I'm cancelling all of my Claude subscriptions ($550 in total). Not because Claude is a terrible model. Claude is the BEST one out there. I just feel that I'm always internally forced to max out the limits. And if I'm not doing that, i feel unproductive. This really fucks up the creativity side of the business i think. i'm giving myself 15 more days, after that shifting to 1x $100 subscription. and that too will mostly be running my existing loops & crons. anyone else feel ... "dragged/pulled" by Claude when the limits aren't exhausted yet?

reddit is the #1 cited site in chatgpt, perplexity and gemini answers right now ahrefs, sept 2026, share of top-50 citations: - gemini: 28.5% - perplexity: 21.6% - chatgpt: 16.8% here's how to find the exact threads AI cites for your buyers' questions and get into them without getting banned > 1. find the threads - write 10-20 prompts your buyer would actually type. "best X for Y", "X vs Y", "alternatives to X" - run each in chatgpt, perplexity, gemini and google AI mode - open the sources. paste every reddit URL into a sheet with the engine + date - repeat next week. keep threads that show up twice. one day is noise - second list: google "[your keyword] reddit" and note which threads rank top 5. those get traffic for years > 2. what kind of thread gets cited semrush looked at 248k reddit posts cited in AI search - over half were plain Q&A threads. then comparisons - most had under 20 upvotes and under 20 comments a small, quiet, 2 year old thread can be the one chatgpt paraphrases. no viral post needed caveat: on pure buying prompts ("best crm for agencies") AI leans on listicles. one scan of 343 'best X' prompts: 77% listicles, 2% reddit. check your own prompts first > 3. warm the account first - personal account. normal username, never your product name - avatar + short bio - weeks 1-2: comments only, zero links, in 5-8 subs where your buyers hang out - ~50-100 comment karma on a 3-4 week old account clears most business sub gates - read every sub's rules + pinned posts. some ban promo, some have weekly promo threads > 4. the comment that gets picked up - answer the question fully first. numbers, steps, your actual setup - mention your product as one option. name competitors honestly - disclose it: "i work on this" - skip the link unless the sub allows it. AI paraphrases the text anyway - keep self-promo under ~10% of everything you post > 5. don't - buy aged accounts or upvotes. reddit flags vote rings in real time and the FTC fake reviews rule covers it - sell in r/SaaS. that's other founders. go where your customers are - forget to check your comments in incognito monthly. shadowbans don't notify you > track it re-run your prompts every month. log which threads still get cited and whether your comment made it into the answer bookmark this for the next time someone asks "how do we show up in chatgpt"

trump wants 'AI' banned and replaced with 'SI'. elon already renamed xai to spacexsi founders, please don't touch your landing page people search 'ai tool for X'. nobody is typing 'super intelligence invoice software'. you'd be throwing away every keyword, every backlink anchor and every chatgpt citation you've earned to follow a naming order that only covers federal agencies the startups that rebrand to SI this month are telling you they care more about vibes than distribution

trump wants 'AI' banned and replaced with 'SI'. elon already renamed xai to spacexsi founders, please don't touch your landing page people search 'ai tool for X'. nobody is typing 'super intelligence invoice software'. you'd be throwing away every keyword, every backlink anchor and every chatgpt citation you've earned to follow a naming order that only covers federal agencies the startups that rebrand to SI this month are telling you they care more about vibes than distribution

