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Growth · September 12, 2023

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Labor Day Fun Project, Find Reddit Comments to Promote Your Business

For Labor Day I decided to play with OpenAI APIs and try to ship something (a prototype, a blog post, anything really). Whenever I launched a side project (e.g: https://www.probarsearch.com/, https://ff.bitlet.org/) I realized how bad I am at marketing or even at mentioning my the project to friends/social. I noticed that most of the traffic we got was coming from reddit/HN comments we made where it was reasonable to mention the sideproject/business. Given that, I tried to use OpenAI APIs to do exactly that, given a business/project…

Labor Day Fun Project, Find Reddit Comments to Promote Your Business launched on September 12, 2023 with 5 votes, #1,754 of 4,228 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches.

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For Labor Day I decided to play with OpenAI APIs and try to ship something (a prototype, a blog post, anything really). Whenever I launched a side project (e.g: https://www.probarsearch.com/, https://ff.bitlet.org/) I realized how bad I am at marketing or even at mentioning my the…

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