirects
4. build for the sandbox
X runs your page in a locked frame
-> forms don't submit (send with fetch), no login, open links in a new tab
5. design for 2 screens
desktop: it runs inside the tweet
mobile: people see the image, tap, and X's panel covers the bottom 30% of your page
check it live ๐
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OMG THIS IS sooooo cool
you absolutely need to HIT this ๐
it blew me away that you can do this
(better on desktop - works on mobile)
X analytics has been down all day.
SuperX analytics hasnโt ๐
if I had to make my first $1,000 online again in 2026, I wouldn't build a startup
fyi: in August alone, I paid $37k to affiliates and creators who market my products with their content
one of my users has even made over $75k just by setting up my $99/month product
so here are the 5 things I'd do instead:
1. set up AI agents for boring local businesses
a dentist doesn't want "an AI agent". he wants his phone answered, his reminders sent and his reviews replied to
I run 8 agents across my own companies, and most local businesses still run zero
At Squad, we have partners getting paid $3k every time they set up Squad for a client ๐คฏ (dm me if you want to do this btw)
knowing 20 plumbers is what actually takes work
2. remake ads that already work, for businesses that can't make their own
search your client's competitors in Revid's Meta and TikTok ad viral search and save only the ads that have been running for 30+ days
nobody keeps paying for an ad that isn't working, so those are the proven winners
remix those ads with Revid for your client, and they get to skip months of testing
3. get paid per view, not per follower
on Clipatra, brands pay creators for every verified view. in the first 3 weeks of beta, creators posted 38 videos, got 500k views and earned $4,266, which works out to roughly $8.50 per 1,000 views
you don't need a big account for this, you just need one video that works
4. promote the tools you already pay for
most of that $37k I paid in August didn't go to professional marketers. it went to people who already used my products every day and just said so in public
if you're paying for a tool you love, you're probably sitting on an affiliate link you haven't claimed yet
5. start a blog on one boring niche and let it pay rent
pick a topic youโve actually lived. it doesnโt need to be ambitious, it just needs to be something you understand better than almost everyone searching for it.
it can be as simple as coffee. if you know coffee better than 99% of the world does, you can start a blog about it
once the blog hits DR 30+ and 100+ clicks a month for 3 months straight, you can plug it into Outrank
it finds the advertiser, writes a full article in your tone with one link inside and publishes it on your blog
you get $1 per DR point per article, paid straight to your bank through Stripe
so a DR 60 blog makes $60 an article. at 3 a day, that's up to $5,400 a month without you writing a single word
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OMG THIS IS sooooo cool
you absolutely need to HIT this ๐
it blew me away that you can do this
(better on desktop - works on mobile)
X want to be the next Youtube
but:
"everyone knows posting vid on X is usually pretty destructive for reach"
is this true?
i looked at top founders and creators, results are fascinating:
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X will pay you $1,500 for posting videos???
I just got an invite to post 15 videos in the next 30 days as part of the "Video Kickstart Bonus" program
guaranteed pay, fast-track to the Original Content Rewards program, and a free YEAR of X Premium+
unsure if a X team member is behind this or this was auto-sent to everyone?
but I love to see this, it's probably a sign of where X is going:
1. they've been saying "post video" for months now
but everyone knows posting vid on X is usually pretty destructive for reach.
the audience doesn't consume it long enough like they will for written content = poor distribution
2. X is building out new video features
they are already shipping new livestream features left & right, but X wants to incentivize more video on the platform too.
I can see them building out a video dashboard for you to search video content (similar to youtube)
3. user consumption behavior will have to change
x users love reading content at their own pace.
x has a hurdle to climb if they want to change this standard of behavior
really interested in the data the X team will get from this test.
