How I came up with the idea of creating ContentGT

Hey, I'm building https://contentgt.com - a service for generating articles using AI. This post is about how I came up with the idea and what stage the product is at now.

A SEO friend of mine, asked me how feasible it would be to generate articles over OpenAI for his side project by providing topic, keywords, structure and other relevant assets. I wrote a simple script for this, and after testing it on a few examples, we saw that the results were quite decent. The generated articles began to bring in traffic, and I decided that this script could be useful to others.

While doing an analysis of the competitors (of which there are more than 20, both bootstrapped and funded), I noticed that all of them are somehow in an active phase of development, and the quality of the content produced, features, and integrations could be better. They still have quite a lot of clients and charge high prices, so I decided to give it a try to bring something to this niche.

Currently, the project is in the initial marketing phase, basic SEO optimization, and searching for the first users and feedback. I have a solid technical background of 10 years as a software engineer and have also attempted to casually build and launch five services over the decade, all of which failed due to a lack of marketing. So, this time I will try to take it more seriously :)

From an SEO perspective, I am currently refining the landing page and developing free relevant tools to attract traffic: https://contentgt.com/free-ai-tools

What the service currently offers:

• Generating articles based on a given topic, keywords, structure, chosen language, and its size.
• Automatic selection and addition of stock images to the article.
• Integration with WordPress for publishing articles as drafts.

In the product roadmap:

• Internal / External linking
• Wordpress Autoblogging Autopilot
• Generation of long articles over 2k words

After signing up, the service offers the possibility to generate up to 10 articles for free. It would be much appreciated to hear your feedback if the product is relevant to you, or you can share it with someone who might find it relevant.