Guna

🤖 -Agentic support for SaaS
🔗 - Channel Attribution Tracking
📅 - let Agent post for you across platforms

[Guna @gunaa_dev]

turns out "looks good to me" is not a conversion rate.

[Guna @gunaa_dev]

I used to ask friends which landing page looked better.

then I'd pick the one with the most votes.
built something this week that just… tells you.

[Guna @gunaa_dev]

Nothing I've tried so far has shown me the result I was hoping for.

But every day I learn something new.

I still believe my first internet dollar is coming.

Maybe not today.
Maybe not tomorrow.
But until that day arrives, I'll keep building.

[Guna @gunaa_dev]

@pcshipp I think it's because building and maintaining a search index is one of the most expensive parts you're paying for the data more than the UI.

[Guna @gunaa_dev]

6 weeks of building in public. here's what I actually learned.

STEP 1: consistency beats virality.
my best performing posts were not my most polished ones. they were the ones I posted when I had nothing to say but said it anyway.

STEP 2: replies > posts.
10 good replies under other people's posts built more awareness than 10 original posts. show up in conversations, not just feeds.

STEP 3: honest numbers outperform good numbers.
"17 impressions, 0 clicks, 1 user my sister" got more engagement than any metric I was proud of.

STEP 4: the audience you build is the product's first sales channel.
every reply is a warm introduction. every conversation is a future customer or a referral.

most founders treat build in public as a broadcast. it's actually a conversation.

QUICK RECAP:
consistency > virality → replies > posts → honest > polished → conversation > broadcast.

[Guna @gunaa_dev]

6 weeks in, trying my best

[Guna @gunaa_dev]

6 weeks of building in public. here's what I actually learned.

STEP 1: consistency beats virality.
my best performing posts were not my most polished ones. they were the ones I posted when I had nothing to say but said it anyway.

STEP 2: replies > posts.
10 good replies under other people's posts built more awareness than 10 original posts. show up in conversations, not just feeds.

STEP 3: honest numbers outperform good numbers.
"17 impressions, 0 clicks, 1 user my sister" got more engagement than any metric I was proud of.

STEP 4: the audience you build is the product's first sales channel.
every reply is a warm introduction. every conversation is a future customer or a referral.

most founders treat build in public as a broadcast. it's actually a conversation.

QUICK RECAP:
consistency > virality → replies > posts → honest > polished → conversation > broadcast.

[Guna @gunaa_dev]

@Habichtsberg quality connections always beat follower count

[Guna @gunaa_dev]

@joncphillips The scariest part isn't the malware it's that it hid in plain sight for over a year behind an ordinary merge commit.

[Guna @gunaa_dev]

@boardyai And after distribution comes retention... the boss that keeps respawning. 😂

[Guna @gunaa_dev]

Every one who building has an same final boss MARKETING!!!!

[Guna @gunaa_dev]

@buildwithsid Skill issue?
Distribution issue is usually the bigger problem.

[Guna @gunaa_dev]

@ajith_io @sab8a Everyone wants the secret strategy the real secret is staying consistent long enough for the strategy to work.

[Guna @gunaa_dev]

Ship Log #4 is out.

the honest version of week 5:

→ 17 Google impressions. 0 clicks.
→ 1 free user. my sister.
→ 0 paying customers. 4 days left.

not dressing it up.

the whole plan for this week: stop broadcasting, start diagnosing. find the person with the pain, lead with their problem, not my product.

4 days to find one person willing to pay $9/mo.

[Guna @gunaa_dev]

yep this was scheduled using https://t.co/OkbOaetsCR eating my own cooking.

[Guna @gunaa_dev]

Ship Log #4 is out.

the honest version of week 5:

→ 17 Google impressions. 0 clicks.
→ 1 free user. my sister.
→ 0 paying customers. 4 days left.

not dressing it up.

the whole plan for this week: stop broadcasting, start diagnosing. find the person with the pain, lead with their problem, not my product.

4 days to find one person willing to pay $9/mo.

[Guna @gunaa_dev]

accidentally found a 4 year old Reddit account I forgot I had.

1 karma. completely dormant.

second chance at the channel that got me shadowbanned last month.

not making the same mistake this time 5 comments a day, no links for a week, slow and steady.

[Guna @gunaa_dev]

Built something recently that actually works.

Not "works" as in compiles and ships works as in I open it every day, I use it without thinking, and it genuinely makes my workflow better.

That feeling hit me hard with Posthive.

I built it to solve my own problem switching between 10 tabs just to post the same update everywhere. Bluesky, Threads, Instagram, LinkedIn, Mastodon, YouTube... it was exhausting.

So I built the thing I wished existed.

And somewhere between the hundredth bug fix and the first time it actually fired a post automatically at the exact second I scheduled it I realized I was addicted to my own product.

That is a strange and really good feeling.

If you are a creator tired of the tab-switching grind, Posthive is open source, self-hostable, and free to try for 14 days.

[Guna @gunaa_dev]

only four days remaining for the dead line i think this is going to be an very good lesson

[Guna @gunaa_dev]

cold DMs get ignored. here's what actually works.

I sent 4 cold DMs last week. 0 replies.
then someone told me: lead with their problem, not your product.

here's the framework:

STEP 1: find someone who publicly posted their pain.
"no idea which channel is driving my signups" that's your person.

STEP 2: diagnose before you pitch.
don't open with "I built a tool for this."
open with: "I saw your post looks like you're getting direct traffic with no UTM tags. that's why it shows up as unknown source."

STEP 3: one screenshot. no pitch.
show them what their problem looks like. not what your solution looks like.

STEP 4: end with a question, not a CTA.
"is that the issue or is it something else?"

most founders pitch. the ones who diagnose get replies.

QUICK RECAP:
find the pain post -> diagnose the problem -> one screenshot -> ask a question -> then pitch.

[Guna @gunaa_dev]

100 commits in on Posthive

what shipped:
• 11 platform integrations
• first comment automation
• bulk CSV scheduling
• MCP server for AI agents
• drag-to-reschedule calendar
all open source. all in ~2 weeks.

[Guna @gunaa_dev]

each adapter implements the same interface createPost, createComment, refreshTokenIfNeeded. auth is per-platform: OAuth tokens encrypted AES-256-GCM at rest, app passwords for Bluesky, bot token for Telegram, keypair for Nostr.

biggest headache was Meta's 60-day token refresh and X charging $0.20/post with a link 😅

you can check the repo for more details

[Guna @gunaa_dev]

100 commits in on Posthive

what shipped:
• 11 platform integrations
• first comment automation
• bulk CSV scheduling
• MCP server for AI agents
• drag-to-reschedule calendar
all open source. all in ~2 weeks.