get ready for a lot of video content from me :)
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itโs the first time Iโm hunting on Product Hunt for someone else
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everyone on X is building AI tools for other founders
but
@01ayushgarg built a pay per doc e-signature tool for therapists, tutors, daycares, vet clinics and local electricians
today 1,000+ businesses that donโt care about AI use it, it makes real money, and itโs launching on his birthday ๐
go show him some love โฅ๏ธ
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today is my birthday and Iโm launching SignWith on Product Hunt ๐
as a gift,
@tibo_maker is hunting it for me ๐คฉ
SignWith is actually the first SaaS Iโve ever built that made money
itโs a simple pay per doc e-signature tool, so you donโt have to pay a monthly subscription for expensive and complicated e-sign tools
it makes me super happy to see 1,000+ businesses around the world use it to sign their documents every day
and they arenโt just tech companies. theyโre therapists, independent tutors, daycares, home care providers for the elderly, physiotherapists, local electricians, vet clinics etc
theyโre the people who keep our lives running, so the rest of us can talk about AI all day on X ๐ฌ
and they all had the same problem I had 2 years ago
they were paying heavy subscriptions for e-sign tools that were way too complex, with features they didnโt even need, when all they needed was a simple way to get a doc signed
knowing that something I built makes their day a little easier is the proudest Iโve ever felt about my work
would mean a lot if you checked out my launch and left your honest feedback ๐
every bit of support genuinely helps a small product like this get seen ๐
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@tibo_maker has posted 6,000+ tweets since 2020 and sold his X growth tool for $10M
this week he pulled his own data on what actually works on X right now. it's the most useful thing I've read on growing an account, so here it is with his numbers:
1. replies beat posts when you're small your post gets 50 views. a good reply on a viral post can get 50,000. borrow someone else's reach (this one was mostly useful as I was doing it wrong)
2. long beats short his posts over 600 characters crush his one-liners. X knows exactly who to show them to, and there's a full opinion to reply to
3. put a real dollar amount in it numbers stop the scroll and make it believable. his dollar posts are his best performers
4. one-liners are lottery tickets a few go mega viral, most die. post them for fun, not as the plan (not gonna work for a person like me I guess)
5. declare, don't ask question hooks underperform. people read them as bait
6. if it flops in 30 minutes, fix the hook and repost same idea, new first line. one of his went from 7 likes to 380
7. people bookmark what they'll use later his most bookmarked post (19,069) was a guide he shared, with his notes
8. talk about your life more than your product posts naming his products: 77 likes median. posts about his kids, the chalet, the plane: 167
and the rule under all of them: be consistent, never miss a day
we're at 120 followers, so this is now our playbook. day 1 starts with this post
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I made a few changes to my X posts, and now I get 100x more engagement.
I recently read
@tibo_maker's newsletter about X, and 3 points stuck with me:
> If a post flops in 30 minutes, fix the hook and repost.
> People bookmark what theyโll use later.
> Long beats short.
So I applied these lessons to my posts, and the results were massive.
Instead of a one-liner like "My project is on Vercel", I wrote a longer how-to guide that was worth bookmarking.
The difference?
Before: 1K impressions and 2 bookmarks.
After: 30K impressions and nearly 1K bookmarks.
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if you want to be mentioned by ChatGPT, you need to be on reddit
Reddit is still an incredible platform, but it's crazy hard to crack
โ ๏ธ don't use your own Reddit account
you will get banned incredibly fast
there are a few tools for that ๐
(not cheap)
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everyone's trying to hack Reddit to get their product into AI answers
most of those hacks end with your account suspended within days
here's the Reddit strategy I help founders build instead, one you can run every week at any budget ๐
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I canโt believe
@tibo_maker emails are literally free
so much value, completely free of charge.
when the SEO king praises your SEO product ๐คฏ
every time I start a new product and domain, I plug it on Outrank, fastest way to rank and get mentioned by LLMs
Every time I audit a SaaS site on lately, I check their Ahrefs and see
@eugZolotarenko's and
@tibo_maker's Outrank all over their backlinks and blog
Today I roasted a SaaS site and they went from 0 to DR 64 in months using Outrank listicles + guest posts
My honest take after seeing it on dozens of client sites:
- It is the fastest way to kickstart a dead blog and get your first DR 30+ backlinks on autopilot
- Just make sure you actually edit the top articles, add real product screenshots, and clean up the titles once they start ranking!
- It does work well, but can be risky ๐คทโโ๏ธ same for
Try it here (coupon code ILLY):
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Google is becoming a MAJOR organic traffic source for us. And it's translating into real revenue growth too...
Here are the 3 things that we're doing to build search and AI traffic...
1.
@outrank_so for building backlinks and content generation. then I layer on
@squad_so_ to continue building out more content and improve the content from Outrank. More on that below.
TBH outrank is the sole reason we're at a 21 DR after just a few months. All on autopilot. (Both products
@tibo_maker is involved with, no affiliation on my side, just really like them.)
2.
@bazzlyai for finding reddit posts in our niche to comment on. This helps us get cited more by AI and we try to comment on posts that are also ranking Google.
3. Some of our highest ranking pages are NOT blogs, but they're product pages and examples pages. So for us, we make landing pages, so we're just creating swipe files of landing pages for people to discover. They've been getting cited a lot by AI and ranking on Google. Now using
@squad_so_ to automate the process of finding landing pages and adding them to our /examples page. Very effective.
Most of the pages we add to our swipe file have nothing to do with our product, but they bring in the right kind of traffic.
Highly recommend working on product pages and examples pages for your product.
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seo# #
ai# #
aeo# #
buildinpublic#
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tis new backlink offer is our fastest growing product
huge opportunity to monetize your domain or blog ๐ธ
just connect your domain
(1-click create a blog if you don't have one)
and we will publish sponsored content
and you earn โจ
start here:
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