Growth at @awesomemotive. Exploring WordPress x AI.
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Tyler Postle retweeted
Fable 5.2 made me a racing game ad. It actually coded one with a single prompt. 😁
There's no video editor or game engine behind it. It's 28 seconds of code running in a browser.
Tyler Postle retweeted
Starting a weekly WordPress + AI webinar next week. The newsletter response to the idea was great :)
First one: Thursday the 12th, 11am ET. How to vibe code a site in WordPress, live.
Get set up free first and get on the list to be notified: wpvibe.ai/start/
Tyler Postle retweeted
Big news for our team at @AwesomeMotive and @WPBeginner this week 📣
We've acquired @getdrip, the email and SMS platform we've used for years.
We've relied on it for years, so it's pretty cool to help shape where it goes next.
Full details below.👇
Tyler Postle retweeted
Before you pick a Black Friday discount, check what last year's sale actually did. In this example store, orders nearly tripled, but the average order fell from about $33 to under $24. A 30% discount needs about 43% more orders just to match full-price earnings.
Feel like this can't be said enough right now:
"Your email list and your SMS list are the only assets that nobody can take away from you. They’re not rented, they’re YOURS. And in the AI era, that matters more than it ever has."
Welcome @getdrip and @Sleeknotecom to the AM family! 🎉
I’ve been a paying Drip (@getdrip) customer for years.
Today, I’m excited to share that we’ve acquired the company 😍
Drip.com is the email and SMS marketing platform that has powered @WPBeginner and our other brands for a long time.
We also acquired Sleeknote (@Sleeknotecom), the onsite conversion tool behind Drip’s popups, slide-ins, and forms, which comes free with every Drip plan. Both are joining the @AwesomeMotive family of brands.
Why Drip?
I don’t have a sophisticated acquisition strategy. We generally buy businesses that we already use to make us money. I’ve pulled up Drip’s revenue dashboard more times than I’d like to admit, so I know exactly what a good email and SMS setup brings in.
Some numbers, because who doesn't like numbers: over 6,000+ brands run on Drip, and they’ve earned over $1.5 billion in revenue from Drip emails. Not impressions, not engagement ... Real Dollars.
But here’s the real reason.
Advertising costs keep going up. Social traffic keeps going down. And AI is changing how people find and discover businesses.
Your email list and your SMS list are the only assets that nobody can take away from you. They’re not rented, they’re YOURS. And in the AI era, that matters more than it ever has.
Business owners who own their customer relationships are going to come out ahead. The ones building on rented land are going to pay the ultimate cost.
My goal is simple: make Drip the best email & SMS marketing platform for the AI era, and make marketing automation both EASY and affordable for every small business owner.
All Drip users already have access to a free MCP connector, so you can point ChatGPT, Claude or any of your favorite AI tools at your customer data, and just ask it questions. That’s where this is headed.
Mogens Møller and his team built a great product, and he’s staying on to run Drip as an independent brand, like all of our companies. Nothing changes for existing customers, except the team behind you just got bigger.
If you’re an existing Drip customer, eCommerce store owner, and / or a small business owner that has a wishlist or feature idea that you'd love to see from an AI-first email & SMS marketing platform, let me know in the comments below because I’m excited to be working with the team.
Full story and links in the first comment 👇
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Tyler Postle retweeted
At @WordCampIsb , people kept asking me why they need an MCP server when ChatGPT can already write their posts.
So I tested 7 WordPress MCP servers and wrote down the answers.
Disclosure: I work at AwesomeMotive the company behind WPVibe.
Tyler Postle retweeted
Still not over this one 🤯
A personal trainer's AI agent rebuilt his WordPress site overnight through #WPVibe, mostly from voice notes. Approved at 12:32am, live by 1:45am.
Then the agent wrote its own case study 😅
Sean and Rocky's story: wpvibe.ai/x/seans-story
Watch me make every design choice for this site, then tell me what you'd do differently 🧐
I've been building WordPress sites since 2010, and I don't think I'll ever get over how easy AI makes it now. It's unlocked so much creativity for the no-code crowd.
