Matthew Abbott

Posting on linkedin X and facebook feels like shouting into a void lately. You spend hours on a post just for it to get buried in ten minutes with zero clicks back to your site.

Free listing sites don't seem to drive any real signups either.

For anyone who actually built organic traffic recently without a budget what channel is actually worth putting effort into right now?

There s a growing tendency to flag AI-generated text. There s even a term for low-quality AI-generated content - AI slop.

And honestly, I understand why.

Communication should feel real. If every comment, post, or message is generated by AI, the picture becomes blurry.

But then I have a question.

So, I'm about to launch my second product, which in my head I felt was a unique offering. As part of the work to try and get community engagement pre-launch I started exploring certain Red-colour forums to get feedback and understand user engagement, but what actually happened was a complete pile-on on the apparent unoriginal-ness of my product, etc.

I get that everyone has their own opinion, and I do not generally engage with trolls, but sometimes it's hard to ignore it, especially when you're 1-2 weeks out from your product launch, and then doubt kicks in.