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started running ads last week so far so good, CTR is solid af

hi, took a break, touched some grass, built some cool stuff. back. let's do this 🫡🫡🫡

holy fuck, jev is crazy i pointed it at 10,472 real meta ads and told it to classify every single one caption · hook · angle · offer · format · emotion all for just $0.07 per 100 ads it can also rank your winners, cluster angles, spot creative fatigue i'm dropping the entire classified library to everyone below. Comment "ADS" and i'll send you all 10,472.

everyone here is trying to sell you something eventually once you realise this, everything else makes sense

end of an era

really funny there's a dozen AI UGC / ads team on here larping about how their tech is amazing and not a single one of them is dog fooding their own product. if you arent using your own shovel... why should someone else?

24 months ago 'oh you're building a chatgpt wrapper?' cute. now: 'agent harnesses are the future!' never change internet. this is why its important to have your thesis and stick to it through the noise.

linkedin is interesting for b2b marketing they absolutely hate you trying to automate any part of their site or even giving you decent automation tools but theyre completely fine with encouraging AI slop posts on the platform make it make sense

founders when they hire a head of growth: 'bro, build me a $1bn company. make no mistakes'

if you're trying to grow on reddit, you need to read this playbook

founders when their VC asks why they haven't hit their MRR targets: "we're pacing the frontier"

ive grown multiple reddit accounts from 0 to 100k+ karma, been a top 1% poster on subs, and generated $500k+ in sales attributed from reddit THIS is th new reddit meta for 2026 and how you take advantage of it to get users

this would actually be a VERY smart marketing campaign make bonds sexy when i ran my consumer health startup, ad creatives with female UGC converted 3x better than males AT CONVERTING MALES reality is, more men will follow a female influencer than woman do

wanna know the ultimate gtm hack? be so good that your users refer you 🫡🫡🫡

here are my 3 favourite teams from YCs S26 demo day: - @watchmochi - 1 min anime, 300m organic views (addictive af) - @TsentaAi - applies to jobs for you, $3m ARR (crushing it) - instaplay.ai/ - prompt + publish a game in seconds consumer ain't dead

building in public update #1 if you're building in saas a cheap site can effect conversion!!! i just completed 10 user interviews, all people who signed up but never converted into a paying customer biggest feedback was that the app onboarding felt solid, but by the time they got to the payment page, they had second thoughts and went back to my site for more info turns out my site didn't really have it and it looked 'cheap' compared to my app so fuck it, i rebuilt it from scratch now i'm gonna a/b test this for the next few weeks to see how it performs

Most ad teams start with ideas. A better system starts with evidence from the market, then turns that evidence into tests. I call it the “Ad Signal Loop”: 1. Build the ad library Tool: Facebook Ad Library Collect active ads from the companies selling into the same category. Save the image, video, headline, offer, and landing page. 2. Turn creatives into notes Tool: Apify + Gemini Use Apify to gather the creative files. Have Gemini describe each one by its hook, promise, proof, objection, and expected outcome. You’re looking for repeated patterns, not one clever ad. 3. Find the empty spaces Tool: Claude Give Claude the creative notes and ask it to group the market’s common messages. Then ask it to identify claims, audiences, and problems that are being ignored. 4. Check whether the gap exists Tool: Exa Search discussions, reviews, and questions around those gaps. Keep the ideas that show up in real customer language. Drop the ones that only sound interesting in a strategy document. 5. Make a small batch Tool: Nano Banana + Seed Dance Turn the strongest angles into several image and video variations. Change one meaningful variable at a time. Keep the offer and audience clear enough to compare. 6. Put the tests in market Tool: Meta Ads API Launch the variations with a defined budget and a clear conversion event. Don’t decide what worked from the ad that looks best in a folder. 7. Read the signal Tool: Graphed MCP + Claude Connect the performance data to Claude. Have it compare spend, clicks, conversions, creative angle, and audience. Separate weak execution from a weak promise. 8. Reallocate with rules Tool: Meta Ads API Pause the ads that fail the agreed threshold. Move the stronger ones into their own groups so new tests don’t hide their performance. 9. Keep the loop running Tool: a server Run the collection, analysis, launch, and review process on a schedule. The system gets useful when every round adds to the next round’s market map. The important shift is simple: Research creates the hypotheses. Ads create the evidence. Performance decides what deserves more attention.

founders, STOP trying to hire a head of growth if you haven't cracked marketing yourself, a growth lead won't crack it for you only YOU understand your product, the ICP, and the vision. Before PMF, marketing is pure iteration you test + adjust until something clicks that iteration can take you to scary places you've never thought of before. SO YOU have to be the one driving it the process i've seen the best teams do is this: -> do it all themselves first -> find the formula -> THEN hand it to a head of growth to scale no amount of money or hiring is gonna save you at 0 -> 1 that's your job and you can't outsource it.

..... founder of a pre-seed company T_T how are you selling in 2026 and NOT running analytics on your site?????

someone is gonna use astra to make a black market for $200 account trading 💀