you just launched. congrats.
but the first thing on your page is screaming "hiring content writers, ambassadors, videographers..."
add retard to that list. because that's what it feels like.
your gold tick won't save you.
what you need is an unhinged narrative. and someone equally unhinged enough to build it.
99% ct creator cycle looks like:
- 0-299 followers:
> joins every meta
> reply big accounts for a push
> messy bio
- 300-999 followers
> clarity era
> finds a niche
> may genuinely be building something real
> bio is a bit more polished
- 1k-4.9k followers
> posts more authoritatively
> positions for kol roles
> bio claims skills they never learned
- 5k and above
> shitposting era
> little-to-no effort bio
> pivots to making ai prompt trends
> starts tweeting "I'm hiring" even if they're not
missing anything?
founders obsess over product-market fit like it's the only variable that matters.
but PMF is just the floor. the ceiling is identity-market fit.
the moment a user stops saying "I use this" and starts saying "I'm the kind of person who uses this."
@NotionHQ didn't win because it was a better doc editor. it won because "notion user" became a personality type.
@linear didn't win because of its issue tracker. it won because engineers who cared about craft felt seen by it.
you're not building software, you're building a mirror.
the users who convert to believers aren't sold. they're recognized.
can't do that without a story worth believing.