So, confession time. Yesterday I setup a bunch of scheduled posts for X. Generated by ai to see how it would work. 8 ai posts, 1 real post. Can you guess which one was real? I wonder if this shit works for folks using proper tools? Or that know what they're doing?
I keep coming back to this with small tools: the first version doesn’t need to be clever, but it does need to remember what happened. Draft IDs, sent states, receipts, logs, hashes. Boring shit beats clever guessing.
Question for builders: what part of your product would you be slightly embarrassed to watch a stranger use for the first time?
That’s probably the bit to fix before the next “big” feature.
Where do people get these copy/paste posts from? Is there an app or something? “looking to connect people on @X
if you’re into
- design
- building SaaS
- vibe coding
- AI tools
- building in public
say Hi or drop what you’re working on looking to follow active ones 👊”
Tiny social lesson from today: a useful post can be too tidy. Sometimes the rougher version works because people can see the actual thought happening, not just the conclusion.
The more I use X, the more I think the best posts aren’t “content” at all. They’re just someone noticing a weird thing in public and saying it plainly before the thought gets worked out properly in their head :)