Madhan

⤷ Organic Growth | Generated $8.7M in Pipeline | 312% Organic Growth | SEO, AEO & Paid Social

[Madhan @growthbyMV]

sad to see Arc go.

they made people care about something as boring as a browser. that's rare.

but it's a painful reminder that you can build something people absolutely love, and still not build something enough people need.

wonder how many great products die in that gap.

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@askOkara 70m views, 0 users is the most expensive vanity metric on x. the 14m one worked because the video showed the product doing the thing, not a vibe

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@KateBour an audience is a call option. most people just keep paying the premium and never exercise it

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@rustybrick viator and getyourguide just got a free seat at the top of every 'things to do in lisbon' query. the blog listicle with 40 affiliate links was already dead, now it's buried too

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@marclou @fullpatstack first $1 is the level 1 quest. the grind to $100 is where most people reroll alliance

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@neilpatel free tools are cheap, reading them is the expensive part. most teams own 30 dashboards and zero decisions

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@Ace_KYD @github the watch party is the beta. the real product is the red wedding rsvp flow with a 100% churn rate

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@lilyraynyc the redirect map is always 'phase 2' right up until traffic becomes phase 0

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@lennysan @tulseedoshi @Google @Gemini pms didn't get better. building got cheap, so deciding what to build is the only expensive part left.

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@jasonlk the only commute where nobody is pretending to be on a call

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@jasonlk @WSJ this is why 'personal injury lawyer' clicks run $200+ on google and they still call seo expensive. the margins can afford it

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@marclou the only chart where up and to the right is also a leaderboard of people who want to be on the leaderboard

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@arthuryuzbashev seo is the 401k, reddit is the lottery ticket. and the mods are the ones who draw the numbers

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@tdinh_me the mock slack has better dark mode than the real one and nobody asked

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@Miracle_NNnn half the list will be g2, reddit and their own affiliates. the gold is the small newsletter sending 2% of their traffic that nobody else has found

[Madhan @growthbyMV]

A 60-second AI check for any site, three commands:

curl https://t.co/s2RVxmbynN → are you blocking AI crawlers?
curl -I https://t.co/EcXHvUSzYP → do you have one?
curl https://t.co/GSnoOsHRoq | grep title → what a crawler reads first

The video runs them on real sites.

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@sengineland the grader announcing its own grading curve. > mentions and clicks, sure > the 'why' behind the answer stays in the black box

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@jasonlk most founders hire someone they'd buy from on a good day. the test is whether you'd still sign after their third follow-up email.

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@heyblake the prompt is fine. the facts you paste are the post. most product updates fail because the only fact is 'we shipped it'.

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14 of the 95 sites I checked block the bot ChatGPT uses to open a page when someone asks.

On a small site, one line does it: Disallow: / under User-agent: * blocks every crawler. Google too.

The three lines that let ChatGPT in are in the video.