Hi, I recently launched a product and things are going slowly, just a few user signups per day, high bounce rate on the home page, etc. I don't want to do paid marketing because I want to learn marketing and grow the product organically.
I'm mainly a developer and I have no actual marketing knowledge. The only thing I'm doing is reading, asking questions on Reddit, and watching videos about marketing, then applying what I learn to see if there are any results.
Since this is a repetitive task, I created a simple AI agent that runs locally. It tells me what to do next, what will likely happen when I do this or that, where I should post about my product, why I should or shouldn't post on certain social media platforms, and things like that. Since I'm reading books about marketing every day, I added a mechanism to manually add important insights based on my project's needs. It runs locally and uses AWS Bedrock models, Nova Lite for simple cases and Claude or Mistral for more specific situations. Currently it's just a simple CLI tool. It uses online searching, scraping, and analyzing data with custom pre loaded data that entered by me.
By following what the agent suggests, I got upvotes on Hacker News for the first time, my Medium articles got views and claps for the first time, and the product is now well listed on Google search results within just a few days. It's slowly improving my marketing knowledge, seo knowledge and workflow.
Then I told a friend about this who is also trying to learn marketing. Somehow he discussed it with his friends, and after a few days, one of his friend's friends said he'd like to buy the agent for around $5K. That's when I realized this could be a helpful tool for other founders who lack marketing knowledge. But now I'm thinking about what to do. Should I sell it to him (but keep using it myself), just use it myself, or make it available to everyone by creating a product around it?
For me, I really don't care about the money in this situation, I care more about learning marketing.
I'd really like to know your opinion on this matter.
After thinking about this for a few hours, I decided to create a simple waitlist to see if others need this. If there's enough interest, I may either open source it or build a reusable AI agent for others.
I'm mainly a developer and I have no actual marketing knowledge. The only thing I'm doing is reading, asking questions on Reddit, and watching videos about marketing, then applying what I learn to see if there are any results.
Since this is a repetitive task, I created a simple AI agent that runs locally. It tells me what to do next, what will likely happen when I do this or that, where I should post about my product, why I should or shouldn't post on certain social media platforms, and things like that. Since I'm reading books about marketing every day, I added a mechanism to manually add important insights based on my project's needs. It runs locally and uses AWS Bedrock models, Nova Lite for simple cases and Claude or Mistral for more specific situations. Currently it's just a simple CLI tool. It uses online searching, scraping, and analyzing data with custom pre loaded data that entered by me.
By following what the agent suggests, I got upvotes on Hacker News for the first time, my Medium articles got views and claps for the first time, and the product is now well listed on Google search results within just a few days. It's slowly improving my marketing knowledge, seo knowledge and workflow.
Then I told a friend about this who is also trying to learn marketing. Somehow he discussed it with his friends, and after a few days, one of his friend's friends said he'd like to buy the agent for around $5K. That's when I realized this could be a helpful tool for other founders who lack marketing knowledge. But now I'm thinking about what to do. Should I sell it to him (but keep using it myself), just use it myself, or make it available to everyone by creating a product around it?
For me, I really don't care about the money in this situation, I care more about learning marketing.
I'd really like to know your opinion on this matter.
After thinking about this for a few hours, I decided to create a simple waitlist to see if others need this. If there's enough interest, I may either open source it or build a reusable AI agent for others.
https://tally.so/r/yP9J0B
I'd love to see your feedback. tell me anything, criticize me, share whatever you think.