The site in this video is pretty simple. But in my experience, a simple site with barely any content was one of the hardest to get right in WordPress. Building it was easy. Making it look good was the hard part! Most theme templates were designed for established businesses, and very few looked good when you're just starting out and don't have much content yet.
I wanted a simple Substack-style site for a new content site I'm making, and had a first version done in about 25 minutes. That's while recording it for a video too. It took longer to edit than to record.
Tyler Postle retweeted
Yup WPVibe.ai has a feedback tool native in our AI which allows us to quickly implement feedback and roll out new features.
Love this quick feedback loop driven product development 😁
I'm now building an "improvements" feature into all of my personal vibecoded applications: a freeform text input that's hooked up to an agent that yolo implements whatever is submitted.
It's an interesting experience -- the activation energy barrier to sanding any rough edge or implementing any new feature becomes extremely low. Someone else who uses one of the applications I created has already implemented 150 improvements over the course of a few days. This pattern feels like a new kind of tool -- liquid software? -- and every application that doesn't have this feature now has a slightly rigid and anachronistic flavor. Why can't I just tell it how I want it to be different?
Now, it's not obvious to me how this pattern can or should scale. Does it become unmaintainable after a while? (Maybe model intelligence improvement outstrips my feature appetite such that it's fine?) How does collaborative software work in this model? Can software designed this way be secure and reliable?
Whatever the larger questions about broader deployment, it definitely works great in a personal context. It reminds me a little of the visions of Lisp/Lisp machines, Smalltalk, and HyperCard -- systems that the user can take control of and modify. Those visions never quite worked, though: the vast majority of software today is not end-user modifiable in any useful way. So, while this "liquid" affordance is a very small touch, the way it changes one's relation to the software feels a bit transgressive and empowering in a Lickliderian and Engelbartian way.
We made it before Halloween 🎃 WPVibe just hit 100k+ active installs today!
Every day we're getting more reviews proving it's more than just an MCP server for WordPress.
Here's why 100k+ sites are using WPVibe 🧵
And it's careful where it counts.
By default, nothing permanent happens without your approval.
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Congrats to @johnturner and the SeedProd team 👏 and thanks to everyone who has installed it.
If you haven't yet, try it free -> wpvibe.ai
or check out the full review: wordpress.org/support/topic/…
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Tyler Postle retweeted
WPVibe.ai has passed 100k+ users milestone 🚀❤️🙏
What an incredible journey this has been, and I'm so grateful for the support from our community.
I love waking up and reading user reviews each morning and seeing all the cool things AI + WordPress is making possible for them with WPVibe.
For those that are new, WPVibe lets you connect your WordPress site with ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor, Grok, and other AI tools to unlock a whole new way of building & managing websites.
If you've not tried it, you're really missing out. WPVibe is a game changer!!
It's more than just a MCP for WordPress. We've built specialized custom tooling so it's more like having a skilled AI WordPress expert as your side-kick ... and nothing else in the market comes even close.
Here are the last 2 reviews that I read, one came in today:
"WPVibe Has Completely Transformed the Way I Work — An Extraordinary Tool!" ~from Gorocat in South Korea
"It saves me several hours of work on my website every single day. I can focus on creative tasks, while this plugin handles the tedious work for me. May God bless the creators and bring them abundance!!" ~rtserwis
AI + WordPress unlocks a NEW LEVEL of flexibility and power that no other platform can match.
You can start for free at WPVibe.ai
None of this would be possible without the incredible work @johnturner and team are doing in implementing user feedback and continuing to make WPVibe better.
John is a true AI practitioner who really understands the workflows better than most folks that I know, and I enjoy learning from him every day.
One user left this in a review about John:
"I've never had such a flawless experience. John actually reached out to help several times without me asking; I was sure it was an AI, but nope…HUMAN! I've created the best updates on my website. I just don't have the creative touch, but couple AI with this plugin and you're off in realtime. Highly recommend."
Seriously give it a try for yourself.
Also once again a huge thank you to all our users who're sending us feedback and ideas so we can continue improving WPVibe to make your website workflows even easier, please keep them coming 🙏
Tyler Postle retweeted
Congrats to WPVibe on 100,000 users. For digital product sellers, your AI can pull your sales report, sort out license tickets, and more in EDD. We broke down what you can ask your store today.
