Tae Lee

Building a SaaS empire that solves distribution problems.
Currently building in public, Grove AI
~ 0K MRR
~ 1.5K MRR

[Tae Lee @tanzerine99]

Fast shipping stopped being a moat. Distribution is.

Grove connects to your domain and runs your blog end-to-end strategy, research, writing, and publishing

— so organic traffic compounds on your own site while you build. One setup. Then it just runs!

[Tae Lee @tanzerine99]

This 😭😭

[Tibo @tibo_maker]

AI was supposed to make us work less

I've never been this tired in my life

most days I have up to 10 agents running at the same time. one fixing a bug, one writing pages, one refactoring something I already forgot I asked for, 3 other I have no idea what they are doing but i suppose i ask it?

and I jump from conversation to conversation all day

compared to 5 years ago, I probably context switch 100x more

by the end of the day my brain is fried. completely toasted. nothing left, not even for the people I love

I call it the fried brain effect

thought it was just me but almost every founder I talk to lately says the exact same thing

we got superpowers, and somehow the pressure only went up. if you can ship 10x more, you feel like you have to ship 10x more. every single day

I don't have a solution

honestly I have no idea where this goes from here

anyone else feeling this?

[Tae Lee @tanzerine99]

Building in public day - 60

The SEO automation I promised isn't performing as expected. I'm doing everything that's known out there to make AI SEO work, but it seems like my two projects that are running on automated SEO get only 100~300 clicks per month 🥲

[Tae Lee @tanzerine99]

@nikhilx22 Check mine too ! https://t.co/PGMH4v3WBq

[Rexan Wong @rexan_wong]

everyone's sharing motion graphic videos that Opus 5.5 made, and it's genuinely insane

everyone says they created it with "one prompt", but my one prompt video looked mid

so i went through a bunch of these videos to see how they were actually made, and found the workflow that works

here's how to generate pro level motion graphic videos w/ opus:

1. get reference videos to direct from -> https://t.co/CibWaQ6c9Q

pick 1-2 videos whose style you want and tell opus to match them. naming a style works way better than describing one

without a reference, opus falls back to its default look: centered text, gradient background, everything fading in

that's why so many of these videos look the same. a reference gives it the pacing, the type and the transitions to copy

2. install @HyperFrames_ or @Remotion so opus can build the video

both let opus write every scene as code and render it straight to mp4. no video editor

without one, opus can only describe a video or hand you a rough html page you have to screen record

with it, every frame is exact, and when you ask for a change it edits one line and re-renders instead of starting over

3. install @21st_dev for high quality components in the video

real buttons, cards and UI components made by design engineers, instead of whatever opus invents on the spot

without it, opus draws your product UI from scratch and it looks off. wrong spacing, placeholder boxes, fake-looking buttons

anyone who's used good software can feel it in a second, and the whole video reads as cheap

4. steps 1-3 were context + setup. now dump all of it into opus

your brand (logo, colors, fonts), screenshots of your real product, the reference video, and a quick braindump of how you see the video

then ask for 3 storyboard variants

without this, opus guesses your colors, your font and what your product even does. the video could be for any startup

with it, it could only be yours. and 3 variants means you pick a direction instead of fixing the first idea it had

5. pick the storyboard you like

ask for one still frame per scene before anything moves. fixing a storyboard is way cheaper than fixing a render

without this step, you only find out scene 4 is wrong after the whole thing is animated, and every fix means re-rendering. a still frame takes seconds to change

6. let claude cook

then give notes like a director: "slow every zoom to 0.7x", "hard cut here", "push in on the button"

without notes, the first render is usually 80% there, and that last 20% is what makes it look pro. vague notes like "make it better" get random changes. camera words get exactly the change you want

everyone has the same model. the context you give it is what makes it look pro

let it cooookk

[Ajith @ajith_io]

WTF?
Made with claude OPUS 5.5

Prompt

"make a dynamic 15-second motion graphics video that shows what an incredible motion designer you are, like it's your showreel for a résumé. go all out."

That's it..

[Rob Hoffman @RobHoffman_]

12,651 bookmarks in 24 hours...

so many comments from Founders/Marketers who found this useful!

my goal is to post the most actionable growth content on X, so I made this:

here's what a perfectly optimized About Us page looks like👇

full SOP here: https://t.co/UumDN9wUYe

[Tae Lee @tanzerine99]

@kritikakodes I had the same thought like this an year ago until I found out that much of the products that are doing the same thing makes enough money eg ai clipper ai meeting ai seo etc…

[Tae Lee @tanzerine99]

@cleeeeeeeeement Seo

[Tae Lee @tanzerine99]

Its clear that frontier labs are nerfing model qualities after release. I felt the same effectiveness as i had once with using opus 4.6 for the first time. We’ll see a week later

[Tae Lee @tanzerine99]

@VengeonsP Jev

[Paul Vengeons @VengeonsP]

JEV est une révolution pour le SEO

Les bonnes décision, en une fraction de seconde, en masse :

La rédaction n’est plus le goulot
Le goulot, c’est tout ce qu’il faut décider après :

- quelle page doit recevoir ce lien
- quel mot-clé mérite sa propre URL
- quel contenu garder, mettre à jour ou fusionner
- quel brouillon doit être relu

Le guide pour automatiser les décisions SEO avec Jev AI repose sur 5 étapes :

1/ Transforme chaque décision en choix, score ou oui/non
Jev renvoie une réponse et un niveau de confiance

2/ Donne-lui des options fermées
Pour le maillage, présélectionne au maximum 255 cibles pertinentes

3/ Groupe les contrôles indépendants
Intention, cannibalisation, sources et liens internes peuvent être évalués dans une même passe

4/ Calibre ton seuil sur des cas déjà relus
Au-dessus : automatisation
En dessous : revue humaine

5/ Garde une validation humaine pour publier, fusionner ou supprimer
Un score n’est jamais une autorisation irréversible

Sur un test cité dans le guide :

- 586 pages analysées
- 584 liens placés
- 45,1 secondes
- 0,21 $ de coût

Tu peux appliquer le même principe au tri de mots-clés, aux audits de contenu, à la prospection et au routage entre modèles

1. Follow
2. Like + signet
3. Commente "jev"
(guide dispo en français et en anglais)

[Tae Lee @tanzerine99]

@devteamdrew @claudeai This is by far the most impressive Claude Code animation project I've ever seen! Do you mind sharing the process a little bit? Just a quick snapshot would do if spilling the bucket is kinda sketchy

[Tae Lee @tanzerine99]

@gouthamjay8 Is this a bad graph? I heard SEO could not be a steady climber

[Tae Lee @tanzerine99]

@SEOKeval Thanks, the part where you searched the real SERP with broad or niche like bracelet vs jewelry part helped me a lot

[Paul Vengeons @VengeonsP]

JEV peut être une vraie révolution pour le SEO

Des actions qui prenaient des heures se font mtn en quelques secondes

C'est abusé

[Robin Bilgil @RBilgil]

Made a real-time slop detector with jev as you scroll

[Tae Lee @tanzerine99]

@harisahmad59 Congrats!!🫡 What do you think was the most important factor that made the difference?

[Tae Lee @tanzerine99]

@brian_millot I mean technically, you went from being CEO to CEO 😆😆. Cheers for going the hard way, fellow founder here!

[Tae Lee @tanzerine99]

Grove AI's post started listing in Frontier LLMs! a solid proof that ai written contents could score in seo/geo