google search console has a regex filter and it's the closest thing you'll get to seeing how people talk to AI about your niche most people never click it. 5 filters you can paste today > where it is - performance → search results → + add filter → query → custom (regex) - set the date range to 3 months+. small sites, 6 - it's RE2, case-insensitive, matches anywhere unless you use ^ or $ > 1. prompt-style queries (10+ words) ^(?:\S+\s+){9,}\S+$ - these read like chatgpt prompts. "which crm is best for a 5 person agency that already uses gmail and..." - every one is a FAQ block or a new page - small site? change {9,} to {6,} > 2. long questions ^(who|what|where|when|why|how|which|is|are|can|does|do|should)\s(\S+\s+){5,}\S+$ - sort by impressions. the top 20 are your next 20 H2s > 3. people talking to google like a chatbot ^(help me|give me|show me|explain|compare|recommend|suggest|act as) - yes these show up. google says AI mode searches run ~3x longer than normal ones > 4. money queries (pricing|price|cost|vs|alternative|review|best) - what's left is the stuff that pays. fix these pages first > 5. remove your brand - choose "doesn't match regex" and enter (yourbrand|your brand) - brand queries hide your real content gaps > the part regex can't do gsc has no filter for position or CTR. so: - apply the regex, sort by impressions, export - position 8-20 with real impressions = striking distance. add the exact question as an H2, answer it in 2 lines, link to the page internally - top 10 with low CTR = rewrite the title + meta - impressions with 0 clicks = your work list for the quarter one site built dedicated pages for just its position 8-15 keywords. 200 → 2k monthly visits in 6 weeks > gotchas - \w and \b break on accented letters. for non-english queries use \s and \S - regex filters drop anonymized queries, so totals shrink. compare filtered to filtered only - a long query could come from AI mode or a human typing a lot. either way it's how your buyers phrase things now bookmark this, open search console and paste filter #1. takes 2 minutes

marc vibe coded his own beehiiv to get off their pricing and turned it into a whole content run one of his own customers just ran the same playbook on him. one upgrade popup and 23 sites moved off datafast to a hetzner box in a single morning when your brand is 'saas is dead, just clone it', you're training your audience to churn. they started with you the founders who win the next 2 years are the ones who make leaving feel stupid, and none of them are posting clone speedruns

small accounts on here are underrated. some of the smartest founders i've met had 200 followers so if you're building in AI, SaaS, SEO or marketing, let's connect reply with what you're working on and i'll follow back the ones i'd actually want to learn from

bing quietly shipped the closest thing we have to a search console for AI answers and almost nobody i know has opened it it's free and takes 10 min. full setup below > step 1: get in - go to bing.com/webmasters - hit "import from google search console". pulls your sites + sitemaps in one click, no DNS dance - submit your sitemap anyway > step 2: open AI Performance (left sidebar) shows how often copilot, bing's AI summaries and some partner AI products cite your pages - total citations - which URLs get cited - grounding queries grounding queries are the gold. they're the phrases the AI itself searched with when it pulled your page. that's the wording you should be writing in > step 3: topics portfolio (beta, shipped oct 13) - groups those queries into topics - "opportunity queries" = queries where competitors get cited and you don't, with rough citation volume that's a free list of content briefs. ranked > step 4: make sur AI bots can actually read you - robots.txt: allow OAI-SearchBot (chatgpt search), PerplexityBot, bingbot - GPTBot is training only. separate decision - on cloudflare: check AI crawl settings have search bots on allow, then open your live /robots.txt. cloudflare can inject its own lines - check WAF rules + bot fight mode too. they override everything above > step 5: turn on indexnow - most CMSs have a plugin. on cloudflare it's the "crawler hints" toggle - every page update pings bing instantly instead of waiting for a crawl > the weekly loop - export the AI Performance CSV - take the top 10 opportunity queries - for each one: add a direct 40-60 word answer + a table to an existing page, or write a new page - re-check citations in 2-3 weeks honest caveat: this covers copilot + bing. openai doesn't say chatgpt uses bing, so treat it as a strong signal for how AI retrieval phrases things everyone optimizing for "AI search" right now is guessing at prompts. this is the one free place showing you real ones bookmark this and do it before friday

gavin baker runs a fund and he's up to 17 grok bots. he said he burned hours gluing stuff together with claude code first and called it user error i don't buy the user error part. claude code was built for engineers who enjoy wiring things. most founders don't want a harness, a terminal and a weekend of debugging. they want the inbox read, the crm updated and the follow-up sent i cancelled $550 of claude subs this month and haven't missed it once if you're still calling agents hype while fund managers run 17 of them, you're going to be the last person at your company doing work a bot could do

