Post Parrot

I've been working on Post Parrot, an app that helps users come up with engaging post titles for subreddits. I'm now looking to expand the idea to be more useful for those marketing in online spaces. I would love to hear your thoughts on how this flow could be made more useful!

New Flow

1. Choose where you plan to post (Reddit, Hackernews, LinkedIn)
2. Choose your audience (Subreddit and/or domain keywords)
3. Post Parrot finds posts that were successful on the platform, with your target audience, in your domain and generates several prompts for you (The prompts are there to help you position what your posting about)
4. Finally you enter your post title
5. Post Parrot does final tweaks for engagement
6. Post Parrot tells you the best time to post
7. Post Parrot gives you the option to schedule your post so you can fire and forget about it

What do people think about this expanded workflow? Useful? Useless?

Previously, https://postparrot.xyz would look at the most popular posts in a subreddit and generate a title to match.

This worked well sometimes but not consistently.

I've totally rewritten how it works on the backend to generate more relevant results more consistently.

I'm hoping some people will give it a try (it's free!) and tell me if it works for them.

Thanks!

The only way I was finally able to get visibility on what was wrong with my pricing strategy before was to map it out.

Before

After

Without realizing it, I was basically mapping user friction points.

Historically, the only way I thought of getting more conversions was to spend weeks or even months developing a feature– and then spend a day or two posting about it.

This is my first time focusing solely on my UX/Funnel to improve conversions. I guess it's a bit of an experiment for me.

Have a look at the updated https://postparrot.xyz and let me know what you think!

https://postparrot.xyz had a better launch than expected on PH. However we haven't had anyone purchase credits.

I'm hoping someone on Indie Hackers can give me advice about improving the pricing model.

How it works now:

When you arrive at the site, you're given 2 free credits to try the app

After you try the app twice, you're told how much it costs to purchase more credits and that you have to log in to purchase more credits

Once you're logged in, you get 3 free credits per month, so you no longer see the information about buying credits

Until you've used all 3 credits for the month, then you see the form

Something's Off 🤔

I can tell that this flow is convoluted, but I don't have a lot of experience choosing the right conversion flow. Does anyone have suggestions for how I could improve this?

12 hours into my Product Hunt launch and 40+ upvotes 🎉

I'm not in the top 10 spot but given that my Twitter audience is pretty small and https://postparrot.xyz/ is somewhat-niche, I'm counting this launch as a success.

Things I learned so far:

• Don't categorize your product on Product Hunt as Free if it should be in Paid with Free Options. People can get a little salty about that.
• Having some metrics for a user funnel is so much more helpful than page views (Posthog has been great for this, see pic below).
• I should expect the percentage of conversions to drop a little bit during a launch. With more people seeing the product– especially in the context of other products– it's safe to assume that the average visitor will be slightly less interested in your pitch.
• This one is a bit obvious but Feedback is King. The suggestions I got on IH over the past couple of days really improved the app.

In an earlier post, I mentioned that this app took about 2 weeks from ideation to launch. Even though I haven't had any sales yet today, and it's possible Post Parrot may never turn out to be a Cash Cow 🙃, I'm pretty excited by some evidence that I'm getting better at building and sharing.

Thanks again to people on IH who helped me tweak this before the launch!

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Here's a pic of the funnel I setup in Posthog which has given me pretty solid visibility in terms of potential conversions.

Post Parrot is live on Product Hunt!

Thank you to everyone on Indie Hackers who gave me feedback about the design and functionality. It really improved the site before launch.

My Plans for the day:

• Tweet
• Post on Reddit (ofc!)
• Post on HN
• Refresh the ProductHunt page every 30 seconds

https://www.producthunt.com/posts/post-parrot

Launch Day. Let's go!

I have a lot of weaknesses. For example, I'm not very business savvy. I'm also not a great copywriter or designer.

One thing I am good at, however, is building things.

So I'm playing to my strengths, and trying to "tighten the loop" between idea and execution.

My first app took me a year to turn into a product. My second app took me 2 months to develop and I've yet to launch it.

I built Post Parrot over the past 2 weeks because I struggle with writing good titles when I post on Reddit (...I'm really not good at copywriting 🙃).

At first I was just going to build the app for myself, but then I thought, "Why not build it for everyone?" and practice building & launching in the process.

With all that said, my Product Hunt launch is planned for Tuesday, and I'd love to get some feedback on the app before then. Check it out!

https://postparrot.xyz

Hey everyone,

I've been working on a new project and I'm really excited to share it with all of you.

It's called Post Parrot, and it's a tool that uses AI to generate post titles tailored to succeed in a specific subreddit.

I built this because I found myself spending a lot of time thinking of post titles, and I wanted to see if AI could help me out.

It's been really helpful so far, and I'm excited to see what you all think of it.

Check it out and let me know what you think!

https://postparrot.xyz