I shipped Markey after realizing I'd built a product nobody knew existed

For the longest time I had a pattern: build something, ship it, post once about it, get a few visitors, watch the numbers drop to zero, move on. Repeat.

I told myself the problem was the product. The idea wasn't good enough. The timing was off. But at some point I stopped lying to myself and looked at what I was actually doing wrong.

I wasn't marketing. At all. Not really. I'd write one post and call it a launch. Then nothing.

The honest reason was that writing marketing content felt like a completely different job. I'm a developer. I can ship features all day. But sitting down to write a launch thread for X, a LinkedIn post, a Reddit intro, a Product Hunt blurb, an email to my list, a blog post, a press release - all for the same product - that took me longer than building half the features. And I'd usually do about 10% of it, feel exhausted, and stop.

So I built Markey to solve my own problem.

The idea is simple: you paste a URL, and Markey goes and figures out what your product does. It reads the page, the copy, the screenshots. Then it generates a full launch pack - over 30 pieces of content across every channel that matters. X threads, LinkedIn posts, Reddit intros, a Product Hunt submission, Hacker News text, blog post, newsletter drop, cold email, press release, the whole thing. In your voice, with brand-consistent images.

Then it auto-publishes to X, LinkedIn, Reddit, Bluesky, and Threads. And every week after that it drops a fresh batch of posts so you're not disappearing after day one.

I've used it for my own projects now and the difference is real. The thing I used to skip entirely now just happens. It's not perfect - AI copy still needs a read-through - but it takes something that was blocking me completely and makes it something I can actually finish.

The part I'm still figuring out is growth. I'm a solo dev, I have no marketing budget, and I built a marketing tool which means I obviously should be good at this but I'm not. There's something funny about that. Most of my users so far have come from me just talking about it in places like this.

If you've ever shipped something and felt invisible, that's the problem Markey is trying to fix. Not with more AI slop, but with a starting point that's actually usable.

Happy to share more about how it works or what I've learned building it. And if you want to try it, it's at markey.app - free 7-day trial, no card required.