Starry

GTM and Community at @ReaddyAI. Sharing AI growth, creator marketing, UGC experiments and community building. SF Bay Area. Gym rat 🐭

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@gorman_bre50376 Sleep is the one I keep negotiating with too 😅 Strength training feels much easier once it has a fixed slot on the calendar.

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@lulucalsss You actually shipped it fast 😅 The anxiety and budget angle is such a useful starting point. A lot of fitness content assumes everyone already feels comfortable walking into a gym.

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@themishra4402 Future, yes. Total replacement for reading code, probably not. For nontechnical operators, the bigger shift is testing an idea before asking an engineer for a roadmap.

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@ycombinator Ten of the top 25 servicers is a serious trust signal. I’d love to know which hurdle took longest: security review, workflow integration, or proving accuracy.

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@CharuMitraDubey The first $1,000 tells you who will pay and why. I find those stories much more useful too, especially the awkward experiments before anything looked repeatable.

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Most UGC briefs I see start with: “We need five videos.”

That tells a creator what to deliver, but not what the team needs to learn.

For one test, I would rather brief:

one audience
one message hypothesis
three hooks
two body directions
raw footage
a short note on what worked

If we cannot write a better brief after the batch, we probably just bought assets.

#UGC #CreatorMarketing

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@ivantinkers google drive haha

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As a social media manager, I rarely start with a blank content calendar.

I start with what already happened inside the company.

A launch, a founder conversation, one customer question, even a small UGC test can become the next week of content.

Here is my system:

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My first job was as an AE.

Now I work in a Community Manager role that also involves a lot of influencer marketing.

And lately I’ve been realizing how similar the two actually are.

In both, you need to:
find the right people,
start the conversation,
understand what they care about,
pitch the value,
follow up,
negotiate,
and eventually close.

The context is different, but the core skill is surprisingly similar:

building trust and getting people to say yes.

#mkt #influencer #GTM

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@ivantinkers As simple as possible - I have a note called “Content Inspiration” any thought is dropped there and when I sit down I can actually cook sth on them

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I keep getting content requests that start with, “Can we post this on LinkedIn?”

Before touching the draft, I ask what job the post needs to do.

For the same product launch:

Brand explains why we built it.

Marketing shows how it works.

Acquisition proves what changed for a customer.

Same update, three different angles. Copying one message across every channel usually wastes it.

#GTM

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Before anything enters my calendar, I ask:

Where did this come from?
Who is it for?
What should it change?
What proof do we have?
How can we reuse it?

A content engine is a better way to notice and reuse what the company already knows.

#ContentMarketing

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A UGC test can become:

• the original video
• what we expected
• what surprised us
• a new creator brief
• a customer language bank

Even the losing version is useful if it teaches the team something.

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@marcelamudadu lol exactly. What did you build, and how fast did you get it in front of someone?

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Seeing the same argument: if vibe coding is real, where is the next Instagram?

I think that is the wrong test.

Most people using AI builders are not replacing Instagram. They are launching a service page, testing an idea, or trying to get a first customer without hiring a team.

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@LaconicLeon Yep. Speed to launch is nice, but I care more about time to first real demand signal. How fast did your last test get one?

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@Lukealexxander I keep coming back to you taking every sales call. Was there one call that changed the product direction completely?

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@maxedapps Marketing agents behave like this too. Give them a whole campaign and quality drifts fast. Smaller tasks have worked much better for me.