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Nevo David
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Building small startups that compete with big players http://postiz.com - open-source social media scheduling tool

๐—˜๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐˜†๐—ฏ๐—ผ๐—ฑ๐˜† ๐˜„๐—ต๐—ผ ๐—ธ๐—ป๐—ผ๐˜„๐˜€ ๐—บ๐—ฒ ๐—ธ๐—ป๐—ผ๐˜„๐˜€ ๐—œ ๐—ฎ๐—บ ๐—ผ๐—ป๐—ฒ ๐—ผ๐—ณ ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐—บ๐—ผ๐˜€๐˜ ๐—ฐ๐—ผ๐—ป๐˜๐—ฟ๐—ผ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐˜€๐—ถ๐—ฎ๐—น ๐—ฝ๐—ฒ๐—ผ๐—ฝ๐—น๐—ฒ.

I create exceptional products with immense value, and I engage in some questionable practices to promote them.

For me, I do everything possible to get from 0 to 1, as long as it's not malicious or harming anybody.

Now, in ๐—š๐—ฟ๐—ผ๐˜„๐—–๐—ต๐—ถ๐—ฒ๐—ณ, I have my new, most controversial feature.

Automated AI comments and likes for your social feed.

It's almost impossible to tell if you're a bot.

NOW AVAILABLE BOTH IN THE CLOUD AND THE OPEN-SOURCE.

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๐—œ ๐—ท๐˜‚๐˜€๐˜ ๐—ณ๐—ถ๐˜…๐—ฒ๐—ฑ ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐—บ๐—ผ๐˜€๐˜ ๐˜€๐—ถ๐—ด๐—ป๐—ถ๐—ณ๐—ถ๐—ฐ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐˜ ๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฐ๐—ต๐—ป๐—ถ๐—ฐ๐—ฎ๐—น ๐—ฑ๐—ฒ๐—ฏ๐˜ ๐—ฃ๐—ผ๐˜€๐˜๐—ถ๐˜‡ ๐—ต๐—ฎ๐—ฑ.

When I first created the post creation modal, I made numerous changes and built it relatively quickly. But it was clunky.

Sometimes things would not work for people, and I would have to find a "patch" to fix it.

The UX was mediocre, and I'm sure many people canceled their subscription solely because of that.

So, I went into monk mode, and in two days, I recreated it, much better, simpler, and faster.

So happy that it's out!

๐—š๐—ฟ๐—ผ๐˜„๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด ๐—ผ๐—ป ๐˜€๐—ผ๐—ฐ๐—ถ๐—ฎ๐—น ๐—บ๐—ฒ๐—ฑ๐—ถ๐—ฎ ๐—ถ๐˜€ ๐—ณ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐—ธ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด ๐—ต๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—ฑ!

๐—›๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ ๐—ถ๐˜€ ๐—ฎ ๐—ป๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐˜ ๐—ด๐—ฟ๐—ผ๐˜„๐˜๐—ต ๐—ต๐—ฎ๐—ฐ๐—ธ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ฝ ๐˜๐—ผ ๐—ด๐—ฟ๐—ผ๐˜„ ๐—บ๐˜‚๐—ฐ๐—ต ๐—ณ๐—ฎ๐˜€๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฟ:

โ†’ Write a good post with a hook (something hard, then how you can solve it - please bring real value)

โ†’ Use Postiz to schedule it to 19 social media platforms

โ†’ Use Postiz HeyGen integration to generate a video for every one of your posts (especially good for TikTok / Instagram / YouTube)

โ†’ You can use Postiz also to schedule your posts to X communities

โ†’ Commit to the journey at least once a day.

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๐—œ ๐˜€๐˜๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฑ ๐—ฃ๐—ผ๐˜€๐˜๐—ถ๐˜‡ ๐—น๐—ถ๐—ธ๐—ฒ ๐—ฒ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐˜†๐—ผ๐—ป๐—ฒ ๐—ฒ๐—น๐˜€๐—ฒ, ๐˜„๐—ถ๐˜๐—ต ๐Ÿฌ ๐˜๐—ฟ๐—ฎ๐—ณ๐—ณ๐—ถ๐—ฐ ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ฑ ๐—ป๐—ผ ๐—ฐ๐˜‚๐˜€๐˜๐—ผ๐—บ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐˜€.

๐—ง๐—ผ๐—ฑ๐—ฎ๐˜†, ๐—ฃ๐—ผ๐˜€๐˜๐—ถ๐˜‡ ๐—ด๐—ฒ๐˜๐˜€ ๐Ÿญ๐Ÿด.๐Ÿณ๐—ธ ๐˜ƒ๐—ถ๐—ฒ๐˜„๐˜€ ๐—ฝ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ ๐—บ๐—ผ๐—ป๐˜๐—ต (๐Ÿฑ๐Ÿฏ% ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ฐ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐˜€๐—ฒ ๐—ณ๐—ฟ๐—ผ๐—บ ๐—น๐—ฎ๐˜€๐˜ ๐—บ๐—ผ๐—ป๐˜๐—ต).

