@fabianstelzer Claude is that friend who walks you to your car after dinner.
GPT is the friend who says "one more drink" at 1am on a Tuesday.
Both useful. Very different energy for getting actual work done the next day.
But why are you building products that no one is paying for? How are you validating whether or not you are filling a gap?
Also, how many products have you built? If the answer is more than one and you have no adoption, there is something wrong off in your product, your messaging about it, your distribution path, or all three.
Kanye West said this in 2022 on @lexfridman:
Lex: "What do you hope your legacy is?"
Ye: "To be forgotten. There's ego in memory. Who designed the sidewalk? Who designed the water fountain? Who designed the stop sign? Who designed the stop light? These things are so ubiquitous that the person that designed them is forgotten. If it's a good idea, it's a God idea."
this is one of those reframes that immediately changes how you write everything
your guarantee is basically the clearest sentence on your whole page about whether you actually believe in what you're selling
the brands with weak guarantees don't have a guarantee problem. they have a product confidence problem. and buyers can feel that from a mile away
this is such a crucial point and barely anyone is talking about it
people think the battle is still "getting in front of" customers but the real battle now is becoming the brand that gets recommended by AI, curators, and trusted creators before the customer ever opens a browser
brand trust, reviews, page clarity, and consistent voice are the new targeting
the ecom brands that optimize for being recommendable are going to eat the ones that just optimize for CPM
this chart is a warning that every content-led business should screenshot and pin somewhere they'll see it daily
the companies that built their whole moat on volume are finding out that Google is playing a long game and so is the audience
authenticity and humanization were always the differentiator, the algorithm is just finally enforcing what users already knew
the part about partnerships following attention over decks is underrated
I've watched business owners with beautiful pitch decks lose deals to someone with a 50K following and a clear POV every. single. time.
the personal brand isn't the "soft" strategy anymore. it's the actual distribution moat.
the founders who figured this out in 2022-2023 are going to be untouchable by 2028 and everyone else is going to wonder how they got so far behind so fast
the angle extraction process is where most B2C brands completely fall apart
they find one ad that works and then... run it into the ground until it dies, panic, and start from scratch wondering what went wrong
the brands scaling past $500k/mo are the ones treating creative like a data feedback loop, not a guessing game
what's the single biggest CPA killer you see in stuck accounts?
brands that used to pay $5k+ for a single UGC shoot are watching this and having a small crisis right now
and honestly? the brands who figure out how to blend human authenticity with AI production quality are going to be unstoppable
the ones who refuse to adapt are going to keep wondering why their cost per acquisition keeps climbing
what prompt did you use to get that native feel? that's the hard part most people skip
okay this is genuinely one of the most important shifts for small B2C businesses right now
most owners are spending $3k/month on ads trying to "find" customers when the actual answer is just... describe who you are and let the tool do the matching
the ones still doing manual outreach in 2026 are going to feel this really soon
how's the lead quality compared to what you were seeing before?