Building in public, day 8.
Followers: 3
Best post this week: 18 views, 3 replies
Launch: 5 days
Someone asked if we're still posting with an audience of four. Yes. Numbers stay public on purpose.
Building in public, day 8.
Followers: 3
Best post this week: 18 views, 3 replies
Launch: 5 days
Someone asked if we're still posting with an audience of four. Yes. Numbers stay public on purpose.
Building something and posting nothing about it?
That's exactly who we made Hypepen for. It turns your real work into posts on X, in your voice. You approve each one.
Launching Nov 10. Waitlist: https://t.co/ND3MB2sgSS
Your notes app is full of posts.
Note: "users confused by pricing page"
Post: "Three people asked the same question about our pricing page this week. Turns out the page answers a question nobody asks."
(example, but go check your notes)
A source of post ideas most founders skip: the questions people ask you.
Someone DMs "how do you handle refunds?" You already wrote the answer once. That's a post.
Hypepen keeps those questions next to your notes so they don't get lost in your inbox.
Every draft in Hypepen gets a quick check.
The hook, how easy it reads, whether it sounds like you, whether anyone would want to reply.
It's a hint, never a gate. You can post the "bad" one anyway. Sometimes that's the one that works.
Your notes app is full of posts.
Note: "users confused by pricing page"
Post: "Three people asked the same question about our pricing page this week. Turns out the page answers a question nobody asks."
(example, but go check your notes)
Hypepen will never invent a fact in your name.
No made-up revenue. No fake "I talked to 100 founders". No stories that didn't happen.
If it isn't in your notes, your work or your answers, it doesn't go in the post.
A week from today, Hypepen goes live on Product Hunt.
The idea hasn't moved: you already do the work. We help turn it into posts that sound like you, and nothing goes out until you say ok.
What would make you try it on day one?
Where do your best post ideas actually come from?
the shower
support tickets
arguing with your cofounder
someone else's bad take
Curious what the split looks like.
That 4-minute demo video you recorded and posted once?
Hypepen can turn it into a post on X in your voice, without changing a single fact. Same for a LinkedIn post or a YouTube video.
The work's already done. It just never made it to X.
Week 2 of building in public.
Week 1 in one line: 1 follower, then 5, then back to 4. Most posts under 5 views.
What we're changing: fewer tips, more of what's actually happening here, and a lot more time in other people's replies. Launch is Nov 10.
A week from today, Hypepen goes live on Product Hunt.
The idea hasn't moved: you already do the work. We help turn it into posts that sound like you, and nothing goes out until you say ok.
What would make you try it on day one?
One rule we won't bend on: Hypepen never writes your replies.
It can tell you a mention is worth answering. The words are yours.
A reply is someone talking to you. Answering with a bot is like sending a cardboard cutout to a dinner you were invited to.
Last week we rewrote our whole homepage.
The old one talked about posts optimized for the algorithm. The new headline: "Turn your real work into posts on X."
Same product. We just stopped leading with the part nobody can promise.
First thing Hypepen does is read your last 100 posts.
You get your voice in 5 traits, with your own lines as examples, and your 3 best posts with why they worked.
Free, no card. Slightly uncomfortable, mostly useful.
Changelog: "v2.3: improved onboarding flow, bug fixes."
Post: "New users kept quitting at step 3. So we cut step 3."
Same update (made up, but you've seen a hundred like it). One gets skimmed, the other gets read.
8 days until Hypepen launches on Product Hunt.
What it does, in one line: turns your real work into posts on X, written in your voice, and you approve each one.
Want to know the day it opens? https://t.co/ND3MB2sgSS