๐—ต๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ ๐—ถ๐˜€ ๐—บ๐˜† ๐—ฝ๐—น๐—ฎ๐˜†๐—ฏ๐—ผ๐—ผ๐—ธ. ๐Ÿ‘‡

๐Ÿญ. Credibility is everything. Start adding blog posts, don't launch before you have "page 2" in your blog - you can finish that in a day.

๐Ÿฎ. Get some G2 reviews, ask all your friends and family. (G2 has more credibility over Trustpilot and Capturra)

๐Ÿฏ. List your startup in any possible directory, like There's an AI for that, Beta list, etc.

๐Ÿฐ. Prepare a Product Hunt launch, ensure you win (even if you are small), and reach as many people as possible through any channel: WhatsApp, LinkedIn, Slack, Discord. Outreach always wins as it is more personalized and makes people take action. After launch, keep on launching every 6 months.

๐Ÿฑ. Get backlinks. Go to Product Hunt, scrape it (take somebody from Upwork), and start cold outreaching people about buying backlinks. If you have more than one website, you can ask to exchange backlinks (ABC). They send you to website A, and you send from website B to themโ€”website C.

๐Ÿฒ. Post as many high-quality social media posts as possible (๐—ถ๐—ป ๐—ฎ๐˜€ ๐—บ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐˜† ๐—ฐ๐—ต๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ป๐—ฒ๐—น๐˜€ ๐—ฎ๐˜€ ๐—ฝ๐—ผ๐˜€๐˜€๐—ถ๐—ฏ๐—น๐—ฒ) - ensure you have a hook. Avoid shitposting, it destroys your reach - you can schedule to 19 social media platform at the same time with ๐—ฃ๐—ผ๐˜€๐˜๐—ถ๐˜‡.

๐Ÿณ. Use Semrush or Ahrefs to find your best keywords in Google. Check for easy keywords (0-29) with commercial intent; however, make sure that the first results don't have a high DA/DR, as you won't beat them.

๐Ÿด. Build free tools, go to Semrush, and put your "niche" + ("generate" / "create" / "convert", etc.). Those keywords are usually easy to rank for - honestly, create as many as possible.

๐Ÿต. Use @outrank_so to get backlinks. This month, I have gotten 25 backlinks, primarily for my free tools.

๐Ÿญ๐Ÿฌ. Go open-source - we live in a time when everybody can build their startup with cursor / lovable / v0, etc. Code is not a problem anymore; everything revolves around the brand. If you go open-source, you can promote yourself on many good Reddit channels, such as /๐—ฟ/๐˜€๐—ฒ๐—น๐—ณ๐—ต๐—ผ๐˜€๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฑ, /๐—ฟ/๐—ฝ๐—ฟ๐—ผ๐—ด๐—ฟ๐—ฎ๐—บ๐—บ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด, /๐—ฟ/๐˜„๐—ฒ๐—ฏ๐—ฑ๐—ฒ๐˜ƒ, etc. This is key to getting a lot of credibility and making people like your brand more.

๐Ÿญ๐Ÿญ. Open-source gives you power; you can get backlinks from many "awesome" directories. They have a very high DR, which is a super strong backlink. Check "awesome-selfhosted".

๐Ÿญ๐Ÿฎ. Every marketplace has a "featured" option, and GitHub does too. You can get into the GitHub main trending feed and get tons of traffic. Just bring a lot of traffic from /r/selfhosted, and dev to.

๐Ÿญ๐Ÿฏ. Use X communities to post, for example, building in public. FYI, in Postiz, you can schedule your posts for communities.

๐Ÿญ๐Ÿฐ. Post on reddit /r/SaaS, /r/SideProject you can get tons of traffic - Reddit is not a super smart platform, ask your friends for 2-3 upvotes and you will get tons of traffic - a lot more than you get on LinkedIn / X.

๐—”๐—ฆ๐—ž ๐— ๐—˜ ๐—”๐—ก๐—ฌ๐—ง๐—›๐—œ๐—ก๐—š!

In 2021, I built my 1st startup, Linvo. I quit my job, went all in, and ๐—ณ๐—ฎ๐—ถ๐—น๐—ฒ๐—ฑ hard with a ๐—ต๐˜‚๐—ด๐—ฒ ๐—บ๐—ถ๐—ป๐˜‚๐˜€ in the bank.

๐—›๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ ๐—ถ๐˜€ ๐—ฒ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐˜†๐˜๐—ต๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด ๐—œ ๐—ต๐—ฎ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ ๐—น๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—ป๐—ฒ๐—ฑ ๐˜๐—ผ ๐—ด๐—ฒ๐˜ ๐—บ๐˜† ๐—ฐ๐˜‚๐—ฟ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜ ๐˜€๐˜๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐˜๐˜‚๐—ฝ ๐˜๐—ผ $๐Ÿฐ.๐Ÿณ๐—ž ๐— ๐—ฅ๐—ฅ.

