Edouard

Why capable people stay invisible online, and what to do about it. Dry takes on visibility, founder-led growth, and the state of AI content. French at heart

[Edouard @eddaunizeau]

Starting again from zero here.

I had an old account once, a hundred-odd followers, most of them bots from a project that did not make it.

No great loss. A blank slate is the right shape for what I want to do next.

[Edouard @eddaunizeau]

Happy Friday to my fellow builders out here, what are you cooking today?

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@SrishtiRaw36677 Most build-in-public posts collapse into 'shipped a feature' with nothing underneath. Write with substance consistently for six months and you'll have actual readers, not just likes

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@hectorintech The numbers being small is fine. Posting the same vague update every week because you feel you should, that's what kills it. Having something worth saying matters more than the streak

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@DruvaughnE @FutureCaribb Saw the same at a fintech. Compliance docs stacked to the ceiling, actual behaviour nowhere close. Nobody owned it day to day, so it aged on the shelf. Writing the SOP took an afternoon. Getting a floor manager to run it every shift is something else entirely

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@MajaMHolder learned that the hard way. A tool that lets you skip the thinking just produces a cleaner version of nothing. Your point of view is the only thing a bot cannot source from somewhere else

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@dominikmartinX The 0-3K replying advice is the one people skip because it feels like grunt work. Three weeks of doing it properly, one specific point per reply, has done more than any thread I wrote.

Fifty a week is high though. Ten replies with a real take beat fifty drive-bys

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@MalikHughess Wrote through plenty of resistance days last year and most of it was unusable, volume with nothing to say. The days that compounded were the ones where I had an actual opinion to get down.

Showing up is the entry fee, not the work

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@VelariCapital Renamed my workspace three times the month before I shipped anything real. What broke the loop was picking one task small enough to finish that same evening, not another system.

The 9pm laptop open is genuine intent, it just needs somewhere concrete to land

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@victor_bigfield The support-emails point is the one that costs people years. I spent 18 months shipping my own roadmap on a product I eventually shut, and the requests that mattered were sitting in the inbox the whole time

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@harry_ngala10 Had the full system last year, content calendar, batching, the lot. Showed up every day for three months and it built precisely nothing because the posts had no point of view. The rhythm kept me publishing, it did not make anything worth reading

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@RealMissAI Months into fighting this exact default. My banned word list is forty lines now and drafts still drift back to ad voice. What finally moved it was pasting ten of my own posts in and asking it to match the rhythm rather than follow the rules

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@Coachbenjamin_ Ran the same loop for about six months when I was building my first product. Swapped strategies weekly, read every teardown, felt extremely busy. Shipped almost nothing. The accountability only started when I picked one thing and stayed with it long enough to see it through

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@AlfredP_Venture This works. I'd add that the check-in lands better if it references something specific from the project, not just a generic nudge. That one line of context is what makes it feel like you actually care

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@parkerworth Ran growth teams for years and the funnel was never the bottleneck. The bottleneck was having something to say once the attention showed up

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@Sathibuilds call your best friend

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@antonships ramping up the X account and posting into the void can be soul-crushing

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@iliazolotukhin I read maybe 200 posts in my space last week and honestly could not tell which used AI. I could only tell which ones had a spine. The hand-typed posts with no real opinion are just as forgettable

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@chiragdotxyz Free distribution is why attention got hard. When everyone can post, no one is owed a read

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@KellyNgee Authenticity, sure. Easier to stand out, not from where I'm sitting. 7 days into posting daily and most of my replies land in single figures, the polished ones worst of all. Valuing authenticity does not hand you reach. You still put in the quiet months before anyone clocks you

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Half of what people call good writing is just fear of being specific.

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The clever posts flopped. Every one I spent time polishing to sound smart went nowhere. The ones that worked named an exact number or an exact mistake I made. Vague reads as clever to the writer and as nothing to everyone else.