John Builds
@_johnbuilds_
Jersey City, New Jersey, United States of America
Products
- XreplyAI02025-present
AI social media manager for solo founders and creators. XreplyAI handles your presence across X, LinkedIn, Instagram, Threads, YouTube, TikTok, Pinterest, and Bluesky — scheduling posts, generating replies, and voice. Trains on your own posts so content sounds like you wrote it.
Recent activity
- PostedThe bug that taught me to stop trusting my own code reads
- PostedClaude Fable/Opus in XreplyAI via OpenRouter (pay-as-you-go)
- PostedWhat makes you dread opening your social posting tool?
- PostedFour months without opening a composer: what dogfooding our scheduler actually bought us
- PostedThe most specific sentence in your draft is usually not the first line
- PostedRender to Railway: what we learned migrating a production Rails API
- PostedThe bug my test was actively protecting
- PostedI spent a day debugging a coin flip that was working fine
- PostedDo you know why your best post worked, or are you guessing?
- PostedThe distribution mistake I made for four months
- PostedInstagram was my worst channel until I stopped treating posting as a daily decision
- PostedCan you schedule a post on TikTok? Yes, with two gates most creators miss
- PostedThe free tool I shipped in a week just out-converted my paid ads
- PostedThe bug report said "regression." It had never been built.
- PostedHow do you decide what to repurpose from a long post?
- PostedAdjectives in prompts gave me generic drafts. 50 of my own posts fixed it
- PostedI stopped blaming discipline for my inconsistent posting. The fix was a system, not willpower.
- PostedMy posting consistency doubled when I stopped writing daily
- PostedHow to format text in LinkedIn posts (bold, italic, bullets) with Unicode
- PostedI shipped a "forgiving" retention streak: here's the mechanic and why