Consistent Marketing is my key to success, but I don't follow the rules. ๐—›๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ ๐—ถ๐˜€ ๐˜„๐—ต๐—ฎ๐˜ ๐—œ ๐—ฑ๐—ถ๐—ฑ:

- ๐—Ÿ๐—ฎ๐˜‚๐—ป๐—ฐ๐—ต ๐—ผ๐—ป ๐—ฃ๐—ฟ๐—ผ๐—ฑ๐˜‚๐—ฐ๐˜ ๐—›๐˜‚๐—ป๐˜ ๐—ฒ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐˜† ๐Ÿฒ ๐—บ๐—ผ๐—ป๐˜๐—ต๐˜€ - (they say they won't approve you), but they did. You must find solutions to win if you don't have a big followers list. For me, This Means Posting on Reddit, scraping Slack groups with mass DM, using tools like LinkedIn Helper to message all my followers, and, of course, manually messaging every possible person.

- ๐—Ÿ๐—ถ๐˜€๐˜ ๐˜†๐—ผ๐˜‚๐—ฟ ๐—ฝ๐—ฟ๐—ผ๐—ฑ๐˜‚๐—ฐ๐˜ ๐—ถ๐—ป ๐—ฒ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐˜† ๐—ฑ๐—ถ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—ฐ๐˜๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐˜† - Some cost money, and some do not, but getting your DA higher is key. Notable ones are Theresanaifforthat and Betalist, which also bring you traffic and customers.

- ๐—ฃ๐—ฎ๐˜† ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ณ๐—น๐˜‚๐—ฒ๐—ป๐—ฐ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐˜€ ๐—ถ๐—ณ ๐˜†๐—ผ๐˜‚ ๐—ต๐—ฎ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐—ณ๐˜‚๐—ป๐—ฑ๐˜€. Look for influencers with many views (for their second post in a list) and who get non-AI comments. Many influencers have a WhatsApp group. They ask for help, and many people comment on them. Most of their views are not good.

- ๐—œ๐—ป๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ๐˜€๐˜ ๐—ถ๐—ป ๐˜†๐—ผ๐˜‚๐—ฟ ๐—บ๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—ธ๐—ฒ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด ๐—ฐ๐—ผ๐—ป๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜ - in 2025 with cursor, loveable and so on, everybody ships something there is a chaos of content, you must stand out, your hooks, marketing content, cover pictures can change everything for you. I have more than 1 million views on dev.to literally because I spent 80% of the time on the cover picture and title.

- ๐—จ๐˜€๐—ฒ ๐—ฐ๐—ผ๐—น๐—ฑ ๐—ผ๐˜‚๐˜๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐—ฐ๐—ต ๐˜„๐—ถ๐˜€๐—ฒ๐—น๐˜† - In 2025, people are more sensitive to spam than before, and sending people a message about your product is becoming less effective. Try to give stuff for free that can get instant results for your prospect, in return, get their email, and keep sending them good content with value.

- ๐—ฆ๐—ฐ๐—ต๐—ฒ๐—ฑ๐˜‚๐—น๐—ฒ ๐—ฝ๐—ผ๐˜€๐˜๐˜€ ๐—ผ๐—ป ๐˜€๐—ผ๐—ฐ๐—ถ๐—ฎ๐—น ๐—บ๐—ฒ๐—ฑ๐—ถ๐—ฎ - it's tempting to shitpost, I still do it all the time, but it's better to write a long post with valuable content that contains a strong hook and a nice picture - use ๐—ฃ๐—ผ๐˜€๐˜๐—ถ๐˜‡ for that :)

Great success for Postiz this month.

+ 4k extra unique visitors this month.

+ 4.2k total visitors.

We had:

- SEO tools increase

- Featured on the F6s newsletter

- More blog articles and backlinks

MRR grew from $3.7k to $4.5k

Postiz has 19 social media scheduling tools, which I leveraged with SEO.

Created nine free marketing tools (basically ChatGPT prompting) for 19 socials

- Font Generator

- Post Generator

- Name Generator

- Hashtah tool generator

- Bio Generator

- Recommendation generator

- Comment generator

- Name Generator

- Logo generator

And boom, I see a lot more traffic, especially for the Facebook name and X post generators.

I can't wait to see what will happen by the end of the year.

But SEO was IMPOSSIBLE.

The market has existed for 20 years, and many top companies control it.

So I bought a lot of backlinks and got many from open-source, also "awesome" libraries.

I managed to get Postiz to 25 DA / 61 DR.

I started Postiz last year in September.

Another social media scheduling tool in a vast market - an advantage, it was open-source.

So I started to do a lot of GrowthHacking.

- Publishing on X, LinkedIn, Dev.to, and Reddit

- Product Hunt launches

- Influencers

- Directory listing