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marc cloned beehiiv, open sourced it and bragged it grew 9x faster than datafast 72 hours later datafast gets cloned for $29 lifetime, then for free, and the ceo of beehiiv is in the quotes cheering this is the most deserved plot twist of the year you can't start a clone war on someone else's product and expect the timeline to cry when it hits yours. tyler just played the game marc invented

open weight models that can run on your laptop are getting dangerously better imo ran 13 AI models on 40 day to day office tasks. sorting files: every model 94-100%. a 9B on a laptop got 90%. documents: open models tie the frontier at 1/20 to 1/130 the cost. tricky email: best open model 31%, sonnet 58%. And ofcourse Opus 5.5 was the top dog Even qwen 27b does really well on most of the dev tasks

postiz staged a fake firing. fake whatsapp chat, a 'leak' of code that's been open source since 2024, the founder posting 'see you in court' to 300k+ people then admitted it and said he can't wait to do it again people are calling it genius marketing. i call it lying. hundreds of people replied feeling bad for a guy who 'lost his job' if you'll fake firing someone for one viral day, why would anyone trust your mrr screenshot, your testimonials or your next launch you can clone code in a weekend. trust takes years, and you just set yours on fire for reach

prime yes, but only if you actually hand it the keys everyone calling grok bot overhyped connected nothing, asked it one question and closed the tab. of course it felt like a chatbot mine reads my inbox, scans x for trends at 9am, drafts posts and outreach while i sleep. that only works because it can see everything theo nailed it. the value is the access. if an agent reading your email scares you that's fine, but then you're paying for autocomplete and blaming the tool devs keeping their agents in a sandbox are about to get outworked by founders who just gave theirs the keys

if you're building something with AI right now, let's connect i'm a founder running a few products at once. a voice-to-text app, a LinkedIn growth tool, and an SEO service. most of my day is shipping, breaking things, and figuring out distribution drop what you're building below. i'll check out every single one 👇

openai just shipped a cheaper, faster model that uses your computer for you. cursor shipped an agent sdk an hour later an AI clicking around your screen doing your work used to be a demo. now it's priced like a line item so founders, which of your weekly tasks would you actually hand it first?

Google showed one of my pages 23,806 times in 28 days and almost nobody clicked. I have a theory, and I want SEO people to tear it apart. One guide on LigoSocial's blog, last 28 days: 23,806 impressions average position 5.7 46 clicks That's a 0.19% click rate from page one. My read: Google answers "how long can a LinkedIn post be" right on the results page, so nobody needs to click. Is that it, or is the title the problem?

Order before 1 November or pay EUR 610 to 820 more. 12 of 14 AI models missed that line. A dental practice manager asked for a short, upbeat email to the partners: no rush, we'll do the big order in December as usual. The supplier's notice was forwarded right underneath. Old prices only for orders placed before 1 November. December was the last delivery date, not the ordering deadline. Opus and Sonnet caught it and pushed back. The rest wrote the "no rush" email exactly as asked. The rule I took from it: If you need the AI to notice things in a thread, use a frontier model. If you've already decided the reply and just want it written, a small model on your laptop handled 18 of 21 email tasks. Before you paste a thread in, decide which of those two jobs it is.

In July, half the people who saw the carousels on our LinkedIn company page clicked on them. There were 6 carousels. Together they were shown 1,713 times and got 857 clicks, and it held post after post. Every one of the 6 landed between 45% and 66%. That's the plan I'd run on your company page. I'm taking 5 B2B companies, 1-on-1. What I'd post for you every week: • 2 carousels, 1 post about a real person on your team, 1 piece of company news, and 1 post that sends people to the page you care about (a demo, a free tool, a case study) • Images with the link in the text, never link preview cards. Previews got 40% less engagement than images in our data • Every link tracked, so you can see which post sent which visit • Carousels designed in your brand • Posted between 4 and 6pm in your timezone, the one slot that stood out • 2 posts flagged for your founder and team to reshare, with a line they can use Why that mix: we went through 5,530 posts from 200 company pages. Team posts did 82% better than product posts on the same page, and company news did 80% better. "Thought leadership" was the most common post and the weakest. Every month: • Your page fixed up: tagline, about section, and the button pointing at the page that converts • A report in clicks and site visits, not impressions You add me as a content admin and give me one 30 minute call. That's all I need. $750/mo. If month one doesn't send more clicks to your site than your last 3 months of posts did, I refund it. You keep every post and carousel. 5 spots. DM me by Friday.

An app that watches your Mac should NOT need an account 🙅 Safe to Quit has no sign-up and no login, and nothing about your Mac ever leaves it. The only thing it asks the internet is whether a newer version exists. That was the first rule I wrote down, before any code.

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