u/No-Conclusion1329
“Wow, 13!” Years since the last Episode.
Every time I hear the number 13 I hear Phyllis say “Wow, 13!”
BetaList: BRUTAL 48 hour update
I have been looking at trying as many channels as possible to post about my app since launch. BetaList came up in a couple searches and I thought “if I’m serious about this $99 isn’t bad for backlinks and a little traffic boost.”
In the first day I only had 18 clicks not bad for the pre news letter but I kept patient for the email.
I got super excited to see that Blogr was in the top spot to “70,000” subscribers. blogr.dev is for developers to manage their blog, so even if that mailing is mostly founders a lot will be my target audience.
After 24 hours post newsletter … 17 clicks.
For a grand total of 35 in 48 hours. Damn. $3 CPC.
Is this crazy low or is this channel dead now?
How long do you commit before you kill a product?
How long do you validate a product for? Do you wait weeks or months of no paying users before you move on?
I’m ready for the long haul just want to know what to aim for. First launch, 2 days in, no users but I didn’t expect it to be easy.
Build in public is not for me
I don’t know if it’s the imposter syndrome or the something from childhood but building in public pains me deeply. What I’ve tried:
Tik Tok - holy cringe. I hate the sound of my voice. I have made some regular talking head videos that kept me up at night. I deleted some hours later because I couldn’t take it. Just recording it made my heart race.
Linked in. Posting my L’s in front of co workers both present and past and trying to act like one winning. What is worse giving up or keeping up.
What helped you get going and keep going?
I never consistently blogged on my own sites, so I built something to do it for me.
I have shipped three SaaS projects. I have written exactly two blog posts.
Every Sunday I'd plan to write one, then either move on to the next project or forget the blog existed. SEO advice everywhere says "blog consistently." I never managed it.
So I built Blogr.
It's a GitHub App. Install on your repo, tell it about your site once — description, tone, audience, keywords you want to rank for, topics to avoid — pick a schedule. It commits MDX blog posts to your /content folder automatically. No CMS, no dashboard. Posts appear in your repo like a contributor pushed them.
Works with anything that reads MDX from a folder — Next.js, Astro, Remix. If your site's on Vercel, posts auto-deploy as soon as Blogr commits. The post is live without having to do anything.
Blogr.dev's own blog is written by Blogr — every post there was generated by the tool.
The output isn't generic AI slop — Blogr reads your existing posts to match voice, uses the keywords you specifically gave it, internal linking, and outputs proper MDX with frontmatter.
90-second demo: https://streamable.com/40b2ys
If you want to try before paying, the site has a free generation — drop in your site details and Blogr will write you a post on the spot. It's just a preview; nothing gets committed anywhere unless you connect a repo.
I spent the last month building this in the mornings before work. Launching cold today — no audience, no waitlist, no Twitter following — just see what happens. I'll be in the comments all day. If you'd actually use this, tell me. If you wouldn't, tell me why.